Daniel Johnston

The Biggest Surprises From the Texas 30 Ballots

Perusing the final ballots for the Texas 30 with a few highlighters this past week was a blessed odyssey into the past three decades of all things Texas music. For as many no-brainers as there were, there were plenty of head-scratchin' exclusions. Rewind: The 30 Best Texas Albums (cover story) Sl ... More >>

The Texas 30: The Third Runners-Up, Albums 60-51

Friday, Rocks Off told you about our "Texas 30" project, compiling a list of the best 30 albums of the past 30 years. Today we're about to show you the first of three bubbling-under appetizer lists we did just to put a little oil on the gears. Here, starting with No. 60, is where it gets interestin ... More >>

5 More Christmas Songs by Houston Artists (and the Butthole Surfers)

5. Butthole Surfers, "Good King Wenceslas" Would you believe me if I told you that a Butthole Surfers song is impossible to explain? There's a version of "Good King Wenceslas" that Mannheim Steamroller made pretty famous on elevators around the world. You wouldn't recognize the words if I told you, ... More >>

Hi, How Is Daniel Johnston?

Rocks Off is very proud to present Daniel Johnston's in-store performance 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Cactus Music. As always, it's absolutely free, including the St. Arnold's. Thinking about the in-store, we realized we hadn't heard much about Johnston lately, which is good in the "no news is good news" ... More >>

The Sound of Flight: 6 Local Musicians That Could Announce Flights at Houston Airports

On Tuesday, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport announced that they will be launching a new program to promote awareness of music native to their region, wherein famous musicians from the area will announce safety procedures and give informational speeches on the airport. In return, the airport wil ... More >>

10 Things We're Probably Doing At ACL This Year

villagevoice.comBjork at ACL '07, when part of her staging caught fire.​This is the Rocks Off team's (well, Craig Hlavaty and Chris Gray) fifth year covering the Austin City Limits Music Festival. The first year this smart guy wore black jeans and a black shirt to try to look cool, which made ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Collections: Annual HSPVA Juried Show" "Crafting Live(s): 10 Years of Artists-In-Residence" "Hayden Fosdick: Paper Compounds" Marc Swanson: The Second Story "Mitch Dobrowner: New Work" "R.W. Northcutt: Indigenous Genius" "Use Your Il

Narduwar The Human Serviette's 11 Best Interviews

exclaim.caNarduwar (left) and the patron saint of 4/20​Nardwuar The Human Serviette from "Vancouver BC Canada" knows all of your favorite bands, artists, and rappers better than you, and better than they know themselves. At first glance, he kind of resembles a Canadian Matthew Lesko (the free- ... More >>

Women of Rock

Readers discuss Slutwave genre.

Friday Night: Daniel Johnston's 50th Birthday At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​Daniel Johnston Fitzgerald's January 14, 2011 Check out our slideshow from Friday night's birthday festivities. News had already reached Aftermath before we arrived at Fitzgerald's for Daniel Johnston's 50th birthday concert that he could only get through two and a half ... More >>

Daniel Johnston

The 31 Best Music Documentaries Of All Time

​Hands down, above all of these following music documentaries, Craig's Hlist's two favorite of all-time are The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, and The Beatles Anthology. We can watch both on repeat for days and not complain. That will probably all change once we see ... More >>

GhoulsFest: Everything You Need To Know

Daniel Johnston fuels up.​For the record, Rocks Off is well aware there is more to GhoulsFest than Black Congress not playing the ten-hour festival at Tom Bass Park tomorrow. A lot more. We also wish BC nothing but the best opening for New Orleans Sabbathites Eyehategod at Walter's tonight and ... More >>

Inside GhoulsFest, Houston's Newest Music Festival

​This weekend the first annual GhoulsFest was announced for October 30 out at Tom Bass Park in Pearland. Things like this usually get telegraphed in a big way from bands leaking things out on Facebook and the like, but not this time. The event is thankfully set for one of the cooler parts of ... More >>

Aftermath: Catastrophic Theater's Life Is Happy and Sad at Diverseworks

Photos by George Hixon/ Courtesy of Catastrophic Theater​ As well-conceived and executed as Catastrophic Theater's latest Daniel Johnston-inspired production is, it's also more than a little discomfiting. Based on an oral letter the famously troubled singer-songwriter recorded and sent to a friend ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Margo Veil: An Entertainment, Life Is Happy and Sad

Life Is Happy and Sad

Jason Nodler gives us a prequel to Speeding Motorcycle

ACL 2009 Day One: Hi, Diet Coke. How Are You?

Craig Hlavaty​ Here's Daniel Johnston pouring himself a glass of non-demon tainted Diet Coke. Which is weird because we always thought he was down with the Dew, as in Mountain. Not the band Mountain of "Mississippi Queen" fame. The gross-ass faux energy drink, the one that hillbillies but in thei ... More >>

Is and Always Was

Daniel Johnston 2.0, full-on rock record, iPhone app and all.

Speeding Motorcycle

Meet Joe Boxer (and be nice to him, please)

SXSW: Daniel Johnston at Emo's

So I generally don't know how to feel about Daniel Johnston. I think he's a songwriter whose simple chord progressions and simplistic lyrics meld together into absolute brilliance, no matter that his voice belongs squarely in the love-it-or-hate-it camp. I'm just uncomfortable with his history of me ... More >>

Local Rotation: Muhammad Ali & Black Congress' Split Cassette (That's Right, Cassette)

Yesterday afternoon, Rocks Off bought his first new cassette tape since 1996. The last tape we bought was the Schoolhouse Rocks soundtrack that came out the year before. It was a collection of 90's indie rockers like Pavement and Daniel Johnston doing covers of tunes from the classic Saturday mo ... More >>

Band of Annuals

The news from Salt Lake City isn’t all bad

Overnight Express: Keep Houston Weird

SXSW: Stomping my feet to British Sea Power

SXSW Extra: What's In My Pockets?

Flock to "Flicker Fusion"

Don't miss the powerful, curious animation screening at DiverseWorks

Local Motion

Local Motion

Drenched In Blog: ACL in Photos, Take Two

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

Pop Rocks

"Power Pathos" presents pop surrealism with Texas ties

Sparklehorse, with Danny & the Nightmares

Wednesday, September 13, at The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Ghostly Musical Resurrected

Casper, Cap and the Antichrist back on stage

"Power" Players

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Moving Motorcycle

IBP's new original show is a strange, wonderful surprise

Motorcycle Madness

A local theater troupe brings Daniel Johnston's wild vision to life

Way Down in the Hole

Can Daniel Johnston keep the devil at bay long enough to be successful?

Dizzy Does It

Kathy McCarty

Another Day in the Sun

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Local Rotation

Blunt Force

BMC plays ragga jungle at NoDo's Underground Lounge

Butthole Surfers

Saturday, July 13

Eyeballing McCarty

Austin's Kathy McCarty fleshes out the naked emotion of Daniel Johnston's songs

Dollars for Discs

Introducing a shopping guide for sounds