Eugene

The Taxman Cometh

Pearl Bar runs up a hefty tab with the comptroller's office as once-hot Washington Avenue sings the blues.

Pink Floyd's 10 Best Pre-Dark Side of the Moon Tracks

In anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in March 1973, we here at Rocks Off would like to remind you all that Pink Floyd existed for some years before that monumental album. While the band experienced some success, they of course never saw anyth ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, The Glass Menagerie, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

Capsule Stage Reviews: Awesome America!, Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Otello, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

RIP Bobby Lewis of Third Ward Blues Joint Miss Ann's Playpen

Bobby Lewis, whose no-cover Blue Monday jams at his Third Ward juke joint Miss Ann's Playpen welcomed professionals and amateurs alike and became legendary among the Houston blues community, passed away over the weekend from a number of health problems. His age was unknown. Reg Burns, Director of F ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Life Is a Dream, Superior Donuts, Women@Art

Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Superior Donuts

Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Superior Donuts

Capsule Stage Reviews: Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Our Town

Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Mr. Marmalade, Our Town, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever)

Capsule Stage Reviews: KOOZA, Life Could Be a Dream, The Lion King, Steel Magnolias, The Wrong Side of the Law

Capsule Stage Reviews: Avenue Q, Black Coffee, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Dog Act, Life Could Be a Dream, The Lion King, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever)

Rape, Scandal, Greed and Cockfighting -- The 2011 Sports Year In Review

2011: Penn State's horrible year​You know how, in the series 24, the way a season unfolds? How just when you think there has been some sort of resolution to the bad guys being bottled up, right then and there a new (often worse) layer is introduced, and ultimately in like Hour 22 Jack Bauer wi ... More >>

In The Flesh: 10 Semi-Obscure Facts About Pink Floyd

(Cue heartbeat sound effect) This week we turn our fact-finding spotlight on of the most successful cosmic rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd. The band is going through another period of rediscovery by fans young and old with a new set of remastered reissues, along with last year's extremely popula ... More >>

August: Osage County

Candida

The Way of The Vaselines

Indie-pop cult heroes never planned to reunite.

Music Cities

Texas has its own brand of March Madness

SPECIAL YEAR-END EDICION

Comrade Ambassadors

Mumiy Troll, the biggest rock band in Russia, hopes for a belated U.S. breakthrough.

Things That Make Us Feel Old: Enter The Vaselines

Don't ask Rocks Off to explain how it came to be that we hadn't listened to the Vaselines in such a long time. It is what it is. Fortunately for us, Sub Pop just gave Eugene and Francis the deluxe double-disc treatment, and we've been listening almost non-stop since it arrived. How this band manage ... More >>

Documentary's Year-Long Study Of Bolivar Characters Ends With Ike

Photo courtesy www.themessengerthemovie.comThe man who directed the new documentary The Messenger, Shawn Sterling Welling, is a self-described "self-absorbed, amateur film director" who happened to have a friend with movie-making equipment laying around. He literally stumbled upon The Messenge ... More >>

The Sleaziness Of The Door-To-Door Magazine-Subscriptions Industry Continues

On March 30, Grand Prairie police say, a magazine subscription salesman knocked on the door of a 78-year-old woman, raped her, poured rubbing alcohol on her chest, and set her on fire. The question right now is not "How did this happen?" but "When and where will it happen again?" Police quickly arre ... More >>

The Walkmen: You & Me

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway Bound, Electile Dysfunction, Unbeatable: A Bold New Musical

SPECIAL TORTILLA CONTEST EDITION

Local Motion

Playbill: Eugene Chadbourne

There's Something About Chris

Elliott presents his new novel and screens a film favorite at Alamo Drafthouse

Eugene Mirman, with Woozyhelmet, the Slurpees, Andy Blitz and Langhorne Slim

Friday, June 3, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

Dead Again

There's fresh meat for the reaper in Final Destination 2

The Immigrant's Song

Carroll Robinson has been running for something ever since he arrived in Houston. Now he may be nearly out of track.

Onegin, Off Again

Tchaikovsky's opera follows a fickle aristocrat and the woman who loves him

Hammond of the Gods

Eugene Hawthorne ditches his bass and goes barefootin' with soul-jazz

Paid In Full

Sensitive, saccharine and practically messianic, Pay It Forward works like a charm

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

This Bud's for John

John McCain's family

Poor, Pitiful Me

Even the great Alan Parker can't save Angela's Ashes from sappy self-absorption

Better Days

Former Houstonian Jerry Lightfoot goes deep inside the blues to save himself

Consummate Gentleman

Pete Mayes, Houston blues' premier nice guy, finally gets busy

Animal Crackers

Dave's World

Loose Gravel

Pavement walks the tongue-in-cheek line between genius and junk

On the Blues Highway

Trudy Lynn recalls her journey to musical acclaim

Manners To Die For