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Q&A with Brazilian Musician Djavan

Ozone Awards, Tastemaker DJ Contest Headed to Houston

Local Visual Artist Snags Latin Grammy Title

Dafnis Prieto

Slideshow: Latin Grammys Pre-Party at House of Blues

Jenni Rivera's Tough Latin Grammy Luck

Last night’s Latin Grammys biggest loser was Jenni Rivera - not because she didn’t take home any trophies but because her performances were so dismal. (Amalia Mendoza started spinning in her grave as soon as Rivera hit the first few notes of “Sufriendo a Solas.”) Rivera, who was announced ... More >>

Aftermath: Latin Grammys at Toyota Center, Pt. 1

Carlos Santana backstage at the Latin Grammys/ Photo by Olivia Flores Alvarez Is music really the universal language? There was no better place to test that ragged old saw than at Thursday’s Latin Grammys at Toyota Center. As one of the few (if not the only) non-Spanish-speakers in the buildi ... More >>

Latin Grammys Backstage Report

There were a couple of big winners at last night’s Latin Grammy’s ceremony, namely Juanes and Gloria Estefan. You heard their acceptance speeches, now find out what they said backstage. The night’s big winner was, of course, Juanes, who took home five awards, making him the winner of th ... More >>

Paola Mayorga's Latin Grammy Journal

[Ed. Note: Paola Mayorga is a 21-year-old Missouri City woman who won a contest sponsored by Reliant Energy for a trip to the Latin Grammys, including backstage and green carpet access and accomodations at the Four Seasons. Rocks Off asked her to write up her experience.] Paola Mayorga and her mot ... More >>

Five Spot: "Thriller" Goes Global

[Ed. note: Five Spot got bumped by the Latin Grammys Friday, so better late than never...] 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 it makes per ... More >>

Ram Herrera

[Ed. note: Five Spot got bumped by the Latin Grammys Friday, so better late than never...] 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 it makes per ... More >>

Making Sense of a Trying Year

[Ed. note: Five Spot got bumped by the Latin Grammys Friday, so better late than never...] 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 it makes per ... More >>

Alejandra Guzman

[Ed. note: Five Spot got bumped by the Latin Grammys Friday, so better late than never...] 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 it makes per ... More >>

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

The Shredder

One Show, One Sentence

Houston Goes International with the Latin Grammys

One Show, One Sentence

Rodney Crowell, Forever the Houston Kid

Gasoline Dreams

Music's Ickiest of the Icky, Circa 2008

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Mick Jagger meets Gilley's

Some Girls Ride Bulls

New North Heights Hipster Hang: Big Star Bar

Some Girls Ride Bulls

Megafest 2008

Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Fernandez lead an all-star blow-out

Alejandro Sanz

Spanish singer/songwriter brings his music to the Verizon

Gian Marco

Peruvian singer makes Houston stop

Espa�ol Sung Here

Crossing over -- who's doing it, who's not

Ozomatli

Ozomatli appears Friday, October 6, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel Street. Call 713-225-5483 for more info.

My Hips Don't Lie...But Mariah Carey's Do!

Shakira vs. Mariah, head-to-blond-head

Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis and Laura Pausini

Sunday, July 23, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 866-466-8849

Ely Guerra

Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy (Higher Octave)

J.U.F.

Gogol Bordello vs. Tamir Muskat (Stinky Records)

Café Tacuba

Cuatro Caminos, Geffen

Still Sweet

Celia Cruz pours on every kind of azúcar

Big John and Little Joe

Space City's tallest and shortest musicians rule the 2002 Houston Press Music Awards

Low Fidel-ity

There's more than just the Gulf of Mexico between musicians in Cuba and those from Cuba

El Rockero in His Labyrinth

Juanes ditches heavy metal and embraces the music of his native Colombia

Olga Tañón

Juanes ditches heavy metal and embraces the music of his native Colombia

Tonight: Diogo Nogueira at Kahlua

Washington PossatoSamba is not just a single musical genre; it's actually subdivided into countless sub-genres ranging from the party-friendly Carnaval beat to the highly subtle bossa nova made famous by the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. However, among the best-loved in Brazil (an ... More >>

Lone Star College: "Día de los Muertos"

Washington PossatoSamba is not just a single musical genre; it's actually subdivided into countless sub-genres ranging from the party-friendly Carnaval beat to the highly subtle bossa nova made famous by the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. However, among the best-loved in Brazil (an ... More >>

"Quieres Bailar?" Cafe Tacuba Packs 'Em In at House of Blues

Photos by Liana Lopez​ Save a performance at last year's Latin Grammys, Mexican rock superstars Café Tacuba finally made their way back to Houston after a two-year absence with Grammy-winning tunes from their most recent album, Sino, and the light show to match. The band's show at the sold-out Ho ... More >>

Houstonian Displays Roots Of Her Heart

Photos by Liana Lopez​Gels, nails, wire, gold leaf, chalk pastel, glass beads and oil on wood are just some of the things you'll see incorporated in local artist Lizbeth Ortiz's art work in her solo exhibition "Raíces de mi Corazón," ("Roots of my Heart" in English) that opened last night at Tal ... More >>

Carolyn Rodriguez: From Selling Crack to Prescribing "Medicine" for the Soul

One of the first things Carolyn Rodriguez, the Houston-based female singer and rap artist by way of Arkansas, by way of North Carolina, said to us is that she doesn't like bios. "When you make a bio you have to keep it politically correct," she tells Rocks Off. "You can't tell the real story." She' ... More >>