Subject: Motorhead

• Summer Mix Tape

  July 24, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

  August 27, 2007

• Random pics from the streets of SXSW

  March 13, 2008

• Tonight: Valient Thorr at Rudyard's

  August 6, 2008

• Tonight: World's Most Dangerous CD Release at Dan Electro's

  August 8, 2008

• Aftermath: Valient Thorr and Early Man at Rudyard's

  August 8, 2008

• Black Sabbath: The Rules of Hell Box Set Reviewed

  August 19, 2008

• Aftermath: Masters of Metal at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  August 25, 2008

• Mail Call: Post-Ike/ACL Edition

  September 30, 2008

• Metalocalypse: Baroness and the Southern Metal Renaissance

  Baroness, "Wanderlust," 2007 In the same way that Houston rarely inspires photos of snow flurries, people tend not to associate heavy metal with the South. But, if you look hard enough, you'll find a rich history of hard music with roots planted firmly in Southern soil. In the '80s and early '90s, Louisiana produced sludge-metal bands such as Crowbar, Acid Bath and Down. Currently, Austin's retro-metal The Sword is gaining national attention by opening for Metallica, like they and Down did

  December 16, 2008

• Aftermath: "Beatdown" at Baybrook

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty "These aren't the droids we're looking for."Friday, Aftermath ran over to Baybrook Mall after work to catch the guerilla acoustic show in front of the Hot Topic, pitting Friendswood's own "Christian death metal" band Hematidrosis and scum-punkers 10th Grade Cutie. Nothing was set afire. No guitars were wielded as axes in some sort of teenage gladiator session in front the venerable counterculture outfitter. In fact, 10th Grade Cutie didn't get to play its cove

  March 16, 2009

• St. Patrick's Day Special: Flogging Molly, "Fuck You I'm Drunk"

  Fun Fact: Before he found Irish-punk religion in L.A., Flogging Molly frontman Dave King sang in front of ex-Motorhead and UFO members in '80s UK hair-metal also-rans Fastway.

  March 17, 2009

• The Best Wrestler Theme Songs of All Time

  With Wrestlemania in town for its 25th anniversary, Rocks Off thought we could take a little stroll down memory lane and relive some of the WWE's best wrestling theme songs. Nowadays, the WWE can afford to purchase the rights to slick, well-produced songs by popular music acts such as Saliva, Our Lady Peace, Rob Zombie and plenty of others. It wasn't always this way, though. In the earlier days, wrestlers had to come up with a way to incorporate older, public-domain music as their themes, a

  April 2, 2009

• Rock and Roll Swirlie

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

  March 28, 2002

• World's Most Dangerous: Southern Fried Throwdown

  August 14, 2008

• The Last Word from the Press on SXSW 2008

  We swear, we're done now

  March 20, 2008

• Know Your Idols

  February 14, 2008

• Being There

  The Sixth Annual Austin City Limits Festival feels like home...almost

  September 20, 2007

• Valient Thorr, Riverboat Gamblers

  Valient Thorr and Riverboat Gamblers perform Monday, August 6, at Red Room inside Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. ASG and Totimoshi are also on the bill.

  August 2, 2007

• Grady

  Grady performs Saturday, July 28, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899. Studio Magick Black is also on the bill.

  July 26, 2007

• Elvis on Speed, Amplified Heat

  Elvis on Speed and Amplified Heat perform Friday, July 13, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh, 713-521-0521.

  July 12, 2007

• Houston Rock Scene Woes, Continued

  A tri-ologue with three scene vets about selling out, not being true to yourself and rocking too hard

  March 1, 2007

• The Austin Lounge Lizards

  The Austin Lounge Lizards perform Saturday, January 6, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  January 4, 2007

• Whodunit High

  August 10, 2006

• Heady Metal

  In 2005, longhairs got more progressive than ever

  December 8, 2005

• Throw Rag, with Los Skarnales, Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys and Hell City Kings

  Tuesday, August 30, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263.

  August 25, 2005

• How Low Can You Go?

  Let's see with the last installment of our guilty-pleasures project

  June 23, 2005

• Hip to Be SquarePants

  There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

  November 25, 2004

• Cardiac Kids

  The Austin rejects of Young Heart Attack rule Houston and the UK

  February 12, 2004

• Dirty Mothers For Ya

  The Supersuckers clean up their act offstage, but the songs remain the same

  June 5, 2003

• Glamorous Youth

  November 28, 2002

• Motivational Motörhead

  Lemmy: Heavy metal's F-bomb-dropping answer to Anthony Robbins

  April 11, 2002

• The American Plague

  Thursday, February 7

  February 7, 2002

• The Amazing Crowns

  Manic musicianship

  October 19, 2000

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• Aftermath: White Rhino at Boondocks

  Photos by Chris Gray "They're 'classic heavy rock,' or so they tell me," Aftermath texted a friend shortly before Austin's White Rhino went onstage at Boondocks Monday night. "Heavy metal, or just heavy?" came the reply. White Rhino had just gone on, with some menacing guitar spray and a kinetic bassline reminiscent of Detroit proto-punks the MC5. "Heavy. Little/no metal." The band played a couple more songs. "OK...maybe a little metal." Maybe a little more than a little.

  June 30, 2009

• Inquiring Minds: Judas Priest's Rob Halford

   Tonight, Judas Priest, led by the inimitable metal god Rob Halford, hits the stage at Verizon Wireless Theate less than a year since the leathermen last graced Houston. They came to the shed out in the Woodlands last August, headlining the "Metal Masters" tour with Motorhead, Testament and Heaven & Hell. The band is currently on the road touring behind their fifth live album, A Touch Of Evil: Live, as well as celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the landmark British Steel release.

  July 24, 2009

• He Said She Said: Ten Artists We Would Go Gay For

  ​It always happens: you and your friends toss back a few beers and the talk turns to what celebrities and models you find attractive. At first it starts out innocent enough, arguing the merits of Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Marissa Miller or Paula Deen. Well that last name is actually just our own fantasy. We think it has something to do with the use of butter and the whole "mama" thing. But somewhere along the line, someone says out loud, "Well, what guys do you think are good looking?" O

  September 3, 2009

• Monday Morning Metal: And So Motorhead Week Begins...

  Let this video serve as a reminder to everyone that possibly the world's coolest band hits Warehouse Live Friday night . Seriously, the Rolling Stones are bitchin' , the Beatles are timelessly stellar, and Metallica always gets us off, but Lemmy and company pretty much own us. We aren't sure if the show is sold out yet, but if it isn't Houston, you guys are treading on thin ice with us. Anytime you see Motorhead could be the last time you see Motorhead because Lemmy at anytime could go down in

  September 14, 2009

• It's 4:30 p.m. and Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken, John Mayer, Nickelback and ICP Still Suck

  Er... no comment. OK, maybe one or two...​In the world of rock writing, there are just some artists' fans that you can't help but fuck with. While you're alternately enamored and disgusted by their chosen obsession, they exert a near religious fanaticism for their fixation of worship, making them all too open for mockery. In the past decade, the increasing omnipresence of the Internet and the advent of American Idol have created a new sub-species of rabid followers who take each barb thrown in

  September 14, 2009

• Overkill? No Such Thing

  September 17, 2009

• MTV VMA Celebrities Ask The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

  ​Dear Full-Custom Gospel Sounds,I am a multiplatinum rap artist and producer who has won several Grammy awards. You'd think this would be enough to satisfy me, but I am unable to allow other people to enjoy their time in the spotlight - I have often interrupted acceptance speeches, ranted and raved backstage about awards I didn't win and other such behavior. Is this plain old narcissism, am I seeking attention because I lost my mother last year or am I just an asshole?- Conceited in ChicagoDea

  September 18, 2009

• Tear Ya Down: Rocks Off's Favorite Motorhead Music Videos

  Rocks Off isn't sure what "state" he will be in twelve hours from now. We sure as hell won't be able to legally operate heavy machinery, that's for damned sure. We plan on staying in Texas, but shit, who knows what could happen after tonight's Motorhead show at Warehouse Live. We may join the Bandidos and move to New Mexico and start our own biker-music blog. Baby, we just don't know, and you ain't gonna tie us down.

  September 18, 2009

• The Angry Mob at U of H Was Not After "Informer" Rapper Snow's Autograph

  Courtesy Justin Crane What it is, bro: Snow (left) and U of H Park Party organizer Justin Crane​Welcome to another installment of our still-unnamed, in-their-own-words series on musical goings-on in Houston that perhaps could have turned out better for some of the parties involved - coming soon: Riot at Mott the Hoople! - but probably couldn't have turned out quite as memorably. They usually involve someone getting punched or hit by some kind of projectile, perhaps a shoe (and then more

  September 18, 2009

• Go Ask Alice: Shock-Rockers Who Can Hang With Mr. Cooper

  ​Before Lady GaGa, before Clay Aiken, before Marilyn Manson, the nation's ultimate ghastly shock-rocker and parent-baiting troublemaker was Detroit's own Alice Cooper. Cooper and his band weren't the first rockers to shock and frighten the masses with tales of ghouls and blood, but they were one of the best. Bands continue to steal from Cooper decades after his reign. Just take a listen to any Turbonegro album ever recorded; all have a delicate and loving homage to Cooper. Even lead singer Han

  October 9, 2009

• Tonight: Thorriors Unite! (at Rudyard's)

  www.flickr.com/groups/thorriors/​ Tonight at Rudyard's, we'll be a part of the lusty and bearded throng throwing themselves in front of Valient Thorr and Early Man, with local cats the Hell City Kings and Golden Axe acting as support. Those two Houston bands alone would be enough rock and roll for one night, but alas, the gods are smiling upon us tonight while they flip both middle fingers at our long-term hearing ability. Chapel Hill, N.C.'s Valient Thorr is simply one of the best live acts

  October 15, 2009

• Please Help Us Give Away This Live Nation "Club Passport" We've Been Sitting on for Way Too Long

  [Note: While we're on the subject of House of Blues shows, please note the Goodie Mob/Scarface concert scheduled for tonight has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 14.]www.drivebytruckers.com​Once again Rocks Off allowed ourselves to get distracted and nearly forgot we've got this Live Nation "Club Passport" to give away. Hey, we're busy. But we need to get this thing passed along to its proper owners, whoever they may be, like, NOW. In case you forgot, it gets the winner and a guest into

  October 19, 2009

• No, We Haven't Forgotten About That Other Guy Playing House of Blues Thursday

  ​Amidst all the rum, sodomy, and lashing going on this week about the Pogues hitting House of Blues Thursday, it's easy to forget that they have a pretty stellar opener warming up the crowd. Hmm, kinda reminds us of another Irish band that brought a really kick-ass young band with them a few weeks back. Exceptt we don't think Glenn Beck quotes Justin Townes Earle lyrics on his radio show. Earle will open for the Pogues tomorrow night, despite being felled by a leg injury he suffered late last

  October 28, 2009

• What's In a Name? Hey, Look, It's 10th Gräde Cütie Again!

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off, we're trying hard to decode Houston's oddest monikers in order to find a little meaning. We mean this with affection and sincerity: 10th Gräde Cütie destroys everything they touch and should be booked only with the utmost caution. They've been banned from Super Happy Fun Land (recently lifted), Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and especially White Swan for a legendary physical altercation with the staff.

  October 29, 2009

• Comrade Ambassadors

  November 5, 2009