Subject: Jerry Lee Lewis

• Marty Stuart's American Odyssey Does Houston

  April 11, 2008

• Aftermath: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Steve Winwood at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  September 2, 2008

• He Will Survive

  Houston piano man Ezra Charles has outlasted even his worst enemies

  December 30, 1999

• Playbill

  Elvis Incarnate: Mojo Nixon

  December 30, 1999

• X Marks the Spot

  Legendary L.A. punks survey the scene they helped spawn 25 years ago

  November 14, 2002

• Is Delicious Milk the Best Band In Houston?

  The picture Delicious Milk sent Rocks Off was just slightly NSFW, but you can see for yourself here. Well, Rocks Off doesn't know about that, but the mysterious Montrose-dwellers certainly are the most persistent, not to mention possibly the most mammary-fixated musicians on the planet. DM has been bugging Rocks Off to post its song "Titties Tonight" - which the band claims "condenses and reduces every rock and roll song ever written down to one solitary song" for weeks, so he's finally rel

  November 17, 2008

• Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that little Rocks Off has likewise gone hillbilly nuts. He hasn't stopped listening to other kinds of music completely, but lately, to paraphrase someone who was most definitely not a

  December 29, 2008

• Rotation

  April 14, 1994

• Hot Sounds in the City

  July 28, 1994

• Original Rockabilly

  August 22, 1996

• Nails in the Coffin

  May 15, 1997

• Wanted Man

  August 28, 1997

• They Don't Make Cop Concerts Like They Used To In Beaumont

  Via Bayou, the Beaumont Enterprise's lively blog, we got directed to an old posting on the Octane Radio Network.And let's just say -- they don't make police concerts like they used to. In 1957 -- when Rock and Roll was still the Devil's Music -- the Beaumont cops bring in Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis? No wonder the Golden Triangle was home to Janis JoplinWere they just looking to fill their arrest quotas?There's not much wrong at all with that line-up, though. Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson

  March 2, 2009

• Aftermath: The Ka-Nives at Big Star Bar

  Photos by Craig HlavatyWith a roaring fire pit outside and the Schlitz flowing freely inside, three-piece Ka-Nives put on a one-off gig in a corner of the Heights' Big Star Bar late Saturday night. The erstwhile Austin plumbing enthusiasts tore through a short set of their Jerry Lee Lewis-cum-garage-rock fan favorites, like "Where Was Moses" and "Let's Dance." A guitar amp was paraded through the throng of boozy die-hards like a member of the band by Ben Murphy. At one point, the amp was

  March 2, 2009

• Feel the Power

  September 10, 1998

• The Gourds land a real Haymaker!

  January 8, 2009

• Santa Baby

  What a few musicians want under their trees this year

  December 25, 2008

• Rodney Crowell, Forever the Houston Kid

  Gasoline Dreams

  November 6, 2008

• Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll

  October 30, 2008

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Tony Joe White

  July 31, 2008

• Andrew W.K., Messiah-in-Waiting

  July 3, 2008

• The White Stripes

  Get Behind Me Satan

  June 9, 2005

• Unknown Legend

  Roots renegade Joe Ely never achieved pop stardom, but that's all right by him...sorta

  January 25, 2007

• Joe Ely and Double Trouble

  Joe Ely performs on Thursday, December 28, at Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, 713-862-3838.

  December 28, 2006

• The King Khan & BBQ Show

  The King Khan & BBQ Show will appear Sunday, October 29, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Dr. Call 713-521-0521 for more info. The Detroit Cobras also appear.

  October 26, 2006

• Wanda Jackson

  Wanda Jackson appears Thursday, October 19, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main. Call 713-529-9899 for more info.

  October 19, 2006

• Ronny Elliott, Ramsay Midwood, Dan Colehour

  Thursday, September 14, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  September 14, 2006

• Todd Snider

  The Devil You Know

  September 7, 2006

• Various Artists

  Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly

  August 31, 2006

• Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

  Thursday, January 19, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  January 19, 2006

• Underwater Dance Club, For Reals

  New Orleans husband-and-wife duo Quintron & Miss Pussycat cheat death and struggle to keep their freak scene from going under

  October 20, 2005

• Brian Jonestown Massacre

  Thursday, August 11, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-869-2727.

  August 11, 2005

• Ronny Elliott, with Ken Gaines

  Thursday, June 23, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

  June 23, 2005

• Playbill

  November 25, 2004

• Classics Rock

  Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

  September 2, 2004

• Cowboy Johnson

  A Grain of Sand (MoonHouse Records)

  June 24, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 17, 2004

• Family Feud

  Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  April 1, 2004

• City Under Siege

  Musicians provide HPD with plenty of overtime pay

  November 6, 2003

• Best AM Radio Personality

  Paul Berlin

  September 25, 2003

• Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Saturday, August 2

  July 31, 2003

• Homeward Bound

  A trip back to Houston for Rodney Crowell is a trip back in honky-tonk time

  December 9, 1999

• Eyeballin': John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto '69

  It's a story well-told in Beatles lore. Reeling from the Fab Four's unraveling, a bored John Lennon accepted an invitation to perform at the Toronto Rock 'n Roll Revival show in September 1969. He quickly formed an ad hoc group of friends (wife Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums), dubbed them the Plastic Ono Band, and two days later the ensemble was learning songs in the cramped airplane quarters on the way to the show. Nervous after a three-year abs

  June 17, 2009

• George Strait Week, Part 2: Cajun George

  After Tuesday's look at the shockingly Morrissey-like sentiments of the many George Strait songs where his love interest is either already gone or on her way out the door, Rocks Off thought today we'd take a look at a much happier - and, it should be said, significantly smaller - subcategory of King George's prodigious catalog.​Distinguished by lively fiddle/accordion interplay and an up-tempo two-step or waltz rhythm, Cajun music has been cropping up in country at least since Hank Williams'

  August 5, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Method Man on His Pellet-Gun Aim, The Debut of HUSH, Local Bands Vying for ACL Spot, Thee Armada MySpace Finalist, etc.

  Above, Method Man talks about his pellet-gun accuracy, which was a little off the night he allegedly shot Houstonian Mary Anderson, who is now suing him on several counts including assault. Besides playing House of Blues Friday with Redman and Ghostface, looks like Meth will spend some time in Houston meeting with lawyers as well. ​This evening is the first installment of the Houston Underground Social Hour, or HUSH, Matt Brownlie of Bring Back the Guns' monthly event offering late-night-styl

  August 6, 2009

• Songs Slightly Less Inappropriate Than R. Kelly's Latest Single, "Number One"

  So R. Kelly's newest single is called "Number One." Seriously? Okay, we know Kelly was found innocent of all child-related golden-shower charges by a jury of 12 idiots, but when the subject of Dave Chappelle's "(I Wanna) Piss On You" releases a single called "Number One"... sorry, but we have to believe he is now simply taunting us. We taxed our brains to their very limits, and we were able to think of ten (as-yet) fictional songs that would be only slightly less appropriate. Have a look - you

  September 15, 2009

• Aftermath: Drive-By Truckers' Cathartic, Down-Home Halloween Redemption at House of Blues

  Photos by Jay Lee​ It took Aftermath most of Friday to figure out why we were in such an awful blue funk after Thursday's Pogues show, especially after the band delivered a more brilliant set than even this 20-year fan thought they were capable of. But after leaving work early and relaxing for a while at home in the fetal position, we knew. Some shows - particularly ones we've waited more than half a lifetime to see - we'd rather just be a face in the crowd, soaking up the music and the booze

  November 2, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers

  ​ She Said has something she wants to admit. Here goes nothing. We... like... country music. No big deal, right? You wouldn't think so, unless you grew up in a town filled with racist rednecks who thought the glitz of '90s Nashville qualifies for the only music worth listenin' to. She Said rebelled by listening to bands like the Stones and Bikini Kill, cutting off all her hair, and begging her dad to buy her combat boots at the Army Surplus store, which she wore Angela Chase-style with flow-y

  November 5, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Last Men Standing

  ​Lonesome Onry and Mean vaguely remembers someone telling us a couple of years ago that Las Vegas bookies actually had a line on whether Chuck Berry would die that year (we think it was 2007). The macabre factor aside, remembering this Wednesday got LOM to pondering about the Godfathers of Rock and Roll and who would indeed be, per the title of Jerry Lee Lewis' recent album, the Last Man Standing. Not meaning to demean the contributions of artists like Dave Bartholomew, but in our mind there a

  November 12, 2009