Email Author Craig Hlavaty

Awards

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published February 10, 2011

  "Getting Past the Bouncer"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards

  "Metallica at Toyota"

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2009 Stories by Craig Hlavaty

• Distant Early Warning: Anvil(!), David Cook, Lee Greenwood, Skatalites, Tanya Tucker, Tegan & Sara, etc.

  published Oct 13, 2009

  "13th Annual Pimp-N-Prostitute Ball" With MINIKISS, The Crisis, DJ Looney, DJ Jager, DJ Velvet: Sat., Oct. 31. Warehouse Live. Ali Zafar: Sat., Oct. 24. Arena Theatre. Anvil: Sun., Jan. 24. House of ... More >>

• R.I.P. Blue Cheer Founder and Bassist Dickie Peterson

  published Oct 12, 2009

  Front man and bassist Dickie Peterson of pioneering metallers Blue Cheer was found dead Monday morning in Germany. He was 61 years old and had reportedly been battling cancer for the past year. Blue C... More >>

• Go Ask Alice: Shock-Rockers Who Can Hang With Mr. Cooper

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Before Lady GaGa, before Clay Aiken, before Marilyn Manson, the nation's ultimate ghastly shock-rocker and parent-baiting troublemaker was Detroit's own Alice Cooper. Cooper and his band weren't the f... More >>

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  "Imagine" This: What If John Lennon Were Still With Usr

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Today marks what would have been John Lennon's 69th birthday. Just let that sink in for a moment. He was only 40 when he passed away, but in those four decades he did enough to change the world and i... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  "Just Us Ninjas Getting Shitfaced": ICP and Juggalo Nation Invade Warehouse Live

  published Oct 08, 2009

  [Ed. Note: We are happy to report that Craig Hlavaty is safe and sound, if a little under the weather. Here is his report from Wednesday's ICP show.] r "Hey man, you look lonely. How's it goin... More >>

• Sexy Halloween Costume Challenge For the Ladies

  published Oct 08, 2009

  Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid,... More >>

• Stalking the Elusive Urban Juggalo (Gulf Coast Subspecies)

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Tonight, Rocks Off will valiantly fend off the sleep fairies and attempt to hit up his first-ever Insane Clown Posse show. We don't know what to expect, but from what the Interwebs and close friends ... More >>

• Aftermath: Kings of Leon, and Their "Fans," Trying Our Patience at Toyota Center

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Aftermath has seen almost every single step on the road to fame Kings of Leon have taken since their debut album Youth and Young Manhood in 2003. We heard a track off that album in mid-2003, "Califor... More >>

• Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!: Rocks Off Presents The Shining Tonight at the Mink

  published Oct 06, 2009

  At tonight's Mink Movie Night, Rocks Off presents what is arguably the greatest psychological horror film ever made, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The film opens our month of Halloween-inflected mov... More >>

• Distant Early Warning: Cactus Music Second Anniversary, Delbert McClinton, the Marley Brothers, Mindy Smith, Queen Latifah, the Slackers, Vallejo, etc.

  published Oct 06, 2009

  "Cactus Music 2nd Anniversary Party" With The Flamin' Hellcats, DJ Joey McKeel: Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Cactus Music and Video. Arthur Yoria, Colin Lake: Wed., Oct. 28. Warehouse Live. Delbert McClinto... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Spin the Black Circle

  published Oct 05, 2009

  It only took one song in to Pearl Jam's Sunday night closing set at the Austin City Limits music festival for it to dawn on Rocks Off that for way too long this band has been forsaken by back-handed h... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Clutch Is Just That

  published Oct 05, 2009

  Ain't nothing like barn-burning metal and mud to begin your day, as Clutch began their blues metal assault at 2 p.m. just as most people were showing up to begin their dingy journey. Gotta love a man ... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Arctic Monkeys Are All Growns Up

  published Oct 04, 2009

  Just weeks after the release of their new Humbug, the Arctic Monkeys hit the AMD stage at mid-afternoon with a newly grungy sound reminiscent of Primal Scream and somehow, hairy period Kinks.rMaybe it... More >>

• ACL 2009: Best Tweets Of The Weekend

  published Oct 04, 2009

  Armed with our sort-of handy cellphone we were able to Tweet from ground level at the festival, with sometimes hilarious and vulgar results. Mostly the latter, because we are foul people. Over time, o... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Three: In Which We Fall In Lurve With White Dress

  published Oct 04, 2009

  White Dress opened for the Heartless Bastards on Thursday night in Houston, while we were at Them Crooked Vultures in Austin. We finally got to catch them just a few minutes back and sweet mama was it... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Mud!

  published Oct 04, 2009

  At this point Rocks Off is so jaded from mud, rain, bro-dudes, and janky taxi-cab politics that Eddie Vedder himself could be standing before us and we wouldn't know him from Adam Lambert. As Willem D... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Two: I Am Mulletron!

  published Oct 04, 2009

  Look twice, that's actually a fake mullet. Homeboy has a patent on this item, which is actually a sweatband with hair woven into it. With his head-to-toe camo gear we just figured he was another red-b... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day Two: !!! & Neon Indian Before The Rain

  published Oct 03, 2009

  Denton-area band Neon Indian came in at the last minute to cover for the absent Danish garage-gloomers The Raveonettes. We really dug these kids, which includes members of Ghosthustler and and VEGA. T... More >>

• ACL 2009 Snapshot: "I'm Wearing A Goofy Hat"

  published Oct 03, 2009

  "So, if you see me at the show I'm wearing a Goofy hat. Nah, not a funny hat. A Goofy hat. The dog dude from the Mickey Mouse movies. Remember that movie we watched in driver's educationr That guy. I'... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day One: Them Crooked Vultures. Duh.

  published Oct 03, 2009

  Rocks Off saw Them Crooked Vultures a little less than twenty-four hours after their pulverizing set at Stubb's on Thursday night. It was the same setlist, just harder and Grohlier. Meaning that Dave ... More >>

• ACL 2009 Snapshot: "It Was Flavored Tobacco, Mom"

  published Oct 03, 2009

  "Look, Mom. You and Roger always said 'no pills and no powders' so what's the big dealr You don't think I smelled the backyard after that barbecuer The one where all of Roger's geeky college buddies s... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day One: Kings Of Leon Rage Against The Fame

  published Oct 03, 2009

  Funny thing happened last night. It was the same thing that happened to U2 in 1987 in the wake of The Joshua Tree, and the same thing that killed Kurt Cobain in 1994. Fame has finally overtaken Kings ... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day One: Coheed & Cambria Prog Out With Their Fro's Out

  published Oct 03, 2009

  Mid-afternoon on Friday, prog-metallers Coheed & Cambria hit the stage for an hour of guitar histrionics and lead singer Claudio Sanchez's trademark Geddy Lee-style banshee's wail. With a signatur... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day One: In Which Rocks Off's Black Heart Is Melted And We Meet Vinnie Testaverde

  published Oct 03, 2009

  With another ACL comes another chance for us to sharpen our snarkening knifes and go out hunting the wilds of Zilker Park searching for only the best in surreal public displays and the fancifully misg... More >>

• ACL 2009 Day One: Eddie Vedder Bangs Along With Kings Of Leon

  published Oct 03, 2009

  Rocks Off was making the death march out to his hotel and missed this piece of ACL history. This is Kings Of Leon being augmented by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on "Slow Nights, So Long". We sho... More >>