Subject: G.G. Allin

• Knock 'Em Dead

  September 6, 2007

• The Wayback Machine

  May 12, 2008

• Weekend Music: Murder on Memorial Day

  May 23, 2008

• Letters

  January 20, 1994

• Vegas, Babies

  June 4, 2009

• Feuding Friendswood Bands to Throw Down at Baybrook Mall

  Rocks Off been so far removed from mall culture that we had almost forgot that Hot Topic existed. Not that we ever meditated on where on 14-year old girls get their "Twilight" shirts and metal gauntlets from or anything... Apparently local Hot Topic locations have been hosting acoustic shows by local artists, aiming to cultivate a grassroots scene away from those bands with shirts on their trendy brick walls. We got wind of a Ladyheat gig coming up soon at Katy Mills, plus a few scattered o

  March 13, 2009

• Aftermath: "Beatdown" at Baybrook

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty "These aren't the droids we're looking for."Friday, Aftermath ran over to Baybrook Mall after work to catch the guerilla acoustic show in front of the Hot Topic, pitting Friendswood's own "Christian death metal" band Hematidrosis and scum-punkers 10th Grade Cutie. Nothing was set afire. No guitars were wielded as axes in some sort of teenage gladiator session in front the venerable counterculture outfitter. In fact, 10th Grade Cutie didn't get to play its cove

  March 16, 2009

• Hank III and Assjack

  February 12, 2009

• Is Your Band in Trouble?

  November 20, 2008

• Misfits, a Love Story

  November 15, 2007

• The Meridian

  Pit etiquette and Black Flag tats at the Meridian

  October 11, 2007

• Party Boy

  Matt Sonzala puts on Houston rap parties all over the world

  September 28, 2006

• Playbill

  U.S. Maple, G.W.A.R., Citizen Cope, AM60 and Radney Foster

  December 9, 2004

• Wigged Gigs

  October 7, 2004

• Take This Love and Shove It

  The best X-rated breakup songs

  July 1, 2004

• Best Zoo Animal

  Gunther's dik-dik

  September 25, 2003

• Dream On

  Filmmakers responsible for the gimmicky Passion of Mind should have slept on the concept a little longer

  June 15, 2000

• Free Tickets for Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and G.G. Allin... Sort Of

  It's a veritable tribute band meltdown at the House of Blues this weekend, and we have a handful of free tickets up here at Rocks Off HQ to get you into three sure-to-be drunken shows starting this evening. Come pick 'em up at the front desk at 1621 MIlam, Suite 100, until 6 p.m. On the bill tonight is California-based Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso, who pull off Robert Plant and company's monstrous mythic blues-rock scarily accurately. The band has been plugging away on the Zep tip for 14 years

  May 8, 2009

• Summer Sounds

  May 21, 2009

• GG Allin Lives On In Bobblehead Form

  Aggronautix.comIt's no secret to daily readers of Rocks Off how much we love and treasure the late GG Allin. The infamous scum-punker continues to mystify and disgust almost 16 years since his well, we guess, timely death. A new Internet start-up called Aggronautix has created this limited-edition bobblehead of the infamous "Poo Poo Rocker." The figurine was personally approved by GG's brother Merle, who still tours regularly with Allin's backing band the Murder Junkies, who were actually in tow

  May 28, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Area Record Stores

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Springfield Riots, Say When EP 2. Todd Snider, The Excitement Plan 3. Jubal Lee Young, Last Free Place in America 4. Sonic Youth, The Eternal 5. Steve Earle, Townes 6. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 7. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 8. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca 9. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women 10. Rh

  June 18, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs Guaranteed to Offend the Opposite Sex

  Chicks, man. Can't live with them, can't play music that objectifies them while in the car on the first date. What's up with that? You play one song with the queen mother c-word in it and she leaves the car before we get our complimentary paper crowns. We compiled a list of songs guaranteed to offend the lady in your life, especially if she's a prude or, ya know, has a degree in something or other. We never asked what it was in because right before we were going to, the DJ started playing "Warm

  August 20, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs Guaranteed to Offend the Opposite Sex, Part 2

  It's been 25 years since Tipper Gore and the ladies of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) self-righteously rode the the rescue of delicate ears across America, claiming that rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle." It was the 1950s all over again. The list of the infamous "Filthy 15" songs that they claimed were highly objectionable seems almost laughable today, given the inclusion of such artists as Sheena Easton and Cyndi Lauper (who really lis

  August 20, 2009

• Old Faithful

  September 24, 2009

• GG Allin Is Back, And He's Bringing Milo From the Descendents With Him

  ​Just a few months back, Rocks Off became the proud father of his own seven-inch-tall GG Allin bobblehead doll. Aggronautix, a small Internet toy company created a diminutive and bobblin' version of the tattooed New Hampshire-born "Poo Poo Rocker" complete with soiled underpants, blood-splatters, and a dirty sneer. We now have that little GG sitting on our desk for comfort and for inspiration on those tough days. Some people have a crucifix or a Buddha, Rocks Off has the singer of "Bite It You

  October 30, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Exes

  ​One thing that struck He Said while we were making this list was the lack of metal and/or punk rock associated with the women in our past. It's kind of odd that someone so dirty and haggard never dated anyone with a Crass patch on her denim jacket or Misfits tramp stamp. By looking at us, you would think that He Said's past would be riddled with second-hand Suicide Girls and angry bakers like Maggie Gyllenhaal's character in Stranger Than Fiction, ladies who carry knives and break bottles ove

  November 19, 2009

• For World Toilet Day, the Most Creative Lyrical Uses of the S-Word

  According to an email Rocks Off received from none other than the World Toilet Organization, today is World Toilet Day. We're told it's an "internationally recognized" occasion for drawing attention to the plight of the 2.5 billion people on the planet who lack proper facilities. To this end (heh), they're encouraging people to participate in something called The Big Squat. Rocks Off's knees aren't what they used to be, so we'll have to pass. You've already seen our sister blog Hair Balls' sugg

  November 19, 2009