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January 15, 2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck, Wanda Jackson
Yesterday marked a tremendous day for rappers and thrashers across the world: Metallica and Run-DMC were announced as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's newest inductees, along with Jeff Beck, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Bobby Womack, two members of Elvis Presley's backing band ... More >>
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February 13, 1997
The Reason of Rimes
LeAnn Rimes has taken country music by storm. She's only 14. And that's the rub.
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February 26, 1998
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LeAnn Rimes has taken country music by storm. She's only 14. And that's the rub.
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March 2, 2009
They Don't Make Cop Concerts Like They Used To In Beaumont
Via Bayou, the Beaumont Enterprise's lively blog, we got directed to an old posting on the Octane Radio Network.And let's just say -- they don't make police concerts like they used to. In 1957 -- when Rock and Roll was still the Devil's Music -- the Beaumont cops bring in Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Aftermath: Miss Leslie and Heather Myles at Under the Volcano
Photos by Reg BurnsIt's not often the Wednesday-night act at Under the Volcano arrives with special guests in tow, but local songstress/honky-tonk goddess Leslie Sloan presented Californian Heather Myles to the Houston music crowd last night. If you call 25 totally mesmerized honky-tonk fanati ... More >>
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October 16, 2008
The Shredder
One Show, One Sentence
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May 1, 2008
Mike Ness, with Jesse Dayton
One Show, One Sentence
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October 19, 2006
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson appears Thursday, October 19, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main. Call 713-529-9899 for more info.
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August 31, 2006
Various Artists
Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly
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August 4, 2005
The Voodoo Chile's Slight Return
Greg Ashley resurrects the Mirrors for a summer tour; also: beware of Zipperneck
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February 24, 2005
Letters
Greg Ashley resurrects the Mirrors for a summer tour; also: beware of Zipperneck
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April 20, 2000
Notes on Cool
Elusive and ineffable, style itself cannot be sold, except perhaps at Buffalo Exchange
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September 9, 1999
Roundabout Way
Cornell Hurd finally finds his musical niche
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August 18, 2009
Distant Early Warning: Alice Cooper, BT, Drive-By Truckers, Neko Case, Skinny Puppy, Wanda Jackson, etc.
Alice Cooper: Sun., Oct. 11. Verizon Wireless Theater. Bamboo: Fri., Oct. 2. Arena Theatre. Billy Joe Shaver: Sat., Nov. 28. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. BT: Fri., Sept. 4. Rich's Houston. Colin Hay: Sat., Oct. 17. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. Dave Seaman: Fri., Nov. 27. Rich's Houston. Drive-By Truck ... More >>
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October 1, 2009
Fall In
Alice Cooper: Sun., Oct. 11. Verizon Wireless Theater. Bamboo: Fri., Oct. 2. Arena Theatre. Billy Joe Shaver: Sat., Nov. 28. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. BT: Fri., Sept. 4. Rich's Houston. Colin Hay: Sat., Oct. 17. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. Dave Seaman: Fri., Nov. 27. Rich's Houston. Drive-By Truck ... More >>
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October 26, 2009
Aftermath: Wanda Jackson, Queen Mother of Rock and Roll, at the Continental Club
Photos by Craig Hlavaty Wanda Jackson, unquestionably the true Queen Mother of rock and roll, was fashionably late getting on the stage Saturday night at the Continental Club. It was her seventy-second birthday, and she had played Austin the night before. Who could blame her for being a little sl ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Rockabilly Country Soul of Big Al Downing
Maybe the most successful African-American country artist of the post-Charley Pride period was Big Al Downing. Talk about a guy who could blur the line between country and soul. An affable Oklahoman, Downing had a huge baritone voice that could melt hearts. Downing's career began in rockabilly. Aft ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
SXSW News: Adds Include DEATH, Voivod, Neon Indian, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Trae Tha Truth and Chamillionaire & Paul Wall, Together Again
This past week a few Houston musicians began getting their dreaded SXSW rejection notices; most notably we heard that Robert Ellis' entry was not accepted. That's a tough bullet to take, considering how well his band does on Wednesday night at Mango's and the quality of his solo album. Either way E ... More >>
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March 17, 2010
Hlavaty On The Hloose At SXSW: Roky Okkervil Close, Stoner Blooze, Nigerian Neo-Soul, Silver Robots, Green Dreads...
Craig Hlavaty5:19 p.m.: "That's respect. Lording over Sixth Street." 5:08 p.m.: "This is how Roky should sound." 5:09 p.m. Rocks Off Sr.: "How's that?" 5:09 p.m.: "Starry Eyes. Man, when he's backed by true fans he is on fire. Will and the guys and lady do him more than justice."
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March 18, 2010
SXSW Aftermath: A Spry Wanda Jackson And Our Friends Mariachi El Bronx
Photos by Craig HlavatyWanda Jackson As the first night of SXSW 2010 got underway a pall came over the crowd, at least from those who had been glued to their smart phones by the news of the passing of Big Star lead singer Alex Chilton in New Orleans. The influential power-pop band was due to clos ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Upcoming: Dawes, GWAR, ICP, Paul Oakenfold, Talib Kweli, Etc.
Badfish (Sublime Tribute): Fri., Jan. 28. House of Blues. The Bellamy Brothers, John Slaughter: Fri., Nov. 19. Cypress Saloon. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: Tue., Sept. 28. Khon's. Dash Rip Rock: Fri., Nov. 12. The Bronze Peacock Room @ House Of Blues. Dawes, Pete Wolf Crier, The Ro ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
FAIL: Morrissey, Scott Weiland, Whitesnake, Conspiracy Theorists
Morrissey Loves Animals So Much It Makes Him Racist: Morrissey has been one of the biggest ambiguously snarky pussies in all of rock music for some years now, popular among 15-year-old bisexuals of all races and creeds. Sometimes, however, the former Smiths frontman likes to make a straightf ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Wanda Jackson
Morrissey Loves Animals So Much It Makes Him Racist: Morrissey has been one of the biggest ambiguously snarky pussies in all of rock music for some years now, popular among 15-year-old bisexuals of all races and creeds. Sometimes, however, the former Smiths frontman likes to make a straightf ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Midnight Movers
San Antonio's Girl in a Coma may stumble onstage, but not on Adventures in Coverland.
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December 2, 2010
Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
San Antonio's Girl in a Coma may stumble onstage, but not on Adventures in Coverland.
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February 2, 2011
White Stripes Break Up After Exactly Two Houston Shows
Ed. Note: Rumors are floating around about a third Stripes show here, before the Rudz date. If anyone can confirm this, please let us know. White Stripes at Rudyard's, Sept. 14, 2001About an hour ago, Rocks Off got the news over Twitter that the White Stripes, easily the biggest indie-duo of ... More >>
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March 19, 2011
SXSW Saturday: Hot Sauce Hawker Billy Gibbons Smokes Elmore James At Rachael Ray Party
Craig Hlavaty Billy Gibbons sat in with The Cringe at Rachael Ray's Feedback Party at Stubb's just after lunchtime for a cover of Elmore James' blues standard "Dust My Broom". The ZZ Top guitarist also mentioned his BFG hot sauce line, which he had a bottle of in his back pocket.
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March 21, 2011
SXSW: The 10 Best Of The Fest This Year
Photos by Craig Hlavaty
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April 19, 2011
Upcoming: Bootsy Collins, Dave Alvin, Wanda Jackson, Etc.
Amplified Heat: Sat., May 21. Continental Club. Avett Brothers, Langhorne Slim: CHANGED Fri., May 20. Verizon Wireless Theater. Band Of Mercy, Titan Blood: Thu., May 12. Mango's. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Paul Wall: Sun., May 22. Arena Theatre. Boney James & Regina Belle: Thu., May 26. Arena ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Johnny Dowd Joins Ranks Of Oklahoma Music Greats
johnnydowd.comJohnny Dowd, one of the weirdest musical Okies of them all.Poet, musician, avant-garde musical thinker and doer, Johnny Dowd may live in upstate New York these days, but that fellow is 100 percent died-in-the-wool Okie through and through. When Dowd opens his mouth to sing, Dust ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Wanda Jackson Loves Jesus, Jack White & Adele
Rocks Off conducted an unusual interview this week. We say "interview," when perhaps a better word is "exchange." Recently we have been tinkering with the composition of our interviews, in the hopes of avoiding boilerplate questions like "Who are your influences?" in favor of something, we h ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
ACL Fest Schedule Released; Your Guide To The "Death Duels"
Stevie Wonder on FacebookStevie Wonder: Even My Morning Jacket will be watching.This morning, the organizers of the Austin City Limits Music Festival announced the schedule for the September 16-18 Zilker Park throwdown. We all knew there would be some tough choices, but Rocks Off found that w ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Lemmy & HeadCat Mates Walk The Rockabilly Walk
You could say that the members of roots-rock trio HeadCat got together to pay tribute to the King. But instead of the baby Jesus of Bethlehem, these three wise men -bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), drummer Slim Jim Phantom (ex-Stray Cats), and guitarist/pianist Danny B. Harvey (ex ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Musicians Remember Chadd Thomas As Funny, Dedicated Musician And Father
"Celebrating Chadd Thomas" on FacebookCrazy Kings Dylan Cavaliere and Chadd ThomasAfter learning of the death of Austin rockabilly frontman and bandleader Chadd Thomas of the Crazy Kings earlier this week, Rocks Off decided to reach out to a few of his friends and former bandmates to get a be ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Top 5 Songs About Being Dead Broke
Rocks Off caught a little of the coverage of the Obama adminstration and Congress' deadlock over the country's impending default on its debt this morning. We could barely make heads or tails of it, but the underlying message was fairly clear: Holy shit, are we ever fucked. We are already abo ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
2 Become 1: Musical Match-Ups We'd Like To See
Kanye "Hitler" West and Jay-Z released their (overused music writer word alert) epic Watch the Throne album this week, to mostly great reviews. This fall the first fruits from the recently announced Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration should be on the store shelves, which still sorta weirds us o ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
10 Things We're Probably Doing At ACL This Year
villagevoice.comBjork at ACL '07, when part of her staging caught fire.This is the Rocks Off team's (well, Craig Hlavaty and Chris Gray) fifth year covering the Austin City Limits Music Festival. The first year this smart guy wore black jeans and a black shirt to try to look cool, which made ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Ten Albums That Should Be Grammy Nominated Over Linda Chorney's
Photo by Jason WolterJason Isbell (left) and Amanda Shires (right) are both more deserving than Chorney.The small world of Americana music is all a-twitter over New Jersey woman Linda Chorney's nomination for a Grammy in the Americana category. In case you haven't been following the story, Ch ... More >>

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