Subject: Roy Orbison

• David Lee's Froth

  Diamond Dave rants on fashion, being a digital gigolo, his rival/tourmate Sammy Hagar, a pending lawsuit and a bunch of other stuff

  June 13, 2002

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Roy Orbison and Odessa

  October 23, 2008

• Aftermath: Danzig at House of Blues

  October 29, 2008

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  [Note: This is the first in a series of articles that constitute Village Voice Media's year-end music package. The others - pop, indie-rock, dance mixes, Latin, country, alt-country/Americana, metal, rap/hip-hop and special graphics breaking down the year in charts and 2008's worst lyrics - will be posted on Rocks Off throughout the rest of the holiday season.] It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco e

  December 17, 2008

• Thriving -- or Simply Surviving?

  March 23, 1995

• Even the Normal (Get Lucky Sometime)

  April 13, 1995

• Postmarked Texas

  August 31, 1995

• Static

  April 18, 1996

• Leaving the Country

  August 29, 1996

• Boldly Going

  November 21, 1996

• Chart Check: Texans on Amazon.com

  [Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo 7. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel 14. Buddy Holly, Memorial Collection Top 40 2. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 8. Jamie Foxx, Intuition MP3 Downloads 5. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 30. Beyonce, "If I Were a Boy"

  February 4, 2009

• Louvin It Up

  January 16, 1997

• Austin's Fave

  May 1, 1997

• Sound Check

  May 29, 1997

• On the Right Track

  July 3, 1997

• Hats Off

  August 14, 1997

• Rotation

  April 9, 1998

• Rotation

  November 26, 1998

• Happy Birthday, "Louie Louie"

  Forty-six years ago today, a group of teenagers gathered in a Portland, Oregon, studio to record a ridiculously simple anthem that would go on to become one of the most influential - and most misunderstood - songs in rock history. The group was the Kingsmen - none of whom was over age 17 - and the song was, of course, "Louie Louie," which sent shockwaves through the music world that are still being felt to this day. As ubiquitous as it is now, "Louie Louie" spent the first decade of its l

  April 13, 2009

• Selecting The Proper Valentine's Day Soundtrack

  February 12, 2009

• Raul Malo

  December 11, 2008

• Noise's Handy Holiday Local-Music Gift Guide

  November 27, 2008

• Johnny Falstaff: Honky Tonkin' Daddy, John Evans Band: Lucky 13, Kanude: Kanude

  November 27, 2008

• Me and Mr. Jones

  November 20, 2008

• Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll

  October 30, 2008

• “Red Velvet”

  Rudolph Projects fills FotoFest with disturbing domestic-themed images

  June 21, 2007

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Top Houston Songs, High-Tech Turntables, Dave Matthews

  Songs of Ourselves

  October 11, 2007

• Lauren White

  September 20, 2007

• Unknown Legend

  Roots renegade Joe Ely never achieved pop stardom, but that's all right by him...sorta

  January 25, 2007

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  The annual return of the Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter

  December 21, 2006

• Leaving the Wolfe Pack

  It's Johnny Falstaff's time to "Shine"

  October 12, 2006

• The Other Man in Black

  Waylon Jennings, Nashville Rebel

  October 5, 2006

• Hope Springs Eternal

  A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

  August 10, 2006

• Clan Ferdinand

  It takes a true Scotsman to get to the bottom of this whole Franz Ferdinand thing

  March 30, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Tony Joe White

  Friday, September 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 29, 2005

• Keeping Score

  How many Metro crashes? Depends who's counting.

  August 11, 2005

• Let the Eagle Soar

  Alt-country hero Fred Eaglesmith dumps guitars and makes a pre-Beatles pop record

  March 3, 2005

• Songbird Silenced

  Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

  October 10, 2002

• Hollywood Hells

  David Lynch crashes on Mulholland Drive, but the wreckage is smashing

  October 18, 2001

• Racket

  The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

  July 19, 2001

• Off the Road Again

  Jesse Dayton sans Road Kings

  June 15, 2000

• The Burbs

  Nic Nicosia's photos aim to prove that bedroom communities aren't always so sleepy

  November 4, 1999

• New Blues

  December 2, 1993

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

  View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in an attempt to outflank primary opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison on the right discussed secession as a viable possibility. But Rocks Off doesn't care a whit about any of that political BS. We do care abou

  August 11, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "Claudette," Still a Better Song Than a Storm

  It's been so quiet in the tropics lately that even Ike-scarred Houstonians were able to forget that it's hurricane season - until this weekend, that is, when not one but three disturbances showed up "down there." (Better than some other things showing up "down there," Rocks Off can tell you that much.) None of them are likely to present any danger to our little corner of the Gulf Coast, but at least the one that showed up last and washed ashore first shares a name with one of Roy Orbison's cool

  August 17, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Brief History of "Danny Boy" - Evergreen But Not Exactly Irish

  ​The Pogues are only one week away, so no time like the present to reflect on Irish music. For many Americans, no song epitomizes Irish music like "Danny Boy." Lonesome Onry and Mean was gently prodding my Irish and European friends at the boozer recently regarding their opinions about the top recorded versions of "Danny Boy" and was met with studied indifference and we-don't-know-how-to-explain-it-to-him sheepishness. Long and short of it, it doesn't seem that "Danny Boy" is anything the aver

  October 22, 2009