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Even if you're not excited by what could perhaps be the highest-scoring, most exciting Super Bowl in years - or at least amused by all the bickering between thin-skinned Colts and Saints fans - The W... More >>
Selena Quintanilla Perez, as most Texans know, was gunned down by her former fan-club president Yolanda Saldivar in a Corpus Christi motel in March 1995, just as the Tejano superstar was crossing ove... More >>
Rocks Off is pleased as punch to announce that Houston mash-up maestro Dave Wrangler will be providing the tunes for our douche-tastic "Washington Shore" party at the Washington Avenue Drinkery on Fe... More >>
rExene Cervenka is one of those musicians who makes an interviewer nervous; like, you hope the questions you come up with are good enough not to piss her off, or worse, laugh at you. Besides a publis... More >>
As you probably know by now, it's possible to find just about anything on the Internet. Nevertheless, Noise was shocked — shocked, we tell... More >>
...or did theyr Rocks Off has the slightest feeling Omar Afra and friends might be messing with us. But who knowsr We bet they're right about Geoffrey Muller's bands, though.... More >>
Ever been thrown from a mechanical bullr Rocks Off has, and it ain't fun. Nevertheless, if you think you have the stones (literally) to follow in the bootsteps of Urban Cowboy's Buford Uan "Bud" Davis... More >>
[UPDATED to include AEG President and CEO Timothy J. Leiwecke's statement about the merger.] r Via CNBC, businessinsider.com reported Monday morning that the U.S. Justice Department has approved the ... More >>
Between fighting crime, reducing global warming, mending our socks and, you know, everything else Rocks Off does when we're away from the office, we caught a good bit of Friday evening's "Hope for Ha... More >>
Our sister paper in NYC's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released its Pazz & Jop poll Thursday. The annual coast-to-coast survey of music critics ranks the previous year's best (according to th... More >>
Even though it misrepresents a bunch of funky Australian pub-rockers as a New Wave band, "Don't Change," from 1982's Shabooh Shoobah, broke INXS on U.S. college radio long before "What You Need" or "... More >>
On the heels of Bun B's all-star (if borderline interminable) "Houston 4 Haiti" relief concert at Warehouse Live Monday night that reportedly raised in the neighborhood of $10,000, the venue will ope... More >>
Towards the end of last week, Rocks Off got the latest issue of Texas Music magazine in the mail, which just happens to mark the quarterly periodical's tenth anniversary. Naturally, as just about ever... More >>
Eric Davis, whose application to erect a state historical marker for iconic Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins was approved by the Harris County Historical Commission in November, said today his campai... More >>
Eric Davis, whose application to erect a state historical marker for iconic Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins was approved by the Harris County Historical Commission in November, said today his campai... More >>
We won't go so far as to say it means we're "maturing," but one sure sign Noise is getting older is that recently we've begun paying much more... More >>
Surprise. But the headliner is married to one.... More >>
The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo announced the lineup for its smaller Hideout venue this morning and, well, it's countrier than the Black Eyed Peas. This year's bill includes "Here for the Part... More >>
[Thanks to our buddy, former Meridian talent buyer John Escamilla, for posting this on Facebook.] r The New Year's Eve gig must not have gone well at all. Twenty minutes into 2010, a La Porte man post... More >>
We will resume our regularly scheduled buffoonery soon enough, but if Rocks Off lives to be 100 years old (and we're still working here), we will post this song every MLK Day. As long as people keep ... More >>
Rocks Off is a big fan of the honky-tonk, Southern rock and all things bluesy and soulful (as you may have guessed), but our first love will always be the throb and grind of industrial music. Seriousl... More >>
After all the death in the music world the last couple of days, Rocks Off figured everyone could use a laugh this dreary Friday morning. Luckily, we can always count on Cornbreadd in a pinch. Bless h... More >>
Teddy Pendergrass, one of the main voices of the ultra-smooth "Philly Soul" sound of the '70s, passed away Wednesday evening in a Philadelphia hospital. The R&B singer had been hospitalized for s... More >>
Yes, Houston, they'll be back...rWhenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon - which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit - the one word that always comes to mind is "punctuation." No other band we ... More >>
Last week, shareholders of both Ticketmaster and Live Nation voted to approve the companies' impending merger, which was first announced last February. The stock price of both companies rose sharply ... More >>
