Jesse Dayton

Blanco's Supposedly Needs a New Home by November

Houston has known for that Blanco's days are numbered for a little while. About six weeks ago, the Houston Chronicle reported that the honky-tonk in River Oaks had been sold to nearby St. John's School as part of a 13-acre land deal to expand the independent private prep school with a student body o ... More >>

20 Essential Texas Albums From 2012

One of the quiet pleasures of (finally) putting 2012 to bed is mop-up duty. All year, I tried to keep a running list of albums released by Texas-based or Texas-related performers that I enjoyed listening to. Sunday night, I tallied them up. For some reason, besides that we've already handled the ye ... More >>

Rob Zombie, Lord of Salem, Now a Twin of Evil on Tour

Rob Zombie's career has played out like a good horror movie: A surprise at every turn. His '90s band White Zombie put a firm tongue in cheek (and a whole lotta metal) into Alice Cooper-style theatrics, and after 1996's Supersexy Swingin' Sounds, exited stage left as one of the most remix-friendly ha ... More >>

8 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: Houston SunBurn, HPMA Showcase, Etc.

This is... impressive. It's called Houston SunBurn, and it's somehow related to famous Nevada freakfest Burning Man. It's tomorrow at Jet Lounge, the Engine Room and Last Concert Cafe, and looks like a who's who of local fringe talent - experimental electronica to Americana, and literally everything ... More >>

Saturday: Rock Baby Rock It Was Hot, Hot, Hot

Rock Baby Rock It 12 Feat. The Octanes, Los Skarnales, Jesse Dayton Continental Club July 21, 2012 See the pin-ups and hot rods of Rock Baby Rock It in our slideshow. Hot was the operative word at Saturday's Rock Baby Rock It hot-rod show/musical extravaganza. With temperatures in the high 90s, th ... More >>

iFest's Jesse Dayton: "I'm Ready To Throw Down"

The last time Rocks Off caught up with Jesse Dayton, he was up to his eyeballs in alligators with his film project Zombex, working on an album of Kinky Friedman cover songs, and playing Kinky for a bunch of New York art types in Marfa. One of the hustling-est hustlers in show business, Dayton has pl ... More >>

Houston International Festival

Kinky Songs Get the Dayton Treatment

In our recent interview with Kinky Friedman, performing tonight at Dosey Doe in the Woodlands, we mulled over Jesse Dayton's on-going project of an album of Friedman's songs. Friedman was very enthusiastic. "The last time we talked, Jesse had already done the basic tracks for eight songs," said Fri ... More >>

Saturday: Chris Gray Day at the Continental Club

Photo by Marco TorresChris with the officers that saved his life.​Click here for a slideshow of the bands and here for a slideshow of the crowd. "I didn't know Chris was a celebrity." Chris Gray's mother told a rapt audience from the stage on Saturday afternoon that she was "overwhelmed" by ... More >>

Chris Gray Day: The Final Details, Lineup and Information

Tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m., a loud, raucous, event will take place in support of our music editor, Chris Gray, and it couldn't be more appropriate. Chris Gray Day opens with breakfast with the Allen Oldies Band and closes just south of 2 a.m. with Horseshoe on the Continental Club stage. Below ... More >>

Chris Gray Day Finalized Schedule

The lineup is finally set for this Saturday's concert benefitting Houston Press music editor Chris Gray and it's a doozy. Tomorrow, we'll give you a rundown of all the silent auction items and you'll be even more impressed. For now, let's focus on the bands. The bonanza of bands gets started at 10 ... More >>

Chris Gray Day Tentative Schedule Released

​Chris Gray Day will be held in Houston, Texas on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at The Continental Club complex, at 3701 Main, affectionately known to locals that live near and haunt the grounds as "The Island". Today Rocks Off gets to announce the first round of bands playing that day's festivit ... More >>

Last Night: Becoming Kinky At The Mucky Duck

Photos by Jason WolterJesse Dayton​Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kinky Friedman McGonigel's Mucky Duck March 28, 2011 Check out our a slideshow from the play's opening night. What a smooth, hilarious thing the opening and world premiere of Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kink ... More >>

Jesse Dayton's "Fans": Singer Is "Faggy," "Douchebag"

​Jesse Dayton is learning the joys of Facebook. The ex-Houston honky-tonker and Rob Zombie rockabilly muse, who plays the Armadillo Palace February 26 and Conroe's Texas Independence Day Festival March 5, took to YouTube Tuesday to explain why he had to start a new fan page. Not only had his ... More >>

Meridian: A Retrospective Of Better Days

Mark C. AustinKings of Leon at Meridian, 2006​The Meridian Saga seems to have ended, after close to a year of weirdness and shady business dealings. In the past twelve months it went through overhauls, new management, lockouts, changes in image, mild scandals, and even a name change. Remember ... More >>

Monnalisa Smile

Upscale suburban bars used to be a nightlife myth. Not anymore.

Slide Show: Scenes from the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival

Michael PittmanL-R: Jesse Dayton, Mike Stinson and Davin James twang it up in Montgomery County.​ When the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival says "rain or shine," they mean it. The rains poured Friday night and Sunday, but that didn't keep the festival from drawing a huge crowd on Saturday when the we ... More >>

Jesse Dayton - Sorry, "Captain Clegg" - on Rob Zombie and His Role In Halloween II

Jesse Dayton's star just keeps rising. You have to give the former Beaumont lad credit, he works at it steadily, and these days has his finger in writing, performing, producing, and acting as well as operating a label. As anyone who checks Facebook knows, Dayton posts something about every twenty m ... More >>

Conroe Announces Second Annual Texas Independence Day Music Festival and Chili Cook-off

The City of Conroe has announced the program for its second annual Texas Independence Day Music Festival and Chili Cook-off on March 7. The musical lineup:

Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 3

Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys, Boondocks, April 28: "Reefer and friends can be a benign ensemble whose greatest sin (and virtue) is defibrillating the shade of Hank Williams Sr. for an audience whose appetite for debauchery is more in line with grandson Hank III." Mike Ness and Jesse D ... More >>

Supersuckers

Last Night: Mike Ness and Jesse Dayton at Meridian

Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

The SteelDrivers: The SteelDrivers

No Mas No Depression: The Alt-Country (or Whatever That Is) Journal Shuts Down

Local Motion

Local Motion

Local Motion

Ten Years After — the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

Where are the bands and nominees today?

Tons o' Tonk

A Crying Shame

RIP, Cactus Music and Video

Heybale

Saturday, October 15, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

White By Whitebread No More

This year's South By Southwest makes room for plenty of local rap. Why can't our rockers get with the program?

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

Rogue Bosoms, Bouncing Booties and Pac-Man Raps

Looking back on the '04

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

A Pair of Aces

John Evans and Jesse Dayton drop career-defining records two weeks apart

The Clumsy Lovers, with Jesse Dayton

Friday, July 18

Big John and Little Joe

Space City's tallest and shortest musicians rule the 2002 Houston Press Music Awards

In His Own Write

Jesse Dayton knows a great many words - and how to sell them

Best Local Song About Drivin'

"Supercop," by the Road Kings

Houston Press Music Awards 2000

Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

Free Birds and Drop Kick Chihuhahas

New Year's Eve Houston at Bayou Place

Local Rotation

Local Music Reviewed

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

Bite This!

Sink your teeth into the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

Houston Press 1997 Music Awards Preview

A guide to who's who in the Press Music Awards ballot. Plus, the where and when of the Press Music Awards Showcase!

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Static

Critic's Choice

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