Subject: Jim Morrison

• Drenched In Blog: Heartblog Hotel

  August 16, 2007

• Get Lit: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, by Crystal Zevon

  August 20, 2007

• Get Lit: Rock & Roll Heaven, by Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald

  October 30, 2007

• Be of Good (Blue) Cheer

  March 12, 2008

• Whiggin' Out

  Avant-rock takes shape in the Afghan Whigs and its wild front man

  April 22, 1999

• Crimson Tide

  Straight from the vein of avant-hardcore, the Blood Brothers gush up a big mess

  January 2, 2003

• The End of the World As We Know It

  Armageddon comes for the current incarnation of Earthwire.net

  April 24, 2003

• Thank You Lord, For These Thy Gifts: Five Movie Thanksgivings

  Thanksgiving isn't just about federally subsidized gluttony and a spike in domestic disturbance calls, it's about slipping into a tryptophan-induced coma while watching TV. This year, instead of enduring another slapstick performance by the Detroit Lions, how about checking out a few Turkey Day themed movies?5. The Ice Storm (1997) For the record, this is the second time (see also Addams Family Values) that Christina Ricci has stood up for Native Americans. Who knew "Ricci" was an Iroquois name

  November 27, 2008

• Heroes Hip Hip Hurray: Was Tina Turner Right?

  Heroes Hip Hip Hurray, Heroes Hip Hip Hurray www.heroeshiphiphooray.com In rock and roll, the concept of a "hero" has always been lyrical fodder. John Lennon and David Bowie both voiced our yearnings for fearless ones who fight injustice in the open or just suffered quietly in their own futile way. KISS lamented "A World Without Heroes" on its Music From The Elder concept LP. Jim Morrison once told an interviewer, "A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence

  December 3, 2008

• Wayne's World 2

  December 16, 1993

• Losing Focus?

  December 1, 1994

• Help Wanted

  January 5, 1995

• Aftermath: Scott Weiland at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Mark C. Austin There has to be an unspoken rule from now on that solo albums from the lead singers of big rock bands should be studio-only affairs. These are meant to fulfill record-company contracts, and should never be passed off as an extra insight into the artistic machinations of an otherwise powerful and enigmatic frontman or sideman. Scott Weiland falls into the category from now on. Saturday was three strikes, Mr. Weiland. Didn't you learn anything from Sixx A.M or even t

  January 19, 2009

• Rotation

  June 19, 1997

• Unforgettable?

  March 5, 1998

• Rotation

  April 16, 1998

• Rotation

  May 21, 1998

• Aftermath: Slipknot and Coheed and Cambria at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Mark C. AustinCorey Taylor never told his fans that everything would be OK. Not on an album, not in the press and most definitely not at a live show. The lead singer of Slipknot, the Iowa noise-metal band that set up shop at Verizon Wireless Theater Wednesday and tonight, instead always seemed to lend a bruised and bloodied hand out into the sea of his fans as a sign of solidarity. Saying, as had been so brutally intimated in so many of his band's songs, the world maybe total shi

  February 26, 2009

• Mogwai

  April 16, 2009

• “Day of the Dead Rock Stars”

  See Bob Marley, Bo Diddley and others given the DOD treatment by artist Carlos Hernandez

  November 20, 2008

• Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  October 30, 2008

• Fever Tree Rising

  August 14, 2008

• ASK A MEXICAN

  January 24, 2008

• Otep, Hellyeah

  November 22, 2007

• Control

  Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

  November 1, 2007

• The Cult

  October 18, 2007

• Aftermath: Nickelback at Toyota Center

  Photos by Craig HlavatyAftermath is of the mind that the best way to tackle something that is reviled or feared is to confront it head on. Like global terrorism, street gangs, or gingivitis, you must take it on at its source, even if doing so makes you feel insecure, vulnerable or wholly foolish. Maybe it's the military in us that pushes us to attempt things that others would cower at. Or maybe it's our continual drinking. For those reasons, and many others, Aftermath embedded ourselves i

  April 17, 2009

• Number of the Beeyotch

  The Iron Maidens encourage you to bring your daughter to the slaughter

  April 6, 2006

• The Cult

  Saturday, March 11, Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700

  March 9, 2006

• Seat Belts and Eye Shadow

  If the Lost Boys can't get young Hispanic males to buckle up, nobody can!

  October 20, 2005

• Rock Floozies Write

  Wack peruses some doozies in the groupie tell-all canon

  August 25, 2005

• When Wild Musicians Attack!

  Ryan Adams is headed this way. Where does he fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

  June 9, 2005

• Classics Rock

  Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

  September 2, 2004

• Hard-Knocked Life

  A Slipping Down Life takes a beating in the transition from book to film

  May 27, 2004

• Fondue Monks (Self-released)

  January 29, 2004

• Guilloteens II: Electric Boogaloo

  A legendary Houston garage punk band comes back with a new singer and the old one, too

  April 10, 2003

• Book 'Em

  Among musicians, everyone wants to become an author

  February 14, 2002

• Playbill

  The Cult

  July 26, 2001

• Peak Performance

  Himalaya scales dangerous mountain passes while uplifting the spirit

  June 14, 2001

• Smokin'!

  The Fondue Monks may find their path to success paved with Lucky Strikes

  February 15, 2001

• Old School

  MU330 makes ska as it was intended

  February 10, 2000

• The Haunting in Rhode Island

  Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

  April 30, 2009

• Summer of Salvation

  May 21, 2009

• Maybe Miley Would Be Better Off Dead Like Selena, Kurt and These Others...

  In case you missed it - and if you value your immortal soul, we're sure you did - Hannah Montana star/future tell-all memoir author Miley Cyrus unveiled a newer, more "mature" look last weekend at the only venue appropriate for such things: the Teen Choice Awards. Nothing says "successful transition from 'tween idol to grown-up entertainer" like booty shorts and pole dancing, and we here at Rocks Off hope the 16-year old is prepared for the coming decades, which will likely be spent drinking ma

  August 13, 2009

• Defending the Jonas Brothers: You Got a Problem With That?

  ​We have spent days wrestling throw pillows and chain-smoking cigarettes in the sun, sweatily contemplating why it is that we can't hate the Jonas Brothers. We can honestly say this isn't some crass devil's advocate playing rock journalist devilry. We can't find a reasonable flaw in the wares they are hawking. We can also submit medical documents that we are in fact what is medically referred to as a "man," if you're curious. To reflexively hate the Jonas Brothers is a waste of time and intell

  August 14, 2009

• Lone Star Scorecard: "God Blessed Texas," "Dracula From Houston" and "The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"

  ​ You know the drill: every week we sift through several thousand songs (mostly) extolling the virtues of the Great State of Texas to bring you three that still manage to screw it up. And whether written by native sons or godless Yankee heathens, mistakes abound. Little Texas, "God Blessed Texas": The Arlington-based band scored a decent hit with this not-so-modest ode to the Lone Star State's surfeit of divine favor. Hey, we're fond of Texas too, but while we realize that even Dallas has to

  August 27, 2009

• He Said, She Said: Gone Too Soon

  A rash of recent musical deaths (Michael Jackson and DJ AM among others) have led us here at Rocks Off to do some speculating of our own: Which musicians do we feel were taken from us too soon? Obvious answers like the Famous Js (John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) or the dual tragedies of Tupac and Biggie are givens, of course. And it's silly to sit around wishing that Buddy Holly or Bobby Darin were still alive, because even if they hadn't been taken from us via plane cr

  September 18, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Galveston Ghosts

  Photos by Brittanie SheyDash Beardsley starts the tour.​Dash Beardsley is a legend, both in his own mind, and in real life. The Robert Plant look-alike, owner and operator of Ghost Tours of Galveston, shows up for tours wearing a floor-length black duster, silver rings on every finger, and sunglasses. At 8 o'clock at night. Before the tour starts, he designates someone to be his "lantern-bearer." He carries with him a backpack blaring songs from The Doors, and quotes openly from Jim Morris

  October 19, 2009

• "My Son Is the Lizard King, and I'm an Admiral": Successful Rock-Star Parents

  ​Late Thursday, word came across the ticker that legendary comedian and TV star Soupy Sales had passed away at age 83. After a stint in the military and on radio, Sales went on to be one of the major pioneers of televised sketch and children's comedy. In 1965, he pulled a stunt where he asked his young viewers to go into their parents' wallets and purses and send him those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" in exchange for a postcard from Puerto Rico. The stunt didn

  October 23, 2009

• The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

  It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influence of shadowy forces that supposedly linger in the dark. In the past 50 years, our society turned away from accepting basic facts and has instead begun to traffic in speculation and hearsay, trumping

  November 18, 2009