Subject: David Bowie

• Pop Numerology: How High Can You Go?

  October 10, 2007

• Weekend Music: Skyrocket!’s in Flight

  February 15, 2008

• Weekend Music: No Money, No Problem

  April 11, 2008

• The Blog of Lists: 20 Teetotaling Musicians other than Ian Mackaye

  April 30, 2008

• Racket vs Racket Jr

  June 4, 2008

• Get Lit: Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell

  June 18, 2008

• Aftermath: Peter Murphy at Meridian

  July 11, 2008

• Peter Murphy

  Thursday, May 30

  May 30, 2002

• Election Eve With Fred

  November 4, 2008

• Get Lit: The Pitchfork 500

  November 12, 2008

• Beyonce and Luke the Drifter

  Because her public appearances are stage-managed to the hilt, and otherwise she generally stays out of trouble (or out of sight altogether), Beyonce is of constant interest but limited use to gotcha!-media outlets like TMZ. "It's hard to imagine Beyonce scratching an itch without undergoing a little media training first," Blender senior editor Jonah Weiner writes in "Pop Dopplegangers," an interesting article Rocks Off ran across today on Slate.com. Playing off Beyonce's decision to reco

  November 26, 2008

• Aftermath: Duran Duran at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Chris Gray Alone among its pretty-boy peers in the early and mid-'80s, Duran Duran was the blackest band to regularly hit the pop charts from either side of the pond. Only the Aussies in INXS had anywhere near the same level of interest in funk and disco, and the chops to pull it off. Reading guitarist Andy Taylor's recent memoir Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran, it becomes clear just how much the band was influenced by black music - Chic rhythm section Bernard Edwards and Tony Tho

  December 8, 2008

• A Shudder of the Soul

  June 16, 1994

• Sound Check

  April 25, 1996

• Static

  February 5, 1998

• Glam-rock Goldmine

  November 5, 1998

• Labyrinth

  February 12, 2009

• The Killers: Day & Age

  December 11, 2008

• Rabbit in the Moon

  October 30, 2008

• Xiu Xiu

  August 21, 2008

• Smoke, Mirrors and Rainbows

  Overcoming chronic Radiohead fatigue

  May 15, 2008

• Know Your Idols

  February 14, 2008

• MGMT, Yeasayer

  January 17, 2008

• Labyrinth

  What do George Lucas, Jim Henson, Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie have in common?

  December 13, 2007

• Glass Candy

  November 15, 2007

• David Bowie, Buddha of Suburbia

  CD Review

  October 18, 2007

• Black Math Experiment, La Sed, MK Ultra

  October 11, 2007

• Local Motion

  August 9, 2007

• Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

  And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

  June 15, 2006

• Bauhaus

  Bauhaus appears with Nine Inch Nails and TV on the Radio on Sunday, June 4, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300

  June 1, 2006

• Secret Machines

  Ten Silver Drops

  April 27, 2006

• For Those About to Rock

  Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11

  November 24, 2005

• Road Trip

  How a mid-list band spent six weeks in an RV, fueled by chili

  November 10, 2005

• Big Fun, Even Small

  September 29, 2005

• Banging with Bang! Bang!

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

  September 1, 2005

• Rock Floozies Write

  Wack peruses some doozies in the groupie tell-all canon

  August 25, 2005

• Local Rotation

  December 9, 2004

• An ABBA to Zebra of Guilty Pleasures

  Music figures tell all abou their most shameful faves

  October 21, 2004

• Monster Mash-up

  DJs Z-Trip and P deliver one of the first album-length mash-ups

  June 10, 2004

• Racket

  In his first 24 years of life, Brad Turcotte has already become a music-business veteran

  September 6, 2001

• Look Ahead

  D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

  May 24, 2001

• Playbill

  Joel Stein

  February 15, 2001

• Flight of the Conchords

  April 30, 2009

• MySpaced Out: Keith Christmas

  MySpaced Out's most recent out-of-the-ether find is British singer-songwriter Keith Christmas. Most ballads are a very hard sell for us, but I was immediately knocked out by Christmas's stunner, "Better Men." Of course, MSO immediately got a second opinion from the Significant Other. She gave two thumbs up. I was so knocked out that I immediately emailed to see if he had a publisher and song pitcher. Guess we should've read his bio first.

  July 1, 2009

• Cutout Bin: Censored and "Recalled" Album Covers

  The Beatles, Yesterday and Today (1966) We start with perhaps the best-known example of a "recalled" album cover. When advance copies were sent to stores and DJs, there was an immediate uproar over the cover, showing the band covered in baby parts and bloody meat. All copies were ordered to be returned to the manufacturer. These copies were "pasted over" with a new cover and sent back to stores. Only a handful of copies escaped the "repasting" and are of course valuable collector items. Many

  July 16, 2009

• Stranger Musical Pairings Than Dancing With the Stars' Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke

  ​Dancing With the Stars announced the pairings for its upcoming season Monday - like you care - and while some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and...that Russian chick in the finals, local interest is still focused on former U.S. House speaker Tom DeLay and his partner, Cheryl Burke. Burke is a two-time DWTS winner, and has had her own share of what passes for controversy on network TV. Granted, accusations of being

  August 25, 2009

• Listology: Chase Hamblin Chooses His Favorite One-Hit Wonders

  Chase Hamblin performs with Robert Ellis and the Small Sounds, 8 p.m. tonight at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington, 713-862-2513 or www.4215washington.com. Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind" Anxious changes, solid backbeat and sweet harmonies, this is a killer track. Amazing Australian '60s hit written by George Young, who went on to produce his little brothers' band, AC/DC. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, "The Smell of Incense" I learned this song playing with Stephen Adams in the Drea

  October 16, 2009

• "My Son Is the Lizard King, and I'm an Admiral": Successful Rock-Star Parents

  ​Late Thursday, word came across the ticker that legendary comedian and TV star Soupy Sales had passed away at age 83. After a stint in the military and on radio, Sales went on to be one of the major pioneers of televised sketch and children's comedy. In 1965, he pulled a stunt where he asked his young viewers to go into their parents' wallets and purses and send him those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" in exchange for a postcard from Puerto Rico. The stunt didn

  October 23, 2009

• Westheimer Block Party Listology: The Watermarks (Minus One) Choose Their Favorite Duets

  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. Next up, four-fifths of local electro-tinged post-punks the Watermarks choose their favorite duets. Jessica Brand My favorite duet, knee-jerk reaction, would have to be PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke singing "This Mess We're In." I love the desperation and the way their voices overlap and tangle like ocean waves. Plus

  November 12, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Exes, Part 2

  ​ Oh lord. This could get ugly. Sorry, mom. When it comes to - ahem - unresolved issues in a relationship, almost nothing is better to help us commiserate, haterate and self-medicate than music. She Said sometimes likes to image what the soundtrack of her life would look like. The songs below would be played during the sappy scenes, where one lover meets another or leaves another. As tempting as it is for us to hit below the belt (pun intended), we'd like to think of ourselves as a little mor

  November 20, 2009