Subject: Nirvana (Band)

• The Pop Moment

  December 16, 1993

• Japanese Catnip

  May 12, 1994

• Mucking It Up

  May 19, 1994

• Jazz Reconsidered

  June 9, 1994

• Famous Amos

  August 11, 1994

• Alternative Notion Lollapalooza doesn't say much about its generation, but the music's fine

  August 25, 1994

• Hole on Halloween

  October 27, 1994

• Puke Sick

  November 3, 1994

• Live Shots

  November 10, 1994

• The Lame and the Great

  December 22, 1994

• Mom Muse

  March 30, 1995

• The Song Remains the Same

  May 11, 1995

• Rotation

  February 8, 1996

• Sound Check

  April 25, 1996

• The Resurrection of Sam Taylor

  May 16, 1996

• Rotation

  May 23, 1996

• Rotation

  October 24, 1996

• Out of Zion

  February 6, 1997

• Rotation

  May 22, 1997

• Rotation

  October 16, 1997

• Tupelo's Curse

  January 15, 1998

• Now They're Cooking

  January 22, 1998

• Letters

  February 19, 1998

• Afterlife Follies

  June 4, 1998

• Static

  July 23, 1998

• Hot Plate

  August 13, 1998

• Rotation

  September 17, 1998

• Too high. Period.

  December 31, 1998

• For a Good Time, Think Pink!

  January 7, 1999

• Rotation

  January 7, 1999

• Liars

  September 20, 2007

• The '90s Continue Unabated At House Of Blues, Homeslice!

  Seriously, what's with the House of Blues downtown toying around with all our '90s modern rock nostalgia as of late? In the past eight months or so since the HOB has opened, the folks on Caroline have booked almost every quasi-major alt-rock band of the last decade, that has not died of an overdose or succumbed to early senility (cough, Courtney Love, cough). It was just last week that Gavin Rossdale of Bush trotted out his solo pony show to a packed crowd of aging Gen-Xers. Live came and pl

  June 3, 2009

• Cobain in Clubland

  April 15, 2004

• 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

• Friday Night Noise: Satin Hooks and Newagehillbilly

  ​Satin Hooks "Trinity School Road": Houston's Satin Hooks are a noise-punk band in the same sense that Liar-era Jesus Lizard and Incesticide/Bleach-era Nirvana once were: torture-slurred, aggrevied vocals, gunk-gummed stop-and-start guitars that wanna beat you bloody while sneaking an earworm melody in under all the crunchy grit. The whole thing's over in just under three minutes, but leaves a lasting impression, from David Gomez's laser-focused, yet somehow imprecise,m drum fills to Lucas Gor

  July 31, 2009

• Know Your Enemy

  August 6, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• Houston Remembers Green Day, Back In the Day

  Photos by Rachelle Mendez and Matthew Juarez​Saturday night, one of the most polarizing bands of the past 20 years rolls into town. Since its 1994 mainstream breakthrough, Dookie, Green Day has been dividing fans and critics alike. Some damned the trio for leaving their punk-rock roots behind at 924 Gilman for the glamour of MTV videos and catered backstages. Others championed them for bringing a youthful sense of humor to the dour grunge-saturated rock scene of mid-'90s. The success of Dookie

  August 7, 2009

• Maybe Miley Would Be Better Off Dead Like Selena, Kurt and These Others...

  In case you missed it - and if you value your immortal soul, we're sure you did - Hannah Montana star/future tell-all memoir author Miley Cyrus unveiled a newer, more "mature" look last weekend at the only venue appropriate for such things: the Teen Choice Awards. Nothing says "successful transition from 'tween idol to grown-up entertainer" like booty shorts and pole dancing, and we here at Rocks Off hope the 16-year old is prepared for the coming decades, which will likely be spent drinking ma

  August 13, 2009

• Aftermath: We Were Wolves and Satin Hooks, Born to Be Wild at the Mink

  Photos by Chris Gray​ It's been false-starting for a couple of years, but that grunge revival may be right around the corner - if it ever went anywhere in the first place. Beaumont's We Were Wolves plugged into the Mudhoney machine at the Mink Tuesday night, crafting sludgy sheets of guitar noise to contend with screamed and howled vocals over sledgehammer bass and drums. Then they won us over forever with a completely unironic and totally groovy cover of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild." It's

  August 19, 2009

• Melvins

  August 27, 2009

• Houston 101: The Lesbian Bar That Shut Up HPD

  ​The 1960s weren't a very pleasant time to be gay or lesbian for most people, but especially in Houston. Somehow the Bayou City wasn't as accepting of alternative lifestyles as it is today (and we're not saying it's Nirvana today.)Police raids of gay bars were common. Common but bizarre, in the case of lesbians.City ordinance Number 28.42-4 prohibited cross-dressing, and HPD and the courts interpreted that to mean -- believe it or not -- that a woman wearing pants with a zipper or a fly front

  September 3, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• Aftermath: Them Crooked Vultures at Stubb's in Austin

  Photos By Craig Hlavaty​Just a few short hours ago Aftermath saw the rock world's newest supergroup in action as Queens of The Stone Age's Josh Homme, ex-Nirvana drummer/current Foo Fighters helmer Dave Grohl, and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones took the stage at Stubb's in Austin for a warm-up gig before this afternoon's Austin City Limits festival appearance. Thursday night's show was only the second US date for Them Crooked Vultures since their inception this past summer.

  October 2, 2009

• Halloween Countdown: How Best To Go For The `90s-Nostalgia Look

  Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. Check out past entries here and here. If VH1 has taught us nothing else, it's shown that it's never too soon to be nostalgic. This Halloween, tap into the cultural era academics refer to as "the `90s" and impress friends with your knowledge of history. Rekindle their fond me

  October 15, 2009

• Meat Puppets

  October 29, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers, Part 2

  He Said Grandpa Songs He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage. The man was arguably one of the biggest musical influences in He Said's life. The intrepid and stealthy Grandpa Gonzalez is kicking the around the country somewhere on a sweet motorcycle or driving through the Midwest in his gigantic RV and his chihuahua with Grandma Ana watching a movie in the back. Seeing that He Said is one-hal

  November 5, 2009

• Does Anyone Care About Super Tuesdays Anymore? Besides Us?

  ​Time was that Tuesdays used to be the best day of the week for your average recorded-music consumer. Since Rocks Off was just a wee music nerd, Tuesdays were his favorite days of the week because it was always the universal day for all new releases to hit the stores. It started with begging our parents drive us to Best Buy or Wal-Mart, and soon morphed into illicit school-ditching trips to Soundwaves on Montrose or the old Cactus Music off Shepherd. In these days of album downloads and illega

  November 17, 2009

• The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

  It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influence of shadowy forces that supposedly linger in the dark. In the past 50 years, our society turned away from accepting basic facts and has instead begun to traffic in speculation and hearsay, trumping

  November 18, 2009

• Inquiring Minds: Deer Tick's Front Man Goes for That Chased-by-Alligators Sound

  Providence, R.I., band Deer Tick may hail from "Up North" but their sound is purely steeped in grungey folk and rockabilly yelp. They, in fact, hear this description so much that the band has started to rebel against it by in fact upping the dosage on their new More Fuel For The Fire EP, which just hit iTunes this week. The band has been the brainchild of lead singer and songwriter John Joseph McCauley III since the very beginning in late 2004. He was joined by a full band in 2007, right before

  November 20, 2009