Coog Radio Updates
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This past weekend was a fantastic weekend for one of Houston’s best venues, Walter’s. We start off on Saturday which included two great bands, Bully and Smut, that eventually lead to two stunning performances. The night was opened by the Cincinnati noise-pop and shoegaze five-piece better known as Smut. Consisting of singer Taylor Roebuck, Andrew Min, […]
Man, it seems just like yesterday that all of us at Coog Radio were placing our bets for who would appear on this year’s lineup. I swore up and down that we’d see Daft Punk, but alas, my predictive powers let me down, but hey we got Justice, which is just as good, at least […]
The Friday Summit of the third annual Day for Night was a great warm-up, both literally and figuratively, for the first real day of the festival. The weather on Saturday was unseasonably cold for the Bayou City, add a little intense rain to the mix, it becomes nearly unbearable. However, much like last year, when rain and […]
The third iteration of the now heralded music-slash-arts festival that is Day for Night opened this past Friday, featuring talks from legendary performance artist Laurie Anderson, as well as Chelsea Manning and Nadya from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, and spoken-word poetry from Saul Williams. However, the night was not just filled with stimulating […]
Virtual Self, a new project taken on by Porter Robinson, is a “technic Utopia awakening” and neotrance EP. With aliases Pathselector and technic-Angel, this new artist persona and sound Porter is taking on is a darker, more glitchy and futuristic version of the sound he is so well-known for. Since his album Worlds was released in […]
G Jones, an Electronic DJ and producer from Santa Cruz, has only been in the EDM scene for a few years but has definitely made a name for himself. He was one of the leading, underground DJs that helped give birth to the new wave of glitchy, dubby, trappy EDM originating from northern California that […]
The Jesus Lizard is a rock band hailing from Austin Texas. Formed in 1987, their music encompasses a range of rock genres and mixes them together, resulting in a blend of Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore and Grunge acts like Mudhoney and Nirvana. A leading force in the early underground scene of the late 1980’s and early […]
Who the F*&! is Spooky Black? Nobody anymore because we have Corbin. “See my face when I slide through – Every place I will find you – Everytime we fell apart – Girl I see it in the scars – “ Written by a young man named Corbin Smidzik at the young […]
Perfume Genius is the stage name of the talented singer/songwriter that is Mike Hadreas. Hailing from Washington state, Hadreas dropped out of high school his senior due to the constant abuse, on account of being homosexual, from the high school football team and lack of action from the school. He was assaulted by a group […]
Houston’s very own Solange Knowles has given melodious tunes to the R&B/Soul community. As a black female soul singer, she has gained a tremendous amount of attention with her unique voice and artistic visuals from her latest album, A Seat at the Table. This album was a huge success as it reached the #1 position on […]
Over a decade later and still selling out venues. Chevelle may have made less than a handful of radio hits but their music has spoken to thousands. It was a new experience to go to a concert that began at 6:30 PM but with the amount of music that each band had to offer, it […]
Princess Nokia, also known as Destiny Frasqueri, is an NYC born rapper and artist. She has been taking on the rap scene by storm since the release of her album 1992 last year. She is known for her powerful pro-black feminism, her support of NYC’s female skate club Brujas, her podcast on feminism called “Smart Girls […]
If you’re a fan of house, electronic, or R&B music, Cashmere Cat is an up and coming Norwegian producer and DJ you might be a fan of. He began his music career producing songs for various artists across genres, as well as remixing and editing popular songs. He gained recognition and fame when he took […]
hard to talk about Pussy Riot and not talk about politics as they have taken to use their music to voice their very strong stance on the political nature of their nation: Russia. Pussy Riot is a punk rock band with feminist girls that protest against capitalism and current Russian politics. When they first formed […]
Rezz, an electronic DJ and producer, has been taking over the world with her Mass Manipulation album and tour over the last several months, and her growth as an artist has been incredible in such a short amount of time. Being only 22 and having only a few EP’s out, she’s already selling out shows […]
of Montreal is one of those bands that has been around for over two decades whose sound has immensely evolved while taking inspiration from 1960s psychedelic pop and creating albums that are fun to dance to. The band was formed in 1996 by Kevin Barnes who supposedly came up with the name after a failed […]
Starting a career at 15 can’t be easy by any means (I’m 23 and I’m still struggling) and for someone who is now 25, a decade later, Sky Ferreira is still producing music but is now doing it her way. Ferreira it seems has always been destined for music seeing as how her grandmother was […]
