The Suffers The Suffers, Chase Hamblin and the Roustabouts Discovery Green June 20, 2013 If there's a better spot to catch a concert in June than the grassy slope of Discovery Green, brother, that spot ain't in Houston. If you thought that bra...
Lincoln Durham LINCOLN DURHAM Anything goes should have been the catchphrase for one of the most unpredictable one-man bands around, Lincoln Durham . He might throw in occasional odes to girls named Clementine and shed a little ever-loving lig...
Unraveled . "It's really the best thing Two Tons has ever done and Lloyd Maines produced it," says the San Antonio-based rockabilly band's front man Kevin Geil about the band's latest album. "It's stripped down, it's punk rock and sometimes it's alt...
Baths Baths, Generationals, Houses, Gringo Star Fitzgerald's June 20, 2013 Thursday night Fitzgerald's played host to two different shows, with Generationals and Gringo Star in the bigger upstairs room, and Baths and Houses taking over the sma...
Taking Back Sunday at Houston's House of Blues in July 2011 Roughly ten years ago, the emo genre progressed from its underground roots into a calling card for early-'00s rock. And while there's no denying that bands like Rites of Spring and The P...
It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here on Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. At my day job I have a coworker who makes fun of me because I like what he calls ...
Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters Bayou Music Center, June 21 Robert Plant's new project is already on the short list of most awkwardly named bands to visit Houston this year. (Does it have to be "Robert Plant Presents"?) Still...
People are still in shock at the news of actor James Gandolfini's passing Wednesday night, no doubt even those without HBO, Italian ancestry or pretensions of an angst-ridden suburban-Jersey gangster lifestyle. Many cultural tastemakers believe at ...
One of music's most tried and true traditions is the album-cover homage. The sheer amount of album covers patterned after the Beatles, for instance, is utterly staggering. That isn't even counting straight ripoffs or two artists who just happened to ...
Silk Knives in my weekly hunt for a band name to tear apart, but when I noticed that they had a CD release scheduled I thought, "Well, let's take this doggy for a walk and see if it will piss on Old Lady Higglebottom's lawn." A short download later,...
Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off's advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! Photo courtesy of Peter Beste...
Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at thi...
Lorenzo Farrell, Rick Estrin, J. Hansen, and Chris "Kid" Andersen As one of the most dapper dudes in blues music (or any other genre), vocalist/harp player Rick Estrin has certain panache when it comes to his trademark hirsute upper lip. "I don't...
has got a bit of a movie boner as of late. He's been promoting the hell out of Yeezus , his new album, by projecting videos on buildings across the nation. He started out innocently enough, by attempting to project the music video for his Yeezus ...
Paul Wall has a new gig. Houston's undisputed king of the parking lot takes his new role as seriously as those icy grills he touts. In addition to rapper, producer and premier grillmaker, he can now add "mentor" to his ridiculous rsum. Don't g...
Only in Houston My family and I have been Houston Texans season ticketholders since Game 1, that celebrated and gratifying franchise opener (Texans 19, Cowboys 10), and we've always taken seriously our tailgating privileges. Texans fans tail...
New York Times interview . Second, J-Kwon dropped a new track gunning hard for West's GOOD Music labelmate and former Clipse member Pusha T, as well as Odd Future. To be fair, Odd Future and Pusha had both made jokes about J-Kwon and his status ...
Houston Kickstarter is amazing. I have seen projects happen through the crowdsourcing medium that make me indescribably happy. Whether it's seeing my colleague Abby Koenig get a play off the ground or an old MacVenture video game getting a 21st-ce...
Dio on the "Magica" tour with Jimmy Bain (left) and Craig Goldy Dio Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in Philly 1986 Eagle Vision, 143 mins., $14.98 DVD/$19.98 Blu-ray Though he passed away from stomach cancer in 2010 (right here in Houston, acc...
Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard that Black Sabbath recently released their long awaited comeback album, 13 . It's their first with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals since 1978's Never Say Die , and riding high at No. 1 on the UK Charts ,...
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