Brian Eno

The Five Greatest Daniel Lanois Productions

Late to the party as ever, I recently caught up with the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Push the Sky Away, in light of the hype over their SXSW showcase last week. The album is fantastic, of course, but one thing that immediately jumped out at me upon listening to it was the interesting choi ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Week

Toro Y Moi Fitzgerald's, February 4 Chaz Bundick, aka Toro Y Moi, has just released Anything In Return, another set of chilly bedroom anthems that nestles in nicely among his lengthy discography. Call it chillwave, R&B, indie-pop, whatever, just don't call it slap-dash. Bundick is creating timeless ... More >>

Top 5 Weirdest & Worst Musical Collaborations

In the history of music, there have been many meetings of the mind between people with similar attitudes, styles, and ideas. Some of these just felt right from the very beginning and you knew they were destined to produce greatness. That's what happened when Brian Eno met David Bowie and later when ... More >>

Moving Day: 5 Albums I Just Can't Quit

Reconsidering a lifetime of musical choices is a funny business. My first musical purchase? The Maxi Single for Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now). First proper album purchase? Amy Grant's 1991 classic, Heart In Motion. Before I lose any degree of credibility, let's move on. For the past m ... More >>

Always Evolving: 64 Years Of Brian Eno's Best Nonproduction Work

Although he has more than 15 solo albums to his credit, Brian Eno's legacy in terms of popular music will always be defined by his work with others. Whether it was his time as a member of Roxy Music or his nearly 40-year production career, his best-known works have always come in the form of collabo ... More >>

From The Sky Down: U2's "Bittersweet Song Of Disunity"

What was the last great U2 album? Now, before you go and get your snotty Henry Rollins quotes lined up, recall that there was a period in the mid- to late 1980s when the Dublin foursome were both the biggest and most critically acclaimed band on the planet before veering off into sonic experimentat ... More >>

Travelin' Band: What Do The Features Listen To On The Road?

So The Twilight Saga has exactly two things that keep the films from being absolute torture. The first is Ashley Greene in all her pixie-hotness, and the second is that there really are some excellent bands that end up on the soundtracks. Case in point, the Features were featured recently in Break ... More >>

Early Warning: Coldplay Bringing Mylo Xyloto To Houston On June 25

Photo By Craig HlavatyColdplay's Chris Martin at the Woodlands in July 2009. ​Coldplay is bringing their Mylo Xyloto tour to Houston next summer on June 25 at the Toyota Center. The band was last in Houston on July 22, 2009 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on the down-slope of the Viva La Vi ... More >>

The Horrors

2 Become 1: Musical Match-Ups We'd Like To See

​Kanye "Hitler" West and Jay-Z released their (overused music writer word alert) epic Watch the Throne album this week, to mostly great reviews. This fall the first fruits from the recently announced Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration should be on the store shelves, which still sorta weirds us o ... More >>

Out Today: Danger Mouse In Rome, Nick Cave & Queen Reissued

​It's back to the usual grind for Rocks Off after last night's late-night Austin City Limits Festival lineup announcement. Sadly, we will not be seeing the Foo Fighters play songs from Wasting Light in Austin come September. And yes, still playing it, along with a steady diet of Guns N' Roses. ... More >>

Pilobolus Dance Company

Last Night: Agent Orange At Fitzgerald's

Photos by David Ensminger​Agent Orange Fitzgerald's January 9, 2010 In the 1987 21 Jump Street episode "Mean Streets and Pastel Houses," fresh-faced Johnny Depp goes undercover as a punk to root out vicious gangland teenage thugs lurking in the inner city. He ends up at a rowdy punk concert r ... More >>

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Last Night: Vampire Weekend And Beach House At Verizon

Photos by Mark Britain​Vampire Weekend, Beach House Verizon Wireless Theater October 7, 2010 It's hard to quantify a show featuring two of the darlingest indie darlings the indie-darling machine has ever invented back-to-back in a non-festival setting. These events don't happen often, because ... More >>

He Said She Said: Fire In The Earhole!

thestarceleb.com​He Said began his week by watching a Houston landmark and one of his favorite restaurants of all-time go up in flames. We covered the Mai's fire most of Monday morning for Hair Balls, taking pictures of the smoke and flames as they got progressively worse and began engulfing the s ... More >>

Another Side - Several, Actually - of Willie Nelson

It's easy for older Willie Nelson fans to overlook his modern works, where he saw his influence dig out tributaries away from the safer riverbeds. In the past two decades, he has ventured out from his hearty country roots into reggae, spooky Daniel Lanois-produced noir, pop standards, Spanish-tinte ... More >>

Uprising

2009 wasn't a great year for albums, but songs were a different story.

In the Hot Seat with Nick Cody from Wild Moccasins

The Wild Moccasins aren't playing the Showcase this year, but we caught up Nick Cody and asked him what he was doing here.Who are you here to see?I want to see Buxton and the Tontons. I'm also going to play with Tontons, a song that Tom wrote and he's going to play guitar to it. I'm going to be on b ... More >>

Aftermath: David Byrne at Jones Hall

Photos by Craig Hlavaty David Byrne knows about living in the moment. The white-haired former Talking Heads frontman and unofficial U.S. ambassador for Third World pop, whose hair was as white as his (and his band's) wardrobe, was a genial host at Jones Hall Monday night. "It's nice to be in Mr. Jes ... More >>

Byrne's Eye View

The ex-Talking Heads front man takes stock of his homeland on his second Brian Eno collaboration.

Windy & Carl, Golden Cities

Spring Cleaning

Local Rotation: Young Mammals' Carrots

Young Mammals Carrots www.myspace.com/youngmammals Carrots is the former Dimes' first full-length, and first physical product of any kind since 2006's Animal EP netted the quartet a slew of Houston Press music awards and set the local indie-rock community's hearts atwitter long before a ... More >>

Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith and Susan Alcorn

Nameless Sound presents a trio of treasured avant-garde artists

Afropop Arrives

Motherland music hit a fever pitch with U.S. bands this year

Nine Inch Nails: The Slip

Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Get Lit: Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell

MGMT, Yeasayer

Electroma

Daft Punk duo make their big-screen debut

Drenched In Blog: Jack FM

“Thunderstruck” on I-45

Maserati

Maserti and My Education will perform Tuesday, June 12, at Walter�s on Washington, 4215 Washington.

Rhymin' Simon

Rounding It Out

Mixtape Masters

Caps and Jones keep the party Moving

Like Star Trek with Worms

Swindled Art

Breaking the Scene Barrier

Kid 606 prowls into town with Paws Across America

Quite a Jolt

Pilobolus's Megawatt, Full Strength promises seriously high energy

Secret Machines

Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)

Rechenzentrum

Director's Cut (Mille Plateaux)

Bastard Sons of Brian Eno

Ambient music lives on in the Bliss Out series

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

The Reich Stuff

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

Rotation

Rotations

Critic's Choice

Wheel of Dysfunction

Live Shots