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30 Seconds With Pentatonix's Mitch Grassi

Ever since Pentatonix won the third season of Sing Off the group has only gotten better and better. We sat down with Mitch Grassi to see what we could learn about him in 30 seconds. Rocks Off: What is the worst song in the world? Mitch Grassi: "Cyclone" by Baby Bash. I think we all know why. RO: ... More >>

Top 10 Educated Guesses for Free Press Summer Fest

Tomorrow, we will know who will be playing the fifth annual Free Press Summer Fest June 1 and 2 in Eleanor Tinsley Park. We know this because Monday, our rivals over at the Houston Chronicle revealed that they will have an exclusive announcement of the FPSF lineup sometime Thursday, thanks to what w ... More >>

Music That Will Officially Be Old In 2013

One of my favorite pastimes is reminding my friends how old we are all getting, partly because I am cruel, and probably because even I am astounded that actor Steve Guttenberg is now three years older than Wilford Brimley was when they filmed Cocoon together in 1985. We can all think of things tha ... More >>

SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

5 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: October 12-14

Stars Fitzgerald's, October 12 Even if they hadn't released an album called North, which they did this year on Dave Matthews-founded ATO Records, Stars would be difficult to mistake for as anything but Canadian. There's something both distant and friendly in their appealing blend of indie-rock and ... More >>

Mono

Capsule Art Reviews: "The Big Show," "A Golden Time of Day," "Hilary Wilder: A Northern Tale," "Interstitial Spaces: Julia Barello & Beverly Penn," "Kyle Farley: Countenance," "UNIT," "Woven Landscapes"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hilary Wilder: A Northern Tale", "Interstitial Spaces: Julia Barello & Beverly Penn", "Kyle Farley: Countenance", "Perry House: Elegance/Violence", "Rita Bernstein: Out of Place", "Shifting Transforming: Ideas, Shapes & Mater

“Christie Blizard: from the tipi project”

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 >>

10 Fish You're Eating That Are Endangered Species

Human beings: acting like jerks since we killed off the pupfish.​Yesterday, we touched briefly on the plight of the idiot fish, a small red fish with giant, round marbles for eyes. It's delicious, despite its odd appearance. And it's also endangered. Yet it's still sold and served across the w ... More >>

Idiot Fish: The Night I Ate an Endangered Species

The idiot fish is endangered for a reason: It's delicious.​A couple of weeks back, I enjoyed a beautiful dinner at Kubo's next to a table of hilariously drunk Japanese people boisterously eating sashimi off a giant wooden boat that acted as a centerpiece/serving tray, while my dining companion ... More >>

James Rollins: The Devil Colony

A Musical Field Guide To National Bird Day

yourfashion.com​Today is National Bird Day, and we are all gonna celebrate. Every year bird enthusiasts pick this day to promote bird watching, XTREME bird watching, bird adoption, and just plain ol' loving the unholy hell out of birds. All kidding aside, the holiday is dedicated to raising aw ... More >>

Greed, Interrupted

Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger pointing, Inside Job will make you seethe.

Pop Rocks: With Friends Like These

​Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski remains under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting possible extradition to the United States for fleeing sentencing after pleading guilty to "unlawful sex" with a 13-year old in 1977. His attorneys are, naturally, fighting this possibility, while a numbe ... More >>

Mother Earth Says, "Ha!"

Photo by Yuri Shkoda Want proof of the butterfly effect? Okay, a volcano in Iceland erupts and half-way around the world, Houston arts organizations have to scramble.   Two highly anticipated concerts were forced to change their line-ups and one theatrical piece was rescheduled - tw ... More >>

Nature's Revenge: Tunes For A Vengeful Planet

Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​ We like to think of the planet we live on as "Mother" Earth, a caring, nurturing parent figure who we thoughtlessly abuse. Well, we at Rocks Off don't know if you've noticed, but Mom ain't exactly helpless. In fact, sometimes she seems less like a benevolen ... More >>

For Eyjaf...Eyjafj...For that Iceland Volcano, Five Crappy Magma-Laden Movies

​As you've probably heard by now, the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupting in Iceland is causing some problems across the pond: EU transport ministers are to hold emergency talks by video conference on easing the volcanic ash cloud chaos paralysing air travel across Europe. Sixty-three thousan ... More >>

Fish Story: Arctic Char

There are lots of fishing camps in Nunavik, Quebec's arctic region, devoted to fly fishing for arctic char. There's even an annual arctic char fishing derby in Whale Cove, in case you want to try your luck. The highly prized freshwater game fish is a traditional food of the Inuit natives and its hig ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Drenched in Blog: It's Bjorkin' Time!

2007 Music Year in Review

Sigur Rós

Hvarf/Heim, Heima

“Array”

Birds, words and persona moments make up CTRL Gallery’s latest exhibition

"A Thing Called Early Blur"

Katrina Moorhead puts the ice in Iceland

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Rock and Roll Autobiographies

Stars' tell-all stories

“A Thing Called Early Blur”

This exhibit is a product of Reykjavík

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

The Letting Go

Sigur Rós, with Amina

Saturday, February 25, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

Food for Thought

Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

Volks-Walkin'

Stroll the knolls with the Houston Happy Hikers

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

OCDelight

Intricate, time-intensive works go up at Sicardi Gallery

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Going to Iceland

Yes, Olafur Eliasson takes pictures there, but don't make too much of it

Shining Star

Art-world darling Olafur Eliasson brings his photos to the Menil

Dimmu Borgir, with Nevermore, Children of Bodom and Hypocrisy

Friday, November 21

Singapore Sling

Sunday, November 9

Combat Rock

In this corner, weighing in at one ton of pomp, the pride of Iceland: Sigur Rós! And in this corner, the moose-wrestling Montreal maulers: Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Our picks of the week

múm

Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)

Half-Baked Notions?

Plus: Driving Them Crazy, Oyster Crabbing

Beat of a Different Drummer

(Evelyn Glennie )

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