Bob Ruggiero

5 days ago | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Houston Press

click to enlarge Nancy Wilson onstage recently. Photo by Julia Bywater Since she joined her sister Ann in the already-existing band Heart back in 1974, Nancy Wilson has played every kind of show: openers, headliners, multi-act bills, festivals, guest appearances, as a duo, and one-offs. But for their upcoming summer tour, the band is opting for the “An Evening With…” format.

1 week ago | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Houston Press

click to enlarge Book cover As one of America’s best contemporary authors of history, Austin-based Bryan Burrough is used to hyper focusing on specific groups in his work. They might be powerful oil men ( The Big Rich), early gangsters (Public Enemies), or 1960s/’70s government protesting “radicals” (Days of Rage).

2 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Houston Press

click to enlarge Record cover Jim Kerr had forgotten all about it. The vocalist for Scottish rock band Simple Minds had only vaguely remembered when a somewhat inebriated guy had handed the band a cassette backstage after an Los Angeles gig. On it was a song he really, really wanted the band to record, and this was a second attempt after initial approach had proven a dead end. “We weren’t sure who this guy was. He seemed like a good guy and we said our hellos.

3 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Houston Press

click to enlarge ARTECHOUSE co-founder Sandro Kereselidze Photo by Alyona Vogelmann In one of the more recent attempts to inject some modern means into museum and art installations, non-traditional venues are booking more and more “immersive experiences.” Combining technology, AI, XR, virtual reality, video, sound, and design, attendees to these immersive events have been able to “enter” the paintings of, say, van Gogh, Kahlo or Kandinsky.

3 weeks ago | houstonpress.com | Bob Ruggiero |Houston Press

A coworker of mine said, “You write about music.” (Yes. Guilty as charged.) “What’s the deal with Daryl Hall? Why does he seem so angry all the time?”A good question. I assumed that she was referring to a recent and widely quoted interview in which Hall (again) went off on a rant decrying the use of the term “yacht rock.” Hall told the “Broken Record” podcast, “This is something I don't understand.