Subject: Ian Varley

• Bring Back the Jams!

  July 27, 2006

• Exile on Main Street

  Racket and the new guy take the annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase plunge

  August 2, 2007

• The Orange Show

  Spain Colored Orange takes home four Press Music Awards

  August 10, 2006

• Band Suicide

  February 16, 2006

• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, with Drop Trio

  Thursday, December 1, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  December 1, 2005

• 2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

  July 27, 2006

• Houston's Gone Gaaga for Haaga

  August 4, 2005

• Christmas in July

  Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

  July 21, 2005

• Hand It to Herbie

  Houston's jazz-piano cats salute a giant in their field

  March 10, 2005

• Local Rotation

  December 16, 2004

• ¡Viva H-town!

  Latinos come to the fore in this year's music awards

  August 5, 2004

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• Three-Ring Circus Maximus

  For avant-garde instrumental progressive funk jazz lovers, Drop Trio's the only game in town

  May 20, 2004

• Drop Everything

  "Funk Jazz Fridays" get rolling at Cafe Brasil

  January 1, 2004

• Drop Trio

  Big Dipper, Self-Released

  August 21, 2003

• Racket

  Great moments at the Press's Music Awards Showcase

  August 7, 2003

• Rock You like a Hurricane

  The Press Music Awards Showcase brings a category-five storm of tunes

  July 24, 2003

• The Last Roundup: Paul Weller, South Memphis String Band, Indian Jewelry, Robert Ellis and More

  www.breakfastontour.comHere's another installment of what's been blowing up other Houston music Web sites' skirts recently. If you'd like us to look yours over (your site, not your skirt, though we can talk about that too), email hprocksoff@gmail.com. Breakfast on Tour caught the brand-new South Memphis String Band at the Continental Club April 25 (above): "Their stage interaction was as natural as any band that had been playing together for years." 29-95.com gave some love to Black Joe Lewis, w

  May 6, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Everybody Knows What Black Joe Lewis' Name Is Now

  Photo by Katharine Shilcutt​It was almost like being back in Houston: Sunday was sticky and steamy as Rocks Off arrived at Zilker Park around noon, and the only way we knew we could make it through was with a stiff straight shot of Southern soul. Luckily, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears were first up on the AMD stage.Complete with coordinated choreography, Lewis and the Honeybears came out with guitars and horns blazing, updating Clifton Chenier by way of Sonny Boy Williamson on "Big Boot

  October 4, 2009