Subject: John Denver

• O Christmas Song, O Christmas Song

  December 21, 2006

• I am a Pedestrian Report: Bellaire

  May 25, 2007

• SXSW: Carbon/Silicon, Ting Tings, Santogold, MGMT, The Cribs, White Rabbits, Supersuckers and Robyn

  March 15, 2008

• Mp3: Nosaprise's "Grown Folks Music"

  April 3, 2008

• Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

  So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to

  December 4, 2008

• Five ( 3) Spot: Christmas With Weezer!

  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. Because God loves us: Weezer, one of our all-time favorite bands, has recorded six Christmas covers, the greatest musical holiday activity of all, to be used in an iPhone Guitar Hero-like video game, a game we totally own at. They've done this before ("Christmas Celebration," "Christmas Song") but doing more is c

  December 5, 2008

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• Nosaprise

  June 12, 2008

• A New Official State Song for Texas?

  A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song

  February 21, 2008

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

  Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

  June 14, 2007

• 2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

  July 27, 2006

• Vagina Music Roundup

  A scintillating survey

  October 6, 2005

• Whitney's Dookie Bubble

  Being Bobby Brown is not all fun and games

  July 14, 2005

• When Wild Musicians Attack!

  Ryan Adams is headed this way. Where does he fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

  June 9, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Call Him Al

  An epic story turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

  November 25, 2004

• Trading Groceries for Guns

  Matt Brownlie talks about his band's new name and a very strange year

  May 27, 2004

• The Dirty Thirty

  The worst songs of all time from Texas

  April 29, 2004

• Dead Again

  There's fresh meat for the reaper in Final Destination 2

  January 30, 2003

• Bah, Humbug!

  The glut of holiday CDs kills the Christmas spirit

  December 20, 2001

• Shotgun Wedding

  With Planner, rookie filmmakers force their characters into some compromising situations

  January 25, 2001

• MVPs

  At SRO, some of the best players are on stage, not on screen

  October 5, 2000

• That Wascally Fate

  Final Destination looks at irreversible destiny through the eyes of Wile E. Coyote

  March 16, 2000

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Katharine Shilcutt ate all this chicken and did not save any for you.Welcome back to the weekly Eating Our Words round-up, where the food is well-prepared, plentiful and, more often than not, weird as all hell. To start with, Robb Walsh introduced us to the concept of a Wal-Mart supermercado, which might not go over as well as Wal-Mart is hoping, because the main competitor to the Hispanic-style Wal-Mart is the regular Wal-Mart. After some quick tacos and a tall, frosty mojito limonada, J

  June 12, 2009

• Social Distortion: The Little Election That Could

  Note:  Feel free to sing along with John Denver at any time.  This is wholesome social media activism the whole family can enjoy! There was a land of Persians with loads and loads of hope,All gearing up to elect a new President that was not a dope,And as the polling stations began to chug along,The little election they'd wished for was going very wrong.Who, who (who, who)? Mahmoud, fuck you!  You rigged the vote today.Oh, Iran talked back, oh clickity clack, this shit is not okay!

  June 19, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: Glenna Bell, Beetle, Fat Tony, Free Radicals and Plump

  Photos by Brandon K. Hernsberger​ A good way to kick off the HPMAs is to see a musician who makes you daydream about cheese grits on a holiday, preferably one that takes place in wintertime. Or reminds you of riding a horse at sunrise alongside your best friend John Denver. Glenna Bell, you made it happen. This longtime local favorite earned her due at Dean's, the paltry to not-so-paltry audience basking in the folky goo of a hootenanny. The folksters hummed and swayed with straight teeth and

  July 27, 2009

• "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" and Other Funny Country Titles We Found

  ​Rocks Off has been a fan of Robert Earl Keen since we heard 1994's Gringo Honeymoon, and we've really been a fan since we heard his previous album, A Bigger Piece of Sky, shortly thereafter. We got Keen's latest album, The Rose Hotel (Lost Highway), in the mail this week, and after a few listens, think it's his best since 2001's Gravitational Forces. (He'll be at House of Blues December 28, by the way; tickets go on sale tomorrow.) Rose Hotel closes with "Wireless In Heaven," a spirited blueg

  October 1, 2009

• Want to Levitate the Pentagon? These Songs Might Help

  ​On this date in 1967, some 50,000 protesters marched on the Pentagon with the intention of levitating it and exorcising any "evil spirits" within. The effort was led by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, poet Allen Ginberg, and Ed Sanders and satirically-minded rockers the Fugs. As we all know, the exorcism worked, the Vietnam War ended the next day, and peace and love have reigned supreme for over 30 years. Ha ha, no. But Rocks Off isn't all about sarcasm and laughing at hippies, we're here t

  October 21, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Exes

  ​One thing that struck He Said while we were making this list was the lack of metal and/or punk rock associated with the women in our past. It's kind of odd that someone so dirty and haggard never dated anyone with a Crass patch on her denim jacket or Misfits tramp stamp. By looking at us, you would think that He Said's past would be riddled with second-hand Suicide Girls and angry bakers like Maggie Gyllenhaal's character in Stranger Than Fiction, ladies who carry knives and break bottles ove

  November 19, 2009