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February 13, 2012
The Warning: The 10 Heaviest Albums Before Black Sabbath
Forty-two years ago today, on Friday the 13th, the gates of hell opened up and belched forth Black Sabbath. Upon its release, the Birmingham band's eponymous debut album instantly became the heaviest, scariest, most evil record of all time, and it still ranks right up there. Calling this record "in ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2011
Alien Force
Man or Astro-Man? discuss their time on Earth.
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Tony Iommi: Music's Other Man In Black Proves His Heavy Mettle
Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath By Toni Iommi with T.J. Lammers Da Capo Press, 416 pp., $26. Imagine this passage being read in your best "Behind the Music" narration: It was in the center of a dirty, grimy sheet-metal factory in Birmingham, England, when a 1 ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
Last Night: Emmylou Harris At Verizon Wireless Theater
Photos by Jason WolterEmmylou Harris & the Red Dirt Boys Verizon Wireless Theater June 22, 2011 The song about the Italian painter wasn't in the set, and at the end it seemed like it was the only song not in the set, but watching Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys paint the curtained-off V ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Last Night: Duran Duran at Warehouse Live
Photos by groovehouseDuran Duran Warehouse Live April 6, 2011 Check out our slideshow from the show. The Duran Duran frenzy began last night before the band even took the stage. Droves of women indiscreetly huddled around the band's tour bus before the show, anticipating a mere glimpse of t ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
The 10 Best Rock Samples In Hip-Hop
Rocks Off just finished reading Ian Christe's 2007 Van Halen biography, Everybody Wants Some, which chronicles the band's history from the Van Halen boys' entry into the U.S., the upbringing of David Lee Roth, and devastating, fatal 1985 crash into Mount Sammy Hagar. Sad stuff if you're a Rot ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Miranda Lambert Added To Rodeo's 2011 Lineup
Trace Adkins, Martina McBride, Hideout schedule also announced Miranda Lambert, the Lindale native currently nominated for five Grammys, including four for her album Revolution, will return to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo March 16 at Reliant Stadium, the rodeo announced this morning. ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
25 Weird And/Or Hilarious Soccer Chants
Rocks Off spent June 2006 in Salamanca, Spain during the World Cup, and we can tell you it's difficult to exaggerate what an event this is to pretty much every country in the world but America. (Although the U.S. is reportedly gaining.) While watching the games, we would leave the window open ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
Back to the Future: The Musical Lineage of the Sword
Craig HlavatyThe Sword at Free Press Summerfest 2009This Sunday night, Austin's The Sword pulls into Warehouse Live to lay waste to our city's collective eardrums. The band was in town last August for Summerfest and was shit-hot, coming right off of an opening slot for Metallica over in Europe. T ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
SXSW Adds Wild Moccasins, Roky Moon & BOLT, White Stripes' Northern Lights Doc
This week Rocks Off is pleased to announce that Houston pop kids Wild Moccasins will be playing the Houston Press' SXSW showcase. So you guys can now mark the Moccs down as another local band set to bear down on Austin in March. We will have the names of the other performers coming by next week or ... More >>
Music
January 14, 2010
One to Grow On
What we'd like to see happen in Houston music this year.
Blogs
October 5, 2009
The Daily Beast: Houston -- You Are "Mildly Retarded"
The Daily Beast has ranked the IQ of each of America's 55 metro areas with populations over a million. Here is how they arrived at the concept of a municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher educ ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
The 100 Best Bars in America: None For You!
Hey, Esquire, stick to covering topics like this and we'll all be happy.The venerated Esquire has released its list of the Best Bars in America, compiled after what we imagine was some serious and excessive binge-drinking that had either mind-erasing or mind-altering effects on the editors ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2009
Aftermath: Judas Priest and Whitesnake at Verizon Wireless Theater
Photos by Eric SausedaRust never sleeps, and metal never ages. Not when it's being worked over by Judas Priest's hammer and tongs, anyway. Friday night at Verizon, the Birmingham blacksmiths smelted a sold-out, juiced-up, colors-sporting crowd - metal bands always have the best merch - with ... More >>
Music
July 23, 2009
The English Beat
Photos by Eric SausedaRust never sleeps, and metal never ages. Not when it's being worked over by Judas Priest's hammer and tongs, anyway. Friday night at Verizon, the Birmingham blacksmiths smelted a sold-out, juiced-up, colors-sporting crowd - metal bands always have the best merch - with ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
Artist of the Week: Soulbrotha
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. Sitting in the ornate ... More >>
Calendar
February 5, 2009
John Birmingham
The author of Without Warning just might be giving us one
Music
December 4, 2008
Duran Duran
The author of Without Warning just might be giving us one
Blogs
November 16, 2008
A Short History of Shrimp Grits
Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2008
Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More
Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2008
Get Lit: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Joel McIver
Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>
Calendar
December 27, 2007
NYE, HS Style
The Houston Symphony says goodbye to 2007 with style
Music
December 13, 2007
Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre
The Houston Symphony says goodbye to 2007 with style
Blogs
October 23, 2007
Solidarity, Baby
The Houston Symphony says goodbye to 2007 with style
Blogs
October 19, 2007
The College Football Preview, Week Eight: More Babes. And More Babes.
The Houston Symphony says goodbye to 2007 with style
News
October 18, 2007
Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address
Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times
Music
June 14, 2007
Patty Larkin
>Patty Larkin Patty Larkin performs Saturday, June 16, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.
Blogs
June 11, 2007
We Really Don't Understand How This One Made It Past Our Spam Filter
>Patty Larkin Patty Larkin performs Saturday, June 16, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.
Calendar
July 13, 2006
The Beat Goes On
>Patty Larkin Patty Larkin performs Saturday, June 16, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.
Music
March 16, 2006
The Hype of March
Who will be the band of 2006, and why you shouldn�t care
Culture
July 7, 2005
Capsule Reviews
A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions
Music
April 7, 2005
Los Skarnales
Pachuco Boogie Sound System
Culture
April 1, 2004
The Meat Market
Photogs and reviewers cruise each other at the Meeting Place
Music
November 6, 2003
Citizen Arcane
Broadcast mines Czech vampire films and French library music to create lush electronica
Music
September 11, 2003
The South's Done It Again
Southern rock comes in for another revival
Music
July 17, 2003
Whatcha Gonna Do?
Houston's Neutral Sisters look white, sing black and move to a reggae rhythm
Music
November 15, 2001
No Fear
The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera redeems Skynyrd and the South
Music
July 5, 2001
Playbill
Steel Pulse
Music
May 24, 2001
A KIKK in the Pants
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
News
October 21, 1999
News Hostage
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
News
July 29, 1999
News of the Weird
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
Music
March 4, 1999
Punk Drunks
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
Music
January 21, 1999
In The Dark
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
Calendar
July 30, 1998
The Blacksmith Webmaster
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
Music
February 12, 1998
Rotation
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
Calendar
October 30, 1997
Press Picks
The new "Houston's Country Alternative" has got 'em waiting, worried at KPFT
News
July 3, 1997
Fast Eddie's Getaway
Insider deals. Outrageous perks. Exorbitant salaries. No wonder Eddie Webster's taken a permanent vacation from the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Music
January 4, 1996
Stupid Is as Stupid Sells
The Ozz man is back, as dreadfully (and delightfully) dumb as ever
Calendar
December 28, 1995
Press Picks
The Ozz man is back, as dreadfully (and delightfully) dumb as ever
Music
May 25, 1995
Duran, Again
The pretty boys return from the '80s, and insist they've never been away
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