Todd Snider

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The FBI's Most Wanted List Turns 62 Today: Songs About Eight People Who Made It

Today marks the 62 birthday of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a gimmick cooked up by J. Edgar Hoover and a friendly newspaperman. Through the years the list has mostly been filled with criminals no one has ever heard of, but there have been some famous names on it. Some famous enough to get songs ... More >>

Acoustic Devils Go Flogging On The Road With Molly

When Pete Bernard received a package postmarked from Lynchburg, Tenn., he may have felt his mouth watering. That particular point of origin is the well-known home of the Jack Daniels distillery and indeed, inside the singer/guitarist for The Devil Makes Three found inside a little "thank you" from t ... More >>

What Every Musician Needs: Better Shut Up Lines

We all hate the trope "Houston, we have a problem," but we do have a problem in Houston with talkative, inattentive crowds at live shows. Scanning back over reviews from the past two years, at least 20 percent of them mention crowd noise. So what do the musicians think and, more importantly, what ... More >>

Buxton: "Not Everyone Is Going To Love You"

Photos by Marc BrubakerBuxton at Rudz in August​Lonesome Onry and Mean has been spinning local sensation Buxton's upcoming release Nothing Here Seems Strange for almost two weeks now. And we're sorry, but we still don't get it. Maybe we are old and jaded and out of it, but to us it sounds l ... More >>

Happy Birthday Don Was: His Five Best Production Jobs

Vicky Sapp​Nerds like us - you have to be a music nerd if you're reading a blog on Don Was - have favorite producers, like some sports guys have favorite coaches. Sometimes we listen to an album just because someone we like produced it, or it somehow gives it us extra cred even if we may not l ... More >>

Todd Snider

Vicky Sapp​Nerds like us - you have to be a music nerd if you're reading a blog on Don Was - have favorite producers, like some sports guys have favorite coaches. Sometimes we listen to an album just because someone we like produced it, or it somehow gives it us extra cred even if we may not l ... More >>

Upcoming: Wilco, Wilco, Jimmy Buffett, Wilco, Wilco, Etc.

​"Canned Acoustica II" With Robert Ellis, Roky Moon, Tyagaraja, Black Queen Speaks, Chase Hamblin, Winter Wallace, Sara Van Buskirk, Ancient Cat Society: Thu., March 3. Warehouse Live. The Canvas Waiting, Holy Fiction, Finnegan, The Shallows: Fri., Feb. 11. Fitzgerald's. Clan Of Xymox: Sat. ... More >>

Hayes Carll

​"Canned Acoustica II" With Robert Ellis, Roky Moon, Tyagaraja, Black Queen Speaks, Chase Hamblin, Winter Wallace, Sara Van Buskirk, Ancient Cat Society: Thu., March 3. Warehouse Live. The Canvas Waiting, Holy Fiction, Finnegan, The Shallows: Fri., Feb. 11. Fitzgerald's. Clan Of Xymox: Sat. ... More >>

Will Kimbrough

​"Canned Acoustica II" With Robert Ellis, Roky Moon, Tyagaraja, Black Queen Speaks, Chase Hamblin, Winter Wallace, Sara Van Buskirk, Ancient Cat Society: Thu., March 3. Warehouse Live. The Canvas Waiting, Holy Fiction, Finnegan, The Shallows: Fri., Feb. 11. Fitzgerald's. Clan Of Xymox: Sat. ... More >>

Too Many Tequila Shots For The Band And More Fabulous Satellite Memories

[Ed. Note: Third in a three-part series. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] ​The V-Roys: Another underattended Wednesday-night gig. The V-Roys had just been on tour with Steve Earle in England and had backed him up on several television appearances on the reggae classic "Johnny Too Bad." LOM's son, ... More >>

Distant Early Warning: Ben Folds, Caribou, Lupe Fiasco, Randy Travis, Steve Martin, Etc.

​Authority Zero, Voodoo Glow Skulls: Fri., April 9. Wired Live. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live": Fri., April 16. House of Blues. "Bamboozle Road Show" With Hanson, Good Charlotte, Forever The Sickest Kids, Cartel, Boys Like Girls, All Time Low: Fri., May 28. Verizon Wireless Theater. Ben Folds: Sat ... More >>

ACL 2009 Day One: Live Shots

Photo by Mark C. AustinThe Bright Light Social Hour​The artist lineup on day one of ACL was massive to say the least. And we caught as many of the bands as our fleet feet allowed as to. As we wait for the reviews to roll in, enjoy some of our favorite concert shots from the day so far.

Ghosts of Washington Avenue

Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

[Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern qu ... More >>

Maryland Bang

Meet Rye Rye, Baltimore's latest rap sensation.

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 Costel ... More >>

Recent Super Bowl Halftime Highlights and Lowlights

Backfield in Motion

Music's Ickiest of the Icky, Circa 2008

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Todd Snider: Peace Queer

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Tonight: Tommy Womack at a Pasadena House Concert

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Last Night: Scott Miller at the Mucky Duck

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The Light Brigade

Linus Pauling Quartet: Crunchy on the outside, cheesy in the middle

Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

Linus Pauling Quartet: Crunchy on the outside, cheesy in the middle

The Houston 100: The Best Bayou City Songs Ever

Linus Pauling Quartet: Crunchy on the outside, cheesy in the middle

Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up

Linus Pauling Quartet: Crunchy on the outside, cheesy in the middle

Stingaree Music Festival

Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

Live Shots: Scott Miller

Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

Magic iPod

Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

Leaving the Wolfe Pack

It's Johnny Falstaff's time to "Shine"

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The Devil You Know

Gooooaaaal!

A few locals are afflicted with World Cup mania; also: Chango Jackson, KPFT and what touring bands really think of Houston

A Crying Shame

RIP, Cactus Music and Video

South Austin Jug Band, with the Ringers

Friday, October 21, at the Last Concert Cafe, 1403 Nance, 713-226-8563.

A Wunderkind Looks at 40

Todd Snider is still talking the blues after all these years

Take Me Out...

...to the ball game. Lauding baseball-in-rock's finest moments.

Todymania!

Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

Classics Rock

Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

Pop-Up Pop Stars

With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

Adieu, Monsieur Mojo

...And other SXSW adventures

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Saturday, March 6

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Thursday, July 18

This Is It

Will Kimbrough makes a living making the records he wants

Easy Does It

Todd Snider returns to folk from a rock experiment gone haywire

Letters

Todd Snider returns to folk from a rock experiment gone haywire

Dream So Real

Folk-rock space boy Todd Snider awakes to find a career on the upswing

Static

Folk-rock space boy Todd Snider awakes to find a career on the upswing

Troubadour for a Lost Generation

Folk-rock space boy Todd Snider awakes to find a career on the upswing

Ray Stevens Lives!!!

Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy