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John Cage

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Are Streaming Sites Ensuring The Music Industry's Long-Term Survival?

    The look on my face when I couldn't hear "Temporary Secretary" on Rdio.​This past week, Paul McCartney's team pulled most of his catalog - including his works with Wings - off streaming music sites such as Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify and MOG. Listeners are now deprived of Band On the Run, Back To ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 23, 2011

    Tech Art

    The CAMH presents the first major museum survey of Stan VanDerBeek's pioneering works.

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Record Store Day: If You Take A Dump, Don't Tell The Staff

    Marco TorresCarlos Hernandez and Los Skarnales' Felipe Galvan at Cactus Music's "Day of the Dead" opening last year.​Today is Tax Day (boo), but it's also payday for a lot of people, which comes in handy because tomorrow is Record Store Day. In a few short years, RSD has become one of the bigg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Top 5 Off-The-Wall Musical Instruments In Regular Use

    John Cage is playing a cactus. Your argument is irrelevant.​ Last year at Free Press Summer Fest, we saw Stars haul out this little thingy that was basically a tiny keyboard with a mouthpiece you could blow into. It was the first time we'd ever seen a melodica played live. Since then, Rocks O ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    “Answers to Questions: John Wood & Paul Harrison”

    John Cage is playing a cactus. Your argument is irrelevant.​ Last year at Free Press Summer Fest, we saw Stars haul out this little thingy that was basically a tiny keyboard with a mouthpiece you could blow into. It was the first time we'd ever seen a melodica played live. Since then, Rocks O ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 20, 2011

    Half a Century Late

    Benjamin Patterson gets his due as Houston goes avant-garde.

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    Dr. Brown's Dubai Detention

    Sex toys get hand doc in trouble

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Will Silence Be This Year's UK Christmas No. 1?

    Christopher Felver/John Cage Trust/ Berkshire Review Archive​In the United Kingdom, singles that are No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart the week before Christmas are for some reason called Christmas No. 1s - we can't imagine why. It's something of an honor to our friends across the pond. The Beatle ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2010

    Incoming: A River Oaks Tale

    Plus: Band of (Jonas) Brothers

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    I Gave Her a Ring...: Musical Minutiae About Fingers and Birds

    ​Although we recently discovered how to access the primitive version of Facebook on our non-iPhone (so watch out), Rocks Off generally lives in an Internet-free bubble outside the office. And happily so, so it took until Monday's late local news for us to see - and subsequently laugh our fool head ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    We Miss You, Dale Stewart

    Photo by Cathy MatusowHouston artist Dale Stewart died Monday at age 34. He was brilliant, and he was my friend for more than two years.Dale was fascinated by the world, and that made him a fascinating person. His obsessions were too many to count. He loved his family, adored his little girls Anna a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2008

    Hommage à Max Ernst: A Musical Collage

    The German artist inspires a concert by Sarah Rothenberg and company

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2008

    "Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine"

    The CAMH showcases jazz on paper

  • Music

    December 13, 2007

    2007 Music Year in Review

    The CAMH showcases jazz on paper

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    Free for All

    A brief history of musicians giving it away

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Vinyl Heads

    They're turning to needles, looking for purity

  • Calendar

    August 2, 2007

    Randy Twaddle

    Local artist leads gallery talk on Robert Rauschenberg

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2006

    Akiyama and the Ax

    Local artist leads gallery talk on Robert Rauschenberg

  • Music

    May 11, 2006

    Billy Joel and Goldfish Sandwiches

    Four artists share their guilty, and not-so-guilty, pleasures

  • Music

    October 21, 2004

    Divide and Convolute

    The Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat has indie rockers confused: Are the brother and sister hacks, geniuses or somehow both?

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2004

    Bring the Noise

    Local act Priest in Shit keeps it avant

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003
  • Calendar

    May 8, 2003

    Pull Up a Stool

    IBP celebrates its tenth anniversary with Meat/BAR

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Skeleton Key

    Saturday, October 12

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000
  • Music

    April 8, 1999

    A Jazz Odyssey

    Even without his commander, Marshall Allen orchestrates interplanetary space travel just fine, thank you

  • Film

    December 10, 1998

    Sound Evidence

    A documentary delves into theera of electronic music

  • Calendar

    December 10, 1998

    'Bourne Again

    A documentary delves into theera of electronic music

  • Culture

    October 15, 1998

    Art for Sale! Cheap!

    Stephen Keene makes art for the masses. Is that a bad thing?

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

    Stephen Keene makes art for the masses. Is that a bad thing?

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Art Car Macho

    Mike Scranton's creations are the evilest looking things in the parade. And he'll wrassle anyone who says otherwise.

  • Calendar

    April 9, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Calendar

    March 26, 1998

    The Postmod Squad

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Calendar

    February 26, 1998

    Press Picks

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    February 12, 1998

    Quadruple Weird

    "Experimental" doesn't quite describe Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

  • Music

    September 25, 1997

    The Reich Stuff

    A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

  • Calendar

    September 11, 1997

    Press Picks

    A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

  • Music

    December 5, 1996

    Digging the Delta

    A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

  • Music

    May 2, 1996

    Noise, or Art?

    DJ Scott Sommers celebrates two decades of (sometimes) inspired clatter

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Poor, Proud, But Independent

    Houston's indie record entrepreneurs do it for the love of the music. Of course, they don't mind moving a few units, either.

  • Calendar

    January 18, 1996

    Press Picks

    Houston's indie record entrepreneurs do it for the love of the music. Of course, they don't mind moving a few units, either.

  • Culture

    March 23, 1995

    Poetic Power

    Kenneth Goldsmith makes words art, and art words

  • Culture

    September 29, 1994

    Three to the Beat

    Peter Martins' Waltz Project gets its Houston debut

  • Culture

    January 27, 1994

    Three-Ring Museum

    Peter Martins' Waltz Project gets its Houston debut

  • Culture

    January 13, 1994

    All the World's a Cage

    Houston descends into musical chaos

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