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Art Rock: Extreme and King's X at Meridian

Aftermath: King's X at Meridian

In Good Company

Leary of Home

The forgotten treasure found at King's X

Fat Chance

Call it integrity or call it stubbornness, but the Joint Chiefs won't slim down their bursting-at-the-seams jazz/grunge/funk act

God Listens But He don't buy records.

Perpetual celestial boys King's X give anger a chance.

We All Scream for Thora-Zine

And: The Ramones on a lofty mission, and Celts belt it out

Dumbass Deluxe

And: The Ramones on a lofty mission, and Celts belt it out

Rotation

And: The Ramones on a lofty mission, and Celts belt it out

Live Shots

And: The Ramones on a lofty mission, and Celts belt it out

Big Band Bayou?

Blue thoughts for BCT, and the Karankawas are hungry again

Letters

Blue thoughts for BCT, and the Karankawas are hungry again

Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 5

King's X, Meridian, August 19: "[dUg] Pinnick's bass was very much the lead instrument, negotiating the distance between the complicated vocal harmonies and searing chainsaw riffs with a low-to-the-ground, almost nonchalant assurance." Masters of Metal, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, August 23 ... More >>

Houston's Great Pop Hope?

The Jinkies don't care if they are or they aren't. They just want to rock.

The Resurrection of Sam Taylor

After years of laying low, a Houston music guru has come back for more

Rotation

After years of laying low, a Houston music guru has come back for more

Sound Check

After years of laying low, a Houston music guru has come back for more

Back to Earth

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Static

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Static

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Rotation

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Static

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

On Beyond Christian Rock

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

King's X

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Rotation

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Dug Pinnick: Strum Sum Up

Former Galactic Cowboy Dane Sonnier is having fun again -- with and without his spatula

Hello, Houston!

Noise breaks down the months of live music ahead

Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

The Houston rock scene and the cultural cringe

Letters to the Editor

The Houston rock scene and the cultural cringe

Jay Hooks

Red Line (Provogue Records)

Rhythm Room Boom

Chicks who rock and Tourbaby take the Washington Avenue stage

Moke

Saturday, November 24

Crash Comfort

Soul Drunk Lingering Day (Seismic Music/Montrose)

Old Dog, New Tricks

King's X's Doug Pinnick chews through his leash with Poundhound

Smokin'!

The Fondue Monks may find their path to success paved with Lucky Strikes

Holy Diver

Atomic Opera

Like Father, Not Like Son

The brothers in Geek could exploit their semifamous papa, but they prefer to take their lumps

Art School Style

Once a relentless trailblazer, King's X sticks to the familiar with new release

Static

Once a relentless trailblazer, King's X sticks to the familiar with new release

Local Album of the Week: Low Man's Joe's Where I Stand

Low Man's Joe Where I Stand www.myspace.com/lowmansjoeBefore "Wanted Dead or Alive," before "It's My Life," before Jon Bon Jovi went off to Hollywood and took the Lost Highway through Nashville in 2007, Bon Jovi was a pretty decent hard-rock band. Poppier than most, definitely, but Jon's Springsteen ... More >>

Galactic Cowboys

Low Man's Joe Where I Stand www.myspace.com/lowmansjoeBefore "Wanted Dead or Alive," before "It's My Life," before Jon Bon Jovi went off to Hollywood and took the Lost Highway through Nashville in 2007, Bon Jovi was a pretty decent hard-rock band. Poppier than most, definitely, but Jon's Springsteen ... More >>

Ghosts of Washington Avenue

Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

Cardi's Documentary Revisits Houston's '80s Metal Mecca

​In the early '80s, Cardi's was the place in Houston for the rising world of metal to play. The club on Westheimer and Fountainview, which has since become Spotlight Karaoke, hosted Metallica, Dokken and a plethora of other iconic names before it was shut down with no notice in 1985. A man na ... More >>

Accept, King's X

​In the early '80s, Cardi's was the place in Houston for the rising world of metal to play. The club on Westheimer and Fountainview, which has since become Spotlight Karaoke, hosted Metallica, Dokken and a plethora of other iconic names before it was shut down with no notice in 1985. A man na ... More >>

Last Night: Blitzen Trapper At House Of Blues

Photos by Jason Wolter​Blitzen Trapper House of Blues October 12, 2010 Because Aftermath only found out former KLOL morning DJ Mark Stevens had died a few hours before Blitzen Trapper went onstage at House of Blues Tuesday night, we couldn't help thinking about that while the Portland six-pie ... More >>

Accept: New Singer, But "Balls To The Wall" As Ever

Photos via acceptworldwide.com​Screaming out of Germany like a Teutonic Terror - which also happens to be the name of their current single - Accept spent a lot of years on the road and in the studio before having heavy-metal success with the albums Restless and Wild ('82), Balls to the Wall (' ... More >>

Last Night: Accept And King's X At House Of Blues

Photos by Mark Britain​Accept, Kings X House of Blues October 13, 2010 While modern heavy metal is split into so many categories and subsets that you practically need a field guild to tell your headbangers apart, things weren't so complicated back in the early '80s when Germany's Accept had t ... More >>

Meridian: A Retrospective Of Better Days

Mark C. AustinKings of Leon at Meridian, 2006​The Meridian Saga seems to have ended, after close to a year of weirdness and shady business dealings. In the past twelve months it went through overhauls, new management, lockouts, changes in image, mild scandals, and even a name change. Remember ... More >>

Vintage Pics Of Destiny's Child, ZZ Top, Blue October & More

Photo by Steve Harris/Compadre RecordsHayes Carll before he was old enough to shave... not that he ever has.​The other day, one of the Rocks Off Crew was rummaging around in the Houston Press office and came across a bunch of publicity stills for various musicians. Allow us to explain what th ... More >>