Artist: Bottle Rockets
Live Reviews from web archive December 28, 2008
Bottle Rockets
The Bottle Rockets actually began playing together in 1992, but their first album came out in 1993, so the fifteenth-anniversary celebration they conducted this year seems reasonable enough. Given that singer-guitarist Brian Henneman and drummer Mark Ortmann have played together for more than 25 years, and that they are the only two Bottle Rockets to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Bottle Rockets – Zoysia
Based on the first two Zoysia tracks, it’s tempting to write the Bottle Rockets off as cold, calculating careerists. Knowing it’s only a matter of time before Living With War gets Neil Young drummed out of America for treason, the Festus, Missouri, four-piece takes dead aim at the Godfather of Grunge’s throne with “Better Than [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Bottle Rockets – Hell of a spell
When that scholarly malady known as writer’s block descends from the muses, it can be helpful to employ a simple little exercise. Particularly in cases where there is lots of ground to be covered and there are lots of stories to tell, sometimes the best way to divine the heart of the matter is to [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Bottle Rockets – Duck Room (St. Louis, MO)
Nearly two years had passed since the Bottle Rockets last played a full-on electric set in their near-native St. Louis. Their last appearance at the Duck Room (the remodeled basement bar once known as Cicero’s, where a band called Chicken Truck slashed and burned through Southern rock covers and original songs such as “I Drink [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Bottle Rockets – Songs Of Sahm
Alt-country mid-’90s Midwest punkers delivering a full album’s worth of songs from a cosmic, psychedelic Texan who’d spent time in San Francisco? As if Brian Henneman and Sir Doug had missed that one big chance to sit down for a heaping plate of vegetarian chow and Red Zinger tea together? Right. And yet… “The Bottle [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Bottle Rockets – Lakeside Lounge (Raleigh, NC)
Three guys half an arena away — one behind a small fortress of keyboards, one riding a revolving drum set, and one standing on an Oriental rug — and two cannons. That sums up my first-ever concert: Emerson, Lake & Palmer on the “Pirates” tour. Twenty-five years later almost to the day, I found myself [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Bottle Rockets – Brand New Year
People stood in line to see Jeff Beck at South by Southwest this year. Maybe that should have been a sign. The next night, the Bottle Rockets took the stage in full Mötorhead mode and tore off a 45-minute set of new songs. Not the same as the old songs. Brian Henneman’s been doing a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Bottle Rockets – Shank Hall (Milwaukee, WI)
So many touring bands skip Milwaukee on the way from Chicago to Minneapolis that those who do stop and sit a spell ought to be guaranteed an avid response. The Bottle Rockets didn’t sell out this 300-capacity club — named after a fictitious venue in This Is Spinal Tap — but a couple hundred fans [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #19 Jan-Feb 1999
Bottle Rockets – Leftovers
With the passing of the holiday season, you may have had your fill of leftovers. Hopefully you saved some room for the Bottle Rockets’ Leftovers, a collection of rarities and unreleased material that explores the trials and tribulations of the Mississippi River, Hank Williams, drinking too much coffee, loving the wrong woman, and being holed [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Kenny Roby & Chip Robinson / Kevin Gordon / Bottle Rockets – Gabe’s Oasis (Iowa City, IA)
With the Fourth landing on a Saturday this year, Gabe’s augmented its traditional holiday “Firecracker 500″ retro/garage/punk bash with a bonus Friday lead-in featuring the output of four songwriters whose diverse yet connected visions of roots-rock ‘n’ country clearly demonstrated why this corner of American music is as fascinating as it is hard to pin [...]
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