Welcome to The Rocks Off 200, 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 previous entries in the Rocks Off 100 at this link.

Who? This here digital chat with We Were Wolves marks the end of an era. It's No. 200 in the Rocks Off 200. (Collect 'em all.) We wanted to close out with a bang, or a roar, or a howl, so we asked a band that could oblige us on all three counts. The Wolves make music that is sweaty, greasy, grooving, in-your-face and really fuckin' loud.

Most recently, WWW (dot awesome) were one of the standouts of last weekend's Yes, Indeed festival; after their late-night set at the Continental, it's a wonder the club didn't have to order all-new glassware. We remember catching them early on upstairs at the old Mink, so long ago they might still have lived in Beaumont. Rest assured, they're still up to their wicked ways on Wolf House, the second full-length LP they released last December.

Home Base: The Wolves enjoy hanging out in Third Ward, rehearsing at Francisco Studio, performing at Warehouse Live and Fitz downstairs, and drinking at Voodoo Queen and Double Trouble. (In case the multitude of new arrivals to Houston is wondering where all the cool people are hanging out.)

Good War Story: For a band with more than a little ZZ Top baked into its foundations, it figures La Grange would come up. In the Wolves' case, that's where their van broke down on the way back home from SXSW one year.

We were stranded with no money, a broken van and full trailer. If you've ever had to get your van towed, the cost of towing the trailer too is insane. Basically, we [were] fucked.

All of the sudden a gold Tahoe pulls up and out jumps a customer from my old job in Beaumont. We tell him our situation, and he says to throw the trailer on his hitch and he will tow it back to Beaumont for us! It was crazy.

He was almost to Austin to see a concert and saw us on the side of the road and turned around to bring us back. What a good dude. It was unbelievable. Anyways, me and Zach rode back to BEAUMONT with this guy and the other dudes got the van towed to Austin and sold it for scrap. Good times.

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