Athens (Georgia)

Weekend Music: Jucifer Doubles Your Pleasure

No Fear

The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera redeems Skynyrd and the South

Critic's Choice

All Bottled Up

Widespread Tactics

All Bottled Up

SXSW: Maserati at Soho Lounge

So I totally dig these instrumentalists from Athens, Georgia, and based on the crowd last night, I apparently fit right into their target demo. The area in front of the stage was packed with white dudes in their late twenties and early thirties. The drummer was situated up front and in the middle ... More >>

For Me?!

So I totally dig these instrumentalists from Athens, Georgia, and based on the crowd last night, I apparently fit right into their target demo. The area in front of the stage was packed with white dudes in their late twenties and early thirties. The drummer was situated up front and in the middle ... More >>

Sex on Wheels

Of Montreal overreaches on the gratuitous Skeletal Lamping

Barnstorming Georgia Trio The Whigs

Complete Control

Dark Meat with Quiet Hooves

Complete Control

The Whigs: Mission Control|What Made Milwaukee Famous: What Doesn't Kill Us

Complete Control

R.E.M.: Accelerate

Complete Control

We versus the Shark

This Athens foursome sticks to the experimental hardcore they know instead of jumping the shark into instrumental

Tired of the Hype, But That's All There Is

Next month, Houston gets to be a cool kid. But only for a week.

Drive By Truckers

The Dirty South (New West)

Maserati

The Dirty South (New West)

Randall Bramblett

The Dirty South (New West)

Elephant's Memory

New releases from the Apples In Stereo and Of Montreal pick up the thread of a legendary collective

Talk to Mee

A dialogue with a local indie punker about the cultural cringe

Spank This

I answer a call for help and get pulled into a cesspool of doo-doo

Merengue Mosh

Introducing the punk-infused Latin rock of Cordero

Seventies Glam-Disco Party

Of Montreal proves there's life, funk and creativity after Elephant 6

Bellini, with Mono

Sunday, October 2, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727

Of Montreal, Tilly and the Wall, with Spain Colored Orange

Saturday, June 11, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

Wretched Excess

Sludge, spread across the land, makes some people vomit and others very rich

Of Montreal and Mahjongg, with Apollo Sunshine

Saturday, March 19, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

Shut Up and Drive

The Drive-By Truckers ain't just whistling Dixie in their van

Playbill

The Drive-By Truckers ain't just whistling Dixie in their van

Screaming Fidelities

This fan has her own Dashboard Confessional to give

The South's Done It Again

Southern rock comes in for another revival

Cheating the Reaper

Vic Chesnutt died 20 years ago. Catch him live this week.

I Will Always Be the World Trade Center

The electro-pop duo's name was cute. Then came September 11.

Racket

Greg Wood is back with a new band, a new album, and a couple of jokes

Jamming for Dollars

Widespread Panic makes its bucks the old-fashioned way

Crowes Feat

Black Crowes make rocking and rolling rock and roll

Gay Day

Black Crowes make rocking and rolling rock and roll

Big Noise

Black Crowes make rocking and rolling rock and roll

Got Live If You Want It

Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Maria Taylor's LadyLuck

During his Fourth of July road trip to San Antonio, Lonesome Onry and Mean found himself listening to Maria Taylor's excellent LadyLuck and wondering how he could have been so remiss in not reporting on such a fine record. Producer, singer, writer, arranger, Taylor is a huge multi-threat talent who ... More >>

Upstairs, Downstairs: Drive-By Truckers, "The Living Bubba" and the Steep Price of Radioactive Ice Water

​After many, many years, Rocks Off is beginning to realize that it's possible to have a worthwhile musical experience nowhere near a stage. Ironically, the band responsible is Drive-By Truckers, whom we've seen live more often than probably any other save Wilco, Rev. Horton Heat and a handful of o ... More >>

The Living Bubba

​After many, many years, Rocks Off is beginning to realize that it's possible to have a worthwhile musical experience nowhere near a stage. Ironically, the band responsible is Drive-By Truckers, whom we've seen live more often than probably any other save Wilco, Rev. Horton Heat and a handful of o ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers

​After many, many years, Rocks Off is beginning to realize that it's possible to have a worthwhile musical experience nowhere near a stage. Ironically, the band responsible is Drive-By Truckers, whom we've seen live more often than probably any other save Wilco, Rev. Horton Heat and a handful of o ... More >>

Somewhere Trouble Don't Go

The best Texas albums of 2009...or what we could squeeze in.

Dead Confederate

The best Texas albums of 2009...or what we could squeeze in.

Phosphorescent

The best Texas albums of 2009...or what we could squeeze in.

Rebecca Lang on Quick-Fix Southern Food and Hand Modeling

​Rebecca Lang is a writer and cooking instructor based in Athens, Georgia. She travels the country teaching classes at cooking schools (and also at such places as Williams-Sonoma, Whole Foods and Central Market), and appears regularly in cooking segments on the nationally syndicated show Dayti ... More >>

Raging Moderate

Between Facebook rants, David Lowery juggles Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven and a solo project.

Longhorns Still Reeling In Party-School Rankings

UT disappoints again​First they get dropped from the top spot by Playboy. Now the Princeton Review barely keeps them in the top 10. How is the University of Texas going to keep being known as a top Party School if it can't get no respect? The Princeton Review's various surveys of colleges ca ... More >>

R.I.P. R.E.M.: Goodnight To The Men On The Moon

remhq.comFeeling Gravity's Pull: R.E.M., 1980-2011​Sad news out of Athens, Ga. today: To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at ... More >>

Buxton: "Not Everyone Is Going To Love You"

Photos by Marc BrubakerBuxton at Rudz in August​Lonesome Onry and Mean has been spinning local sensation Buxton's upcoming release Nothing Here Seems Strange for almost two weeks now. And we're sorry, but we still don't get it. Maybe we are old and jaded and out of it, but to us it sounds l ... More >>

No More "Wild Thing" For the Troggs

​Lonesome, Onry and Mean was sad to learn via Chuck Prophet's Facebook page this morning that Reg Presley, lead singer of Sixties proto-punkers the Troggs, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. The Troggs are known primarily for their 1966 hit "Wild Thing." LOM was a sophomore in high school ... More >>