Jimmy Eat World

Depeche Mode, The Cure, Kings of Leon, Phoenix, Lionel Richie Head 2013 ACL Fest Lineup

Moments ago, Depeche Mode, The Cure, MUSE, Kings of Leon, Atoms For Peace (featuring Thom Yorke and Flea), Lionel Richie, Phoenix, Wilco, Vampire Weekend, The National, and Eric Church were announced as the headliners of the 2013 Austin City Limits Music Festival, which plans to expand to identical ... More >>

From Ska to Eternity: A Quick History of Fueled By Ramen's Unlikely Rise to the Top

There is a very good chance that fun. is going to walk away with at least one Grammy come Sunday night. As one of the handful of artists with six nominations to their name; the Brooklyn pop-rockers are odds-on favorites to at least win the smaller categories they're nominated in. fun.'s rise to th ... More >>

Friday Night: Porter Robinson at Stereo Live

Porter Robinson Stereo Live January 25, 2K13 If you asked the average artist how they'd feel about playing three shows in the same city within seven months of each other, they'd probably tell you, "That's madness." The belief is that you don't want to burn out your fans with repeated visits; you sh ... More >>

10 Surprising Things About This Year's Grammy Nominations

This year music has been dominated by viral pop like "Call Me Maybe" and "Gangnam Style," songs that initially became "hits" from outside the music business' traditional delivery system, usually YouTube. Thursday, the Grammys recognized that by nominating "Maybe," by 17-year-old Justin Bieber proteg ... More >>

14 Brand-New Houston Bands You Should Know About

Thursday night in New York City, Houston promoter The Convoy Group and several other companies (including Brooklyn Vegan's Austin bureau) co-sponsored "The Texas Takeover," an evening of all-Lone Star music at Chelsea drinkery Rebel NYC, part of the famous emerging-talent festival CMJ. On the bill w ... More >>

Where Are They Now?: Emo's 10-Year High School Reunion

Mainstream emo in the early 2000s was a harsh mistress to keep. For those of us into the true underground form of it, it was an offensive burden to deal with, but at least some good bands were getting some mainstream success. Others? Well, we'd just have to deal with them. Of course, all that's ove ... More >>

Children's Rockers Imagination Movers Come Draped In Full Rock Regalia

The Imagination Movers are one of the biggest things going in children's music, a rapidly growing genre increasingly populated by older modern-rock acts and singer-songwriters. Hell, the Verve Pipe play ACL every year to wide kiddie acclaim. Plus, if parents don't find it horribly grating you can ... More >>

'90s Rock Doc "When We Ruled H-Town" Premieres Tonight

Remember the '90s? When it comes to Houston's rock scene, a lot of people don't. Sure, local bands were drawing large crowds to venues like the Axiom, the Vatican and the Unicorn, but much of the music of that era never made it outside the Beltway, and those clubs have been closed down for decades. ... More >>

Readers Poll: The Best Third Albums Ever

This week in 1980, Van Halen released their third album Women And Children First, which contained the hits "And the Cradle Will Rock...," "Everybody Wants Some!! and fan favorite "Romeo Delight." It's not the best VH album ever, but it was, in fact, their third album. Most VH super-freaks I know an ... More >>

Ten Bands From the '00s Underground That Should Consider Reuniting

All right, so they haven't been broken up as long as the bands in April's excellent look at '90s underground bands who should get back together. We still miss 'em. You know how it is: you get to remembering that album you loved from a few years back and think to yourself "Huh, I wonder when The So-a ... More >>

30 Seconds With Breathe Carolina's David Schmitt

​Rocks Off sat down with David Schmitt of amazing electronic pop duo Breath Carolina to find out what we could learn about him in 30 seconds. Rocks Off: What is the worst song in the world? David Schmitt: Ha. I don't know. I know that Kyle [partner Even] personally hates the birthday song. ... More >>

Summer Fest Critic's Guide: Who We're Seeing At Tinsley

Jermaine Rogers​In three very short years, Free Press Summer Fest has gone from an experiment most people thought would fail to destination music festival most people wouldn't dare miss even if it is going to be 105 degrees outside. Rocks Off has seen quite a bit of online chatter from people ... More >>

The 25 Most Influential Bands Of The '90s

Trent Reznor, you know, before the Oscar and all the weightlifting. ​As a music writer, we are asked constantly to compare the new with the old, to decipher the periphery where modern bands' influences come from to understand where we are going and what we are seeing. We can hear everything Ke ... More >>

Otenki Makes the Finals of Billboard's Battle of the Bands

​Otenki is the best Houston band you've never heard of, according to guitarist Enoma Asowata. This could be true; we had heard the name thrown around but had never seen them live or knew much about their music. Despite this fact, they've used social media and large-scale festivals like Warped ... More >>

Last Night: Smashing Pumpkins And Jimmy Eat World At Verizon

Photos by GroovehouseStill bleeding: Jimmy Eat World​Buzzfestivus with Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World Verizon Wireless Theater December 5, 2010 Ringing in the radio-friendly holiday spirit, 94.5 The Buzz welcomed Jimmy Eat World and Smashing Pumpkins to the first night of its annual "Buzz ... More >>

Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World

Upcoming: Buzzfestivus, John Mellencamp, Merle Haggard, Etc.

​Amplified Heat: Fri., Nov. 26. Rudyard's. Authority Zero: Thu., Dec. 2. Scout Bar Clear Lake. Belanova: Wed., Dec. 1. House of Blues. Born Liars, The Energy, The Mahas, Talk Sick Brats: Wed., Nov. 24. Rudyard's. "Buzzfestivus" with Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World. Sun., Dec. 5. Verizo ... More >>

Capital Steps

Dispatches from ACL 2010

Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 3

Marco TorresTrombone Shorty​Craig Hlavaty: News coming out of the media tent: Don Henley of the Eagles had a stent put in his heart this past week. He will be singing and possibly playing guitar, but not exerting himself on drums. This could very well be the last Eagles show for a while - if e ... More >>

Rid Of Me And Other Great Albums With Truly Hideous Covers

​MGMT's new album, Congratulations, comes out in April! We're excited. MGMT's 2008 debut album, Oracular Spectacular, was fantastic, and we can't wait to hear what they've got in store for the follow-up. We're positive it will be awesome, as those weird-ass kids are only going to get weirder as th ... More >>

A Static Lullaby

News on the March, Elaine Greer, Wild Moccasins, Earnie Banks

Foo Fighters

Zookeeper

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

Doomsday

One hundred percent beef

Confessions of an Airbrushed Anglophile

A veddy British Madonna wants to keep it bloody real

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

Warped Minds

A day at punk rock's biggest summer tour takes more than just stamina

Guilty Pleasures, Part II

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Playbill

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Playbill

Blame It on Braid

A reunion tour provides a rare peek at where this emo thing started

MOFRO

Pitchfork's Progress

Will a sassy, hip Web site spell doom for printed rock criticism?

Moneen

Saturday, July 19

Pitfall Punks

Swinging over the crocodile ponds with the Ataris

Deep Ella

Last Year's New Thing (Self-released)

Band of Brothers

Local emocore rockers the Tie that Binds lose one sibling and add another

Ugly Kid Slug

Atmosphere MC Sean Daley saves the world by saving his circle of friends

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Pennywisdom

"The kids" benefit from Pennywise's punkish golden rules

Rotation

Night & Day

March 19-25, 1998