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Catfish Reef: Somethin' Serious
March 2, 2007Explain Your Most Played
May 30, 2007Explain Your Most Played
June 15, 2007I Want My MP3
June 21, 2007Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey
July 13, 2007This Just In: We Are Doomed
August 1, 2007Give Us a Hand
October 9, 2007Pop Numerology: How High Can You Go?
October 10, 2007Single File: “Tranquilize,” the Lou Reed/Killers Collaboration
October 23, 2007Download: Pimp C, 1973-2007
December 7, 2007Rap-a-Lot’s J. Prince Sues Apple, BET
December 19, 2007Racket vs Racket Jr
June 4, 2008Artist of the Week: Peekaboo Theory
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Mark C. Austin To be succinctly vague, Peekaboo Theory is dope, and we've enjoyed seeing them progress for the better part of the two years we've known about them. To be a little more music-journo douchey about it: th
December 3, 2008Digitalia: iTunes' Top Holiday Songs
The holiday season is a time to enjoy favorite pastimes like expanding your credit-card debt, eating way too much food, and arguing with your relatives. And of course, there's the best staple of them all: butchering holiday jingles. Never finding a song they didn't want to shill, iTunes offers an extensive holiday collection ready to aid you in your quest to be merry and croon. The Freebies (because you know you love free stuff) Faith Hill, "O Holy Night": Taken from her new Christmas album, Jo
December 11, 2008Sonidos y Mas: Various Artists, "The Price of Silence"
Sixty years ago this week in Paris, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The original text was a collaborative effort from representatives from many nations including the United States (Eleanor Roosevelt was part of the team), written as a way to repudiate the atrocities brought on by the Nazis and their allies during World War II. At the session that approved the text, eight nations decided to abstain - including the entire Soviet bloc and South Africa, which w
December 17, 2008Artist of the Week: Small Sounds
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. It seems contradictory, but sometimes you've got to listen to a band a bunch before you realize that they, in fact, are not crappy. And a lot of times, once you've made your way through the "These Guys Are Wack" phase, you b
January 7, 2009Artist of the Week: Soulbrotha
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Sitting in the ornate and magnificent chair at the head of the Artist of the Week table, we get tons (tons, tens, whatever) of submissions sent to us each week. More often than not, submissions are sent from the bands the
February 11, 2009Post-Valentine's Day Relationship Rescue Songs
Dwight McCannSo Valentine's Day is over, and you spent all your dough on Cupid swag for that special sweetie, which hopefully bought your way out of the doghouse for the time being. But if not, Casanova, your Rocks Off homies still have your back - provided you have an iTunes account. Sentimentally speaking, what could be more romantic than the gift of lovey-dovey pop songs? They say so much, and, until iTunes' new pricing tiers take effect this Spring (driving big hits up by as much as a
February 17, 2009Tonight: Street Dogs at Warehouse Live
Most people don't associate humanitarianism with tough, working-class street punks whose artistic bent tends toward songs about drinking and fighting. For Street Dogs, a band of politically minded Boston-scene all-stars fronted by a war vet turned fireman, community is the whole point in the first place. As the band embarks on its "1st Annual Crooked Drunken Sons Tour," it's bolstering its lyrical platform with a real call to action. Along with the usual tour tees and discs, merch tables a
March 1, 2009Houston Artist Overcoming Autism To Make Music For Hollywood, Maybe
Houston singer Kyle Cousins is making Hollywood take notice, not only because the 19-year-old suffers from autism, but because his songs rock.The fashionable teen already has a bevy of his songs available on iTunes and now it looks like one of his songs is up for consideration as the theme for a new HBO series spearheaded by the Farrelly Bros. comedy duo. Cousins was diagnosed with a form of autism when he was 2. Singing and writing music were his doorway into the mainstream world. According to
April 7, 2009Meiko
February 5, 2009Crash Into Me: Predicting the Economy's Impact on the Music Biz
April 16, 2009Girl In A Coma
December 11, 2008Zookeeper
September 13, 2007So, What Is It?
May 25, 2006A Guide to Being Cool
Cred Sheet
May 10, 2007Critic's Dictionary
The A's
May 3, 2007DISConnect
Sales of CDs are falling faster than you can say iPod
January 4, 2007Phat Promises for 2007
New Year's resolutions of the stars
December 28, 2006The Color of Funk
Race, resilience and New Orleans's Galactic
December 28, 2006The Bards of Baytown
Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly
July 27, 2006Hip-hop as She Is Rapped
Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs
June 22, 2006Pandora's Boss
Meet the guy behind the Web site that could be the MySpace.com of music
April 6, 2006Comeback Clips
A music-video renaissance is afoot -- but it's strictly on the download
December 29, 2005The Shout Out Louds
Sunday, November 27, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.
November 24, 2005Idol Beat: The Top Five Results
Photos by Frank Micelotta/ FoxAuto Pilot: Jaime Foxx "performs" on American Idol Wednesday night.Blame it on the vodka, blame it on the Henny, blame it on whatever you wanna, but I'm going to place blame for the hiply generic feel of Jamie Foxx's new single squarely on the shoulders of everybody responsible for perpetuating the increasingly dispiriting ubiquity of AutoTune-slimed pop hits this decade: Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Akon, and most especially T-Pain. See, "Blame It" - the T-Pain-assisted
April 30, 2009Frat Friendly Fun
May 14, 2009Byte This
June 18, 2009Straight from the Sole: Houston's Best Metal Bands
You know Soledad. He's the vocalist from controversial Houston rap-metal act Daylight Coma. He's got a lot to say. Sometimes it's insightful, sometimes less so, but it's almost always said with conviction. This week, in honor of the fast-approaching HPMA, we asked him who he thinks are Houston's five best metal bands. Rocks Off: The Houston Press Music Awards are right around the corner. You being you, how about if you give us the five best metal bands in town? Surely no one will have a proble
July 16, 2009Bayou Beat: Movie Night at the Mink, Scout Bar Beaumont Shut Down, Yeah Yeah Yeahs at ACL? and More
Seems the Mink has found an old movie projector and is planning to put it to good use this evening. After a couple of Charlie Chaplin shorts, the bar will screen the superb 2007 documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and even provide free popcorn. "A makeout row can be provided on request," they add. Doors at 7; no cover. The Beaumont Enterprise reported today that Scout Bar Beaumont, the hard-rock hub of the Southeast Texas city's Crockett Street Entertainment District was shut dow
July 21, 2009True Blood, Episode 10: Sister Gertrude, Bride of Christ, Soundtracks a Visit to the Vampire Queen
Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. Though we're picking up midway through Season 2, from here on out as each new episode airs, Rocks Off will bring you a short report on the featured music. Episode 2.10, "New World in My View"One of the reasons Rocks Off began this column was to help bring to the li
August 25, 2009Aftermath: Common and The Roots Crew's Private Engagment at the Corinthian, With Special Guests (Cough, "Nite and Day")
Photos by Larami Culbertson 9:10 p.m.: We pull up to the front of The Corinthian and hand the car off to the valet. He says, "It's $20 plus tip." Oh, so it's $20, then? Got it. Thanks. 9:20 p.m.: Common just walked in. He's way more stout than we imagined him to be. His skin is also less clear than we were anticipating. Not sure which one is more surprising, or even why we feel the need to write this down. Is this what our life has become? Taking notes about the girth of someone's chest and t
October 6, 2009Artist of the Week: Electro-Proggers The Live Lights Assure Us the "Sky Will Fall"
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.Photos by Elias Ibanez Sometimes, you happen across a band at exactly the right moment to make them meaningful or important or good or whatever to you. It's less about genres or musical tastes and more about sentiment (which
October 7, 2009Are MP3s and Downloading Eroding Music's Communal Properties?
Although Rocks Off had every intention of rambling about something different this week, we thought it would be a lost opportunity to not examine an issue that seems to have been revealed by readers' responses last week. Although many fantastic points were made, we were fascinated to detect that woven amongst the thoughtful insights was an ambivalence about how we as a community view the impact technology has had on our relationship with music. This topic is pretty broad, so we're going to ha
October 8, 2009Tween Dreams
October 29, 2009Artist of the Week: Ball-Busting, Dexter-Loving Metal Maniacs BloodVoid
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. In all honesty, before we started working for the Press, we were by no means fans of heavy metal. We listened to Metallica a bit, but only when they'd come on MTV, and even then we did so mostly because we knew it kinda bug
October 28, 2009The Music of True Blood, Episode 1.5: Playing Chicken With the Train, and an AIDS Burger
Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. With Season 2 just completed, Rocks Off is now working our way backwards through the episodes we missed as HBO begins reruns. Episode 1.5, "Sparks Fly Out" Country Rap is a lot like Albanian folk dancing... and we're not going to explain that comparison. Just take ou
November 6, 2009Pop Rocks: I'm Shocked, Shocked To Discover Britney Spears Was Lip-Synching
To think, I almost found myself agreeing with John Mayer.His response to the simmering Britney Spears lip-synching scandal -- mocking those who expressed outrage at the fact Spears was faking it during her concert in Perth, Australia last weekend -- would appear to be dead-on. One could even take this train of thought a step further and opine that getting conned out of $1,300 (for some seats) might be considered getting off lightly for those who continue to refer to whatever it is that Spears
November 10, 2009Friday Night Noise: Dangerous Live Tracks from Richard Ramirez and Dead Machines
Richard Ramirez, "Removal Off...(Live)" Now this is the sort of noise that plasters a big dumb 'ol smile on Friday Night Noise's normally dour mug. How can you hate this sort of stuff, this all-over-the-place, sliding-around-in-oil roar where the crud flies here and there with absolutely no strategy whatsoever, where a piercing bit of feedback could theoretically turn out to be a perverted scream, but maybe it isn't? Where the artist's aim seems to be to super-soak you with as much distor
November 20, 2009Inquiring Minds: Deer Tick's Front Man Goes for That Chased-by-Alligators Sound
Providence, R.I., band Deer Tick may hail from "Up North" but their sound is purely steeped in grungey folk and rockabilly yelp. They, in fact, hear this description so much that the band has started to rebel against it by in fact upping the dosage on their new More Fuel For The Fire EP, which just hit iTunes this week. The band has been the brainchild of lead singer and songwriter John Joseph McCauley III since the very beginning in late 2004. He was joined by a full band in 2007, right before
November 20, 2009
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