Flaco Jimenez

Latino Music's Many Styles Charge Austin's Pachanga Fest

Pachanga Fest Latino Music Festival Feat. Los Lobos, Celso Piña, Intocable, 3BallMTY, y más Fiesta Gardens, Austin May 10 & 11, 2013 Since 2008, the annual, family-friendly Pachanga Fest Latino Music Festival has showcased the vibrant blend of Latino-created music and art and its impact on Americ ... More >>

20 Essential Texas Albums From 2012

One of the quiet pleasures of (finally) putting 2012 to bed is mop-up duty. All year, I tried to keep a running list of albums released by Texas-based or Texas-related performers that I enjoyed listening to. Sunday night, I tallied them up. For some reason, besides that we've already handled the ye ... More >>

The Mavericks

The 30 Best Texas Albums

Ranking the 30 best Texas albums of the past 30 years seemed like an impossible task. We did it anyway.

10 Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet Albums You Need to Own

Tonight at the Continental Club, Austin's Freddie Steady 5 will head up a tribute to the late Doug Sahm focusing on Sahm's 2000 album The Return of Wayne Douglas, which he recorded only a few months before dying of a heart attack in November 1999. La Porte native Freddie Krc, leader of the 5, has ju ... More >>

Which Texas Musicians Would Get Page 1 New York Times Obits?

Like it or not, death is an inevitable part of the news cycle. A big part of the news cycle, most of the time. Look at Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller and... wait, what time is it now? Rocks Off is not trying to be flippant at all here, because we had our own brush with the reaper less than a year ago: ... More >>

6 Cool & Cheap Summer Fest Alternatives: Accordion Kings & Queens, Etc.

Believe it or not -- although you'd have a hard time convincing anyone in this office of that right now -- for the next two days Houstonians will go right on eating, drinking, sleeping, driving, praying, shopping, working out, raising their children, or whatever else it is they do in this city on a ... More >>

Sunday: iFest In Downtown Houston -- Seun Kuti, Texas Tornados & More

Houston International Festival Downtown Houston April 29, 2012 See lots more on iFest's second weekend in our slideshows of the bands, the crowds and the arts & culture. I like iFest. I'm glad it's here. It's not the kind of thing I'd like to go to every weekend, but once a year is about perfect. ... More >>

Why Is Mexico Such a Dump?

And what's the Mexican music that sounds like polka?

Chingo Bling Gets New York Times Love - Food Love

Marco TorresChingo Bling, sans tamales in L.A.​Hey, guess what? A Houston musician finally got some love from The New York Times - not the semi-weekly Texas Tribune spread printed special for the paper's Lone Star press run, but the actual Gray Lady herself. Guess what else? It's in the food ... More >>

Last Night: Texas Tornados At Discovery Green

Photos by Jason Wolter​Texas Tornados Discovery Green September 23, 2010 Aftermath's favorite shows are the ones where we just have to write down the set list and not much else. The Texas Tornados are one of the bands that allow us to do that. We didn't know all the songs the reconstituted T ... More >>

Texas Tornados

The Krayolas

The Krayolas

The Gulf Coast At iFest: Joe Ely's Rattlesnake Rock, Soulful Latinology, Voodoo Brass And Creole Zydeco

Over the next two weeks, Rocks Off will be previewing acts performing at this year's Houston International Festival Saturday and Sunday and April 24-25 broken down by genre (loosely, anyway) and with a guest pick from a true insider: iFest Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell. We're doubling up ... More >>

Somewhere Trouble Don't Go

The best Texas albums of 2009...or what we could squeeze in.

Ghosts of Washington Avenue

Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

Album of the Week: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

As much as he deserves one - make that several - Doug Sahm is a tricky subject for a tribute album. The late San Antonio native known as "Sir Doug" was a true musical polymath, a master of just about every form of post-WWII popular music, both the big ones - country, blues, rock ... More >>

Kelly Hansen Joins "Hot Blooded" Rockers Foreigner

Head games

Flamin' Hellcats Corral Scarface, Billy Gibbons, Texas Tornados for New Album

Local trio the Flamin' Hellcats have been some busy vatobillies. The band is in San Antonio this week recording its new album with Grammy-winning engineer Joe Trevino at Blue Cat Studios, and keeping some pretty fast company. Frontman Jaime Hellcat reports that the band's old bud ... More >>

SXSW Journal: The Tontons, Day 2

Justin and I started off the day early trying to do more then the previous day. Driving around town is much more difficult then anticipated, even though we were here last year. We spent a lot of time trying to find parking and searching for boots. Not the most exciting start, but well worth the find ... More >>

Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Da ... More >>

Flaco Jimenez

Pistolera

Doug Sahm

The Genuine Texas Groover (Rhino Handmade)

The Main Event

January 29 - February 1

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Flaco Jimenez

Tuesday, September 23

Potty Mouths

Tamales overhead, beer cans underfoot, drug references and cussing from the stage — it's the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

Pamland Central

Pam Robinson is transforming Washington Avenue one bar at a time

Robert Earl Smith

Rearview Mirror (Muleshoe)

Grupo Fantasma

Thursday, December 27

Jesse Dayton

Hey Nashvegas! (Stag)

Racket

In his first 24 years of life, Brad Turcotte has already become a music-business veteran

Minibill

Flaco Jimenez

Emerald Bayou

The Irish take center stage at the 2001 Houston International Fest

Conjunto's King

Advancements in Tejano aside, Flaco Jimenez is still the champ

Rotation

Various Artists

North and South

Tranquil Canada flavors San Antonian Doug Sahm's rustic music

Rotation

Static

Squeezebox Serenade

Same Old Sir

Static

Sound Check

Ready to Rise

Raisin' Cain may give Jesse Dayton his long anticipated push into prominence

Not the Sahm Old Thing

Border Songs

Rotations

Debonair Whigs