Glenn Beck has stumbled onto an extremely lucrative shtick -- act like an insane man, and right-wing nuts will give you incredible ratings (for cable, anyway), they will throw money at you for your supremely silly books, they will take you seriously as a political analyst.Hard to believe, but true.Beck, as anyone who tunes into KTRH-AM in the mornings knows, is completely unlistenable (He's got great radio chops, but other neessary basics, like logic and sanity, are missing). So it's a good thin
All this week, Rocks Off is previewing Saturday and Sunday's Westheimer Block Party by asking WBP performers to fill out a list from Lisa Nola's Music Listography book we're so fond of. It's not too late for your band to be up here; just email chris.gray@houstonpress.com by noon Thursday if you want to play. First up are Lake Jackson post-punk art-rockers Fiskadoro.
Rich Kimball, guitar
Robert Rental: This guy is criminally obscure. I think he played with Daniel Miller's band The Normal for awh