Subject: Johnny Cash

• Pop Numerology: How High Can You Go?

  October 10, 2007

• Snoop Dogg Goes Country, Y’all

  April 25, 2008

• Midday MP3s: Twotenanny Edition

  July 26, 2008

• Aftermath: Twotenanny at the Mink

  July 29, 2008

• Stageside Blogging: Snoop Dogg Walks the Line

  July 30, 2008

• Billy Gibbons Pt. 1: Nashville, Johnny or Merle, Playing Theaters, Ike and the Origins of Eliminator

  October 3, 2008

• Johnny Cash Up In Da Club

  October 14, 2008

• Houston Kid

  Rodney Crowell sets his topsy-turvy East End childhood to music

  December 28, 2000

• Five Spot: The FBI Gets at DMX

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. ] As we reported in Monday's Turning the Screw, yet another arrest warrant was issued for star-crossed hardcore rapper DMX. It took all of four days before the FBI, which apparently has nothing better to do, got a hold of him. Such is life, we suppose: the sun rises and sets, Tuesday comes after Monday a

  December 12, 2008

• Down and Dull in Austin

  March 24, 1994

• Rotations

  May 26, 1994

• The Brits Love Them Some "Blastbeats"

  Leave it to the British music press to read more into something than it merits. Any new fad they see pop up they immediately have to make a celebratory month for, or start spending thousands of pounds on to trace its source. It's a dirty habit. They can't leave well enough alone. That's how you get an article in the Guardian speculating on the origins of blastbeats. Come on, blastbeats? Alexis Petridis, who looks like Mr. Bean's stoned kid, also writes a weekly fashion column for the Guardian w

  January 20, 2009

• Rotation

  December 12, 1996

• Wanted Man

  August 28, 1997

• Rotation

  July 2, 1998

• They Don't Make Cop Concerts Like They Used To In Beaumont

  Via Bayou, the Beaumont Enterprise's lively blog, we got directed to an old posting on the Octane Radio Network.And let's just say -- they don't make police concerts like they used to. In 1957 -- when Rock and Roll was still the Devil's Music -- the Beaumont cops bring in Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis? No wonder the Golden Triangle was home to Janis JoplinWere they just looking to fill their arrest quotas?There's not much wrong at all with that line-up, though. Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson

  March 2, 2009

• Aftermath: ZZ Top at RodeoHouston

  Mark. C. Austin/ Click here for a slideshowAftermath can not begin to tell you how much of a beacon ZZ Top was for him over the past few days. The lil' ol' band from Texas' RodeoHouston finale may not have had anything to do with SXSW per se, but knowing the first thing he would be doing upon returning to Houston was heading down to Reliant Park to watch the Bearded Ones and the Beardless One Named Beard kept him going. And sure enough, nothing in Austin last week could com

  March 23, 2009

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

  March 26, 2009

• Waylon Jennings & the .357s: Waylon Forever

  December 18, 2008

• Johnny Cash/Various Artists: Johnny Cash Remixed

  October 30, 2008

• The Great Cash-In

  March 2, 2006

• Locals Only

  July 24, 2008

• Vinyl Ranch’s tribute to Urban Cowboy

  Leon’s monthly country-music installment pays tribute to classic country cinema

  June 5, 2008

• Jennifer "Miss Pop Rocks" Mathieu's Matagorda Island Discs

  May 22, 2008

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Punx-Mas Fest 3

  December 13, 2007

• Lost Albums

  CDs that deserve another listen

  June 14, 2007

• The Sad Kermit Video

  Kermit hurt himself today

  May 24, 2007

• The End of Days

  DiverseWorks goes apocalyptic in "Run For Your Lives!"

  October 5, 2006

• Various Artists

  Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly

  August 31, 2006

• Hope Springs Eternal

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

  August 10, 2006

• Johnny Cash

  American V: A Hundred Highways

  July 13, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

  Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

  November 17, 2005

• Neil Diamond; Bobby Bare

  12 Songs; The Moon Was Blue

  November 17, 2005

• Best Jukebox

  September 23, 2004

• Three Chicks from dos chicas

  Envy the Cockroach looks inside a women's prison

  June 10, 2004

• Those Bastards!

  Johnny Cash's legacy lives on

  April 1, 2004

• Let the Picture Paint Itself

  The Houston Kid hits his stride a quarter-century into his recording career

  January 1, 2004

• Banjos and Body Piercings

  William Elliott Whitmore brings old-school bluegrass to the punk underworld

  November 20, 2003

• Reprogram Your Life

  An omnivorous three-headed DJ monster wants to rewrite your old musical code with hip-hop vibes

  September 25, 2003

• Best Toy Store

  G&G Model Shop

  September 26, 2002

• Prodigal Sons

  The Man in Black claims his Bastards

  August 16, 2001

• Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

  Walk Alone (Ultimatum Music)

  March 22, 2001

• Jason Aldean

  May 14, 2009

• Houston 101: Magnolia Gardens -- Houston's Rockin' Little Riverside Beach

  It may not look like much today, but back in the '50s and '60s, Magnolia Gardens was the place to be if you liked country music and rockabilly. The open-air dance hall/bandstand on the banks of the San Jacinto River was in a resort-like setting, with a restaurant or two and a few boat ramps scattered about the grounds. View Larger Map But the place is best remembered for the music. In his autobiography Whiskey River (Take My Mind), Texas honky-tonker legend Johnny Bush remembered as the pla

  July 29, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• He Said She Said: Breakup Songs to Help You Bawl, Part 2

  Ever since men and women set eyes upon each other at the beginning of time, there have been break-ups, and painful dissolutions of romantic escapades have made the best art in the world. Hell, somewhere in the world there is a probably a cave painting of a pretty young Neanderthal girl with devil horns and a tail drawn on her in disgust. The entire blues genre is based on the fact that men and women generally can't get along. That, and various demonic possessions of said females. Love lost is a

  August 11, 2009

• Another Chapter of the Rocks Off Beatles Rock Band Saga Is In the Books

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​Despite some technical difficulties that got things off to a late start, Rocks Off and several of our friends had a fine time at our "Helter Skelter Halloween" party Tuesday evening at Coffee Groundz. Special thanks to the one or two of you who actually showed up in costume - we told anyone who asked we were dressed like Johnny Cash, but we pretty much dress like Johnny Cash every day - and to the guys who showed us how to hook up the Rock Band guitar controllers w

  October 28, 2009

• Are "Folsom Prison Blues" and Jane's Addiction's "Summertime Rolls" Appropriate Lullabys for Children?

  ​ Despite our collective knowledge of many arcane forms of music here at Rocks Off, we have noticed that we are remarkably deficient when it comes to lullabies. This deficiency which has been compounded by our complete and utter refusal to succumb to the twisted evil that is most children's music as we've set forth on the journey of parenthood.​Children's music? Really? Whoever determined that kids, and by virtue of proximity, adults, should be subjected to the likes of Raffi and "It's a Sma

  October 29, 2009