Subject: Janis Joplin

• This Just In: Hard Rock Hosting Melissa Etheridge Listening Party

  September 24, 2007

• Reverberations: Thee Headcoatees, The Love Me Nots, The Black Hollies and L.A. Slumlords

  March 5, 2008

• SXSW: Black Diamond Heavies at Fado's Patio

  March 15, 2008

• Marty Stuart's American Odyssey Does Houston

  April 11, 2008

• Gatemouth Brown Needs a Gravestone

  July 25, 2008

• Playbill

  Big Mouth: Beth Hart. Also, L'Amico Fritz and Gianni Schicchi

  January 13, 2000

• Hellish Houston

  A summer selection of the Bayou City's most miserable music and depressing songs

  July 14, 2005

• Bradford Gray Telford and Jericho Brown

  March 26, 2009

• The Return of Mail Call

  It's been a while, but let's see what's been lurking in the bin... *Kenton & Hill (Houston): "A side project from Last Soul Descendents producer Darren Roberts, this masterpiece brings together live jazzy, funky, hip-hop grooves with heavy dance beats to create a unique sound." D-Fu-J-Rap (Friday, Grum Bar, 306 Main) *Brent Allen (Austin), There's a Lot of Folks Like Me: "True-to-life stories about life, love, infidelity and some great two-stepping tunes." C (Friday, Tumb

  December 9, 2008

• 30 Rock Takes Another Little Piece of Port Arthur

  One of the only things Rocks Off loves as much as Tom Petty and chicken-fried steak is NBC's brilliant, multiple Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which he thinks is the best TV comedy since The Larry Sanders Show. Now he loves it even more after last night's deliciously twisted episode, "Senor Macho Solo." Besides baby-crazy lead Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) ill-fated romance with a dwarf (Peter Dinklage, The Station Agent) after mistaking him for a child, and her boss Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) t

  January 9, 2009

• Blues Survivor

  April 6, 1995

• Press Picks

  July 20, 1995

• Upcoming Texas Twists on 30 Rock

  Regular readers may be aware that Rocks Off has become somewhat obsessed with NBC's 30 Rock lately. Actually, that's not true. He's been obsessed with the show since the first time he saw it - Alec Baldwin is a comedic genius, and oh, that Tina Fey - but its recent tendency to insert plotlines about Janis Joplin and allusions to ZZ Top has really driven him around the bend. Like the guy at the end of the bar still convinced Martians killed JFK, Rocks Off is sure there's a red-blooded

  January 22, 2009

• The Name Game

  May 16, 1996

• Oh, Christ: Original Limp Bizkit Lineup to Reunite

  Because things aren't already bad enough out there right now, the original lineup of crotch-rocking mooks Limp Bizkit annouced today they are reuniting. Here, according to a joint statement by the band's Fred Durst and Wes Borland, is their reasoning: "We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other."  Well, thanks for that, guys. Here's the catch: So far the band is only booked at festivals in Eastern Europe and the for

  February 12, 2009

• Get It While You Can

  August 7, 1997

• Unforgettable?

  March 5, 1998

• More Blues Than You Can Use

  September 24, 1998

• Night & Day

  October 29, 1998

• Internalizing the Blues

  January 28, 1999

• Tonight: Battle of the Bar Bands at House of Blues

  A more cutthroat distant cousin to the rock/soul package tours of the late '50s and '60s, "Battle of the Bands" competitions were never really in style - except maybe in the Sunset Strip hair-metal heyday of the mid-'80s - but they never really go out of style either. Tonight at House of Blues, the old BOB warhorse gets trotted out once again, with an interesting local twist: six Houston groups will meet in six-string combat to determine Houston's best bar band. Winners get a one-year membe

  March 26, 2009

• 1968 with Tom Brokaw

  February 26, 2009

• “Day of the Dead Rock Stars”

  See Bob Marley, Bo Diddley and others given the DOD treatment by artist Carlos Hernandez

  November 20, 2008

• Eyeopener Tour: Music Maestros

  The Orange Show shows off Houston’s musical history

  November 13, 2008

• Vainglorious

  April 23, 1998

• Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues, with Appaloosa

  April 17, 2008

• The U.S. vs. John Lennon

  David Leaf’s documentary shows the giant steps the feds took against a cultural icon

  March 13, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Jersey Boys, Love, Janis, Sugar Bean Sisters

  January 31, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Love, Janis, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Veronica's Room

  January 24, 2008

• Love, Janis

  January 17, 2008

• Across the Universe

  October 4, 2007

• All's Mel

  March 2, 2006

• Mojo Risin' Coffee House

  Dave Ransom and Abi Tapia

  March 15, 2007

• Get Hustle

  Rollin' in the Ruins

  January 5, 2006

• Rotation

  December 2, 2004

• Party Train

  Janis, the Dead, the Band and others take the happiest trip of their lives

  September 2, 2004

• Macy Gray

  March 27, 2003

• Podunk

  Saturday, December 15

  December 13, 2001

• Psychedelic Cheeseburger

  For serious meat-on-a-bun surfers

  November 16, 2000

• Lost Legends

  Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

  January 13, 2000

• Just Bitchin'

  7 Year Bitch does it faster and harder

  September 29, 1994

• Going Viral

  May 14, 2009

• Burnin' for You

  June 25, 2009

• Aftermath: Heartless Bastards at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty Sometime Wednesday night, Aftermath tweeted into the ether that we were watching a "female-fronted southern fried T Rex" while semi-Austin transplants the Heartless Bastards cranked into "Early In The Morning" about halfway through their set opening up for the Houston-bashing Jenny Lewis (stay tuned) at Warehouse Live. The term "Southern-fried" has always seemed rote and nearly meaningless, but nonetheless we still sometimes use it offhandedly. We remember having a discus

  June 25, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs for Getting It On

  [Ed. Note: While we were off watching Night Ranger videos or something - which should tell you all you need to know about our own sex life at the moment - Rocks Off No. 2, Craig Hlavaty, and Web Editor Katharine Shilcutt started going back and forth about how men and women want to hear very different things while making sweet, sweet love. Rocks Off decided there's only one real way to settle this. As always, ladies first.] Take it from a woman: We do not want to hear Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get

  July 24, 2009

• Dirty, Dirty Hippies Were the Least Odious of Woodstock's Many Shameful Legacies

  This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, as if you needed us to remind you. Documentaries, feature films, tours and boxed CD sets have been rolling out all summer in order to wring still more cash from the corpses of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and - to a lesser extent - Country Joe McDonald, who's not even actually dead. Overt commercialism and media oversaturation, while annoying, are at the very least proof of Woodstock's lasting impact on American culture. Unfortunately, there a

  August 14, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009

• Ruining Woodstock

  August 27, 2009

• The Forgotten Festival

  September 3, 2009

• He Said, She Said: Gone Too Soon

  A rash of recent musical deaths (Michael Jackson and DJ AM among others) have led us here at Rocks Off to do some speculating of our own: Which musicians do we feel were taken from us too soon? Obvious answers like the Famous Js (John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) or the dual tragedies of Tupac and Biggie are givens, of course. And it's silly to sit around wishing that Buddy Holly or Bobby Darin were still alive, because even if they hadn't been taken from us via plane cr

  September 18, 2009