Subject: Motley Crue

• Knock 'Em Dead

  September 6, 2007

• Give Us a Hand

  October 9, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Radiohead Gets Nekkid!

  January 3, 2008

• Weekend Music: A Speeding Motorcycle and Lots More

  April 18, 2008

• Aftermath: Cruefest at Toyota Center

  July 24, 2008

• 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

• Same Old Crue

  November 6, 1997

• Motley Fools

  December 3, 1998

• Tommy Lee Uncensored!

  January 14, 1999

• Jane's Addiction: Will They Or Won't They? Houston DJs Will

  Sounds like Jane's Addiction is more or less a lock to play tonight's Playboy/C3 Presents super-exclusive late-night party at an old supermarket at 1107 N. IH-35 this evening starting around 11. It's pretty much the most popular rumor making the rounds at SXSW at this point - Rocks Off has heard it several times, and according to today's Austin American-Statesman, the band's Web site lists a "private event" in Austin tonight on its calendar page. And Jane's frontman Perry Farrell is also partner

  March 19, 2009

• The Born Liars Set Sail

  February 19, 2009

• Is Your Band in Trouble?

  November 20, 2008

• Rock and Roll Swirlie

  Manhattan's Toilet Boys keep '80s hair metal and '70s glam rock from circling the drain

  March 28, 2002

• RTX

  July 3, 2008

• Bret Michaels

  March 27, 2008

• Know Your Idols

  February 14, 2008

• Black Lips Shopping Spree

  September 27, 2007

• Hinder, Papa Roach, Buckcherry

  September 20, 2007

• Vince Neil, Quiet Riot, Slaughter

  Vince Neil, Quiet Riot and Slaughter perform Friday, July 27, at Sam Houston Race Park, 7575 N. Sam Houston Parkway West, 281-807-8700.

  July 26, 2007

• Another Bump

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

  July 5, 2007

• Rock and Roll Autobiographies

  Stars' tell-all stories

  May 31, 2007

• ZULA'S ESPRESSO MARTINI

  October 5, 2006

• Mötley Goüge

  Wanna hang out with Vince Neil? Got an extra five grand on ya?

  March 30, 2006

• Mötley Crüe

  Friday, March 24, Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 713-758-7200

  March 23, 2006

• New Year's Resolutions for Houston

  We have a lot to forgive – and forget – about 2005; here's hoping local celebs do better next year

  January 19, 2006

• Comeback Clips

  A music-video renaissance is afoot -- but it's strictly on the download

  December 29, 2005

• Bling Twango

  Big & Rich delivers country music without prejudice

  November 3, 2005

• Our top DVD picks for the week of October 25

  October 27, 2005

• Crüe Cuts

  On the phone with the Mötley bunch

  September 22, 2005

• Every Time I Die, with the Red Chord

  Monday, September 19, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  September 15, 2005

• Avril Lavigne, with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker

  Tuesday, August 16, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2025 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

  August 11, 2005

• Sex, Drugs and Jeff Tweedy's National Geographic Collection

  Rock memoirs take us behind the music

  February 17, 2005

• Rotation

  February 3, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

  January 27, 2005

• New Bands from Old

  Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

  January 30, 2003

• Too Hot for Love

  The Donnas out-Crüe the Crüe with a new spin on the old sex-and-excess glam formula

  November 21, 2002

• Playbill

  The Donnas

  March 1, 2001

• Surprise, Surprise: Motley Crue Can't Remember Most of Dr. Feelgood

  Sometimes when Rocks Off has had a little too much to drink, he has a little trouble remembering specific details of the night before, like how he got back upstairs. If pen and paper are handy, he'll occasionally scratch out a paragraph or two of semi-coherent, semi-legible prose, but he's certainly never done anything like record one of the greatest hard rock/glam-metal albums of the 1980s. This is why he's fairly certain he'll never be asked to join Motley Crue.Until today, Rocks Off somehow

  May 11, 2009

• Summer Sounds

  May 21, 2009

• 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 Springsteenian tales of boardwalk knockabouts and Richie Sambora's streetwise riffs combined to make a denim-clad, working-class alternative to stacked-heel Sunset Strip skirt-chasers like Mötley Crüe. Judging

  May 21, 2009

• Low Man's Joe: Where I Stand

  May 28, 2009

• Talking With Air Guitar Master Bjorn Turoque

  For the past six years, Dan Crane, aka "Bjorn Turoque" has been the preeminent ambassador for the world of air guitar. He retired from competition in the Air Guitar World Championships in 2005 and made a lateral move to being the touring roadshow nightly MC - or the "Master of Air-emonies," as he calls himself. The world of competitive air guitar actually goes back to the early '80s in Sweden, when a few metal fans began performing in front of folks, and the phenomenon soon reached the States in

  June 12, 2009

• Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 1: Bob Dylan, George Strait, The Pogues and More

  Initiated by indie-rockers like Sonic Youth, Slint and Built to Spill at mid-2000s festivals - UK/U.S. hopover All Tomorrow's Parties and its various tie-ins being the most prominent - playing a beloved LP front to back in concert is now the hottest thing going on the classic-rock circuit. Within the next month, Houstonians can see Aerosmith revisit 1976's Toys In the Attic (The Woodlands, July 17), Judas Priest do 1980's British Steel (Verizon, July 24) and Motley Crue gas up 1989's Dr. Feelgoo

  July 7, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: Ozeal & the Eulypians, Nosaprise, Benjamin Wesley, Tha Fucking Transmissions, Kristine Mills, Peekaboo Theory, Versecity and Spain Colored Orange

  Chris Gray​Five hours is not a long time. It is if you're driving from Houston to Texarkana or Uvalde, maybe. But when hopscotching all over downtown trying to take in as much of the Houston Press Music Awards showcase as you can until your feet and your ears cry uncle, those 300 minutes go by in a heartbeat. But every once in a while, in the words of Bob Dylan, "the next 60 seconds can seem like an eternity." Those fleeting moments are the keepers, and tops on the list Sunday was Ozeal &

  July 27, 2009

• Five Hour Energy

  July 30, 2009

• Crüefest

  August 6, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Morgue City, Not Metal But Still Plenty Dark

  ​Rocks Off was sure that Houston's Morgue City was a metal band - it's a perfect metal name, that's for sure. Not quite. The Houston duo, descended from bondage-loving former HPMA Best Industrial winners Bozo Porno Circus, plays a brand of "noiz" not far off from KMFDM or My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. Rocks Off sampled a few of MC's MySpace songs this afternoon, and since his iPod has already been spitting out a steady mix of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen (whom MC re

  August 24, 2009

• Five Artists Motel 6 Would Rather Not Give Free Rooms, Including John Mayer

  canada.com​In a move sure to boost occupancy among skinny jeans-wearing hipsters while simultaneously driving regular families away by the family truckster-load, Motel 6 is running a promotion to give free rooms to up-and-coming bands: "Here's how it works: Motel 6 will give free rooms to developing bands on the touring circuit. (The cheapo chain has roughly 1,000 properties in every U.S. state save Hawaii.) In exchange, the bands promise to give shout-outs to the chain on their web sites, and

  September 3, 2009

• Aftermath: Alice Cooper's "Theatre of Death" at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty/ Click here for a slideshow​ Who needs to go to an Alice Cooper show more: the 34-year-old satisfying his curiosity or the 61-year-old onstage for whom the gate receipts will buy many, many rounds at Pebble Beach? The 44-year-old whose eyes are blacked out like Alice's or the 25-year-old tweeting his ass off?​With a band member underneath each life-size, lowercase letter of his first name - Aftermath's favorite was the drummer comfortably cradled within the "c" - and

  October 12, 2009

• Crypticon Countdown: Michael Berryman On Star Trek, Motley Crue And Brandon Lee

  Photo courtesy Crypticon​There's no mistaking horror-movie stalwart Michael Berryman. The actor suffers from a rare condition called hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, which is characterized by few or no sweat glands and lack of hair or fingernails. However, Berryman's distinctive appearance has made him one of the more recognizable actors out there.He'll be at the Reliant Center this weekend as part of Crypticon Houston, and Hair Balls asked him a few e-mail questions about Star Trek and Mö

  October 15, 2009