Subject: Frank Black

• Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

  August 2, 2007

• Yesterday Afternoon: Westheimer Block Party at Numbers, Mango's and Avant Garden

  April 13, 2008

• Remembering Houston's '60s Psych Clubs

  June 27, 2008

• Rotation

  January 9, 1997

• Hail to the '80s

  A rash of new compilations makes a case for the Me Decade's place in rock history

  December 11, 1997

• Dumbass Deluxe

  March 17, 1994

• Tailless and Grotesque

  June 29, 1995

• Stolen Moments

  February 22, 1996

• Out of Zion

  February 6, 1997

• Rotation

  February 19, 1998

• Rotation

  July 9, 1998

• Commercial Potential

  December 10, 1998

• Back in Black

  January 14, 1999

• Pixies Founder To Develop A Musical In Houston

  Photo by Free-ersHey...There's news for Houston fans of the Pixies: The heart of the band, Frank Black (going by his name Charles Thompson), is going to be working with the Catastrophic Theatre to produce a "musical play" based on his album Bluefinger. (Which was released under the name Black Francis, but we're tired of trying to keep up with it all.)Bluefinger studies the life of Herman Brood, a controversial Dutch artist who committed suicide in 2001. The new production will feature songs from

  March 12, 2009

• Pixies Founder To Develop A Musical In Houston

  Photo by Free-ersHey...There's news for Houston fans of the Pixies: The heart of the band, Frank Black (going by his name Charles Thompson), is going to be working with the Catastrophic Theatre to produce a "musical play" based on his album Bluefinger. (Which was released under the name Black Francis, but we're tired of trying to keep up with it all.) Bluefinger studies the life of Herman Brood, a controversial Dutch artist who committed suicide in 2001. The new production will feature so

  March 12, 2009

• Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

  Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, at least, one of them) of Catastrophic, is a hard-core Pixies fan. "Working with Black Francis is, to me, one step removed from working with Bob Dylan," he says. "It turns out he's an incredibly graci

  March 13, 2009

• Free Press Exposes Local Scene's Disturbing Turtle Fetish

  Moscvitch Howdy, sailor...While Rocks Off has been valiantly battling the evil forces of pop-country, preparing for SXSW and breaking news about Frank Black's upcoming collaboration with the Catastrophe Theater folks, Free Press Houston has totally scooped us on some disturbing news out of the deceptively innocent-seeming "H-pop" scene. As our 7th grade English teacher used to say, 40 lashes with a wet noodle. Reports FPH correspondent Ramon "LP4" Medina, whose recent "retirement" from t

  March 13, 2009

• Working With A God: How That New Musical By Pixies' Frontman Came About

  Photo by Keith PlocekWe told you yesterday about how Pixies founder Black Francis is collaborating with Houston's Catastrophic Theatre on a new musical play. Now we have the details of how the seemingly improbable event came about.Jason Nodler, formerly of Infernal Bridegroom but now the heart (or, at least, one of them) of Catastrophic, is a hard-core Pixies fan. "Working with Black Francis is, to me, one step removed from working with Bob Dylan," he says. "It turns out he's an incredibly grac

  March 13, 2009

• Michael Berry vs. Bill White

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  March 26, 2009

• Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

  Road Warrior

  March 19, 2009

• The Deal sisters bring back the Breeders

  Role Playing

  May 1, 2008

• Is Nickelback Really Worth Hating So Much?

  Jeromeoh2301Somewhere over the past five years, Nickelback was deemed the unofficial "worst band in the world," usurping Creed as the rock snob's go-to reference for "awful." How did this happen? To date, the British Columbian quartet has sold close to 20 million albums, sell out arenas in every city, and have enjoyed massive radio play since first hitting the public's ears with 2001's "How You Remind Me." From what we can tell, they have written every bit of their six chart-topping

  April 16, 2009

• Tapes 'N Tapes

  Q&A with Josh Grier

  April 19, 2007

• Honor Bound

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

  January 18, 2007

• Out on a Limb

  Taz Bentley explains the Burden Brothers

  November 2, 2006

• Frank Black

  Frank Black appears Wednesday, October 11, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres. Call 713-225-1717 for more info.

  October 5, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  July 20, 2006

• Frank Black

  Fast Man Raider Man

  June 22, 2006

• Where You Been?

  Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

  March 30, 2006

• Another Look at a Legend

  October 6, 2005

• Playbill

  September 30, 2004

• Remaking the Band

  Will the Pixies 2.0 thrive like Mission of Burma, or stumble like Urge Overkill?

  May 27, 2004

• Torn Identity

  Get real art for a hundred bucks at "5x7/Houston"

  September 4, 2003

• Angola Bound

  The Neville Brothers have toiled long and hard to win freedom from prisons of the body and mind.

  October 11, 2001

• Stalker Fiction

  Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real - and really angry.

  June 1, 2000

• Amplified

  Local Music News

  July 15, 1999

• Sound Check

  January 26, 1995

• The World's Most Unfortunately Dressed Bank Robber

  The FBI has put out the alert for a new bank robber, one who knocked off a Memorial Drive Wachovia and a west-side Bank of America last week.This is not just any bank robber, though. This dude has style. A very outdated, ridiculous style.Photo courtesy FBI​The FBI is calling him the "Sweatin' to the Oldies" Robber, but their release on him seems to be missing key bits of information. In the interest of public service, we include some further items, none of which have been actually "checked" i

  September 3, 2009

• Twice-Told Tales

  October 15, 2009

• Oregon Trail

  October 22, 2009