Subject: New York Dolls

• Best Albums of the Year, 2006 Part II

  December 14, 2006

• Reverberations: Garage Rock Downloads on MySpace

  April 2, 2008

• Slideshow: New York Dolls in Dallas

  April 23, 2008

• The Summer of Our '80s Youth in Adventureland

  Great America

  April 2, 2009

• 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

• Personality Crisis

  June 4, 2009

• Static

  August 1, 1996

• Rotation

  August 15, 1996

• Songs and Sickness

  November 21, 1996

• Young Punks

  June 26, 1997

• Rotation

  January 1, 1998

• Three Screamin' Ladies: Karen O, Brody Dalle and Lisa Rieffel of Killola

  Josh Wildman/ www.yeahyeahyeahs.com Yeah Yeah YeahsWhat a week last week was for three of rock and roll's preeminent screamin' ladies. In a few short days, our heroines have unleashed major news and two new singles. Let's recap. Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs): Last Tuesday, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs posted new single "Zero" to their blog and MySpace page. It's a preview of the trio's upcoming LP It's Blitz!, scheduled for U.S. release April 14. If the tune and wacked-out album art are an

  February 24, 2009

• Aftermath: One Wild Weekend

  Craig Hlavaty The Imani School Student Jazz Ensemble Craig Hlavaty Erykah BaduRocks Off is still in the very early recovery stages from this weekend, which was one of the most satisfying musical whirlwinds he's been sucked into in quite some time. He started off Friday evening at the Arena Theatre (his new favorite local venue) for Erykah Badu's retro-futuristic benefit for Houston's Imani School. The local private academy's jazz ensemble - no member was over age 13 - ev

  March 9, 2009

• How About Some SXSW Day Parties? A LOT of SXSW Day Parties?

  We here at Rocks Off are only about a week away from chafed inner thighs, weird Japanese punk bands puking in hotel pools and sweating out our morning mojitos while walking to an art space off 4th Street. South By Southwest is now only a week away. It was all fun and games in December when we were posting our little suppositions of who would be playing, but now this shit is serious. In addition to all the nightly mess, SXSW is also a great place to get loaded on the cheap during the day. N

  March 10, 2009

• Texas Punk Music Is Gay

  April 9, 2009

• Aftermath: Morrissey at Jones Hall

  Craig HlavatyTropical Storm Morrissey blew through Jones Hall Saturday night, leaving a full house of hyperventilated fans - never more so than when, during "Let Me Kiss You," he removed his shirt to reveal an enviable set of abs - and more than a few moist eyes in its wake; after the show, Aftermath looked around and saw several people sobbing in their seats, too overcome to exit immediately. Then there were the security minders who had to have been either bemused or annoyed&nb

  April 13, 2009

• Houston's SXSW Strategy

  Seeing the Elephant

  March 19, 2009

• The Born Liars Set Sail

  February 19, 2009

• Winter Wonderglam

  December 25, 2008

• Rock and Roll Swirlie

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

  March 28, 2002

• 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend

  July 24, 2008

• Plastic Idols : Singles, Demos & Live: Houston Punk '78-'80

  March 6, 2008

• The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists

  A new book compiles punk's greatest hits and biggest dicks

  January 3, 2008

• "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone"

  The CAMH hosts an engaging, sometimes exasperating show

  December 20, 2007

• Hello, Houston!

  April 23, 2009

• White Demons

  Say Go

  January 11, 2007

• New York Dolls

  One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This

  August 17, 2006

• RIP, Syd. And RIP, 'Cid.

  A psychedelic pioneer and the drug that helped do him in are both sorely missed

  July 20, 2006

• The Abattoir

  Goring another of music's sacred cows

  May 4, 2006

• Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey! Bands, Bands, Bands!

  A South By Southwest diary

  March 24, 2005

• Sharp-Dressed Men

  So Interpol's natty and into British post-punk. You got a problem with that?

  February 24, 2005

• Gabba Gabba Henh

  The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

  November 18, 2004

• We're Not the World

  Morrissey tells America where it can shove its hamburger

  October 28, 2004

• Super Mario Brother

  The youngest Escovedo rides his sin-breathing Dragons into town

  June 26, 2003

• Rock Around the Cock

  The Datsuns zoom out of New Zealand with Zeppelinesque flair

  May 22, 2003

• Glamorous Youth

  November 28, 2002

• Golden Gate Garage

  Reliving the seamy underbelly of the 1970s with the young Richmond Sluts

  May 2, 2002

• Back To Basics

  Steven Van Zandt is dedicated to garage rock

  April 11, 2002

• Racket

  The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

  July 19, 2001

• Amplified

  Local Music News

  October 28, 1999

• Oxford Punks

  Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

  October 14, 1999

• Touring with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

  Get on the bus, it's a family affair.

  April 30, 2009

• Live Shots: New York Dolls at the House Of Blues

  Aftermath stepped out to see the legendary New York Dolls hit the House Of Blues last night off Caroline. Our photographer Dan Kramer took some amazing pics as always. Here's a taste of his work while we get our review together... Photo By Daniel Kramer

  June 5, 2009

• Aftermath: New York Dolls & Black Joe Lewis at the House Of Blues

  Photos by Daniel Kramer Aftermath is not going to purport to know what the New York Dolls were like live, in their Thundered and Killer-ed heyday of kitsch and campy kiss-offs. We weren't even in Pre-K when Buster Poindexter was singing "Hot Hot Hot" on Saturday Night Live. But for chrissakes, they couldn't have been this awkward and stunted. (Thanks, YouTube.) It can't be age, because folks like Mick Jagger and Iggy Pop are of an age when "one should know better" and they still look like

  June 5, 2009

• Traumatized Beyond Belief

  June 18, 2009

• No Reservations: Outer Boroughs

  Photo by duluoz_cats​Regretting having spent almost his entire life in Manhattan with nary a trip to the four outer boroughs, Anthony Bourdain took on the robust culinary scenes of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in this week's episode of No Reservations. It seemed like a familiar problem, reminding me of what goes on in our town. Certain Houstonians unjustly malign everything outside the 610 Loop. If Bourdain found something to eat in Staten Island, we can certainly find som

  September 8, 2009