The Sex Pistols

Get Lit: Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell

Local Rotation: Something Fierce's There Are No Answers

Something Fierce There Are No Answers www.somethingfiercemusic.com Open letter to the Warped Tour: If you don't include Something Fierce on your 2009 80-something band docket, you deserve to have Andy Macdonald or Kyle Loza do one of their extreme-sports stunts right into your figurat ... More >>

Living the Unexamined Life, Happily

ZZ Top is still bad, but now they're planet-wide. And they ain't thinking too hard about it

His Generation

The Hates' leader may be the last of Houston's original punks

Rotation

The Hates' leader may be the last of Houston's original punks

Thrift Store Cowboy: The Move

The best thing about digging around thrift-store CD bins is discovering someone else's cast-offs. The records that people got sick of, or had absolutely no regard for how awesome it could be. Months back, a wife seemingly threw out her husband's entire punk-rock collection during rout ... More >>

Man Over Machine

Stabbing Westward masters the art of human noise

Static

Stabbing Westward masters the art of human noise

Songs and Sickness

That's what it's about with D Generation, man

Young Punks

Peach-fuzzed trashers Pure Rubbish are Houston's anti-Hanson

Into the Folds

Peach-fuzzed trashers Pure Rubbish are Houston's anti-Hanson

Reunion Rigor Mortis

Peach-fuzzed trashers Pure Rubbish are Houston's anti-Hanson

Punk Drunks

Peach-fuzzed trashers Pure Rubbish are Houston's anti-Hanson

St. Patrick's Day Special: The Pogues, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"

Fun Fact: Perpetually soused Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan's first band was the Sex Pistols-inspired, excellently named Nipple Erectors - later known as the Nips.

Original Punks

Fun Fact: Perpetually soused Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan's first band was the Sex Pistols-inspired, excellently named Nipple Erectors - later known as the Nips.

Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

Road Warrior

Something Fierce: There Are No Answers

Road Warrior

Duran Duran

Road Warrior

The Slits

Road Warrior

Jay Reatard

Road Warrior

It's "Anarchy" at the Meridian

Road Warrior

RIP, Syd. And RIP, 'Cid.

A psychedelic pioneer and the drug that helped do him in are both sorely missed

Bring On the Backlash!

Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

No More Pussy

Fabricated pop groups are nothing new, but these Dolls are more than bad -- they're a threat

Between the Cracks

Profiling local bands

The Libertines

The Libertines (Sanctuary)

You Ain't Punk 2004

Saturday, April 10

Ronald Reagan's Army

In your heart, you know the Yuppie Prick$ are right

Pop-Punk Penance

A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

Country Teasers, with NTX+ Electric Deth

Friday, January 23

The Epoxies, with the Briefs and the Shocks

Tuesday, September 16

2 Filthy, 2 Furious

The Sex Pistols have re-formed (again), and Johnny Rotten is spewing pure vitriol (still)

The Briefs and Fabulous Disaster, with the Kimonos

Thursday, February 27

The Vibrators

Thursday, February 27

He Said She Said: 10 Artists Who Never Got Their Due

In the course of music history, some bands get that extra push by pop culture and become uber-iconic, while others, though just as deserving, go largely unnoticed except by those who choose to dig even deeper. For every Elvis Presley, there is a seedier Carl Perkins off to the side. David Bowie get ... More >>

Aftermath: Reborn Punk Rock Karaoke Is Promising, Perhaps At Another Venue

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ Friday night's live-band Punk Rock Karaoke renaissance at Notsuoh on Main didn't draw a ridiculously large crowd, but it did show incredible promise. The night had been on hiatus for the better part of a decade but has made a return to the Houston stage just in time for wh ... More >>

French Bands That Make Us Say "Oh Là Là!"

That's Plastic Bertrand, but you probably know that song better from the traveling sequence in National Lampoon's European Vacation or better yet, the basis for the Elton Motello track "Jet Boy Jet Girl."​Quality French rock and roll has sometimes been hard to come by, but when it hits, it slays. ... More >>

Five Memorable Artist-Audience Altercations

Chris GrayWilco's Jeff Tweedy in a much better mood, March 2008There may be a very good reason Van Morrison said practically nothing from the stage Saturday night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Judging from the plentiful comments here, here and over at the Chronicle's review, it would have ... More >>

FAIL: Prince, Johnny Rotten, Too Short, Auto-Tune

Photos by John Seaborn Gray​Internet Not As "Over" As Prince Had Hoped: Remember last week when Prince said the Internet was "over," and that was why he's now giving copies of his new CD away for free whenever you buy a copy of that thriving and relevant medium, a British newspaper? Well, ent ... More >>

FAIL: Kings Of Leon, Pigeons, Bush

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn Gray​Kings of Leon Respond Poorly to Mother Nature's Criticism: Last weekend, bro-rock champions Kings of Leon were three songs into a set when a pigeon in the rafters of St. Louis' Verizon Wireless Amphitheater made its opinion known by taking a dump direct ... More >>

Top 5 Rejected Musician-Licensed Perfumes

​The Sex Pistols have their own perfume now. Go ahead and let that marinate for a second. Your brain is probably trying to reject it as fact, so maybe you'd better have a look at the press release. Lemon? Black pepper? Patchouli and leather? Sooo... it smells like someone left a lemon-pepper ... More >>

The Vibrators

​The Sex Pistols have their own perfume now. Go ahead and let that marinate for a second. Your brain is probably trying to reject it as fact, so maybe you'd better have a look at the press release. Lemon? Black pepper? Patchouli and leather? Sooo... it smells like someone left a lemon-pepper ... More >>

Beautiful Chaos

Psychedelic Fur Richard Butler talks Talk Talk Talk redux.

Anarchitex: Welcome To The Digital Dark Age

"I find I don't use the word 'fascist' as much as I did when I was younger" ​There's little your humble narrator can add to the exhaustive work our own David Ensminger did on the elusive Anarchitex, something of Houston's best-kept punk secret, and his in-depth preview of the band's new album ... More >>

Punk Rock's 10 Most Potent Women

David EnsmingerExene Cervenka at Cactus Music​Women are the resilient backbone of punk, providing creative DNA for the movement since the "zero hour," including Houston's own MyDolls and members of AK-47 and Bevatron, among others. Up 'n' comers like Vivian Pikkles keep the faith as Zipperneck ... More >>

9 Musical Costumes Couples Should Avoid This Halloween

Norman See/last.fmNice threads, but... yeah. Don't go there.​The other day, a friend of ours asked us for our opinion on some ideas for "couple costumes," as in Halloween, including Han Solo and Princess Leia. Ugh. Do you happy couples really start this early in September? Rocks Off thinks ... More >>

Succinct Stooges Bio Looks Beyond Iggy Pop

​The Stooges: Head On By Brett Callwood Wayne State University Press, 176 pp., $19.95. While there have been a number of books written about the Stooges and Iggy Pop, this slim but substantive volume is the first to really give the non-Iggy members their due both biographically and musically. ... More >>

Keith Morris Sounds OFF! About His Dark Punk Party

offofficial.com​Rocks Off: You desire a gig in Mississippi or Alabama. Why? I can barely remember the last time any of my other bands played in either of those states. Now, the excuse I keep getting is that they are very depressed states and maybe they are not doing very well financially, or ... More >>

5 Ridiculously Cute Kitchen Gifts

www.kitchensonthesquare.com​If you know a home cook whose kitchen looks like Pee Wee's Playhouse or someone who might actually wear a pink, polka-dotted apron, these ridiculously adorable gifts for the kitchen are just the thing. 5. Scrubber Duckie When only having a rubber duckie in the b ... More >>