Subject: Britney Spears

• Where Will They Be?

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  December 30, 1999

• God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut

  April 12, 2007

• Explain Your Most Played

  May 30, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: The Requisite Britney Spears Post

  September 11, 2007

• Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks: Week Two

  September 14, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: Britney Spears VMA Redux

  September 17, 2007

• Jason Friedman’s NFL Picks, Week Four: Salma Hayek, the Green Bay Packers, Anna Kournikova and the Baltimore Ravens

  September 28, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: Tartlet Alert (a.k.a. The Last Britney Spears Blog Ever)

  October 12, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: A Brief Love Note to Amy Winehouse

  October 24, 2007

• One Small Step for Billboard, One Giant Debut for the Eagles

  November 7, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Mommie Dearest, 2008 Remix

  January 4, 2008

• Dr. Phil Is An Asshole

  January 9, 2008

• Should I Start Caring About Britney Spears Again?

  August 6, 2008

• It's Britney, Bitches!

  Her career has already withstood more train wrecks than Amtrak, and now it looks like Britney Spears is on the upswing one more time. Spears' new single "Womanizer," the lead single from her Circus album (dropping today), which she performed today on Good Morning America (above), is a recent Billboard No. 1  (the ninth of her decade-long career) and set a new record for first-week downloads with 286,000. Personally, Rocks Off hasn't enjoyed a Spears song this much since, hell, at leas

  December 2, 2008

• The Best Pop Culture Gifts of 2008

  There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who wear fake reindeer antlers during the Christmas season and those that don't. I am the former. What. You thought I would be the latter? Just because I love to make fun of crap? Honestly, what kind of pop culture writer would I be if I didn't take the time to celebrate the season of giving? Mostly giving crap, but I digress. This year has given me, Miss Pop Rocks, a lot to be thankful for. Brit Brit's comeback, for one, has freed me t

  December 25, 2008

• Should Rocks Off Pay $150 to Review Britney Spears?

  It seems the recession is even beginning to cut into superstars like Britney Spears' pocketbooks. Rocks Off found out today that Spears' current "Circus" tour, which stops at Toyota Center Monday night, is what they call in the biz a "no-comp" affair, meaning the block of tickets usually set aside for press types like yours truly does not exist. Guess the tour folks figure there's no reason to waste such a hot ticket on us journalist hacks when there's plenty of people out there wi

  March 26, 2009

• Aftermath: Britney Spears at Toyota Center

  Britney Spears and her three-ring "Circus" came to Houston Monday night, and I unashamedly followed throngs of twenty- and thirtysomethings into Toyota Center to catch a glimpse of the comeback girl we love to pick apart, then pick back up again. We'll skip right on over openers the Pussycat Dolls, since that's why I did, preferring to loosen up at The Grove until the big act began. Instead, we watched from the upstairs patio as fans - an impressive crowd of sequins and top hats - streamed

  March 31, 2009

• Britney Spears

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  December 13, 2001

• Musical lowlights of 2007

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• Pink Pop

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  January 25, 2007

• Phat Promises for 2007

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  December 28, 2006

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  October 6, 2005

• Bowling for Soup, with American Hi-Fi and the Riddlin Kids

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  May 5, 2005

• Last Night at the Alamo

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  February 24, 2005

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  September 23, 2004

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• Cruel Summer

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• Joss Stone

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  April 22, 2004

• What He Said

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  March 11, 2004

• Chasing Mandy

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  January 8, 2004

• Lillix Fair

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  October 23, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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• The Year of Living Dangerously

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• Le Tigre

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  February 28, 2002

• A New Tune

  After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

  November 8, 2001

• I Want My M(ontrose) TV!

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  October 18, 2001

• Skip It

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  May 31, 2001

• Pep Rally

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  August 31, 2000

• Young Blood

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  April 15, 1999

• Rotation

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• Ciara: Fantasy Ride

  May 21, 2009

• Midtown's, er, Houston's Favorite Shots

  Photo by bichromephotoThe last time I can recall doing a shot, I was in college at a townie bar called Tom Cat's. The shots were being passed around in test tubes - a very novel idea to a 20-year-old who'd never consumed alcohol outside of Waco, Texas. I slugged back two Buttery Nipples - a shot made with butterscotch schnapps and Bailey's Irish cream, which is the shot equivalent of listening to Britney Spears - and promptly got kicked out of Tom Cat's because the bartender realized I was und

  May 29, 2009

• Before We Go: House of Blues' "Rock & Roll" Night, Tontons, Gallant Knight, a Willie D Tribute, Britney Returns and More

  Tonight, see how - or where, anyway - the beautiful people kick back at House of Blues' new weekly "Rock & Roll" night in the venue's ultra-plush and oddly brothel-like Foundation Room (entrance on Dallas Street), with no cover, $3 beer and whiskey, tunes curated by Metropol/Stuka/Mink veteran Tim Murrah. "We are gonna grime it up," promises promoter Jagi Katial. We're there. Also tonight, the Tontons will debut several songs from the local quartet's forthcoming full-length - which they just

  June 10, 2009

• Why Are The News People So Desperate?

  ​Have you seen that promo for KPRC news where Dominique Sachse and pals are wandering around a gigantic room, begging us to tell them what we want them to cover?I've been searching for it on YouTube with no luck, but I think you know the one. Bill Balleza and Dom and the whole crew want us to e-mail them, to stop them on the street, to let them know what we want them to cover...because it's our news program. US! The citizens of Houston! We own those bitches!And then there's all of this "Follow

  September 3, 2009

• Spank Me Baby One More Time: A Sordid Tale of Self-Gratification to Britney Spears Videos

  Next week Britney Spears hits town for the second time in the past year, bringing her "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour back to town. Frankly we don't know why Brit needed to hit Houston one more time, but pardon the pun. But anyhow, having Britney in town brings back a flood of memories, as it were. See, Rocks Off came of age at a time when she was just hitting MTV. At around 15 years of age or so, a young man's mind and hand become one and the same, like Luke Skywalker and his light s

  September 11, 2009

• Cleanse Your Dirty, Dirty Soul With the Blind Boys of Alabama at House of Blues

  Ladies and gentlemen, Rocks Off doesn't mind telling you he feels a little dirty after editing that last Britney Spears post. We swear, we ourselves have never, ever rubbed one out to the cover art of Oops... I Did It Again - we just wish we knew why we always have such a hard time getting the damn CD case to open. We have some serious atoning to do, and we haven't even gotten around to posting our slideshow of penis album covers or our list of upcoming singles even more inappropriate than note

  September 11, 2009

• 3rd Annual Galveston Pride Fest

  October 22, 2009

• Pop Rocks: I'm Shocked, Shocked To Discover Britney Spears Was Lip-Synching

  ​To think, I almost found myself agreeing with John Mayer.His response to the simmering Britney Spears lip-synching scandal -- mocking those who expressed outrage at the fact Spears was faking it during her concert in Perth, Australia last weekend -- would appear to be dead-on. One could even take this train of thought a step further and opine that getting conned out of $1,300 (for some seats) might be considered getting off lightly for those who continue to refer to whatever it is that Spears

  November 10, 2009

• While You Weren't Tweeting: Mondays Still Suck

  ​It's raining, it's pouring, it's really Monday morning. Wait, did you blink? Then you certainly missed the brief appearance of the sun, radiating invisible rainbows over our fair city. Is that a pleasant breeze whipping your tailfeathers 'round? Well, it's about to turn arctic; give it a second. Oh, say, giant glowing orb, you're back? Probably not for long. It is November, after all. While you won't hear any true complaints about this mild Texas fall, you probably will hear audible gr

  November 16, 2009