Zydeco Music

The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Iceage, Fleetwood Mac, Chubby Carrier, etc.

Iceage Mango's, June 3 Not even out of their teens, Denmark's Iceage caused quite a stir within the indie-punk world a couple of years ago with New Brigade, an album that was almost pure id. With one nihilistic fuzz-bomb after another, it caused some critics to suggest a latter-day Joy Division wit ... More >>

Buckwheat Zydeco

Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners

Juneteenth: A Gulf Coast Good Time In A Hipster-Free Zone

Photos courtesy of Miller Theatre Advisory BoardGlen David Andrews (left) and "Mardi Gras Indian" Terrence Gasper​Sunday's Juneteenth extravaganza at Miller Outdoor Theatre proved to be another chapter in why, here at Rocks Off, we love our town. In spite of Hades-like mid-afternoon temperatur ... More >>

Saturday Night: Accordion Kings & Queens At Miller Outdoor Theatre

Photos courtesy of Miller Outdoor Theatre Advisory BoardBrave Combo​Accordion Kings & Queens Festival Miller Outdoor Theatre June 4, 2011 Timing can be everything. And it only took about ten seconds standing in the wings 20 feet from Clifton Chenier's former guitarist Lil Buck Sinegal and the ... More >>

Texas Zydeco, In Five Indelible Images

​One of Rocks Off's main resolutions most years is to both see more zydeco and write about it more often. Unfortunately, we don't get out to the country as often as we should, and no one ever seems to want to give us a ride to Jax Grill on Friday evenings. We have to remind ourselves to check ... More >>

Lucinda Williams, Spearhead, Kronos Quartet Headed To iFest

​The Houston International Festival, better known as iFest, announced its 2011 lineup late Thursday night. Here are some of the highlights: FRIDAY, APRIL 29 World Stage: Kronos Quartet feat. Homayun Sakhi; Houston Youth Symphony String Quartet; Houston Grand Opera SATURDAY, APRIL 30 World ... More >>

iFest Concert Series

Yes, There Is An HPMA Best Zydeco Category After All

​Rocks Off likes to think we're man enough to admit when we've made a mistake, and now's our chance to prove it. When we clicked through the nomination ballot last month, and then went over the pages and pages of documents with the results, somehow we managed to miss Best Zydeco both times. S ... More >>

iFest Aftermath: A Whirlwind Afternoon With Zydepunks, Some Cha-Chas, Taj Weekes And Dave Alvin's Guilty Women

Jason WolterZydepunks​ There was a moment as Aftermath was walking through the Caribbean Market section of iFest Saturday when we had the most visceral of flashbacks -- stepping off a Carnival cruise boat at the rip old age of 14 in Nassau, Bahamas, and being inundated by tourist-baiting marketeer ... More >>

Houston International Festival

HPMA: We Have Some Winners: Little Joe Washington, Cornbreadd, Flying Fish Sailors

Chris Gray​ Umbrella Man got the HPMAs off to a rousing start with some heel-kicking, toe-tapping zydeco gospel - after they cleared off the cables so hobbled singer Kam could get to center stage on her Rascal-like scooter. Then the first round of winners was announced... Best Folk: Flying Fish S ... More >>

Bike & Bugs II

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Accordion Kings & Queens Festival

The Collector: Going Backwards

How Mack McCormick put the z before the y and created z-y-d-e-c-o

The Accordion Kings and Queens

Give it a squeeze

Creole Heritage Zydeco & Crawfish Festival

Great music and all the mudbugs you can eat — who could ask for more?

Zydecowboys

Allons danser at Jax Grill's Zydeco Night

Bayou City Cajun Festival

Will it be eat first and dance later, or vice versa, at this zydeco party?

Zydepunks, with Blaggards

solo zydeco festival

The good times roll into Humble

Texas Zydeco Hits the Big Screen

Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers

Worldwide

Bluerunners, Two Hoots & a Holler

concert preview

Shot Fired at KPFT During Zydeco Program

Goodbye Joe, Me Gotta Go

There are 25,000 Cajuns in Houston. Almost none of them play Cajun music. Why not?

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

H-Town Zydeco

Dr. Roger Wood and James Fraher serve up another heaping helping of Houston music lore

Easy Like Sunday Afternoon

These N'awlins musicos are a real Eyeopener

C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band

Friday, October 14, at the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival, Downtown Square, Conroe, 832-298-4161.

Cajun Cave

At Roadhouse dance hall, the party starts at 2 p.m. every Saturday

J. Paul Jr. and the Zydeco Nubreedz

Zeality (Self-released)

Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaws

From: Step 2 U (Bridge Entertainment)

Wham, Bam, Thank You MAMH

The proposed Museum of American Music History could be the solution to our "image problem"

Clear Channel Cajun Invasion

April 5 through 7

Nouveau Zydeco

Conroe's J. Paul Jr. is a zydeco rebel

Squeeze City

Mark Halata hopes his Texavian strains can be heard in a town full of accordions

Old-School Rules

Wilfred Chevis provides the link between Clifton Chenier and the Zydeco Dots

Treasure Hunter

Chris Strachwitz's 40-year journey through ethnic music deserves an arhoolie of its own

Wayne Toups

Possumneck, Mississippi's answer to Springsteen

Zydeco Kingdom

Travelers and artists from all over descend on Opelousas, Louisiana, for its annual celebration

Local Rotation

Leon Sam and the Zydeco Dots

Accordion Corleone

H-Town Get Down

Crosby, Texas, hosts some of zydeco's finest

Helping Hands

Coming This Week

Swamp Ghosts

Racial tensions still haunt Geno Delafose's Louisiana stomping ground

Gare-on-teed Phat

L'il Brian Terry drags zydeco into the hip-hop era by mixing it with rap

Zydeco Rap?

Houston's Step Rideau drags Creole music into the '00s

Zydeco's Birthplace

Hint: It's where you're standing

Rotation

Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds, Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band, Verbena