Rosanne Cash

South By Southwest

Houston Kid

Rodney Crowell sets his topsy-turvy East End childhood to music

Rotation

Rodney Crowell sets his topsy-turvy East End childhood to music

Austin's Fave

Rodney Crowell sets his topsy-turvy East End childhood to music

Wanted Man

Johnny Cash may just be a legend, but he's never sounded better

Album of the Week: Pretenders, Break Up the Concrete

Pretenders Break Up the Concrete www.thepretenders.com Old punk rockers - or, in this case, post-punks - never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely-registering Loose Screw, Chrissie Hynde confronts middle age by revisiting the musical styles of the mid-2 ... More >>

Ordinary Superstar

Pretenders Break Up the Concrete www.thepretenders.com Old punk rockers - or, in this case, post-punks - never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely-registering Loose Screw, Chrissie Hynde confronts middle age by revisiting the musical styles of the mid-2 ... More >>

Rotation

Pretenders Break Up the Concrete www.thepretenders.com Old punk rockers - or, in this case, post-punks - never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely-registering Loose Screw, Chrissie Hynde confronts middle age by revisiting the musical styles of the mid-2 ... More >>

Breaking Through to the Mainstream

Pretenders Break Up the Concrete www.thepretenders.com Old punk rockers - or, in this case, post-punks - never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely-registering Loose Screw, Chrissie Hynde confronts middle age by revisiting the musical styles of the mid-2 ... More >>

Living Doll

Mary Chapin Carpenter's new tour will rekindle old flames

Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete

Mary Chapin Carpenter's new tour will rekindle old flames

Shawn Colvin

These Four Walls

The Chieftains

The Chieftains perform with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pops, Friday through Sunday, January 5, through January 7, at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, 713-224-7575.

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Green Party

A child of the liberal folk movement, Dar Williams isn't above rocking out

Rodney Hayden

True to Texas

Homeward Bound

A trip back to Houston for Rodney Crowell is a trip back in honky-tonk time

Rotation

A trip back to Houston for Rodney Crowell is a trip back in honky-tonk time

52 Pick-Up

Your guide to the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards showcase

KISS Off

The makeup-clad rockers may be hilarious, but they're hardly metal.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Scene Critics' Poll Lauds Brad Paisley's So-Called Edginess

Lonesome Onry and Mean didn't vote in Houston Press ex-sister paper Nashville Scene's annual Best of Country Music poll, but that doesn't mean we won't comment on the results. This year's poll essentially boils down to the Big Four: Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson. Com ... More >>

Brazil, Unplugged

Gilberto Gil trims down his sound for an all-acoustic show.

Into the Jungle

The Jungle Rockers are wound too tight for Vietnam...what about Texas?

Chinaberry Reflections

Houston Kid Rodney Crowell learns to "fail better."

Top Five Cannibal Country Songs

​Songs about singers and other songs has long been one of Rocks Off's favorite fields of study within the wide-ranging curriculum of popular music. Off the very tippy-top of our heads, ABC's "When Smokey Sings," the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" and the Pogues' "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda ... More >>

Hank3 & 7 Other Country Bloodlines

​Free of the constricting trappings of his former label Curb Records, Hank Williams III is wasting no time getting new product to his fans. "They didn't care for my thinking," says the artist, performing these days as Hank3. This week he officially busted loose from the clutches of Curb, rele ... More >>