Email Author Chris Gray

Awards

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published February 10, 2011

  "Getting Past the Bouncer"

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2010 Stories by Chris Gray

• Hopefully This Will Tide All You Juggalos Over For Now

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Here at Rocks Off, we're all heartbroken that Insane Clown Posse has postponed the Warehouse Live date of their "Old Sh*t" tour from Saturday to December 6. We're not sure why; a fictional ICP spokesm... More >>

• Rhett Miller Talks Old 97's, Bob Dylan, Trains And More

  published Oct 14, 2010

  The band probably doesn't remember this, but one of the first interviews Rocks Off ever conducted as a quote-unquote professional journalist was talking to the Old 97's in their tour van behind Austin... More >>

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  KTRU Deal Signed By Rice & UH; Station Goes Off The FM Dial By The End Of The Year

  published Oct 13, 2010

  The news isn't good for fans of KTRU.After the University of Houston Board of Regents voted to buy 91.7 FM from Rice University and convert the frequency to all classical and fine-arts programming ear... More >>

• KTRU Deal Signed, Station Likely Off FM Air By End Of 2010

  published Oct 13, 2010

  After the University of Houston Board of Regents voted to buy 91.7 FM from Rice University and convert the frequency to all classical and fine-arts programming earlier this summer, various KTRU staff,... More >>

• Stevens & Pruett Vs. The FCC: Beer Cans And Hershey Kisses

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Rocks Off is in the process of collecting stories about legendary Rock 101 KLOL morning team Stevens & Pruett as a tribute to Mark Stevens, who passed away Tuesday morning from complications of Alzh... More >>

• Last Night: Blitzen Trapper At House Of Blues

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Blitzen Trapper House of Blues October 12, 2010 Because Aftermath only found out former KLOL morning DJ Mark Stevens had died a few hours before Blitzen Trapper went onstage at House of Blues Tuesday... More >>

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  Mark Stevens Of KLOL's Stevens & Pruett Show Passes Away

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Rocks Off just got word via ABC13.com that former Houston radio personality Mark Stevens, half of KLOL's popular Stevens & Pruett morning-show team from the 1980s until 2000, has passed away. Houston ... More >>

• Chris Isaak

  published October 14, 2010

  Because Chris Isaak's pompadoured mug might as well be the picture of eternal California youth, it's a little discomfiting to realize that the... More >>

• The Grand Theatre

  published October 14, 2010

  "I just might get drunk tonight, and burn the nightclub down," Old 97's front man Rhett Miller sings on "Nightclub," from the Old 97's 1997 album... More >>

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  Saturday Night: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros at Warehouse Live

  published Oct 11, 2010

  Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Warehouse Live October 9, 2010 Oh crap, Aftermath thought shortly after Edward Sharpe struck up the Magnetic Zeros Saturday night, it's the Polyphonic Spree all ove... More >>

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  Friday Night: The National At House Of Blues

  published Oct 11, 2010

  The National House of Blues October 8, 2010 Relive The National's performance via the photos in our slideshow. Houston crowds like to party. The National does not. These two seemingly indisputable ... More >>

• Rocks Off Has Officially Reached ACL Fest

  published Oct 08, 2010

  Well, we were afraid of this. While Rocks Off Sr. remains at Mission Control here in Houston (appropriate, don't you thinkr), Craig Hlavaty and Brittanie Shey have sallied forth to the Live Music Capi... More >>

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  Last Night: Carrie Underwood At Toyota Center

  published Oct 07, 2010

  Carrie Underwood Toyota Center October 6, 2010 Carrie Underwood is perfect for Vegas. That's not a knock - mostly. Underwood is wholesome, engaging and dynamic. She's no Tina Turner, but she can str... More >>

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  Five Memorable Athlete-Musician Hookups

  published Oct 06, 2010

  In a few hours, Carrie Underwood will be onstage at Toyota Center. Besides being an all-around American girl who will mess you up if you cheat on her, Underwood once dated Dallas Cowboys quarterback T... More >>

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  Houston Club Crowds Continue Asinine Behavior

  published Oct 06, 2010

  Well, this is getting old. Actually, it is old. But you know what they say: It's not a party until the cops come. Or someone whips out a gun. So it must have been quite a party Tuesday night at Plush... More >>

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  Five Songs Classic Rock Radio Should Kill NOW

  published Oct 05, 2010

  Rocks Off is a prisoner of the airwaves. At home we can listen to just about anything we want thanks to the comforts of 24-7 satellite radio. Actually, we rarely tune in anything besides Outlaw Countr... More >>

• Inanimate Objects

  published October 7, 2010

  The Inanimate Objects may be new to us, but they're hardly new. Like first-wave stalwarts the Hates, the local trio has been around since the... More >>

• She's Got Rhythm: Jazz-Pop Upstart Nikki Yanofsky, 16 And Swingin'

  published Oct 01, 2010

  Nikki Yanofsky has been "singing since I could talk, basically." And doing it well: When her dad asked the Montreal native to sing a few songs with his garage band at a charity event, it was a little ... More >>

• Rocks Off Thanks You Very, Very, Very Much, Houston

  published Sep 30, 2010

  Rocks Off has tunnel vision. If something's not right in front of us, we're apt not to notice. Therefore, we were pleasantly surprised to open this week's print edition of the Press and discover we a... More >>

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  Happy Anniversary, Nirvana's Nevermind

  published Sep 28, 2010

  This past Friday, a significant musical anniversary came and went with barely a peep. It was only 19 years to the day the last album to cause a legitimate sea change in popular music - both the indust... More >>

• Note To Fans: Don't Give Paul Wall The Finger

  published Sep 28, 2010

  Updated at 4:43 p.m. to include Wall's apology. When last Paul Wall came to TMZ's attention, it was for some iPhone video he shot of a rather... disgruntled Whataburger customer after his SXSW show... More >>

• House Of Blues Debuts Free Monthly "Blues Monday" Series Tonight

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Back in May, Dan Aykroyd was in town to grand marshal the Art Car Parade and emcee House of Blues' fundraiser for its educational/cultural outreach nonprofit arm, the International House of Blues Foun... More >>

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  Friday Night: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers At The Woodlands

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 24, 2010 For more photos from the show, see our slideshow here. In a catalog studded with them, one of the saddest songs Tom P... More >>

• Tom Petty's Ten Most Underrated Songs

  published Sep 24, 2010

  "I Should Have Known It" Rocks Off has an especially acute case of clockwatcher's syndrome this afternoon, because as soon as we leave the office we're heading up to The Woodlands for the big Tom... More >>

• Houston's DJ Buddha Disputes DWI Charge

  published Sep 24, 2010

  The above mixtape touts Missouri City's DJ Buddha, as a "Hustler to the End," but HPD thinks he may have been hustling a little too much. Buddha was involved in a bizarre chain of events in the wee h... More >>