A-Trak, Rye Rye,
Treasure Fingers: Sat., July 11.
Warehouse Live.
Arc Angels: Fri., July 10. Warehouse Live.
Asleep At The Wheel: Sat., Aug. 1. Sengelmann Hall
(Schulenburg).
Beto Cuevas: Wed., Aug. 26. House of Blues.
Blue October, Switchfoot, Ours: Fri., Aug. 14. Verizon
Wireless Theater.
David Cook: Sun., July 5, 8
p.m. Moody Gardens.
De La Soul: Sun., Aug. 2. House of Blues.
Dwele & Leela James: Fri., June 26. Hous
Leela James
Let's Do It Again
www.leelajames.com
To understand what an arresting, puzzling record Leela James' Let's Do It Again really is, look no further than the L.A. native and adopted Houstonian's cover of Foreigner's mid-'80s soft-rock/gospel-lite singalong "I Want to Know What Love Is." James takes it about as far over the top as a church-raised singer who recalls Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige and Erykah Badu can be expected to, but both her demanding vocals - she needs to know what lov
Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile.
Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an
Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile.
Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a
Asleep At The Wheel: Sat., Aug. 1. Sengelmann Hall (Schulenburg).
Balaclavas, Cave, Twisted Wires: Thu., June 4. Mango's.
Babasonicos: Thu., Aug. 20. House of Blues.
Billy Joe Shaver: Tue., Aug. 4. Dosey Doe Coffee Company.
"Sean Hannity Freedom Concert" with Billy Ray Cyrus, The Charlie Daniels Band, Lee Greenwood, Michael W. Smith: Sun., Aug. 9. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.
Fall Out Boy, Asher Roth, Chester French: Wed., Sept. 23. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (with Blink-182).
Bun B &
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
