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The Rocks Off 100: K-Rino, South Park Coalition's Southside Maven

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? K-Rino has been such a longtime fixtu ... More >>

Marshall Lytle Rocks This Joint

Rockabilly pioneer headlines the Continenal's three-day Rock Baby Rock It festival.

Anthony Bourdain Heads to Cook It Raw

What does the chef and owner of the world's best restaurant do in his spare time? He finds ways to make cooking more challenging and intellectually stimulating. Rene Redzepi, of the famous NOMA in Copenhagen, also founded Cook It Raw. CIR is a food event that gathers 15 chefs in an unfamiliar settin ... More >>

Third Coast Dance Film Festival

“Scandinavian Design”

Nils Lofgren Goes Old School, Talks E Street Tour

In a list of phrases that most music journalists would probably like to see banned, hearing that an artist's latest record "is their most personal yet" would rank near the top. But in the case of singer/guitarist Nils Lofgren --who, for the record, did not use that phrase -- it's actually true. Th ... More >>

SXSW: Five Attractive Strange People Working for Tips

Ed. Note: This article was written by L.A. Weekly music editor Ben Westhoff. Paying homeless people $70 a day to serve as human wifi hotspots is a bizarre way to make a buck, but it's indicative of the hustler's spirit at South By Southwest this year. Folks are grinding hard and employing increas ... More >>

Children of Bodom

Saturday: Main Street Block Party at The Island

Photo by Allison McPhailGetting their dance on.​Check out our slideshow of fans and bands at the Main Street Block Party. Eric Dean had something to prove to Houston after his Montrose Winter Social flop last month. Dean did as he promised, and delivered with the 2nd Annual Main Street Block ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Hey, Plenty Of Things Didn't Last 73 Days, Kim Kardashian Haters

I'm shocked, shocked to hear Kim and Kris are getting divorced.​If you had the 73-day "under" on the length of Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries (AKA The Most Blatant Gambit to Maintain Consecutive Gossip Mag Covers Since Paris Hilton Exited A Car Sans Panties), you just doubled your ... More >>

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

Ben & Jerry Whip Out Their Schweddy Balls: Five Other Pervy Food Names

sheknows.com​Neat. Good times. Ben & Jerry have exposed their newest, limited-batch flavor "Schweddy Balls" based on the mock-NPR SNL sketch starring Alec Baldwin because "It's never too early to start celebrating the holiday season." (Wasn't it just Labor Day?) According to the company sit ... More >>

Raising the Barre

Closes June 5!

Last Night: Jimmy Buffett At Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Photos by Jay Lee​Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion May 5, 2011 See more changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes in our slideshow. Blowing through the jasmine of our mind, Aftermath once got it in our head somehow that Jimmy Buffett wrote "Margaritavill ... More >>

Out Today: Beasties Bite Back, Stevie Nicks Gets Witchier

​What's the best way to celebrate the elimination of Osama Bin Laden? Listening to the Foo Fighters' latest album Wasting Light for the fourth week straight, of course. Send help, or at least the announcement of a late-summer or early fall tour date. Come on, man, just one hit. This week's n ... More >>

The Aeros Prepare For Liftoff

tr> aeros.comThe new boss is ready to get started​The Houston Aeros are opening up season number 17 on Saturday when they visit the expansion Oklahoma City Barons.The Aeros are coming off of a disappointing season where they missed the playoffs the year after making the Western Conference Finals, ... More >>

This Week In Set Lists: Pixies, Kings Of Leon, Tom Petty, Rush, Etc.

GroovehouseKings of Leon, Toyota Center, October 2009​Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though n ... More >>

Lotus Effect Reacts To HPMA Win Rather... Dramatically

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​Here's part of a email ... More >>

The Man Without a Past

Maybe life starts right now

Would YOU Let A Band That Looks Like This Entertain Your Children?

www.hevisaurus.com​ Rocks Off just thought we'd ask. Because if so - and you live in Finland, and are, like, the CEO of Nokia or something - Hevisaurus will probably play your kid's next birthday party. These GWAR-meets-Barney boys come to us from over at Dlisted, where they're today's winners of ... More >>

The Great Green Room In the Sky: The Grim Reaper's 2009 Musical Roll Call

​Thankfully, 2009 was a sorry year for the Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter. Aside from the not terribly unexpected (but still weird) demise of the King of Pop, few bona fide legends went on to the Great Green Room Beyond the Sky. The Rock Death Meter rates rock deaths on a ten-point scale in three c ... More >>

Listology: Toxic Noise DJ Bakka's Top Bone-Crushing Jams

​Every third Wednesday at Boondocks, the space upstairs turns into the most fabulous place in Houston for rockers, punks and metalheads when DJ Bakka revs the turntables for his popular "Toxic Noise" DJ sets. It's like going to visit a high-school bully's bedroom in 1987. If you still miss Shanle ... More >>

Aftermath: Archgoat, Blaspherian and Thorn Spawn at Walter's on Washington

Photos by Craig Hlavaty This week has been one of many firsts for Aftermath. Sunday night, we attended our first drunken Tejano show at an icehouse in Pearland while visiting the parents. It was an eye-opening experience, full of balls-out accordion breakdowns and Freddy Fender covers that reminded ... More >>

Talking With Air Guitar Master Bjorn Turoque

For the past six years, Dan Crane, aka "Bjorn Turoque" has been the preeminent ambassador for the world of air guitar. He retired from competition in the Air Guitar World Championships in 2005 and made a lateral move to being the touring roadshow nightly MC - or the "Master of Air-emonies," as he ca ... More >>

Bayou City Buzz

Houston's SXSW class — and we mean class — of 2009

MySpaced Out: Finland Twangs!

Frida Hyvönen We all know Helsinki rocks; that's a given. But to pigeonhole the Finnish music scene as nothing but one huge population of Laika and the Cosmonauts headbangers would be a mistake. While Finland certainly stands shoulder to shoulder with Sweden and Denmark when it comes to steroidal ... More >>

Another Root Cellar Romp: Parsnips and Rutabagas

Swedes are larger and denser than turnips. No, it's not an ethnic joke--swedes are what they call rutabagas in England. The rutabaga, or Swedish turnip, is often sold with a wax coating to protect the skin from discoloration. Rutabaga comes from the Swedish word rotabagge. Swedes are best roasted or ... More >>

Houston Aeros Face Off Tomorrow Against Chicago Wolves in First Game of Season

Barack Obama's past

The Reporter and the Politician

MySpaced Out

Our social-network scout sizes up some all-female Scandinavian bands

Capsule Art Reviews: "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976," "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," "Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,"

Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Traci Matlock and Ashley Maclean: The Much-To-Consider Season," "Will Boone: A Man's House Is His Coffin"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," "Ryan Geiger: Secret Garden"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976," "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Ryan Geiger: Secret Garden"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Michael Bise: Birthday," "Monster Show 2," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni," "Rackstraw Downes" and "Tom of Finland"

Art Capsule Reviews: "Ken Little: Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks & Dough," "Michael Bise: Birthday," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome," "Tom of Finland: Drawings from the '70s and '80s"

Friday Shreds

Art Capsule Reviews: "Amy Sillman: Suitors and Strangers," "Ken Little: Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks & Dough," "Michael Bise: Birthday," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Tom of Finland: Drawings from the '70s and '80s"

Harptallica

Harp-y Metal

Drenched In Blog: Meg White Sex Tape?

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Rockin' Renewal

The imminent launch of new venue Warehouse Live makes it official: Downtown is now Houston's live music hot spot

Cold Play

Catch some future Stars at the Houston Aeros game

The Power of Yes

A pair of political pranksters invent the art of "identity correction"

Children of Bodom, with Iced Earth and Evergrey

Saturday, May 8

Hey, Bubba: Give Peace a Chance

UT researcher heads studies and a program attacking violence

Letters

Cat Stats

Where Ya Been, Ms. Lynn?

Fork in the Road