Subject: Courtney Love

• Where Will They Be?

  A look at the rock scene in 2020

  December 30, 1999

• Five Spot: Breaking Out the Musical Ugly Stick

  August 8, 2008

• When Online Got Off Base

  Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz

  April 11, 2002

• Rotation

  May 19, 1994

• Hole on Halloween

  October 27, 1994

• Halloween Hangover

  November 10, 1994

• Letters

  December 1, 1994

• The Lame and the Great

  December 22, 1994

• A Pizza Puzzle

  June 15, 1995

• Rotation

  March 21, 1996

• Last of the Hard-core Troubadours

  October 10, 1996

• Idol Beat: Hollywood Week, Part 1

  [Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being cute 'n' quirky with the hint of a decent set of pipes isn't enough anymore, when it's time to separate the Kimberly Caldwells from the Josiah Lemings, when the cavalcade of Ford product placement be

  February 5, 2009

• Dead Man Acting

  February 6, 1997

• Love Bane of Cobain

  June 11, 1998

• This Year's Model

  July 9, 1998

• Rotation

  September 3, 1998

• From Zero to Hero

  January 28, 1999

• Ultra Lights

  February 25, 1999

• Shit Hole

  May 6, 1999

• Too Much for Words

  June 10, 1999

• Bar X Views

  Plus: Junk Food, Junk Suits; Pigeon Hold, Meds for the Poor

  February 6, 2003

• The '90s Continue Unabated At House Of Blues, Homeslice!

  Seriously, what's with the House of Blues downtown toying around with all our '90s modern rock nostalgia as of late? In the past eight months or so since the HOB has opened, the folks on Caroline have booked almost every quasi-major alt-rock band of the last decade, that has not died of an overdose or succumbed to early senility (cough, Courtney Love, cough). It was just last week that Gavin Rossdale of Bush trotted out his solo pony show to a packed crowd of aging Gen-Xers. Live came and pl

  June 3, 2009

• Bill Callahan

  Bill Callahan will perform on Wednesday, April 18, at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, 2402 Munger, 713-926-6368.

  April 12, 2007

• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Show Your Bones

  March 30, 2006

• Grind It Out with Pam

  February 16, 2006

• Told You So

  Racket gets his gloat on

  February 16, 2006

• Exit the Matrix

  The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky

  January 26, 2006

• Pop Rocks

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

  December 8, 2005

• Banging with Bang! Bang!

  Chicago's rumpy-pumpiest punks dispense the Dan Savage-style advice

  September 1, 2005

• The Hipster's Guide to Rock and Roll Vendettas

  And you thought rappers were the only ones who had beefs

  August 11, 2005

• Ashlee Simpson

  Autobiography (Geffen)

  August 12, 2004

• Love the Big Bang

  Sure, an LNG terminal is dangerous. Live with it.

  July 8, 2004

• GoGoGo Airheart

  Monday, March 22

  March 18, 2004

• The Kings of Queens

  The Kinsey Sicks quartet busts into Houston

  March 18, 2004

• Big Wet Kiss

  Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

  November 6, 2003

• Not So Complic8ted

  Our latest pop phenomenon, Avril Lavigne, deconstructed for your convenience

  January 16, 2003

• Number One with a Bullet

  Our take on "rare" Nirvana

  January 9, 2003

• The Strokes

  Thursday, January 24

  January 24, 2002

• Betty Blowtorch

  Saturday, December 15

  December 13, 2001

• Mondo Video

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  July 27, 2000

• Fresh Pavement

  One of the last great indie rock bands struggles to survive its success

  September 30, 1999

• Rotation

  January 14, 1999

• Porn Again

  Larry Flynt the movie does something Larry Flynt the man wouldn't: It fails to go all the way

  January 9, 1997

• Rotation

  August 25, 1994

• Twitter Ticker: Musicians Love to Overshare

  It's amazing the things that people have to say in 140 characters or less. Some take forever to update their adoring public, about their lives while others tweet like it's about to go out of style. Do they not realize everyone can read these things? And that they are, more or less, setting themselves up for being the punchline in a joke about themselves? Apparently not. Though, for the most part, things have been quiet since Michael Jackson's funeral, the twitter-verse has is always buzzing from

  July 15, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs Guaranteed to Offend the Opposite Sex

  Chicks, man. Can't live with them, can't play music that objectifies them while in the car on the first date. What's up with that? You play one song with the queen mother c-word in it and she leaves the car before we get our complimentary paper crowns. We compiled a list of songs guaranteed to offend the lady in your life, especially if she's a prude or, ya know, has a degree in something or other. We never asked what it was in because right before we were going to, the DJ started playing "Warm

  August 20, 2009

• Songs Slightly Less Inappropriate Than R. Kelly's Latest Single, "Number One"

  So R. Kelly's newest single is called "Number One." Seriously? Okay, we know Kelly was found innocent of all child-related golden-shower charges by a jury of 12 idiots, but when the subject of Dave Chappelle's "(I Wanna) Piss On You" releases a single called "Number One"... sorry, but we have to believe he is now simply taunting us. We taxed our brains to their very limits, and we were able to think of ten (as-yet) fictional songs that would be only slightly less appropriate. Have a look - you

  September 15, 2009

• Halloween Countdown: How Best To Go For The `90s-Nostalgia Look

  Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. Check out past entries here and here. If VH1 has taught us nothing else, it's shown that it's never too soon to be nostalgic. This Halloween, tap into the cultural era academics refer to as "the `90s" and impress friends with your knowledge of history. Rekindle their fond me

  October 15, 2009

• Aftermath: Peaches, Stripping the Onion (and Herself) at House of Blues

  Photos by Jody Perry/ Click here for a slideshow​ It's been a long time since Aftermath has been to the kind of high-energy, high-theatrics rock and roll show that makes us totally forget ourselves, even if just for an hour. Monday night at House of Blues, Peaches gave us exactly that kind of show, a relentless assault on good taste, fashion, preconceived notions and musical genres. We thought we had Peaches pegged. Shock-rocker. Gender-bender. We were hoping she'd come through and meet our ex

  November 3, 2009

• The Top Rock-Star Death Conspiracies: Elvis, Michael, Kurt, Tupac and More

  It seems that the stranger and weirder our world gets by the day, humanity struggles to find reasons behind all this calamity and tragedy. We try our best to find conclusions to why bad things happen, and when we can't fully fathom that the awful truth is just that, instead try to blame the influence of shadowy forces that supposedly linger in the dark. In the past 50 years, our society turned away from accepting basic facts and has instead begun to traffic in speculation and hearsay, trumping

  November 18, 2009