Subject: Old 97's

• Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey

  July 13, 2007

• The Old 97’s at ACL Fest

  September 27, 2008

• New Old 97's

  April 29, 1999

• Playbill

  July 22, 2004

• Tonight: Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Woodlands native turned Austin dweller Hayes Carll had an up-and-down year in 2008. His first Lost Highway release, Trouble In Mind, garnered worldwide attention. As he relaxed in the Ozarks with his in-laws before heading to Warehouse Live for tonight's gig with Band of Heathens and Adam Carroll, we caught up with him to look back... and forward.  Rocks Off: What were the highlights of 2008 for you as an artist? Hayes Carll: The Stingaree Music Festival, playing the

  December 26, 2008

• Saturday: Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club

  A sort of swampy Supersuckers, New Orleans trio Dash Rip Rock - whose last album Hee Haw Hell was the rather ambitious cowpunk retelling of Dante's Inferno - have returned to more earthly concerns on the new Country Grilfriend (Abitian). That means, according to the liner notes, "songs [that] will be played at every tail-gating, fish fry, frat house, boat launch and beach party throughout the South."Sounds about right. There are songs about cranking Kid Rock on the way to the lake ("Let the Truc

  December 26, 2008

• A Whole Lot Country

  March 13, 1997

• All-Terrain Vehicle

  July 31, 1997

• Rotation

  August 7, 1997

• Strange Days

  August 28, 1997

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• Letters

  January 22, 1998

• New Year's Eve Blastoff

  December 24, 1998

• Letters 07-20-2000

  July 20, 2000

• The Gourds land a real Haymaker!

  January 8, 2009

• Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

  December 4, 2008

• Johnny Falstaff: Honky Tonkin' Daddy, John Evans Band: Lucky 13, Kanude: Kanude

  November 27, 2008

• Rhett Miller

  November 20, 2008

• Rhett Miller

  November 20, 2008

• Dallas Domination

  The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

  November 22, 2001

• Rock The Bayou Is a Bust

  September 11, 2008

• 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

• Old 97's

  Drag It Up (New West)

  August 5, 2004

• ZZ Top, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams III, Old 97's

  ZZ Top, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams III and Old 97's perform Saturday, July 14, at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

  July 12, 2007

• Young Gun

  Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Hüsker Dü -- and that's a good place to be

  August 4, 2005

• Hot Shows

  Summertime concerts that will leave you sweating

  May 26, 2005

• I'll Drink to That

  Fuel your New Year's Eve with these boozy sing-along tunes

  December 30, 2004

• Playbill

  September 16, 2004

• Hop Sing

  May 20, 2004

• Slick Billies

  Cowpunkers Slick 57 try to make people forget about their fancy college degrees

  December 19, 2002

• Chasmatic

  Kicker Wisdom (Self-released)

  November 14, 2002

• Miller's Crossing

  Rhett Miller's Instigator isn't the wreck of the Old 97's. It's just what he does.

  November 7, 2002

• The Price of Fame

  Flickerstick's old fans worry that Bands on the Run has banned all the fun

  August 30, 2001

• Crap Shoot

  Nothing's guaranteed at SXSW - not even a seat to Dee Dee Ramone's show

  March 8, 2001

• Amplified

  Local Music News

  September 30, 1999

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Grant Langston's Plastic Honky-Tonk

   California, we have a problem. It is much the same problem we encounter with the whole Texas music phenomenon championed endlessly by Best In Texas music magazine: calculated, paint-by-the-numbers music and writing. This was one of LOM's chief criticisms of L.A. tonker David Serby's latest effort, and the next case in point is the new Stand Up Man from L.A.'s Grant Langston. "We're gonna have a knock-down, drag-out Burt Reynolds movie brawl." Yeah, right.

  July 24, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: MELOVINE, the Snake Charmers, LL Cooper, Peekaboo Theory and Buxton

  Mark C. AustinThe Snake Charmers take a breather after bluesing up Martell's.​ It was hot as hell when the Houston Press music staff met up at the Flying Saucer ordering different shades of exotic beers and several different kinds of cheese. Bands were divided up between writers, and pretty much everyone got to go see the Tontons but us. Aftermath has never seen metal in the afternoon before, so it was nice to have MELOVINE start the evening off with a first. After being sorely disappointed a

  July 27, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Blacktop Gypsy and Shurman

  Two fine bands who don't come through much are playing just blocks apart tonight. Dallas's Blacktop Gypsy will be knocking the audience out with their amazing harmonies and the virtuosity of fiddler Heather Stalling (wife of Max Stalling) and former Lake Jackson resident Rodney Pyeatt. Stalling was raised in a family of string players and has been doing fiddle contests since she was four years old. She's played with Ed Burleson, Mark David Manders, and others in the Texas music scene. Pyeatt wa

  July 30, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

  [Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern quadrant "Trinity."] View Five States of Texas in a larger map Trinity Capital: Dallas Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson ​Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray

  August 12, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• Twelve Musical Fuck Yous Better Than Gov. Ah-nuld's Coded Message

  ​Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​We admit, we never thought he had it in him, but apparently the Governator is capable of human cleverness - just like all non-cybernetic organisms. That is, if we accept that the acrostic in this veto message here isn't just a coincidence (read the first letter of each line in the second and third paragraphs). That's a good one, but this being Rocks Off, we would've preferred Schwarzenegger put his F-U into song form, like these folks.

  October 29, 2009