Subject: Dead Kennedys

• Tonight: The Melvins and Big Business at Warehouse Live

  August 21, 2008

• Butthole Surfers Pt. 1: Ex-Manager Tom Bunch on BHS' First Houston Show, "Gibby Used to Drop His Pants a Lot," His Punk Rock Video Archives, Explaining the Music Business and More

  October 21, 2008

• X Marks the Spot

  Legendary L.A. punks survey the scene they helped spawn 25 years ago

  November 14, 2002

• Lutefisk Sushi

  Sweet J.A.P. is without a doubt the best Japanese punk band from Minneapolis

  July 24, 2003

• Buckcherry's Sweet Success

  Drinking and drugging with crazy bitches sounds like more fun than the law will allow, but playing in a red-hot rock band is not always an all-you-can eat orgy. "I think people realize there's a lot more to this band than just fucking and partying," says Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson. That revelation, surrendered by a man whose hits include the cocaine anthem, "Lit Up," and the self-explanatory, "Too Drunk," is due in no small part to Buckcherry's ubiquitous 2007 power apology, "Sorry."

  December 5, 2008

• Roots Rockabilly

  March 16, 1995

• Rotation

  February 1, 1996

• Rotation

  June 6, 1996

• Prankster Punk

  June 20, 1996

• Road Rules

  July 4, 1996

• Buff Boys

  August 29, 1996

• Ground-in Dirt

  October 3, 1996

• Talking Revolution

  May 8, 1997

• Free 7" from Room 101

  Local/Chicago one-man noisenik Room 101 isn't letting a silly thing like the economic crisis stop him from releasing music - he's just decided to give it away. Email him at robface1@hotmail.com and he'll send you a copy of his brand-new four-song 7", complete with artwork by Winston Smith, who doctored up some Dead Kennedys covers real nice back in the day. Mr. 101 was kind enough to send Rocks Off MP3s of two songs from the EP, squawking blues "In Uniform" and narcotic daydream "The

  February 17, 2009

• WTF Island: Jackson Five, Kid Rock, Glenn Danzig, Rock Camp and Assteroids

  Even as our economy continued to go up in flames like the Toyota Center, the carnival of WTF kept trolling along this week. It seemed that every day we saw something so asinine and foolish that we couldn't keep up. Jackson Family slavery museums, rock and roll fantasy camps, Kid Rock's new beer, "Assteriods" with Diamond Dave, and Glenn Danzig's new dating show kept WTF Island at full capacity. We found out this week that the Jackson Five's Marlon Jackson, brother of Michael, is helping to fin

  February 20, 2009

• Houston Punks Legionaire's Disease Band, Gone But Hardly Forgotten

  March 19, 2009

• Think Buckcherry Has Mellowed? Crazy Bitch...

  December 4, 2008

• Akimbo

  "Seattle's last hair band" takes on The Mink

  October 9, 2008

• The Judy's Come Back

  March 13, 2008

• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

  You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  November 15, 2007

• Bored with Apathy

  Houston's old-school punks reunite to aid a stricken legend

  December 28, 2006

• The Thermals

  The Thermals appear Tuesday, October 10, at Proletariat, 903 Richmond. Call 713-523-1199 for more info.

  October 5, 2006

• Various Artists

  Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly

  August 31, 2006

• Band on the Run

  A murder confession puts the Jonbenét in the news

  August 31, 2006

• Be Your Own Pet

  Wednesday, June 21, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513.

  June 15, 2006

• Exene Cervenka & the Original Sinners

  Friday, April 7, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-629-3700

  April 6, 2006

• Do You Hear What I Hear?

  Wack's Very Special Holiday Music Guide

  December 8, 2005

• Throw Rag, with Los Skarnales, Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys and Hell City Kings

  Tuesday, August 30, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

  August 25, 2005

• Down Is Up

  System of a Down is rock's least likely success story

  August 11, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Swede Emotion

  Capitalism gives the leftists in the (International) Noise Conspiracy a raw deal

  May 26, 2005

• Nouvelle Vague

  Nouvelle Vague

  April 28, 2005

• MDC

  Sunday, April 17, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  April 14, 2005

• I'll Drink to That

  Fuel your New Year's Eve with these boozy sing-along tunes

  December 30, 2004

• Anarchy in da USA

  Looking for the true spirit of the Ramones? Try going to an underground hip-hop show.

  December 16, 2004

• A Star Is Reborn

  Mike Haaga of dead-horse infamy leaves metal in the wake of a glorious new record

  September 9, 2004

• switchfoot

  No matter what you call 'em, they're headlining the Music Awards

  July 22, 2004

• Various Artists

  Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 (Fat Wreck Chords)

  May 6, 2004

• Pop-Punk Penance

  A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

  February 5, 2004

• All His Life

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

  April 17, 2003

• Barnyard Boogie

  Former Houstonian Kev Russell talks about Snoop Dogg and Cow Fish Fowl or Pig

  August 29, 2002

• Diarrhea of a Madman

  With the Experience, GWAR's Brockie examines the subtler nuances of bodily fluids

  May 3, 2001

• Highway to Heck

  Though Christian on the inside, MxPx is pure punk on the outside

  May 4, 2000

• Think Small

  Houston rockers Dirty Rotten Imbeciles keep the faith with intimate venues

  March 23, 2000

• Son of Jack

  Kerouac-inspired, Austin-based Guy Forsyth trips out in Americana dream

  July 8, 1999

• Chucking It All

  Bryn Tustin was an electrician from New Jersey who became a punk-music DJ in Houston, opened a record store and remade himself into Chuck Roast.

  March 18, 1999

• Know Your Enemy

  August 6, 2009

• For Teddy: Our Favorite Dead Kennedys Songs

  ​That's right, we went there. Longtime Massachussetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, better known as Teddy, passed away late Tuesday night at age 77. News media sites have already gone to Defcon 2 - "A Famous Person Not Named Michael Jackson Has Died" - so Rocks Off thought we'd take a different approach. Seeing as how the last of the Camelot brothers has finally shuffled off his mortal coil, we decided to take a look at some of the more infamous songs by the band who - if not for the assassinatio

  August 26, 2009

• Werewolves Got Fingered: The 5 Worst Movies (Besides Twilight: New Moon) With the Best Soundtracks

  ​Good news, all you fans of condensed screen versions of self-indulgent Mormon vampire pseudo-erotic clit-tease fantasies: Twilight: New Moon is being released in only eight days. Rocks Off, accustomed to scorn from literary snobs for his steadfast support of the Harry Potter series, actually picked up the first Twilight novel in a Barnes & Noble once, fully expecting to like it. After the first six pages, however, we were disgusted enough with Bella's asinine, unlikable prattling to uncer

  November 12, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs from the Year We Were Born That We Still Listen To

  Yes, we are older than MTV. Shut up.​The thing that struck She Said most when researching this list of songs that came out the year we were born (May 1980) was just how much of this music we regularly listen to now. 1980 marked the end of disco, the middle of New Wave and punk, and a damn good time for country music and mopey Brit-rockers. Reagan was about to become president, Communism would fall before we turned 10 years old, and most albums were still released with an A side and a B side. M

  November 13, 2009