Nick Drake

Aftermath: Jana Hunter and Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez at the Petrol Station

Norah Jones

Wednesday, March 27

Rock and Roll Dream Team

Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Ray Stevens Lives!!!

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Tori's Story

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Rotation

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Rotation

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Sad-Eyed Sibs

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Black Mountain

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Local Motion

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Adam Franklin

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Local Motion

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

The Gospel of Grant

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here's ten great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition

Damien Jurado

And Now That I'm In Your Shadow

Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

Primary Season

Check out some of the new candidates for this year's Houston Press Music Awards

Pandora's Boss

Meet the guy behind the Web site that could be the MySpace.com of music

Hello, Moon

Indie-rock artists spin straw into gold – for the children

Devendra Banhart and Hairy Fairy, with Bunny Brains

Tuesday, October 11, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.

M. Ward, with Norfolk and Western

Sunday, April 3, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263

Rotation

Sunday, April 3, at Mary Jane's Fat Cat, 4216 Washington Avenue, 713-869-5263

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

California Dreamin'

Rogue Wave, featuring former Houstonian Gram Lebron, rides a tsunami of good vibrations into town

Rock Death in 2003

Exhuming and scoring last year's pop-music demises

Sondre Lerche

Faces Down (Astralwerks)

Black Heart Procession

October 23

Staggering Something

Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his film writing debut with Away We Go.

Life on Mars

Grammy-winning prog-punks The Mars Volta mellow out on Octahedron.

He Said, She Said: Gone Too Soon

A rash of recent musical deaths (Michael Jackson and DJ AM among others) have led us here at Rocks Off to do some speculating of our own: Which musicians do we feel were taken from us too soon? Obvious answers like the Famous Js (John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) or the dual ... More >>

Houston's 10 Favorite Rainy-Day Albums

Hola, Hermine...​Weather like Houston had this past week seems to make everyone "sad panda" and turn to lusher, less upbeat music. snuggle-rock, dad-rock, beard-rock - music you hear in coffee shops seems to be ruling our city's personal airwaves. As Tropical Storm Hermine trampled through H ... More >>

Photographic Memory

Robert Ellis heads into the great wide open on his first New West LP.

Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd

Robert Ellis heads into the great wide open on his first New West LP.

Lord Lordy, Look Who's Forty: The Best Albums Of 1972

​Last week I told you about the best debut albums of 1992, making a lot of us feel old in the process. Hell, I was only nine when those came out and I felt feeble making the list. This week we look at the best albums of 1972, now four decades in the hole, but no less fulfilling and influenti ... More >>