Jenny Lewis

The Postal Service at Free Press Summer Fest, 6/1/2013

The Postal Service Free Press Summer Fest June 1, 2013 Back in 2003, a magical group of musicians came together to create a standalone project. Their little experiment became Give Up, one of the most beloved indie records ever. They never toured this record, but its fanbase continued to grow. Ever ... More >>

Free Press Summer Fest: Saturday's Best Acts, 6/1/2013

Alabama Shakes I went into this expecting to enjoy the set by Alabama Shakes, but I didn't realize how it was going to set the tone for the rest of my day. I arrived under the overbearing sun, and struggled to catch glimpses of Japandroids. Festival frustrations threatened to make a bad scene. But ... More >>

The Best Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two

Ed. Note: This is the final post of our piggyback Coachella 2013 coverage, with an eternal debt to our friends at LA Weekly and OC Weekly. The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were pa ... More >>

iFest: Top 5 Argentine-American Musicians

The Houston International Festival enters its second weekend tomorrow, with featured musical acts WAR, Joe Louis Walker, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Texas Tornados, Del Castillo, Steel Pulse and lots more. Although iFest's performers come from all over the world, all around the main stages will be the sig ... More >>

Elaine Greer's Favorite Swimming-Pool Songs

Elaine Greer on Facebook​Homesick? Not Elaine Greer. Not anymore. The waifish singer-songwriter and 2009 Houston Press Music Award nominee for Best Female Vocals moved to Austin a couple of years back. After the usual adjustment period, she says she likes it "quite a bit." "When I first move ... More >>

5 Memorable Foods Advertised During Saturday Morning Cartoons

If only they'd been edible, Madballs would have been the perfect product. It's difficult for me to believe that I used to set my alarm to get up on Saturday morning, but I did. If there was a show I wanted to see that was on before sunrise, sometimes I would even set it for earlier than I did on a ... More >>

What Kind Of Music Stresses You Out The Most?

​Recently, Forbes magazine released a list of America's most stressful, and stressed-out, cities. Houston came in third, behind Las Vegas and Los Angeles. We know, we thought it would be higher, too. Forbes based its calculations on six factors that are either causes or effects of stress, and ... More >>

Shelby Lynne Turns In A Stunner At Warehouse Live

Photos by Jason Wolter​Don't go see Shelby Lynne if you've been having relationship troubles. You just might end up with a tear in your eye. Or a gun in your hand. With a new album on her own label just released, Lynne wasted no time cutting to the chase as she reeled off the first five tracks fro ... More >>

Concert Etiquette For Dummies: Don't Be A Douche

Brittanie SheyBlack Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Walter's on Washington, April 2​ The following scenario has happened to Rocks Off three times in the past two months: There we are, waiting patiently in line to get into a crowded general-admission concert. When we finally get in, we make our way ... More >>

Rocks Off Has Some Issues This Morning, But Not as Many as This Guy

​Rocks Off came into the office this morning to discover we had been beset by a bad case of the gremlins. One of our photographers' Web site was down, there was another mix-up with the Willie Nelson photos from Saturday night (which has since been fixed) and... well, it's just a Monday. However, w ... More >>

Love and Theft

The decade with no name left behind plenty of memorable music.

Talking Turkeys

Are Houston concert fans really all that bad?

Announcing Our Musical Turkey of the Year: You, the Concert-Going "Fans" of Houston

​Rocks Off was looking at a tour schedules recently when we realized that two artists we love, Danish band Mew and Swedish songstress El Perro Del Mar were planning trips to Texas. Trips that included stops in Austin, of course, and Dallas, and even San Antonio. But not Houston. Sometimes our favo ... More >>

He Said She Said: Our Top Ten Girl-Crushes

Ask any musician: there is something basically and viscerally masculine about the industry itself, and that masculinity can seep into the most feminine of rocker chicks and indie music queens. That swagger, that attitude, that confidence coupled with soft hair, a pair of soft lips and a softly lilti ... More >>

The Last Roundup: Broken-NCYDE, Jenny Lewis, H.A.W.K. & Z-Ro, Something Fierce and More

29-95's Joe Mathlete introduces the world to "crunkcore" artist Broken-NCYDE. Prima Donna meltdown or not, Jenny Lewis still has talent. If only she had manners. We Wore Masks screens her "See Fernando" video. Southern rap is still alive. Thankfully, Cocaine Blunts knows this, giving us H.A.W.K. an ... More >>

Enjoy the Silence

Singer-songwriter Robert Ellis stands up for piping down.

Michael Jackson in Real Bad Shape... R.I.P. Jacko

[Update: at 5:15 p.m. Houston time, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Jackson's death, citing "city and law enforcement sources." The King of Pop was all of 50 years old.] As if there wasn't enough going on today - Farrah, Roky, Jenny Lewis - the Internet is now exploding with reports of Michael Jack ... More >>

The Big Tweet: Houston Sounds Off on Jenny Lewis Guitarist's Scolding

Craig HlavatyAlthough Rocks Off agrees with a commenter from our review that people really need to STFU when they go to concerts, especially if the music is intimate and acoustic - if you want to talk at Warehouse Live, folks, Lucky's Pub is right next door - Jenny Lewis' rhythm guitarist Johnathan ... More >>

Aftermath: Jenny Lewis at Warehouse Live

Photos by Craig Hlavaty Before a crowd of five or six hundred, Jenny Lewis took Warehouse Live by storm Wednesday night with an hour and half set that included a surprise acoustic encore in the midst of the crowd.Lewis powered through virtually her entire solo catalog as well as a crowd-pleasing Ril ... More >>

Jenny Lewis, Heartless Bastards

Merle Haggard

Why I'd Sleep With The PC Guy Over That Mac Guy Asshole

I think Apple's "Get a Mac" ad campaign is backfiring.  At least for me.The series of television commercials, which stars a laid back hipster (Justin Long) as the Mac Guy and a pudgy, nerdy schlub (John Hodgman) as the PC Guy, is actually making me hate Macs.  Why?  Well, frankly I fi ... More >>

Got Live If You Want It

Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

Don't Forget Record Store Day is Saturday

Well, it looks like the weather gods are laughing at Houston again, and have decided to ring in iFest with a good round of drenching rain. So if you'd prefer to remain indoors, don't forget Saturday is Record Store Day - there's even a Web site. Be a good consumer and help out your neighborhood ... More >>

The Year in Albums

Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue

Patty Griffin and Jenny Lewis: Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Fire

Coming soon: Best of ACL slideshow

ACL Dudefest: M. Ward, David Byrne, Bobby Bare Jr. and Ryan Bingham

XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

This Just In: Cat Power Cancels

Rilo Kiley

Under the Blacklight

Elaine Greer

Half of the Bluebirds fly solo

Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey

Dark Star Rising

Jenny Lewis primps for her big push

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, the Elected

Rabbit Fur Coat|Sun, Sun, Sun

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Reverse Fairy Tale

From Beverly Hills to Omaha with Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis