Subject: Liverpool

• Romancing the Beautiful Game

  May 24, 2007

• Rotation: Ringo Starr, Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo

  August 31, 2007

• The East End Trek

  September 13, 2007

• Reverberations: Clarences, Flamin’ Groovies, Scott Deluxe Drake and Liverpool Five

  April 30, 2008

• The Sweet Hereafter

  Theater LaB produces an almost winsome take on grief and loss with Hushabye Mountain

  November 25, 1999

• DJ Shadow

  The Private Press (MCA)

  July 18, 2002

• Rotation

  January 13, 2005

• Get Lit: Beatles for Sale by John Blaney

  Another Beatles book? Doesn't the world already know everything it possibly can about the Fab Four, from the nickname of their favorite Hamburg pill dealer to the mustache style of the cab driver who took George through the streets of Rishikesh? Well... no. And as long as interest in the band continues to flower - and pass along to new generations - Ye Olde Beatles Bookshelf will continue to groan under the accumulated weight of its tomes. Beatles for Sale, though, is the first one to make

  December 2, 2008

• Not So True Confessions

  April 13, 1995

• It Was 45 Years Ago Today...

  If you're more than about 50 years old, today is most likely the anniversary of one of your most powerful memories. In the early evening hours of February 9, 1964, more than 73 million people sat glued to their televisions as the course of American pop culture was altered forever. It all started with these two words... "All My Loving," "'Til There Was You," "She Loves You" More Beatlemania after the jump. But first, tell Rocks Off what you remember about watching

  February 9, 2009

• O No, Mr. Lennon

  February 20, 1997

• Sound Check

  August 28, 1997

• SXSW: Echo & the Bunnymen at Stubb's

  Photos by Chris GrayBy Friday afternoon, SXSW fatigue has taken hold. You're walking a little slower, less inclined to whip out the notebook to jot down every little observation - Rocks Off has seen many journos just typing notes into their BlackBerries, a trend that both intrigues and dismays him - and wondering how many more pairs of plastic day-glo sunglasses you're going to see before you finally snap.Luckily, Echo & the Bunnymen came along just in time to interrupt the homicidal thought

  March 21, 2009

• News Hostage

  September 9, 1999

• Aftermath: SXSW

  March 26, 2009

• Freddie Krc

  January 22, 2009

• Don't Fence Us In

  Aztex refuses to be ghettoized in the Tejano market

  October 25, 2001

• Ladytron, with Datarock

  June 5, 2008

• A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

  May 22, 2008

• A New Official State Song for Texas?

  A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song

  February 21, 2008

• Across the Universe

  October 4, 2007

• Sugar Kisses

  June 15, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  March 23, 2006

• The Hype of March

  Who will be the band of 2006, and why you shouldn’t care

  March 16, 2006

• "Girls" Just Want to Have Fun?

  Awkwardness, angst and mental illness take center stage at the Blaffer

  March 9, 2006

• The Dead 60s

  The Dead 60s appear Sunday, October 30, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. Social Distortion is also on the bill.

  October 27, 2005

• Breakdown Lane

  Chevy's unlikely new pitchman

  July 28, 2005

• Broadway Baby

  Somehow, Odessa will be Woodstock this summer for Sondheim lovers

  May 19, 2005

• Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey! Bands, Bands, Bands!

  A South By Southwest diary

  March 24, 2005

• The Face of Rock and Roll

  A new coffee table book spotlights a vital, neglected art genre and gives a few Houston poster artists their due

  February 3, 2005

• Playbill

  January 20, 2005

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• Letters

  April 10, 2003

• Bearly Necessary

  Jungle fever fails to catch hold again in this routine sequel

  February 13, 2003

• Wooden Nickleby

  Douglas McGrath adapts a classic -- almost perfectly

  January 2, 2003

• Best Show

  "YES YOKO ONO"

  September 26, 2002

• Gardeners of the Music World

  Nightclub owners provide a feeding place for musicians

  January 3, 2002

• Cross Ways

  Terrorism invades Liam, a grim English take on early Catholic education

  October 4, 2001

• Picks

  December 2, 1993

• Free Tickets for Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and G.G. Allin... Sort Of

  It's a veritable tribute band meltdown at the House of Blues this weekend, and we have a handful of free tickets up here at Rocks Off HQ to get you into three sure-to-be drunken shows starting this evening. Come pick 'em up at the front desk at 1621 MIlam, Suite 100, until 6 p.m. On the bill tonight is California-based Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso, who pull off Robert Plant and company's monstrous mythic blues-rock scarily accurately. The band has been plugging away on the Zep tip for 14 years

  May 8, 2009

• Nerd Alert: Trailer for "The Beatles: Rock Band" Debuts

  After almost two years of programming and tinkering, the developers of the Beatles edition of the "Rock Band" videogame have released a trailer for the game in advance of its release in the fall. The visuals in the trailer are faithful to the boys from Liverpool, down to every detail. We were astonished at how close the designers got the avatars to look like the actual Fab Four. The game chronicles the band as it crawls out of obscurity in the Cavern Club, changes the world on the Ed Sulliva

  June 5, 2009

• Slide Show: Day of the Duos

  Today marks the anniversary of the day in 1957 that John Lennon met Paul McCartney, when Paul happened to take in John's pre-Beatles band, the Quarrymen, at a Liverpool church picnic. Exactly seven years later came the London premiere of A Hard Day's Night, the manic movie whose soundtrack cemented Lennon & McCartney as one of the greatest songwriting duos of all time. Here's a look at some other great songwriting duos who got by with a little help from... each other, we suppose.

  July 6, 2009