Subject: Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Give Us a Hand

  October 9, 2007

• Big State, Big Ideas

  October 12, 2007

• Get Lit: Rock & Roll Heaven, by Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald

  October 30, 2007

• The Most Demanding Songs in Rock History

  May 20, 2008

• Whither Southern Rock?

  July 16, 2008

• The Bright Side Of Pollution

  August 15, 2008

• Free Birds and Drop Kick Chihuhahas

  New Year's Eve Houston at Bayou Place

  December 30, 1999

• No Fear

  The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera redeems Skynyrd and the South

  November 15, 2001

• Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

  So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to

  December 4, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 4

  Tom Waits, Jones Hall, June 22: "Us Rain Dogs fans had to make do with a spastic "Cemetery Polka" that was a fair representation of Waits' cross-pollination of beatnik jazz and guttural blues; whether or not he's your cup of bourbon, the man does have a unique sound." Peter Murphy, Meridian, July 10: "The rest of the set was dominated by snaky, sexual rock similar to the Cramps, Stooges or Gun Club that also flirted with metal in patches. This sound hit its zenith on Murphy's 1990 hit 'Cuts

  December 31, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 7

  Jay-Z, House of Blues, October 16: "Jay-Z and his dozen-man band tore through the Brooklyn rapper's phone-book-thick catalog -- topped by the thunderstruck, 'Back in Black'-­borrowing "99 Problems" -- as Bun B, several Houston Texans (and Texans Cheerleaders) and the rest of the sold-out house got their swerve on in high style." Butthole Surfers, Meridian, October 23: "I can't speak for the band, but frontman Gibby Haynes was either on something unknown to even Central American shamen or

  January 2, 2009

• Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition

  Denison-based Texas Hippie Coalition, or THC to fans, lays claim to the title "Kings of Red Dirt Metal," and will more than likely rock you the eff out. These guys feel like Pantera meets Lynyrd Skynyrd, so horns most definitely up. (Plus, the drummer goes by "Cowboy.") Lead singer Big Daddy Rich recently spoke with Metalocalypse about the Man in Black, horror movies and whether or not the abbreviation of the band's name is a coincidence. See if you can guess. Metalocalypse: When wa

  January 12, 2009

• Power Surge

  May 18, 1995

• The Nanny State Hates The Cars On Your Front Lawn

  As goes Port Arthur, so goes Houston.The noble Golden Triangle town recently passed an ordinance banning people from parking their cars on their front lawns.Always eager to take their lifestyle cues from Port Arthur, the Houston City Council has followed suit with an ordinance of its own.Homeowners associations will be able to petition residents, and if 60 percent of the residents agree to ban cars from laws, than goddammit cars will be banned from lawns.There are so many things wrong with this.

  January 29, 2009

• Static

  May 16, 1996

• No Monkey Business

  March 12, 1998

• Could Alternative Country Work at the Rodeo?

  February 26, 2009

• Houston, Humor Hotbed

  Houston Comedy Festival

  September 2, 1999

• Metallica's Death Magnetic

  Fade to Plastic via Guitar Hero III

  November 13, 2008

• Drive-By Truckers, A to Z

  Alabama Ass Whuppin'

  September 18, 2008

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd

  August 7, 2008

• Various Artists

  Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top (RCA)

  May 16, 2002

• Miranda Lambert

  November 22, 2007

• Against Me!

  New Wave

  August 9, 2007

• Hello, Houston!

  April 23, 2009

• Encore Performance

  Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

  November 23, 2006

• Redneck Renaissance

  Gretchen Wilson’s return to town makes us wonder, What’s really behind all these songs about Wal-Mart, cheap beer and NASCAR?

  November 3, 2005

• Allman Brothers Band

  Sunday, September 25, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

  September 22, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Lynyrd Skynyrd and Montgomery Gentry

  Thursday, March 17 (Montgomery Gentry), and Friday, March 18 (Lynyrd Skynyrd), at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Reliant Center, 1 Reliant Park, 832-667-1400.

  March 17, 2005

• Roadie Royalty

  Houstonian author and Webmaster Karl Kuenning is a prince among road dogs

  January 13, 2005

• Playbill

  October 7, 2004

• Best Strip Club

  September 23, 2004

• MOFRO

  June 24, 2004

• Beyond Borders

  Alabama Thunderpussy roars with countrified rock

  June 3, 2004

• Rock and Roll Never Forgets

  Classic rock finds a new generation of fans and keeps on keepin' on into the new millennium

  May 13, 2004

• Green Party

  Lucky for us, St. Paddy's Day lasts a whole week

  March 11, 2004

• Tennessee Tornadoes

  Preachers' kids Kings of Leon want none of the sounds-like name game

  November 6, 2003

• The Eclectic Company

  Inman Gallery's latest show offers an assortment of West Coast artistic souvenirs

  October 23, 2003

• Drive-By Truckers

  Decoration Day (New West)

  September 18, 2003

• Houstowne, Texas

  Shrouded by mists and unrecovered documents, the history of Houston is still worth a probe

  December 30, 1999

• Songs To Fight Swine Flu By

  Working overtime to give natural selection the finger, a former member of the Texas medical Association's Committee on Infectious Diseases has issued a press release telling people how to wash their hands.        "I'm not just talking about running your hands under the faucet," Gary N. Butka states in the release. "It means getting a bar of soap and washing your hands. Hum to yourself a tune, maybe 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' or 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,' and when y

  May 1, 2009

• Summer Sounds

  May 21, 2009

• Win a Pair of Kid Rock/Lynyrd Skynyrd Tickets

  As part of Live Nation's all-day $24.99 lawn-ticket sale for shows at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, they've kindly offered us a pair of lawn tickets to the June 30 Kid Rock/Lynyrd Skynyrd shred-off to give away. But of course, we're not just going to give them to you. If you want them, just answer this trivia question: What other song besides "Sweet Home Alabama" did Kid Rock sample for last years super-mega jam "All Summer Long?" (Hint: it's the piano part at the beginning.) The first pe

  June 17, 2009

• Seven Skynyrd Songs Better than "Sweet Home Alabama" or "Free Bird"

  Allow Rocks Off to let the cat out of the bag for a second: this evening at the Woodlands, Lynyrd Skynyrd will close with "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird." Taking nothing away from either song - they are, after all, a serious rebuke to Dixie-haters and Southern racists alike disguised as a poolside party anthem and the American "Stairway to Heaven," respectively - they are, shall we say, a shade overexposed at this point. Unfortunately, "Alabama" and "Free Bird" have come to dominate the pub

  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

• Cutout Bin: Censored and "Recalled" Album Covers

  The Beatles, Yesterday and Today (1966) We start with perhaps the best-known example of a "recalled" album cover. When advance copies were sent to stores and DJs, there was an immediate uproar over the cover, showing the band covered in baby parts and bloody meat. All copies were ordered to be returned to the manufacturer. These copies were "pasted over" with a new cover and sent back to stores. Only a handful of copies escaped the "repasting" and are of course valuable collector items. Many

  July 16, 2009

• Aftermath: Collective Soul and Black Stone Cherry at House of Blues

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ Something strange happened during the '90s. Southern Rock as we once knew it all but disappeared. Charmed by grunge, drowned in amplification, bands began shedding the elements of blues and country that threaded that noble line from Lynyrd Skynyrd through the Georgia Satellites and the Black Crowes. Just as importantly, they abandoned lyrics that carried on the rich Southern storytelling tradition in favor of cheap radio platitudes and MTV-pandering nonsense. In that p

  September 2, 2009

• Drive-By Truckers

  October 29, 2009