Ennio Morricone

From the Stacks: DJ Shorty's Faves

Life on the High C's

The Legend of 1900 spins an enchanting fable about an innately talented musician born at sea

Wordless Wonders

Death Valley does its talking through its playing

Weird Without Choice

Eccentricity is an inescapable reality for Thinking Fellers

Larding the Bard

Eccentricity is an inescapable reality for Thinking Fellers

Aftermath: DeVotchKa at Warehouse Live

Photos by Mark C. AustinIt's always nice to see a band that respects its elders, and Denver's DeVotchKa has taken Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" promise "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" to heart. Finding the seam between Old World traveler tunes and contemporary indie-rock, the quartet (and a ... More >>

Press Picks

Photos by Mark C. AustinIt's always nice to see a band that respects its elders, and Denver's DeVotchKa has taken Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" promise "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" to heart. Finding the seam between Old World traveler tunes and contemporary indie-rock, the quartet (and a ... More >>

Rotation

Photos by Mark C. AustinIt's always nice to see a band that respects its elders, and Denver's DeVotchKa has taken Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" promise "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" to heart. Finding the seam between Old World traveler tunes and contemporary indie-rock, the quartet (and a ... More >>

Affairs of the Tart

Lolita's classy, but where's the comedy and character?

Rotation

Lolita's classy, but where's the comedy and character?

Murder by Death creates stunning, dark works that transcend the provocative name

Swan Songs

The Magnetic Fields: Distortion

Swan Songs

"To 25!" and "David McGee: El Soñador Elegante,"

DiverseWorks celebrates its 25th anniversary with two exhibits

Sagebrush & Spaghetti

DiverseWorks celebrates its 25th anniversary with two exhibits

Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

Ennio Morricone

Crime and Dissonance

Spain Coloured Orange

Saturday, December 17, at Numbers, 300 Westheimer, 713-526-6551.

Hurricane Mixtape

Music to drown by

Codeine Country

Houston was the city of syrup long before DJ Screw came on the scene

Yawn Darts

Iconic post-rock or drowsy jazz? Tortoise just might be both.

Hanky Panky

The End of the Affair is a stimulating tearjerker

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

The Fringes of Twang

Calexico and Clem Snide stretch alt-country to the breaking point

Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

Crystal Frontier

Calexico crosses borders in mind and body with its Sonoran sounds

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Dick Dale

Tarantino's Ennio Morricone

Mono

Tarantino's Ennio Morricone

2009 Concert Rewind, February: Killers Kill, Annuals Amuse, Hammered at Hank III, Spewing Slipknot and More

Mark C. Austin​ The Killers, Verizon Wireless Theater, February 2: "The general knock on the Killers is that they've achieved their relatively lofty position by standing on the shoulders of giants, which may well be true. But Monday night they showed that in reaching for the stars, they have yet t ... More >>

Masters of the Universe

Two artists explore pop culture and space imagery at Art Palace.

Jimmy Buffett Kicks Off His Flip-Flops At The Woodlands

Photos by Brittanie Shey​ In 2008, Aftermath was on vacation in France. We decided to catch a show of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra, who had a month-long performance residency at a tiny theater in the Bastille neighborhood of Paris. The band is an Australian quintet that performs the music of En ... More >>

If Your Life Were A Movie, Which Song Would Be The Trailer?

​It started as a whim on Twitter, asking friends what songs would soundtrack the trailer of the movie of their life. Would their life's tale be a rollicking drug-fueled, love-filled adventure backed by the Rolling Stones' "Jumping Jack Flash", or would it be a morose and somber drifting story ... More >>

How Josef Stalin Stole Sergei Prokofiev's Flowers

Library of Congress​In can be easily argued that Russian born composer Sergei Prokofiev, who would have been 120 this week, was the most popular 20th century composer. As a sheet-music salesman, we can tell you that only Scott Joplin and Ennio Morricone come close to the number of requests for ... More >>

Out Today: Danger Mouse In Rome, Nick Cave & Queen Reissued

​It's back to the usual grind for Rocks Off after last night's late-night Austin City Limits Festival lineup announcement. Sadly, we will not be seeing the Foo Fighters play songs from Wasting Light in Austin come September. And yes, still playing it, along with a steady diet of Guns N' Roses. ... More >>

Never Bring Oatmeal to a Gunfight, Man Learns

He would prefer friendly persuasion.​It's Go Time. You and some other dude have been driving side by side, cursing the other, and now you've pulled over to settle things. Other dude gets out with a gun. You reach for...a bowl of oatmeal? Consider yourself outclassed, son. The epic oatmeal v ... More >>