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March 16, 2007Sabbath in the Park By Sabbath West
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March 18, 2007SXSW Day 1: Tricks of the Trade
March 12, 2008SXSW Extra: What's In My Pockets?
March 12, 2008SXSW: Percee P at Habana Annex Backyard
March 13, 2008SXSW Extra: What's In My Pockets (Again)?
March 14, 2008SXSW: Iglu and Hartly, How’s Your News?, Boyz Noize and Hanson
March 14, 2008SXSW: Tomorrow's It Band: the Virgins
March 14, 2008SXSW: Carbon/Silicon, Ting Tings, Santogold, MGMT, The Cribs, White Rabbits, Supersuckers and Robyn
March 15, 2008South by Southwest by Houston Press
March 23, 2000SXSW 09 Application Deadline Friday
November 4, 2008SXSW Update: Volunteers Needed; Dead Man's Bones, Dirty Honey Added
SXSW 09 performers the Homopolice at Rudyard's, Christmas night 2008 We always hear our friends complain about not being able to score a wristband or a badge to SXSW. We understand, it blows hard being a discriminating music elitist and not being able to make it to any of the big nightly shows. But as they do every year, the organizers of SXSW have a solution for anyone wanting to be part of all the depravity. You could always volunteer. You've been hearing for years how you should volunteer, s
January 7, 2009SXSW Update: Sonics, Bar-Kays, Black Lips, Young Mammals, Wild Moccasins Added
The Sonics, "Psycho a Go-Go" Another week goes by, with yet gigantic list of SXSW performers coming to Austin in March. The final list comes out January 30, so be prepared for maximum bloggage. We're still crossing our fingers and polishing up the nondescript white van in the hopes that Katy Perry will be heading to the Capitol. She just dumped that dude from Gym Class Heroes, and hits Houston March 20 for a show at House of Blues - come on, there's booze all over town. Of course she'll b
January 14, 2009This Week in SXSW: Katy Perry Kisses the "Lake of Fire"
There's now less than a month to go until we here at Rocks Off throw sobriety and sane living to the wind at this year's SXSW festival. This past week we learned of a boatload of new stuff about the weeklong liver-damaging voyage in March, so here goes... The list of bands keeps growing and growing, but we have noticed that some of the events are not as extravagant as years past. Many festivals, including the Vans Warped Tour, have scaled down their theatrics for the sake of saving cash. Th
February 11, 2009The Oak Ridge Boys Sure Have Changed
Yes, this is the Oak Ridge Boys, who will be collectively speaking March 19 at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW, about reinvention in changing music markets. The popular country-gospel group is best known as being the band who recorded one of the five albums left in your parents' LP collection that stopped growing when your sorry ass was born and drained them of all musical interest. Remember that album cover where they were wearing like, new-wave country clothes?
February 11, 2009Static
March 26, 1998Westheimer Block Party Seeking Vendors
Yes, Rocks Off knows we're in the middle of the rodeo, and SXSW is next week (shiver), but life does go on, y'all. Besides, once all the SXSW debris is cleared away, it'll be less than a week until Free Press Houston's Westheimer Block Party - which is rapidly metastasizing into one of the Southwest's biggest music festivals in its own right, with well over 100 bands spread over eight stages (free all day) and a SXSW-worthy evening lineup including St. Vincent,
March 10, 2009How About Some SXSW Day Parties? A LOT of SXSW Day Parties?
We here at Rocks Off are only about a week away from chafed inner thighs, weird Japanese punk bands puking in hotel pools and sweating out our morning mojitos while walking to an art space off 4th Street. South By Southwest is now only a week away. It was all fun and games in December when we were posting our little suppositions of who would be playing, but now this shit is serious. In addition to all the nightly mess, SXSW is also a great place to get loaded on the cheap during the day. N
March 10, 2009Tonight: Houston SXSW Mixer at Caroline Collective
If you're from around these parts and headed to SXSW - whether the film, music or interactive festivals - or just curious about who is, head down to Caroline Collective, where this year's Houston delegation will be rubbing elbows and quaffing drinks starting at 5 p.m. "Our goal is for Houstonians attending SXSW to have the opportunity to share ideas, goals and contacts before going to what is arguably one of the better networking and promotional conferences each year," writes CC di
March 12, 2009The Fearless Critic Does SXSW
Although South by Southwest doesn't take place in Houston, you wouldn't know it from all the hoopla that goes on here in the days and weeks leading up to the festival. And because plenty of Houstonians will be making the trek to Mecca Austin to see their favorite bands play bands that record labels want to force down your throat for mercifully short sets and -- of course, see Metallica play at Stubbs -- you should at least eat good food while you're there. For that, you can turn t
March 13, 2009SXSW: Once More Into The Breach
By the time you read this, Rocks Off will be winding his way toward Austin for his 15th SXSW in the last 16 years. Every year he wonders if this is going to be it, if his feet, his fingers and/or his liver will finally up and say "Uncle!" He wouldn't blame them one single solitary bit. SXSW is like any other hangover - the older you get, the longer it takes to recover. But, deep down, he knows that's not going to happen. He'll probably be 65 wheeling his walker down Red River, with a regist
March 18, 2009SXSW Stream: Notes From The Field
Photos by Chris GrayGuaranteed, at least one person will completely ignore this sign this week.So far the SXSW rumor mill has spun out tales of private or surprise performances by Kanye West, the Roots, Jane's Addiction and Bob Dylan. Further details, if there are any, to follow.Estimated badge pickup time - media: 15 minutesEstimated badge pickup time - artists: hoursWaiting for his badge, Rocks Off ran into old friend, Astros fan and SXSW Music Director Brent Grulke: "Pudge? Pudge? ...Well, we
March 18, 2009SXSW: Anatomy of a Swag Bag
As an official SXSW registrant, your first task after checking in your hotel is to go to the Convention Center and pick up your official badge. Task 1B is to go downstairs afterward and pick up your swag bag. Over the years, I have learned you can tell a fair bit about both the music business and the world from these giveaways. Take this year's for example. For starters, it feels perhaps a full half-pound lighter than last year's. And then there is this: Photos by John Nova Lomax What is the d
March 19, 2009SXSW Snapshots: Strange Days Indeed
Beelzebun's: All Hell's About to Break Loose! Photos by Chris GrayThis guy hasn't slept in days.
March 20, 2009SXSW: Echo & the Bunnymen at Stubb's
Photos by Chris GrayBy Friday afternoon, SXSW fatigue has taken hold. You're walking a little slower, less inclined to whip out the notebook to jot down every little observation - Rocks Off has seen many journos just typing notes into their BlackBerries, a trend that both intrigues and dismays him - and wondering how many more pairs of plastic day-glo sunglasses you're going to see before you finally snap.Luckily, Echo & the Bunnymen came along just in time to interrupt the homicidal thought
March 21, 2009Top Five SXSW Performances
Chris Gray Black Joe Lewis and a couple of HoneybearsWell, thank God that's over. SXSW 09 is history now, so before we completely block it out of our mind for another 11 months, here's Rocks Off's top five reasons it was worth going to after all. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women: L.A. roots-rocker and all-star band honored his late best friend Chris Gaffney with roadhouse fire, Cajun zeal and honky-tonk sensitivity. Austin Music Awards: The Dicks, Alejandro Escovedo, the Fire
March 23, 2009SXSW: Recovery
Photo by Daniel Morrison The Sunday night after SXSW never fails to be a weird experience. Although you are dog-tired, and back in your own bed, you can't sleep. A phantasmagoria of sights and sounds from the past few days runs through mind on a reel that seems to have no end. You remember short conversations with old friends, most of whom you see too briefly to reconnect with, the hissing sound of ambient cymbal wash that bathes East Sixth Street nearly continuously for 100 or so hours, the
March 23, 2009Westheimer Block Party Preview: Updates from Buxton, Guitars, Tambersauro, Muhamid Ali, Sew What and More
With the Westheimer Block Party coming up Saturday, Rocks Off put out an open call on Hands Up Houston asking any band or artist playing the festival to send him a brief email about what they've been up to lately. We'll be doing this all week, so keep 'em coming to chris.gray@houstonpress.com. Welfare Mothers: "Jackin' Off. We are playing at the secret show at Numbers upstairs!" Buxton: "We're releasing a 7" probably in May, putting up the song "Feathers" tonight. We also just finished rec
March 25, 2009Westheimer Block Party Preview: Updates from Elaine Greer, Bolt, Linus Pauling Quartet, Future Blondes and More
The second in Rocks Off's series of self-penned updates from bands playing Saturday's Westheimer Block Party. If this also applies to you, please send yours to chris.gray@houstonpress.com. Elaine Greer: "I have been working on my first-ever EP, which is set to be released in May, and am playing next on the SugarHill Sessions on April 2." (2:40 p.m., City of Montrose Stage, 203 Westheimer) Mechanical Boy: "We just finished shooting our first video while in Austin for SXSW. It should be read
March 26, 2009Westheimer Block Party Preview: Updates from Woozyhelmet, Hell City Kings, Gold Sounds, Heptic Skeptic and More
Woozyhelmet: "Woozyhelmet is one word. We've been spreading the love of our new album, Get Down, for the last several months and are working on a follow-up EP that will only feature Brandi singing with the working title "Crop Brandi Out." It may end up being a 7" on Soda Pop Sounds. Jay recently got his amp fixed and it sounds awesome." (6:45 p.m., KTRU Stage, Numbers parking lot) Hell City Kings: "We are finishing up our LP & split LP with Whorehound (both vinyl only) due out this sum
March 27, 2009Balaclavas, Future Blondes
April 2, 2009Aftermath: SXSW
March 26, 2009Houston's SXSW Strategy
Seeing the Elephant
March 19, 2009Through Being Cool
March 12, 2009The Death Set, with Matt and Kim
June 26, 2008763 MP3s and Nothing On
March 27, 2008Studemont Project, Million Year Dance, Peekaboo Theory, the Tontons
March 20, 2008The Last Word from the Press on SXSW 2008
We swear, we're done now
March 20, 2008International Quilt Festival
This patchwork party is the SXSW of its industry
November 1, 2007SXSW, WTF?
The lowdown on Austin's music festival
March 1, 2007The Hype of March
Who will be the band of 2006, and why you shouldn’t care
March 16, 2006More than Music
Hollywood goes Texan at the South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference
March 10, 2005Crap Shoot
Nothing's guaranteed at SXSW - not even a seat to Dee Dee Ramone's show
March 8, 2001Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger
William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha
August 5, 2009White Lies
October 1, 2009
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