Jerry Garcia

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Jeezy, CCA Conservation Concert, etc.

Jeezy Arena Theatre, May 17 A self-proclaimed hustler on the mike, the Atlanta rapper known as Young Jeezy has grown up quite a bit since his 2001 debut album dropped under the name Lil J. Rising through the ranks via his several independently released Dirty South mixtapes, he's now sittin' pretty ... More >>

For Dark Star Orchestra, the Music Of The Grateful Dead Never Stopped

A few months ago, I was lucky enough to receive a copy of The Grateful Dead Movie on new, spiffed-up Blu-ray in my usual glut of snail mail. As a Dead novice, the film helped me sight in my appreciation for a group that had long been denigrated in my familiar circles. I get it, hippie shit, not loud ... More >>

Contessa Andrea Von Schmidt, Dwayne Gator Liggins: It's the Quarterly Strange (Accused) Criminal Name Report

As we head into what passes for fall down here, it's high time we came up with another list of the strangest, funniest and most awesome names to pass through the Harris County Criminal Justice Center over the last few months. (Or years. We stumbled on some older ones.) As always, some of these peop ... More >>

Free Press Summer Fest: Top 10 WTF Moments Of 2012

See Rocks Off's complete Free Press Summer Fest coverage at this link. See our Summer Fest Saturday slideshows of the bands and the crowds. Cory Garcia: Walking past the Super Happy Fun Land stage Saturday I heard the singer for one of the bands yell out "Let's all get raped!" Since I don't know w ... More >>

The Dead Come Back Alive, On Big Screen, For One Night Only

Grateful Dead concerts were always something of a time machine that took both casual fans and hardcore Deadheads back to another era. And for one night only, the machine goes back more than 20 years -- to July 18, 1989 to be exact -- for the Grateful Dead Second Annual Meet-Up At the Movies. A film ... More >>

Top 5 Cool Summer Snacks

Photo by John SuhStar Snow Ice shaved ice​Houston is notorious for its summers: unbearable heat making the mercury climb to the upper nineties and even hundreds, humidity that leaves you drenched in sweat in the two minutes it takes you to go from door to car. And don't forget all the third de ... More >>

The Grateful Dead Movie

Joey Martin, 15, Growing Into Role As Teen Guitar Hero

Photos by Matthew Keever​One minute is all it took for Joey Martin to get comfortable onstage. As he began playing a five-minute guitar solo at Westfield's by the Railroad Saturday night, he looked a little nervous, but after only 60 seconds, he slowly picked his foot up, placed it on top of ... More >>

25 Famous Bands' Less Famous Previous Names

​As promised, here are the answers to Rocks Off's "Original Band Name" quiz from Tuesday. John St. Lee, if you'd care to email us, we'll see what we can do about getting you a prize. Do you like Devo? 1. Chicago: At about 25 or 6 to 4, the Windy City jazz-rockers realized The Big Thing sucked ... More >>

20 Musician Biopics Currently In Development Hell

Happy birthday, Janis.​News came down last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will be stepping into the rhinestones and glitter as Queen icon Freddie Mercury. It's been a long time coming for Cohen, the Borat and Bruno star who is slowly becoming his generation's Peter Sellers and has been rumored to ... More >>

Last Night: Blitzen Trapper At House Of Blues

Photos by Jason Wolter​Blitzen Trapper House of Blues October 12, 2010 Because Aftermath only found out former KLOL morning DJ Mark Stevens had died a few hours before Blitzen Trapper went onstage at House of Blues Tuesday night, we couldn't help thinking about that while the Portland six-pie ... More >>

Aftermath: Patti Smith, Not Quite As Mythic As Her Music, At U of H

Eric Hester/ photos courtesy of Voices Breaking Boundaries​Have you ever gone to see an artist, but then wished you hadn't? Not because of a bad performance, but just because the real-life person didn't fit so neatly into the tiny box you'd made for them in your brain? That's how Aftermath felt ab ... More >>

Omotai Is Ready To Go All "Band Member Assassin" On Houston's Indie Scene

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Fact: If Will Smith makes a m ... More >>

Classic Rock Corner: Graham Nash Interviewed

Joel BernsteinThere isn't much mystery to Graham Nash. Not that that's a bad thing at all. In fact, if you want to know how the British expat with the distinctive tenor vocals feels about anything - political and social issues, fellow musicians, his wife and children even religion - it's all ... More >>

Aftermath: The Cardinals at Verizon Wireless Theater

Lelia Rodgers's Matagorda Island Discs

Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More

Ministry's last trip across the land of rape and honey

Just One Last Fix

Misfits, a Love Story

Punk for uncool kids in Nowheresville

Hot Buttered Rum

Hot Buttered Rum performs Sunday, February 25, at the Last Concert Café, 1403 Nance Street, 713-226-8563.

Murder by Numbers

Mourning the latest hip-hop casualty in two easy steps

Letters to the Editor

Allman Brothers Band

Sunday, September 25, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

A Thin Line...

Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

Party Train

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

Various Artists

New Jack Hippies Homegrown Collective (Guerilla Hippies Productions)

Mud Boy

Chris Robinson decides to Crowe it alone with an earthy new band

Mount Bonnell Breakdown

The South Austin Jug Band's swingy bluegrass is mullet-free music

Fightin' Words

Drifter's Craig Feazel hates jam bands, Ryan Adams, radio and a lot of other stuff

Traffic Jam

The folks at Tapir Productions are trying to keep jam bands from skipping over Houston

New Orleans Juice

Saturday, July 14, Last Concert Cafe, 1403 Nance

No Artificial Flavors

Lisa Ludwig is cutting back on sugar, and her installations suffer because of it

Playbill

Dark Star Orchestra

Burning Spear

Gush-worthy

Best Garish Ties

Tie Rack

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Deadheads Redux

moe. picks up where Garcia and Co. left off

Press Picks

Sound Check

Rotation

Road Rules

The Toadies have two addresses -- one on wheels, the other on-stage

Saxy Stuff

Got On the Bus

Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Have a Pepsi

Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)

Live Shots

Rotation

Celting Point

Plus: Less Donna McK., archiving Texas folk music, and Iggy's eats Jelly