Kenny Rogers

New Eagles Doc Shows Feathered Friends Didn't Always Have Peaceful Easy Feelings

History of the Eagles Jigsaw Productions, 3-DVD, $34.99 Originally shown as a two-part special on Showtime earlier this year, History of the Eagles arrives for home consumption in a variety of formats. The most user (and wallet)-friendly is this 3-DVD version that also includes a bonus disc of hig ... More >>

30 Seconds With The Boxing Lesson

Progressive psychedelia is an acquired taste... acquired by being awesome that is. Austin's own Boxing Lesson may be one of the best modern practitioners around. If the Legendary Pink Dots teamed with the Cult you might get somewhere near the throbbing frontal lobe fuck of their work. Seriously, "He ... More >>

Top 5 Mullet-Rock Bands You Might Not Expect

Last Sunday, HBO aired the Season 3 finale of Eastbound & Down, the series about down-on-his-luck minor-league relief pitcher and morally bankrupt human being Kenny Powers. Besides a certain unvarnished wisdom ("death is for pussies") and a peculiar way with the ladies, Powers has one of the most sp ... More >>

Forever Young: Musicians Who Refuse To Age

The other day, looking around on YouTube for Pantera stuff -- did you know that this month Vulgar Display Of Power turns 20? -- I found a relatively recent clip of lead singer Phil Anselmo VH1 Classic's That Metal Show from late 2010. The current Down crooner and mouth from the south was guesting on ... More >>

The Worst Hairpieces In Rock & Roll (And We Mean Bad)

Photo manipulations by John Seaborn Gray​Getting older is no fun. Your body starts to hurt for no reason, you lose all your energy, you stop being able to digest certain foods, you realize just about everyone in the world is an asshole (including yourself), you get cranky and curmudgeonly and ... More >>

Kickass Names For MetroRail's Newest Train Stops

Metro is throwing a competition to name 20 new stations along the upcoming East End, North and Southeast lines. Quoting their press release, or at least the one they released yesterday, Metro wants "to make sure these stations accurately reflect the character, culture and history of the vibrant comm ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

Book Learning

Houston's Literary Greats sail onto the college-radio charts with Ocean, Meet the Valley.

Buena Vista Social Club Screens At Domy Tonight

Greetings from Florida. By the time you read this, Hollywood Shuffle will be well entrenched in the Sunshine State on our annual pilgrimage to visit family, douse ourselves in cuba libres and eat our body weight in Cuban pulled-pork sandwiched and plantains. It's long been a dream of HWS's to visit ... More >>

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 ... More >>

"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 c ... More >>

Rick Estrin and the Nightcats

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 tick ... More >>

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, n ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

Screen Plays

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. Sentime ... More >>

Mail Call: What's in the Crate?

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

The Roaster Meets Cracker Barrel

More Googlism Poetry

Marty Stuart's American Odyssey Does Houston

Houston's Ten Worst Songs

…and we're still not as bad as Dallas

Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

...otherwise known as the H-Town 20

The Houston 100: From Scarface to Robert Earl Keen

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

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

An Open Letter to Richard Justice

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

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

This Just In: Astros’ GM Still Searching for Balls

Joel Gilbert/Mickey Jones

Bob Dylan: 1966 World Tour -- The Home Movies

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

Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

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

On Second Thought

HISD isn't laughing now about a breakfast program

Pattern Recognition

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

Guilty Pleasures, Part II

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Z-Ro

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

Mystery Bopping

Racket searches for the hoppingest grocery store in town

Pop Quiz

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

The Dirty Thirty

The worst songs of all time from Texas

Visitors' Guide

Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

Dark Riders

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

Letters

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?

Songbird Silenced

Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

The Feminine Mystique

Theater LaB's two-woman cast wrings all the humor and pathos from the feminist hit The Kathy & Mo Show

Wyclef Jean

The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Press Picks

The Menu from Hell

A retrospective of the dishes that made us shudder, not salivate