Bruce Robison

Seven Spring Music Festivals In Texas That Beat Staying Home

SXSW is officially over, thank the sweet baby Jesus. Now music fans have already begun to fan out to the four winds, seeking sunshine, swimsuits, alcohol, easy hookups and all the tunes they can handle until it gets ridiculously hot. Texans: you have about three hours. It's already begun over in Mi ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Bruce & Kelly, KTRU Outdoor Show, etc.

Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis McGonigel's Mucky Duck, March 8 Spouses tempting fate by naming their new record Cheater's Game? Nah, just the "First Couple of Texas Country Music" rewarding fans with the couple's first-ever full-album collaboration, to go with any number of guest spots on each other' ... More >>

Upcoming: Baroness, Deerhoof, Steve Aoki, Taking Back Sunday, Weird Party, Etc.

Accept: Thu., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., $21-$26. Scout Bar Clear Lake, 18307 Egret Bay Blvd., Houston. All Time Low, The Summer Set, The Downtown Fiction, Hit The Lights: Tue., Nov. 6, 6 p.m., $22/$25. House of Blues, 1204 Caroline, Houston. American Aquarium: Tue., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., $20/$22. McGonigel's ... More >>

Houston's Bayou Roux Set to Close French Roots Festival

Texas artists have a special rapport with European audiences. Anything rootsy is huge over there. One such act is Bayou Roux, the contemporary-Cajun Houston ensemble that is set to close the Country Rondez-Vous Festival in Craponne, France this weekend (or Festival du musique Country Rondez-Vous). ... More >>

Hayes Carll Leaving Lost Highway After Declining Option

As if we haven't heard enough news about what trouble the major labels are having and the changing business model for labels and artists, Rocks Off learned over the weekend that Hayes Carll is leaving Universal Americana imprint Lost Highway. According to Carll's longtime manager, Mike Crowley, la ... More >>

Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison’s Valentine’s Day Concert

Top 8 Post-2000 Soldier Songs

​Like many of you, Rocks Off has friends and family members who have served (or are serving) in our armed forces. Memorial Day is when we honor the sacrifice so many of them have made - and are still making - fighting America's wars. Songs about the hardships suffered by soldiers and their familie ... More >>

Kelly Willis Happy To Leave Kids At Home For Miller Outdoor Show

​Kelly Willis, who plays Miller Outdoor Theatre Saturday night with Ray Wylie Hubbard, has four kids and is known to be a doting mother. She and husband Bruce Robison could probably both have much more tour-heavy careers were they not so devoted to raising their kids in a family, non-showbiz atmos ... More >>

Vanished Honky-Tonk Heavyweight Damon Bramblett Reappears Tuesday

myspace.com/damonbramblett​Jesse Dayton recently wrote to us that he's cutting two of Damon Bramblett's songs on his next album. Dayton compared Bramblett to Mike Stinson as one of the cream of Texas' current songwriter crop. In the early 2000s, Austinite Bramblett was a hot item on the exploding ... More >>

G.I. Blues: A Soldiers' Playlist

​Today is the anniversary of one of the truly momentous occasions in popular music: On March 23, 1958, Elvis Presley reported for induction into the U.S. Army, thus opening up a thousand alternate timelines for musical historians to formulate "What if he hadn't?" scenarios. For the next few years, ... More >>

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

Bruce Robison: The New World

Carolyn Wonderland: Miss Understood

Christmas Songwriters Showcase

Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison performs Saturday, February 10, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Dan Crump

Truth Is

Pinmonkey

Thursday, May 25, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

Lucky Boy's Confusion

Ignoring hometown neglect, Mando Saenz signs a Nashville publishing deal and ponders his next move

Letters

Letters

Vive le Max!

French existentialism meets its Texas cousin in the work of Dallas songwriter Max Stalling

Buenos Aires Virus

Continental Club dweller Glover Gill would sooner starve to death than give up playing tango. Not that guys who back Pavarotti and score Hollywood films waste away that often.

Songbird Silenced

Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

Brother, Can You Spare the Time?

Charlie and Bruce Robison's tour will be fun, as long as they don't kill each other

No Need for Nashville

Houston Marchman fights for our cool country culture

Gardeners of the Music World

Nightclub owners provide a feeding place for musicians

Toro! Toro! Toro!

Home to pop queens and dance hall kings, Texas is still bullish about the music market

Choo Choo Ch'boogie

The Derailers get back on track with a major-label deal

Keeping Good Company

Jack Ingram takes his rightful place in the long line of masterful Texas singer-songwriters

Have Voice, Will Travel

Austin's Kelly Willis gets to see a lot of country as she plays it

A Practical Angel

Family Style

The Robison philosophy on fraternal bonds: the less hyped the better