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Thursday, May 30

Breaking the Scene Barrier

Kid 606 prowls into town with Paws Across America

Live Shots

Kid 606 prowls into town with Paws Across America

Critic's Choice

Wheel of Dysfunction

Rotations

Wheel of Dysfunction

Rotation

Wheel of Dysfunction

The Reich Stuff

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

Aftermath: Greg Ginn & the Taylor Texas Corrugators and Jambang at Last Concert Cafe

Photos by Craig HlavatyEven while playing dissonant improvised bass in a trio consisting of himself, a shit-hot mandolin player, and a jazz drummer, Greg Ginn still sounds like Greg Ginn. After almost a decade as the captain of hardcore mavericks Black Flag, Ginn embarked on a career as an im ... More >>

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 >>

Spring Cleaning

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

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

Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

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

MGMT, Yeasayer

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

Electroma

Daft Punk duo make their big-screen debut

Average White Band

Daft Punk duo make their big-screen debut

Rounding It Out

Daft Punk duo make their big-screen debut

Mixtape Masters

Caps and Jones keep the party Moving

Rhymin' Simon

Caps and Jones keep the party Moving

Maserati

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

Like Star Trek with Worms

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

Swindled Art

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

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

Windy & Carl, Golden Cities

April 16 - 22, 1998

Byrne's Eye View

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

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 >>

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 >>

Uprising

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

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 >>

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 >>

MGMT Phones It In, Leaves It Off The Hook

Photos by Groovehouse​ Here are a few things we learned Monday night at MGMT's show at House of Blues. First off, they are not a "live" band in the grand musical sense of the word. While new album Congratulations is a catchy, odd, fucked-up little sophomore outing, it's not at all meant for live c ... More >>

Young Mammals Emerge From Hibernation At Big Star Tonight

​Rocks Off is still getting used to running into (or emailing) local musicians we haven't seen for a while, asking them where they've been and getting the answer "on tour." We're not complaining. That's the case with Young Mammals - after a sharp set at Free Press Summer Fest, the band virtua ... More >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

Pilobolus Dance Company

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Horrors

​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 >>

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 >>

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 i ... 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 exper ... More >>