Subject: Grammy Awards

• That's a Lot of Levi's

  June 18, 2007

• Sailing with Captain Jack

  December 9, 2007

• Highly Anticipated Albums of 2008

  January 25, 2008

• Playbill

  Coming This Week

  September 23, 1999

• Texans Score 30 Grammy Nominations

  Allison Krauss, Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett (far right) Texas artists landed 30 nominations in 20 categories when the contenders for the 51st annual Grammy Awards were announced today, including all five nominees for Best Tejano Album and four of the five Best Norteno Album contenders. All of this year's nominations are in what pols would call down-ballot categories, though. The only Texan up for any of the four major awards - Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best

  December 4, 2008

• Grammy Day at U of H Until 5

  Paul Wall: Also available for oral-hygeine advice. Today at the UH Main Campus on Cullen, The Recording Academy and the Grammys are putting on a Career Day for students in the college's music department. The Grammys hold these workshops around the country for students looking to take the leap into the music industry as a full-time gig. It's like any other career day, except the one's you remember from high school probably didn't have a platinum-selling hip-hop artist as a guest. Houston's own

  January 8, 2009

• Pop Moment

  February 9, 1995

• iFest Unveils Complete Lineup

  Photos courtesy of iFest BeogaSince we're already playing hangman today, here's another riddle: What do America's finest genre-hopping Latino band, Houston's best Guinness-chugging rockers, a daughter of the nation's premiere gospel family, a perennially unsung honky-tonker who sounds like the ghost of Hank Williams, a bayou-born boogie-woogie piano queen, a Grammy-winning Tejano godfather, two of Louisiana's hottest young Cajun groups, more regional zydeco groups than you can shake a Hoh

  February 19, 2009

• The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 4

  [Note: Click on the numbers for parts 1, 2 and 3.] Fifth Ward music mogul Don Robey was so taken with Gatemouth Brown's talents that he built his entire Peacock label around him. Robey already owned the Bronze Peacock night club and various other business interests, but it was his meeting of Brown that truly launched them both into Texas and world music immortality. Although their relationship would sour by the end of the '50s, along the way the genre-smashing multi-instrumentalist Brown wo

  February 23, 2009

• Flamin' Hellcats Corral Scarface, Billy Gibbons, Texas Tornados for New Album

  Local trio the Flamin' Hellcats have been some busy vatobillies. The band is in San Antonio this week recording its new album with Grammy-winning engineer Joe Trevino at Blue Cat Studios, and keeping some pretty fast company. Frontman Jaime Hellcat reports that the band's old buddy Scarface and Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca from the Texas Tornadoes are due to drop by Thursday, and that Billy Gibbons will make a guest appearance as well. Hellcat says the album is ca

  March 25, 2009

• Toe-Tapping Zapping

  Game soundtracks struggle for legitimacy in an industry obsessed with killing machines, not killer tunes

  July 6, 2000

• New York Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

  March 12, 2009

• An Evening with Renée Fleming

  February 19, 2009

• Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

  February 5, 2009

• Chatter's Ever-So-HandyAC/DCtionary

  Rock Around the Clock

  December 11, 2008

• Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano: “Fiesta Navidad”

  We wish you a Merry Christmas – Latino style

  December 4, 2008

• Patti LaBelle

  October 2, 2008

• Gipsy Kings

  The Roma musicians bring their flamenco-pop to CWMP

  August 28, 2008

• Itzhak Perlman

  The award-winning violinist performs works by Bach, Strauss and Schumann

  April 24, 2008

• MySpaced Out: European Discotheque

  Goldfrapp inspires a cyber-search for the perfect beat

  March 13, 2008

• Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC

  The Why Chromosome

  February 21, 2008

• Café Tacuba

  December 6, 2007

• Diane Schuur

  A jazz diva swings with the University of Houston Jazz Orchestra

  November 1, 2007

• Maná

  Mexican rockers say, “To Love Is to Fight”

  August 30, 2007

• T.I., Yung Joc, Ciara, T-Pain, Lloyd

  Screamfest hollas 8 p.m. Saturday, August 4, at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk. 713-627-9622.

  August 2, 2007

• Wheel Good Time

  March 30, 2006

• Cred Sheet

  Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

  March 1, 2007

• A Whole Other Magic

  Dianne Reeves's good luck story

  October 26, 2006

• My Hips Don't Lie...But Mariah Carey's Do!

  Shakira vs. Mariah, head-to-blond-head

  September 21, 2006

• Los Lonely Boys

  Thursday, November 3, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

  November 3, 2005

• Sitar Star

  Anoushka Shankar may soon be as famous as her dad -- but don't tell her that

  September 15, 2005

• Los Super 7

  Heard It on the X

  March 24, 2005

• Last Night at the Alamo

  A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

  February 24, 2005

• Randall Bramblett

  Thin Places (New West Records)

  April 8, 2004

• Grammy Shammy

  Sugar Bayou's bad review spotlights a shady Houston trend

  March 11, 2004

• One Hundred Million Reasons to Go See Great White

  "Once Bitten Twice Shy" ain't one of 'em

  March 4, 2004

• Norah Jones

  Sunday, July 20

  July 17, 2003

• Phunk Junkeez, with Saint Dawg and Property 6

  Monday, June 30

  June 26, 2003

• Banjos on the Bayou

  Ralph Stanley and company come down from the mountain

  August 8, 2002

• Moby

  18 (V2 Records)

  July 11, 2002

• Mary J. Blige

  Sunday, June 30

  June 27, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• Alicia Keys

  Tuesday, February 19

  February 14, 2002

• Natalie MacMaster

  Wednesday, January 30

  January 24, 2002

• End the Innocence

  Don Henley -- Stereolab

  May 18, 2000

• Jazz It Up

  January 9, 1997

• Defending the Polka

  June 18, 2009

• Aftermath: Green Day at Toyota Center

  Mark C. Austin​ During "Minority," the motorized 2000 Celtic-thrash mash-up that closed Green Day's main set Saturday night, Toyota Center's video screen became a collage of flyers from the group's early days, before the platinum albums, roadies, Grammys and extra live musicians (there were four Saturday). Meanwhile, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, showing little if any fatigue after more than two hours of running, jumping and screaming, might as well have been back in those clubs as he doused

  August 10, 2009

• Ask A Rapper: Grammy-Winning Electro-Songbird T-Pain

  The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducingliston@gmail.com.Larami Culbertson​ Note: We'd just like to mention that in the scant two-month history of the Ask A Rapper column, we've brought questions to two Grammy winners. You know, it's nothing r

  September 1, 2009

• Cleanse Your Dirty, Dirty Soul With the Blind Boys of Alabama at House of Blues

  Ladies and gentlemen, Rocks Off doesn't mind telling you he feels a little dirty after editing that last Britney Spears post. We swear, we ourselves have never, ever rubbed one out to the cover art of Oops... I Did It Again - we just wish we knew why we always have such a hard time getting the damn CD case to open. We have some serious atoning to do, and we haven't even gotten around to posting our slideshow of penis album covers or our list of upcoming singles even more inappropriate than note

  September 11, 2009