Jana Hunter

Six Houston Acts Who Have Done Daytrotter Sessions

It's no secret that Houston has an amazing music scene, but seeing local acts get love on a larger scale only reassures what Rocks Off has been saying for years. Last week, The Tontons' first Daytrotter session was released to the masses, and featured four songs, including "Bones 1" and "Bones 2" fr ... More >>

Lower Dens' Jana Hunter: "I Want Things To Be Done To Me"

Nootropics is defined as a substance that enhances cognition and memory and facilitates learning. It's also the title of the new Lower Dens record that is, perhaps tying in to that definition, a very cerebral experience. Although some have said the record is sad or nightmarish Rocks Off chooses to v ... More >>

Lower Dens

KTRU Spring Outdoor Show

KTRU Spring Outdoor Show Books Titus Andronicus, Thermals, Slim Thug

Its move to the HD airwaves and the Internet hasn't stopped Rice University student radio station KTRU from putting on its annual free outdoor show. Doing its part to counterprogram SXSW, KTRU has booked sharp-edged New Jersey indie-rockers Titus Andronicus, Brooklyn goth-pop trio Chairlift, Portla ... More >>

Last Night: Zac Brown Band at the Woodlands

Photos by Marco Torres​Aftermath has heard a decent amount of entertaining segues at concerts. Most concert segues are awkward and some are funny, but this one from Zac Brown's last night was the most country shit we've ever heard: "Sometimes you have to fight the chicken when you're a man." ... More >>

Dig This: Peloton, Coxcombs, Titan Blood, Papaya & Football, Etc.

The current volume of local music is staggering. New Houston bands are born daily, and all too often pass away just as quickly. Rocks Off wants to help you (and ourselves) keep up. Photo courtesy of PelotonPeloton​Houston's got a plethora of musical acts, and whether yours is layered loops of ... More >>

DiverseWorks FUNdraiser

Upcoming: Bun B, Chris Brown, Lucinda Williams, Maze, Saxon, Etc.

​"9th Annual Ziegenbock Music Festival" With Eli Young Band, Dierks Bentley, Roger Creager, Bob Schneider, Robert Ellis, Folk Family Revival: Sat., Oct. 29, 11 a.m. The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park. Austra, Cloud Nothings: Sat., Nov. 5. Fitzgerald's. Andrew Karnavas & Runaway Sun: Wed ... More >>

Summer Fest Critic's Guide: Who We're Seeing At Tinsley

Jermaine Rogers​In three very short years, Free Press Summer Fest has gone from an experiment most people thought would fail to destination music festival most people wouldn't dare miss even if it is going to be 105 degrees outside. Rocks Off has seen quite a bit of online chatter from people ... More >>

Recasting MTV's Daria With Real-Life Musicians

​There was once a brighter time in the history of MTV when the network occasionally played interesting animated series and occasionally even music videos. Now, instead of Daria, there's Snooki; instead of Beavis and Butt-Head, there's The Situation and Pauly D. Growing up, Daria (1997-2002) w ... More >>

Houston At SXSW: Where & When The Bayou City Invades

​In the coming week, legions of Houstonians will trek northwest to descend upon the city of Austin, blessing it with our mere presence during the madhouse that is SXSW. Heck, some of Houston is already there. Our delegation is not limited to SXSW attendees, however. A host of Houston bands, r ... More >>

Artopia, Honky Tonk Blood & A Gang Of Music News

​Another Friday, another Magnolia City Mixtape, assembled just for you. Seriously, we put in a lot of time crawling through the internet just to bring everyone up to date on the scraps of local music news floating out there in the cyber-abyss. For this week's soundtrack, how's about this inst ... More >>

Lower Dens' Jana Hunter On Vulgarity, Exercise And '70s Housing

Ed. Note: Sometime Press contributor Tex Kerschen of Indian Jewelry spoke with former Houstonian Jana Hunter last week, before her new Baltimore-based band Lower Dens' show at Walter's this Saturday. ​Rocks Off: What is a "lower den"? Jana Hunter: The deeper echelons of the dragon's hovel, ... More >>

Lower Dens

Distant Early Warning: Cannibal Corpse, Coheed & Cambria, Jana Hunter, Jimmy Buffett, Phoenix, Shooter Jennings, etc.

​Angels & Airwaves, Say Anything: Tue., May 18. House of Blues. Best Fwends, Balls Deep, Fat Tony: Sat., March 13. Mango's. Black Congress, Young Mammals, Weird Party: Thu., March 25. Walter's on Washington. Bleeding Through, Born of Osiris, Sleeping Giant, Oceano: Fri., May 7. Wired Live. Cannib ... More >>

On the List: Jonx Drummer Danny Mee's 11 Favorite Female Vocalists

​The other day, Houston Press Night & Day editor Olivia Flores Alvarez - whom we're so glad is feeling better and back at work again - handed Rocks Off Lisa Nola's new book called Music Listography: Your Life In (Play)Lists, and the wheels started turning like "Proud Mary." Because we're not q ... More >>

Aftermath (Literally): Area Musicians Remember the Days Following Hurricane Ike - "You Could Smell Rotten Stuff About 13 Miles Away from the Causeway"

Bill OliveSilver Jews (and some very grateful fans) at Walter's on Washington, September 18, 2008​Rocks Off originally meant to post this on Friday, but one thing led to another and if memory serves, on September 14, 2008, we were still without power, living out of an ice chest and wondering what ... More >>

R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystique

Ankh-ology

Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 5

King's X, Meridian, August 19: "[dUg] Pinnick's bass was very much the lead instrument, negotiating the distance between the complicated vocal harmonies and searing chainsaw riffs with a low-to-the-ground, almost nonchalant assurance." Masters of Metal, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, August 23 ... More >>

SXSW 09 Imminent Already? Aaaarrrgh!

St. Vincent, "Jesus Saves, I Spend" The 2009 South By Southwest Music Festival is still nearly four months away (March 18-22), but the first performers are already being announced. When Rocks Off saw this list on Friday, after we had been gorged senseless the day before, we shuddered. "T ... More >>

Jana Hunter Show Moved to Petrol Station

2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend

Indie Bands Skipping Houston

Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

Ramon Medina's Matagorda Island Discs

(In which locals sound off on the ten records they would take to Matagorda Island, the nearest major unpopulated sandbar to Houston.)

Goodbye, Proletariat

The Montrose clubhouse is closing. What now?

Texas Albums

2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

Proletariat’s Denise Ramos: “It Just Didn’t Make Sense for Me to Keep Dealing with This”

Deer Tick

War Elephant

Q&A: Linus Pauling Quartet

The Long, Painful Genesis of Bring Back the Guns' First Album

Breaking a drought with Dry Futures

Vinyl Heads

They're turning to needles, looking for purity

Local Motion

Local Motion

Rough Justice

Randall Jamail rides again

Local Motion

Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter performs Friday, July 20, at DiverseWorks, 1117 East Freeway, 713-223-8346. Kable and Hearts of Animals share the bill.

Taking Liberty's at Fitzgerald’s

Another Bump

Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

Just Dropped Today

SXSW Manifesto

A local indie rocker hatches a scheme to get Houston its due at next year's confab

Jana Hunter

Her new CD There's No Home

Building a Mystery

Talk to Mee

A dialogue with a local indie punker about the cultural cringe

SXSW Lineup Announced

South By Southwest

SMOM-my Dearest

Sound Exchange's David Wilcox hopes to plant a Montrosian colony in the Second Ward

The Revelation of Jana

Ex-Matty & Mossy singer Jana Hunter chases elusive obscurity