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  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Slow, Loud & Bleedin': haarp's New Orleans Sludge Backs Up Into Bayou City

    If you're a metal band rolling into Houston for the first time, there aren't too many better guys to have backing you up than Phil Anselmo. The ex-Pantera front man is unabashedly worshipped as a metal god throughout Texas, and when he speaks, Houston's heavy music fans listen. Lately, Anselmo has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    30 Seconds With In This Moment's Maria Brink

    Maria Brink what would happen if you forced Paris Hilton to consume the entire cast of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. When fronting In This Moment, she's an unstoppable hellvixen who takes her metal very seriously. Here's what she screamed at us for 30 seconds. Rocks Off: What is worst song in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Top 10 Most Outrageous Onstage Incidents, Antics & Meltdowns

    Everyone has their meltdown moments, no doubt about it. We make mistakes and, most of the time, we try to correct them. We have them because we are all human. Unfortunately, though, when you are in the spotlight, your hurts, tantrums, mistakes and meltdowns are all magnified for all the world to se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    This Grandpa Only Knows Five Bands On This Year's Warped Tour

    It's my job to have at least a passing knowledge of what most bands and artists sound like. In my one of seven capacities here at the paper, I am in charge of music listings, those things in the back of the paper that tell you what is happening every week. (While I am on the subject, I need let yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Friday Night: The Civil Wars at The Wortham Center

    The Civil Wars Wortham Center January 20, 2012 Check out our slideshow of Civil Wars playing to a packed house. Strolling up Wortham Center's grand staircase in advance of The Civil Wars show on Friday night, several thoughts went tumbling through Aftermath's head. We weren't certain what to expec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    30footFall Drummer Turns to Horror Scores

    ​Rocks Off literally can't remember a time when we couldn't find 30footFall in the concert listings of Houston Press and before that Public News. Like the Hates, the Sinister Sirens, and deadhorse they were always a part of the background of everyday teenage life in Houston. Now, drummer Bria ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Turn It On, Leave It On: MTV's 10 Best Music Series

    "Henry Rollins asks Kevin Shields how much he can bench on the next 120 Minutes..."​This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of MTV, that loud, hyper-colored behemoth that changed pop culture and the music industry forever, endlessly providing viewers with visual and mental stimul ... More >>

  • Music

    June 9, 2011

    Walk on the Wild Side

    One tour unites three very different faces of glam-rock.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    "Satisfaction": The Mother Of All Rock & Roll Riffs?

    ​Today is the 46th anniversary of Keith Richards rolling over in his sleep in a Florida hotel, humming the main riff of "Satisfaction" into a bedside tape recorder and going back to slumber, or nodding off. The Rolling Stones would record the song months later and make it their calling card, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Notable Bar & Venue Closures Of 2010

    Craig HlavatyAgora: Not reopening for a while.​Houston had quite a few bars close down in 2010. They were your favorite places to drink, mingle, talk to a conquest, bum a cigarette, and spend money you didn't have, and they all mostly left with whimper, or in one bar's case, about a dozen fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Freddie Mercury's Musical Stepchildren, Darlings

    ​Today marks 19 years that the world has been without Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who was taken from us on November 24, 1991. He died of AIDS complications, a disease he kept hidden from the world until just a day or so before his death. He was the first major, epic rock star to be kill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Five Songs The Texas Legislature Will Never Make Official

    Any day we end with a picture of the Texas flag is a good day in our book.​A while back, Rocks Off wrote about how, thanks to a combination of personal taste and certain technological twists of fate, our listening options at the office are somewhat limited. Quite limited, really: Basically The Arr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    How Texas and Alabama Match Up... Musically

    ​ For once, Rocks Off is grateful for this sinus-splitting headache (thanks, Mike Stinson!), because it gives us something to focus on besides the fact that we are crawling out of our skin waiting for kickoff tonight. At this point, sports pundits have analyzed the Longhorns and Crimson Tide to wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    The Man Comes Around: Top Ten Big-Deal Musical Deaths of the Decade

    ​This past decade saw the passing of an innumerable amount of musical icons and pioneering giants. Not only did we lose the second coolest Beatle, but we lost two of the best dancers and performers the world will ever see. Punk rock and metal saw some of their best and brightest lights get snuffed ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2009

    Ghosts of Washington Avenue

    Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 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 qu ... More >>

  • Music

    July 30, 2009

    Five Hour Energy

    The 2009 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase in 300 minutes or less.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    HPMA Aftermath: Ozeal & the Eulypians, Nosaprise, Benjamin Wesley, Tha Fucking Transmissions, Kristine Mills, Peekaboo Theory, Versecity and Spain Colored Orange

    Chris Gray​Five hours is not a long time. It is if you're driving from Houston to Texarkana or Uvalde, maybe. But when hopscotching all over downtown trying to take in as much of the Houston Press Music Awards showcase as you can until your feet and your ears cry uncle, those 300 minutes go by in ... More >>

  • Music

    July 16, 2009

    Hell on Earth

    Long Island hardcore quartet This Is Hell thrashes till the sun goes down.

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Straight from the Sole: Houston's Best Metal Bands

    You know Soledad. He's the vocalist from controversial Houston rap-metal act Daylight Coma. He's got a lot to say. Sometimes it's insightful, sometimes less so, but it's almost always said with conviction. This week, in honor of the fast-approaching HPMA, we asked him who he thinks are Houston's fiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    R.I.P. Frankie Cooper of Grave Robbers

    [Update: Rocks Off has learned Cooper had a congenital defect that enlarged his heart. See the comments section for information on the July 10 memorial show at Walter's on Washington.] Word has come through the Houston music world that we have lost yet another young musician. Details are very few an ... More >>

  • Music

    October 9, 2008

    The Greatest Texas Rock Album of All Time

    [Update: Rocks Off has learned Cooper had a congenital defect that enlarged his heart. See the comments section for information on the July 10 memorial show at Walter's on Washington.] Word has come through the Houston music world that we have lost yet another young musician. Details are very few an ... More >>

  • Music

    June 12, 2008

    Jason Ward's Matagorda Island Discs

    [Update: Rocks Off has learned Cooper had a congenital defect that enlarged his heart. See the comments section for information on the July 10 memorial show at Walter's on Washington.] Word has come through the Houston music world that we have lost yet another young musician. Details are very few an ... More >>

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

    Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    Vagina Music Roundup

    A scintillating survey

  • Music

    June 30, 2005

    The Show Band that Wouldn't Die

    Three things you didn't know about Vince Vance and the Valiants

  • Music

    August 5, 2004

    Playbill

    Three things you didn't know about Vince Vance and the Valiants

  • Music

    July 15, 2004

    Minor League Rockers

    Bands and their fans play rookie ball at Cardi's 2000

  • Music

    April 15, 2004

    Cobain in Clubland

    Recollections of Nirvana's three Houston shows

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Northside Rumble

    Hollister Fracus prepares to invade the Inner Loop

  • Music

    May 29, 2003

    Rock No More

    Mike Patton chops through traditional song forms with a mighty Tomahawk

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    The Power of 12

    Arthur Yoria and Matt Maloney launch a new local label with a roster of one

  • Music

    February 13, 2003

    Direct to Video

    When the concert season cools down, warm up with the latest rock and metal DVDs

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    Shore Thing

    Plus: Driving Us Nuts, Cheap Thrills, Gong Wrongs

  • Music

    May 30, 2002

    The Reddest Neck in Town

    David Allan Coe is the most politically incorrect man in mainstream music

  • Music

    January 31, 2002

    Slayer

    Wednesday, February 6

  • Music

    November 22, 2001

    Dallas Domination

    The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

  • Music

    May 24, 2001

    Old Dog, New Tricks

    King's X's Doug Pinnick chews through his leash with Poundhound

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Godsmack

    Awake (Universal Records)

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Korn-ucopia

    Retinkered Machine Head apes current metal sounds

  • Music

    January 21, 1999

    In The Dark

    Retinkered Machine Head apes current metal sounds

  • Music

    October 9, 1997

    Getting a Grip

    Retinkered Machine Head apes current metal sounds

  • Music

    February 13, 1997

    Shiny Happy People?

    Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

  • Music

    February 15, 1996

    State-of-the-Art Ghouls

    White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

  • Music

    January 11, 1996

    Rotation

    White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

  • Music

    November 3, 1994

    Live Shots

    White Zombie holds its own with the metal-heads and the punks alike

  • Music

    September 29, 1994

    Just Bitchin'

    7 Year Bitch does it faster and harder

  • News

    July 28, 1994

    Hot Sounds in the City

    The 5th Annual Houston Press Music Awards

  • Music

    April 7, 1994

    Rotation

    The 5th Annual Houston Press Music Awards

  • Calendar

    December 2, 1993

    Picks

    The 5th Annual Houston Press Music Awards

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