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It's too hot to play outside except to swim, and the rain derailed that activity. I'm still mad at the Children's Museum for not letting her in the toddler area anymore, so we spent the day amongst the dinosaurs and the new mummies at the Museum of N...
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Let's just jump right on in to this one, shall we? Blogs about musicians exhibiting extreme tool-like behavior don't need much of an introduction.
A lot of musicians opt out of behaving like normal, rational adults, and we like to rag on them a bit,...
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Jennings would have been 76 this past Saturday, but instead passed away in February 2002. He was gruff but sensitive, a ladies' man and family man who lived as hard as he played and let absolutely no one (except maybe wife Jessi, once he settled down...
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Andrew Stockdale: Sun., July 28, 7 p.m., $17. House of Blues-- Bronze Peacock Room, 1204 Caroline, Houston, 888-402-5837.
Atlas Genius: Tue., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., $22.50 to $42.50. House of Blues, 1204 Caroline, Houston, 888-402-5837.
Bob Schneider: Su...
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The Geto Boys' Willie D (left) and Scarface at Free Press Summer Fest earlier this month After the much-anticipated Geto Boys reunion at this month's Free Press Summer Fest went off at only two-thirds strengh, resulting in thousands of disappointe...
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The video above was recorded inside the USS Cavalla in Galveston's Seawolf Park. Royal Forest has been making field recordings of songs off their latest album, Spillway , and band member Justin Douglas, who grew up in Houston and spent his summers i...
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Paul McCartney and Wings
Eagle Vision, 139 mins., $29.98 DVD/$34.98 Blu-ray
According to rollingstone.com , the act that owned last weekend's Bonnaroo Festival was not some hirsute jam band, plaintive female singer-songwriter, or preppy indie-roc...
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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 this...
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Valhalla String Band at DownTogether House House party or house show... which are you at?
There's a difference, just as there's a difference between the Grand Canyon and a chuckhole. One inspires awe, creativity and a sense of oneness with human...
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Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones, Mike Stinson
Crighton Theatre, Conroe
June 15, 2013
Making the relatively short trip to the Crighton Theatre can't help but feel a bit like stepping back a few decades, but with a contemporary twist. The Montgomery Cou...
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Zumiez Couch Tour feat. Bun B and Trae Tha Truth
Baybrook Mall
June 14th, 2013
SLIDESHOW: Summer Skate: The 2013 Zumiez Couch Tour Hits Houston
Music and skateboarding have always been interconnected. The influential 2001 documentary Dogtown a...
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Drake at Toyota Center in May 2012 Canadian rap superstar Drake and R&B; phenom Miguel will share a bill at Toyota Center on November 13, Live Nation announced earlier this morning. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday at livenation.com, houst...
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Ariel Pink & Haunted Graffiti, Callinan, Purple Pilgrims
Fitzgerald's
June 16, 2013
On Sunday evening, the turnout for Ariel Pink looked pretty bleak.
The show, which was being held in the upstairs ballroom of Fitzgerald's, had a crowd of about 30...
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Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood -- which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston.
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2013 is going to be a big year for Nine Inch Nails and their fans. Already we've seen the giant awaken with the announcement of a new tour, a new touring line-up (which has been in and out of chaos ever since), a new album titled Hesitation Mark...
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Robin Kirby
Last Concert Cafe, June 18
Singer-songwriter Robin Kirby entered the Houston music scene in 2008 after leaving her band Robin & the Hurricanes behind in Dallas. Since then she's been constantly on the go, offering a stripped-down and ...
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As our sister blog Eating...Our Words does, from time to time Rocks Off will be giving your our picks for the top taverns in various Houston-area neighborhoods. Of course, the lines can be porous, but here anything with a TABC license that cannot r...
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Pre-Yeezus Kanye at Toyota Center in December 2011 Well, everyone who had today in the "Kanye Pool," time to collect your winnings. Since it is simply impossible to just wait for an official release date, Kanye West's much-anticipated new album Y...
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The scene outside Marfreless' famous blue door the night of March 30 After closing at the end of March, Marfreless, the notorious River Oaks bar known equally for its ritzy interior and the countless clandestine assignations that happened there, ...
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As you can see above, the band shot the clip at the Methodist Training Center, known to most people driving by Reliant Park as "The Bubble," because it looks like one. Lukens you may not be quite as familiar with, but he's a swoon-worthy pop singer-s...
