John Fogerty

Slip Slidin' Away: My Life as a Rock Journalist With the Houston Press

I had a hernia operation in the early summer of 2006, and had nothing to do all day but hobble around with cool cane a borrowed from Grandpa Hlavaty and play on the Internets for two months or so. I had developed the injury while working at Domino's, but it was cool because their insurance helped ... More >>

ACL 2013 Predictions & Rumors: Is This Jimmy Buffett's Year?

2013 marks the first year that the Austin City Limits Music Festival -- Texas' other large outdoor music festival, never to be confused with Houston's own Free Press Summer Fest -- expands to two consecutive weekends with identical lineups. At this point the lineup for the festival, scheduled for Oc ... More >>

Mel Tillis: Coca-Cola Cowboy

At 80, first-time author isn't done yet.

The Great Taj Mahal, Still Whistlin' the Blues

It's been a long time so it's hard to remember exactly, but some time in the winter of 1970-71, Taj Mahal played the Houston Music Hall. Between 1968 and 1971, he had put out five albums and become a staple of the hippie music scene. Yet with his soulful reinterpretations, permutations and homages ... More >>

NRBQ's Al Anderson Now a World Famous Headliner

Above: Al Anderson (l) and World Famous Headliners in the studio. There are people in Nashville, highly successful people, the average fan or casual music listener has little if any clue about. Chris Stapleton comes to mind. Mike Henderson is another. Everyone in Nashville knows and admires them, f ... More >>

Baron Wolman: A Bounty Of Iconic Rock Photography

Photos by Baron WolmanIke & Tina Turner​Every Picture Tells a Story - Baron Wolman: The Rolling Stone Years Omnibus Press, 176 pp., $37.50 If you could point to one thing that makes today's music journalists most jealous, it would probably be the music journalists of the '60s and '70s. Back t ... More >>

1986: Best Musical Year Ever?

​For almost two weeks now, Rocks Off has been obsessed with the year exactly 25 flips of the calendar backward from this one. It started when Steve Earle did one of his "Time Machine" shows, where the singer-songwriter who plays House of Blues Wednesday spotlights a dozen or so of his favorite ... More >>

We Like The Eagles: Rocks Off's Not-So-Secret Shame

graphjam.com​The Eagles swoop into Toyota Center Sunday for what the omnipresent radio spots (if not the band itself) say could be their last tour, and Rocks Off has been thinking about them a lot lately. It started more than a month ago, when C3 announced the Eagles would headline/close this ... More >>

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R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystique

Ankh-ology

Aftermath: Son Volt at the Continental Club

Photos by Jay Lee"Now and then it keeps you runnin', never seems to die..." The opening line to Son Volt's soothing elegy "Windfall," which closed out Tuesday's main set at the Continental Club - just like almost every other SV set since the band's 1995 debut Trace - goes a long way to explain ... More >>

Todd Snider: Peace Queer

Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

John Royal's Astros Recap. In Song.

Cowboy Up

Hope Springs Eternal

A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

Number of the Beeyotch

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

Christmas in July

Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Ruffled Feathers

The Dixie Chicks and other musicians are fighting for their rights -- and a bigger check

Mount Coy

South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

The Art of Getting Broken

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Fill 'Er Up

Ten-gallon hats and ten-gallon gas tanks come to mind when BR5-49 plays

Blues Brothers

The Kinsey Report and its familial blues-funk

PatiencePays

Decades down the line, Sherman Robertson has finally made an album he likes

"Think" Not

A Texas housewife/songwriter claims country hunk Collin Raye stole her song

Hats Off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer -- and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

What's Soul Got to Do with It?

Road Rules

The Toadies have two addresses -- one on wheels, the other on-stage