Coog Radio Updates
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Don’t Smile at Me… unless you’re going to talk about Billie Eilish. The seventeen-year-old pop sensation is taking the world by storm, and her next stop is Austin City Limits. Hailing from sunny California, Eilish began her career with what some would call blind luck. She put down vocals over a track her brother produced […]
It took five years for Vampire Weekend to return to Houston – a fact that lead singer Ezra Koenig acknowledged and apologized for to the sold-out crowd, stating that the now seven-piece touring group needs to stop by Texas’ largest city more often. But then again, it’s been even longer since the band released their […]
George Clinton and Parliament will be coming to Revention Music Center on August 25th. The 78 year old funk pioneer and founder of Funkadelic and Parliament will be bringing the groove to Houston on the last leg of his retirement career. Putting a cap on a career that’s spanned since the 1950s until now, […]
Hello everyone, this is a segment called “Currently Tuned in to” where I post the songs and pieces that I’m really feeling and vibing with at a certain time. Just a fair warning my tastes have been described as a bit eclectic but I hope that you resonate with at least one song and that […]
Tyler The Creator has been on a hot streak this year so far after dropping his follow up to Flower Boy, IGOR, which happened to land Tyler his first #1 album — which is crazy to think after all the amazing albums he has under his belt like Wolf and Cherry Bomb. Nonetheless, he arguably dropped one of the […]

Catch the interview and tune in to Spotify or Apple Podcasts through the respective buttons below: Coog Radio and our guest, Richard Stidham of the C-Store at the Student Center South, would like to thank everyone for the tremendous support and kind words! In this episode of Coog Radio Interviews, Station Director Davis Mendoza […]
Make way! Robyn, the true queen of pop, has come to take her throne at this year’s Austin City Limits! Alright, alright, settle down, hold the tomatoes! I get it, this is an unpopular opinion, especially among you yankees. But hear me out! We stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us. Pop […]
If smiles could be infectious, then everyone who visits the Market at the Student Center South in the University of Houston while the ever-so-positive Richard Stidham is working is bound to have caught a serious case of The Stidham Smile. Stidham, who’s typically working in the colloquially-termed “C Store” from opening to 2:00pm, is somewhat […]
In March of 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, known better as CSNY, released their smash second album. Its title track, Déjà vu, was written by a young David Crosby and easily could’ve been a subtitle to the new documentary: David Crosby Remember My Name; frequently, the film seemed to be telling the same story […]
“Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.” In a world full of Fred Astaires, the ground-breaking 1996 musical RENT features a strong lineup of singing Fred Astaires and high-heeled Ginger Rogerses, whose talents were on full display in the Hobby Center for the 20th Anniversary North American Tour of […]

Hosted by Davis Mendoza Darusman; Special Guest William Garrett
Two reporters for Coog Radio attended the 2019 Houston World Series of Dog Shows and are sharing their take on the event, starting with: Peter Hatchell: We don’t deserve dogs. While perhaps patience is not the attribute for which they are best known, they are capable of nearly herculean feats of patience. This became clear […]
By the end of the night, every single inch of the Cynthia Woods Mitchel Pavilion stage had been pranced, jumped, and stomped upon by the evening’s terrific performances. The jam-packed Night Running tour hit Houston with a lineup of 4 generation-spanning acts tallying up 77 years of career music-making: from the powerful anthemic songs of […]
When Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express took to the Alley’s Hubbard Theatre, it showcased a magnificent two-tiered stage that placed the lodging and dining areas of the tumultuous train above a dynamic and imaginative space – bringing the audience to the heart of the Orient Express. Refusing to cramp the audience into two […]
White Feminism, The Mammy Archetype, Black Panther: Tune into the very first episode of “Black Has Entered The Chat” with Gerri to hear her hot takes on these topics and more!
Hosted by Morgan Lindsay; Special guest Davis Mendoza Darusman
We join Suzi Wu, recently signed to Def Jam Records, riding the release of her 2019 EP Error404 on a clear cool Tuesday afternoon in London where she has just returned from a mini US tour of both coasts. Suzi begins our chat discussing the heat of D.C. and humidity of New York that has you […]
Freaky Deaky, the festival formerly known as Something Wicked, is throwing another Halloween rave party this fall in Houston. With a brand new bigger venue, a new fourth stage, and a stacked lineup of artists across electronic music, the hype is real for this year’s festival being better than ever before. Freaky Deaky is around […]