Alan Haynes: Last Saturday of every month, 8 p.m., $5. The Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby, Houston, 713-523-9999.

Allen Stone: Fri., May 17, 8 p.m., $18/$20. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston, 713-225-5483.

Austin Lounge Lizards: Fri., May 3, 7 p.m., $20/$22. McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, Houston, 713-528-5999.

Authority Zero: With Ballyhoo and Versus the World, Thu., July 18, 8 p.m., $14/$16. Scout Bar, 18307 Egret Bay Blvd., Houston, 281-335-0002.

Carrie Rodriguez: Fri., May 10, 8:30 p.m., $20. Dosey Doe Music Cafe, 463 F.M. 1488, Conroe, 936-271-2171.

Daughn Gibson: Fri., Aug. 9, 8 p.m., TBA. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston, 713-862-3838.

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Adam Ant: Sat., July 27, 8 p.m., $28-$300. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston.

Air Supply: Thu., May 9, 8:30 p.m., $158-$218. Dosey Doe, 25911 I-45 N., Spring.

Alt-J: CHANGED With Lord Huron., Fri., Sept. 27, 8 p.m., $30/$35. Bayou Music Center, 520 Texas, Houston.

The Appleseed Cast: With Life and Times, Muscle Worship., Fri., July 12, 8 p.m., $12/$16. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston.

Armin Van Buuren: With Surain, Jeff Chen., Thu., May 23, 9 p.m., $40-$60. Stereo Live, 6400 Richmond, Houston.

Austin Smith: With B.E. Godfrey, Idyl, Eli., Fri., May 17, 8 p.m., $5. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston.

Ben Taylor: Thu., May 16, 8 p.m., $20. Dosey Doe, 25911 I-45 N., Spring.

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Rich's in slightly happier times -- DJ Ferry Corsten's show in May 2012

UPDATE (Monday, 5:45 p.m.) Cade Michals is a spokesman for Rich's Sacred Ground, not a partner.

No doubt this is not the way Rich's wanted to celebrate its 30th anniversary this year. The most recent tenants of the long-running and equally star-crossed Midtown dance club closed their doors Friday with no reason given but a promise to return, according to a post on the club's Facebook page.

"We regret to inform you that Rich's has closed its doors," the message said. "Thank you for all the years of support and stay tuned for future announcements regarding shows, promotions, etc! Thank you Houston!"

A further note by Rich's in the comments section said, "We will be announcing new plans soon! Thanks for all the love and support!"

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Pop star Rihanna's concert scheduled for tonight at Toyota Center has been postponed due to "illness," according to an announcement Rocks Off recived moments ago from promoter Live Nation.

"Unfortunately, as a result of illness Rihanna is unable to perform this evening at Houston's Toyota Center," the statement said. "Fans are instructed to retain their tickets to this event pending rescheduled show date information."

This must be sudden, because we just got our confirmation for media credentials to cover the show about an hour ago. Interestingly, the statement added that tomorrow's show scheduled for Dallas' American Airlines Center will proceed as planned.

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Something tells us Action Bronson might enjoy a little "White Noise" himself.

Free Press Summer Fest has added about a dozen artists, many of them local, to the lineup of this year's festival taking place June 1 and 2 in Eleanor Tinsley Park near downtown. For the first time, it will be offering a festival-specific beer to help wash them all down.

According to a press release from FPSF Friday morning, joining the performers announced on February 27 will be Queens rapper Action Bronson and Dead Oceans psychedelic indie-rockers A Place to Bury Strangers. Two fast-rising Austin Americana acts, roots-rockers the Wheeler Brothers and soul siren Emily Bell, were also added.

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The Rolling Stones announced the dates of their 2013 North American tour Wednesday morning, and Houstonians who were hoping to see the band on the North American edition of their 50th anniversary celebration will have to either hop on a plane or wait for a possible second leg.

The tour, announced on YouTube, will hit Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Las Vegas, Anaheim, Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. With the L.A. date still TBD (pending the NBA and NHL playoff schedules), the first concrete date is May 5 in Oakland, through June 18 in Philly.

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This afternoon Live Nation announced that Mumford & Sons, the UK acoustic-rock quartet that has already, um, borrowed more than one page from U2's playbook -- the anthemic songs, Old Testament imagery, missionary zeal and sometimes overwhelming earnestness -- will make its Houston-area debut somewhere U2 has never played: Wednesday, June 12, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.

Unless we are grossly mistaken, the Mumfords, actually front man Marcus Mumford and his three London mates, have never been to Houston before. They have been to SXSW (of course), and then to Marfa on the first Railroad Revival tour alongside Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, but the only time we've ever heard tell of Mumford in Houston is Under the Volcano and Leon's Lounge owner Pete Mitchell adding debut album Sigh No More to the Volcano jukebox long before anyone else had even heard of them.

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I mean, come on...

Lock up your "Daughters": John Mayer, the soft-rock singer-songwriter and self-styled bluesman, has reportedly split with squeeze Katy Perry, and now -- surely not by coincidence -- he'll be on tour this summer.

This morning Live Nation announced that Mr. Room for Squares will stop by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on Friday, July 12, as part of his first significant tour in three years behind last year's album Born and Raised. Even more infuriatingly, one of Mayer's musical spawn, former American Idol winner Phillip Phillips of the ubiquitous song "Home," will be opening the show.

Mayer once inspired one of Rocks Off's interns at the time to write a post called "John Mayer Is Full of Crap." It may have been one of the nicest things we've written about him over the years, though we tried to give him a break in this 2010 review, despite the photo where he looks like he's passing a kidney stone.

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This may be the end of the line for Pearl Bar. The once-crowded jewel of the Washington Avenue bar scene has apparently been locked out by its landlord for nonpayment of rent.

The above notice was posted on the door of Pearl Wednesday night, and the photo was sent our way by a friend of Rocks Off's a few minutes ago. Of course, Pearl was in the news in January when agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and state comptroller's office visited the bar and confiscated cash to count against a back-tax bill a comptroller's spokesman estimated at more than $40,000.

Between then and now, Sawyer Park, another once-popular Washington bar, also closed.

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We have some excellent music writers here at the Houston Press and Rocks Off. But we'd like a few more. It's a big city out there, and a vast music scene.

So Rocks Off is looking to add a few more stalls to our stables, a few more arrows to our quiver, a few more shades to our color wheel. We want to meet some new people who are as passionate about music and writing as we are and who wouldn't mind a little more walking-around money.

It's a lot more than reviewing shows, too, in case you're curious. We do plenty of that, but at Rocks Off we also indulge in interviews, commentary, analysis, list-making, breaking news and occasional bouts of tomfoolery. Music writing should be fun, but we take everything we do very seriously.

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