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Billie Joe Armstrong

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    February 17, 2012

    Happy Birthday Billie Joe: An American Idiot Turns 40

    "I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out"? Well, not quite...​Today, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day turns 40. Eighteen years ago, in the time known as 1994, he turned 22. Two weeks earlier than that, his band's major-label debut, Dookie, had hit store shelves. That album would go on to sel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Green Day Singer Kicked Off Flight Over Pants, Heralds Armageddon

    Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! ​In a bizarre incident last Thursday, Billie Joe Armstrong, belove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Yann Tiersen's Icy Houston Odyssey

    ​While everyone in Houston was huddled inside their homes last Friday hiding from the ice monster, Yann Tiersen and his band were exploring our city, full of hanging icicles, lonely streets, and empty rock clubs. A camera crew captured the band warming up in the backstage area of Fitzgerald' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Five Great Moments In Indecent Exposure

    ​Recently, Florida's lame-duck governor Charlie Crist has said he's considering pardoning Jim Morrison for his 1969 indecent exposure charge, stemming from The Doors' notorious Miami concert in which a drunken Lizard King swore numerous times and proceeded to whip it out onstage. Of course, Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Busted! 20 Musician Mugshots

    ​ Getting arrested and booked isn't the end of the world, by any means. Well unless you just killed a shit-ton of people at a bowling alley or something, it really is. But if you are a rocker or a celebrity who committed a minor offense, it's just a funny footnote in your public life you can look ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Aftermath: Green Day at Toyota Center

    Mark C. Austin​ During "Minority," the motorized 2000 Celtic-thrash mash-up that closed Green Day's main set Saturday night, Toyota Center's video screen became a collage of flyers from the group's early days, before the platinum albums, roadies, Grammys and extra live musicians (there were four S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Houston Remembers Green Day, Back In the Day

    Photos by Rachelle Mendez and Matthew Juarez​Saturday night, one of the most polarizing bands of the past 20 years rolls into town. Since its 1994 mainstream breakthrough, Dookie, Green Day has been dividing fans and critics alike. Some damned the trio for leaving their punk-rock roots behind at 9 ... More >>

  • Music

    August 6, 2009

    Know Your Enemy

    Green Day follows their Bush-bashing smash American Idiot with the even more epic 21st Century Breakdown.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Highly Anticipated Albums of 2008

    Green Day follows their Bush-bashing smash American Idiot with the even more epic 21st Century Breakdown.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007

    America’s “Glamour Girl”

    Green Day follows their Bush-bashing smash American Idiot with the even more epic 21st Century Breakdown.

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2006

    Red State Style

    Green Day follows their Bush-bashing smash American Idiot with the even more epic 21st Century Breakdown.

  • Music

    April 20, 2006

    Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

    Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2006

    Freaky Weekend

    Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

  • Music

    August 18, 2005

    Green Day

    Friday, August 19, at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 1-866-4HOUTIX.

  • Music

    February 24, 2005

    Last Night at the Alamo

    A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

  • Music

    December 2, 2004

    Playbill

    A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

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    April 30, 1998

    No Looking Back

    A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

  • Music

    January 8, 1998

    Baby, It's Him

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • Music

    October 23, 1997

    Rotation

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • Music

    January 11, 1996

    Wordless Wonders

    Death Valley does its talking through its playing

  • Music

    June 15, 1995

    The Future of Rock and Roll

    We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

  • Music

    March 9, 1995

    Whole New Posture

    We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

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