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10 More GIFs of Ultra Ravers Shaking It

Getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha freak on! We all know that there are lots of ways to become immortalized at a massive outdoor music gathering like Ultra Music Festival.  Say, humping a tree. Or dancing naked while getting arrested. But yo' momma would probably prefer if you lived forever ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Bruce & Kelly, KTRU Outdoor Show, etc.

Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis McGonigel's Mucky Duck, March 8 Spouses tempting fate by naming their new record Cheater's Game? Nah, just the "First Couple of Texas Country Music" rewarding fans with the couple's first-ever full-album collaboration, to go with any number of guest spots on each other' ... More >>

Growlers Beer and Wine Bringing CrafTap System to Montrose Soon

The craft beer community in Houston doesn't let much slip past them. Growlers Beer and Wine owner Doug Bunze found that out late last year when a few eagle eyed craft beer fans tracked down the store's website and Twitter account after he posted a Craigslist ad about job openings at the upcoming cra ... More >>

Culture of Free: Top Five Things People Offer in Lieu of Money for Tech and Creative Services

I've had the privilege to work in a number of creative fields over the years including photography, graphic design, music and, obviously, writing. I've also spent the last decade running a technology company. Surprisingly, they have a lot in common when it comes to business. Both are mostly young fi ... More >>

Vengeance for Beliebers: Justin Bieber Ticket Forger Gets Lengthy Prison Sentence

A Florida man with a lengthy rap sheet ran afoul of two powerful forces yesterday: the long arm of Texas law and the mystical might of Justin Bieber. Forty-year-old Robert C. Grusczynski pleaded guilty in Montgomery County district court to one count of second-degree felony forgery. Judge Fred Edwa ... More >>

Magic Mike

No so revealing.

Rockets GM Daryl Morey Meets With The Media To Discuss The Draft (And Mention The Aborted Pau Gasol Trade A Few Times)

While the NBA Playoffs have been rolling toward their exciting conclusion in Miami and Oklahoma City, back here in Houston, the Rockets have been busy trying to figure out how they can somehow come out of the next few months of NBA player activity with a team that at least feels like a threat to mak ... More >>

Seeking Date To Jesus And Mary Chain: Oral Service Required

The things you find on Craigslist. Rocks Off photographer and contributor Marc Brubaker passed this our way: Free ticket for JESUS AND MARY CHAIN concert March 13 in House of Blues Houston. ONLY for a sexy, adventurous, sensual woman for an evening of good music and hot fun. you need to be able to ... More >>

"Marcus Hertz" Tries to Sell a Rental Car on Craigslist

Who would know better about a slightly used car than a guy named "Marcus Hertz"? He's probably devoted his entire life to helping out drivers who need a temporary ride. Alas, the Marcus Hertz trying to sell a 2011 Nissan Altima on Craiglist turned out to be two Houston dudes trying to sell a rental ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

A response from Village Voice Media​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in The New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds ... More >>

Musicians Oblige Peer's Request For Honest Critique

​Rocks Off likes to troll the musicians' section of Craigslist in an effort to catch interesting acts at their very inception. Usually we get the same old thing day in and day out: Need FOC (Friend of Christ) bass player for worship band. Must have ride. 18 SERIOUS singer looking for band. M ... More >>

Effeminate Synthpop Band Death Metal Singer = ???

This could be your new bandmate.​Rocks Off likes to troll the musicians section of Craigslist in an effort to catch interesting acts at their very inception. Usually we get the same old thing day in and day out: Need FOC (Friend of Christ) bass player for worship band. Must have ride. 18 SER ... More >>

Let Them Eat Cake

Readers rant about strict Texas food laws.

sIngs, LIMB Seeking Stolen Gear, Anonymous Tipster

Marc BrubakersIngs at the Mink, December 4, 2010​Rocks Off has been experimenting with ways of getting songs to load automatically whenever someone clicks on our page for some time now. We're still a ways off, but right now would be a good time to cue up the theme from The Twilight Zone. Mond ... More >>

The Seven Most Entertaining Rappers On Twitter

​Monday, Slim Thug tweeted about his ad in the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist. Thugga is known for being notoriously entertaining on Twitter, as evinced by his Houston Press Music award for Best Twitter Personality. But he's hardly the only funny rapper on Twitter. We found six more. ... More >>

Fifth Ward Saints

Carlos Honore and his wife Tatum started up a youth football league out of nothing in an area of Houston not much known for opportunity or hope.

Musician Hopes Free Drinks, Practice Time Draw Bands To Mango's

​Do you like playing music? Do you like drinking alcohol? Then Jess Wilson at Mango's can hook you up. Rocks Off was doing our weekly wade through Craigslist when we stumbled across the following ad: I'm looking for bands to play regular gigs on Thursdays at Mango's on Westheimer. All styles ... More >>

Foot Fetishist Hassling Local Realtors

Any listings, baby?​It's a tough time to be a Realtor here in Houston (or anywhere). The market is soft and buyers are scarce.Plus you've got a foot fetishist on line two.Houston area Realtors have been warned that there's a foot freak out there who has been making heavy-breathing calls to home br ... More >>

Genius: To Prove He Doesn't Have An Alligator Skull, Dude Shows Lawmen His Dope Crop

"Officer, check my dope crop to make sure I don't have an alligator skull!!!"​An Angleton dude was selling alligator meat illegally online, which triggered a sting by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department authorities.As they negotiated the sale, the guy mentioned he also had an alligator skull he ... More >>

Wanted: "Reason-Filled" Musicians For Atheist Band

​Rocks Off often trolls through Craigslist looking for the very beginnings of some of Houston's next wave of notable musicians. Extremely prevalent throughout the Web site are requests for devout Christians to join together in a mission to glorify the love and word of God through the devil of ... More >>

Wanted: Creed Tribute Band

Courtesy of Codi RoweCodi Rowe (right) with Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti​Rocks Off is not generally a fan of tribute bands, and even less so of Creed. We did have one guy hear who was a fan, but we left his body in the lobby as a warning to others who would embrace Stapp and Co. with arms wid ... More >>

George Randall Scott: Bryan Pastor Accused Of Coercing BJs In Bizarre Perversion Of Chris Hansen's Stings

Chris Hansen never worked like this guy apparently did​Very kinky crimes alert...Fifty-one-year-old Randy Scott, the pastor of Bryan's Bethel Temple Assembly of God was arrested here in Houston in connection with what is being portrayed in court documents as an extremely bizarre scheme.Accor ... More >>

Play Guitar With Your Ass? She Can.

Rocks Off is not responsible for anything that happens should anyone take this woman up on her offer, but we suspect it might be something like this.​In addition to trolling around on YouTube looking for the wettest, the weirdest, the wildest, and the wrongest music videos, Rocks Off enjoys a ... More >>

Saturday Night: Weird Al Yankovic At Verizon Wireless Theater

Photos by Jason Wolter​Weird Al Yankovic Verizon Wireless Theater July 17, 2010 Aftermath is probably not going to write very many, and you're probably going to read even fewer, concert reviews that begin by delineating the finer points of parody and satire. But this is Weird Al Yankovic we'r ... More >>

FAIL: Nashville Weather, Liam Gallagher, Meat Loaf, Warrant's Jani Lane

If you're reading this, you're either on the Internet, or else you've mastered multi-dimensional thought-projection processes that would make Michio Kaku cry like a little girl. We'll assume the former, and just in case you don't already know, the Internet has decided that the word "failure" is too ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Allison Hunter: Zoosphere", "Dirty Secrets from the Cataract Cinema", "Eileen Maxson: Orphans of Failure",

Sorry Little Monsters, Lady Gaga Tickets All Gone-Gone

​Tickets for the second date of Lady Gaga's Houston stand in July sold out less than an hour ago in just 15 minutes, falling short of the record six-minute record set last week. Way to go, little monsters of Houston. Mama Gaga has to be pretty excited about all the weird love going on. Speaking of ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "2010 Glassell Core Exhibition", "Allison Hunter: Zoosphere", "Dirty Secrets from the Cataract Cinema", "Eileen Maxson: Orphans of Failure", "Steve Wolfe on Paper"

Note To Thieves: People You Rob Use Craigslist Too

​Wednesday morning, we told you about Rocks Off photog Marc Brubaker, who was the victim of a robbery at his Denver Harbor home. In the robbery he lost two Macs and a printer, all three things that he uses to do photography for us at Rocks Off and his own projects with the Houstonist Web site. Yes ... More >>

The Jerk Store Calls For A Houstonian

​Jerks in Your Area is a website that scours the net for postings on Craigslist, Backpages and message boards looking for, as it puts it, "posts written by or about the biggest jerks out there."Today's featured guest: A Houstonian.A once-Jewish Houstonian who's now a "born-again Wiccan." One who w ... More >>

Craigslist Prank Leads To Felony Charge For Disgruntled Friendswood Woman

​Police in Friendswood allege that 33-year-old Amanda Anderson got even with her former employer the new-fashioned way: via Craigslist.They allege that she took out what must have been a very generous help-wanted ad for various contractors. Once it hit the 'net, Anderson's old boss was swamped wit ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Game Time: Sex For World Series Tickets

​There are people who like to go to sporting events, there are people who would pay anything to go to sporting events, and then there are people who would pleasure a complete stranger for World Series tickets.Meet Susan Finkelstein. If you haven't heard her story, she is a diehard Phillies fan in ... More >>

The Dong Show

Here at Rocks Off, we do a lot of research for our wildly popular and intellectually enlightening album cover slideshows. As part of that research, we've found many of those albums to be highly concentrated on the male goinrular area. So at long last, and just in time for the weekend, we've compiled ... More >>

A Third Ward Pawnshop iPod and the Mysterious Fate of Previous Owner "Scooby"

Whoever he is (was?), Scooby's iPod wasn't short on R. Kelly.​So a couple of weeks ago, after three or four years of increasingly faltering service, Rocks Off's 30 GB iPod finally died. Completely. Out of sheer broke-assedness, we had held on to it for longer than most. By the end, its quirks and ... More >>

In Honor of Michelle Obama and "Shortsgate," the Best Ass Songs of All Time

In a year when the biggest news stories aren't about war or the environment but a mentally unbalanced woman having a litter of children and the death of a creepy pop singer who hadn't put out a decent album in 25 years, it should come as no surprise that so many people would be up in arms ... More >>

Houston Leads Nation In Bending Over And Taking It, Study Finds

The nation is learning something new about Houston today: We're a bunch of bottoms.Well, we are if we are gay.Gawker has an item citing a report by a website called The Sword that compiled data on Craigslist ads for steamy M2M sex, analyzing which posters were likely to describe themselves as tops o ... More >>

Crash Into Me: Predicting the Economy's Impact on the Music Biz

GWAR more important than you might expect.

The "Heidi Fleiss Of Houston" Is Now Recruiting Nannies. Really

Photo courtesy HCSO For years, Debbie Turbiville made a living knowing how to recruit prostitutes - or at least that's how the woman referred to a "Houston's Heidi Fleiss" has been painted ever since police shut down her allegedly high-class hooker ring.But recruiting is recruiting is recruiting - t ... More >>

It's Easier Than You Think To Get Shot By A Bellaire Cop

Unarmed 23-year-old black man Robbie Tolan was shot in his own driveway last Wednesday in Bellaire. The bullet pierced his lung and lodged in his liver, where doctors say it will likely remain for the rest of his life.The shooter was Sgt. Joseph Cotton, who evidently thought Tolan's 2004 Nissan Xter ... More >>

Sunday: The Quietest Makes its First Noise

Don't Make Labor Day Weekend Plans...

Here's the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

Worked Up

Musical lowlights of 2007

Shaken, Not Stirred

No Show: EMC Expos

A long line of people say they've been stiffed by Rolando Dumagan and company.

First Rodeo Performers Announced: Houston Just Can’t Get Enough Hannah

Bayou Blow

Coke is the new weed

KTRK, License Plate Frames, City Council, Bun B and Google

KTRK has a "Meet the Rapist!" contest

Getting Rogered

The soap opera continues

Our top DVD picks for the week of April 25