Blue October

UPDATED: Is ACL Festival Ignoring Houston? Does It Even Matter?

UPDATED (Thursday, 2:50 p.m.) to reflect the Houston-area roots of a few ACL performers this year, as pointed out by reader comments. We stand by our original point, though. As most of our readers no doubt know by now, the Austin City Limits Music Festival announced its 2013 lineup at the stroke of ... More >>

Saturday: Buzzfest XXVIII At Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Buzzfest XXVIII Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion April 21, 2012 See lots more Buzzfest action in our slideshow. Buzzfest has evolved beyond a local live-music institution at this point. It's closer to a rite of passage, a biannual keystone concert event for Houston's great, eager suburban hordes. S ... More >>

Buzzfest XXVIII Coming April 21: Korn, Blue October, MuteMath, Cage The Elephant & More

"Which button do I push to make R's go backwards?" ​Yes, we are now on the twenty-eighth Buzzfest in Houston history, with the all-day show on April 21 boasting a lineup that includes Korn, The Dirty Heads, Blue October, Evans Blue, Evanescence and Cage The Elephant, plus undercards Foxy Shaza ... More >>

Vintage Pics Of Destiny's Child, ZZ Top, Blue October & More

Photo by Steve Harris/Compadre RecordsHayes Carll before he was old enough to shave... not that he ever has.​The other day, one of the Rocks Off Crew was rummaging around in the Houston Press office and came across a bunch of publicity stills for various musicians. Allow us to explain what th ... More >>

Friday Night: Incubus At The Woodlands

Photos by Groovehouse​Incubus Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 30, 2011 Aftermath's dirty little theory is that Incubus is probably one of the most critically underrated modern-rock bands of the past decade. Or, they are justly compartmentalized as a blustery Southern California grou ... More >>

Angry Blue October Fan Appeals Our Ethics To Washington Post

Blue October fans, still carping​All these months later, and some Blue Meanies (as Blue October fans call themselves) won't let it go...Yesterday, in one of Washington Post feature writer Gene Weingarten's hosted chats, a reader wanted to know what the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winner thought about ... More >>

Blue October Bassist Tries On Producer, Manager Hats

Courtesy of Matt NoveskeyMatt Noveskey steps outside the studio.​Musicians guiding musicians may sound like the blind leading the blind, but his firsthand experience with music-business pitfalls showed Blue October bassist Matt Noveskey otherwise. "I've worked with a lot of producers that, we ... More >>

The Case of Blue October

Readers take both sides.

Little Boy Blue

Ask Justin Furstenfeld if he's really mentally ill and be prepared to ride the whirlwind.

Behind "Little Boy Blue": This Interview Is Over

Universal Music Group​ The interview with Blue October's Justin Furstenfeld had long been set. After overcoming some misgivings on the part of his management over some stuff I had written in the past, it was decided that I would get to spend an hour backstage with the platinum-selling frontman bet ... More >>

Blue October Adds Second Acoustic Show July 24

Groovehouse​ Just when Rocks Off thought we could take a little breather from writing about Blue October, the Houston-formed, critically divisive alt-rockers went and sold out their July 24 acoustic show at House of Blues. Not to worry, though: They've added another one for that same night, th ... More >>

Blue October Makes It Personal, As Always, At Sam Houston Race Park

Photos by Groovehouse​ For more photos from the show, see our slideshow here. Aftermath can recognize when a band connects with people on a different level than we could ever fathom personally. We've waded in Faygo cola with Juggalos, sat with bluehairs at a Neil Diamond concert and consorted with ... More >>

Distant Early Warning: Blue October, Felix Da Housecat, Hank III, Les Claypool, Megadeth and Roky Erickson Returns

​Blue October: Sat., May 15. The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park. "Choo-Choo Soul" With Genevieve: Sat., April 24. Verizon Wireless Theater. Cody Kouba: Thu., March 18. The Firehouse Saloon. Dale Watson: Wed., March 10. The Hideout @ Reliant Stadium. "Dirty Honey" With DJ Brett Koshkin, Ceepl ... More >>

Blue October Cancels Club Tour as Frontman Justin Furstenfeld Is Hospitalized

Chris GrayBlue October's homecoming at the sold-out Verizon Wireless Theater, July 2009​ Live Daily reported Friday that former Houston alt-rockers Blue October have canceled a club tour that was scheduled to start Thursday in Columbia, S.C., because front man Justin Furstenfeld has been hospitali ... More >>

An Abuse of Power?

Readers weigh in on mall cops and First Amendment rights.

Aftermath: Blue October and Its Mystifying Cult at Verizon Wireless Theater

Chris Gray​ Friday's sold-out Blue October show at Verizon left Aftermath wondering one of the most vexing, troublesome things any reviewer can: "What is it about this band," the voice in our head kept asking over and over again like a car alarm, sometimes even threatening to drown out the band it ... More >>

Can You Tell the Difference Between Blue October Lyrics and Some Pretty Purple Poetry?

​Everyone has their own way of coping when life isn't going the way they'd like. Some people pray, some people play golf, some people beat their kids. Rocks Off generally tends to turn up a Rolling Stones album real loud or seek comfort in the cozy confines of a bottle (or both). Some people write ... More >>

Blue October

Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it ... More >>

The Wayback Machine: 5, 10 and 15 Years Ago in Houston Music

The Wayback Machine: 15, Ten and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

Googlism with Houston Musicians, or Why Beyonce Is Stealing My Mojo

Blue October, Foiled for the Last Time

CD Review

Top Houston Songs, High-Tech Turntables, Dave Matthews

Songs of Ourselves

Houston's Ten Worst Songs

…and we're still not as bad as Dallas

Hey, Look Over There

Blue October

Mood rockers are racking up the hits

Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

The Houston rock scene and the cultural cringe

Screw October, Revisited

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys

Dispatches from the 17th annual Houston Press Music Awards

Bring Back the Jams!

The Gospel of Grant

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Screw October

Justin Furstenfeld orders us to hate him. We obey.

Will the Real Blue October Please Stand Up?

Local band suffers identity crisis

Houston Press Music Awards Sound Off '04 with Blue October

Sunday, May 16

Hothouse Flowers

Groceries spoil in the heat, while the rest of Houston's music community blossoms

Rock You like a Hurricane

The Press Music Awards Showcase brings a category-five storm of tunes

Washington Avenue Rocks

Jagi Katial cobbles together a local festival worth cheering about

Blue October

History For Sale (Brando Records)

Bipolar Bop

Blue October's Justin Furstenfeld rides the aftershocks of a busted record deal

Progressing to the Majors

Blue October braces itself for the effects of its Universal debut

Music Awards Winners

The votes are in! See who you picked as winners in the HPMA 2000

Blue Houston

The sweetest enigma

Free Birds and Drop Kick Chihuhahas

New Year's Eve Houston at Bayou Place

1999 Houston Press Music Award Winners

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

Well-Raised and Confused

Mood rockers Blue October struggle after life's answers