Dusti Rhodes

A Couple of Stand-up Gals

Last Call For Art: Two Christmas Shows Already Ending

​We're not even into December yet, and two holiday productions are already ending their runs. Not to worry, there's lots, and lots, and -- we're not kidding -- lots of other Christmas-themed entertainment on the schedule, some going on until after the new year. Still, these two shows are well wort ... More >>

Houston Gets the Clap Tonight - the Soul Clap Dance Party, That Is

​Looks like Rocks Off better get out of here pretty quick and take a nap, because it appears we'll be overindulging at Mango's for two nights in a row. We might be able to dance off some of those beers this time though, because on his way to Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, former Houstonian Jonathan T ... More >>

ReFried Rice: In the Hot Seat with Fat Tony

​Fat Tony just sat down and took the HPMA award for Best Smelling HPMA Nominee.Who are you going to see today?I would see B L A C K I E, but I am playing at the same time. Squincy Jones and Dayta. If I'm for it I will see Buxton and Los Skarnales even though they are playing at the same time. And ... More >>

52 Pick-Up

Your guide to the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards showcase

Last Call for Art - "Oh, Man" and Talley's Folley

Mark Todd's art exhibit "Oh, Man" closes this coming week. The bright, colorful work prompted Houston Press contributor Dusti Rhodes to note, "It's no wonder Mark Todd calls his exhibition 'Oh, Man.' Because that's exactly the kind of stunned/amazed response his paintings and illustrations coax from ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Casual Encounters and Indian Film

Indian film Rang de BasantiThe art exhibit "Casual Encounters" closes at Domy Books this Sunday. A group show featuring work by Dirty Jeff, Will Boone, Patrick Griffen, Derek Albeck, French, and curator Give Up, "Casual Encounters" includes photos, drawings, portraits and collages. The international ... More >>

The Last Place You Look

Blog on Blog: The Skyline Network's Ryan "adr" Clark

Be sure to check out this interview Rocks Off's Dusti Rhodes did for our sister blog Hair Balls with king of the Skyline Network and Sammy Award arbiter Ryan "adr" Clark (right, who, we don't care what he says, is kind of a pimp... just not the transacting-sex-for-money type). "I was mostly just ta ... More >>

The Best Local Songs of 2008, Part 2

"Whiskey Deuce," News on the March: Oh, snap. Bet you thought we'd pick "Moving Pictures." Nope, that's a good one, but there is something a little more memorable track 2 off the country-fied/barber shop quintet's first official EP, Glory Be! "Whiskey Deuce" has pitch-perfect harmonies, two-step-r ... More >>

The Best Local Songs of 2008, Part 1

"Song About My Mom," Jenny Westbury: This song likely encompasses all of Westbury's tunes. It's silly, serious and most of all lyrics meet instrumentation in perfect harmony. Westbury's lyrical phrasing makes it seem as though rhyming couplets pour as effortlessly out of her mouth as water does f ... More >>

Merry Christmas from the Rocks Off Family

...and so say all of us! - Chris Gray, Craig Hlavaty, Dusti Rhodes, Keith Plocek, William Michael Smith, Bob Ruggiero, John Nova Lomax, Ernest Barteldes, Brandon K. Hernsberger, Jef With One F, Michael Arceneaux, Linda Leseman, kris ex, Kathy F. Mahdoubi, Rosa Guerrero, Nick DiFonzo, Jason Fergus ... More >>

Congratulations to 2008's Sammy Award Winners

Favorite Live Act; Popsters; EP; 7" 2008: Wild Moccasins A bunch of local musicians' Christmases got a little merrier Saturday night. At the everybody-loves-it Big Star Bar (nice fire pit, adorable kitty cat), scenesters from all quadrants of the city gathered to learn who would be going ... More >>

Local Rotation: Gold Sounds' Gold Sounds EP

The Gold Sounds' self-titled, debut EP is not an exercise in showoffery. There's no mind-bending guitar solos, no time signatures questioning standard musical notation and no quirky elements that smack of an effort to deny obvious influences. It's just four solid hard-rock tunes. True, it's easi ... More >>

Sunday Sunday Sunday: Zechs Marquise at the Mink

A natural talent for psychedelia must be as common as Y chromosomes in the Rodriguez-Lopez family DNA. That gene pool has produced a trio of rockers - Omar, Marcel and Marfred - that has proved its mastery of the genre in more than one incarnation. The most notable, of course, is Omar, co-masterm ... More >>

Welcome Back to Work...

So, the boss made you come in the day after Thanksgiving, huh? Yeah, and we're guessing there isn't a whole lot to do seeing as how everyone else's boss gave them the day off. (Luckily for us, the news never rests! ... or something.) Well, nod off not, Internet friends. Hair Balls is here with lin ... More >>

FEMA Looking Good at TSU Distribution Center

Sunday: The Quietest Makes its First Noise

In the Shade: Back in the Shade

In the Shade: News on the March to play around 3-ish

In the Shade: More updates

In the Shade: Evak1

In the Shade: Blame it on the Rain

In the Shade: The McKenzies

In the Shade: Off with The Monocles, on with The Mathletes

In the Shade: Out of the Shade

In the Shade: In the Hot Seat with Chris from Gold Sounds

In the Shade: Owner Woes

In the Shade: Up Next: Hearts of Animals

In the Shade: Shady Shots

In the Shade: Winding Down

HPMA Aftermath: Three from the Rice Lofts

Fried Rice: Live-blogging the HPMA VIP Party

SXSW: The Weakerthans at Cedar Street

Q&A with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants

Q&A: Porn Stars, Rock Stars and Katie Pell

Q&A: Chewing the Fat with Christian Finnegan

Q&A: Charlie Murphy Says We Gotta Do Better

Q&A: Chloe Dao Talks Dead Poets and H-Town Style

Slideshow and Video: Flash Mob Pillow Fight

Get Lit: Q&A with Nick Hornby

You Should’ve Been There: The Mathletes at the Proletariat

You Should’ve Been There: The Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Dimes and L.A.W.S. at Walter’s on Washington

Reefer Madness

Musical sings of the dangers of the wacky tobaccy

Mail Call

Talking Funny

Re: In the Line of Fire

Mail Call

Mail Call

Homeless Alone

HouStoned Rocks Mixtape

Re: Sucks to be Gary Block