Subject: Buddy Holly

• Exhumin' to the Oldies

  January 18, 2007

• PB: Luxurious Panthers 1/6

  January 5, 2007

• Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

  September 25, 2007

• Q&A: Little Steven Van Zandt

  April 14, 2008

• Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

  So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to

  December 4, 2008

• Local Rotation: Something Fierce's There Are No Answers

  Something Fierce There Are No Answers www.somethingfiercemusic.com Open letter to the Warped Tour: If you don't include Something Fierce on your 2009 80-something band docket, you deserve to have Andy Macdonald or Kyle Loza do one of their extreme-sports stunts right into your figurative nuts. Or whatever. Not every band in its early (early) twenties can find the Buddy Holly heart inside an MC5/Sex Pistols riff machine like "Modern Girl," after all.

  January 7, 2009

• Sound Check

  August 31, 1995

• Same Old Waylon

  June 20, 1996

• Great Dwight Hope

  August 15, 1996

• It's Been 50 Years Since the Music Died

  Fifty years ago today - February 3, 1959 - the world lost three of its early pioneering rock and rollers in a fiery plane crash over Clear Lake, Iowa. Texan Buddy Holly, Chicano rock godfather Ritchie Valens, and Sabine Pass-born disc jockey/songwriter J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson all lay dead along with inexperienced pilot Roger Peterson in a frozen cornfield. They were on a Midwestern tour that had already suffered scheduling difficulties and bad weather at almost every turn. Half a

  February 3, 2009

• Static

  October 17, 1996

• Hum Along with Marshall

  November 21, 1996

• Chart Check: Texans on Amazon.com

  [Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo 7. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel 14. Buddy Holly, Memorial Collection Top 40 2. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 8. Jamie Foxx, Intuition MP3 Downloads 5. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 30. Beyonce, "If I Were a Boy"

  February 4, 2009

• Sound Check

  May 29, 1997

• Unforgettable?

  March 5, 1998

• Clubland

  June 18, 1998

• The Sound of Money

  January 7, 1999

• Best Used Clothing

  September 21, 2000

• THE USUAL'S THE USUAL

  March 5, 2009

• Freddie Krc

  January 22, 2009

• Something Fierce: There Are No Answers

  January 15, 2009

• Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll

  October 30, 2008

• The Best of ACL Fest

  October 2, 2008

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Butthole Surfers

  Saturday, July 13

  July 11, 2002

• J.D. Herman's Matagorda Island Discs

  May 8, 2008

• Various Artists: Juno: Music from the Motion Picture

  January 31, 2008

• Thrift Store Cowboys

  Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

  November 8, 2007

• Unknown Legend

  Roots renegade Joe Ely never achieved pop stardom, but that's all right by him...sorta

  January 25, 2007

• The Other Man in Black

  Waylon Jennings, Nashville Rebel

  October 5, 2006

• Los Lonely Boys

  Thursday, November 3, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

  November 3, 2005

• Los Super 7

  Heard It on the X

  March 24, 2005

• Best New Bar

  September 23, 2004

• Marshall Crenshaw

  Friday, April 23

  April 22, 2004

• Erasure

  Other People's Songs (Mute)

  January 23, 2003

• Kenny G.'s Revenge

  Smooth-jazz fans blast Racket

  December 5, 2002

• Ultimate Fakebook

  Friday, March 29

  March 28, 2002

• Dune, TX

  Rocking out with the bare essentials

  October 12, 2000

• Not Fade Away

  Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

  August 3, 2000

• Retro Active

  Two Tones of Steel

  June 22, 2000

• Free Radical

  March 25, 1999

• Bone to Pick

  A voice lost in the shadow of Buddy Holly demands his due. Question is, what took him so long?

  December 19, 1996

• Slideshow on Demand: You Make the Call

  chemistryland.comRocks Off loves to put together musical slideshows, and if the response to a few of our recent ones is any indication (hi, Digg!), you like them too. Album covers are an almost inexhaustible resource that are always fun to look at and can be grouped together any number of ways. So last night Rocks Off was sitting around listening to Sirius XM's Classic Rewind channel and decided there's really no reason for him to hog all the fun. Just for a laugh, for five songs in a row he jot

  June 9, 2009

• Aftermath: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood at Toyota Center

  Photos by Daniel Kramer Two words came into Aftermath's head shortly into the show uniting these former Blind Faith bandmates and arguably two of classic rock's biggest stars: peerless musicianship. They stayed with us for the rest of the concert. While we can appreciate the bombast and big show of acts like KISS, Springsteen and even Britney, there was something much finer on display at the Toyota Center as the 64-year-old Clapton and 61-year-old Winwood simply played their instruments as exten

  June 25, 2009

• Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke

  Friday Bluesman John Nemeth jams the Big Easy Slim Harpo-style for the budget-friendly price of $5. Austin Collins, the Small Sounds and Stephen Chadwick twang it up at the Firehouse Saloon. $10. Eclectic pop-rocker David Garza turns the Continental Club into a "Discoball World." $10. DJs Cuba Gooding Jr., Fredster, Johnny Moon and Noshi do the Modern Touch thing at Boondocks for the low, low price of free. Poison the Well, Madball, Terror, This Is Hell and more emote up a storm at Javajazz. The

  July 17, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

  View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in an attempt to outflank primary opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison on the right discussed secession as a viable possibility. But Rocks Off doesn't care a whit about any of that political BS. We do care abou

  August 11, 2009

• Tonight: Rocks Off Presents Stand By Me at the Mink - Free Hot Dogs!

  Tonight at the Mink, Rocks Off presents Rob Reiner's 1986 coming-of-age classic Stand By Me, complete with free hot dogs from hot indie restaurant darlings Ray's Franks.​Adapted from Stephen King's Different Seasons novella "The Body," the film traces the journey of four friends searching for the dead body of another kid who was hit by a train. The boys initially go on the trek in the hopes that finding the corpse will make them local heroes, but along the way they encounter things that make

  September 8, 2009

• Five Direct Beatles Connections to Texas

  Four postcards included in the limited edition of The Beatles: Rock Band​ Looks like Beatlemania 2.0 is in full swing. Rocks Off may have mentioned how excited we are to play The Beatles: Rock Band at Coffee Groundz tonight, with prizes, drink specials and much laughter as we try to gnash our way through "I Saw Her Standing There." Shortly after noon, we called over to Cactus Music to see how the freshly released remastered Beatles catalog was selling. The complete box set sold out in pre-sale

  September 9, 2009

• "Kill Yourself" or "Don't Give Up"? Five Possible Theme Songs for the 2009 Houston Texans

  [Ed. note: Due to an editing mistake, this should have been up Friday afternoon. Apologies... we sure hope it didn't jinx the Texans or anything.] ​You may have missed it - what with there being almost no media coverage whatsoever - but football season started this week. Our own Texans are looking to improve on two consecutive .500 seasons and bring Houston one step closer to a championship in a sport that isn't basketball, soccer, or minor league hockey. Because apparently none of those count

  September 14, 2009

• The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

  It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influence of shadowy forces that supposedly linger in the dark. In the past 50 years, our society turned away from accepting basic facts and has instead begun to traffic in speculation and hearsay, trumping

  November 18, 2009