Crescent City

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Josh Turner, K-Rino, Romeo Santos, etc.

Josh Turner Nutty Jerry's (Winnie), April 5 It's hard to keep up with every new country crooner that comes over the pop-twang airwaves, but thankfully Josh Turner's deeper-than-the-holler voice manages to stand out from the Keith Urban clones, sounding way more trad-country than those other guys at ... More >>

New Orleans Braces For Super Bowl XLVII Onslaught As Future Of The Game Is Debated

Excited tension hung heavy in the air in New Orleans on Monday evening as the coming Super Bowl XLVII super-storm of tourist dollars began to filter into town. Most streets downtown near convention center are already cordoned off. There are NFL banners blanketing the city. The Mercedes-Benz Superd ... More >>

White Linen Fight

As event grew, so did promises, expectations and disappointments.

In Memoriam: The Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune

And so it has come to pass: an venerable and award-winning major metropolitan daily has ceased publishing every day. Last week, Newhouse Newspapers announced that this fall, their new acquisition, the 175-year-old New Orleans Times-Picayune, would only hit the streets in print form three days a we ... More >>

Better Off

A '90s alt-rock band that has stuck together and even ended up in the black.

No Surprises: Rock Hall Set To Induct Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys

Photo By Marco TorresGuns N' Roses are Rock Hall bound, but which version of GNR will show up? ​This morning (well, it leaked last night) the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland announced their 2012 class of inductees. Included on the list are Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Bo ... More >>

25 Essential Eponymous Albums

​Eponymous: (of a literary work, film, etc) named after its central character or creator: The Stooges' eponymous debut album. On this day in 1983, a young woman from Michigan who had recently given up on a career as a hard-rock singer released her first album of electronic dance-pop, an album ... More >>

Top 10 Healing Songs, From One Who Knows

Chris Nelson/FacebookClint Broussard in his natural habitat.​Rocks Off was happy to run into our friend and Blues In Hi-Fi DJ Clint Broussard the other day at Leon's Lounge (where else?). We were a little surprised too, because it was the first time we'd seen him with two shoes on in months. ... More >>

iFest's Second Weekend Brings It All Back Home

Jason WolterTexas Connection: Joe Ely, Lucinda Williams and Townes Van Zandt (not pictured)​See lots more iFest pictures from Saturday and Sunday (and some food) in our slideshows. Yes, it was hot at iFest this weekend. Houston hot. Sunday afternoon, partway through Lucinda Williams' surprisi ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Katharine Shilcutt reported on which Houston restaurants have opened and which have closed, including three Cajun joints. Which led commenter Tim to reflect on Creole and Cajun, New Orleans and Lafayette: Forgive me for I am about to nitpick: 'Three separate Cajun places went to that big C ... More >>

Poor Little Rich Boys at Zimm's Little Deck

Photo by Troy FieldsRoast beef poor boy at Calliope's.​The long and short of this week's cafe review of Zimm's Little Deck is that while the Cajun restaurant's small plates (items like Croque Monsieur balls and fried calamari) are great, the poor boys are wanting. So, too, are the "rich boys" ... More >>

Kermit Ruffins

Kermit Ruffins, New Orleans' Beaming Musical Ambassador

​Many people say that going to New Orleans feels like being in another time. In fact, the city's current slogan for its tourism TV spots, which Rocks Off caught just this morning, is "you're different here." Listening to Kermit Ruffins, who plays House of Blues Friday night, has that effect t ... More >>

Houston: One Tough Town for Noodles

​Tho Lam, a waiter at Pho One on Westheimer at Wilcrest, told me his life story the other day. Tho works for his parents Thamh Lam and Kim Oanh Vu who own the place. The name of the restaurant is a wordplay on his mom's middle name. Kim Oanh Vu comes from a famous pho family. Her father and Th ... More >>

Memories of Brennan's

A Houston institution burns; will it be back?

Houston's Matt Clark Strums for New Orleans' Glen David Andrews

A River Oaks kid learns the Basin Street Blues

The Soul Rebels Brass Band Find a Houston Home

New Orleans flair arrives on booming Almeda Boulevard

Life in a Hurricane

The New Orleans sound of The Morning 40 Federation

Irie iFest

Finding the coolest runnings at this year's Jamaica-themed Houston International Festival

Shortchanged

Houston-based immigrants who flock to New Orleans can get all the jobs they want. Getting paid is a lot harder.

Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

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

Veggie Tales

An alternative to gasoline-based fuel gains traction in Houston

Tremé, Texas

The soul of New Orleans lives on in Houston, especially at Sammy's on Main

Welcome, Neighbors

Houston's music community responds to an unprecedented influx of talent

Katrina & The Waves

Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Christmas is the weirdest time of the year. Who better to musically document the season than John Waters?

Boxing the Rock

Six of the year's best multi-disc sets (and one of the worst)

Sandwich On Demand

The District 7 Grill must have muffulettas

Shemekia Copeland

Talking to Strangers (Alligator Records)

Kenny G.'s Revenge

Smooth-jazz fans blast Racket

The Gift Of Music

2001’s top ten picks

The Rebirth Brass Band

Saturday, December 1

Angola Bound

The Neville Brothers have toiled long and hard to win freedom from prisons of the body and mind.

Playbill

Mem Shannon

Stirred and Shaken

Brennan's Sazerac cocktail

Brass Tacks

Who killed "When the Saints..."? The Dirty Dozen, and don't you forget it.

Stirred and Shaken

Magnolia's Ramos gin fizz

Creole Country

Cajun, New Orleans Creole and African-French Creole are three distinct cuisines.

Pepper Shakers

Los Hombres Calientes take jazz into booty-shaking territory

Lady Belts the Blues

Marcia Ball signs with Alligator and gets a new groove on

Sex Among the Armoires

Rotation

Rotation

Static

Try a Sample

Break's Over

Sounds Like a Winner!

1996 Houston Press Music Awards

Sound Check

A Pizza Puzzle

If it pulls the pieces together, The Strand Brewery could have a powerful pie

The Private Life and Public Death of Frank Koury

Frank Koury wanted to keep his gay life at home and his legal life at Fulbright & Jaworski separated. But when he died, everything was revealed.