Subject: Kenny Rogers

• This Just In: Astros’ GM Still Searching for Balls

  June 19, 2007

• An Open Letter to Richard Justice

  August 7, 2007

• The Houston 100: From Scarface to Robert Earl Keen

  September 26, 2007

• Marty Stuart's American Odyssey Does Houston

  April 11, 2008

• More Googlism Poetry

  April 30, 2008

• The Roaster Meets Cracker Barrel

  August 26, 2008

• Cue Chewbacca: Instant Replay in Baseball Begins Tomorrow (or Maybe the Next Day)

  August 27, 2008

• Mail Call: What's in the Crate?

  September 5, 2008

• Guilty Pleasures, Part II

  More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

  January 6, 2005

• Hellish Houston

  A summer selection of the Bayou City's most miserable music and depressing songs

  July 14, 2005

• The Menu from Hell

  December 22, 1994

• Aftermath: The Killers at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Torey Mundkowsky Next year this decade will be over, and very few new bands have distinguished themselves either at the turnstiles or the cash register. Even one of the main ones that has, the Killers, chose to hit the theater circuit this winter after releasing its third album, Day & Age, instead of risking arenas - in most places, that is; about two weeks ago, the Vegas quartet and friends acquitted themselves at Madison Square Garden quite nicely. In the pro

  February 3, 2009

• Press Picks

  October 31, 1996

• Post-Valentine's Day Relationship Rescue Songs

  Dwight McCannSo Valentine's Day is over, and you spent all your dough on Cupid swag for that special sweetie, which hopefully bought your way out of the doghouse for the time being. But if not, Casanova, your Rocks Off homies still have your back - provided you have an iTunes account. Sentimentally speaking, what could be more romantic than the gift of lovey-dovey pop songs? They say so much, and, until iTunes' new pricing tiers take effect this Spring (driving big hits up by as much as a

  February 17, 2009

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• 9 Questions With Stephen Lynch a.k.a. Yusuf Mohammed

  Photo by Brian Friedman Rocks Off was recently able to conduct an e-mail interview with comedian / musician Stephen Lynch, who plays tomorrow night (Saturday, April 4) at the Verizon Wireless Theater. Rocks Off: We'll get the dry, technical question out of the way first: what comes first, the music or the lyrics? Do they arrive together? Stephen Lynch: It's different every time. Sometimes the music will come to me, and bounce around in my head for a year or two before I figure out the lyrics.

  April 3, 2009

• Racket

  An argument for human cloning

  July 26, 2001

• Houston's Ten Worst Songs

  …and we're still not as bad as Dallas

  September 27, 2007

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

  Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  September 20, 2007

• "Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art."

  Black or not, the artists showing at the CAMH are a talented group

  June 21, 2007

• Singing with Giants

  Fun and games with Austin's Hickoids

  January 25, 2007

• Joel Gilbert/Mickey Jones

  Bob Dylan: 1966 World Tour -- The Home Movies

  November 16, 2006

• The Raw Power of Really Smooth Music

  Climb aboard the Yacht Rock revolution at this week's Michael McDonald/Steely Dan show

  July 13, 2006

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

  Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

  March 17, 2005

• On Second Thought

  HISD isn't laughing now about a breakfast program

  February 10, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

  January 27, 2005

• Z-Ro

  The Life of Joseph W. McVey (Rap-A-Lot)

  October 7, 2004

• Mystery Bopping

  Racket searches for the hoppingest grocery store in town

  September 16, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Think you know local music? Take the Bayou City Music Mindbender and find out.

  June 10, 2004

• The Dirty Thirty

  The worst songs of all time from Texas

  April 29, 2004

• Visitors' Guide

  Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

  January 29, 2004

• Dark Riders

  The good, the bad and the ugly rock-star performance contracts

  May 8, 2003

• Letters

  April 3, 2003

• Fostering Abuse

  Did something go very wrong at Gloria and Kenny Rogers’s group home in Brazoria County? Or are they and their kids victims of a power-hungry CPS?

  March 27, 2003

• Kenny G.'s Revenge

  Smooth-jazz fans blast Racket

  December 5, 2002

• Songbird Silenced

  Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

  October 10, 2002

• The Mild West

  American Outlaws' parallel dimensions diminish Jesse James into a cuddly, goofy bore

  August 16, 2001

• The Feminine Mystique

  November 16, 2000

• Wyclef Jean

  The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book

  September 14, 2000

• Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

  December 26, 1996

• Screen Plays

  May 21, 2009

• Why The Hell Should Wandy Rodriguez Listen To Pudge Anyway?

  In this corner, we have Wandy Rodriguez. Wandy's the very definition of a mediocre pitcher who has managed to hold on in the majors only because he's a left-hander. His career record is 42-45 and his career ERA is 4.59. This season, he's 5-5, but he's lost his last three games, pitching a total of only 13.2 innings in those three starts. Yet, in that short amount of time, he's surrendered 29 hits, 18 runs, 12 earned runs, and four home runs.  And in this corner we have Ivan "Pudge" R

  June 9, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Kenny "Roaster" Rogers at His Freakiest

  ​Because of Tuesday's We Were Wolves/Satin Hooks show (our ears are still ringing), the Mink moved its weekly movie night to 9 p.m. tonight, but it's worth the wait. They'll be showing the Coen brothers' 1996 classic The Big Lebowski, with $3 White Russians and a pair of Sunny Day Real Estate tickets up for grabs.Lebowski is an homage to White Russians, nihilism and slack - and, although Kingpin comes pretty close, probably the funniest bowling movie ever made. Rocks Off's favorite part has al

  August 20, 2009

• Rick Estrin and the Nightcats

  October 8, 2009

• "Rock Your World" Hot Sauce, Anyone? Like Kenny "Roaster" Rogers, Musicians Will Give Their Name to Anything

  ​This is how we want to remember you, Kenny.​Kenny Rogers brings his vast collection of hits and the plastic-surgery disaster he calls a face to Jones Hall to perform with the Houston Symphony tonight, and obviously Rocks Off's extremities are sweating profusely in anticipation. Not because he can't wait to hear "She Believes in Me" with full orchestral backup, but because we're such huge fans of his Kenny Rogers Roasters chain of restaurants, featured in one of our favorite Seinfeld episode

  November 5, 2009

• Please, Kenny Rogers, Just Sing and Spare Us the Pictures of Your Kids

  Photos by Eric Sauseda/ Click here for a slideshow​ Kenny Rogers is now 71 years old. And, as of a few years ago anyway, his boys can still swim. Aftermath knows this because we were treated to a slideshow of Rogers' twin five-year-old sons - even some shots from the delivery room - as he sang the ballad "To Me" with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall Thursday night. Cute kids and all, but it made for about five of the most squirm-filled minutes we've experienced at a concert, well, ever. It w

  November 6, 2009

• Westheimer Block Party Listology: Bright Men of Learning Remember Their Parents' Favorite Music

  All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of. It's not too late for your band to be up here, either; just email chris.gray@houstonpress.com by noon Thursday if you want to play. Next up, rabid Tom Petty/Replacements fans and infrequent performers (though more frequently of late) Bright Men of Learning remember the music their parents loved. ​ Benjamin Davi

  November 11, 2009