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The Rocks Off 100: Shane Tuttle, Updog Owner and Album-Cover Designer

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Shane Tuttle discovered a talent for g ... More >>

Not Quite Ready to Die: In Defense of Iggy and the Stooges

Iggy and the Stooges, headliners of this year's Free Press Summer Fest, recently released their first new record under their current moniker since 1973. Titled Ready to Die, it's also the group's first record with guitarist James Williamson since then, following the death of guitarist Ron Asheton a ... More >>

Hotel Transylvania: Cartoons, Not Animation

With big-studio millions behind him, Genndy Tartakovsky still goes it alone.

Hotel Transylvania

A comic Dracula still kills.

Pop Rocks: We Don't Need Another Star Wars

You ain't seen nothing yet.​If you're one of those wondering what the delay is with the planned live-action Star Wars TV show, wonder no longer: George Lucas has said that he has 50 hours worth of a new Star Wars TV series ready, but is waiting for a new technological breakthrough before it c ... More >>

Friday Night: Tim & Eric At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​ Tim & Eric, Neil Hamburger FItzgerald's November 12, 2010 It took Aftermath a while to "get" Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Awesome Show (Great Job). We were a fan of their original Adult Swim offering, Tom Goes to the Mayor, but at first unfairly lumped in their m ... More >>

Erasure, Robot Unicorns Bring Happiness To All

Every day Rocks Off trolls the tubes of you in search of videos to share. If you have something that you think deserves to be video of the day, send a link to jef_rouner at yahoo dot com. ​If you have the kind of job where you can play flash games on Adult Swim's Web site like your daily V ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Flame, Hollywood, Flame

Another well-adjusted Prop 8 supporter​I'm sure you've all heard the terrible news by now: Judge Vaughn "Mussolini" Walker declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Obviously I don't have to tell you what severe ramifications this will have, not only for the soul of our country ... More >>

Five Questions to Answer Before You Decide Where to Eat (When You're Drunk)

​You've closed out your local pub, and you're a little bit lit up. Not so drunk that you're stumbling around talking to trees and vomiting on yourself, but drunk enough to be extremely impulsive. And the impulse hitting you right now: You need food. Slowly you remember that you haven't eaten s ... More >>

MC Chris

A Journey Through American Pop With Josie And The Pussycats

​On any list of the great, animated bands, Josie and the Pussycats stands near the apex, possibly topped only by Dethklok and Jem and the Holograms. The trio of mystery-solving musicians started as an Archie comic in the '60s before moving onto a successful animated run. Like all cartoons in ... More >>

The Week In TV: Charlie Sheen's Career Not Hurt By Punching Women

Back, for some reason​The dog days are here, people keep dying, and there's plenty of static on the dial. This was the week in TV Land:• When I was very young, my heart and soul were ruled by Thundercats. I even at one point made the regrettable decision to wear a watch featuring Lion-O to schoo ... More >>

"Animation"

Daffy, Donald and Dexter are not as simple as they seem

Gumby, We Hardly Knew Ye: 10 Stop-Motion Videos for the Late Art Clokey

Late last Friday, Rocks Off learned that Gumby and Davey and Goliath creator Art Clokey had passed away in his sleep at age 88. The pioneering stop-motion animator and his clay work were fixtures in children's television from 1957 on. All of Clokey's characters were moral, fun-loving and devoid of ... More >>

Aftermath: We Do Not Choke Other People, Even at a Dethklok/ Mastodon/ Converge/ High on Fire Metalocalypse

Photos by Marc BrubakerDethklok​ If you were to tell any random music fan on the street that a tour with the four bands on the "Adult Swim Presents" would be happening, they would say "Oh sure, fuck it. Why not? It's all loud." But that's sort of where the tour planners alternately went wrong and ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: Converge's Jacob Bannon on the Metalcore Pioneers' Signature Sound

Ryan Russell/ www.myspace.com/converge​ Out of the four bands playing tonight's big "Adult Swim Presents" tour, Converge sticks out like a shard of bloody glass embedded in your foot. Opening doomers High On Fire and co-headliner Mastodon are both devastating bands who orchestrate monolithic walls ... More >>

Talking With C-3PO Himself, Anthony Daniels, About Star Wars: In Concert

A few weeks back, Rocks Off had the pleasure of speaking with actor Anthony Daniels, the man in the golden suit and the physical embodiment of one of the most iconic characters in popular science fiction. Since production began in 1976 on A New Hope, better known of course as Star Wars, Daniels has ... More >>

He Said She Said: Breakup Songs to Help You Bawl, Part 2

Ever since men and women set eyes upon each other at the beginning of time, there have been break-ups, and painful dissolutions of romantic escapades have made the best art in the world. Hell, somewhere in the world there is a probably a cave painting of a pretty young Neanderthal girl with devil h ... More >>

I Walked With a Zombie: A Roky Erickson Primer

Chris GrayOkkervil River's Will Sheff (left) and Roky Erickson at the 2008 Austin Music AwardsRocks Off is starting to get really excited about Roky Erickson's show at the Continental Club Wednesday night. As of around noon Tuesday, about 50 tickets were left, available at Sig's Lagoon. Sig's owner ... More >>

Max Juren

YouTube filmmaker takes his clips from computer screen to TV screen

For Cinco de Mayo: Five Non-Mexican Mexicans In The Movies

Cinco de Mayo is a day for Americans of Mexican descent to commemorate their rich history and heritage while at the same time trying to ignore the legions of mouth-breathing Chron commenters clamoring for their deportation. And if being blamed for the H1N1 (don't call it swine) flu outbreak wasn't ... More >>

Happy 4/20, Mon: Why Bob Marley Is Overrated

When the calendar hits April 20, thoughts turn to man's other best friend: the marijuana plant. Yes, along with copious amounts of Reese's Pieces and trips to the nearest Jack in the Box drive-thru, almost everyone agrees nothing goes better with the reefer than reggae. (Personally, give us Slee ... More >>

Tonight: Cradle of Filth at House of Blues

CecilCreepy symphonic extreme metal doesn't get much better than Cradle of Filth. Over the Suffolk, England-spawned band's nearly 20-year history, lead singer Dani Filth has become the standard by which all of metal's darker practitioners are measured. The band's lyrics and imagery are playfu ... More >>

The Force Is Weak with the Long-Delayed Fanboys

Millennium Albatross

Lonesome Onry and Mean Extra: Billy Joe Shaver Indicted for Aggravated Assault

Aftermath: Masters of Metal at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

MC Chris

Hip-hop funny man hits Houston

Dethklok

Carlos Alazraqui

Arresting comedy by Reno 911’s Officer Garcia

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

The Great Unknown

Music, the Squidbillies and a personal ecosystem

Art on the Move

Well-known Unknown

Stringin' up horrifying honky-tonk

All-Day Suckers

Sedaris and Colbert peddle Candy not everybody wants

Bam! Pow!

Students find out cartoons are no laughing matter

Doomsday

One hundred percent beef

Dangerdoom

The Mouse & The Mask

Comic Relief

It ain't quite Fantastic, but it'll do in a pinch

Curry Favor

Cozy up to India at the International Festival

MC Chris, with Yugant and 1AM Records

Tuesday, April 12, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

The Passion of the Cruise

Me-sci-ah offers truth, celebrity and the Scientology way

Now That's Commedia

Classic stories are made even more classic

Houston, Once Removed

Go to Accra, Ghana, and find gated communities modeled on our own hometown

Sidecar Sideshow

Racket confronts his hatas at a show in his dishonor

Daddy's Girl

Gregory Beard says his wife did drugs in front of their child, yet a Harris County associate judge awarded her custody. Beard spent the summer fighting to get his baby back.

Tooned In To Anime

Fans say there's nothing Mickey Mouse about these Japanese cartoons with their stories of love, sex, death and saving the world

Border Line

In the predawn hours, immigrants face an eternity of waiting at the INS office

Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Dumb or Dumber?

Space cadets of Man or Astro-man? go to great depths to maintain a gimmick