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Joni Mitchell

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Big Yellow Taxi: Six Songs About Taxicabs

    For poor kids, like myself growing up, a ride in a taxicab is a foreign adventure, particularly in Houston where it's not an especially necessary form of transportation like some other large cities such as New York. For us, it's the closest we could probably ever get to having a chauffeur, other th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    RIP Levon Helm: The Band Drummer And Americana Icon Dies At 71

    Levon Helm doing what he loved in Woodstock, N.Y., in 2004Levon Helm, the Arkansas-born icon of Americana music, passed away Thursday afternoon after a long battle with throat cancer, his family said on Helm's Web site. "He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill up the room with music, lay do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Missed Opportunities: 10 Musicians Who Turned Down Big Hits

    Have you ever had one of those moments where you thought to yourself, "Why did I do that?" or "Why did I turn that down?" Those kinds of moments happen to all of us. It's part of life, unfortunately. This happens all the time in the movie world, but you never seem to hear about it in the music worl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    5 Treehugging Tunes By Conservative Country Artists

    ​Today is the Girl Scouts of America's annual World Thinking Day, which they celebrate each year by dedicating 24 hours of contemplation on the world and the people in it. Now, Rocks Off isn't a Girl Scout, but we keep a close eye on them because we've proven in the past they are in fact our o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Houston's thelastplaceyoulook Gets Into The Christmas Spirit With "Do You Hear?"

    Photo by Groovehouse​Rocks Off is getting into the Christmas spirit, slowly but surely, and now that it's finally December, all your Facebook posts concerning your holiday plans have become much more tolerable. The music, classic though it may be, has needed an update for quite some time. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Berlin Wall at 50: Five Iconic Moments

    Just another brick in the wall​Fifty years ago today, East German construction crews were in the last stages of preparation for building the Berlin Wall. On August 13, they began, instantly giving an incredible propaganda tool to the free world. The Wall has been down for 22 years and will so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Canada Day: Top 10 Artists From Way Up Yonder

    ​Hello? Is this thing on? Rocks Off has a feeling that a lot of folks are nowhere near their computers today. Must be some sort of holiday. It is, actually. Today, not Monday. It's Canada Day, or as it's known in the U.S., "What Is Princess Kate Wearing?" Day. (Also, Friday.) Honestly, Rocks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Soul City: The Amazing Jazz Crusaders

    Black History Month is always a great time to recall some of Houston's greatest musical innovators and leaders. Rocks Off will highlight some of them during the remainder of February. "Hey, let's get back to that down-and-dirty old-school chicken-shack sound" mosaicrecords.com​While Houston ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    The Ladies Strike Back, Actually

    Rocks Off is following our sister Houston Press blogs into the choppy waters of "Comment of the Day," choosing a comment or a handful of comments from the previous day we find especially enlightening, infuriating or just plain hilarious. We're glad our readers have opinions, whatever they are, about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 2

    Brittanie Shey: When you go to a festival lit this, you're always looking for the discovery. The one band that either blows you away or causes you to alter all your expectations. Today it was Dan Black, a performer we caught only because there was nothing else going on. As soon as we get home, we' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Bob Dylan Rolls With The Thunder In Shelter From The Storm

    Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Years By Sid Griffin ​Of the many different periods in the career of Bob Dylan, the years 1975-76 were particularly productive on a variety of fronts: the recording of Desire, two Rolling Thunder Revue tours, filming of Renaldo & Clara, and ... More >>

  • Film

    July 15, 2010

    The New Normal

    Lesbian family values in The Kids Are All Right.

  • Film

    May 13, 2010

    Flagrant Foul

    Just Wright is just wrong.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Maria Taylor's LadyLuck

    During his Fourth of July road trip to San Antonio, Lonesome Onry and Mean found himself listening to Maria Taylor's excellent LadyLuck and wondering how he could have been so remiss in not reporting on such a fine record. Producer, singer, writer, arranger, Taylor is a huge multi-threat talent who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Idol Beat: Hollywood Week, Part 1

    [Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns

    [Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

  • Music

    April 24, 2008

    Steve Earle and Allison Moorer

    [Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues, with Appaloosa

    [Note: Because a lot of people are apparently into American Idol, Rocks Off asked contributor Ray Cummings to keep track of this season for us. This is his first report.] "Hollywood Week" marks the point in American Idol's grist-mill rigamorole calendar where the kid gloves come off, when being ... More >>

  • Music

    March 20, 2008

    Shawn Phillips Is Stranger Than Fiction

    Meet Navy rescuer and true rock and roll Zelig

  • Music

    February 28, 2008

    Pat Metheny Trio: Day Trip

    Meet Navy rescuer and true rock and roll Zelig

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    Cat Power

    Jukebox

  • Music

    October 4, 2007

    Joni Mitchell, Shine

    CD Review

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2007

    Last Night: The Sea and Cake, with Meg Baird, at Warehouse Live

    CD Review

  • Music

    June 29, 2006

    Tristan Prettyman

    Friday, June 30, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Brave New World

    A Heights family is targeted in the name of progress

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    Vagina Music Roundup

    A scintillating survey

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    A scintillating survey

  • Music

    May 27, 2004

    Azita and Carina Round

    Life on the Fly (Drag City) and The Disconnection (Weapons of Mass Entertainment / Interscope)

  • Music

    November 6, 2003

    Thea Gilmore

    Avalanche (Compass Records)

  • Music

    September 4, 2003

    Toni Sicola

    In the Sun (White Cat Productions)

  • Music

    February 13, 2003

    Karrin Allyson

    February 18 and 19

  • Music

    February 14, 2002

    Alice Peacock

    Thursday, February 14

  • Film

    December 13, 2001

    Eyes Half Open

    Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

  • Music

    August 24, 2000

    Melissa Adams

    Firefly

  • Music

    August 24, 2000

    Stuck Mojo

    Declaration of a Headhunter

  • Music

    February 3, 2000

    Playbill

    Experimental Folk: Shawn Phillips, Tom Jones

  • Dining

    February 4, 1999

    Class of '98

    A reluctant retrospective

  • Music

    December 24, 1998

    Herbie's World

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    October 22, 1998

    Rotation

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Born to Sing

    What does Herbie Hancock think of his own work? His take may surprise you.

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1998

    Night & Day

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    February 19, 1998

    Static

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    January 1, 1998

    Static

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    December 26, 1996

    Still Blue

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    September 5, 1996

    Hold the Tonic

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    June 20, 1996

    Rotation

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    April 4, 1996

    Dave's World

    May 7 - 13, 1998

  • Music

    December 15, 1994

    Milla in 3-D

    Supermodel Milla Jovovich proves she's more than just another pretty face

  • Music

    November 24, 1994

    Ray Stevens Lives!!!

    Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

  • Music

    September 29, 1994

    Rotation

    Todd Snider's novelty tunes will tickle your jaded fancy

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