Subject: Dave Grohl

• Last Night: Foo Fighters at Toyota Center

  January 23, 2008

• Tight Fight: Bring Back the Summit!

  January 25, 2008

• Reporter’s Notebook: Random Scrawlings from the Van Halen Show

  January 29, 2008

• Last Night: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Super Bowl XLII

  February 4, 2008

• Tonight: The Melvins and Big Business at Warehouse Live

  August 21, 2008

• Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

  September 29, 2008

• ACL Notebook Dump, Pt. 2: Measuring Time Mars Volta-Style, Led Zeppelin Rumors and More

  September 29, 2008

• Mail Call: Post-Ike/ACL Edition

  September 30, 2008

• The Pop Moment

  December 16, 1993

• Hole on Halloween

  October 27, 1994

• Rotation

  May 22, 1997

• Rotation

  October 16, 1997

• Now They're Cooking

  January 22, 1998

• Rotation

  January 28, 1999

• Suckfest - Sorry, Buzzfest - XXII Lineup Announced

  Hey, didn't Korn break up after this album? They didn't? Our bad.In the midst of getting our collective Rocks Off panties in a twist over SXSW next week and the impending sweat-stained Westheimer Block Party, it's easy for us to forget what it's like on the other side of the music-snob fence. That's the other, seamier plane where lame-ass tricks like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and 10 Years can help sell out amphitheaters on bills headlined by Korn, Papa Roach and 311. Where masses of fake-tit

  March 13, 2009

• Cold Shot At The Hideaway

  A guitar prodigy electrifies Richmond Strip tavern

  December 25, 2008

• The Best Christmas Album of 2008 is... Metal?

  December 18, 2008

• Barnstorming Georgia Trio The Whigs

  Complete Control

  October 2, 2008

• Wesley Willis

  Wednesday, April 23

  April 17, 2003

• The 2008 Vans Warped Tour, with Angels & Airwaves

  July 3, 2008

• Foo Fighters

  January 17, 2008

• Hootenanny

  January 3, 2008

• Bar X Views

  Plus: Junk Food, Junk Suits; Pigeon Hold, Meds for the Poor

  February 6, 2003

• Toadies, Lions

  December 13, 2007

• Dinosaur Jr.

  Dinosaur Jr performs Sunday, June 17, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel St., 713-225-5483.

  June 14, 2007

• HARD ROCK CAFE'S

  ROCK N' ROLL PUNCH

  April 5, 2007

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• One Toke Wonder

  Tenacious D gets the band back together, and...and... and ?

  November 23, 2006

• Foo Fighters

  In Your Honor

  July 7, 2005

• Playbill

  October 14, 2004

• A Thin Line...

  Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

  September 23, 2004

• Cobain in Clubland

  April 15, 2004

• Embrace the Darkness

  Forget the hype and the backlash -- listening to Permission to Land is the key

  April 8, 2004

• The Hunger

  Friday, May 23

  May 22, 2003

• All His Life

  The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

  April 17, 2003

• Cold Relief

  Radio wild card Coldplay struts in from the UK with plenty of attitude

  January 23, 2003

• Number One with a Bullet

  Our take on "rare" Nirvana

  January 9, 2003

• Reach for the Sky

  The selfishness of Hands Up Houston nourishes Space City's beleaguered indie scene

  November 1, 2001

• Can't Foo Anyone

  If the Foo Fighters look like an indie-pop band and quack like an indie-pop band, then they must be an indie-pop band, right?

  June 1, 2000

• Rotation

  Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds, Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band, Verbena

  August 5, 1999

• Aftermath: Green Day at Toyota Center

  Mark C. Austin​ During "Minority," the motorized 2000 Celtic-thrash mash-up that closed Green Day's main set Saturday night, Toyota Center's video screen became a collage of flyers from the group's early days, before the platinum albums, roadies, Grammys and extra live musicians (there were four Saturday). Meanwhile, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, showing little if any fatigue after more than two hours of running, jumping and screaming, might as well have been back in those clubs as he doused

  August 10, 2009

• Maybe Miley Would Be Better Off Dead Like Selena, Kurt and These Others...

  In case you missed it - and if you value your immortal soul, we're sure you did - Hannah Montana star/future tell-all memoir author Miley Cyrus unveiled a newer, more "mature" look last weekend at the only venue appropriate for such things: the Teen Choice Awards. Nothing says "successful transition from 'tween idol to grown-up entertainer" like booty shorts and pole dancing, and we here at Rocks Off hope the 16-year old is prepared for the coming decades, which will likely be spent drinking ma

  August 13, 2009

• Melvins

  August 27, 2009

• Overkill? No Such Thing

  September 17, 2009

• Aftermath: Them Crooked Vultures at Stubb's in Austin

  Photos By Craig Hlavaty​Just a few short hours ago Aftermath saw the rock world's newest supergroup in action as Queens of The Stone Age's Josh Homme, ex-Nirvana drummer/current Foo Fighters helmer Dave Grohl, and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones took the stage at Stubb's in Austin for a warm-up gig before this afternoon's Austin City Limits festival appearance. Thursday night's show was only the second US date for Them Crooked Vultures since their inception this past summer.

  October 2, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Aftermath

  Photo by Mark C. AustinSchool of Seven Bells​Before we start discussing the great music we heard yesterday, we would like to take time to thank the Gods Of Rock for blessing Day One of the Austin City Limits Festival (ACL) 2009 with an amazing afternoon and evening of weather. Anyone who has partaken of this three-day jaunt in the Texas sun in past years can relate horror stories filled with 100-degree-plus heat and rolling dust storms that, for some of Aftermath's friends, occasionally r

  October 2, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Them Crooked Vultures. Duh.

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​Rocks Off saw Them Crooked Vultures a little less than twenty-four hours after their pulverizing set at Stubb's on Thursday night. It was the same setlist, just harder and Grohlier. Meaning that Dave Grohl was seemingly taking out his demons on his drum set. John Paul Jones pulled out some sort of customized slide bass for "Daffodils", in addition to his assortment of eight-string instruments. Lead singer and guitarist Josh Homme even had a chance to tease the crowd wi

  October 3, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Phoenix, Robyn Hitchcock and Them Crooked Vultures

  Photo by Matthew Taplinger​The quality of the grass at ACL on Charles Attal's apparent birthday blow out (if projections for "Feliz Cumpleanos" were to be believed) was nothing to sniff at. The great lawn of Zilker Park was emerald and ready to absorb the dance steps of a sold-out crowd with happy feet. The air was redolent with killing kindness, which raised the question of just how family friendly Austin's premiere outdoor music fest really is. Phoenix showed the crowd that there's mor

  October 3, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Spin the Black Circle

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​It only took one song in to Pearl Jam's Sunday night closing set at the Austin City Limits music festival for it to dawn on Rocks Off that for way too long this band has been forsaken by back-handed hipster discount and radio-influenced apathy. No band from the grunge-era is still honing their craft as well, and continues to thoughtfully subvert their own musical journey as much as Pearl Jam. Opening with "Why Go" from Ten, the band wasn't just firing on all cyli

  October 5, 2009

• Heckler's Delight: R. Kelly at Reliant Arena

  Sorry, we couldn't resist...​King of R&B. Ghostwriter supreme. Pop genius. Unabashed sex fiend. Bump 'n' grind horndog. Acquited pedophile. Ultimately, history will decide whether or not R. Kelly deserves some, all, or any of these labels, but here are two facts that aren't in dispute: 1) the guy has written and produced some of the sauciest, raunchiest, funniest songs in recent memory, and 2) that June's The Demo Tape mixtape - Kells' first - was an unforgivable piece of garbage. Since do

  October 30, 2009