Dave Edmunds

Last Night: The Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Only a Week Until Robert Plant/Allison Krauss

Tonight: Gary Nicholson at Dosey Doe

Local Rotation: Something Fierce's There Are No Answers

Something Fierce There Are No Answers www.somethingfiercemusic.com Open letter to the Warped Tour: If you don't include Something Fierce on your 2009 80-something band docket, you deserve to have Andy Macdonald or Kyle Loza do one of their extreme-sports stunts right into your figurat ... More >>

Keeping His Cool

Nick the Knife's regained his edge, and the world's a better place for it

Last Man Standing

Kim Wilson is the sole T-Bird on the band's best release in years. But is anyone listening?

Freddie Krc

Kim Wilson is the sole T-Bird on the band's best release in years. But is anyone listening?

Something Fierce: There Are No Answers

Kim Wilson is the sole T-Bird on the band's best release in years. But is anyone listening?

Noise's Handy Holiday Local-Music Gift Guide

Kim Wilson is the sole T-Bird on the band's best release in years. But is anyone listening?

The Not-So-New Kids on the Block

Still Hangin' Tough?

The High Score

We Showed Up to Leave

Snit's Dog and Pony Show

Friday, April 7, at the Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby, 713-523-9999

A Perfect Fitz

"Snit" Fitzpatrick finds sweet inspiration in his own rock band

Lonesome Onry and Mean: How Much Does Nick Lowe Rule?

I first heard Nick Lowe - and Stiff Records mates Dave Edmunds, Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury and Elvis Costello - when I lived in Europe in 1977. That Live Stiffs album not only saw me through a stint in northern Europe, it stayed with me for seven more years as I criss-crossed Asia with a Sony Walkman ... More >>

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

I first heard Nick Lowe - and Stiff Records mates Dave Edmunds, Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury and Elvis Costello - when I lived in Europe in 1977. That Live Stiffs album not only saw me through a stint in northern Europe, it stayed with me for seven more years as I criss-crossed Asia with a Sony Walkman ... More >>

Darden Smith, Dan Navarro

I first heard Nick Lowe - and Stiff Records mates Dave Edmunds, Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury and Elvis Costello - when I lived in Europe in 1977. That Live Stiffs album not only saw me through a stint in northern Europe, it stayed with me for seven more years as I criss-crossed Asia with a Sony Walkman ... More >>

Eight Songs That Make Us Want To Go Back To School

​Last week, when Rocks Off was editing our former intern Matthew Keever's article about the worst back-to-school soundtracks when Jerry Lee Lewis' "High School Confidential" popped into our head out of the blue. Not really out of the blue, we guess, but the next thing we knew we were thinking, ... More >>

Los Skarnales

The punk/ska band adds New Orleans funk.

Lemmy & HeadCat Mates Walk The Rockabilly Walk

​You could say that the members of roots-rock trio HeadCat got together to pay tribute to the King. But instead of the baby Jesus of Bethlehem, these three wise men -bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), drummer Slim Jim Phantom (ex-Stray Cats), and guitarist/pianist Danny B. Harvey (ex ... More >>

Best Riffs Only: Krayolas Going For Tex-Mex Rock & Roll Master's

​Krayolas drummer David Saldana is not your average power pop rock and roller. While his resuscitated band continues to draw gobs of press and is grabbing some high profile gigs, Saldana's life is taking him in another direction. "I'm actually getting my Masters in education so I can be a pri ... More >>

Discovery Green Lands Roots-Rock Royalty For Free Fall Concerts

Jason WolterTexas Tornados at Discovery Green, September 2010​A return engagement from Tex-Mex supergroup the Texas Tornados, reunited (after a fashion) roots-rock polymaths NRBQ - now featuring a former Houstonian on drums - and the honky-tonk hero who told Tiger Airways a thing or two highli ... More >>