Subject: Kenny G

• English Renaissance

  February 3, 1994

• A Few Rejected Inaugural Ball Theme Songs

  Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, "Crack A Bottle" The Good: Many bottles will be popped during tonight's festivities, we imagine, if not quite as many models. Also, the ongoing partnerships between this trio of rap titans says something about the present state of race relations in this country, right? Or about how while people are no longer the sole exploiters of assorted cultural traditions? The Bad: Fitty's already got a head as fat as Epcot Center; no need to inflate it any further. The

  January 20, 2009

• All the Colors of Jazz

  June 15, 1995

• The Tesh Touch

  September 12, 1996

• Rotation

  November 14, 1996

• Press Picks

  May 22, 1997

• Rotation

  February 19, 1998

• From Discreet to Discrimination

  Relaxing at the modish Ibiza Lounge, addressing claims of racism at Bond Lounge

  December 13, 2007

• Hair Today...

  A documentary restyles a misconstrued haircut

  July 31, 2003

• RIP, KIKK

  A redneck institution drowns in a flood of syrupy smooth jazz

  November 14, 2002

• Gray's Anatomy

  March 2, 2006

• Musical Food Groups

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

  February 22, 2007

• I Am the Walrus, Part 1

  Winter is prime time at Willie G's oyster bar

  January 19, 2006

• The Hanukkah Songs

  Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jewpergroup

  December 22, 2005

• Do You Hear What I Hear?

  Wack's Very Special Holiday Music Guide

  December 8, 2005

• Game Four: A Bitter Sweep Ending

  The Astros’ attempt to win without scoring somehow fails

  October 13, 2005

• Talkin' 'Bot Love

  Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

  March 10, 2005

• Gettin' Windy in the City

  The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

  February 5, 2004

• The Class of '03

  Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

  December 25, 2003

• Hip-hop Honky-Tonk

  Local MCs make the scene on the Almeda drag

  November 27, 2003

• Invisible Man

  Kenna doesn't care if you see him. He just wants you to hear him.

  July 31, 2003

• Xmas Marks the Spot

  A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs

  December 19, 2002

• No Mo' Pogo

  Time to say "ska-dios" to the Suspects; also, the Music Awards jinx strikes again

  August 22, 2002

• Bah, Humbug!

  The glut of holiday CDs kills the Christmas spirit

  December 20, 2001

• Letters

  Scaling Green Mountain, Where Credit's Due, Horse-Whipped

  June 21, 2001

• Finding Her Voice

  Onetime Texan Heather Bennett roams freely in the Big Apple

  April 19, 2001

• Kenny Garrett

  No one told him jazz is dead

  February 22, 2001

• Don't Hate Me Because I'm Popular

  Spyro Gyra keeps making the best friendly jazz

  August 3, 2000

• Silver and Gold (and Green)

  Some artists make holiday records for the beauty, not the bucks

  December 23, 1999

• Attention Readers: Music Award Nominees Should Be From, You Know, Houston

  When Rocks Off got back from lunch today, a colleague had put a completed Houston Press Music Awards nomination ballot in his mailbox with an attached Post-It note that said "Best Ballot Ever." Rocks Off read it over, and it was both hilarious and heartbreaking. The young gentleman from Midtown may well have meant it as a joke - which is all well and good, but you can still only vote once - but we nevertheless feel obliged to point out that nominations for Ciara as Best R&B/Funk/Soul, Sean P

  May 13, 2009

• Attention Readers: Music Award Nominees Should Be From, You Know, Houston

  When our Rocks Off blog got back from lunch today, a colleague had put a completed Houston Press Music Awards nomination ballot in his mailbox with an attached Post-It note that said "Best Ballot Ever." Rocks Off read it over, and it was both hilarious and heartbreaking. The young gentleman from Midtown may well have meant it as a joke- - which is all well and good, but you can still only vote once -- but we nevertheless feel obliged to point out that nominations for Ciara as Best R&B/Funk/S

  May 13, 2009

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Press Music Awards: And The Nominees Are...

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a

  May 21, 2009

• Running the Numbers

  May 28, 2009

• Aftermath: Yanni at Toyota Center

  Craig Hlavaty Words like pageantry, wonderment, and spectacle aren't used very much in the Aftermath lexicon. It's hard to divvy out those special labels when we are covering bleeding dudes in bondage gear half-raping each other on stage, the weekly parade of washed-up alt-rock groups making another run at the brass ring, grizzled Americana crooners, or the indie flavor of the past five minutes. Which brings us to why Aftermath found themselves sitting mere feet away from the singularly-monike

  June 15, 2009

• Kick 'em While They're Down: The Worst Songs Ever Recorded For Charity

  Please take this thing away from me. Please.​ When Rocks Off received an email touting Sting's new MySpace charity video for the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, we almost chipped a fingernail hurriedly clicking on the link, which promised oodles of celebrities such as Olivia Newton-John, Richard E. Grant and, of course, Pelé. Naturally, we were hoping for a new godawful charity song to horrify co-workers with; Hlavaty especially can only hiss and crawl under his desk when confronted with

  October 13, 2009