Vernon Reid

5 More Great 9/11 Songs

Rewind: The Top 5 Best & Worst Songs About 9/11 Looking at it now, 11 years to the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the al-Qaeda-led terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, it's still difficult to underestimate how much the world changed that day. The real ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix & Band Of Gypsys Explode At Fillmore East

​Jimi Hendrix & Band of Gypsys Live at Fillmore East (Experience Hendrix/Columbia Legacy) 140 minutes, $13.98. The latest release in a busy year for the Hendrix estate is this 1999 documentary, pumped up with extra footage, that explores Jimi's short-lived but influential Band of Gypsys lineu ... More >>

Tonight: Houston Filmmaker Raymond Gale's Electric Purgatory at Domy Books

Electric Purgatory screened almost two years ago at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, but Rocks Off still hasn't seen Houston director Raymond Gayle's film about the plight of the black rocker. We're gonna miss the next screening too - tonight at Domy Books - due to Thanksgiving travel, but we are ... More >>

Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker

Drugs, sex and...black history month?

Classic Rock Corner: Living Colour's The Paris Concert

Living Colour The Paris Concert To order on Amazon.com, click here www.myspace.com/livingcolourmusicOne of the most criminally underrated rock bands of the '80s and '90s - remembered by too many just for their Day-Glo outfits, painted guitars and big hit "Cult of Personality" - Living Colour has be ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Live In Living Color

After all the hype and air-guitar awards-show appearances, Lil Wayne's much-anticipated debut as a full-on rock performer, "Prom Queen," has finally leaked. This will be above-the-fold news on whatever content-aggregator supplies your RSS fix, but only because for the music business right ... More >>

Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker

Local filmmaker Raymond Gayle explores how the pioneers of rock became anomalies

James "Blood" Ulmer

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Van Gogh with a Resonator

Remembering Chris Whitley, the universal bluesman

Companions Unobtrusive

Rush -- quite possibly the whitest band on earth -- has a surprising number of black fans

Don't Choke

Fishbone skanks into town

Rotation

Night & Day

April 29 - May 5, 1999

Rotation

Houston Press 1997 Music Awards Preview

A guide to who's who in the Press Music Awards ballot. Plus, the where and when of the Press Music Awards Showcase!

Go Her Own Way

Me'Shell Ndegeocello can't find a niche -- not that she really wants one

Life in Motion

A fatal diagnosis leads Bill T. Jones to ask: What's the best way to live?