Fall Out Boy

The Five Strangest Artists You Never Knew Courtney Love Worked With

Fall Out Boy is set to save rock and roll, and they're bringing a few friends along with them. Apparently, saving rock and roll requires the combined efforts of prose auteur Pete Wentz, "Rocket Man" Elton John, and, of course, Courtney Love. What? Courtney Love? Yes. As the video announces, "it's C ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Football, etc., Giving Emo Back Its Good Name

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? When modern indie-rock was being Big B ... More >>

Fall Out Boy's Emo Adventures In the World of Prose

Folks, recently one of my longest-awaited moments in music came to fruition: Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy bassist and songwriter, finally decided to release his full-length prose narrative Gray. He first mentioned it seven years ago, and now we finally have our hands on the book. With the recent reunio ... More >>

Enabler's Jeff Lohrber Talks Andy Hurley And The Upcoming Shift of Redemption

With the recent news of Fall Out Boy's reunion, I found myself much more concerned with the fate of a wholly different band. Specifically, Milwaukee hardcore act Enabler. The Southern Lord band just released a stunning, slamming slice of hardcore and metal last year on their sophomore record All H ... More >>

From Ska to Eternity: A Quick History of Fueled By Ramen's Unlikely Rise to the Top

There is a very good chance that fun. is going to walk away with at least one Grammy come Sunday night. As one of the handful of artists with six nominations to their name; the Brooklyn pop-rockers are odds-on favorites to at least win the smaller categories they're nominated in. fun.'s rise to th ... More >>

9 Rock Stars & Their Favorite Books

Musicians like to read as much as the next person and being a creative lot they tend to draw inspiration from their favorite books. Which pieces of literature have struck a chord in the hearts of our favorite rock stars? 9. Billie Joe Armstrong, Catcher in the Rye: This probably isn't a surprise si ... More >>

Flip The Script: 5 Things Rock Bands Can Learn From Hip-Hop

When we discuss forward thinkers in rock music, Pete Wentz isn't a name that comes to mind. That's probably because, if you're like a lot of people on the Internet, the mention of his name will cause you to groan and/or think of the word "douchebag." While you may not like him on a personal level, h ... More >>

Boy Bands Are Back In Fashion, But Did They Ever Go Away?

One Direction, the newest UK pop import to make it to colonial shores, announced a full-scale summer tour Tuesday, including a Houston date on June 24 up at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Pretty big venue for a group that is just now breaking in America, and the Brit-Irish boy band just sold ... More >>

Put On A Happy Face: 6 Ex-Emos Who Found More Success By Being Happy

Emo. The word conjures so many images. For your average American, it will make them think of black eyeliner, wrist-cutting, and essentially hair metal for the '00s. For hardcore kids, they'll think of Jawbreaker. But either way you slice it, emo has had its ups and downs as a genre and has changed ... More >>

Last Night: Panic! At The Disco At House Of Blues

Photos by Jessica Perry​Panic! At The Disco House of Blues June 15, 2011 Panic! At The Disco lead singer and main archtiect Brendan Urie comes from the ADHD generation, the one that got meds shoved down their throats. The strange byproduct of that generation, late Generation Yers, is that the ... More >>

The 25 Most Influential Bands Of The '90s

Trent Reznor, you know, before the Oscar and all the weightlifting. ​As a music writer, we are asked constantly to compare the new with the old, to decipher the periphery where modern bands' influences come from to understand where we are going and what we are seeing. We can hear everything Ke ... More >>

Keaton Prescott: Live From Tropical Storm Alex

​Rocks Off was not happy to wake up Monday morning and find out that we would have to begin each day this week by tracking another potentially home-wrecking storm. Tropical Storm Alex is expected to cross through the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico and hit somewhere near the mouth of the Rio G ... More >>

SXSW Aftermath: A Night Of Ecstatic Peace, White Mice And Courtney Love Singing The Blues

Photos by Craig HlavatyBlack Helicopter​Rocks Off Jr.'s fourth night of SXSW frolicking starting off groggily as we woke from a well-needed nap after what has seemed like a month now pounding the pavements of Austin, seeking out new music from club to club like soldiers kicking in doors in Iraq lo ... More >>

Does Anyone Care About Super Tuesdays Anymore? Besides Us?

​Time was that Tuesdays used to be the best day of the week for your average recorded-music consumer. Since Rocks Off was just a wee music nerd, Tuesdays were his favorite days of the week because it was always the universal day for all new releases to hit the stores. It started with begging our p ... More >>

Social Distortion: Social Media Under Siege

​Yesterday, August 6th, 2009 - a date which will live in infamy - the social web was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) of the Online Empire of Cyxymu.In a word?  Thursday SUCKED.A spam campaign by a pro-Georgian (the country, not the state, ahem ... More >>

Summer Stock

Oh, Christ: Original Limp Bizkit Lineup to Reunite

Because things aren't already bad enough out there right now, the original lineup of crotch-rocking mooks Limp Bizkit annouced today they are reuniting. Here, according to a joint statement by the band's Fred Durst and Wes Borland, is their reasoning: "We decided we were more disgusted and b ... More >>

Sam Houston Race Park Starts Ike Recovery -- And A Push For Casino Gambling

It's taken a while, but this week Sam Houston Race Park will finally begin the major parts of its post-Ike reconstruction -- replacing the roof.The facility has had to wait for supplies, and the availability of a company big enough to handle the job, Gina Rotolo, director of media relations, tells H ... More >>

Mail Call: Post-AC/DC Edition

AC/DC may be gone (sniff), although the ringing in several of Rocks Off's friends' ears (and his own) lingers on, but the mail goes on... Waylon Jennings & the .357s (Littlefield/Nashville, R.I.P.), Waylon Forever (by request): "'I'd been playing my dad the music I was inspired by at the tim ... More >>

Five Spot: What's Worse Than a Blink-182 Reunion?

Welcome back to Five Spot. Every week, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Apparently, God hates us: Blink 182 possibly plotting comeback. There were a few other things we considered for ... More >>

Turning the Screw: K-Otix, T-Pain, Bun B & Face?, Jay-Z & Coldplay, Master P, The Game, The Kanye, MF Doom and More

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

Single File

An Evening with Thee Armada, Houston's Next Big Thing

Rock, Shock and Load

Single File

The Roots Will Not Apologize

?uestlove and company: Those who don't like our angriest album can step right off

SXSW Extra: What's In My Pockets (Again)?

The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson

"La La" Love You

Kobain Lounge

Insert Nirvana joke here

Drenched in Blog: Say Ya Want a Resolution?

Drenched in Blog: Radio Blah Blah

Zookeeper

Flipping the Script

Who's partying like rock stars? Rappers!

A Guide to Being Cool

Cred Sheet

Rotation: Timbaland Presents Shock Value

What's in Your Favorite Singer's Backseat?

John Popper, Chingo Bling and John Mayer

Fall Out Boy

Infinity on High

Song Title Scrabble

Mixed-up monikers

Cred Sheet

Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

Honor Bound

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

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 23

Sound Education

Pete Wentz's protégés get a crash course in rock

Déjà Dance

Newest DDR: Same game, fresh set list.

A Dreamy Nightmare

Taking Back Sunday

Louder Now

The All-American Rejects

Saturday, March 25, Reliant Arena, 8400 Kirby, 713-629-3700

The Academy Is..., with Panic! At the Disco, Acceptance, Hellogoodbye

Wednesday, February 22, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700.

Maybe This Time

These famous (and not so famous) musicians share their hopes for 2006

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

Playbill