Subject: Lenny Kravitz

• Drenched In Blog: Sir Mick's Greatest "Hits"

  October 4, 2007

• Last Night: Melt-Banana with Dizzy Pilot and Cop Warmth at Walter’s

  November 30, 2007

• The Blog of Lists: 25 Vegan Musicians

  April 25, 2008

• Artist of the Week: Peekaboo Theory

  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.   Mark C. Austin To be succinctly vague, Peekaboo Theory is dope, and we've enjoyed seeing them progress for the better part of the two years we've known about them. To be a little more music-journo douchey about it: th

  December 3, 2008

• The Return of Mail Call

  It's been a while, but let's see what's been lurking in the bin... *Kenton & Hill (Houston): "A side project from Last Soul Descendents producer Darren Roberts, this masterpiece brings together live jazzy, funky, hip-hop grooves with heavy dance beats to create a unique sound." D-Fu-J-Rap (Friday, Grum Bar, 306 Main) *Brent Allen (Austin), There's a Lot of Folks Like Me: "True-to-life stories about life, love, infidelity and some great two-stepping tunes." C (Friday, Tumb

  December 9, 2008

• Requiem

  August 18, 1994

• Sweet Magic

  June 1, 1995

• Beat the Heat!

  May 23, 1996

• Saturday Night: Echoes at FBI Rocks

  If you say you want the Pink Floyd experience, it generally means you're going to the laser show at the Planetarium, probably with pharmacology of questionable legality. But if you actually want a chance to stand in the audience of a Pink Floyd concert when they ruled the 70s like gods, then seeing Houston's own Echoes is probably as close as you can come. Focused mostly on the 1971 - 1977 era of Floyd (Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals), Ech

  January 30, 2009

• It's a Happening!

  July 18, 1996

• Sound Check

  October 31, 1996

• Classic Touch

  July 3, 1997

• Rotation

  July 24, 1997

• Radio Shy

  March 26, 1998

• Rotation

  May 7, 1998

• The Boy Next Door

  September 24, 1998

• Et tu, Lenny

  April 29, 1999

• Rotation

  May 6, 1999

• Single File

  July 10, 2008

• Vogue Lounge

  Long lines and high rollers

  December 27, 2007

• Esque

  Peel Gallery hosts the West Coast glasswork illuminati.

  December 20, 2007

• Leaving His Mark

  January 12, 2006

• Musical Food Groups

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

  February 22, 2007

• Rogue Waves

  A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry

  January 11, 2007

• When Mixtapes Attack!

  What if the sound track to your life sucks?

  November 23, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• Christmas in July

  Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

  July 21, 2005

• Oasis

  Don't Believe the Truth

  June 23, 2005

• Rock Radio (and Rock Romano) Redux

  Bo knows good rock when he sees it. Do Houston radio programmers?

  February 10, 2005

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

  January 20, 2005

• A Thin Line...

  Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

  September 23, 2004

• Lenny Kravitz

  Baptism (Virgin Records)

  July 1, 2004

• Mark Ronson

  Here Comes the Fuzz (Elektra)

  September 25, 2003

• Jamaican Me Crazy

  Ziggy Marley ditches reggae and Rastafarianism. Or does he?

  June 12, 2003

• Cruel Summer

  Looking for fun? Crush will leave you blue.

  August 15, 2002

• Smoke and Steel

  The Kinsey Report's findings: Blues, rock, funk and reggae can coexist in one band, but the blend won't make you famous

  June 27, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• Playbill

  The Guess Who

  October 11, 2001

• The Rage of Lee

  Raj Pickens hips Houston to his "acoustic Gap Band" sounds

  October 4, 2001

• Trials and Tribu-lations

  Austin-based salsa orchestra marries ghetto funk with barrio spice

  May 24, 2001

• Montrose's Boulevard

  The Dallas soul man is as eclectic as the neighborhood that bears his name

  March 29, 2001

• History Repeating

  October 7, 1999

• Playbill

  Coming This Week

  September 30, 1999

• Crowes Feat

  Black Crowes make rocking and rolling rock and roll

  April 29, 1999

• Idol Beat: The Top Four

  Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxMan alive! Jamie Foxx mentored last week, and now guitarist-celeb Slash is in the proverbial American Idol house for "Rock and Roll Week"! Okay, sure, these people have projects and albums to promote, but these still feel like coups. Lot to address, so today I'm skipping the expository rant and going straight to my patented bullet-point breakdown: * Slash is looking rough! He's like a cross between Lenny Kravitz, Howard Stern and Bloom County asswipe Steve Dallas or so

  May 6, 2009

• Zin Balance

  July 2, 2009

• My Ding-a-Ling: Iggy Pop, Tommy Lee and Rock's Other Dirk Digglers

  This album isn't called Fore! because Huey Lewis likes to play golf...​So the other day, Rocks Off wrote briefly about Huey Lewis in regards to the Back To The Future soundtrack, not even thinking to chime in just a little bit about his reportedly huge male member. You know that certain part of the male anatomy all those soft-core porn stars are always talking about on those late night infomercials for boner pills? That one. Which got us to thinking, what about other rock star penii? We have h

  August 28, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Do The Hustle!

  ​It's week five of Dancing With the Stars, but I don't know how many are left. I don't have the commitment to count the couples and do the math, plus there could be special eps or extra fillers or reunion shows or who knows what all. Basically, I know there's an end in sight, I just don't know when it'll arrive. Tom Bergeron's breathless intro revealed that some of the contestants have been dealing with the flu, which has knocked the blond guy dancing with Joanna out of commission, so sh

  October 20, 2009

• Artist of the Week: Funk/Soul Rockers and Microsoft Word Mortal Enemies Kuumba Freeque

  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.​ Hi there. Welcome back to the most popular Houston-based weekly artist showcase on the planet. We sure hope you're in the mood to funk yo' soul til it rocks, because this go-round we've got funk-soul-rockers Kuumba Freeque

  November 4, 2009

• Diary of a Sad Black Woman

  November 12, 2009