Chris Becker
Writer and Editor
Writer and editor, with more than a decade's experience covering music, arts and culture.
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houstoniamag.com
Two Decades of Work By a Houston Artist, Now on Display at the Rice University Gallery
My profile of Art League’s 2017 Texas Artist of the Year Trenton Doyle Hancock.
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LA Review of Books
Jane Monheit: Beyond Ella
My interview with singer Jane Monheit.
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Colin Hay on Fruit, Ferris Wheels and Fierce Mercy
My interview with Colin Hay . . .
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Steve Kilbey on Self-Reproach, Sinatra and Something Quite Peculiar
It’s not exactly what fans want to hear before you and your band mates launch into the very song that turned them on to your music in the first place, but then, never let it be said that Steve Kilbey, bassist and lead vocalist of Australian rockers The Church, has ever been anything but honest to a fault: “I’m doing this song for your sake, because I hate this fucking song!”
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houstoncitybook.com
LOUD & PROUD | Houston CityBook | Reinventing the city magazine for the people who are reinventing the city
My profile of Oceans of Slumber lead singer Cammie Gilbert.
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The Exhibitionist
Joining a movement, self-styled gallerist London Ham shows fascinating works by emerging artists in his intimate Montrose apartment.
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Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Austin Electric-Guitar Phenom Eric Johnson Unplugs for a Journey to Self-Realization on New Album ‘EJ’
Cover story for the February issue of Acoustic Guitar. My profile of guitarist Eric Johnson.
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Setting a President
Another piece I wrote for Houston CityBook. How "Nixon in China" put the HGO on the world’s cultural map as a risk taking champion of new works and American contemporary opera. Includes portions of my exclusive interview with composer John Adams.
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How Does Art Reflect a Nation in Turmoil? | Houstonia
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians provides (some of) the answers from Iranian-born contemporary artists.
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Dare to Diva | Houston CityBook | Reinventing the city magazine for ...
My profile of soprano Nicole Heaston. “Beyoncé can’t do what we do, and we can’t do what Beyoncé does. But when people see what we can do, and we do it right, they become excited about it.”
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From Opening for the Sex Pistols to Meeting Patti Smith, Iconic ...
“A LOT OF GUYS MY AGE...THEY’VE HAD IT WITH THE ROAD,” says 66-year-old punk-turned-roots rocker Alejandro Escovedo. “They don’t want to play the feedback-induced kind of noise I like to make.”
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Poetic Justice
An in-depth look at Houston's lively and diverse poetry community.
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Of Melodies and Medicine
Therapists at one Houston hospital are proving that music heals — and now even former skeptics are singing a new tune.
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Retaking Shape | Houston CityBook | Reinventing the city magazine ...
My profile of artist HJ ("Harvey") Bott.
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He's Got Rhythm
Seated on a stool in front of the floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows in the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church, dressed in a stylish dark blue denim jacket and fedora hat, 81-year-old singer Horace Grigsby has his audience in the palm of his hand.