John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Texas Blues Hero Jimmie Vaughan Recovering After Heart Attack

Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan, a founding member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and one of the nation's leading solo blues artists, has been discharged from a California hospital after being treated for a heart attack, according to a statement from his management Thursday morning. Gretchen Barber, Executi ... More >>

22 Coots and Codgers Making the Rest of Us Look Bad

While the rest of the music business has been slow to awaken from its holiday slumbers, the biggest shows in Houston this weekend come from two artists who have been up a long, long time -- 87 years, to be exact: Bluesman B.B. King and country crooner Ray Price. (Actually, Price will turn 87 on Satu ... More >>

Clockwork Angels

Veteran rockers Rush brought their steampunk-themed concept album to Toyota Center December 2.

RIP Dave Brubeck: "Take Five" Jazz Great Dies at 91

Dave Brubeck, the professorial jazz pianist and composer whose No. 2 album Time Out was a standard of the Mad Men era, has died at age 91, the Associated Press reported Wednesday morning. Brubeck's manager, Russell Gloyd, told the AP that Brubeck died of heart failure on his way to a cardiologist ap ... More >>

Lang Lang Plays Beethoven

The Mystery Plays

Last Night: Robert Earl Keen At House Of Blues

Robert Earl Keen House of Blues December 28, 2011 It sucks when your college roommate is more successful than you. Heaven knows Rocks Off was pleased as punch to hear ours had ended up blowing merchant marines for salvia in Vladivostok (just kidding, Doug!), but Robert Earl Keen's old front porch p ... More >>

Aretha Franklin

Last Night: Merle Haggard At Mo's Place

Photos by Jason Wolter​Merle Haggard Mo's Place November 7, 2010 Next month, President Obama will look on while Willie Nelson inducts Merle Haggard into the Kennedy Center ring of honor, our nation's artistic equivalent of a Purple Heart. A glance at the Hag's tour calendar could offer a sma ... More >>

Emerson String Quartet

How can four guys make so much music?

Inquiring Minds: Henry Rollins Has A Lot To Say. Surprised?

​Since his debut in 1981 as Black Flag's fourth, last and best lead singer, Henry Rollins has been the emissary of intelligent hardcore punk rock and its accompanying ideals. Through his five-year history with the band, from the LPs Damaged to In My Head, he brought an animalistic, poetic spirit t ... More >>

Buy One Get Five Free

Life in a trashy trailer park, Texas-style

Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

Another Gig For Christoph Eschenbach

Joyce Yang

The Society for the Performing Arts presents a piano prodigy in her Houston recital debut

Last Night: Dame Julie Andrews at the Hobby Center

Grupo Fantasma

Grupo Fantasma performs Friday, January 19, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Check out the HouStoned Rocks music blog for an interview with Grupo Fantasma vocalist/songwriter Jose Galeano.

Burning Down the House

Bowfire shows off its hot hands at Hobby

Friends FLY Free

FLY and Sandra Organ Dance Company wing it at Miller

Dirty Dancing

Dancepatheatre courts controversy

Full-Fledged Frolics

The ensemble is the star in Houston Ballet's Spring Repertory Program

Roseanna Vitro

Saturday, December 28

Creative Interpretations

Vindication comes a year after "Agent 307" prevented Mahotella Queens from performing at I-Fest

Reptomania

The Austin Lounge Lizards steal hearts and minds by feasting on sacred cows

Keeping the Faith

Don Walser's unwavering belief in traditional western music has attracted some powerful converts

Middle-Age Angst

Webb Wilder is in search of a label and a way to restart his rock 'n' roll career

So Be Good

In Shockheaded Peter, bad boys and girls get what they deserve -- and then some

Night & Day

May 27 - June 2, 1999

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999

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Bully Boys

Final Curtain

Don Quixote returns, as Rachel Beard says good-bye

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Woman to Woman

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