Subject: P.J. Harvey

• SXSW Last Night: Coconut Coolouts, Black Angels, Young Mammals, Tontons, Studemont Project

  March 14, 2008

• Last Night: X at Warehouse Live

  June 4, 2008

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

  September 18, 2008

• New Releases Reviewed

  Tricky

  September 2, 1999

• Woman Childs

  June 23, 1994

• Rotation

  March 23, 1995

• Rotation

  May 9, 1996

• Rotation

  August 1, 1996

• Greed is Good

  May 8, 1997

• A Family Affair

  May 29, 1997

• Rotation

  June 18, 1998

• Rotation

  November 5, 1998

• We're Number One

  February 11, 1999

• SXSW: Born Free

  Photos by Craig HlavatyHeartless Bastards' Erika WennerstromTight economies ain't gotta slow anyone down. SXSW is chock full of free shows and most importantly, FREE BOOZE. Yes, anyone of legal age can literally walk into some shows and guzzle to their dark heart's content. Or until they set something on fire. Heartless Bastards put on a barroom rockin' show over at Waterloo Records, with lead singer Erika Wennerstrom doing her southern-gothic PJ Harvey thing. "Sway" got people moving, coaxed al

  March 21, 2009

• Merchant of Soul

  Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

  April 16, 2009

• Our Favorite Albums of 2007

  December 27, 2007

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• PJ Harvey, White Chalk

  CD Review

  November 1, 2007

• Howe Gelb

  Mr. Unpredictable visits the Orange Show

  October 11, 2007

• Corset Rock

  June 22, 2006

• Sparklehorse, with Danny & the Nightmares

  Wednesday, September 13, at The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199

  September 7, 2006

• C.J. Chenier

  C.J. Chenier appears as part of the Accordion Music Festival on Saturday, June 3, at Miller Outdoor Theatre, 100 Concert Drive, 713-284-8350

  June 1, 2006

• The Duke Spirit

  Saturday, May 27, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600

  May 25, 2006

• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Show Your Bones

  March 30, 2006

• Live for Today

  Metric unleashes its inner Sonic Youth on an incendiary new CD

  November 10, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Straight Outta London

  Dizzee Rascal brings grime music -- the British answer to crunk -- to the Dirty South

  April 14, 2005

• Classics Rock

  Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

  September 2, 2004

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• PJ Harvey

  Uh Huh Her (Island)

  June 24, 2004

• Azita and Carina Round

  Life on the Fly (Drag City) and The Disconnection (Weapons of Mass Entertainment / Interscope)

  May 27, 2004

• Dizzee Miss Lizzee

  The Boy in Da Corner comes out swinging

  April 1, 2004

• Medley Fool

  DJ Jester mixes and mashes up Willie Nelson, Ice-T, the Carpenters and LL Cool J

  February 26, 2004

• Sound Check

  January 26, 1995

• End Game

  This is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, not with a bang but a ... year-end roundup

  December 23, 1993

• Aftermath: Heartless Bastards at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty Sometime Wednesday night, Aftermath tweeted into the ether that we were watching a "female-fronted southern fried T Rex" while semi-Austin transplants the Heartless Bastards cranked into "Early In The Morning" about halfway through their set opening up for the Houston-bashing Jenny Lewis (stay tuned) at Warehouse Live. The term "Southern-fried" has always seemed rote and nearly meaningless, but nonetheless we still sometimes use it offhandedly. We remember having a discus

  June 25, 2009

• On the List: Jonx Drummer Danny Mee's 11 Favorite Female Vocalists

  ​The other day, Houston Press Night & Day editor Olivia Flores Alvarez - whom we're so glad is feeling better and back at work again - handed Rocks Off Lisa Nola's new book called Music Listography: Your Life In (Play)Lists, and the wheels started turning like "Proud Mary." Because we're not quite up to divulging information like "List Songs You'd Strip To" or "List a Song That Reminds You of Each Lover You've Had" - but stay tuned - we thought we'd go ahead and let some local musicians fe

  September 16, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: In Which We Fall In Lurve With White Dress

  Photo by Craig Hlavaty​White Dress opened for the Heartless Bastards on Thursday night in Houston, while we were at Them Crooked Vultures in Austin. We finally got to catch them just a few minutes back and sweet mama was it nice. The Austin-based band, led by the raven-haired Arum Rae, kicked the mud off our shoes with a quick set of bluesy PJ Harvey snarl. As the kids on the Hands Up Houston message board say: NOICE. We aren't just saying that because she looks like one of our tattoos. We don

  October 4, 2009

• ACL Aftermath, Part 2: Now That That "Dillo Dirt" Unpleasantness Is Out of the Way, How About Some Music?

  Mark C. AustinSeems like we recognize this guy from somewhere...​ More and more, Aftermath uses ACL more than SXSW to see which recent buzz bands are worth their salt, and of course to check on how some old favorites are doing. This year, tops on our new-to-us list were Blitzen Trapper, who managed to condense most of the late '60s and early '70s - Dylan, the Dead, CSNY and a lot more besides - into their hour-long set Friday, and MuteMath, neighbors from New Orleans whose echoing guitar, prop

  October 5, 2009

• Million-Dollar Mud

  October 8, 2009

• A Rocks Off Playlist: Halloween Songs That Don't Suck

  Yeah... screw this thing.​Let's face it: the Monster Mash blows. So do many of the songs we're forced to suffer through every Halloweentide. A couple of years ago, Rocks Off heard "One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater" on XM Radio's Halloween-themed channel, and wanted to sneak into a haunted house and hang himself just like that urban legend. We won't put you through that. Instead, we've compiled a playlist of a bunch of songs with spooky themes that won't make you want to hunt down

  October 29, 2009

• Westheimer Block Party Listology: The Watermarks (Minus One) Choose Their Favorite Duets

  All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of. Next up, four-fifths of local electro-tinged post-punks the Watermarks choose their favorite duets. Jessica Brand My favorite duet, knee-jerk reaction, would have to be PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke singing "This Mess We're In." I love the desperation and the way their voices overlap and tangle like ocean waves. Plus

  November 12, 2009