Subject: Kelly Clarkson

• Kelly Bails!

  June 14, 2007

• Harry Potter and the Sisters of Mercy, or Goth Like Me

  July 25, 2007

• Chingo Bling vs. La Migra

  August 14, 2007

• Houstonian Kady Malloy = Early American Idol Front-runner

  January 17, 2008

• American Idol Returns Tonight... Yawn

  Come back Kelly Clarkson, all is forgiven... If you've been lucky enough to spend the past several months in a media-deprivation tank - or maybe you just don't read the Houston Chronicle - then you no doubt know Fox's shrill-singing flagship series American Idol returns tonight at 7 p.m. (As opposed to its torture-sanctioning flagship series 24, which returned Sunday.) Rocks Off realizes many readers will greet this occasion by turning off their cell phones and instructing family members

  January 13, 2009

• Fight for Your Right

  June 4, 2009

• Chart Check: Texans on Billboard

  A periodic look at how Lone Star natives are faring in the national music biz...Hot 100 (singles) 10. Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You" 12. Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain, "Blame It" 16. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" 21. Beyonce, "Diva" 41. Beyonce, "Halo" Billboard 200 (albums) 6. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 9. Jamie Foxx, Intuition 87. Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 100. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel

  March 11, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Final 13 Results

  Ray Mickshaw/ Fox Nunez out: Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you, Jorge (middle).A new wrinkle in the elimination curve! The return of a prodigal Idol winner! A performance from a self-important pop-rap blowhard! Two more contestants falling under the proverbial sword! The first of the dreaded Ford-sponsored videos-cum-advertisements! Gratuitous decolletage courtesy of Paula Abdul! This...is American Idol! * Get this: the judges can perform one 11th-hour stay-of-exec

  March 12, 2009

• Aftermath: Reba McEntire at RodeoHouston

  Photos by Mark C. AustinReba McEntire is the closest modern country will ever get to the artistic heights of its pioneering female vocalists. Sure Tanya Tucker had her run but the booze, powders and Glen Campbell took their toll. Shania Twain was just a Nashville/Pat Benatar Frankenstein project. And all the others were B-teamers shoving out their shingle on Music Row in hopes of at least landing a spot a county fair or a gig shilling corn chips. When it comes to heavy-hitting mamas like

  March 12, 2009

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• Ghostface Killah

  November 22, 2007

• (No) Beer at Concerts

  Stay Dry, Stay Fly

  October 18, 2007

• “Lunch Films”

  Mike Plante gets movies by taking filmmakers out to lunch

  August 2, 2007

• 2007 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  July 26, 2007

• Voodoo Healing

  Stan Ridgway is still tuning in "Mexican Radio."

  April 23, 2009

• Odd Couples

  Strange musical pairings

  June 14, 2007

• Musical Food Groups

  If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

  February 22, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

  January 18, 2007

• Never Opening Near You

  Music biopics Hollywood won't make

  November 16, 2006

• Déjà Dance

  Newest DDR: Same game, fresh set list.

  November 2, 2006

• Tuck of the Town

  Anita Bump's show is packin' them in

  October 26, 2006

• Hope Springs Eternal

  A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

  August 10, 2006

• Aly & AJ

  Thursday, July 6, at the Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600

  July 6, 2006

• Pink / Damone

  I'm Not Dead / Out Here All Night

  June 22, 2006

• Double Vision

  Jess and Lisa Origliasso give teen pop a harmonic jolt as the Veronicas

  June 15, 2006

• Mötley Goüge

  Wanna hang out with Vince Neil? Got an extra five grand on ya?

  March 30, 2006

• A Crying Shame

  RIP, Cactus Music and Video

  February 9, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• It's In The Cards

  The Nick-and-Jessica split, tarot-style

  January 5, 2006

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

  December 8, 2005

• Your Government at Work

  November 24, 2005

• Whitney's Dookie Bubble

  Being Bobby Brown is not all fun and games

  July 14, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 5, 2005

• Vienna Teng

  Thursday, April 1

  March 25, 2004

• Cattle Call

  Boozing with a few aggrieved bad seeds at the American Idol audition

  August 21, 2003

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

  May 29, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 22, 2003

• Fear Factor

  But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

  December 26, 2002

• Change of Beat

  Just like the rest of Houston, the local music scene saw plenty of ups and downs

  December 26, 2002

• Cattle Decapitation

  May 21, 2009

• Pay for Play

  June 25, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Al Jarreau, Butthole Surfers, The Mars Volta, The Tragically Hip, etc.

  ​Al Jarreau: Fri., Dec. 11. Arena Theatre. Ben Danaher: Wed., Sept. 30. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. Benjamin Wesley, Prairie Cadets: Sun., Aug. 16. The Mink. Black Crowes, Saving Abel: BEAUMONT., Sun., Oct. 18. Ford Park. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: CHANGED Sun., Aug. 23. House of Blues. Brother Ali, BK-One, Evidence, Toki Wright: Thu., Oct. 29. Warehouse Live. Buju Banton: Thu., Oct. 22. House of Blues. Butthole Surfers: Thu., Sept. 24. House of Blues.

  July 28, 2009

• This Week In Beyonce: Did Kelly Clarkson Bite "Halo"?

  (Listen to "Halo" here) Texas' two biggest pop divas are currently embroiled in a feud only the media could love. It seems Kelly Clarkson's latest single from her album All I Ever Wanted, "Already Gone," sounds a lot like Beyonce's recent Top 5 smash, "Halo." Turns out there's a good reason for this - both songs share a backing track. It's a pretty important track too... as in the melody. Clarkson told the Canadian Broadcasting Company that she didn't know her "Already" co-writer, OneRepublic f

  July 28, 2009

• The Katy Perry Experiment

  July 30, 2009

• All Falls Down: Kanye West's Six - Well, Seven Now - Douchiest Moments

  ​If you're aware of Kanye West's - whom Pollstar is reporting stops at Toyota Center with Lady GaGa January 22; good luck selling tickets for that one now, kiddo - past behavior at all, then you're probably surprised this article isn't longer. His habit of blurting out inappropriate, nonsensical non sequiturs, his tendency to throw a tantrum at the tiniest provocation, his love of blogging in all caps - you'd normally expect this kind of behavior from a 12-year-old Xbox Live player in Ritalin

  September 14, 2009

• It's 4:30 p.m. and Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken, John Mayer, Nickelback and ICP Still Suck

  Er... no comment. OK, maybe one or two...​In the world of rock writing, there are just some artists' fans that you can't help but fuck with. While you're alternately enamored and disgusted by their chosen obsession, they exert a near religious fanaticism for their fixation of worship, making them all too open for mockery. In the past decade, the increasing omnipresence of the Internet and the advent of American Idol have created a new sub-species of rabid followers who take each barb thrown in

  September 14, 2009

• Twelve Musical Fuck Yous Better Than Gov. Ah-nuld's Coded Message

  ​Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​We admit, we never thought he had it in him, but apparently the Governator is capable of human cleverness - just like all non-cybernetic organisms. That is, if we accept that the acrostic in this veto message here isn't just a coincidence (read the first letter of each line in the second and third paragraphs). That's a good one, but this being Rocks Off, we would've preferred Schwarzenegger put his F-U into song form, like these folks.

  October 29, 2009