Subject: Asli Omar

• A Hell of a Weekend

  November 23, 2007

• SXSW Last Night: Coconut Coolouts, Black Angels, Young Mammals, Tontons, Studemont Project

  March 14, 2008

• Mp3: The Tontons, “Sea and Stars”

  April 11, 2008

• HPMA Showcase Preview: Videos from Wild Moccasins, Miss Leslie, Tontons, Southern Backtones, Hearts of Animals and Born Liars

  July 25, 2008

• HPMA Aftermath: D.R.U.M., Black Dog, Brian's Johnson, Mighty Orq, Tontons, Southern Backtones and Sharks and Sailors

  July 28, 2008

• Bayou City Buzz

  March 12, 2009

• 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend

  July 24, 2008

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Press Music Awards: And The Nominees Are...

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a

  May 21, 2009

• Running the Numbers

  May 28, 2009

• Hell on Earth

  July 16, 2009

• 52 Pick-Up

  July 23, 2009

• Big Weekend for the Tontons

    This is a good time for local music. From a fan's vantage point, albums have been dropping left and right. It's hard to find artists willing to take the time to write a solid full-length album rather than have five great tracks and seven fillers. For local musicians, step your game up. You may think you're doing well, but the Tontons' self-titled album raises the bar so high, only an "A" game can hope to compete. Let's get something straight: No single song on the quartet's first full-len

  July 24, 2009

• HPMA Bombshell: Kim Is NOT Asli

  Craig Hlavaty ​During yesterday's HPMA festivities, our resident Rocks Off Wonder Woman Kim Douglass was mistaken for the Tontons' Asli Omar at least twice on the street. Here is definitive proof that they are two different people. Upon seeing this picture, both women looked at each other in a sort of weird Parent Trap style moment.

  July 27, 2009

• Artist of the Week: The Tontons

  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.​Each week when we write the Artist of the Week column, we try to work in some way to subtly talk about ourselves. We've gotten pretty good at doing it, too. But if you don't mind, we're gonna go ahead and skip right over tha

  July 29, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Tontons

  Jessica Grieves​ One of the best things to happen to Houston so far this summer will take place over at Eleanor Tinsley park: Free Press Summer Fest. To get in the right mood, this week Rocks Off is featuring a different local Summer Fest artist each day. Today, fresh from the whirl of activity surrounding the release of their self-titled debut full-length, it's the Tontons. Holding your own with a powerful lead singer like the Tontons' Asli Omar is hard for some musicians, but Adam Martinez (

  August 4, 2009

• Summer Stock

  August 6, 2009

• Houston Music Fight Club: Roky Moon vs. Joe Mathlete, Asli vs. Zahira, Hippie Mike vs. Little Joe

  ​Last week Rocks Off was mindlessly trolling the Interweb when we stumbled upon a site solely dedicated to animal fights. No, not the awful kind that say, Michael Vick would have been found at a couple of years ago. This site, Wild Animal Fight Club, trafficks in speculative death matches like komodo dragon vs. deer, or massive Spanish bulls pitted against American black bears. It got us to thinking about what would happen if some of Houston's biggest and brightest stars squared off against ea

  August 12, 2009

• Bayou Beat: A 15-Foot Sculpture of George Jones' Head, $10 House of Blues Tickets, Free Tontons Show, etc.

  ​Heavy metal comedy troupe Steel Panther has cancelled tonight's Warehouse Live show. What's on VH-1 Classic? Tennessee-born artist Wayne White is crafting a 15-foot puppet head in the likeness of Saratoga-born honky-tonk legend George Jones. Entitled "Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep" - a reference to Jones' song "Ragged but Right" - and appropriately positioned on its side, asleep, the outsized bust is patterned after the flat-topped Possum circa 1950. The installation opens Thu

  August 26, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Last Chance to See the Tontons Until God Knows When - And It's Free

  Mark C. Austin​Just a quick reminder that tonight is your last chance to see everybody's favorite Houston indie-rock/psych/jazz/blues/surf/spaghetti-Western quartet, the Tontons, who are going on hiatus until January. Unless you want to talk singer Asli Omar out of going to school in New York, that is, but that's probably not going to happen. The band's free show at House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room will be filmed for an upcoming Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau TV commercial.

  August 31, 2009