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Fuck-off Friday: It’s Too Hot to Work Anyway

Drenched In Blog: Kanye vs. Fiddy vs. Black Lips

U23D Marq-E = OK

Test Your Musical Strength

Texans Electric Touch Top Amazon's MP3 Chart

Stageside Blogging: A Brief Interlude

XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

Stranded on Planet AC/DC... Don't Bother Sending Help

Fookin'-A

Kasabian has its sights set on becoming the coolest -- and most stereotypical -- Brit-rock band around

Aftermath: Coldplay at Toyota Center

Photos by Mark C. Austin The problem with Chris Martin isn’t the fact that the Coldplay frontman writes lyrics that resemble something that might come from the diary of a seventh grader who sniffs magic markers (snow, it turns out, is white after all). No, it’s the fact that he almost forces p ... More >>

Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles ... More >>

Were These Really the Best Songs of 2008?

The Gutter Twins Maybe Rocks Off spent a lot of 2008 with his head in the archives, but he was paying attention to new stuff too. Occasionally. It's as easy as satellite radio, channel 47's (Ethel/Alt Nation) weekly new-music hour Submission/Transmission. Monday night, S/T happened to be playing ... More >>

Aftermath: DeVotchKa at Warehouse Live

Photos by Mark C. AustinIt's always nice to see a band that respects its elders, and Denver's DeVotchKa has taken Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" promise "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" to heart. Finding the seam between Old World traveler tunes and contemporary indie-rock, the quartet (and a ... More >>

When Publicists Attack: Solarcaded

Dana Boyce I had already drawn a bullseye on the side of my forehead and was just getting the gun out of the drawer. I'm normally not suicidal or, for that matter, the type to brood and get depressed. But as has been mentioned in these pages before, every so often a publicist just makes me wa ... More >>

Gene Loves Jezebel

Dana Boyce I had already drawn a bullseye on the side of my forehead and was just getting the gun out of the drawer. I'm normally not suicidal or, for that matter, the type to brood and get depressed. But as has been mentioned in these pages before, every so often a publicist just makes me wa ... More >>

The Year in Albums

Dana Boyce I had already drawn a bullseye on the side of my forehead and was just getting the gun out of the drawer. I'm normally not suicidal or, for that matter, the type to brood and get depressed. But as has been mentioned in these pages before, every so often a publicist just makes me wa ... More >>

Celebrity Wedding Present

Who has the upper hand in various musician-celebrity marriages?

Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Who has the upper hand in various musician-celebrity marriages?

Houston Music Map

Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

Hello, Houston!

Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

Stars of Track and Field

Stars of Track and Field perform Saturday, May 12, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846. Joseph Arthur also performs.

Dark Star Rising

Jenny Lewis primps for her big push

Jones Family Singers

9 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

Oasis

Tuesday, March 28, Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1666

Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

Year of the Concept

Green Day opens the Idiot-ic floodgates

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

Teenage Fanclub

Man-Made

Coldplay

X&Y

Eisley, with Reggie and the Full Effect and New Found Glory

Thursday, May 19, at Numbers, 300 Westheimer, 713-526-6551.

The Music, with Morningwood

Friday, March 18, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Friday, March 18, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

Murs

Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (Def Jux)

Drat!

Racket proposes a rock radio revolution. Clear Channel beats him to the punch.

F-Bomb Scare

Travis starts cussing, but otherwise remains the same

Nada Surf, with Death Cab for Cutie

Sunday, November 9

Hilary Duff

Metamorphosis (Buena Vista/Hollywood)

Caged Angels

Chart-toppers in the UK, Ash is happy on the American club circuit. But how long will it stay there?

Made With Love

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

Cold Relief

Radio wild card Coldplay struts in from the UK with plenty of attitude

Coldplay

Parachutes
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Cornbreadd Weighs In On 50 Cent/Rick Ross Feud

How bad off is hip-hop right now? Sales are still in the toilet - only one rap record, Jadakiss' The Last Kiss, is in the current Billboard Top 20 - and even Kanye West shooting his mouth off isn't that interesting anymore. About the only thing with legs these days is the 50 Cent/Rick Ross feud, wh ... More >>

Summer Sounds

How bad off is hip-hop right now? Sales are still in the toilet - only one rap record, Jadakiss' The Last Kiss, is in the current Billboard Top 20 - and even Kanye West shooting his mouth off isn't that interesting anymore. About the only thing with legs these days is the 50 Cent/Rick Ross feud, wh ... More >>

Burnin' for You

How bad off is hip-hop right now? Sales are still in the toilet - only one rap record, Jadakiss' The Last Kiss, is in the current Billboard Top 20 - and even Kanye West shooting his mouth off isn't that interesting anymore. About the only thing with legs these days is the 50 Cent/Rick Ross feud, wh ... More >>

Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 1: Bob Dylan, George Strait, The Pogues and More

Initiated by indie-rockers like Sonic Youth, Slint and Built to Spill at mid-2000s festivals - UK/U.S. hopover All Tomorrow's Parties and its various tie-ins being the most prominent - playing a beloved LP front to back in concert is now the hottest thing going on the classic-rock circuit. Within th ... More >>

Aftermath: Coldplay at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Photos by Craig Hlavaty Coldplay carries with them almost every major defect available to make it possible for someone like Aftermath to hate them. Bandleader Chris Martin prances on the stage like a marionette detached from his strings for one, his gee-whiz smile notwithstanding. Just like the its ... More >>

Bayou Beat: Cougars for a Cause at House of Blues, Mandy Moore Hearts Jandek, Bun B Orders Up Some PB&J, etc.

​Want to help fight breast cancer and possibly get pawed by some of Houston's hottest older ladies? Boy, is this the right weekend for you. Sugar Ray, pimping its new album Music for Cougars, headlines House of Blues' "Cougars for a Cause" show Saturday night with Austin power-pop heroes Fastball, ... More >>

Friday Night Noise: In the Land of Archers' Misanthropic Crud; Venison Whirled's Piercing Tonal Halos

​In The Land Of Archers "I Am The Monster That Walks On All Fours": Friday Night Noise is not even gonna try to decipher this Houston crew's web site - which suggests that they're still a going thing despite being entrenched in different projects - because we're way more interested in talking abou ... More >>

Love and Theft

​In The Land Of Archers "I Am The Monster That Walks On All Fours": Friday Night Noise is not even gonna try to decipher this Houston crew's web site - which suggests that they're still a going thing despite being entrenched in different projects - because we're way more interested in talking abou ... More >>

Most Downloaded "Hope For Haiti" Texan? Although She Killed, Not Beyonce

Between fighting crime, reducing global warming, mending our socks and, you know, everything else Rocks Off does when we're away from the office, we caught a good bit of Friday evening's "Hope for Haiti" telethon. We didn't have much choice, because the George Clooney-organized, celebrity-packed fu ... More >>