Subject: Kim Douglass

• Aftermath: The Wild Moccasins at Mango's

  Kim Douglass Every once in a while Houston will surprise you. There's only so much back-and-forth about who's a redneck and who cheats on his wife and who was responsible for 9/11 one man can absorb before he just wants to say "fuck it" and move back to Austin. Jesus H. Christ. But then you wind up at Mango's, and it's packed, full, sweaty, lively, buzzing. A full house for a local band about to embark upon its first-ever tour, taking the plunge that has doomed all too many Houston bands in the

  June 12, 2009

• The Big Tweet: Wild Moccasins Tour Edition

  Kim DouglassIt's now been exactly a week since the Wild Moccasins kicked off their first-ever extended tour with a sweaty show before a packed house at Mango's, and like a lot of people (we imagine), Rocks Off is curious how the H-pop heroes are faring on the road. Luckily, instead of having to rely on their finding a pay phone - though the Moccasins may not be old enough to know what one is - or somewhere with wi-fi (which isn't always easy out in the hinterlands), we can keep tabs on them thro

  June 17, 2009

• Aftermath: Santigold at House of Blues

  Photos by Kim Douglass Puff-paint, splatter-paint, welcome to the hospital - the sterility of a trash heap greets you. Santigold = the moment hipster-embraced globalism became a commodity, and why globalism doesn't matter anymore; i.e., we're all the same.  Seeing her at House of Blues is like trying to wash away your sins with a loofah made of mud-splattered porcupine. Is this some kind of joke? It's Socrates on the set of 90210, papier-mache pigs flying in a platinum-dipped sky.

  June 18, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums Almost as Old as We Are

  The other day, the Rocks Off brain trust was sitting around talking, and one of us happened to mention whatever album it was we were talking about - it might have been Duran Duran's Rio - came out the year one of us was born. That got us thinking, "How much have albums released within 12 months after our birthdays influenced our musical tastes?" Quite a bit, really. Click on the Rocks Off staffer's name for their slideshow; release dates are based on the best information we could gather via Wik

  June 22, 2009

• The Last Roundup: Something Fierce Rounds Out Tour Dates, Opening In the Watermarks, Pitchman Iggy Pop and More

  Kim DouglassWe just love running this Wild Moccasins picture... can't you tell? Something Fierce released the rest of the trio's tour dates on Hands Up Houston. Lords of the Loop pay poetic tribute to Def Leppard via haiku. 29-95 takes a look at the Wild Moccasins' (above) tour diary. Exactly three weeks until the band plays Houston again, and we can't wait.

  June 22, 2009

• Aftermath: Roky Erickson at the Continental Club

  Jay Lee Remember when Little Richard quit rock and roll because he was worried about going to hell? Roky Erickson is what would have happened if he went... and came back. The 61-year-old '60s survivor, fronting a sleek three-piece band whose collective age may have added to 61, played a 75-minute set at the Continental Club Wednesday night haunted by monsters and demons, the leering Iggy Pop and snowblind Black Sabbath. It was sinister, driving and downright evil - slow, grinding blues "The Bea

  June 25, 2009

• The Last Roundup: Wild Moccasins Almost Home, Michael Jackson's MC Friends and More

  Kim DouglassThat's right, we're using it again...IndieHouston is keeping up with those crazy kids in Wild Moccasins, who will be home next weekend playing Mango's for Buxton's 7-inch release party. Hands Up Houston is giving early warning all over the place: Dinosaur Jr and Built to Spill at Warehouse Live October 23.

  June 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Photos by Kim Douglass What is this place? Where it's OK to wear tank tops that cut off mid-abdomen with a pair of Daisy Dukes and a straw cowboy hat? And is that Bret Michaels eating nachos? A place like this could make any outsider feel like Alice only instead of a wonderland, they may be at a NASCAR championship. Nope, wrong, there are no cars, glasses of milk, or overabundant smell of gasoline - only Bud Light tallboys, bleach blond hair, and lower-back tattoos, but what brings all of this

  July 1, 2009

• Wild Moccasins Play Live on Cincinnati's WOXY

  Kim DouglassHey, it's been a couple of days since we used this photo... Like a mother sending her baby off to college, we here at Rocks Off are pretty proud of the Wild Moccasins for representing Houston's up-and-coming indie scene so well on the band's first extended tour this past month. So naturally, when we found out Cincinnati Internet radio station WOXY ("The future of rock and roll") posted the group's June 22 "Lounge Acts" in-studio performance on its Web site, we wanted to sha

  July 2, 2009

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  July 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Jessica Lea Mayfield at Walter's on Washington

  Photos by Kim Douglass  After a long day of pretending to work hard and getting caught in multiple showers, there seemed like nothing better to do than seek shelter at a local watering hole and take pleasure in the coming weekend. Opening act M.A. Turner and R. Clint Colburn Cross brought back memories of high school, when a friend's band would decide to throw together a show really quickly, even though they weren't quite ready yet, and the result was pure disaster. A bassist played a jazz

  July 24, 2009

• Aftermath: Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Kim Douglass​ Grace, class and maturity are not words typically used to describe rock stars. But somehow, they all define the music of Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights - a band of true musicians in an era of entertainers. Yes, there is a difference. At Sunday night's intimate performance in Warehouse Live's studio, it was easy to tell on which side of that divide the Northern Lights fall. At the young age of 24, Dallas native Tyler hasn't been on the Earth that long, but he se

  July 28, 2009

• Aftermath: Thee Armada at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Kim Douglass​ Few bands make being hip look so, well, hip, as Thee Armada, Houston's addition to this breed of Urbanely Outfitted musicians. Opening the set with "We Will Rock You," the quintet's intent was made plain from the beginning: they intended to rock, no more and no less. Saturday at Warehouse live, Armada served up exactly what one would expect from a group trying to win a MySpace record deal: catchy songs and a young crowd willing to blow a week's allowance on merch. After

  August 3, 2009

• Aftermath: Katy Perry at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Kim Douglass​ Katy Perry kissed a girl. She liked it, and now she's a huge pop star. If things broke the same way for boys, Aftermath would have been a huge pop star for the past 19, 20 years. But we're not bitter.​After bailing on two previously scheduled Houston shows - once due to illness suspiciously around SXSW (though she canceled those dates too), the other the day before appearing on the American Idol finale - Perry greeted the more-or-less sold-out crowd at Verizon Wireles

  August 3, 2009

• Aftermath: De La Soul at House of Blues

  Photos by Kim Douglass​ "Hey, how you doin'? Sorry you can't get through. But leave your name, and your number, and I'll get back to you." If you know where that came from, you might be worth your weight in hip-hop. In Aftermath's mind, De La Soul is made up of three killers. Posdnuos, Trugoy the Dove and P.A. Pasemaster Mase have been in the game, officially, since 1989's Daisy-Age herald 3 Feet High and Rising. Calling them forefathers of hip-hop almost seems wrong. Forefathers pass on to th

  August 3, 2009

• Weekend Video Roundup: The HPMAs, Katy Perry and John Mellencamp

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  August 3, 2009

• Aftermath: Atmosphere at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Kim Douglass​There are many genres where finding a good artist is kind of like finding a needle in a haystack - possible, but only after a long time of sifting to find exactly what you're looking for. In hip-hop, there's an artist for every fan. If you want good beats and nothing else, there's an artist for that. Lyrical depth, same. A guy who comes out with the party joint every year, yep. But some artists don't necessarily fit a mold; they just do what they do and you can either ta

  August 5, 2009

• Aftermath: Feels Like the First Time With Widespread Panic and the Allman Brothers at the Woodlands

  Photos by Kim Douglass​ There are few experiences in life that act as true rites of passage: Learning to ride a bicycle or drive a car, or that first kiss with that special post-pubescent someone. Then there's virginity, both the kind that gets lost in between the sheets and the kind that takes place between one newcomer, several thousand fans and one or two bands. In this reporter's case, the deflowering took place Saturday at the Woodlands Pavilion with Widespread Panic and the Allman Brothe

  October 19, 2009