Subject: Duran Duran

• Last Night: Midlake at Numbers

  September 21, 2007

• Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

  September 25, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Broing Down with the Hives

  October 16, 2007

• Overnight Express: Simply Red Does Bobby "Blue" Bland

  April 22, 2008

• Duran Duran Still On... for Now

  Although Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor is battling a pernicious ear infection that makes travel impossible, forcing the '80s icons to cancel last night's show in San Antonio and tonight's in Dallas, the band's publicist says Friday's show at Verizon Wireless Theater is still on. For now, that is. Stay tuned to Rocks Off for any changes. Tickets are still available through the venue or Ticketmaster. - Chris Gray  

  December 2, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Dickens, BMX and 610 Blvd.

  Quick not-so-random tip: If you haven't already had your office holiday party yet, we definitely suggest you don't show up too early. The food probably won't be ready, but the drinks just might. Anyway... Dickens on the Strand For the past 35 years, Dickens on the Strand has been celebrated on Galveston's famous street. It's been almost three months since Hurricane Ike put the Strand under six feet of water and there were just a few businesses open on Saturday, but the celebration went on an

  December 8, 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

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  [Note: This is the first in a series of articles that constitute Village Voice Media's year-end music package. The others - pop, indie-rock, dance mixes, Latin, country, alt-country/Americana, metal, rap/hip-hop and special graphics breaking down the year in charts and 2008's worst lyrics - will be posted on Rocks Off throughout the rest of the holiday season.] It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco e

  December 17, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 9

  [Note: This is the final installment of Aftermath's survey of memorable 2008 concerts - the ones he attended and reviewed (mostly, but not always, by him) anyway; kudos to Valient Thorr, Ice Cube, Dr. Dog, Son Volt, Journey/Heart, Wilderness, the HPMA showcase and many others. Don't miss parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and here's hoping 2009 is as bountiful.] Black Crowes, House of Blues, November 20: "Of course, the Black Crowes are a band for whom no two set lists

  January 5, 2009

• Rotation

  May 11, 1995

• Duran, Again

  May 25, 1995

• Rotation

  June 1, 1995

• Static

  February 8, 1996

• Lab Work

  November 27, 1997

• Freddie Krc

  January 22, 2009

• Duran Duran

  December 4, 2008

• For Those About to Rock... Again

  Rock Band 2

  October 2, 2008

• Single File

  September 11, 2008

• Mechanical Boy: Play Along

  September 11, 2008

• Jason Ward's Matagorda Island Discs

  June 12, 2008

• MySpaced Out: European Discotheque

  Goldfrapp inspires a cyber-search for the perfect beat

  March 13, 2008

• Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre

  December 13, 2007

• M.I.A.

  Kala

  September 13, 2007

• Jesus Is tha Bomb

  April 6, 2006

• Feeling Beals

  April 27, 2006

• Show Some Pride

  June 22, 2006

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• Year of the Concept

  Green Day opens the Idiot-ic floodgates

  January 12, 2006

• Our top DVD picks for the week of November 1

  November 3, 2005

• Oh No! I Left It in My Other Suit!

  Gang of Four rematerializes to show the kiddies how it's done

  October 6, 2005

• Christmas in July

  Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

  July 21, 2005

• Sharp-Dressed Men

  So Interpol's natty and into British post-punk. You got a problem with that?

  February 24, 2005

• Playbill

  February 17, 2005

• Femmes Fatales

  The fun is freaky -- and free -- with the Ladies of the Night

  February 17, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

  January 27, 2005

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

  January 20, 2005

• Take the Skinheads Bowling All Over Again

  Camper Van Beethoven hates this part of Texas. Just kidding, maybe...

  January 20, 2005

• Gilding the Lily

  Studio tricks ruin what could have been for the Dandy Warhols

  September 18, 2003

• The Mystery of Monsters

  Kiss the Dome good-bye at this weekend's Monster Jam

  November 14, 2002

• So Retro

  DJ Mike Snow finds that '80s nights are the Cure for Loverboys and Talking Heads looking for a not so Quiet Riot

  July 11, 2002

• Garbage

  Thursday, May 16

  May 16, 2002

• Merry Mayhem Tour

  Friday, November 9

  November 8, 2001

• RodeoHouston: Some 'Splainin to Do

  Secret correspondence from the rodeo

  January 25, 2001

• The American Scream

  A hysterical Tamarie Cooper rescues herself from suburbia in the free-association comedy Tamalalia 2000

  July 27, 2000

• Dress to Be Repressed

  Fashion Fascism

  July 20, 2000

• Slide Show: Albums Almost as Old as We Are

  The other day, the Rocks Off brain trust was sitting around talking, and one of us happened to mention whatever album it was we were talking about - it might have been Duran Duran's Rio - came out the year one of us was born. That got us thinking, "How much have albums released within 12 months after our birthdays influenced our musical tastes?" Quite a bit, really. Click on the Rocks Off staffer's name for their slideshow; release dates are based on the best information we could gather via Wik

  June 22, 2009

• Five Ways to Improve 107.5 the Eagle

  Paging the Purple One... the Eagle Needs You!For Houston music commentators, picking on the sorry state of the city's commercial airwaves is even more fun than sportswriters must have making fun of the Astros. But on the rare occasion a new format does come along - even if it's hardly "new" - it still inspires a glimmer of hope in even the most jaded among us. That's why Rocks Off still can't quite bring ourselves to give up on the Eagle (107.5 FM), "Houston's Classic Hits." For one thing, morni

  July 21, 2009

• OK, Maybe the Eagle Does Play Some Black People

  As we usually do when we get into work, Rocks Off tuned into Dean & Rog on the Eagle and lo and behold, they were talking about our suggestions to improve the station we posted here Tuesday. D&R especially seemed to enjoy the part where we said it wouldn't kill the Eagle to play some more people of color - if you missed this morning's show, it was probably your only chance to hear Lou Rawls and Gladys Knight & the Pips on the station, like, ever. In the interest of fairness, Rocks Of

  July 22, 2009

• Just When You Thought All the ACL Aftermath Was Over...

  Photos by Mark C. AustinKate Pierson of the B-52's​You could roam, as the B-52s put it during their early afternoon set Sunday on the AMD Stage. But as Mudstock 2009 came to a close (let the debate about the later-in-the-year dates begin) most members of the muddy-stocking clan were losing their lightness of step. Happy faces were still abundant, however, and the artists recognized that anybody willing to stick it out through the stench in the trenches deserved nothing less than the best. Spa

  October 7, 2009

• Comrade Ambassadors

  November 5, 2009