Jandek

Capsule Art Reviews: "Heroes Alter Egos," "Houston Collects: African American Art," "Indifference Personified," "Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show," "RADAR EYES," "Susie Rosmarin: Spectrum Series"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Houston Collects: African American Art," "Indifference Personified," "RADAR EYES," "A Time for Change"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Damaged Romanticism," "Juan Andres Videla: The Unsaid Word," "Liz Ward: Crazy Weather," "RADAR EYES," "A Time for Change"

This Just In: Houston Bringing It to SXSW

SXSW Ephemera, Part Deux: More Random Notes from the Field

Overnight Express: Keep Houston Weird

Blog On Blog: The Skyline's Ryan Clark

Name: Ryan "adr" Clark Blog: The Skyline Network URL: www.theskyline.netStarted: Late 2006, early 2007Typical Topics: Local music - concert reviews, album reviews, gossipDay Job: I do marketing and communication for an oil gas company.Hair Balls: How did The Skyline Network enter the blogosphere? ad ... More >>

Ray Stevens Lives!!!

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Sound Check

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Rotation

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Jandek Confirms April 5 Matinee at Rudyard's

Jandek's first album, 1978's Ready for the House.Reclusive Houston singer-songwriter savant Jandek will play a hometown gig - something that happens slightly less often than a full solar eclipse - 4 p.m. Sunday, April 5 at Rudyard's. Tickets are $4, and Rocks Off recommends getting ... More >>

Amplified

All People Considered

Aftermath: Jandek at Rudyard's

Photos by Mark C. AustinAftermath had literally no idea what to expect at Sunday afternoon's Jandek show at Rudyard's, the first-ever public performance in Houston by one of the world's leading "outsider" musicians (who just happens to live here). From the little he knows of Jandek's prodigio ... More >>

Houston Remembers Kurt Cobain, 15 Years Postmortem

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of a Seattle electrician discovering the dead body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a small room above the musician's garage. The man who busted indie and punk out of their respective undergrounds had killed himself days prior, with a shotgun that Earth fr ... More >>

Jandek

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of a Seattle electrician discovering the dead body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a small room above the musician's garage. The man who busted indie and punk out of their respective undergrounds had killed himself days prior, with a shotgun that Earth fr ... More >>

Merchant of Soul

Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Houston Collects: African American Art," "Indifference Personified," "Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show," "RADAR EYES"

Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

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

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

Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

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

An open letter to Alanis Morissette

Blame Canada

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

The Raw Power of Really Smooth Music

Climb aboard the Yacht Rock revolution at this week's Michael McDonald/Steely Dan show

Grimm and Bare It

A reclusive (and bitchy) local musician debuts on stage at the Texas Psych Fest

Debt Releaf

Cigarette companies get crafty

Jandek, MV + EE

Cigarette companies get crafty

Bayou Beat: Cougars for a Cause at House of Blues, Mandy Moore Hearts Jandek, Bun B Orders Up Some PB&J, etc.

​Want to help fight breast cancer and possibly get pawed by some of Houston's hottest older ladies? Boy, is this the right weekend for you. Sugar Ray, pimping its new album Music for Cougars, headlines House of Blues' "Cougars for a Cause" show Saturday night with Austin power-pop heroes Fastball, ... More >>

The Alabama Bookstop Remembered By 14-year Employee John Cramer

Photo by Jim Parsons​With the exception of legendary one-eyed bookseller Jim Brown, nobody knows the soon-to-shutter Alabama Bookstop better than John Cramer. The curmudgeonly guitarist in local psych-rock bands the Mike Gunn and Project Grimm worked there - mostly as the receiving manager - ... More >>

Houston Music Fight Club: Chris Wise vs. Cody Swann, Chris Ryan vs. Frank Beard, Washington Avenue vs. Westheimer

​So this past week, Houston Music Fight Club began getting solicitations from various local musicians to be matched against other strummers and pickers around town in their cage matches. Rocks Off looks around. We see a lot of new faces. This means a lot of you have (happily for us) been breaking ... More >>

Adios Bookstop and "Poll" Dancing

​So this past week, Houston Music Fight Club began getting solicitations from various local musicians to be matched against other strummers and pickers around town in their cage matches. Rocks Off looks around. We see a lot of new faces. This means a lot of you have (happily for us) been breaking ... More >>

Why the Hell Not — Again?

Kinky Friedman announces another run for Texas governor, this time as a Democrat.

2009 Concert Rewind, April: Springsteen, Jandek, Morrissey, The Faint, iFest, Cake... and Nickelback

Harley C. Pitts​ Kevin and Dustin Welch, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, April 2: "Dustin (son of Kevin) Welch stunned the sparse crowd at the Duck last night from the first note of "One False Move," the brilliant opener to his new album, Whisky Priest. While the graying crowd had mostly come to hear the ... More >>

Live with Me

The best Houston concerts of 2009: U2, George Strait, Kid Cudi, Jandek, Peaches and even T-Pain.

2010 Musical Resolutions

In which we advise our favorite people in the Houston scene on their goals for the coming year.

Magnolia City Mixtape: Be Hollywood F.L.O.S.S.'s Pen Pal, Roky Erickson Okkervil River, New Something Fierce 7" and Dave Wrangler Mashup

​ Ever wish you had a pen pal like Hollywood F.L.O.S.S. when you were a kid? He's been sending out a mixtape called Art-or-Fiscal Intelligence to various bloggers around the U.S. You can listen online or download here, and read some of the props he's been getting. Austinites Okkervil River re ... More >>

Corky's Debt

The Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson isn't sentimental about much...except Houston.

Aftermath: Balaclavas' Unsettling LP Release Even Upsets Backroom's Plumbing

Jody PerryBalaclavas​ If you were at the Backroom Saturday night and aren't quite sure what transpired, don't worry. You aren't alone. Aftermath is still wrapping her head around the night too. We do know this: Dead Roses played, with our dear friend Ralf Armin on sax. Indian Jewelry's girls flung ... More >>

Irlene Mandrell: Work Those "Thighs Of Texas"

​ Irlene Mandrell Texercise (1983) You already know the greats of Texas' recorded history. Roy Orbison. Lightnin' Hopkins. ZZ top. Jandek. But no Texas record collection is complete without this regional remnant of the exercise album craze, Irlene Mandrell's Texercise. Born in Corpus Christi, Irle ... More >>

9 Places We'd Send The New York Times

Mark C. AustinJandek (right) and trio at Rudyard's... who says we're not hip?​ As we may have mentioned, Rocks Off was none too pleased when we read The New York Times' most recent article on Houston in this past Sunday's travel section and found exactly zero mentions of anything music-related. Th ... More >>

Happy 32nd Anniversary, Rudyard's

Mark C. AustinJandek (right) at Rudyard's, April 2009​Sunday, Rudyard's celebrates its 32nd anniversary with an afternoon barbecue buffet and night of free music with sharp-witted singer-songwriter Teresa Kolo, holy terrors the Hell City Kings and the stuff Rocks Off's dreams are made of, an a ... More >>

Mission Accomplished: Your Buzzword Is My Band Name, Part 2

​We're getting closer to a midterm election that, more and more, is coming to resemble two dachshunds we had as a kid who would lose their little doggy minds over a chew toy and attack each other in a weiner-dog whirlwind of until separated by a garden hose. The attack ads are a-flying, and e ... More >>

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: Puppet Wing

Photos via WikipediaTMBG​Ladies and gentlemen, Rocks Off is pleased as rum punch to announce that The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has (not) added an official puppet wing to that fine institution. What's even better, they have (not) given us the opportunity to nominate some of the finest felt fe ... More >>

Why I Wrote A Book About The Bottom Of The Music Biz

​Let's drop the royal we for a second, okay? This is Jef, and I'm here to shamelessly plug my book signing at Cactus Music from 12-3 p.m. tomorrow (beverages provided by St. Arnolds; music by Giant Princess). I also want to explain why the book exists at all. I'm prone to hyperbole, I admit, ... More >>

Houston's Best Gifts To The Music World

Ed. Note: Rocks Off is still in a holiday frame of mind... actually we meant to post this before Christmas, but they're just as true now. No refunds, no exchanges. ​Here is Craig's Hlist point of view: Houston has given so much to the world, from ZZ Top, Jandek, Beyonce Knowles, and everythin ... More >>

The 31 Best Music Documentaries Of All Time

​Hands down, above all of these following music documentaries, Craig's Hlist's two favorite of all-time are The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, and The Beatles Anthology. We can watch both on repeat for days and not complain. That will probably all change once we see ... More >>

Jandek Set To Kick Out The Funk Jams (Maybe) At The Menil On December 17

Photo By Mark C. AustinJandek at Rudz in April 2009​The Houston-based, heavily-adored, and altogether elusive Jandek will be performing at the Menil on December 17. Jandek's last show in here town, at Rudyard's on April 5, 2009, was by all accounts and visual documents, a straight-up funk thro ... More >>

Saturday Night: Jandek at the Menil Collection

Photo by Marc C. AustinJandek at Rudz in April 2009.​When Jandek took the stage in the Menil Collection foyer, what would he play? What would he do? What would he look like? Those were the questions buzzing through the crowd of art patrons, students, record collectors and weirdoes who assem ... More >>

Jandek Performing "Strobe Light"-Heavy Concert at Big Star Bar

Jandek (maybe) techno April 1 = For serious​Brad Moore, owner of Big Star Bar and Grand Prize, was driving through Roswell, New Mexico when his cell phone blew up. "It was Jandek, I shit you not," says Moore about the experimental musician who's traditionally an enigma around here, but ... More >>

The Sound of Flight: 6 Local Musicians That Could Announce Flights at Houston Airports

Hobby Airport​On Tuesday, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport announced that they will be launching a new program to promote awareness of music native to their region, wherein famous musicians from the area will announce safety procedures and give informational speeches on the airport. In ret ... More >>