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Yet another funny bit Rocks Off discovered via the time-wasting miracle that is Twitter, via the Boston Phoenix's blog - our new president impersonating a foul-mouthed old friend in the... More >>
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A few more details are starting to emerge in the death of Cramps frontman Lux Interior. The Los Angeles Times says Interior, 60, passed away Wednesday from a preexisting heart condition at Glen... More >>
The Snake Charmers Been Gone Too Long www.snakecharmers.net Contrary to popular belief, the blues is mostly about restraint; a few carefully chosen and timed notes are almost always preferable to... More >>
It saddens Rocks Off, deeply, to pass this along, but evidently Lux Interior, founder and frontman of psychobilly godfathers (and all-around badasses) the Cramps, has died. Details are extremely... More >>
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that entertainment megacorp Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing agency and an important player in artist management... More >>
[Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: ... More >>
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That lovable scamp Mojo Nixon just played this song on his Sirius XM Outlaw Country shift, and now only God knows when Rocks Off is going to be able to scrub his mind clean of "Pussy-Eatin' Pamela,"... More >>
Rocks Off is what a good friend likes to call "last caveman to the fire," meaning whenever some form of new technology comes along, he procrastinates as long as possible before embracing it. Howe... More >>
This should be a slam dunk. It's the Season 1 finale of MTV's reality show 50 Cent: The Money and the Power. On the line is a... More >>
Next year this decade will be over, and very few new bands have distinguished themselves either at the turnstiles or the cash register. Even one of the main ones that has, the Ki... More >>
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Attention local musicians: Would you like to pass along some of your hard-earned knowledge to the younger generationr And, in doing so, perhaps keep a few lucky high-schoolers from selling their ... More >>
Part 1: "10th Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Born to Run" Score another one for the old folks. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's quarter-hour onstage at Super Bowl XLIII Sunday night may not have ... More >>
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It was 40 years ago today... "Get Back" into both Houston and London's past today when the same band that performed the Beatles' White Album front-to-back last November recreates the Fab Four... More >>
There's an interesting supplement in the new issue of Texas Monthly, the one with all-but-declared gubernatorial candidate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on the cover. It's a 32-page mini-mag called T... More >>
Houston mash-up master Dave Wrangler recently remixed Animal Collective's "My Girls," from the Brooklyn buzzmongers' brand-new Merriweather Post Pavilion, for German Web site Byte.fm. It's someth... More >>
Overture, La Nozze di Figaro Rocks Off can usually be counted on to forget at least one thing per day, and yesterday it just happened to be that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known in his day as the Elvi... More >>
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Rocks Off just got an email from McGonigel's Mucky Duck owner Rusty Andrews (so did everyone else on the venue's mailing list, but never mind) saying that Bruce and Charlie Robison have had to can... More >>
Yesterday, Bright Men of Learning (right) guitarist and solo performer Ben Murphy (far left), known to everyone on the Hands Up Houston message board as "bdm," announced his intention to start ... More >>
Noise has been thinking about the relationship between faith, music and religion — call it spirituality if you must — a lot lately,... More >>
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