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Friday Night: Hamilton Loomis at Dan Electro's

Hamilton Loomis Dan Electro's December 14, 2012 It never quite feels like Christmas until the kids come home. That seemed to be the sentiment behind the Christmas show at Dan Electro's on Friday, which brought Galveston native Hamilton Loomis, the ex-wunderkind guitarist who was jamming with Bo Did ... More >>

Houston's Top 10 Unsung Music Venues

There's no other way to say this except to say it: Houston has a lot of music venues, a lot of music venues, but most of the high-profile shows around here get routed into a handful of places. This happens for any number of reasons, most of them financial: Very few promoters in town can afford to pu ... More >>

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 5 Blues Clubs

5. THE SHAKESPEARE PUB Congratulations to the owner of Shakespeare Pub for the place's spruced-up digs. Now patrons can enjoy acts like the James Reese Band and Little Terry Rogers in plusher surroundings, not to mention sliding all night to zydeco. Of the nervous sort when it comes to public danci ... More >>

The 5 Best Shows In Houston This Week: T.S.O.L., Girl In a Coma, Etc.

The true sounds of liberty since 1978, whether those sounds are Black Flag-ish hardcore or Danzig-like mook-rock, the decidedly gothic T.S.O.L. sprang from the surfer's paradise of Huntington Beach, Calif., and palled around with the Damned and Dead Kennedys before helping their younger SoCal siblin ... More >>

8 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: Houston SunBurn, HPMA Showcase, Etc.

This is... impressive. It's called Houston SunBurn, and it's somehow related to famous Nevada freakfest Burning Man. It's tomorrow at Jet Lounge, the Engine Room and Last Concert Cafe, and looks like a who's who of local fringe talent - experimental electronica to Americana, and literally everything ... More >>

Flashbulb Fires

Summer of Love 45th Anniversary

7 Cool & Cheap Things To Do This Weekend: Crawfish, Scott H. Biram, Blaggards, Etc.

It's crawfish season, as Rocks Off may have mentioned recently. All weekend - today through Sunday, in other words - the Houston Blues Society is sponsoring the stage at the Kemah Crawfish Festival, featuring dependable locals such as Mojofromopolis, the Paul Ramirez Band, Texas Johnny Brown, Don Ke ... More >>

The Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Blues Clubs

Like our neighbors over at Eating Our Words, Rocks Off would like to tell you about some places that didn't quite make the cut in our few most recent Best of Houston issues (categories change every year, mostly), but that are worthy on their own merits; today we begin our weekly journey with blues c ... More >>

9 Cool & Cheap Things To Do This Weekend

Dozens of local rock, blues, jazz, folk and jam acts take over Dan Electro's Guitar Bar in the Heights for the completely free annual South by Due East festival, tonight through Monday. Door times are 5 p.m. Tonight and Monday, 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. DJ duo Ceeplus Bad Knives and Mr. Castillo ... More >>

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to What's Happening This Hallowen

A Scary Good Time

The Houston Press Guide to Halloween

The Gourds on Italian Sandwiches, Jaded Nashville and Life in a Van

Photo courtesy Miller Outdoor Theater​The Gourds, Austin's loosest and most literate roots band, rolls into Dan Electro's Guitar Bar tonight. The occasion is the release of the band's latest album, Old Mad Joy. Produced by Bob Dylan/Levon Helm sideman Larry Campbell, the album has been getting ... More >>

Last Night: Pete Anderson At Dan Electro's Guitar Bar

Photos by Jason Wolter​Pete Anderson Dan Electro's Guitar Bar May 2, 2011 Pete Anderson showed up a few minutes late Monday night. He'd gone to the address where he sent the posters for his show and discovered that was Dan Electro's owner Bob Edwards' home, not the club. But once the GPS was ... More >>

iFest Concert Series

Let's Get Spooky

Here's our guide to what's happening this Halloween.

Let's Get Spooky

Our guide to Houston's best Halloween haunts.

Head Out

Our guide to Halloween's best haunts

Open Tab: Things Are Changing, Holmes

Pull up a chair, start a tab and order a round of shots, because this is Rocks Off's weekly roundup of the goings-on in the Houston bar scene. Ups and downs, openings and closings, we will cover it all. Hit us up with any hot tips at craig.hlavaty@houstonpress.com. Craig Hlavaty​During our t ... More >>

The Happen-Ins, Mark May And More Weekend Happenings

Alexandra Valenti/ myspace.com/thehappeninsThe Happen-Ins​ Rocks Off is always looking for a cheapo weekend filled with wine, song, art and, well, debauchery if possible. The cheaper the better. So in that spirit... Rockers the Happen-Ins have been getting considerable buzz in their hometown of Au ... More >>

Would You See A Band Called The Snatch Wranglers? Saturday's Your Chance...

​Cinncinnati seems like an odd place for a band that patterns its schtick on Hank Jr.'s redneck asshole-ism, but that is exactly where Dallas Moore and the Snatch Wranglers are based. They're touring Texas right now, and will be on Austin Fox affiliate KTBC's morning news next week. It should be i ... More >>

What's In a Name? Hey, Look, It's 10th Gräde Cütie Again!

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off, we're trying hard to decode Houston's oddest monikers in order to find a little meaning. We mean this with affection and sincerity: 10th Gräde Cütie destroys everything they touch and should be booked ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Another Record Store Day at Cactus Music

Cactus Music and the Record Ranch is having another Record Store Day Saturday, with a lineup of events that borders on serious party happening. The highlight of the day will be a live appearance by red-hot San Antonio band The Krayolas (above). San Antonio's oldest and most respected rockero outfit ... More >>

Before We Go: Odds and Ends on Mechanical Boy, Katy Perry, George Strait, Future Blondes and More

"SWING LOW AND CARRY ME HOME" By Mechanical Boy from Michael Fodera on Vimeo. It's about time for Rocks Off to head off to the bunkhouse for some much-needed R&R, but first here's a few final tidbits that have recently come to our attention. Mechanical Boy just released its first video, "Swing L ... More >>

New Year's Eve

Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe Making Progress

Daniel Kramer Some very good news out of Galveston, via the Hands Up Houston message board (thanks, Ron). As John Nova Lomax reported back in September, Galveston roots/singer-songwriter venue the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe was ravaged by Hurricane Ike, and owner Wrecks Bell said at the time he t ... More >>

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

Bottom Shakefest

Sideshow Tramps and News on the March

A local show features two of Houston's best folk-inspired rock outfits

Dammit: Plant and Krauss Cancel

Locals Only

Tonight: World's Most Dangerous CD Release at Dan Electro's

The Bobcat Benefit

Weekend Music: Sublime Lives (Sort Of)

Medicine Show No Mo

Breaking the seventh seal at the Sideshow Tramps' CD release party

Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up

Dan Electro's Guitar Bar

A visit to the Blues Jam

Party of Five

The tunes -- and bedrooms -- are hoppin' in I Sing!

Playbill

Here's to Hope

Houston artists light up the Illumination Project 2004

Steel Strippin'

New setting, new songs, same hook

Best Open-Mike Night

Thursdays at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar

Static

The Wizard of Weird

After two decades of oddity, Beans Barton still has a lock on the inexplicable

What's in a Name?

A lot, if you're Moses Guest, and taking another grab at the brass ring

Static

Pop Moment

Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Have a Pepsi

Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)

Sprawling Toward Spunk

Weeping at the Metropolis, hiding in the Abyss