Subject: Clay Aiken

• Aching for Aiken

  March 28, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  January 16, 2007

• Aching for Aiken

  March 28, 2007

• When Blood Comes to Town

  April 6, 2007

• Really, Shouldn't All Inappropriate Touching Be Reported to the Authorities?

  April 2, 2007

• Roger Clemens and Clay Aiken Are Both Totally Overrated

  April 2, 2007

• Bet You Didn't Even Realize He Was Gone

  March 30, 2007

• Still Aching for Aiken?

  April 10, 2007

• Aiken Alert

  May 2, 2007

• I am a Pedestrian Report: Bellaire

  May 25, 2007

• Listen Up! The Clay Aiken Interview

  July 6, 2007

• Lame Stunt: Clay Aiken in Spamalot

  January 17, 2008

• Clay Aiken Is Going to Be a Daddy? For Realz?

  June 4, 2008

• Five Spot: Breaking Out the Musical Ugly Stick

  August 8, 2008

• Everybody’s Gay…Even Miss Pop Rocks

  September 29, 2008

• The Scientifically Engineered Worst Song in the World

  Crazy science, will you ever learn? Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Sure, we could start transplanting monkey heads on humans, but you shouldn't. The atom bomb sure as hell ended World War II, but it began an era of atomic fear and guilt. We ended up with all kinds of hassles, like communism and bad Schwarzenegger movies. This brings us to the crack team of Dave Soldier and Komar & Melamid, who scientifically created the world's worst song. It clocks in at ov

  February 13, 2009

• RIP Bob Dylan?

  At first, when Rocks Off saw this flyer (right) come over ye olde MySpace, we didn't really give it much thought. It looked like a decent night of tunes from a bunch of dead rockers - maybe some "Lithium", a little "Purple Haze." After all, the night is dedicated to rockers who have gone on to the big festival in the sky, right? But when did Bob Dylan die? You know, Jakob Dylan's dad. The old dude from those "Victoria's Secret ads" a few years back, whose album due in April has a song about

  March 5, 2009

• Aftermath: Darius Rucker at RodeoHouston

  Photos by Craig HlavatyAftermath always wondered what it was like to not be known to the public by your birth name, but by the name of your band. In the beginning, some club owners thought that David Lee Roth's name was Van Halen. I'm sure somewhere along the line Ian Anderson was called Jethro Tull to his face. Those, if you aren't in Jethro Tull, could be fighting words. "His name is Hootie, dammit!" screamed a gaggle of fans sitting two rows behind Aftermath Monday night, as Darius Ruc

  March 17, 2009

• A Pleasure Cruiser and The Worst Song in the World

  On the Trailer

  February 26, 2009

• William Hung

  Inspiration (Koch)

  May 13, 2004

• Wintertime Blues

  December 7, 2006

• American Idols Live

  Which megatour is really more punk rock?

  July 12, 2007

• Critic's Dictionary

  The A's

  May 3, 2007

• Mail Call

  Special Clay Aiken Edition

  April 19, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

  January 18, 2007

• Welcome back, Rock Star

  Dilana comes home to the reality after reality TV

  December 28, 2006

• Slay Bells

  An X-mas mixtape from hell

  December 21, 2006

• Never Opening Near You

  Music biopics Hollywood won't make

  November 16, 2006

• Fat Beats

  The real reason Houston stays near the top of the chunkiest-city charts

  March 9, 2006

• He's Gone Country

  The Nightfly tries out as the next Bocephus at Sam Houston Race Park

  February 17, 2005

• Get Back, Honky Cat

  Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

  December 2, 2004

• Letters

  September 16, 2004

• Playbill

  September 2, 2004

• Vienna Teng

  Thursday, April 1

  March 25, 2004

• Boobs Versus Prudes

  Only Prince can walk the tightrope between sensuality and artistry

  February 26, 2004

• A Fan's Notes

  Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

  December 18, 2003

• Hip-hop, Tejas

  December 4, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 14, 2003

• Idol Beat: The Top Four Results

  Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxNo More Pencils: Slash (right) took American Idol's Final 4 to school Wednesday night. "Who will graduate from the school of rock? And who will just get schooled?" Ryan Seacrest asked, rhetorically, at the beginning of Wednesday night's episode of American Idol. We wondered, then. I smelled an upset, myself. Just felt it. Kris Allen should be going home, I knew - but the likelihood that America could screw up and shaft Allison Iraheta or Adam Lambert just as easily. (L

  May 7, 2009

• Idol Beat: The One

  Mea culpa: Yi. I typed this entire post - then accidentally closed the Mozilla Firefox window and lost everything. Let this be a lesson to every blogger out there: compose in Word. For real.Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxAmerican Idol winner Kris Allen practices his "Who, me?" showbiz face. Let's not belabor this: Kris Allen won. It is not, in fact, gay folks' time. I'm not especially surprised, but I am disappointed. What can you do, though? Adam Lambert will drop an amazing album someday. Kris wil

  May 21, 2009

• It's 4:30 p.m. and Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken, John Mayer, Nickelback and ICP Still Suck

  Er... no comment. OK, maybe one or two...​In the world of rock writing, there are just some artists' fans that you can't help but fuck with. While you're alternately enamored and disgusted by their chosen obsession, they exert a near religious fanaticism for their fixation of worship, making them all too open for mockery. In the past decade, the increasing omnipresence of the Internet and the advent of American Idol have created a new sub-species of rabid followers who take each barb thrown in

  September 14, 2009

• Go Ask Alice: Shock-Rockers Who Can Hang With Mr. Cooper

  ​Before Lady GaGa, before Clay Aiken, before Marilyn Manson, the nation's ultimate ghastly shock-rocker and parent-baiting troublemaker was Detroit's own Alice Cooper. Cooper and his band weren't the first rockers to shock and frighten the masses with tales of ghouls and blood, but they were one of the best. Bands continue to steal from Cooper decades after his reign. Just take a listen to any Turbonegro album ever recorded; all have a delicate and loving homage to Cooper. Even lead singer Han

  October 9, 2009