You know, the Grim Reaper don't care if you're a multiplatinum music legend, a one-hit wonder or studio-only sideman - he's comin' for you someday! And in 2008, he seemed to like keyboardists and drummers most. A number of classic rockers left for "The Great Gig in the Sky," foremost of whom is the composer of that song...
Rick Wright, keyboardist, Pink Floyd (1943-2008): While David Gilmour and Roger Waters were locked in an often ugly head-to-head in battle for creative control and band leade
[Eat Your Vegetables is a new Rocks Off column exploring experimental, improvised and other generally odd music.]
Express disinterest in Frank Zappa to one of his fans, and they're likely to insist you hear Hot Rats - or at least, so I read somewhere once; Zappa devotees becoming steadily less numerous as his career recedes into the past, opportunities to interact with them these days are few. Why Hot Rats, Zappa's first solo album, would be the selection of choice for initiating newcomers is e
Rocks Off been so far removed from mall culture that we had almost forgot that Hot Topic existed. Not that we ever meditated on where on 14-year old girls get their "Twilight" shirts and metal gauntlets from or anything...
Apparently local Hot Topic locations have been hosting acoustic shows by local artists, aiming to cultivate a grassroots scene away from those bands with shirts on their trendy brick walls. We got wind of a Ladyheat gig coming up soon at Katy Mills, plus a few scattered o
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The Russian Sextoys: No Thom Yorke fans, they.MySpace is a great place for discovering off-the-wall tunes and performers. Here are three wack jobs from cyberspace that hail from that weird place that Captain Beefheart found so easily and in so many forms.
The Russian Sextoys: For every Radiohead fan, there's someone like this French trio who'd like to see the pretentious, self-absorbed hipsters loaded into a capsule and fired into deep space. Like the old Budweiser co
Oh lord. This could get ugly. Sorry, mom.
When it comes to - ahem - unresolved issues in a relationship, almost nothing is better to help us commiserate, haterate and self-medicate than music. She Said sometimes likes to image what the soundtrack of her life would look like. The songs below would be played during the sappy scenes, where one lover meets another or leaves another.
As tempting as it is for us to hit below the belt (pun intended), we'd like to think of ourselves as a little mor
