Iggy Pop

The Best Shows of SXSW 2013

This year, Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night, the music blog at our sister paper Dallas Observer, teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. John Fogerty: Creedence Clearwater Revival survivor John Fogerty gets overl ... More >>

Tempe's Playboy Manbaby Are a Middle Finger to Hip Music

Five Great Lost Albums

By Mark Keresman Brian Eno was quoted as saying, "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Rock history is filled with bands and albums that were somewhat unappreciated in their time yet occupy an enviable (by some people, at any rate) ... More >>

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan Launch Production Company; Taylor Explains

There's always been a connection between horror flicks and heavy metal, so it comes as sort of a surprise that it's taken Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan of Slipknot this long to start a Living Breathing Films, a film and television production company aimed at creating "psychological dramas." Th ... More >>

Against Me! and The Cult at Marquee Theatre, 6/22/12

The Cult and Against Me! Marquee Theatre Friday, June 22 See also: The Cult's Ian Astbury Ain't No Caveman (He's the Wolf Child) See our full Against Me! and The Cult at Marquee Theatre slideshow. Last night's lineup was strange, to say the least. Noise rockers The Icarus Line drew comparison ... More >>

Old Art Punk Eddy Detroit Returns, Thanks to Revolver Records' New Imprint

The Ten Best Posthumous Albums

​Today, Universal Music Enterprises will re-release a handful of albums by the late Tupac Shakur, including the posthumous album R U still Down? (Remember Me). Originally released in 1997 (a year after Shakur's murder), R U Still Down? was one of the rapper's best-selling albums, going quadruple ... More >>

The Persuaders' Lawrence Zubia on Major Labels, The Tempe Scene, and New Album

​Featuring former members of Tempe jangle-pop kings The Pistoleros, Dead Hot Workshop, The Gin Blossoms, and Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, The Persuaders debuted earlier this year, cranking out the same kind of melodic pop rock that defined the sound of their earlier bands.If you've spent any ... More >>

Grinderman: Grinderman 2

​Artist: GrindermanTitle: Grinderman 2Release date: September 14Label: Anti-Most of the indie rock I've heard this year (well over 200 records and counting, with 11 weeks to go in this series) is really pretty toothless. Even the harder-rocking stuff, with its big drums or wall-of-sound guitars or ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

​What more can be said about May's slate of new releases that hasn't already been said? I have been proclaiming this month as the year's best for new releases, and LCD Soundsystem only solidify that with their newest effort, This Is Happening. The lead single from the album "Drunk Girls" was a war ... More >>

Raconteur Brendan Benson Wonders Whether Music Is Enough

Rapper Cage’s Depart From Me is Hardly a Rap Album

Kepi Ghoulie

Future Shock: Alicia Keys, Buckethead, The Hives, and more

Punk's Not Dead: Glass Heroes and Lower Class Brats at the Brickhouse

Travis

These Boots Were Made for Rockin'

And you can't call them Al

Gutter Depravity

P-town's party patrol belly-flops into divey Ky's for free pool, cheap booze and hella-hot bar tarts

Moby

Hotel
(V2 Records)

Boss Hawgs

Ride to live at Bike Week

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

John Hiatt

Veteran songwriter sings his own

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Punk Rock Paradise

Our demon scribes hit the Rogue, the best place to see girls take off their tops and French kiss

Like Clockwork

Stray Cat Theatre's A Clockwork Orange is a bit of the glam, mate

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Jam Land

Local improv musicians converge on Sail Inn for 4:20 Fest. Sedona may lie in their future.

Gypsy Jamboree

Gogol Bordello romps through a theater of punk, Gypsy folk and the macabre

Let It Blast

Listen up, punk: New Bomb Turks are bawdy, bold and sick of whiners

Drive Away

The members of Sparta leave At the Drive-In, expectations and a so-called hiatus behind

Bellrays de Jour

California's amphetamine punk-soul revue wants to knock some sense into America

Excess Baggage

Jane's Addiction tries to find relevance in a rock world it helped to shape

Band Aid

Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

Let's See Action

Mogwai mouths off, shuts up, and releases its most rewarding album yet

Fun, Fun, Fun

Local promoter stages a wild and woolly music festival

The Scientists

Blood Red River 1982-1984 (Citadel, Australian import)

Just Desserts

After a messy split, Sugar High returns, refining its sweet sound with Ice Cream Anti-Social

Really Raw Power

A new, exhaustive Rhino boxed set documents how Iggy and the Stooges created a new genre of music and a now-classic American rock album

Hearts Full of Napalm

Three decades after the fact, L.A.'s Streetwalkin' Cheetahs make good on that old Detroit Rock City promise

Recordings

Single Live Gonzo!

Before the double live album, there was "THE SINGLE LIVE ALBUM!" Here are some noteworthy and note-fudging selections.

TV Dinner

Trashman channel-surfs his way into hell

Glam Illusion

Every glitter bit helps in Todd Haynes' retro-rock Velvet Goldmine

Whiskey River

R.L. Burnside's passion for alcohol is matched only by his command of rawboned Delta blues

Recordings

Poppin' Off

Basking in the glory of coolness that is Cherry Poppin' Daddies, woefully unsung heroes of evolutionary, cross-genre rock

Feel Eddie's Pain

Ziggy Don't Mosh

DO LOOK BACK

THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS