Subject: Woodstock

• Uncle John Turner, 1944-2007

  July 26, 2007

• Maker Faire Is Coming to Texas. And No, It Has Nothing to Do with Ren Fest, Although That Extra "E" Did Throw Us for a Sec.

  September 13, 2007

• Distant Early Warning: Roky Erickson, Arc Angels, Flo Rida, Quintron and More

  A-Trak, Rye Rye, Treasure Fingers:  Sat., July 11. Warehouse Live.   Arc Angels: Fri., July 10. Warehouse Live.   Asleep At The Wheel: Sat., Aug. 1. Sengelmann Hall (Schulenburg).   Beto Cuevas: Wed., Aug. 26. House of Blues.   Blue October, Switchfoot, Ours: Fri., Aug. 14. Verizon Wireless Theater.   David Cook: Sun., July 5, 8 p.m. Moody Gardens.   De La Soul: Sun., Aug. 2. House of Blues.   Dwele & Leela James: Fri., June 26. Hous

  June 2, 2009

• Weekend Music: Nine Inch Nails, Lyle Lovett, the Gougers, Arthur Yoria, Studemont Project and More

  August 16, 2008

• Baby Boomers, Did You Not Hear Me Tell You To Suck It?

  August 22, 2008

• Slow Food in San Francisco

  September 3, 2008

• Left Stone Cold

  Gimme Shelter

  November 23, 2000

• Alternative Notion Lollapalooza doesn't say much about its generation, but the music's fine

  August 25, 1994

• Rotation

  December 8, 1994

• Things To Look For At The Obama Inaugural

  You know where you could be right this moment, which is about 7:30 in the morning Houston time?You could be waiting in FREEZING Washington, DC, getting on line to go through security checks so you could wait for hours and hours to watch Barack Obama's inauguration from a half-mile away.On the one hand, you will be able to say you were there. And just like any baby boomer who went to Woodstock forgets about (or romanticizes) the hassles, you will be able to say "I was there." And that's a very, v

  January 20, 2009

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Digital Bloating

  December 7, 1995

• Miss Pop Rocks Watches the Super Bowl

  Oh God, my stomach is so distended. WHY do I do this to myself every Super Bowl Sunday? I watch one football game each year and it's this one, and the only reason I watch it is to have an excuse to eat snacks and watch commercials. A few thoughts on this year's game: First of all, choirs are very in, apparently. Both Faith Hill and Bruce Springsteen had choirs in their shows. Speaking of The Boss, did you check out his crotch slide right into the camera during the halftime gig? We were at

  February 3, 2009

• Spicy Proposition

  August 20, 1998

• Richie Havens, Still Looking Forward

  The Old Balladeer

  January 15, 2009

• Rave Rules

  No one over 25 should be in attendance, but if you are, here's the game plan

  November 16, 2000

• A Super-Patriotic July 4 Playlist

  Have You Forgotten?

  July 3, 2008

• Gimme Shelter

  February 28, 2008

• Michael Winslow

  The man with ten thousand noises comes to Houston

  February 14, 2008

• Les Claypool

  June 4, 2009

• Hawg Stop Blues Fest

  Sunday, September 3, 11335 Sheldon, 281-456-7867

  August 31, 2006

• Rebel with a Cause

  Dimebag lives on in these new recordings

  June 1, 2006

• The Houston Press's top DVD picks for the week of September 13

  September 15, 2005

• Canned Heat, with Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy and the Daddylongnecks

  Saturday, April 9, at the Hawg Stop, 11335 Sheldon, 281-456-7867

  April 7, 2005

• Playbill

  December 16, 2004

• Rock of Ages

  Mayor of the Sunset Strip presides over pop

  April 29, 2004

• Bacharach Meets Isley

  Here I Am (DreamWorks)

  December 11, 2003

• Folk Art

  More than 30 years after opening "Alice's Restaurant," Arlo Guthrie still packs 'em in

  October 12, 2000

• One Nation Under a Groove

  Director Greg Harrison depicts a rave generation looking for love and truth in a warehouse

  June 29, 2000

• Playbill

  Coming This Week

  September 30, 1999

• Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Have a Pepsi

  Country Joe's still politically correct (sort of)

  February 2, 1995

• Summer of Salvation

  May 21, 2009

• Playbill: Matisyahu & Les Claypool Tonight at the House Of Blues

  Fans of the 1990s funk-metal band Primus can't forget that famous Woodstock '94 footage, where the band's resident bass god, Les Claypool, dexterously covered Metallica's "Master of Puppets," slapping out the guitar part on his signature Carl Thompson. To top it off, he then brought out legendary grunge guitarist Jerry Cantrell, and spent the next 10 minutes going lick for lick with Alice in Chains' axe madman.

  June 8, 2009

• Remembering 1969, Part 1: Altamont, Rosemary's Baby, Santana at Woodstock and More

  1968 might have been - at least politically - one of the most turbulent years of the '60s. Students rioted left - specifically, the Left Bank in Paris - and right against the war in Vietnam, while back home racial tensions escalated, especially after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The political landscape shifted that year as Robert Kennedy was assassinated, opening the door for the Republican Party, via Richard Nixon, to rise to power. But 1969 proved to be an equally important one f

  June 10, 2009

• Joe Cocker

  June 11, 2009

• Back to the Dead

  July 23, 2009

• Summer Fest Snapshots: Hippie Mike and the Paint Kids

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ If you attended this weekend's Summer Fest in Eleanor Tinsley Park, you may have found yourself as enchanted as Rocks Off was with "Mike." The skinny hippie child of Asian decent could be seen all over the grounds at the most opportune times. Sunday, our day began by meeting him on the hill near the entrance as he glided down the decline with a cup full of grapes. Rocks Off took one from him as a show of good faith, then subsequently prayed to God it wasn't injected wi

  August 10, 2009

• Z

  August 13, 2009

• Things to Do This Weekend If You're (Almost) Broke

  Friday​The freaky folk band everyone's talking about, listenlisten, helps Block 7 Wine Co. (720 Shepherd) celebrate its grand opening this evening with Robert Ellis. Festivities continue Saturday with Runaway Sun (9 p.m.) and Sunday with Kenneth Scott (8 p.m.). No cover. The adorable Cop Warmth headlines a seizure-inducing bill at Mango's with How I Quit Crack, Austin's Mutating Meltdown and //Tense//. $5. Armadillo World Headquarters survivors Cleve and Sweet Mary Hattersley step out from beh

  August 14, 2009

• Dirty, Dirty Hippies Were the Least Odious of Woodstock's Many Shameful Legacies

  This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, as if you needed us to remind you. Documentaries, feature films, tours and boxed CD sets have been rolling out all summer in order to wring still more cash from the corpses of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and - to a lesser extent - Country Joe McDonald, who's not even actually dead. Overt commercialism and media oversaturation, while annoying, are at the very least proof of Woodstock's lasting impact on American culture. Unfortunately, there a

  August 14, 2009

• For Woodstock: The Five Lamest Hippies In The Movies

  Forty years ago this weekend, hundreds of thousands of unkempt youngsters descended on the town of Bethel, NY for an advertised "three days of peace and music." Woodstock has since become etched into our country's history, not just for symbolizing the 1960s, but also for unleashing the continuing threat to our national security that is the hippie. Popularly maligned for their (lack of) hygiene and adherence to outdated values like peace and love, hippies take a particular beating in popular cult

  August 14, 2009

• Bonus MP3 of the Day: Whiskey Boat & the Supersuckers Do Neil Young's "Powderfinger"

  ​"Powderfinger" has always been one of Rocks Off's favorite Neil Young songs, up there with "Cowgirl In the Sand" and "Rockin' In the Free World." You know things are headed for trouble from the first line - "Look out mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river" - as a young man who just turned 22 tries valiantly but in vain to defend his home against that menacing vessel with a "big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail." "Powderfinger" first appeared on Young's landmark 1979 live al

  August 14, 2009

• Aftermath: We Were Wolves and Satin Hooks, Born to Be Wild at the Mink

  Photos by Chris Gray​ It's been false-starting for a couple of years, but that grunge revival may be right around the corner - if it ever went anywhere in the first place. Beaumont's We Were Wolves plugged into the Mudhoney machine at the Mink Tuesday night, crafting sludgy sheets of guitar noise to contend with screamed and howled vocals over sledgehammer bass and drums. Then they won us over forever with a completely unironic and totally groovy cover of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild." It's

  August 19, 2009

• Crosby, Stills & Nash

  August 27, 2009

• Ruining Woodstock

  August 27, 2009

• Jimi Hendrix Covers: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (P.S. John Mayer Still Sucks)

  This week marks the 39th anniversary of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, which is famous for a couple of reasons. First, it was such a financial disaster it put the kibosh on any further Wight fesivals for the next 32 years. Second, and more importantly, it marked the penultimate performance of one James Marshall Hendrix. Hendrix's career barely spanned four years, but his influence continues to this day. This has led to a more or less constant stream of wannabe fret jockeys whose greatest lega

  August 26, 2009

• The Forgotten Festival

  September 3, 2009

• Bayou Beat: Catch Rocks Off on Inside the Scene Online, "Troubador Tuesdays" at House of Blues, Greg Ashley Returns, etc.

  If you missed Channel 39's Inside the Scene documentary about this year's Houston Press Music Awards, you can now watch it online here. Rocks Off, who absent-mindedly forgot to set his DVR (mostly because we don't have one), hears he came off as remarkably well-spoken and erudite, so thanks to the 39 production crew for the nifty editing job. This evening, House of Blues and KPFT's Lone Star Jukebox are partnering up for the first in a series of "Troubador Tuesdays," happy-hour events (5-8 p.m.

  September 8, 2009

• ACL Fest Preview: Five Outdoor Music Festivals That Could Have Gone a Lot Better

  The 2009 Austin City Limits Festival kicks off Friday, and many of you are no doubt devising parking strategies and grappling with various permutations of 'How will I make it from the [a] set at [b] stage in time to catch [x]'s set at the [y] stage?' It's a serious dilemma, as ACL always puts together a solid lineup. Our only advice to you is to blow off Dave Matthews and head to the Ginger Man. But aside from that, you probably have other lingering concerns. Music festivals are notoriously cha

  October 1, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Who'll Stop the Rain?

  Photo by Mark C. AustinThe Scabs​That was the question on Saturday, when downpours tested the drainage properties of the newly laid Zilker Park sod to test. Curiously, with the air still warm, the crowd seemed to take the growing swamp in stride, but you have to guess that with all the muddy-buddy action (Woodstock 40, friends?) the new field is going to need some attention, stat. One of the positive side benefits of the rain was that it forced folks to check out the off-neglected space th

  October 4, 2009