Alex Isley at House of Blues Houston | June 25, 2026
Alex Isley plays House of Blues Houston on Thursday, June 25 — 7 PM, on the When The City Sleeps tour. Dates on this run have been selling out, and she added August shows to handle the overflow. Houston is holding original.
She is Ernie Isley’s daughter. That’s the first thing worth knowing — not because it explains her, but because it tells you where the vocabulary came from. Ernie Isley helped write and play on records that are foundational to American R&B. Alex grew up inside that. She studied hard too: LA County High School for the Arts, then a jazz studies degree from UCLA. Her grandmother was an opera singer who helped develop her ear — she carries perfect pitch as a result. She spent fourteen years working in other people’s studios before finishing the record that now has her name on the front.
When The City Sleeps came out this past March on Free Lunch/Warner Records. It’s fifteen tracks that map late-night Los Angeles — specific neighborhoods, actual streets — and use that geography to say something about wanting people who aren’t there. Producers on it include KAYTRANADA, D’Mile, and Syd. James Fauntleroy sings on the title track. Robert Glasper appears on “Back to Love,” which brought Isley two Grammy nominations. She is also a synesthete — she perceives color when she hears music, and has described changing a song’s key mid-composition based on the shade a chord produced. What you hear in her harmonic choices has a physical source.
Support comes from TA Thomas. The tour is presented by Femme It Forward and produced by Live Nation.
About House of Blues Houston
House of Blues Houston sits at 1204 Caroline St and holds 1,800. It is the city’s primary routing point for the touring R&B and soul circuit — the room where that circuit reliably comes through. VIP options for this show include Foundation Room access and Fast Lane entry. More Houston concerts are listed on our schedule.
Tickets
Showtime is 7 PM on Thursday, June 25. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.