Subject: The Strokes

• Re: Explain Your Most Played

  June 15, 2007

• Reverberations: The Rippers, Thee Exciters and Brimstone Howl

  March 19, 2008

• Yesterday Afternoon: Westheimer Block Party at Numbers, Mango's and Avant Garden

  April 13, 2008

• A Classic-Rock-Free Morning

  August 25, 2008

• Aftermath: The Walkmen, Little Ones and Young Mammals at Walter's on Washington

  October 10, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 6

  Silver Jews, Walter's on Washington, September 18: "[Silver Jews frontman David] Berman strode around the stage with confidence; you wouldn't know he's still getting used to playing live. At times, he looked so loose that he might slump to the floor had he not been leaning on the mic stand." (Troy Schulze) Drive-By Truckers, Meridian, September 24: "The Truckers have gradually infused more and more pre-rock music (both black and white) into their songs, which have as many gnarled roots and b

  January 2, 2009

• Young Mammals Wrapping Debut CD... Today

  Some exciting news for fans of Westside indie-rockers Young Mammals, of which Rocks Off understands there may be a few out there in Houston (including himself). The Strokes-ish quartet is wrapping its debut full-length, begun way back when the band was still known as the Dimes, today and already announced a CD release show earlier this week. It's not for a while, but it sounds like a goodurn: Saturday, February 28, at the Aerosol Warfare house, 1625 Alabama, with special guests Buxton and Wooz

  January 22, 2009

• Little Joy

  November 27, 2008

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  Wednesday, December 5

  November 29, 2001

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Moby Pick

  Beaumont's Barbara Lynn lucks out with a song that almost died

  May 23, 2002

• New Year’s Eve Rundown

  The haps at Notsuoh, Boondocks, The Proletariat, Warehouse Live and more

  December 27, 2007

• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

  You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  November 15, 2007

• Little Joy

  June 4, 2009

• Elisabeth Smith

  Artist keeps it light

  August 2, 2007

• Tokyo Police Club, Ra Ra Riot

  Tokyo Police Club and Ra Ra Riot perform Monday, July 30, at Red Room in Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

  July 26, 2007

• Interpol

  Our Love to Admire

  July 26, 2007

• The Hives

  Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope)

  July 22, 2004

• Albert Hammond Jr.

  Albert Hammond Jr. performs Friday, January 19, at Verizon Wireless Theatre, 520 Texas, 713-230-1666. Incubus also performs.

  January 18, 2007

• Fly Like an Eagle

  Jesse Hughes proves too sexy for his band, too sexy for his band

  May 25, 2006

• The Strokes, with the Eagles of Death Metal

  Wednesday, March 15, Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1666

  March 9, 2006

• The Strokes

  First Impressions of Earth

  January 26, 2006

• That '70s Band

  Want big, sweeping songs? Take a visit to Spain

  November 10, 2005

• Heartless Bastards

  Thursday, June 30, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.

  June 30, 2005

• Rogue Bosoms, Bouncing Booties and Pac-Man Raps

  Looking back on the '04

  December 23, 2004

• Fresh Produce

  With underground hip-hop or mass-appeal club records, RJD2 is a stickler for details

  December 2, 2004

• The Libertines

  The Libertines (Sanctuary)

  November 25, 2004

• Too Sexy for Their Rock

  Fashionable retro-rock has jumped the shark. Here's why.

  October 14, 2004

• Guitar Wolf

  Love Rock (Narnack Records)

  September 2, 2004

• Franz Ferdinand

  Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

  April 1, 2004

• The Strokes

  Sunday, March 21

  March 18, 2004

• Robbers on High Street

  Fine Lines (Scratchie/New Line)

  March 18, 2004

• NYC Re-Nu-al

  The Strokes started it, but now stellastarr* and other artsier bands are washing their own scum off the streets

  March 18, 2004

• The Mooney Suzuki

  August 7, 2003

• '80s Babies

  The twentysomethings in Longwave resurrect the Reagan era's cool underbelly

  July 24, 2003

• The Evolution Control Committee

  Plagiarythm Nation (Creations/Seeland)

  July 17, 2003

• The Natural History

  Monday, June 9

  June 5, 2003

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Fever to Tell (Interscope Records)

  May 22, 2003

• The Exies

  Inertia (Melisma/Virgin)

  March 20, 2003

• Best Concert Poster Artist

  Jermaine Rogers

  September 26, 2002

• The Vines

  Saturday, July 27

  July 25, 2002

• Masta Ace

  Saturday, July 13

  July 11, 2002

• Pop Goes the Bastard

  Unlike the UK, Houston resists the urge to commit plagiarhythm

  May 2, 2002

• Brian Jonestown Massacre

  Friday, February 8

  February 7, 2002

• The Strokes

  Thursday, January 24

  January 24, 2002

• The Strokes

  Is This It? (RCA)

  November 1, 2001

• Artist of the Week: Tax the Wolf

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Several weeks ago, we saw a middle-school-aged kid wearing a T-shirt that simply read "Tax the Wolf." We assumed it was a band, and since we were also wearing a shirt that supported a band (Austin electronica/indie-rockers Sou

  July 8, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Phoenix, Robyn Hitchcock and Them Crooked Vultures

  Photo by Matthew Taplinger​The quality of the grass at ACL on Charles Attal's apparent birthday blow out (if projections for "Feliz Cumpleanos" were to be believed) was nothing to sniff at. The great lawn of Zilker Park was emerald and ready to absorb the dance steps of a sold-out crowd with happy feet. The air was redolent with killing kindness, which raised the question of just how family friendly Austin's premiere outdoor music fest really is. Phoenix showed the crowd that there's mor

  October 3, 2009

• Rocks Off Is Going to Become a Kings of Leon Fan Today If It Kills Us

  ​Rocks Off has always been a little puzzled we're not more of a Kings of Leon fan. It definitely puts us in the minority when it comes to our social circle, because everyone from cranky music critics and their musician sons to, well, pretty much every female friend or acquaintance we've got is in the tank for these Tennessee studs.Once upon a time, so were we. Rocks Off thoroughly enjoyed the Kings' 2003 debut Youth and Young Manhood, particularly opener "Red Morning Light," "Molly's Chambers"

  October 6, 2009

• Take Har Mar Superstar Seriously or Not? Your Call.

  This guy has nothing on Har Mar Superstar. The R&B singer and Ron Jeremy lookalike has worked the pink-manties look for the better part of this decade. He is, after all, a self-styled lover. Fresh off his cameo as a rival roller derby coach in Whip It (and his excellent cover of "Never My Love" on the film's soundtrack), Har Mar, as we like to call him, will spend Saturday night in Houston, playing Super Happy Fun Land with Ghost Mountain, Components of the Modern Age and My Jerusalem. Har

  October 16, 2009