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    May 18, 2012

    The 4 Most Ridiculous Lies Rock Music Ever Told Me

    I'm part of the MTV generation, which means from the moment I was born I not only heard rock and roll, I also saw it in all its glory. It was complete sensory inundation on multiple fronts, and with an attack that powerful there is just no defense against the tide of complete lies. Music is an esca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    The Best & Worst-Case Scenarios For The Future Of Musical Holograms

    Like most night owls, I spent early Monday morning watching YouTube clips of a holographic Tupac Shakur playing Coachella with his friends Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg nearly 16 years after his death. It was at once creepy and crass, but altogether interesting no matter how you sliced it, and not just bec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2012

    Million Dollar Quartet

    Like most night owls, I spent early Monday morning watching YouTube clips of a holographic Tupac Shakur playing Coachella with his friends Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg nearly 16 years after his death. It was at once creepy and crass, but altogether interesting no matter how you sliced it, and not just bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Show Me Your GIFs: Great Classic Rock 'N Roll GIFs Galore

    It seems to me that musical history is made up of fragments of indelible images, good and bad, that inform each person's experience. Then there are the swatches of tunes that grab you by the heart strings or the throat, making you a fan for life. But it's those moving pictures that you first remembe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Classic Christmas: Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas

    Over the holidays, we're looking back at some classic Christmas albums taking some track by track and just digging on others. ​There is an admission that I have to make having written all these Classic Christmas posts this year. When I think of Christmas, I don't think of carols or choirs or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    National Sandwich Day Is Thursday, November 3!

    Photo via karlializa.com​Fact: We love sandwiches. PB&J, BLT, grilled cheese, po-boy, Cuban, Reuben, cheese steak in Philly or muffaletta in New Orleans, single or multi-tiered, we can't get enough. We love them simple and oh so complicated, hot and cold, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Purple, Possessed & Pervy: Rock's Top 10 Houses

    harleyslist.blogspot.comJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono in a happy pose in front of their home (and future site of Lennon's assassination).​Celebrity homes will always be a source of fascination, offering a glimpse at the intimate, private side of those who live their lives in the public eye. And it' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    The 10 Most Horrible Music-Biz Bosses

    ​The movie Horrible Bosses comes out today, and while the heinous supervisors in question all work in areas unrelated to entertainment, this shouldn't be taken to mean the music industry is free of bad managers and executives. Rocks Off knows if anything, the music biz has had more than its fa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Memphis

    ​The movie Horrible Bosses comes out today, and while the heinous supervisors in question all work in areas unrelated to entertainment, this shouldn't be taken to mean the music industry is free of bad managers and executives. Rocks Off knows if anything, the music biz has had more than its fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Dead People We Wish We'd Seen

    ​Regrets, sang Frank Sinatra, Elvis and Sid Vicious, I've had a few. (Or, for Sid, a feee-yooouuu.) So have we all. But if you review concerts for a living, there's nothing worse than someone you like dying before you get the chance to see them live. So for this week's Round Table, Rocks Off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    The Best Concert Movies Of All Time

    ​A quick note before CHL starts this hlist. We define a concert movie as a flick that documents one or more shows on a tour. More narrative-oriented rock flicks like D.A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan mash note Don't Look Back, Charles Peterson's grunge chronicle Hype!, and of course the lighthearted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Top 10 Musical Wikileaks We'd Like To See

    Bigger than Bowie and Bing, we tell you.​Ever since WikiLeaks began the publication of what is claimed to be over a quarter-million United States embassy cables last week, we've been pondering what secrets, phenomenon and other ephemera could be lingering out there in the music world, awaiting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    What Is Classic Rock Today?

    ​What is classic rock in 2010? 15 years ago, it was was the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, anything Eric Clapton touched and every band your dad played in his car while he was making out with the girls he met before your mom. That's how we know classic rock: Big riffs, big voices, in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Are You Ready for Some Commercials: Five Things Ads During Football Games Can Do For You

    We can make you awesome like this guy.​When a dude sits down to watch some football on TV, he probably has no idea that the commercials he sees are speaking to him. Since real men don't watch documentaries unless they are about football and the only books they read are owners manuals for barbeque ... More >>

  • Music

    October 28, 2010

    Danzig

    We can make you awesome like this guy.​When a dude sits down to watch some football on TV, he probably has no idea that the commercials he sees are speaking to him. Since real men don't watch documentaries unless they are about football and the only books they read are owners manuals for barbeque ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Five Celebrity Costumes To Avoid At All Costs

    This one is, uhhh... not on the list.​Halloween: The one night grown men and women have a legitimate excuse to look like clowns. Call us crazy, but we stopped dressing up for Halloween at 13. We still love you and your ridiculous costume. We really do. That's why we've taken the time to offer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Leah White: The Houston Zoo Muse's Eight Favorite Animal Songs

    See the video for "Beautiful Day" here.​Rocks Off does not have children, nor do we anticipate doing so anytime in the forseeable future. Frankly, the thought of being responsible for another living creature around the clock both terrifies and confounds us - just ask our cat, Neko. However, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Going Platinum: Artists We'd Pay $10,000 To See - And When

    ​It started one night on the patio of Big Star Bar in the Heights; over Lone Star and cigarettes, a handful of Houston music wags debated the shows they would pay top dollar to see from lartists, iving or dead. We argued the aspects of an At the Drive-In reformation, seeing Sam Cooke in 1963, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Listology: Runaway Sun Choose Their Favorite Album Covers

    www.myspace.com/runawaysunmusic​ On today's Listology hot seat are up-and-coming local blues-rockers Runaway Sun, whose CD release party for debut full-length The Bridge is Saturday night at the Continental Club with Clory Martin. Perhaps wisely, the quartet chose to list their favorite album cove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    We Are Not Making Fun of Taylor Hicks or His Fans at All In This Post

    Swoon Alert! Oh my stars you guys! Are you all sitting down? Really? You wouldn't lie? For serious, OK! Lulz for days! Warehouse Live and Ticketmaster are running a special this weekend for all of us Soul Patrol devotees. Tickets for what is sure to be a life-changing and heart-melting show this Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    If You Get A Seat-Belt Ticket Soon, Don't Blame Elvis

    Photos by Chris VogelNothing says seat belt safety like five oversized inflated balloons in the shape of a cowboy, duck, bull, Godzilla monster and Elvis look-alike. At least that's what the Texas law enforcement community is hoping, as they unveiled the 24-foot-tall "safety ambassadors" this mornin ... More >>

  • Music

    March 26, 2009
  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Happy Belated Birthday, Mozart

    Overture, La Nozze di Figaro Rocks Off can usually be counted on to forget at least one thing per day, and yesterday it just happened to be that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known in his day as the Elvis of Salzburg, was born January 27, 1756. A quarter of a millennium later, he's still a genius. Here ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2008

    Remembering Elvis

    Overture, La Nozze di Figaro Rocks Off can usually be counted on to forget at least one thing per day, and yesterday it just happened to be that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, known in his day as the Elvis of Salzburg, was born January 27, 1756. A quarter of a millennium later, he's still a genius. Here ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    British Television Advertising Awards

    It’s the Super Bowl for hawkers on the small screen

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2007

    Speaking of Umbrellas...It's Bumbershoot Time

    It’s the Super Bowl for hawkers on the small screen

  • Music

    August 31, 2006

    Various Artists

    Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly

  • Culture

    October 27, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Music

    July 22, 2004

    The Meat Purveyors

    Pain By Numbers (Bloodshot)

  • Music

    April 1, 2004

    Family Feud

    Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  • Calendar

    June 26, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Houston Music Map

    Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  • Music

    January 30, 2003

    Jorma Kaukonen and Blue Country

    Wednesday, February 5

  • Music

    April 4, 2002
  • Calendar

    August 30, 2001

    Kitschy-Cool

    Wallace Saage shares his knickknacks and bric-a-brac with the art crowd

  • Dining

    September 21, 2000

    Booze in a Blender

    Chuy's mango margaritas

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    To Sleep with the Fishes

    Citing bike-lane blues, the venerable Aquarium Lounge dries up after 28 years

  • Calendar

    August 5, 1999

    Elvis-American

    The Asian Worldwide Elvis Fan Club Celebrates Elvis Week

  • Music

    May 28, 1998

    Static

    The Asian Worldwide Elvis Fan Club Celebrates Elvis Week

  • Music

    January 8, 1998

    Baby, It's Him

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    Letters

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • News

    January 30, 1997

    Letters

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • Music

    January 9, 1997

    Static

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • Calendar

    January 2, 1997

    Press Picks

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • News

    November 14, 1996

    In the Blessed Name of Elvis

    An upcoming federal trial may decide the true meaning of "cheesy"

  • Calendar

    August 15, 1996

    Press Picks

    An upcoming federal trial may decide the true meaning of "cheesy"

  • Music

    July 25, 1996

    Sound Check

    An upcoming federal trial may decide the true meaning of "cheesy"

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    June 15, 1995

    Press Picks

    An upcoming federal trial may decide the true meaning of "cheesy"

  • Calendar

    December 1, 1994

    Press Picks

    An upcoming federal trial may decide the true meaning of "cheesy"

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