Subject: Red Hot Chili Peppers

• Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

  August 2, 2007

• Highly Anticipated Albums of 2008

  January 25, 2008

• If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On

  May 16, 2008

• To Do: Tha Fucking Transmissions, Glass Candy and Farah at the MFAH

  June 20, 2008

• XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

  September 8, 2008

• Rotation

  August 18, 1994

• Butthole Surfers Pt. 2: Ex-Manager Tom Bunch on Managing the Band (Officially and Otherwise), the "Ranch" in Dripping Springs, the Rough Trade Bankruptcy, pioughd and Steering BHS to the Majors

  October 22, 2008

• Been Caught Stealing

  January 27, 1994

• Rotation

  April 7, 1994

• Live Shots

  April 28, 1994

• Crit Picks

  August 4, 1994

• Live Shots

  December 1, 1994

• Post-Christmas Clearance

  December 29, 1994

• Letters

  January 12, 1995

• Decay Becomes Him

  December 12, 1996

• Off the Wagon

  November 13, 1997

• Aftermath: Morrissey at Jones Hall

  Craig HlavatyTropical Storm Morrissey blew through Jones Hall Saturday night, leaving a full house of hyperventilated fans - never more so than when, during "Let Me Kiss You," he removed his shirt to reveal an enviable set of abs - and more than a few moist eyes in its wake; after the show, Aftermath looked around and saw several people sobbing in their seats, too overcome to exit immediately. Then there were the security minders who had to have been either bemused or annoyed&nb

  April 13, 2009

• Gary Panter

  The master comic book artist signs his two-volume retrospective

  June 12, 2008

• Juneteenth Revisited

  Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event

  June 12, 2008

• Lollapalooza, Year Four: The bloom is back

  August 18, 1994

• Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker

  Local filmmaker Raymond Gayle explores how the pioneers of rock became anomalies

  January 31, 2008

• Booked Up

  Selling his novel on the streets of Houston got Abram Himelstein in trouble. He's ready to give as good as he got.

  August 31, 2000

• Aged Peppers

  Flea and company prove they can keep it together

  June 12, 2003

• Big Chris Gates and Gatesville

  Big Chris Gates and Gatesville perform Friday, March 2, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899. James McMurtry also performs.

  March 1, 2007

• Cred Sheet

  Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

  March 1, 2007

• Musical Food Groups

  If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

  February 22, 2007

• Rogue Waves

  A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry

  January 11, 2007

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Dixie Chicks

  Taking the Long Way

  May 25, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• The Black Album

  A new film examines the darker side of rock

  June 30, 2005

• Sex, Drugs and Jeff Tweedy's National Geographic Collection

  Rock memoirs take us behind the music

  February 17, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

  January 27, 2005

• Playbill

  January 20, 2005

• How Long, Oh, Lord, How Long

  Another outpost of crap plops onto the Houston dial, as this open letter reveals

  September 30, 2004

• Don't Choke

  Fishbone skanks into town

  May 13, 2004

• The Mars Volta

  De-Loused in the Comatorium (Gold Standard Labs/Strummer Recordings/ Universal )

  July 17, 2003

• New Bands from Old

  Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

  January 30, 2003

• Best CD by Local Musicians

  Simpleton's What Do You Want to Do

  September 26, 2002

• Red Hot Chili Peppers

  By the Way (Warner Bros.)

  August 8, 2002

• Faceplant

  Saturday, February 23

  February 21, 2002

• Can't Foo Anyone

  If the Foo Fighters look like an indie-pop band and quack like an indie-pop band, then they must be an indie-pop band, right?

  June 1, 2000

• Dready Metal

  Unlike their North American counterparts, Jamaican rappers are incorporating heavy metal into their material, with some amazing results

  April 20, 2000

• Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

  What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it's a radio station, which in an age when people stream Pandora on their iPhones - to say nothing of car stereos with iPod plug-in ports - makes it almost as big a media dinosaur as the printed page. T

  April 29, 2009

• Aftermath: Neon Collars at Rocbar

  Photos by Chris GrayWith a heavy funk groove, guitar equally rooted in jazz and rock and soulful vocals as fierce as anything Sasha could belt out, Neon Collars makes you wonder - happily, for once - what they're teaching in the schools these days. The five-piece sometimes telegraphs its age in Franchelle Lucas' starry-eyed lyrics - planting seeds, trusting "intuition" and "guidance" - but with a voice that could stop traffic, she deserves a little leeway. Thursday night at Rocbar, Neon Collars

  May 1, 2009

• Boy, Do We Feel Old: "Hot for Teacher" and Other Back-To-School Songs

  Today is the first day of school for almost all the public school districts in the area. Children and teens from Alvin to Alief are trudging into polished halls and sterile classrooms for yet another year of romantic intrigue and bitter class struggle, and impromptu dance routines in the cafeteria, gym and commons areas. We actually miss those first days of school, when we had hope and ambition that the coming year wouldn't be like the last, with all the weapons charges and stairwell drug deals

  August 24, 2009

• The Night a Well-Aimed Shoe Ended Smashing Pumpkins' Houston Goodwill

  Today Rocks Off is starting a recurring series of local music urban legends; not so much 'urban legends' in the sense of oft-repeated stories that turn out to be false - though those are fine too - but actual legends: events and incidents that get talked about so much they become a part of local lore. Know something that we should look into? Email chris.gray@houstonpress.com.​In November 1993, Smashing Pumpkins were about to break big. The band had just released its second LP, Siamese Dream, a

  August 25, 2009

• Jimi Hendrix Covers: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (P.S. John Mayer Still Sucks)

  This week marks the 39th anniversary of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, which is famous for a couple of reasons. First, it was such a financial disaster it put the kibosh on any further Wight fesivals for the next 32 years. Second, and more importantly, it marked the penultimate performance of one James Marshall Hendrix. Hendrix's career barely spanned four years, but his influence continues to this day. This has led to a more or less constant stream of wannabe fret jockeys whose greatest lega

  August 26, 2009

• MTV VMA Celebrities Ask The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

  ​Dear Full-Custom Gospel Sounds,I am a multiplatinum rap artist and producer who has won several Grammy awards. You'd think this would be enough to satisfy me, but I am unable to allow other people to enjoy their time in the spotlight - I have often interrupted acceptance speeches, ranted and raved backstage about awards I didn't win and other such behavior. Is this plain old narcissism, am I seeking attention because I lost my mother last year or am I just an asshole?- Conceited in ChicagoDea

  September 18, 2009

• A Few of Music's Biggest Tattoo Enthusiasts - Besides Rocks Off, Of Course

  Don't act so surprised... As we can fatefully attest, rock and roll and tattoos go hand in hand. The first time Rocks Off saw a grizzled punk rocker walk by at Fitzgerald's back in the '90s with two sleeves full of tattoos and a chest full of nautical-themed art, we mentally pointed at him and said "That's what we want", and from that day on we were hooked. Since we started getting tattoos we have seen the world change in regards to how inked people are regarded. They were one or all the follow

  November 5, 2009