Subject: Celine Dion

• Idol Chatter

  January 18, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Happy 25th, Thriller

  November 30, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks Loves (the First Half of) the Oscars

  February 24, 2008

• Ten Performers Besides Bruce Springsteen Who Were Considered for the Super Bowl

  October 2, 2008

• Low and Outside

  Welcome to the ballpark. And brown fields and barren expanses of a still-not-rejuvenated section of downtown.

  March 30, 2000

• Best Chanteuse

  Linda Eder

  September 21, 2000

• Rub-a-Dub-Dub

  Austin-based Grimy Styles lives up to its name

  August 12, 2004

• Bill-bored

  December 15, 1994

• Tonight: Broken Social Scene at Numbers

  Poster by Mr. CastilloSince 1999, Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene have made consistently brilliant and always original experimental baroque-pop music, enlisting the help of a myriad of artists along the way: Metric's Emily Haines, Leslie "1,2,3,4" Feist, Jason Collett, Amy Millan of Stars and Jason Tait of The Weakerthans. Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew, BSS' two founding members, both have solo records in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series. Rocks Off

  February 2, 2009

• Static

  August 15, 1996

• Rotation

  February 5, 1998

• Played Out

  April 23, 1998

• Rotation

  July 16, 1998

• The Sound of Money

  January 7, 1999

• My Fart Will Go On

  April 8, 1999

• Splendor in the Crass

  July 1, 1999

• The pAper chAse

  Grammy-nominated music producer fronts sinister Dallas rock quartet

  December 4, 2008

• Mariah Carey

  Thursday, August 28

  August 28, 2003

• Watering Down the Drinks

  Hey, wasn't Coyote Ugly supposed to serve up sex and alcohol?

  August 10, 2000

• Disney Channel fits Texan Demi Lovato for a glass slipper

  Wishing Upon a Star

  May 29, 2008

• Damming the Streams

  The major labels want the Internet to be as arid as the airwaves

  July 4, 2002

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• Houston's Ten Worst Songs

  …and we're still not as bad as Dallas

  September 27, 2007

• Hurricane Forecasts, Telemarketers, Evacuation Plans

  Hurricanes a-comin'

  May 31, 2007

• Critic's Dictionary

  The A's

  May 3, 2007

• The Music Critics Dictionary

  Translating critic-speak

  March 29, 2007

• Musical Food Groups

  If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

  February 22, 2007

• Making Scents of the Stars

  A buyer's guide to celebrity fragrances

  December 21, 2006

• Double Vision

  Jess and Lisa Origliasso give teen pop a harmonic jolt as the Veronicas

  June 15, 2006

• Pinmonkey

  Thursday, May 25, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  May 25, 2006

• Feel This Man

  If you think R. Kelly is anything less than the greatest recording artist alive, you're wrong!

  March 9, 2006

• Addicted to Fluff

  Racket and company's American Idol symposium

  May 19, 2005

• Dancing Queen

  The Martha Graham Dance Company defines modern movement

  February 24, 2005

• Windows of the Seoul

  Getting to know South Korea through music videos

  February 17, 2005

• "Red" Hot

  DJ-producer Tony Moran stops by South Beach for a scandalous Valentine's Day party

  February 10, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 12, 2004

• Scar Wars

  Austin's Vallejo performs at Whiskey Blues

  July 3, 2003

• Made With Love

  Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

  April 10, 2003

• Gory Good Fun

  Ghost Ship searches for horror

  October 24, 2002

• The Gord Is My Shepherd

  For the Canadian multitudes and the American few, the Tragically Hip offer up secular gospel and quasi-religious concerts

  October 24, 2002

• The Burden Brothers

  Saturday, May 11

  May 9, 2002

• Masked Avengers

  Forget the headgear. Los Straitjackets are having a seriously good time deconstructing instrumental pop.

  December 28, 2000

• Silver and Gold (and Green)

  Some artists make holiday records for the beauty, not the bucks

  December 23, 1999

• Who R. You?

  The enigma that is R. Kelly keeps audiences enthralled, guessing

  May 27, 1999

• Letters

  April 22, 1999

• Rotation

  January 14, 1999

• Talking With Air Guitar Master Bjorn Turoque

  For the past six years, Dan Crane, aka "Bjorn Turoque" has been the preeminent ambassador for the world of air guitar. He retired from competition in the Air Guitar World Championships in 2005 and made a lateral move to being the touring roadshow nightly MC - or the "Master of Air-emonies," as he calls himself. The world of competitive air guitar actually goes back to the early '80s in Sweden, when a few metal fans began performing in front of folks, and the phenomenon soon reached the States in

  June 12, 2009

• Aftermath: Yanni at Toyota Center

  Craig Hlavaty Words like pageantry, wonderment, and spectacle aren't used very much in the Aftermath lexicon. It's hard to divvy out those special labels when we are covering bleeding dudes in bondage gear half-raping each other on stage, the weekly parade of washed-up alt-rock groups making another run at the brass ring, grizzled Americana crooners, or the indie flavor of the past five minutes. Which brings us to why Aftermath found themselves sitting mere feet away from the singularly-monike

  June 15, 2009

• Kick 'em While They're Down: The Worst Songs Ever Recorded For Charity

  Please take this thing away from me. Please.​ When Rocks Off received an email touting Sting's new MySpace charity video for the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, we almost chipped a fingernail hurriedly clicking on the link, which promised oodles of celebrities such as Olivia Newton-John, Richard E. Grant and, of course, Pelé. Naturally, we were hoping for a new godawful charity song to horrify co-workers with; Hlavaty especially can only hiss and crawl under his desk when confronted with

  October 13, 2009

• Rocks Off's Picks for This Weekend's Fun Fun Fun Festival

  You can think of this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin as the indie, metal, and hip-hop little brother of the more staid Austin City Limits Music Festival. The fourth edition of the two-day event held in Waterloo Park in Austin starts tomorrow afternoon. Per our stated life path, Rocks Off will be there covering all the bands, fans and assorted debauchery that all that comes with. This year's line-up is rife with musical pioneers, unsung heroes, along with the usual "It" bands that you will

  November 6, 2009