Barry White

The 5 Best Shows In Houston This Week: November 5-8

Deerhoof Walters, November 5 San Francisco's Deerhoof is the kind of band that will either drive you crazy or capture your heart, probably both at the same time. Greg Saulnier's crew mixes experimental racket with sharp-toothed pop smarts, becoming a favorite on the oddball circuit over the past 15 ... More >>

R. Kelly

Musically Speaking, What Is the Best Zodiac Sign?

Sometimes some musicians just can't even be put in the same sentence as one another. Depending on people's musical preferences. It's hard to compare and can be a bit confrontational. But one thing is for sure the day on which someone is born can't be changed. And then that's where astrology comes in ... More >>

The American Bandstand (Extended) Hot 100

Somehow it's hard to believe that Dick Clark was only 82 years old when he died after suffering a "massive heart attack" Wednesday morning in Santa Monica, Calif. (Since I managed to survive one myself, I've noticed that anytime someone dies of a heart attack, it's always "massive."). Despite his yo ... More >>

Yahoo Answers Chooses The Best Valentine's Day Songs

Photo by Cheryl ReedOne of the top Yahoo! Answer contributors​We just read today that the most famous song for Valentine's Day is "Let's Get It On" by Barry White. It literally read, "Prally barry white lets get it on. it was voted the most romantic song of the last century." Yahoo Answers is ... More >>

Showcase Showdown

Fifty bands, 11 stages and three music writers talking HPMA highlights.

2011 HPMA Showcase: Lonesome, Onry and Mean Edition

Checkout the slideshows of the bands and the crowd at the Houston Press Music Awards Showcase. Photo by Jason WolterTexas Johnny Brown​I spent most of the my Houston Press Music Awards day circulating between five contiguous venues: Dirt Bar, Ben's Beans, Reserve 101, Pete's Dueling Piano Bar ... More >>

The Simpsons' Top 11 Musical Guests

​When The Simpsons completes its last (contracted) season in 2014, it will have set staggering new broadcast records for longest running sitcom (over 550 episodes) and longest running prime time scripted TV series (25 seasons). These are all American records, of course, because the Japanese co ... More >>

Justin Bieber's Voice Changes Just In Time For Christmas Album

"Say shawty, Merry Christmas, or whatever year-end holiday greeting that makes you happy." ​Children and adults alike are getting their holiday wish granted early this year, and they don't have to wait until Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus or even Christmas morning to receive it. Justin Bieber's v ... More >>

Electric Six: Love Songs for Mentally Disturbed People

​If Barry White did a record with Al Jourgensen it might sound something like Heartbeats and Brainwaves, the eighth studio album from Electric Six. This is the first time we've come into contact with the band, having only been aware of them vaguely from their song "Gay Bar" and the fact that ... More >>

Top Five Cannibal Country Songs

​Songs about singers and other songs has long been one of Rocks Off's favorite fields of study within the wide-ranging curriculum of popular music. Off the very tippy-top of our heads, ABC's "When Smokey Sings," the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" and the Pogues' "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda ... More >>

Beanz N Kornbread Cook Up Good Weather Muzik

Marco Torres​When Rocks Off ran into the production duo Beanz N Kornbread at SXSW back in March, we were advised to stay tuned for a big project set to drop sometime this summer. Well the summer is here, and that project is the impressive Good Weather Muzik. We caught up with the team to inqui ... More >>

Day Of The Dead: Music In Memoriam 2009-10

itscactus.com​Rocks Off doesn't mean to be morbid, but today is the Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday and festival honoring those who have gone before. So instead of waiting until the end of the year, the more traditional time for such things, we wanted to compile a list of the notable name ... More >>

A Weird Pop Heaven Via Bay City's "Happy Radio"

​Along Rocks Off's various Texas travels, we almost never listen to an iPod or compact discs anymore. Anything we could pop in wouldn't match the rhythm of the road; the Stooges or Metallica don't really jive with Highways 59, 71 or 77. In today's world of satellite radios, streaming tunes on your ... More >>

A Bizarre, and Sometimes Electrifying, Tribute to Michael Jackson, Luther and Marvin at Miller Outdoor Theater

​Saturday Rocks Off and a friend attended Keeping the Music Alive, a free concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre. The show was a tribute in honor of the late Michael Jackson, the later Bernie Mac, the even later Gerald Levert, the later still Luther Vandross, and the even yet later still Barry White - ... More >>

Aftermath: De La Soul at House of Blues

Photos by Kim Douglass​ "Hey, how you doin'? Sorry you can't get through. But leave your name, and your number, and I'll get back to you." If you know where that came from, you might be worth your weight in hip-hop. In Aftermath's mind, De La Soul is made up of three killers. Posdnuos, Trugoy the ... More >>

Maryland Bang

Meet Rye Rye, Baltimore's latest rap sensation.

The McKenzies

New Life for Soul Train

Friday Night: Shelby Lynne at Warehouse Live

Keyshia Cole

Just Like You

Musical Food Groups

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

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it

Feel This Man

If you think R. Kelly is anything less than the greatest recording artist alive, you're wrong!

Bayou City Music Mindbender, Part II

Another chance to test your knowledge of local lore

Kapusta Kristmas

Thanks to the Internet, you no longer have to be on Al Kooper's holiday list to hear some of the funniest tapes in history

Downtown H-town Throwdown

Tearing it up at the Music Awards Showcase

How Low Can You Go?

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

Serenity Now!

The night is white at Suchu Dance's Maximal Schnapper

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Classics Rock

Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

Three-Ring Circus Maximus

For avant-garde instrumental progressive funk jazz lovers, Drop Trio's the only game in town

Rock Death in 2003

Exhuming and scoring last year's pop-music demises

Always Darkest Before the Dawn

Trotting out the clichés for a year-ender piece

On the Freedom Tip

Sabir Mateen's jazz quintet blows the boundaries of traditional jazz

Al Green

Thursday, September 18

Brown Whörnet, with Oh, Beast! and Three Fantastic

Friday, September 5

Wizard of Boz

Boz Scaggs evolves along with his beloved R&B

Best Place to Learn "The Whip"

SSQQ Dance Studio

Chewing the Fat

Amanda Peet and her perfect choppers grind up the brainless suitors in Whipped

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New Releases Reviewed

Mortal Soul

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Hi Del-Fi

New sounds from famed label

Whiggin' Out

Avant-rock takes shape in the Afghan Whigs and its wild front man

Night & Day

April 15-21, 1999

Heeerre's Johnny!

Dining a la Disco

Sempers has great food. Marvelous decor. And, alas, a Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

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