Subject: Athens

• SXSW Ephemera, Part Deux: More Random Notes from the Field

  March 15, 2008

• Death Row Show

  The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

  July 13, 2000

• Leary of Home

  The forgotten treasure found at King's X

  July 20, 2000

• Hick Hop

  Trent Summar puts the booze and bad attitude back in country music

  February 15, 2001

• Steel Wheels

  Murderball, a documentary about quad rugby players, absolutely kills

  July 21, 2005

• One's a Goner

  July 18, 1996

• The Girl in the Glasses

  April 24, 1997

• ThEATer

  March 12, 1998

• Young and Stylin'

  August 13, 1998

• The Great Sucking Sound

  November 19, 1998

• SXSW Journal: Wild Moccasins

  [Note: Rocks Off asked a few Houston bands to keep track of their SXSW itineraries for us. This is Wild Moccasins singer/guitarist Cody Swann's report.]We got into Austin Tuesday night and woke up early to play at Club 1808 around 11 a.m. for the Rancho Relaxo day party. We played a short set to the other bands and their friends. Right after we finished playing the power cut out for 30 minutes, weird. Andrew Lee wore a black turtle neck, weirder. Some of the bands playing included Quiet Hooves

  March 19, 2009

• News of the Weird

  June 24, 1999

• Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

  August 7, 2008

• Scene But Not Heard

  Houston's student shortage forces the indie scene to go the blue-collar route

  June 7, 2001

• Elf Power, with Lazy Horse and the Missing Files

  April 24, 2008

• Tonight: Dan Deacon at the Orange Show

  GwazdaDan Deacon seems to be everywhere these days, both in person and in the press. The electro-wizard from Charm City (Baltimore) is about as ebullient a musical figure as you're likely to find, and his particular brand of hyper-active "future shock" dance madness is just what the doctor ordered for an entire nation with the doldrums. Rocks Off caught up with Deacon between stops on his busy U.S. tour - which stops at the Orange Show tonight, weather permitting - trying to get a feel fo

  April 16, 2009

• 2007 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  July 26, 2007

• (Man) Love and War

  June 8, 2006

• Maserati

  Maserti and My Education will perform Tuesday, June 12, at Walter’s on Washington, 4215 Washington.

  June 7, 2007

• Branzini with Bouzouki

  Alexander the Great Greek Restaurant brings you the best of old and new Greek cuisine

  July 6, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  June 29, 2006

• My Big Fat Greek Moussaka

  The Pappas brothers wed their fast-food sensibility to their own culture

  June 29, 2006

• In Bloom

  The family-friendly Secret Garden is a magical treat

  June 22, 2006

• Rogues' Gallery

  Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

  December 22, 2005

• Texas Burger Binge

  August 25, 2005

• Stiff Penalties

  March 3, 2005

• The Brutal Truth

  Author Patricia Bernstein recalls a grisly, hate-fueled murder in The First Waco Horror

  February 17, 2005

• Rotation

  December 2, 2004

• Letters

  September 16, 2004

• Heavy Heaving

  The Scots know about throwing games

  May 13, 2004

• Decent Folk

  Summer Hymns' summer hymns define the purdy South

  May 6, 2004

• Passport to Nowhere

  Benjamin Flores wants to box in the Olympics. But he isn't a U.S. citizen, and he can't risk returning to Mexico.

  February 19, 2004

• Ship Wrecked

  A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.

  February 12, 2004

• Murderers in the Dark

  The abrupt life and times of DJ Cuba Gooding Jr. come to an end this Saturday

  January 29, 2004

• Acid Test

  Enter the warped world of the Linus Pauling Quartet at your peril

  December 18, 2003

• The Revelation of Jana

  Ex-Matty & Mossy singer Jana Hunter chases elusive obscurity

  February 20, 2003

• Mid-Summer Daydreams

  The Democratic Party chief is full of promises -- and attitude

  July 5, 2001

• Kane Mutiny

  The industry's initial reaction to Welles's masterwork should serve as a lesson to WorldFest filmmakers

  April 19, 2001

• Mornings with Woody

  Slaid Cleaves "collaborates" with the father of folk music, while blazing his own trail

  August 24, 2000

• Puck with Pluck

  Midsummer Night's Dream masters the Bard's edgy fantasy

  May 13, 1999

• The Big Tweet: Wild Moccasins Tour Edition

  Kim DouglassIt's now been exactly a week since the Wild Moccasins kicked off their first-ever extended tour with a sweaty show before a packed house at Mango's, and like a lot of people (we imagine), Rocks Off is curious how the H-pop heroes are faring on the road. Luckily, instead of having to rely on their finding a pay phone - though the Moccasins may not be old enough to know what one is - or somewhere with wi-fi (which isn't always easy out in the hinterlands), we can keep tabs on them thro

  June 17, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "New Texas"

  In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New Texas Capital: Austin Patron Saint: Willie Nelson ​Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham, True Believers, Freddy Fender, Nanci Griffith, Marcia Ball, Big Boys/Randall "Biscuit" Turner, Fas

  August 13, 2009

• Superthief

  September 24, 2009

• The Daily Beast: Houston -- You Are "Mildly Retarded"

  ​The Daily Beast has ranked the IQ of each of America's 55 metro areas with populations over a million. Here is how they arrived at the concept of a municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher education, and political engagement, as measured the percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in the last presidential election.And where does Houston rank? Well, ahead of San Antonio (Number 53 of

  October 5, 2009

• Aftermath: Dutch Superstar DJ Tiesto at Reliant Arena

  www.youtube.com/user/aquariuz By any number of measures, Dutch born DJ/producer Tiesto is an international musical superstar. He's been voted "Best DJ in the World" by DJ Magazine three years in a row. He performed at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens, making history as the first DJ to do so. He regularly fills stadiums with 30,000-plus fans, and on Friday he was in Houston dropping his beats as part of his Kaleidoscope World Tour. H-town-based promotion company Night Culture

  October 26, 2009