Paul Wall: Also available for oral-hygeine advice.
Today at the UH Main Campus on Cullen, The Recording Academy and the Grammys are putting on a Career Day for students in the college's music department. The Grammys hold these workshops around the country for students looking to take the leap into the music industry as a full-time gig.
It's like any other career day, except the one's you remember from high school probably didn't have a platinum-selling hip-hop artist as a guest. Houston's own
While trolling the nether regions of the UK press, we came upon this, touting the wonders of Houston as a luxury vacation spot. It's all enough to make Hair Balls wish it didn't live here already so it could start making travel plans now!We cannot help but imagine how impressed our luxury-seeking Limey friends will be with "the expansion of Bayport Terminal, the opening of Houston Premium Outlets and Houston Pavillions." Blimey! A Books-A-Million, pet!Not to mention the improved transport delive
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.
After last week's Artist of the Week set off a firestorm of offensive - and possibly genius - comments ("FUCK BARNUM AND BAILEYS... FUCK KRYLON... FUCK RESALE SHOPS..."), we set off to find a group whose music was capable of
Andrew Karnavas
Rocks Off will be the special guest "audience of one" on tonight's Live from Sugar Hill, the monthly hour-long live-music Webcast broadcast from the historic Southeast Houston studios. Tonight's musical guests are bluesy singer-songwriter Andrew Karnavas and veteran Tex-Mex power-poppers the Freddy Steady 5. Our interviewers will be Rosa Guerrero of KTRU's Mutant Hardcore Flower Hour and Sugar Hill producer Dan Workman.Freddy "Steady" KrcRocks Off is not exactly sure what it is h
But more importantly, do we want it to be? And, God help us, what if it already is?
When Rocks Off polled a cross-section of Houston music insiders for his "dead-tree" column this week - thanks for the term, Jeremy at Space City Rock - he was forced to omit one question from the final version for space reasons. It was a question he didn't even really want to ask, but given Houston's tenuous relationship (especially from a musical point of view) with our neighbors to the north and northwest, he f
Ah, here we go again with local artists trumpeting "Grammy nominations." The latest is Atascocita-grown country singer Susan Hickman, who seems to fancy herself as a Miranda Lambert/Martina McBride type. We stumbled across Hickman accidentally through MySpace's "Status Updates," and our eye was immediately drawn to: "Susan Hickman Up for 6 1st Round Grammy Nominations."
Now Lonesome, Onry and Mean doesn't claim to know everything about what's going on around here, but we do try to keep our ear
