Subject: Jonas Brothers

• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

  February 26, 2009

• Last Night: NOFX at Warehouse Live

  February 27, 2008

• Turning The Screw: Crew54, DJ AM & Travis Barker, G- Unit, Pharrell, Eminem, Nate Dogg, Kanye, Wu-Tang vs. UFC and More

  September 22, 2008

• Ten Possible Reasons for the Cowboys Missing the Playoffs

  October 15, 2008

• Drenched in Neil: More from the Diamond Mine

  October 16, 2008

• RodeoHouston Books Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift

  October 20, 2008

• First Names For SXSW Film Fest Are Out

  October 28, 2008

• Ralph Macchio: The One and Only Karate Kid

  No, my God, NO! There is only one Daniel LaRusso and his name is Ralph “Stone Fox” Macchio! Such was my reaction when I heard word this week that Will Smith’s nauseatingly adorable son Jaden is scheduled to remake the classic 80s film The Karate Kid. Now I have nothing against Will Smith’s kid (although I do think a little nepotism must be at work here), but such news is enough to make me want to crane kick my computer (or at least drink a little sake).

  November 20, 2008

• 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

• Artist of the Week: The Favorites

  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 introducingliston@gmail.com. We like to fancy ourselves fairly well-tuned into the local music scene. Sometimes when we're out with friends, we even make up names of bands and then mock people for having never heard them. ("What?! You've never heard of

  December 10, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for

  December 31, 2008

• RodeoHouston Hideout Schedule

  Two Tons of Steel/ bbqfilm.com Music at RodeoHouston doesn't necessarily mean doe-eyed ingenues like Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers, leathery country veterans like Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson or tube snake boogeymen like ZZ Top, you know. Although there's no hog-calling contest - which Rocks Off thinks is a crime - admission to the grounds (either a RodeoHouston ticket or Reliant Park general-admission stub) also gets you into the Hideout, RodeoHouston's own honky-tonk that mo

  January 13, 2009

• Aftermath: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Super Bowl XLIII

  Part 1: "10th Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Born to Run" Score another one for the old folks. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's quarter-hour onstage at Super Bowl XLIII Sunday night may not have been the most contemporary booking the NFL could have landed - but, and we'll get to this in a minute, maybe it was - and yet it's hard to imagine Lil Wayne, the Jonas Brothers or Katy Perry putting on nearly as soul-stirring a performance, let alone one that wasn't upstaged by a fireworks

  February 2, 2009

• Aftermath: The Jonas Brothers at RodeoHouston

  Photos by Mark C. AustinI didn't want to go the Jonas Brothers at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo, but I had no choice. My 10-year old granddaughter did want to go, and I owed her. For two years of the Hannah Montana craze, Jade had the wig and the poster and never missed a rerun. So every time Hannah came to town, I stood in line or got on my computer and always failed to get the tickets. Now Hannah is Miley Cyrus, and the hot ticket is the Jonas Brothers. I got two. For the record,

  March 9, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Jonas Brothers, Las Haciendas, Houston Aeros and Houston Rockets

  We'll spare the introductory message, since we know y'all probably have already clicked on that photo of the Jonas Brother below and are now in pubescent heaven. Jonas Brothers at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo The Jonas Brothers. They came to the rodeo. They did their thing. We posted tons of photos. A review too. 1:30 a.m. at Las Haciendas The time might've changed, but that doesn't mean Bill Olive's nocturnal habits did.

  March 9, 2009

• The Most Scholarly Jonas Brothers Reviewer Ever

  Photo courtesy Baker InstituteAllen Matusow is in the midst of a distinguished career -- he's the director of academic affairs at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy; he's written such tomes as Nixon's Economy: Boom, Busts, Dollars and Votes and The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s; and he's been quoted approvingly in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times and cited in books and studies for years.So he's done pretty good for himself, we guess. But it wasn't until t

  March 9, 2009

• Aftermath: Taylor Swift at RodeoHouston

  Photos courtesy Houston Livestock Show and RodeoTeenage girls turned up in droves for Taylor Swift at RodeoHouston Friday night, letting out piercing screams in between every song, rivaling the intensity of those at the Jonas Brothers concert. Swift already belongs among that small cadre of artists who can send then fans into a frenzy just by showing up at the venue; at Reliant Stadium, her easygoing charm, and flairs of spunk and sass showed why. Swift seemed genuinely elated to be at t

  March 23, 2009

• Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.

  March 26, 2009

• Could Alternative Country Work at the Rodeo?

  February 26, 2009

• Crash Into Me: Predicting the Economy's Impact on the Music Biz

  April 16, 2009

• Music's Ickiest of the Icky, Circa 2008

  Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

  October 30, 2008

• Schoolhouse: The Rocker

  Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny

  August 21, 2008

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Disney Channel fits Texan Demi Lovato for a glass slipper

  Wishing Upon a Star

  May 29, 2008

• Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers

  The hidden agenda of Hannah Montana

  November 8, 2007

• Got Live If You Want It

  Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

  April 30, 2009

• Summer Sounds

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Sounds Off on Michael's Memorial

  L.A. Weekly's Twitter updates have slowed down, but there's plenty of Houstonians following along. Here's a selection from the past 30 minutes or so: cashless: "Blanket, FTW!" joeyguerra: ""we need to look up, where he is undoubtedly perched on a crescent moon, and we need to smile." - brooke shields" Htwngirl: "Damn you Brooke soooo heartwarmingly sad. I am fighting the tears and it's bug the shit out of htwngirl day at work. ugh!!" Htwngirl: "Wow how Jermaine can sing. OMG holding in the tears

  July 7, 2009

• Aftermath: Pete Yorn at Meridian

  Mark C. AustinPete Yorn has been and will always be "sad bastard music" to Aftermath's ears. One thing that has always interested us about the forlorn tunes that seem to drip from Yorn's fingers is how big of a female audience he has. We have quietly hypothesized that somehow women are drawn to listening to men sing plaintive and sad tales about the treacherous acts of the fairer sex. It serves to confirm what they want to believe, that not all men are unrepentant bastards who will leave you s

  July 15, 2009

• Maybe Miley Would Be Better Off Dead Like Selena, Kurt and These Others...

  In case you missed it - and if you value your immortal soul, we're sure you did - Hannah Montana star/future tell-all memoir author Miley Cyrus unveiled a newer, more "mature" look last weekend at the only venue appropriate for such things: the Teen Choice Awards. Nothing says "successful transition from 'tween idol to grown-up entertainer" like booty shorts and pole dancing, and we here at Rocks Off hope the 16-year old is prepared for the coming decades, which will likely be spent drinking ma

  August 13, 2009

• Defending the Jonas Brothers: You Got a Problem With That?

  ​We have spent days wrestling throw pillows and chain-smoking cigarettes in the sun, sweatily contemplating why it is that we can't hate the Jonas Brothers. We can honestly say this isn't some crass devil's advocate playing rock journalist devilry. We can't find a reasonable flaw in the wares they are hawking. We can also submit medical documents that we are in fact what is medically referred to as a "man," if you're curious. To reflexively hate the Jonas Brothers is a waste of time and intell

  August 14, 2009

• Aftermath: The Jonas Brothers Put the Art In Wal-Mart at Toyota Center

  Photos by Daniel Kramer​The robot eggs have hatched and out come three marionettes, made entirely out of cheese, slathered in the holy sweat of Jerry Falwell, packaged with a bow, and placed in the clearance aisle of the toy store at a mall for starving rats. The price? Your soul. Here come the Jonas Brothers - the boys who put the art in Wal-Mart.​Their marketing campaign is absolutely without capitalistic flaw. Three brothers, all squeaky clean, outfitted with promise rings to God, who sta

  August 17, 2009

• StubHub: Houston Is More "Rockin'" Than Vegas, Less So Than Hartford and Milwaukee

  Craig HlavatyThe Phish of the Southwest and king of Houston's summer concert hill: George Strait​Online ticket broker StubHub.com released its annual list of America's Top 20 "Most Rockin' Cities" Friday, with Houston holding steady at No. 17 for the second year in a row. We probably would have been even higher - in several ways - if Vermont jam-band overlords Phish, who reunited this summer for the first time since 2004, weren't such pussies and booked some shows south of the Mason-Dixon line

  August 21, 2009

• Five Artists Motel 6 Would Rather Not Give Free Rooms, Including John Mayer

  canada.com​In a move sure to boost occupancy among skinny jeans-wearing hipsters while simultaneously driving regular families away by the family truckster-load, Motel 6 is running a promotion to give free rooms to up-and-coming bands: "Here's how it works: Motel 6 will give free rooms to developing bands on the touring circuit. (The cheapo chain has roughly 1,000 properties in every U.S. state save Hawaii.) In exchange, the bands promise to give shout-outs to the chain on their web sites, and

  September 3, 2009

• Chef Rick Bayless: Reluctant Rock Star

  Photo by J.C. Reid​A visitor to Macy's at Memorial City Mall last Wednesday would have been surprised at the more than 100 people -- many of them young women -- lined up in the Kitchen and Home area. Were the Jonas Brothers endorsing a line of tableware? No, but it was a rock star of sorts -- Chef Rick Bayless, hot off his recent win in the Top Chef Masters television series. For those not familiar with Bayless, he's the chef/owner of Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and XOCO in Chicago and s

  October 7, 2009

• It's Brodeo Time! RodeoHouston Announces Jonas Brothers, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Brooks & Dunn for 2010

  Daniel KramerThe Jonas Brothers at RodeoHouston 2009​ Monday morning, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo announced the first four entertainers next March's musical entertainment at Reliant Stadium. Jonas Brothers, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, and Brooks & Dunn have all been tapped to perform at next year's rodeo. The Kix and Ronnie date will be the duo's last rodeo appearance, as B&D plan to part ways at the end of 2010. This will be the Jonas Brothers' second Houston rodeo appearance a

  October 19, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Jay Reatard - If You Haven't Seen the "Piss" Video, Look No Further - Cafe Tacuba, Dax Riggs, etc.

  Among this week's Distant Early Warnings comes Jay Reatard, who is set to hit Walter's "Possibly Still" On Washington December 8. The art-damaged garage-rocker recently pissed on (and pissed off) his backing band at Goner Fest 6 in Memphis. It's hard to tell exactly why the things happened in the video, but suffice to say these guys soon took their leave of the erratic Reatard. When Reatard's circus hits town in December, he will have members of the Danish band Cola Freaks in tow as his backin

  October 20, 2009