Kottonmouth Kings is known for their activism in favor of legalizing cannabis, and often singing and rapping about smoking weed. They usehip hop, punk and rap rock songs that sometimes include elements of other music genres, including 
psychedelic rock, reggae, dubstep, bluegrass and jam band.
The Kottonmouth Kings out of Placentia, Orange County, California in 1996 was put together by D-Loc and Saint Dog.
Saint Dog, a founding member died in October of 2020. He was 44 years old.
This weekend Houston's Symphony is describing their pops concert as, "Brimming with “fizzy spirit and breezy sophistication” (Chicago Sun-Times), 
It was back in October we saw Mavis Stables at Discovery Green's Jazz in the park series. This weekend Ms. Staples will be in Galveston at The Grand Opera House.
Mavis Staples now in her eighties was inducted into 
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in back in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
Staples began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Pervis. The Staples family were called "God's Greatest Hitmakers".
This weekend its Mavis Staples in Galveston at
The Grand Opera House.
Maddie & Tae is the female country music duo of Madison Font and Taylor Kerr, both of whom are singers, songwriters, and guitarists. The duo was signed to the revived Dot Records back in 2014. 
This weekend they're at Live Nation's HOB Houston.
Their debut album, Start Here, was released on August 28, 2015, and includes the singles "Girl in a Country Song", "Fly", "Shut Up and Fish", and "Sierra". Following the closure of Dot, they signed to Mercury Nashville in 2018. They released their second studio album The Way It Feels for the label in 2020.
Rawlings is touring the world performing to sold out audiences with his new show, "2Soon with Donnell Rawlings". This weekend he is in northwest Houston at the Improv. This guy is so 
funny, particularly if you're trying to figure out today's racial climate. Houston's Weekend Planning guide says "move over Chris Rock and actor/comedian Anthony Anderson and let Rawlings sit by you.
