Subject: Joe Lewis

• Has ACL Festival Jumped the Shark?

  April 15, 2008

• Soul Day at ACL: I Feel Good!

  September 27, 2008

• ACL Fest: Drive-By Truckers, Man Man, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, and MGMT

  September 28, 2008

• Photos: Rounding out Saturday

  September 28, 2008

• ACL Notebook Dump, Pt. 5: Playlist for the Drive Home

  September 29, 2008

• Led Zeppelin Pulls a Van Hagar

  October 28, 2008

• SXSW: Once More Into The Breach

  By the time you read this, Rocks Off will be winding his way toward Austin for his 15th SXSW in the last 16 years. Every year he wonders if this is going to be it, if his feet, his fingers and/or his liver will finally up and say "Uncle!" He wouldn't blame them one single solitary bit. SXSW is like any other hangover - the older you get, the longer it takes to recover. But, deep down, he knows that's not going to happen. He'll probably be 65 wheeling his walker down Red River, with a regist

  March 18, 2009

• SXSW: Black Joe Lewis at the Radio Room

  Photos by Chris GrayThe very first live music you intentionally lay eyes and ears on at SXSW can be a very delicate choice, unless it's a complete no-brainer. So when Black Joe Lewis is playing three blocks from your hotel, you go. Lewis, a young Austinite who rolls up some 25 years of R&B history - roughly Bo Diddley to the Bar-Kays - into an explosive live revue, held those packed into the volleyball-court-sized tent on Radio Room's back patio rapt from the minute he opened with a meaty ve

  March 19, 2009

• Top Five SXSW Performances

  Chris Gray Black Joe Lewis and a couple of HoneybearsWell, thank God that's over. SXSW 09 is history now, so before we completely block it out of our mind for another 11 months, here's Rocks Off's top five reasons it was worth going to after all. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women: L.A. roots-rocker and all-star band honored his late best friend Chris Gaffney with roadhouse fire, Cajun zeal and honky-tonk sensitivity. Austin Music Awards: The Dicks, Alejandro Escovedo, the Fire

  March 23, 2009

• Aftermath: SXSW

  March 26, 2009

• Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.

  March 26, 2009

• The Best of ACL Fest

  October 2, 2008

• Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears

  August 14, 2008

• Got Live If You Want It

  Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

  April 30, 2009

• The Last Roundup: Paul Weller, South Memphis String Band, Indian Jewelry, Robert Ellis and More

  www.breakfastontour.comHere's another installment of what's been blowing up other Houston music Web sites' skirts recently. If you'd like us to look yours over (your site, not your skirt, though we can talk about that too), email hprocksoff@gmail.com. Breakfast on Tour caught the brand-new South Memphis String Band at the Continental Club April 25 (above): "Their stage interaction was as natural as any band that had been playing together for years." 29-95.com gave some love to Black Joe Lewis, w

  May 6, 2009

• The Last Roundup: A Birthday Blog, Mic Skills, Listenlisten, UGK, Riff Tiffs and More

  Happy birthday, Houston's Most Hated! They're celebrating next Saturday at Numbers with The Juan MacLean, Switzerland's the Field and a bunch of local DJs. 29-95.com has a nice chat with local MC Mic Skills, mostly about his new album Defiant. We Wore Masks caught the freshly reunited Blink-182 (Woodlands Pavilion, September 23) playing "All the Small Things" on The Tonight Show. Can't wait for Conan to take over! Space City Rock checks out the new Listenlisten, Hymns from Rhodesia. Readitreadit

  May 20, 2009

• Aftermath: New York Dolls & Black Joe Lewis at the House Of Blues

  Photos by Daniel Kramer Aftermath is not going to purport to know what the New York Dolls were like live, in their Thundered and Killer-ed heyday of kitsch and campy kiss-offs. We weren't even in Pre-K when Buster Poindexter was singing "Hot Hot Hot" on Saturday Night Live. But for chrissakes, they couldn't have been this awkward and stunted. (Thanks, YouTube.) It can't be age, because folks like Mick Jagger and Iggy Pop are of an age when "one should know better" and they still look like

  June 5, 2009

• Traumatized Beyond Belief

  June 18, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• Songs By ACL Artists That Should Be Covered By Other ACL Artists

  Isn't it fun to imagine all your favorite bands are best friends? And that when they spend time together, as so many of them are doing right this second at the Austin City Limits festival, they would inevitably learn each others' songs? Here are some songs by ACL bands which we'd like to see covered by other ACL bands. We think they've got time to make it happen. Song: Sleepyhead Original Artist: Passion Pit Who Should Cover It: The Dirty Projectors "Sleepyhead" is the weirdest song that Roc

  October 2, 2009

• ACL Day Three: Hey, Dude. Maybe Think About Putting Your Shirt Back On

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​We're just saying. The shirtless look really isn't for everyone. ​And while you're at it, broseph, tell you girlfriend to pull up her board shorts so we don't all have to look at her asscrack while we're trying to jam to Black Joe Lewis. Thanks. This goes for the rest of you, too...

  October 4, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Everybody Knows What Black Joe Lewis' Name Is Now

  Photo by Katharine Shilcutt​It was almost like being back in Houston: Sunday was sticky and steamy as Rocks Off arrived at Zilker Park around noon, and the only way we knew we could make it through was with a stiff straight shot of Southern soul. Luckily, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears were first up on the AMD stage.Complete with coordinated choreography, Lewis and the Honeybears came out with guitars and horns blazing, updating Clifton Chenier by way of Sonny Boy Williamson on "Big Boot

  October 4, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Live Shots

  Photo by Mark C. AustinDan Auerbach​As we wait for the final day of ACL coverage to roll in, enjoy some of our favorite shots from the festival below.

  October 5, 2009

• ACL Aftermath, Part 2: Now That That "Dillo Dirt" Unpleasantness Is Out of the Way, How About Some Music?

  Mark C. AustinSeems like we recognize this guy from somewhere...​ More and more, Aftermath uses ACL more than SXSW to see which recent buzz bands are worth their salt, and of course to check on how some old favorites are doing. This year, tops on our new-to-us list were Blitzen Trapper, who managed to condense most of the late '60s and early '70s - Dylan, the Dead, CSNY and a lot more besides - into their hour-long set Friday, and MuteMath, neighbors from New Orleans whose echoing guitar, prop

  October 5, 2009

• Million-Dollar Mud

  October 8, 2009

• Inquiring Minds: Lucero's Ben Nichols Explains Why Stax Soul The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me = His Band

  Lucero "Sixes and Sevens" from Lucero on Vimeo.​A decade and six albums into their career, Memphis country-punks Lucero made the leap late last year from their own indie label, Liberty & Lament, onto Universal/Republic Records. The band's rabid, boozy following may have been hesitant at the time of the signing, fearing a dilution of the band's sound at the hands of corporate handlers. But anyone who has given last month's 1372 Overton Park a spin will instead hear Lucero venturing into str

  November 5, 2009

• Aftermath: Fun Fun Fun Fest In Austin Day 2 - Metallagher, Street Dogs, Lucero, Crystal Castles, Gorilla Biscuits, Danzig

  Photos by Marc Brubaker/ Click here for a slideshowNice to see you too, Metallagher.​ Day two of Fun Fun Fun Fest began with a slow and steady rain shower that turned into an all-day headliner. As we walked the ground and felt the rain soak into our clothes we started getting ACL flashbacks. Before we knew it we were walking through acres of mud and muck, albeit clean muck, free of reconstituted fecal matter. That's always high on our list of priorities. Metallagher on the small Yellow stage o

  November 9, 2009