Avril Lavigne

Rotation: Avril Lavigne

Chart Check

Drenched In Blog: Arcade Fire, Back Door Slam and Butch Walker Rule ACL Fest on Saturday

This Just In: “Bodysnatchers” at the Woodlands

Drenched in Blog: Avril April 25th

Various Artists

A Cinderella Story: Original Soundtrack (Hollywood)

Car Stereo (Wars), Voxtrot, The Mathletes

A Cinderella Story: Original Soundtrack (Hollywood)

Auto Erotica: Burnout Paradise

Car lovers find a new flame

Our Favorite Albums of 2007

Panning for gold in an avalanche of 2007 releases

Crushing on Avril Lavigne

Confessions of a closet Avril lover

The Lawrence Arms

This band breathes new life into pop-punk’s flaccid, bloated corpse

Getting Medieval

Two Worlds sends next-gen RPGs back to the Dark Ages.

Houston Music Map

Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

A Guide to Being Cool

Cred Sheet

Critic's Dictionary

The A's

Product Lines of the Rich and Famous

On sale now

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Avril Lavigne, with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker

Tuesday, August 16, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2025 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

Nasty Mixx

Talkin' dirty with 2 Live Crew's spinster

Explosive Action

Get a bang for your buck this Fourth of July

How Low Can You Go?

Let's see with the last installment of our guilty-pleasures project

Hot Shows

Summertime concerts that will leave you sweating

Humor Can Be Funny

Or so believe the Comedians of Comedy

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Ashlee Simpson

Autobiography (Geffen)

Heapin' Helpin' of Homicide

Mystery Cafe serves up dinner with a side of death

An Avril Afternoon at the Mall

Lavigne's top-secret tour comes to Katy

Lillix Fair

Life on a major label is no carnival for teenage sisters Lacey-Lee and Tasha-Ray Evin

Hilary Duff

Metamorphosis (Buena Vista/Hollywood)

Exile in Whinerville

The hostility flung at Liz Phair's new record is senseless, sexist and abominably stupid

Liz Phair; Michelle Branch

Liz Phair (Capitol); Hotel Paper (Maverick/Reprise)

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Not So Complic8ted

Our latest pop phenomenon, Avril Lavigne, deconstructed for your convenience

Straight 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 fiv ... More >>

Over the Hedge

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Glee, Episode 7: Inevitable Conclusions

Easy Halloween costume idea if you have a tracksuit and an antisocial personality disorder: Sue!​I'm beginning to think that Glee never should have gotten the back-nine pickup from Fox, instead being held to 13 episodes for this season instead of a full 22. It's not that the show doesn't deser ... More >>

Idol Beat: L.A. Is No Lady

Which singer is more inherently untalented?​The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As you probably could have predicted, the episode opened ... More >>

American Idol: L.A. Is No Lady

Which singer is more inherently untalented?​The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As you probably could have predicted, the episode opened ... More >>

Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!

Which singer is more inherently untalented?​The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As you probably could have predicted, the episode opened ... More >>

Whoa! 21 Famous Musicians' High-School Yearbook Photos

Willie Nelson, the LAST time he had his hair short.​While Rocks Off was seeking out the best rock star yearbook photos for this blog, we came to a conclusion: Everyone was ugly in their yearbook photos, except Gwen Stefani and Beyonce Knowles. Everyone else looks weird as hell, or nothing like the ... More >>

When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Pop Princess Edition

MB Pictures/ Rex Features​Dave Chapelle teaches us that the art of "keeping it real" may sometimes go awry. According to urbandictionary.com, this occurs when "in the act of keeping it real, the outcome is unexpected and usually has a negative effect on the individual who decided to keep it re ... More >>

When Rock Stars And Movie Stars Reproduce: Five Offspring Bands

​No, these aren't Offspring cover bands, which would be gross, since Offspring sucks pretty badly on their own. They aren't as cool as we thought they were in 1994. No, let's talk about what happens when famous folks let their children loose to be rock stars. Some fall while others find fame i ... More >>

Top Five Most Irritating Types Of Music Fans

hypeful.comAvoid "hipsteritis": See No. 2.​Rocks Off will assume that we're all music fans here, m'kay? We just like the way the more melodic molecules feel when they gutter-ball into our eardrums. That's peachy, but there are those among us who take being a fan into the realm of douchebaggery ... More >>

The Most Anticipated Albums Of 2011

​NATIONAL White Lies, Ritual: They killed at festivals in 2008 and 2009, but do London's Interpol-styled lads have longevity? Dr. Dre, Detox: It's been on hold or gestating since at least Clinton was in office. Will it continue to be hip-hop's Chinese Democracy? R.E.M., Collapse Into No ... More >>

The 10 Most Horrible Music-Biz Bosses

​The movie Horrible Bosses comes out today, and while the heinous supervisors in question all work in areas unrelated to entertainment, this shouldn't be taken to mean the music industry is free of bad managers and executives. Rocks Off knows if anything, the music biz has had more than its fa ... More >>

Your Weekly Heat Wave Music Blog: Hotter Than Hell Edition

Ed. Note: Remember that "songs about Hell" blog we mentioned a couple of days ago? It's still hot, and here it is. maximumwage.wordpress.comThe Southwest Freeway and Loop 610, 4 p.m.​There's an old saying in Botswana: "Shitfire is it hot!" Wait, maybe that was Bandera. Anyway, whatever hemisp ... More >>

Your Biggest Fan: When Rockers Get Stalkers

cinemafestival/shutterstock.com​This past week a statement by pop institution Madonna helped put away one of her newest stalkers, Polish citizen Grzegorz Matlok, who broke into Madge's London home and the residence of her ex-hubby Guy Ritchie. Madonna submitted the statement to Southwark Crown ... More >>

Five Great Middle Finger Moments In Music History

Photo via Idolator​Monday morning, the Internet was awash in consternation and jpegs after M.I.A. flashed her middle finger during Madonna's Super Bowl halftime performance Sunday, meaning Janet Jackson is finally off the hook after all these years. To be honest, Rocks Off watched the entire h ... More >>