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Rocks Off's 2012 ACL Festival Houston Spillover Sweepstakes

This week has seen a temporary lull in festival season, after Bonnaroo and Electric Daisy Carnival this past weekend. Wait. Never mind. According to musicfestivaljunkies.com (who are these people?), three of them start today: BamaJam in Enterprise, Ala.; The Friendly Gathering in Windham, Vt.; and ... More >>

5 Intentionally Bad Albums By Geniuses That Really Aren't So Bad

If there's one thing artists hate, it's record labels. Like managers, they were a necessary evil for the music business throughout much of the previous century, at least until piracy and digital uploading became a thing. The way it worked in the olden days, though, was that a record label would giv ... More >>

Neil's Nephews: Indie-Rock's Brightest Young Acolytes

​Neil Young has spawned many children in the indie/folk-rock community, many of whom have directly constructed their style based on the Canadian humanitarian's more acoustic oeurve rather than the ragged-glory feedback cues that goosed grunge gods like Pearl Jam a generation ago. In the tradi ... More >>

Last Night: Ted Nugent At The Pasadena Fairgrounds

Photos by Marc Brubaker/ Click here for a slideshow​Ted Nugent Pasadena Fairgrounds July 11, 2010 It was one of the most offensive shows that Aftermath has probably been to, but that didn't stop us from buying a T-shirt. It was a show that would have made the cast of liberal pundits on CNBC s ... More >>

Classic Rock Corner: Graham Nash Interviewed

Joel BernsteinThere isn't much mystery to Graham Nash. Not that that's a bad thing at all. In fact, if you want to know how the British expat with the distinctive tenor vocals feels about anything - political and social issues, fellow musicians, his wife and children even religion - it's all ... More >>

Classic Rock Corner: Neil Young's Sugar Mountain

Neil Young Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 Forget Chinese Democracy. The real will-he-ever-release-it story of this decade (and the last...and the last...) is Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1, 1963-72. The (so far) massive 10-DVD set will include music, video, photos and interactive med ... More >>

Aftermath: The Cardinals at Verizon Wireless Theater

Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing

The Galveston singer-songwriter spent a lot of years on the periphery of music greatness and right in the middle of its excesses

Get Lit: Being Young, by Astrid Young

Last Night: Foo Fighters at Toyota Center

Guitar-Shredding on the High Seas

Built to Spill and the Decemberists offer alternate takes on alt-rock

Decent Folk

Summer Hymns' summer hymns define the purdy South

Heart of Gold

Neil Young charts his Greendale via "a little love and affection"

Le Smoking

Yves Saint Laurent has been throwing shade since he was a wee thing

The Bottle Rockets and Lucinda Williams

Saturday, February 28

Mauled Eagles

The hipster’s First Commandment: Thou shalt not dig the Eagles

Lucinda Williams

World Without Tears (Lost Highway)

Cry Uncle

For Uncle Tupelo fans, there's No Depression in reissue heaven

Westward Ho!

Houstonian Bridger chronicles the evils of manifest destiny with A Ballad of the West

Radio Shy

No Monkey Business

Rotation

Rotation

Rotation

Rotation

Unpolished Gem

Critic's Choice

All Bottled Up

Rotations

The Country of Rock and Roll

From the ashes of Uncle Tupelo springs Wilco, genreless and great