Subject: Sonic Youth

• Choosing Her Battles

  June 25, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Hall of Fame Nominations a Big Cleveland Steamer

  October 1, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: 99 Problems.....

  October 5, 2007

• Sonic Youth <3s Black Leather Jesus

  October 5, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Sonic Youth’s Surprise Bassist

  October 8, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Juno Hits No. 1

  January 30, 2008

• Tonight: Awesome Color at the Mink

  October 14, 2008

• Tonight: Deerhoof at Numbers

  November 6, 2008

• Live Shots

  March 31, 1994

• Noise Doctors

  May 12, 1994

• Rotation

  June 16, 1994

• Retro Active: Remembering the Speed Trials Album

  So, just in time for its 20th anniversary, the Beastie Boys' landmark Paul's Boutique album is gonna be reissued in a deluxe, remastered edition. As we all know, the album is masterpiece of sampling technique, unencumbered by the prospect of litigation and emboldened by a true sense of sonic adventure. That, and it will forever and always be the most effective mating call of ballcap-clad dudes seeking drunken last-call liaisons. While this news inspired some doting on the enormity of Boutiq

  January 8, 2009

• Puke Sick

  November 3, 1994

• Rotation

  July 20, 1995

• A Fine and Funky Odor

  November 14, 1996

• Rotation

  May 14, 1998

• Album of the Week: Girl in a Coma's Trio B.C.

  Girl in a Coma Trio B.C. www.girlinacoma.comIt's so nice to type the words "Girl in a Coma" for something that has nothing to do with the San Antonio trio's March altercation with some off-duty Houston police officers at Chances, which landed two band members a weekend in jail and a court date later this summer. It's especially nice because GIAC's new album Trio B.C. - the band's second for Joan Jett's Blackheart Records, after 2007's Both Before I'm Gone - is a richly textured document of alte

  May 29, 2009

• Girl in a Coma: Trio B.C.

  June 4, 2009

• Guitars, The Born Liars, Lazy Horse

  A local foursome drones out the sounds of Sleater-Kinney and Sonic Youth

  November 20, 2008

• Barnstorming Georgia Trio The Whigs

  Complete Control

  October 2, 2008

• Indian Jewelry: Free Gold

  August 28, 2008

• Best Battle DJ

  Fast4ward

  September 25, 2003

• Sunburned Hand of the Man

  Shit Spangled Banner leftovers head to Houston fresh off South By

  March 13, 2008

• The Cribs: Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

  March 6, 2008

• Sharks and Sailors, Ume

  January 10, 2008

• Punkhouse: Anarchist Interiors

  Abby Banks explores the houses that punk built

  November 1, 2007

• Open House at the Chinati Foundation

  An art world mecca -- and a small town

  October 25, 2007

• The Riff Tiffs

  Local rockers leaving Houston behind for college

  August 9, 2007

• Ume in Bloom

  July 27, 2006

• Parts & Labor, with Sharks and Sailors

  Wednesday, July 11, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  July 5, 2007

• Joe McPhee with the Thing

  Joe McPhee with the Thing perform Saturday, April 28, at MECA, 1900 Kane, 713-928-5653.

  April 26, 2007

• Parts and Labor

  Parts and Labor appear Saturday, December 2, at The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199. Skullening and UME also appear.

  November 30, 2006

• Magik Markers, with Lambsbread and Rusted Shut

  Friday, June 30, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199

  June 29, 2006

• Rock and Roll and Rather Exhilarating

  The best band in the universe does its Brecht thing with hooks

  June 22, 2006

• The Duke Spirit

  Saturday, May 27, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600

  May 25, 2006

• Ume, with the Kants and Firebird

  Wednesday, May 25, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  May 19, 2005

• Take the Skinheads Bowling All Over Again

  Camper Van Beethoven hates this part of Texas. Just kidding, maybe...

  January 20, 2005

• Le Tigre

  This Island (Strummer/Universal)

  November 4, 2004

• Best Unsigned Band

  September 23, 2004

• Wilco

  A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

  July 15, 2004

• Deep in the Bleeding Heart

  Sonic Youth returns to the scene of one of its weirdest gigs ever

  March 4, 2004

• The Strokes

  Thursday, January 24

  January 24, 2002

• Aftermath: Cake at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Craig HlavatyCake has never sounded like anyone else, and no one that came after has ever come close to sounding like the Sacramento band either. It's not like Nirvana or Green Day, with 1,000 copycat bands immediately coming out of the proverbial woodwork to shove out their own shingle. Even if you think all Cake songs sound the same (and most, in fact, do), one must admit that their greatest achievement is being utterly and completely unique. With our recent piece on 94.5 The Buzz an

  April 30, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Cactus Music, Sound Exchange, Soundwaves, Sig's Lagoon and Vinal Edge

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Ryan Bingham, Roadhouse Sun 2. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the Groo-Grux King 3. Steve Earle, Townes 4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 5. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 6. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Live at Madison Square Garden 7. Neil Young, Archives vol. 1 8. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Demos 9. Bob Dylan, Together Through Life 10. The Flatlanders, Hills & Valleys Sound Exchange 1836 Richmond, 713-666-5555 www.

  June 11, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Area Record Stores

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Springfield Riots, Say When EP 2. Todd Snider, The Excitement Plan 3. Jubal Lee Young, Last Free Place in America 4. Sonic Youth, The Eternal 5. Steve Earle, Townes 6. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 7. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 8. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca 9. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women 10. Rh

  June 18, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: Caddywhompus and Alarmcock

  Caddywhompus, "Fun Times at Whiskey Bay": If nothing else, this Houston/New Orleans noise-pop unit is a prime contender/offender for an international "worst name imaginable" contest. Singer/percussionist Sean Hart and singer/guitarist/keyboard player Chris Rehm are certainly more plugged-in than the vast majority of noise-related enterprises, updating their blog with a regularity that puts even pro bloggers to shame. Some readers may cry foul, here, smacking Friday Night Noise down for championi

  June 26, 2009

• Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 1: Bob Dylan, George Strait, The Pogues and More

  Initiated by indie-rockers like Sonic Youth, Slint and Built to Spill at mid-2000s festivals - UK/U.S. hopover All Tomorrow's Parties and its various tie-ins being the most prominent - playing a beloved LP front to back in concert is now the hottest thing going on the classic-rock circuit. Within the next month, Houstonians can see Aerosmith revisit 1976's Toys In the Attic (The Woodlands, July 17), Judas Priest do 1980's British Steel (Verizon, July 24) and Motley Crue gas up 1989's Dr. Feelgoo

  July 7, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: B L A C K I E and Talk Normal

   B L A C K I E, "Pink and White Ice Cream Trucks": Noise-rap? Sure, why not? Acid-rap, electronic-rap, and rock-rap are all pretty well-established - if not equally, universally respected - so there's no reason MCs shouldn't be dropping magma-hot 16s into distortion vortexes and bottle-rocketing the results out into the public sphere. Enter Houston's own multi-HPMA nominee B L A C K I E, a twentysomething who flouts a fierce, meter-disdaining flow and a name that, given its racial self-iden

  July 24, 2009

• On the List: Jonx Drummer Danny Mee's 11 Favorite Female Vocalists

  ​The other day, Houston Press Night & Day editor Olivia Flores Alvarez - whom we're so glad is feeling better and back at work again - handed Rocks Off Lisa Nola's new book called Music Listography: Your Life In (Play)Lists, and the wheels started turning like "Proud Mary." Because we're not quite up to divulging information like "List Songs You'd Strip To" or "List a Song That Reminds You of Each Lover You've Had" - but stay tuned - we thought we'd go ahead and let some local musicians fe

  September 16, 2009

• Tonight: Florida Indie Beach Boys Surfer Blood Sail Into Mango's

  ​Florida-based indie kids Surfer Blood pull into Mango's tonight, touring ahead of their upcoming Astro Coast LP. The band was recently anointed by Rolling Stone's online feature "Hype Monitor" as "bright and booming and hooky as FM radio in the late '70s." Rocks Off can hear traces of early "Blue Album" Weezer, fellow Floridians Against Me!, and even a few glimpses of My Morning Jacket in the Surfers' vintage sound. "Swim (to Reach the End)," with its anthemic chorus and echoey vocals, is get

  November 3, 2009