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The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Jeezy, CCA Conservation Concert, etc.

Jeezy Arena Theatre, May 17 A self-proclaimed hustler on the mike, the Atlanta rapper known as Young Jeezy has grown up quite a bit since his 2001 debut album dropped under the name Lil J. Rising through the ranks via his several independently released Dirty South mixtapes, he's now sittin' pretty ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Robin Kirby, Silk and Sandpaper Songwriter

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Singer-Songwriter Robin Kirby entered ... More >>

The Biggest Houston Bands of 1992

Researching what the Houston music scene was like 20 years ago has been an eye-opening experience, to put it mildly. In that benighted era, the world was very analog. Musicians could design a gig flyer or type up some lyrics on their computers, maybe fiddle around with some primitive MIDI-type softw ... More >>

Horseshoe's Top 5 F*cked Up Songs

Photos by Jason WolterHorseshoe at Rudz in May​Greg Wood and his band of merry men known as Horseshoe slide into Under The Volcano Wednesday night for the late-'90s warhorses' second "reunion" gig since getting back together at Rudyard's three months ago. Wood has been described as a songwrite ... More >>

A Band to Save Me

The first Best of Houston® BestFest makes itself at home in Midtown.

BestFest Single-Day Passes Now On Sale For $25

Marco TorresBun B: As trill as it gets.​You asked for it, you got it. Like KISS. Now, right now, you can buy single-day passes for this weekend's Best of Houston® BestFest on the festival's Web site, bestfesthouston.com. If the virtual ticket window isn't quite ready, give it a minute or to ... More >>

BestFest Finalizes Lineup, Releases Schedule

​As much as Rocks Off has been talking about it, planning it, and writing about it these past two months or so, it doesn't seem possible that our first-ever Best of Houston® BestFest is only 10 short days away. By the time we finish coughing up all the dust from our trip to the no-smoking Aus ... More >>

10 Houston Artists Who Should Be Playing ACL This Year

Jim BrickerZZ Top: How-how-how-how have they not played ACL by now?​Rocks Off has been putting it off as long as we can, but we have finally started seriously thinking about this weekend's Austin City Limits Music Festival. And the more we thought about it, the more it slowly dawned on us that ... More >>

BestFest Adds Los Skarnales, The Last Place You Look, Umbrella Man & Honky Tonk Blood Trio

Half-price GA passes = today's "Deal of the Day" GroovehousePachuco Boogie: Los Skarnales' Nestor Serrano (left) and Felipe Galvan at the 2011 Houston International Festival​The first Best of Houston® BestFest is shaping up nicely. Today it gives Rocks Off great pleasure to announce four mo ... More >>

Lord of the Hipsters

Whatever mashup-pioneering DJ Diplo decides to spin, it's a guaranteed party.

Ray Benson: "Before Keith Richards, There Was Bob Wills"

​Although he grew up outside Philadelphia, Ray Benson is the quintessential Texas musician. Somewhere in his rambling South Austin studio/office compound is a proclamation declaring him the 2004 official state musician, not to mention the umpteen Grammys he's won as front man and bandleader of ... More >>

Singer's Health Scare Prods Horseshoe Reunion

Artwork via Horseshoe on Facebook​With a band reunion facing him in a little less than three weeks, Greg Wood is just happy to be here. "Man, I had that heart attack when I was 35 and I never figured I'd ever see 47, but here I sit," he gestures expansively around the twilight Sunday scene at ... More >>

Distant Early Warning: The Appleseed Cast, Cut Chemist, Norah Jones, Sondre Lerche, Torche, etc.

​Abacabb, Upon A Burning Body, Molotov Solution, Dr. Acula: Fri., Jan. 29. Meridian. Al Di Meola: Sat., Feb. 13. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. Alpha Rev, The Fox Derby, Tyagaraja, The Language Room: Fri., Jan. 8. Warehouse Live. The Appleseed Cast: Fri., Feb. 26. Rudyard's. The Bellamy Brothers: Fri. ... More >>

Turkey Trot

Artists choose the songs that rocked their 2008 worlds

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

The Wayback Machine

Local Motion at Cactus Music

Chris King Injured In Wreck

Anne McCue

That's a Lot of Levi's

A Lighter Shade of Blue

Jerry Lightfoot 1952-2006

Hay Ya

Texas dance's grande dame steps into DiverseWorks

Playbill

Adieu, Monsieur Mojo

...And other SXSW adventures

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Computer Error

When it comes to local facts, don't rely on Allmusic.com

Dark Riders

The good, the bad and the ugly rock-star performance contracts

Moby Pick

Beaumont's Barbara Lynn lucks out with a song that almost died

Caring for the Kids

Plus: Last Seen Wearing..., Punch Lines, Looking Down

Crash Comfort

Soul Drunk Lingering Day (Seismic Music/Montrose)

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

Plymouth Rock

The cornerstones of popular music can be found inside Jimmy's Pawn Shop

Music Awards Winners

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

Amplified

That Lonesome Sound: Bye Bye, Clay Farmer Band

Amplified

Local music news

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1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

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Lucky Horseshoe

Are a praised CD and a slot at SXSW enough to make this band happy? Of course not.

Press Picks

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Big Band, Big Press Kit

Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones! (Yawn...)

Flop Like an Eagle

Brad Tyer checks out of the Hotel California after five songs

Heaven's Gatemouth

Juneteenth brings a blues great back to Houston

Elvis and Other Attractions

Sprawling Toward Spunk

Weeping at the Metropolis, hiding in the Abyss

Down and Dull in Austin

South by Southwest disappoints -- again

End Game

This is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, not with a bang but a ... year-end roundup