Concerts and Tour Dates

How Is Houston Doing ACL-Wise?

Marco TorresThe Eagles have flown, at least as far as Houston is concerned.​If you have even bothered to venture out of doors during these days of 105-degree heat indices and "Unhealthy" air-quality advisories, you may have noticed that things have been a little light on the roadshow front lat ... More >>

A "National" Tour Is Not L.A. To San Francisco Or A Few Festival Dates

Pavement? Nope, not here.​Tuesday, Rocks Off was a busy beaver keeping up with all the concert announcements coming over the wire. Along with the Fitzgerald's news, it was hard to keep up with everything going on. Interpol, Stone Temple Pilots, Drake, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros all ... More >>

Sage Francis Transcends Genres At House of Blues

Photos by Marc Brubaker/See the slideshowSage Francis with members of Free Moral Agents​Sage Francis' new album Li(f)e should have received better reviews than it did. Although the reviews it got weren't terrible, none of them seemed to acknowledge that Sage managed to marry rap and rock witho ... More >>

Magnolia City Mixtape: All The Scoop In One Fell Swoop... ACL Starts Us Off

Mark C. AustinWe sure hope this doesn't happen two years in a row at ACL.​ Austin City Limits will be October 8-10 this year, and MCM expects the line-up to be released in the next month or so. You can sign up for the e-list to get first notice of who's playing. If your profile is updated by today ... More >>

A Few Possible Cures For Rocks Off's Acute "Can't Stay Home" Syndrome

Lev Kuperman/ myspace.com/viaaudio​ Monday night, an obviously delirious Rocks Off found ourselves upstairs at the Mink's Backroom instead of where we should have been, home in bed asleep. We enjoyed high-energy/lo-fi trio Vivian Girls, but at this point we are starting to realize we may have a pr ... More >>

Still Not Sold On SXSW? How About Smokey Robinson, High On Fire, She & Him, Band Of Horses, Drive-By Truckers, Deer Tick, Anya Marina, Black Angels, Major Lazer...

Today the organizers of the SXSW Music Festival announced their showcase schedule for the music portion of the industry fest starting on March 17. This is the news Rocks Off has been looking for, so let's get it on. We are now one month away from Sixth Street and one of the world's biggest conglome ... More >>

Winner, Winner, Turkey Dinner!

​We have more than just concert tickets and t-shirts to give away at tonight's Washington Shore party -- giving you even more reason to come out and drink with us. For each drink you purchase at the party tonight, you'll get a raffle ticket from your friendly Washington Avenue Drinkery barten ... More >>

Ask a Rapper: Much Luvv's Tre9 Remembers Late Christian Rapper Juan "Enock" James

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducinglisto ... More >>

Blind Luck

Bicycle enthusiasts Blind Pilot step out of fellow Portlanders the Decemberists' shadow.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Honky-Tonk Hits the Galleria Area

KPFT DJ Rick Haysquierdo announced Monday that he will be hosting a monthly happy-hour concert series at Jimmy Wilson's Seafood and Chophouse in the Galleria area. Miss Leslie and Her Juke Jointers will inaugurate the new series Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. Haysquierdo, who hosts Lone Star Jukebox ... More >>

Windy & Carl, Golden Cities

Bill Cosby Remembers A Segregated Houston

Photo courtesy Houston SymphonyFrom time to time, Hair Balls talks to celebrities (real celebrities, not the "I invented a purple potato" type of pseudo-celebrities). And from time to time, those celebrities can be, oh, shall we say, unconventional. (Larry Harlow once slammed us for not being ... More >>

The Whole Wide World: Toubab Krewe's Live at the Orange Peel

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

My Guitar Hero Gently Weeps

They're not yelling "Bruce" this time. They're booing

In the Shade: Gold Sounds

Black Math Experiment to Go On Hiatus

The Wayback Machine

Tom Waits (nearly) Returns To Fannin Street

This Just In: Cat Power Cancels

This Just In: “Bodysnatchers” at the Woodlands

This Just In: Radioheaded This Way

Last Night: The Evens at NoTsuOh

Morrissey

Morrissey performs Monday, May 28, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600. Kristeen Young also performs.

Five Times August

Five Times August performs Saturday, May 5, at Mojo Risin', 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505.

Live Shots: Joshua Radin

I Am Ghost

Part of The Epitaph Tour, I Am Ghost performs Thursday, February 8, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel St., 713-225-5483. The Matches, Escape the Fate and The Higher also perform.

Don't Be a Squibb

Take the whole damn family out to see Harry and the Potters

Rebuilding Fiona

Thankfully, Ms. Apple has decided to remain with us

The Shout Out Louds

Sunday, November 27, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

Allman Brothers Band

Sunday, September 25, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

Melissa Etheridge

Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16

You Ain't Punk 2004

Saturday, April 10

Best Hip-hop Concerts

The Engine Room

Can I Get a Witnes?

DJ Witnes hosts a new hip-hop show on KPFT

MECA Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Thursday, December 12

Rock and Roll Swirlie

Manhattan's Toilet Boys keep '80s hair metal and '70s glam rock from circling the drain

K-Otix

Saturday, January 26

RodeoHouston: Some 'Splainin to Do

Secret correspondence from the rodeo

Later, Floyd

Laser rock shows at the Museum of Natural Science go the way of the dinosaurs

Closer to Home

Not all the best acts at the festival carry passports

You Say It's Your Birthday

Rap Space

Will hip-hop ever find a home in Houston?

Flower Power

A once-slumbering syndicated radio giant empties its vaults

Funk Revival

Attack of the Puppet People

Bobbindoctrin makes one thing perfectly clear -- puppets aren't just for kids anymore.

Once More, From the Top

Peter Stuart is ready to reclaim his captive audience

Static

State-of-the-Art Ghouls

White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

Come to Her Window

From the closet to the charts, Melissa Etheridge is out and rising

Live Shots