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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2010 Stories by Craig Hlavaty

• Island Of Misfit Albums: A .38 Special Christmas

  published Dec 07, 2010

  For the whole month of December, Rocks Off will be scouring for the weirdest and worst Christmas albums that the Internet can offer. These will either be odd, seasonal detours from your favorite artis... More >>

• Upcoming: Cold War Kids, Diana Ross, The Sword, Etc.

  published Dec 07, 2010

  American Fangs, CB Kings, Another Run, Legacy Fails, Born Again Virgins: Sun., Dec. 26. Fitzgerald's. Arlo Guthrie: Fri., March 25. House of Blues. Authority Zero, Flatfoot 56, Lionize: Sat., Jan. 2... More >>

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  The Year in Video Memes: What Do They Meanrr

  published Dec 07, 2010

  You fell in love with all these characters this year, thrust into the limelight and five minutes of fame by just a few clicks on YouTube and a forgettable, yet exploitable, catchphrase. These were you... More >>

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  Last Night: Insane Clown Posse At Warehouse Live

  published Dec 07, 2010

  For a Faygo-soaked slideshow of last night's concert, click here. Insane Clown Posse Warehouse Live December 6, 2010 Aftermath is covered in Faygo. The cell phone we hold is sticky with Faygo. Our f... More >>

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  Ten '90s Movies That Spurred Our Sexual Awakenings

  published Dec 06, 2010

  A few weeks back, Jeff Balke chronicled the five `80's movie scenes that spurred his age group's sexual awakenings. The movies that "caused a stirring in my loins" as he said, at that precocious young... More >>

• Ninja Tunes: A Year With ICP And Houston's Juggalos

  published Dec 06, 2010

  Tonight's Insane Clown Posse show at Warehouse Live will be Rocks Off's second date with the duo and their Juggalo army in a little more than a year. It's a make-up date for ICP's October 16 gig, whic... More >>

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  Saturday Night: listenlisten At The Mink

  published Dec 06, 2010

  listenlisten, sIngs, Two Star Symphony The Backroom at the Mink December 4, 2010 A few hours before listenlisten's headlining spot at the Mink Saturday night, some friends asked Aftermath to pin down... More >>

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  Our Favorite Playboy Christmas Covers

  published Dec 03, 2010

  If there's one thing I think of when it comes to Christmas, it's Playboy. Every year, before I started stealing the Christmas issues from friends and relatives, I longed for late November when I got ... More >>

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  Keith Richards Does Life As Only He Can

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Life By Keith Richards with James Fox Little, Brown, And Company, 576 pp, $29.99. Watch this first. It's Keef's own intro to Life: "It starts with a bang." The first chapter of Keith Richards' first... More >>

• Justin Townes Earle's Musical Family Tree

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Tonight Justin Townes Earle headlines Fitzgerald's with Caitlin Rose in tow. For the past three years, Earle has been making believers out of most every audience he has come across, either converting ... More >>

• Katy Perryr For Album Of The Yearr Seriouslyr

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Don't get Craig's Hlist wrong, we think that Katy Perry is extremely attractive. In fact, if we think about her long enough, it makes us want to cry and punch a wall. She's a buxom, bubbly, raven-hair... More >>

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  Your Meme Of The Week: Is Jesus A Jerkr

  published Dec 02, 2010

  How was Christian graphic artist Larry Van Pelt to know that when he set out to depict Jesus Christ helping his followers through everyday tasks like pulling teeth, lifting weights, or driving a diese... More >>

• The Most Awesomely Bad Pink Floyd Cover Ever

  published Dec 02, 2010

  A few weeks back, Rocks Off was utterly enthralled with Roger Waters' rendition of The Wall, the masterpiece he created with his former band, Pink Floyd. Every note was pitch-perfect and the wall wa... More >>

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  What Is Classic Rock Todayr

  published Dec 01, 2010

  What is classic rock in 2010r 15 years ago, it was was the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, anything Eric Clapton touched and every band your dad played in his car while he was making out with t... More >>

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  Rocks Off Needs Spring Interns... So Register Now

  published Nov 30, 2010

  It's getting to be that time for Rocks Off to make a call for interns for the spring 2011 semester. We are willing and eager to show you the ropes of music journalism: Things like fielding emails fro... More >>

• Roky Moon & BOLT Set Free Show For December 18

  published Nov 30, 2010

  At Saturday night's Roky Moon & BOLT LP release show at the Mink, the PA was blown out, rendering the sets from the Ton Tons and BOLT without vocals or much sound at all aside from the amps. The headl... More >>

• Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World

  published December 2, 2010

  Two styles of modern rock converge at Verizon Wireless Theater Sunday night as the Smashing Pumpkins' alternative-gold goes head to head with... More >>

• listenlisten

  published December 2, 2010

  On listenlisten's newest, dog, the band goes for the throat, attaching an even grimmer sheen to their already forbidding sound. Last year's... More >>

• Justin Townes Earle

  published December 2, 2010

  Justin Townes Earle's third full-length outing, Harlem River Blues, sees the blues/country/soul singer incorporating new sounds and... More >>

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  Celebrity Deaths: Three's Companyr

  published Nov 30, 2010

  This past Sunday night the world lost comedy legend Leslie Nielsen, and just yesterday The Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner joined Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing in the big Star Wars conve... More >>

• Upcoming: Bun B, Grace Potter, Warpaint, Yanni, Etc.

  published Nov 30, 2010

  "The 14th Annual Townes Van Zandt Wake": Sat., Jan. 1. Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe. Anarchitex, Linus Pauling Quartet, Omotai: Sat., Dec. 18. Rudyard's. Blind Guardian, Seven Kingdoms, Holy Grail.: W... More >>

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  Willie Nelson's "Green Friday" Leads To Teapot Party

  published Nov 29, 2010

  If you are a cop in Texas - OK, a cop anywhere in the world - when you pull over a tour bus and out pops a gnomish man with grayish-red hair and you smell pot smoke, you smile and nod, get an autograp... More >>

• Our Annual Hour In Sunny 99.1's Holiday Hell

  published Nov 29, 2010

  The day before Thanksgiving, Sunny 99.1, "Houston's Official At-Work Station" did its yearly change-over to all holiday music. It's now a Houston tradition to turn over the dial at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiv... More >>

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  Saturday Night: Roky Moon & BOLT At The Mink

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Roky Moon & BOLT The Backroom at the Mink November 27, 2010 When we were all little, we had a piles of shoes and clothes that we outgrew, or those little tics on the kitchen wall where mom or dad wo... More >>

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  Top Five: Leslie Nielsen's Funniest Moments

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Late yesterday, the comedy world got the sad news that veteran comedian Leslie Nielsen had passed away in a Florida hospital due to complications from pneumonia. He was 84. The actor began his caree... More >>