Subject: Stone Temple Pilots

• John Royal's Astros Recap. In Song.

  October 2, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Stone Temple Reunion

  January 28, 2008

• Dave Matthews Sucks, Almost as Much as Ken Hoffman Does

  February 5, 2008

• The Wayback Machine: 5, 10 and 15 Years Ago in Houston Music

  June 20, 2008

• Blue Houston

  The sweetest enigma

  July 20, 2000

• Buckcherry's Sweet Success

  Drinking and drugging with crazy bitches sounds like more fun than the law will allow, but playing in a red-hot rock band is not always an all-you-can eat orgy. "I think people realize there's a lot more to this band than just fucking and partying," says Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson. That revelation, surrendered by a man whose hits include the cocaine anthem, "Lit Up," and the self-explanatory, "Too Drunk," is due in no small part to Buckcherry's ubiquitous 2007 power apology, "Sorry."

  December 5, 2008

• Aftermath: The 71's and Evangeline at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Jef With One F It's accurate to say that I went to see The 71's on Monday night with some hesitancy; my knowledge of contemporary Christian music is limited to Jars of Clay's "Flood" and the Prom scene from the movie Saved!. Despite my affection for the band's LP, We Are Locomotive, I just wasn't sure that I was ready to endure a sermon plus power chords. Luckily, the mood in Warehouse Live was very light, and though I in my black leather trench coat and permanent sneer stood out l

  December 16, 2008

• Been Caught Stealing

  January 27, 1994

• God Listens But He don't buy records.

  February 10, 1994

• The Marty's Over

  March 10, 1994

• Jazz Reconsidered

  June 9, 1994

• Where's the Beef?

  June 30, 1994

• Metalocalypse: Getting to Know Scarlet Sins

  [Note: this is the first entry in a partnership between Rocks Off and Houston-based metal Web site UNdergroWNd MiNdbloW. In the hot seat is all-female Toronto quartet Scarlet Sins. Enjoy.] My name is Chris, and I have a long ongoing love affair with music. Especially heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, grindcore and metal in general. The first time I saw a live show and an unknown band hit the stage, I was a fan. It was at the Cotton Bowl in the 1970s, and this "unknown" band came out. Th

  January 5, 2009

• Halloween Hangover

  November 10, 1994

• Bill-bored

  December 15, 1994

• Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition

  Denison-based Texas Hippie Coalition, or THC to fans, lays claim to the title "Kings of Red Dirt Metal," and will more than likely rock you the eff out. These guys feel like Pantera meets Lynyrd Skynyrd, so horns most definitely up. (Plus, the drummer goes by "Cowboy.") Lead singer Big Daddy Rich recently spoke with Metalocalypse about the Man in Black, horror movies and whether or not the abbreviation of the band's name is a coincidence. See if you can guess. Metalocalypse: When wa

  January 12, 2009

• Sound Check

  February 23, 1995

• Tonight: Scott Weiland at Warehouse Live

  Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Empty," from MTV Unplugged You never know what you'll get with Scott Weiland. The former lead singer of Velvet Revolver, sometime Stone Temple Pilot frontman and full-time enigma has continuously cheated death and career calamity for almost two decades. Some days, like on his solo efforts, you get the sullen and wistful troubadour. Maybe you get STP's strung-out, feral grunge-era icon. Or the haughty mouthpiece in front of three-quarters of Guns n' Roses belting out

  January 17, 2009

• Aftermath: Scott Weiland at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Mark C. Austin There has to be an unspoken rule from now on that solo albums from the lead singers of big rock bands should be studio-only affairs. These are meant to fulfill record-company contracts, and should never be passed off as an extra insight into the artistic machinations of an otherwise powerful and enigmatic frontman or sideman. Scott Weiland falls into the category from now on. Saturday was three strikes, Mr. Weiland. Didn't you learn anything from Sixx A.M or even t

  January 19, 2009

• Rotation

  May 2, 1996

• Playing Dumb

  May 30, 1996

• A Fine and Funky Odor

  November 14, 1996

• Spanish Rocks

  January 8, 1998

• Rotation

  April 16, 1998

• Too high. Period.

  December 31, 1998

• Morrissey Taps His Never-ending Reserve of Lyrical Bons Mots

  April 9, 2009

• Scott Weiland

  January 15, 2009

• On the edge in Edge City

  December 30, 1993

• Stone Temple Pilots, with Black Francis

  June 26, 2008

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club returns to form with Baby 81

  June 14, 2007

• Army of Anyone

  Army of Anyone performs Friday, December 8, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600. Three Days Grace also performs.

  December 7, 2006

• Encore Performance

  Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

  November 23, 2006

• Get Your Flirt On

  Nelly Furtado's new ho do

  July 27, 2006

• Arctic Monkeys

  Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

  February 23, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• Sponge

  Friday, April 1, at Scout Bar, 18307 Egret Bay Boulevard, Webster, 281-335-0002.

  March 31, 2005

• Playbill

  January 13, 2005

• Yin and Yang

  The killing of Dimebag Darrell rains on Michael Haaga's Continental Club Plus and Minus Show parade

  December 16, 2004

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• Use Your Illusion

  Velvet Revolver is the best hope in a dismal lot of Guns N' Roses substitutes

  June 17, 2004

• Rock You like a Hurricane

  The Press Music Awards Showcase brings a category-five storm of tunes

  July 24, 2003

• Home from La-La Land

  Tony Avitia picks up the pieces of his Broken Note

  August 15, 2002

• Fresh Pavement

  One of the last great indie rock bands struggles to survive its success

  September 30, 1999

• Flop Like an Eagle

  Brad Tyer checks out of the Hotel California after five songs

  July 14, 1994

• End Game

  This is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, not with a bang but a ... year-end roundup

  December 23, 1993

• Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

  What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it's a radio station, which in an age when people stream Pandora on their iPhones - to say nothing of car stereos with iPod plug-in ports - makes it almost as big a media dinosaur as the printed page. T

  April 29, 2009

• Flannel File: Primus

  Primus circa 1998, Copenhagen, DenmarkAs the title of this feature might suggest, '90s nostalgia is in full swing, and one of the orders of the day is reexamining the aesthetic reputation of bands we liked when we were teenagers but of whom we subsequently became embarrassed, swapping them in our esteem hierarchy with the once-cool dads they originally supplanted. The rehabilitation of '90s alt-rock has begun to pick up steam in the past year, yielding such phenomena as both MTV.com and the Onio

  May 21, 2009

• 52 Pick-Up

  July 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Collective Soul and Black Stone Cherry at House of Blues

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ Something strange happened during the '90s. Southern Rock as we once knew it all but disappeared. Charmed by grunge, drowned in amplification, bands began shedding the elements of blues and country that threaded that noble line from Lynyrd Skynyrd through the Georgia Satellites and the Black Crowes. Just as importantly, they abandoned lyrics that carried on the rich Southern storytelling tradition in favor of cheap radio platitudes and MTV-pandering nonsense. In that p

  September 2, 2009

• The Music of True Blood, Episode 2: Austin's Vallejo Lies Down With a "Snake In the Grass"

  ​Vallejo is a rock and roll band of the highest caliber from just a few miles away in El Campo. The band started as a trio of three brothers who moved to Austin in order to pursue their dream of being the next Santana. Once in the "live music capital of the world," they added a rhythm guitarist and a conga player to further explore their saucy Latin side, and settled down quietly to become one of the foremost acts in the city. Vallejo has since toured with the likes of Stone Temple Pilots, Fue

  October 16, 2009