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The Suffers

The Suffers From Houston TX
Photograph: Listenyoungman

Houston Local Band Registry, 2003–2018 · documented 2013–2017

The Suffers are a Houston band profiled in Free Press Houston’s 2015 series Getting To Know The FPSF Locals and reported that year as the first local band in a decade to sell out Fitzgerald’s. The archive holds their Free Press Summer Fest appearances in 2013 and 2015. Later coverage called them “one of the hardest working bands in town,” noted their self-titled debut, and followed larger bills, including support for ZZ Top and Gary Clark Jr. and a 2017 performance with the Houston Symphony at the Woodlands Pavilion.

Biography sources (3)
  1. Getting To Know The FPSF Locals: The Suffers · Free Press Houston Archive (held article) · accessed 2026-09-24
  2. The Suffers Become the First Local Band to Sell Out Fitzgerald’s in a Decade · Free Press Houston Archive (held article) · accessed 2026-09-24
  3. Static Somewhere: The Best of The Week · Free Press Houston Archive (held article) · accessed 2026-09-24

External sources are cited for reference only and are not Free Press Houston holdings or affiliates.

Held recordings

“Baila Esta Cumbia” - Selena cover by The Suffers
FPSF 2015 The Suffers
Poster for Free Press Summer Fest 2015, an event The Suffers played
Held artifact from Free Press Summer Fest 2015, an edition the act played. 2015 lineup-release poster, 18×24, May 2015. Artwork: Kiffer Keegan. Free Press Houston Archive holding.

2 appearances documented on Free Press Houston bills. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.

Houston Local Band Registry, 2003–2018

Houston provenance
“Profiled in the Free Press Houston series “Getting To Know The FPSF Locals: The Suffers”.”
Evidence
45 archive articles name the act · 30 by David Garrick
Confidence
high
“The Eli Young Band is also set to perform, as well as The Suffers and Brooke Eden.”
David Garrick, No Regrets: The Best of The Week · 2016-06-29

Local booking provenance

Organizer provenance supplied to the archive by Omar Afra; not independent third-party verification.

Registry acts on the same bills and pages

Other held flyers, posters and schedules

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2013

    Free Press Summer Fest 2013

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2013

    Free Press Summer Fest 2013

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2013

    Free Press Summer Fest 2013

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2013

    Free Press Summer Fest 2013

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2015

    Free Press Summer Fest 2015

  • Held artifact, Free Press Summer Fest 2015

    Free Press Summer Fest 2015

Appearances

Free Press Summer Fest 2013
Venue
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Date
2013
Stage
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Set time
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Evidence
Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2013, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Free Press Summer Fest 2015
Venue
NRG Park, Yellow Lot
Date
2015
Stage
—
Set time
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Evidence
Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2015, source fpsf-dev-2015-site.

Related Free Press Houston coverage

Archive articles that name The Suffers. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.

Adjacent records