Email AuthorRocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Jeezy, CCA Conservation Concert, etc.
May 17, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Marco TorresJeezy at Arena Theatre, August 2010Jeezy Arena Theatre, May 17 A self-proclaimed hustler on the mike, the Atlanta rapper known as Young Jeezy has grown up quite a bit...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Swift, etc.
May 13, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Paul ElledgeSmashing Pumpkins 2013 (L-R): Nicole Fiorentino, Billy Corgan, Matt Byrne, Jeff SchroederFree Radicals Avant Garden, May 13 Free Radicals is both Nick Cooper's revolving-door ensemble that at any given...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Lost Bayou Ramblers, Daft Punk Tribute, etc.
May 10, 2013 in Rocks Off
Will Downing Bayou Music Center, May 10 Known for his rich baritone vocals and an unabashed devotion to romantic ballads, Will Downing may be the quintessential ladies man, so keep a close...
Featured Entry
UPDATED: The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: The Killers, Carolyn Wonderland, etc.
May 06, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Torey MundkowskyThe Killers' Brandon Flowers at then-Verizon Wireless Theater in 2009UPDATE (Monday, 5:20 p.m.): Due to a flat-out mistake, we thought the Collie Buddz show at House of...
RIP Jeff Hanneman: Slayer at Verizon Theater In September 2010
May 03, 2013 in Rocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best of iFest's Second Weekend: Aaron Neville, Sergent Garcia, Grupo Fantasma, etc.
April 29, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photos by Jody PerryAaron Neville After four certified platinum albums and a few Grammys, Aaron Neville -- now 72 -- would have had every right to hang it all up years...
Hazy Highlights From This Past Weekend's Austin Psych Fest
April 29, 2013 in Rocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: The Airborne Toxic Event, Paul van Dyk, etc.
April 29, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Autumn DeWildeThe Airborne Toxic Event House of Blues, April 29 What happens when you layer dynamic, symphonic arrangements, painfully guttural vocals, and a wicked viola player? You wind up with...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Black Mountain, the Black Crowes, BRMC, etc.
April 26, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Marc BrubakerBlack Mountain at Warehouse Live in November 2010Black Mountain Rudyard's, April 26 On their way to this weekend's Austin Psych Fest, Canadian drone-pop act Black Mountain are swinging by...
Featured Entry
Acts You Shouldn't Miss at iFest's Second Weekend
April 25, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photos courtesy of Houston International FestivalTexas Brass Band Bud Light World Music Stage, 1 p.m. April 27; Houston Press Rocks Off Texas Music Stage, 4:30 p.m. April 27 The Texas Brass Band...
The Best Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two
April 22, 2013 in Rocks Off
The Worst Things at Coachella This Year, Weekend Two
April 22, 2013 in Rocks Off
The Best of iFest's First Weekend: The Wailers, Fatoumata Diarawa, etc.
April 22, 2013 in Rocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Carrie Underwood, Filter, Paramore, etc.
April 22, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Marco TorresCarrie Underwood Toyota Center, April 23 Seemingly shoved off the queen-of-country throne by Taylor Swift's ascendancy, Carrie Underwood may have taken the title right back now that Swift has...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Cave Singers, Buzzfest, Crystal Castles, etc.
April 19, 2013 in Rocks Off
Jagjaguwar RecordsThe Cave SingersCave Singers Fitzgerald's, April 19 The Cave Singers are hard to pin down. Made from parts of Pretty Girls Make Graves and the Blood Brothers, among other decidedly less...
Featured Entry
Acts You Shouldn't Miss at iFest's First Weekend
April 18, 2013 in Rocks Off
Rocks Off asked our staff members who will be covering the Houston International Festival for us this weekend to give us one or two choices for artists they don't want...
The Worst of Coachella, Weekend One
April 15, 2013 in Rocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best of Coachella, Weekend One
April 15, 2013 in Rocks Off
Ed. Note: Rocks Off proudly presents to our readers coverage of Coachella's first weekend courtesy of our sister papers LA Weekly and OC Weekly. Photo by Christopher VictorioKaren OKaren O's Outfit Karen...
Featured Entry
The Best Shows In Houston This Week: Rihanna, Suzanna Choffel, Wavves, etc.
April 15, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by GroovehouseRihanna at Toyota Center in July 2011Rihanna Toyota Center, April 15 Rihanna has combined her athletic stature, formidable vocals, down-for-whatever attitude and some alarming life choices to become a flashpoint...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Travis Tritt, Adam Bricks, John Digweed, etc.
April 12, 2013 in Rocks Off
Good Job Underground on FacebookGood Job Underground Fitzgerald's, April 13 Spring's Good Job Underground has been one of the most underrated rock duos of the past few years around these parts. If...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Sigur Ros, Anthrax, Esben & the Witch, etc.
April 08, 2013 in Rocks Off
Photo by Lilja BirgisdttirSigur Ros Bayou Music Center, April 9 Iceland's Sigur Ros has been one of rock's most influential acts for the past decade and change since their second LP, 1999's...
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Josh Turner, K-Rino, Romeo Santos, etc.
April 05, 2013 in Rocks Off
joshturner.comJosh Turner at CMA Music Fest in 2010Josh Turner Nutty Jerry's (Winnie), April 5 It's hard to keep up with every new country crooner that comes over the pop-twang airwaves, but thankfully...
Last Shot: A Concert Photographer's Battle With Cancer
April 02, 2013 in Rocks Off
Featured Entry
The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Bill Carter, Chase Hamblin, Deftones, etc.
March 29, 2013 in Rocks Off
Bill Carter McGonigel's Mucky Duck, March 29 With wife/writing partner Ruth Ellsworth, Bill Carter co-wrote 1989's "Crossfire," one of Stevie Ray Vaughan's last big hits. That song went on to earn music...
The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Free Radicals, Scott Weiland, Elton John, etc.
March 25, 2013 in Rocks Off
