Subject: Reverend Horton Heat

• Playbill: The Von Ehrics

  January 25, 2007

• LCD Soundsystem, Reverend Horton Heat, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Muse, Wilco and Ghostland Observatory: Chris Gray Closes the Notebook on ACL

  September 18, 2007

• If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On

  May 16, 2008

• Weekend Music: Setting Things Straight

  May 16, 2008

• Ted Nugent Reloads, and Lots of Gun Songs

  May 30, 2008

• Free Birds and Drop Kick Chihuhahas

  New Year's Eve Houston at Bayou Place

  December 30, 1999

• Critic's Choice

  March 31, 1994

• Miss Molly and Mattress Mac, Too

  July 21, 1994

• Turn Up de Heat

  July 21, 1994

• Young Mods from the Garage

  October 6, 1994

• Critic's Choice

  September 14, 1995

• Sex Sells

  May 2, 1996

• Road Rules

  July 4, 1996

• Bad Religion

  April 30, 1998

• Frayed Braid

  June 4, 1998

• Night & Day

  October 15, 1998

• New Year's Eve Blastoff

  December 24, 1998

• The Reverend's Resolutions

  December 31, 1998

• Spring Concert Series at Discovery Green Announced

  Susan Cowsill, "Just Believe It" Cut from the same cloth as Party on the Plaza comes this year's concert series at Discovery Green. If you haven't visited the downtown park since it opened last April, you're missing one the greenest and absolutely most beautiful facets of our town. In the spirit of our newly spendthrift society, the free concerts are a godsend to folks looking for a family-friendly event or just a place to chill before their nighttime barstool residency. Not to mention they s

  March 12, 2009

• Spring Concert Series at Discovery Green Announced

  Susan Cowsill, "Just Believe It" Cut from the same cloth as Party on the Plaza comes this year's concert series at Discovery Green. If you haven't visited the downtown park since it opened last April, you're missing one the greenest and absolutely most beautiful facets of our town. In the spirit of our newly spendthrift society, the free concerts are a godsend to folks looking for a family-friendly event or just a place to chill before their nighttime barstool residency. Not to mention they

  March 13, 2009

• Night & Day

  May 27, 1999

• Reckless Kelly

  January 1, 2009

• Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  October 30, 2008

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  October 16, 2008

• Local Motion

  February 7, 2008

• Se Habla Ska

  SoCal's Voodoo Glow Skulls bring a Latin tinge to Kingston's sounds

  November 8, 2001

• MySpaced Out

  Our social-network scout sizes up some all-female Scandinavian bands

  January 17, 2008

• Local Motion

  January 10, 2008

• One Piece at a Time

  Psychobilly at the gates

  July 19, 2007

• Lee Rocker, with Back Porch Mary and Romeo Dogs

  Monday, May 15, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  May 11, 2006

• Do You Hear What I Hear?

  Wack's Very Special Holiday Music Guide

  December 8, 2005

• Playbill

  November 25, 2004

• Playbill

  October 14, 2004

• Half and Half

  Watch as a couple calls it quits

  July 22, 2004

• Legendary Shack Shakers

  Cockadoodledon't (Bloodshot Records)

  June 12, 2003

• Kickoff --or Punt?

  Don't remember the epic downtown Super Bowl event? You aren't alone

  May 1, 2003

• First and Ten (Months to Go)

  Block party kicks off Super Bowl countdown

  April 10, 2003

• Sidecar Sideshow

  Racket confronts his hatas at a show in his dishonor

  January 9, 2003

• The Amazing Crowns

  Manic musicianship

  October 19, 2000

• Rotation

  August 25, 1994

• Doesn't It Make You Feel Better: Songs About Swine

  [Update: Now with the Loco Gringos' "Nurture My Pig" and Houston's own Flying Fish Sailors' "Flu Pandemic."] April is almost over and we're coming into Sweeps Week, when commercial sponsors look at TV ratings to decide where they're going to advertise, and you know what that means: time for another media-generated mass panic. This time they've taken a cue from 1976 and the boys from Fort Dix - now tell me that unintentional rhyme ain't a Kinky Friedman song waiting to happen - and are providing

  April 29, 2009

• Papa Was a Rolling Stone: Songs for Father's Day

  Fathers often get a bad rap. Even though most Dads work every bit as hard as Mom for their families, they get overlooked very easily, because praise and thanks aren't supposed to matter to Dads, they're simply expected to act the way a Dad is supposed to. To help make up for the thanklessness so often displayed by a world that tends to take them for granted, Rocks Off is providing a playlist of some choice Father's Day songs. Thanks, Dad. Robert Earl Keen, "Daddy Had a Buick": In modern televis

  June 19, 2009

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Atmosphere, Chickenfoot, Weezy & Jeezy, the Pogues and More

  Andy Moor: Fri., July 17. Rich's Houston. Atmosphere, Eyedea & Abilities, Attracted to Gods: Tue., Aug. 4. Warehouse Live. Chickenfoot: Wed., Sept. 16. Verizon Wireless Theater. Cosmic Gate: Fri., July 3. Rich's Houston. David Allan Coe, Sean Reefer & The Resin Valley Boys: CHANGED Thu., July 16, 8 p.m., $20-$40. House of Blues. Forever The Sickest Kids, Sky Eats Airplane, Driver F, Thee Armada: Sat., Sept. 5. The Java Jazz. Jesse Dayton: Sat., Aug. 15. Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe.

  June 23, 2009

• Upstairs, Downstairs: Drive-By Truckers, "The Living Bubba" and the Steep Price of Radioactive Ice Water

  ​After many, many years, Rocks Off is beginning to realize that it's possible to have a worthwhile musical experience nowhere near a stage. Ironically, the band responsible is Drive-By Truckers, whom we've seen live more often than probably any other save Wilco, Rev. Horton Heat and a handful of old Austin favorites like the Gourds, Grand Champeen and Lil Cap'n Travis. Our history with the Truckers goes back at least a decade, when they used to blow in from Athens, Georgia, and wreck Austin's

  August 21, 2009

• The Living Bubba

  August 27, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 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

• The Angry Mob at U of H Was Not After "Informer" Rapper Snow's Autograph

  Courtesy Justin Crane What it is, bro: Snow (left) and U of H Park Party organizer Justin Crane​Welcome to another installment of our still-unnamed, in-their-own-words series on musical goings-on in Houston that perhaps could have turned out better for some of the parties involved - coming soon: Riot at Mott the Hoople! - but probably couldn't have turned out quite as memorably. They usually involve someone getting punched or hit by some kind of projectile, perhaps a shoe (and then more

  September 18, 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