Subject: Jeff Tweedy

• Drenched In Blog: Bob Dylan, Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver, Wilco and My Morning Jacket Round Out the Weekend

  September 17, 2007

• Rick Mitchell Pops His ACL Cherry

  September 17, 2007

• Friday Night: Wilco at Verizon Wireless Theater

  March 10, 2008

• Tonight: Lowell Thompson at Rudyard's

  August 14, 2008

• Sympathy for the Angel

  Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  March 25, 1999

• Sons of Sahm

  Missouri's Bottle Rockets resurrect the Texas Tornado and rediscover themselves

  May 30, 2002

• Cry Uncle

  For Uncle Tupelo fans, there's No Depression in reissue heaven

  April 24, 2003

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for

  December 31, 2008

• Pop Moment

  March 23, 1995

• The Country of Rock and Roll

  May 4, 1995

• Critic's Choice

  September 14, 1995

• Rotation

  January 18, 1996

• Rotation

  August 1, 1996

• Can't Get It Out of My Head: "New Madrid"

  Wilco, "New Madrid," live at the Fox Theater, Boulder, Colorado, May 1995 Rocks Off is never really not on an Uncle Tupelo kick, but it sure came flooding back after he heard "New Madrid" on Fred Imus' Saturday-morning Trailer Park Bash satellite-radio show last weekend. Even among such future alt-country touchstones as "Acuff/Rose," "The Long Cut" and killer Doug Sahm duet "Give Back the Key to My Heart," "New Madrid" has always been Rocks Off favorite song on the late St. Louis band's

  February 11, 2009

• A Whole Lot Country

  March 13, 1997

• Rotation

  May 1, 1997

• Aftermath: Son Volt at the Continental Club

  Photos by Jay Lee"Now and then it keeps you runnin', never seems to die..." The opening line to Son Volt's soothing elegy "Windfall," which closed out Tuesday's main set at the Continental Club - just like almost every other SV set since the band's 1995 debut Trace - goes a long way to explain why Jay Farrar is still hanging around all these years since Son Volt and Wilco sprang from his and Jeff Tweedy's uncomfortable Uncle Tupelo divorce. "It" is that mysterious impulse to keep writing s

  February 25, 2009

• Rotation

  June 18, 1998

• Rotation

  July 16, 1998

• Letters

  May 13, 1999

• Me and Mr. Jones

  November 20, 2008

• Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst

  August 21, 2008

• 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

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

  July 24, 2008

• Son Volt

  Son Volt performs Sunday, May 6, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

  May 3, 2007

• Our Favorite Albums of 2007

  December 27, 2007

• The Literary Greats

  December 13, 2007

• Charlie Louvin

  October 11, 2007

• Magnolia Electric Co.

  September 13, 2007

• Partners in Rime

  People Under the Stairs fix the leak

  May 25, 2006

• Loose Fur

  Born Again in the USA

  March 23, 2006

• Wilco

  Kicking Television: Live in Chicago

  December 1, 2005

• Son Volt

  Okemah and the Melody of Riot

  August 11, 2005

• The Litmus Band

  Is Wilco still trying to break your heart, or has it done so already?

  April 21, 2005

• Sex, Drugs and Jeff Tweedy's National Geographic Collection

  Rock memoirs take us behind the music

  February 17, 2005

• Take the Skinheads Bowling All Over Again

  Camper Van Beethoven hates this part of Texas. Just kidding, maybe...

  January 20, 2005

• Wilco

  A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

  July 15, 2004

• Wilco

  Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)

  June 13, 2002

• A New Tune

  After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

  November 8, 2001

• Rotation

  November 7, 1996

• Burnin' for You

  June 25, 2009

• Lost Tuneage: The Jayhawks

  Who 'Dat?The Jayhawks circa 1992Emerging from "The City of Lakes" in 1985, the Jayhawks showed that Minneapolis could produce a band at the forefront of another genre besides pioneering alt-rock (The Replacements, Hüsker Dü) and funk (the Purple One); namely, the nascent alt-country/"No Depression" movement. Named as a nod to the Band's original moniker - the Hawks - and not the bird, the original lineup included Mark Olson (vocals/acoustic guitar), Gary Louris (vocals/electric guitar), Marc

  July 15, 2009

• For Method Man, Five Musical Shootings

  ​Should be an interesting scene at House of Blues this evening, where Method Man, not exactly the shy type, might get a little more attention than he bargained for. Rumor has it some time between sound check and the tall, fragrant rapper's headlining set with Redman, he'll be served with papers in conjunction with the lawsuit area resident Mary Anderson filed this week claiming Mr. "Tical" shot her in the chest after his and Red's House of Blues show last year. Anderson says she was waiting fo

  August 7, 2009

• Rocks Off Succumbs to That Evil Facebook "Bands I've Seen" List

  Chris GrayWilco's Jeff Tweedy at Verizon Wireless Theater, March 2008​If you're reading this at all, Rocks Off will just assume you're fairly familiar with the Internet, and therefore that you more than likely also have a Facebook page. Congratulations - don't you feel special? Rocks Off was recently "tagged" by several of our Facebook friends with one of those "notes" things, which usually ask you to come up with some list or another and share it with up to 25 of your fellow social-networking

  August 20, 2009

• Aftermath: Regina Spektor Wins a New Fan at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Jody Perry​"This bed is on fire with passionate love..." Aftermath has always loved James' "Laid." It's one of our absolute favorite '90s songs, and there couldn't be a better one to preface Regina Spektor's impending appearance at Verizon. The crowd is young, mixed (but mostly white), well-to-do, filling up the floor of the theater save a few scattered empty seats in the back where we're camped out. It's obviously date night. We see a few girls' night out parties, but mostly it's co

  November 11, 2009

• We've Been Had: The Enduring Wisdom of Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne

  Anodyne: Noun. Anything that relieves distress or pain. (dictionary.com)​When Son Volt goes onstage tonight at the Continental Club (we've heard around 11 p.m.), there's an outside chance the band might pull out Doug Sahm's "Give Back the Key to My Heart" - we are in Texas, after all. Otherwise don't count on hearing anything from Jay Farrar's former band's final album, also known as Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne. This makes Rocks Off kind of sad, but we understand. With its last two albums, 2007's T

  November 11, 2009