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Charlie Robison

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Upcoming: Avicii, Buxton, Down, The Knux, Nada Surf, Etc.

    311, Slightly Stoopid: Sun., July 15. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, Spring. .38 Special, Blackberry Smoke, Folk Family Revival: Sat., May 19. Sam Houston Race Park, 7575 N. Sam Houston Parkway W., Houston. "3rd Annual Disco Green Electronic Music Festival": Sat., May 5. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Distant Early Warning: Social Distortion, Gary Clark Jr., Melvins, Girls, Maná, De La Soul

    Photo By Jim BrickerBobby Womack onstage with Gorillaz in October 2010 at Toyota Center​2 Chainz, Paul Wall, Propain: Thu., March 1. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston. Anvil, Rotting Corpse, Metavenge, Fallacy: Thu., Feb. 9. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston. Asleep At The Whee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Houston Gets Over-The-Air Country-Music Channel

    ​Believe it or not, some of us get by just fine without cable or satellite TV. When Rocks Off goes home at night - the odd evenings we stay home, that is - not only do we enjoy the finest network television has to offer, but the cornucopia of choices across the digital-TV spectrum: B- and C-mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Royalty Waylon Payne Plays Mucky Duck Thursday

    The son of music royalty - his father is Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne, his mother was Nashville hitmaker Sammi Smith of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" fame - Waylon Payne is one of the best of the new breed of Nashville's young writers in Nashville. So good, in fact, he's nominated for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Looking Ahead to Jonathan Richman, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Scott Miller and Lots More

    While doing our usual hunt for interesting acts coming to Houston in the next few weeks, Lonesome Onry and Mean came across some great stuff coming to Continental Club and McGonigel's Mucky Duck. The brainy, always quirky Jonathan Richman will be at the Continental Saturday, January 29. An origianl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Other Uses for Best In Texas Besides, You Know, Reading It

    ​Lonesome Onry and Mean recently stopped wasting good notebook paper writing drafts of articles about Best in Texas Music Magazine. We were perusing the current issue and thinking about how bad it is when it suddenly dawned on us: the environmentally pure thing would be to write a column about it ... More >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2009

    Back to the Dead

    Black Leather Jesus's Richard Ramirez resurrects the Dead Audio Music Festival.

  • Music

    July 9, 2009

    Maryland Bang

    Meet Rye Rye, Baltimore's latest rap sensation.

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Free Tickets for Charlie Robison at House of Blues... Almost

    Charlie Robison has been around. He was born right here in Houston, but grew up alongside equally (if much differently) gifted songwriting brother Bruce in the South Central Texas ranching town of Bandera. In the '80s and '90s, he spent time in two of Austin's best-known and longest-running cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Robison Brothers Too Sick to Play Mucky Duck; Hayes Carll and John Evans Step In

    Rocks Off just got an email from McGonigel's Mucky Duck owner Rusty Andrews (so did everyone else on the venue's mailing list, but never mind) saying that Bruce and Charlie Robison have had to cancel tonight's show due to illness; he says a reschedule date is planned, but doesn't know when that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2008

    The Wayback Machine

    Rocks Off just got an email from McGonigel's Mucky Duck owner Rusty Andrews (so did everyone else on the venue's mailing list, but never mind) saying that Bruce and Charlie Robison have had to cancel tonight's show due to illness; he says a reschedule date is planned, but doesn't know when that ... More >>

  • Music

    February 8, 2007

    Kevin Carroll

    Kevin Carroll performs Wednesday, February 14, at Mojo Risin' Coffee Shop, 1600 Shepherd Dr., 713-426-1505.

  • Music

    December 29, 2005

    Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

    Looking back on the '05 and dreaming in the '06

  • Music

    July 14, 2005

    Hellish Houston

    A summer selection of the Bayou City's most miserable music and depressing songs

  • Music

    March 10, 2005

    Todymania!

    Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

  • Music

    November 25, 2004

    Playbill

    Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

  • Music

    September 23, 2004

    Playbill

    Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    Playbill

    Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

  • Music

    May 6, 2004

    Defending the Dirty Thirty

    And coping with Yankee slander

  • Music

    March 18, 2004

    A Nashville Star Is Born

    Former Richmond Strip denizen Sheila Marshall makes it all the way to Music City

  • Music

    January 29, 2004

    The Main Event

    January 29 - February 1

  • Music

    September 4, 2003

    A Trip to Bountiful

    The Innkeeper is the best country venue in town. Too bad it's 50 miles away.

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2003

    Up, Up and Away

    Little Johnny will love the Ballunar Liftoff Festival

  • Calendar

    April 24, 2003

    Dancers and Daredevils

    Little Johnny will love the Ballunar Liftoff Festival

  • Music

    November 14, 2002

    RIP, KIKK

    A redneck institution drowns in a flood of syrupy smooth jazz

  • Music

    January 3, 2002

    Toro! Toro! Toro!

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

  • Culture

    November 29, 2001

    The Gift Of Music

    2001’s top ten picks

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    Pure Spunk

    Del Rio-bred Radney Foster is a cowpunk both on stage and off

  • Music

    August 23, 2001

    Racket

    At Tim Murrah's Metropol, it's about music, not style

  • Music

    August 16, 2001

    Racket

    Pinpointing when Texas music jumped the shark

  • Music

    August 9, 2001

    Choo Choo Ch'boogie

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

  • News

    July 26, 2001

    Mount Coy

    South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

  • Music

    May 24, 2001

    A KIKK in the Pants

    The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Yee-Haw

    He's married to a Dixie Chick and signed to a major label... Charlie Robison is charmed

  • Music

    September 9, 1999

    Roundabout Way

    Cornell Hurd finally finds his musical niche

  • Calendar

    May 27, 1999

    Night & Day

    May 27 - June 2, 1999

  • Music

    October 1, 1998

    Family Style

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

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