Subject: Little Richard

• The Houston 100: From Charles Brown to Sippie Wallace

  September 26, 2007

• Last Night: King Khan & BBQ at Rudz

  November 8, 2007

• Bo Diddley, RIP

  June 2, 2008

• Houston Honker

  Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

  August 5, 1999

• Free Birds and Drop Kick Chihuhahas

  New Year's Eve Houston at Bayou Place

  December 30, 1999

• Master Blaster

  Cody ChesnuTT sees rock and roll, and he wants to repaint it black

  February 27, 2003

• Tonight: Michael Hardie and Milton Hopkins at Red Cat Jazz Cafe

  November 10, 2008

• Aftermath: Eagles of Death Metal at Meridian

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty  It's super-hard to intelligently review a party band. You can't very well sit in one corner of the venue, gently stroking your scholarly beard jotting down notes on each intricate riff and drum fill. In the interest of science, you have to immerse yourself in the atmosphere and pray that you find some sort semblance of rational thought. Eagles of Death Metal is a party band, through and through. There is no time for shoe-gazing and opining on political s

  November 26, 2008

• Drenched in Blog: Why the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special Creeps Me Out

  In 1988, few things were as cool or innovative on Saturday mornings as Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Each week, we screamed the secret word, connected dots, watched old weird-ass cartoons and saw Saturday Night Live star Phil Hartman play a surly sea captain. The show was something five-year olds and hungover twentysomethings could all enjoy. But the Christmas special that came that holiday season is beyond understanding even 20 years on. Not until Drenched watched it again a few years b

  December 12, 2008

• Classic Rock Corner: Blues/Soul/R&B In Memoriam 2008

  Ah, that nasty Grim Reaper took a lot of great musicians this year, and his scythe cut a wide swath across all genres, including many heavyweights in the blues and R&B world. The greatest loss comes in the form of someone who was a man, a song, and a beat all in one... Bo Diddley, singer-songwriter, guitarist, co-founder of rock and roll, all-around Bad Ass (1928-2008): If we ever get around to blasting a Mt. Rushmore to the founders of rock and roll, the faces on rock would be Chuck

  January 2, 2009

• Regular Treat

  January 4, 1996

• Static

  October 10, 1996

• The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 4

  [Note: Click on the numbers for parts 1, 2 and 3.] Fifth Ward music mogul Don Robey was so taken with Gatemouth Brown's talents that he built his entire Peacock label around him. Robey already owned the Bronze Peacock night club and various other business interests, but it was his meeting of Brown that truly launched them both into Texas and world music immortality. Although their relationship would sour by the end of the '50s, along the way the genre-smashing multi-instrumentalist Brown wo

  February 23, 2009

• Unforgettable?

  March 5, 1998

• New Year's Eve Picks

  December 24, 1998

• New Year's Eve Blastoff

  December 24, 1998

• The Reverend's Resolutions

  December 31, 1998

• SXSW: The Sonics at Emo's

  Photos by Craig HlavatyLast night we stood in line for nearly an hour to catch Seattle garage legends the Sonics at Emo's. The five-piece group were pioneers, ultimately influencing everyone from the Replacements to the Austin's own Big Boys. Their current hold on modern garage rock was evident by seeing members of the Black Lips and King Khan and The Shrines in attendance guzzling beers in the pit during the show.The Sonics opened with "He's Waiting" with its big bad sax lines and Little Richar

  March 21, 2009

• Amplified

  January 6, 2000

• The Best of ACL Fest

  October 2, 2008

• "The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians"

  September 25, 2008

• Mount Coy

  South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

  July 26, 2001

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Houston Musical Landmarks and the I.Am.We Collective

  February 28, 2008

• Creepshow: Halloween Party Music

  Music to keep your soiree from sucking like Dracula

  October 25, 2007

• Guitar Shorty’s Birthday Party

  The bluesman spends his b-day on stage

  September 6, 2007

• Another Bump

  Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  July 5, 2007

• Red Hog Saloon

  When the jukebox is an art form

  May 3, 2007

• Los Straitjackets with Big Sandy

  Los Straitjackets with Big Sandy perform Friday, April 20, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

  April 19, 2007

• Guitar Shorty

  Guitar Shorty performs Saturday, January 13, at the Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby, 713-523-9999.

  January 11, 2007

• The King Khan & BBQ Show

  The King Khan & BBQ Show will appear Sunday, October 29, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Dr. Call 713-521-0521 for more info. The Detroit Cobras also appear.

  October 26, 2006

• South By So Huge

  Austin's little music festival is all grown up

  March 23, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  October 27, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 15, 2005

• The Black Album

  A new film examines the darker side of rock

  June 30, 2005

• The Black Godfather

  The wit and wisdom of Andre Williams

  February 24, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 20, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 13, 2005

• Laugh Trap

  Comedy gets violent with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

  November 18, 2004

• Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Saturday, August 2

  July 31, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 3, 2003

• Various Artists

  La Musica della Mafia -- Il Canto di Malavita (PIAS America)

  October 17, 2002

• Murder in Small Town X

  A cheese maker bites it in Actors Theatre's melodrama

  May 9, 2002

• Racket

  Searching for the First Rock Song

  August 9, 2001

• Eyeballin': John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto '69

  It's a story well-told in Beatles lore. Reeling from the Fab Four's unraveling, a bored John Lennon accepted an invitation to perform at the Toronto Rock 'n Roll Revival show in September 1969. He quickly formed an ad hoc group of friends (wife Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums), dubbed them the Plastic Ono Band, and two days later the ensemble was learning songs in the cramped airplane quarters on the way to the show. Nervous after a three-year abs

  June 17, 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

• He Said She Said: A Stripper Soundtrack

  Rocks Off has a naked lady fetish. It's shameful to admit. We really like seeing naked chicks. It's been something we have dealt with since we were four years old and started sneaking into the women's dressing room when our Mom would go clothes shopping. It's not so cute today, what with the beard and druid's cloak. Once we got older and were dominated by peer pressure, we found ourselves in some random strip club every few months or so. We soon found that our demanding musical tastes dictated

  July 31, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Method Man on His Pellet-Gun Aim, The Debut of HUSH, Local Bands Vying for ACL Spot, Thee Armada MySpace Finalist, etc.

  Above, Method Man talks about his pellet-gun accuracy, which was a little off the night he allegedly shot Houstonian Mary Anderson, who is now suing him on several counts including assault. Besides playing House of Blues Friday with Redman and Ghostface, looks like Meth will spend some time in Houston meeting with lawyers as well. ​This evening is the first installment of the Houston Underground Social Hour, or HUSH, Matt Brownlie of Bring Back the Guns' monthly event offering late-night-styl

  August 6, 2009

• On Its 40th Birthday, the Top 10 Sesame Street Musical Guests

  Sing the blues, Kermit... or greens. We know how you feel. Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Elmo and Grover have something to celebrate. Sesame Street, their fictional New York borough, and the television show probably responsible for everything you knew as a kid, turns 40 today. Created in 1969 from the psychedelic mind of puppeteer Jim Henson (back in the freewheelin' '60s, when puppeteering could actually be a career), Sesame Street is now the longest-running children's television

  November 10, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Last Men Standing

  ​Lonesome Onry and Mean vaguely remembers someone telling us a couple of years ago that Las Vegas bookies actually had a line on whether Chuck Berry would die that year (we think it was 2007). The macabre factor aside, remembering this Wednesday got LOM to pondering about the Godfathers of Rock and Roll and who would indeed be, per the title of Jerry Lee Lewis' recent album, the Last Man Standing. Not meaning to demean the contributions of artists like Dave Bartholomew, but in our mind there a

  November 12, 2009