Barry Manilow

Rotation: Chicago, The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition

Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky

Currying No Favor

The Classic Tandoor is anything but

Guilty Pleasures, Part II

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Press Picks

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Rotation

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Rotations

More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

Rock & Roller Coaster

Funland's learned the art of getting up after falling down

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Demon Rum

Stages gets a laugh out of the antics of The Drunkard

Variety Club Follies

How the curtain came down -- for the time being -- at the "show biz" charity

Starting Over

Can self-described "bad boy" Rob Bundy revive a flagging Stages?

Idol Beat: Hollywood Week, Part 1

[Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

Press Picks

[Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

Jazz Royalty

George's last name may be Duke, but on the keyboards, he's a king

Down the Road

Tamarie Cooper's Tamalalia Two is a trip to remember

Press Picks

Tamarie Cooper's Tamalalia Two is a trip to remember

Cat Stats

Tamarie Cooper's Tamalalia Two is a trip to remember

Absurdly Funny

Life is pointless. And then you die laughing.

Rotation

Life is pointless. And then you die laughing.

The Devil Makes Him Do It

One-on-one with pop satirist Wesley Willis

Holy Halibut! It's Fishman and Jordy

Tanks a lot! This dynamic duo delivers the gauche from Gotham City

Houston Music Map

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

Musical Food Groups

If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

Idol Chatter

Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

Hope Springs Eternal

A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jewpergroup

How Low Can You Go?

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

Get Back, Honky Cat

Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

Christmas Miracle

A media benefit helps a charity that's been questioned

Xmas Marks the Spot

A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs

South Park Monster

Fans saw Carlos Coy as the invincible rapper, the gangsta who could become an icon for outcast Hispanics everywhere. But they didn't know his weakness -- young girls did.

Letters

Residency Woes, Good God!, Organ-ic Giver

RodeoHouston: Some 'Splainin to Do

Secret correspondence from the rodeo

Roadkill

Remember American Pie? This is the same Trip.

Boy Meets Goy

So, there's a rabbi and a priest... wait, maybe you've heard this one...

Dancing With the Stars ' Dream Rock-Star Cast

​Fluff reality show Dancing With the Stars is (shockingly) in its 11th season, which wraps up with tonight's finale. While browsing this season's "celebrity" dancers - Bristol Palin, Kurt Warner, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, etc. - we couldn't help but fantasize about out ideal musical ve ... More >>

The Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp From Hell

Rocks Off recently got invited to cover something known as Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp, which works a lot like baseball fantasy camp, except none of the participants can field a line-drive grounder. Among the idols rock campers will meet include 3 Doors Down, Mark Farner, the drummer from the Hooters a ... More >>

Five Songs That Huck Finn Guy Should Censor Next

gutenberg.org​As many of you probably already know, Alabama publisher NewSouth Inc. plans to release censored versions of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, replacing the words "nigger" and "Injun" with "slave" and "Indian," respectively. That's ... More >>

Straight-To-DVD Music Sequels Soon To Come

​If you're a struggling writer, musician or filmmaker trying to work up the nerve to kill yourself, have we ever got good news for you! Your morale may have been damaged or even crippled by seeing bad music, bad movies and bad stories dominating the upper echelons of their respective fields, b ... More >>

Playlist for the Missing: 5 Songs for the Bermuda Triangle

​66 years ago five U.S. torpedo bombers dubbed Flight 19 disappeared during a navigation training exercise in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle, claiming the lives of 14 airmen. It is commonly assumed that the flight became disoriented and lost, ran out of fuel, and then ditched in the oc ... More >>