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A Night in the Tub

An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

Lonesome Onry and Mean: John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives

A few months back, Music Editor Chris Gray's Noise column bemoaned the fact that the 'roll' has pretty much disappeared from rock and roll. Enter John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives. Keith has an interesting history and rock and roll pedigree. His roommate in Knoxville, Tennessee, back in th ... More >>

Gerald and Me

A few months back, Music Editor Chris Gray's Noise column bemoaned the fact that the 'roll' has pretty much disappeared from rock and roll. Enter John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives. Keith has an interesting history and rock and roll pedigree. His roommate in Knoxville, Tennessee, back in th ... More >>

Rotation

A few months back, Music Editor Chris Gray's Noise column bemoaned the fact that the 'roll' has pretty much disappeared from rock and roll. Enter John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives. Keith has an interesting history and rock and roll pedigree. His roommate in Knoxville, Tennessee, back in th ... More >>

World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Static

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Rotation

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Rotation

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Davidian Branches Out

Former Chronicle reporter turns into a Tennessee Matt Drudge

News of the Weird

Former Chronicle reporter turns into a Tennessee Matt Drudge

MySpaced Out: "Fuck Radiohead" and Some Twisted Tennesseeans

Aurélie Decourteix The Russian Sextoys: No Thom Yorke fans, they.MySpace is a great place for discovering off-the-wall tunes and performers. Here are three wack jobs from cyberspace that hail from that weird place that Captain Beefheart found so easily and in so many forms. The Russian Sext ... More >>

Marcia Ball: Peace, Love & BBQ

Aurélie Decourteix The Russian Sextoys: No Thom Yorke fans, they.MySpace is a great place for discovering off-the-wall tunes and performers. Here are three wack jobs from cyberspace that hail from that weird place that Captain Beefheart found so easily and in so many forms. The Russian Sext ... More >>

Diana Jones

Diana Jones will be performing Thursday, May 17, at Mojo Risin' Coffee Shop, 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505

Charlie Louvin

Diana Jones will be performing Thursday, May 17, at Mojo Risin' Coffee Shop, 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505

“Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Books and Photographs by Lee Friedlander”

America in black-and-white

The High Score

We Showed Up to Leave

Just Say Ho

A Tennessee-based Virginia rocker salutes the Big Drunk in song; also: Mary Cutrufello gets back on track

Play "Free Bird"!

Using the Bob-O-Meter to rate cover songs

Playbill

Using the Bob-O-Meter to rate cover songs

Missouri Whirlwinds

The Domino Kings have trumped Texas on their bid for alt-country success

Pull Your Load

Get with Scott Miller right now

Club Directory

Get with Scott Miller right now

Crash and Burn

Landlords and bounced checks abort the Fabulous Satellite Lounge's ten-year mission to rock the Heights

The American Plague

Thursday, February 7

Chow Time

Could the Food Network finally be coming to Time-Warner's analog offerings?

Playbill

Superdrag

Happy Birthday to the Would-Be Bard of "Fannin Street," Tom Waits

Rocks Off would like to wish happy birthday to that hero of barflies, beatniks and gravel-garglers everywhere, Tom Waits. Waits turns the big 6-0 today, and released Glitter and Doom, a live account of the Southern U.S. tour that brought him to Jones Hall in June of last year, a couple of days befo ... More >>

Henry Cho

Consider this a lesson in the unexpected

Game Time: Sifting Through Mark McGwire's Bullshit

​At this point, using the word "courageous" to define any of the performance-enhancing drug users of baseball's Steroid Era that "come clean" about their transgressions is a bit disingenuous. "Courageous" would be their giving back all of the money that steroids helped them make. So if you're look ... More >>

Game Time: Man, That Lane Kiffin Sure Is Good At Getting Hired

​Believe it or not, there was a time when I was actually a somewhat successful person in the business world. Eventually, I eschewed all the accoutrements that come with corporate glory (you know, things like decent paychecks, steak dinners, ulcers....stuff like that) for the wacky world of sports ... More >>

Game Time: Saluting College Football's Greatest Liars

If you're into bending the truth, ignoring the truth, spitting on the truth...really any misdeed against the truth, then this has been a pretty good sports week for you. Hell, it's been a pretty good run ever since Thanksgiving when Elin either rescued Tiger from the fiery wreckage of his Escalade ... More >>

Game Time: 2009 Bear Bryant Award, Chalk One Up For The Good Guys

​I'm not sure if any of you have noticed, but the last few weeks have not been all that kind to the perception of the college football coaching profession. If it's not Jim Leavitt getting fired from South Florida for allegedly slapping around a special teams player at halftime of a game, then it's ... More >>

Game Time: Football -- This Season's First Round of Best Bets

Oregon Ducks: Ignore the uniforms and jump onboard​Okay, it's the first officially great football weekend of the season (loaded college slate plus first weekend of NFL).Last weekend's college slate was sort of like a "soft" opening for a new restaurant, working out the kinks in anticipation of the ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Still Untainted By Houston Artists

listenlisten: Not playing SXSW 2011... yet.​Rocks Off just got the latest list of names for next year's SXSW conference and festival in Austin, and just like the last time, the conference remains unsullied by any performers from Houston's filthy, rotten, disgusting, in-need-of-quarantine music ... More >>

Charlie Louvin, Country Music Hall Of Famer, Dies At 83

​Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Louvin, who with his brother Ira ranked with Ralph and Carter Stanley as one of the greatest duos in bluegrass history, passed away overnight. Louvin, 83, had been receiving experimental treatment for pancreatic cancer. Nashville-based entertainment ... More >>

Houston Allergies: Why Are You Sniffling? There Are 65 U.S. Cities Worse Than Us

At least you're not in Knoxville​Spring is in the air, but you may not be able to smell it if you're wheezing and sniffling and full of phlegm. Take heart, though: You could be living in Knoxville, Tennessee. That city is the worst in the U.S. for spring allergies, according to the latest ra ... More >>

Houston Texans Game 4 -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers

Photos by Marco TorresMeet your new Texans​It feels like virtually every fall Monday the last two years have been spent listening to callers to my show, co-workers around the office, people around town all saying "same ol' Texans." And to be sure, it's much harder to argue that it hasn't been ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 2: Kevin Bryant of The Capitol at St. Germain

Photo Courtesy of The CapitolExecutive Chef Kevin Bryant​Today we're chatting with Kevin Bryant, the Executive Chef at The Capitol at St. Germain, about how he got started in the industry and what it was like working as a private chef for country music singer George Strait. Today, we chat abou ... More >>