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Fusion Hot Dogs at Hot Breads Bakery

ACL Day One: More band photos

St. Patrick's Day Special: Flogging Molly, "Fuck You I'm Drunk"

Fun Fact: Before he found Irish-punk religion in L.A., Flogging Molly frontman Dave King sang in front of ex-Motorhead and UFO members in '80s UK hair-metal also-rans Fastway.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: New Sam Phillips Free Download - With a Catch

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

The Airborne Toxic Event

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

Airborne Toxic Event

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

A Cursive Memory

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

HEALTH

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

X, with the Detroit Cobras

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

2007 Music Year in Review

One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite L.A. chanteuses, Sam Phillips, announced a free download of a new song today. The catch is you have to click on the link above and join her mailing list. I've already signed up, but after 30 minutes I still haven't received the email link to the tune. But ... More >>

“Array”

Birds, words and persona moments make up CTRL Gallery’s latest exhibition

Pro-Choice Punch

Birds, words and persona moments make up CTRL Gallery’s latest exhibition

Hoob Job

Birds, words and persona moments make up CTRL Gallery’s latest exhibition

White Demons

Say Go

I See Hawks in LA

Sig's Lagoon in-store at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 3710 Main, 713-533-9525; Continental Club at 10 p.m., 3700 Main, 713-529-9666

Ariel Pink, Belong, Slovak Republic

7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, The Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

The Knitters

Thursday, August 25, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Blowhards

Project Blowed celebrates ten years of hip-hop innovation and improvisation

Deck the Halls

Danseparc and Robert Tatum spin a hipster holiday party

The Great Gadsby

One of Hollywood's top cooking stars is moving to Houston

The Eclectic Company

Inman Gallery's latest show offers an assortment of West Coast artistic souvenirs

Hit the Road, Jack. Permanently.

According to former Houstonians the Business Machines, that's the only way to get a career

Best Breakfast

The Breakfast Klub

Thou Shalt Not Pee

Yates trial judge makes a captive audience of the media

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Web exclusive!

Forever Plaid

Web exclusive!

Busdriver

Web exclusive!

99 Ranch Market Grand Opening

​69¢ Gulf oysters and lobsters for under $9 a pound are among the grand-opening specials worth checking out at 99 Ranch Market, the new supermarket at I-10 and Blalock where the big Fiesta used to be. 99 Ranch Market is an Asian supermarket chain out of Los Angeles. The first store was called ... More >>

Brisa Cocina's Salchi-Burger

​I had a salchi-burger at Brisa Cocina Mexicana on San Felipe yesterday. What a lovely example of restaurant fare inspired by street food. The hamburger was topped with a thin slice of ham, jalapeño sausage slices, and melted cheese, and served on a toasted bun spread with refried beans and s ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

Idol Beat: L.A. Is No Lady

Which singer is more inherently untalented?​The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As you probably could have predicted, the episode opened ... More >>

American Idol: L.A. Is No Lady

Which singer is more inherently untalented?​The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As you probably could have predicted, the episode opened ... More >>

Mochi Ice Cream Balls

​I tried some chocolate mochi ice cream at Mikawaya ice cream shop in L.A.'s Japantown. The frozen dessert balls are wrapped in glutinous sweet rice -- they taste like ice cream wrapped in chewing gum until the wrapper starts to melt in your mouth. It's a curious taste sensation, but the real ... More >>

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

So many stars, so many storylines: It's a Valentine's Day massacre!

Local Natives

So many stars, so many storylines: It's a Valentine's Day massacre!

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

The Decline of Western Civilization

This early L.A. Punk documentary

SXSW 2011 Still Untainted By Houston Artists

listenlisten: Not playing SXSW 2011... yet.​Rocks Off just got the latest list of names for next year's SXSW conference and festival in Austin, and just like the last time, the conference remains unsullied by any performers from Houston's filthy, rotten, disgusting, in-need-of-quarantine music ... More >>

Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.

Chef Chat, Part 1: Michael Kramer of The Tasting Room

​Eating Our Words recently caught up with Chef Michael Kramer at The Tasting Room's Uptown location to get the scoop on the huge new City Centre location, set to open in February 16, and find out what goes into a good wine bar restaurant. Eating Our Words: Hi Michael. This Uptown Park locati ... More >>

Idol Beat: Goodbye, You Lizard Scum

​I know the episodes of American Idol I'm watching were filmed months ago, and that what I'm seeing is not taking place in simulcast with this week's...Snowphoon (seriously, do you know how hard it is to come up with a quasi-humorous pun for blizzard anymore?). Even so, it's hard not to recall ... More >>

“Working Space” by Hollis Cooper

​I know the episodes of American Idol I'm watching were filmed months ago, and that what I'm seeing is not taking place in simulcast with this week's...Snowphoon (seriously, do you know how hard it is to come up with a quasi-humorous pun for blizzard anymore?). Even so, it's hard not to recall ... More >>

Dangerous Men

Atmospheric rockers Pale leave L.A. for Houston - and a record deal.

April 29, 1992: Ten Songs About The L.A Riots

​It was 19 years ago today that the Los Angeles riots began after four white police officers, caught on videotape beating the African-American Rodney King after a drug-fueled high-speed chase, were acquitted by a Simi Valley, Calif. jury. The rest of the world watched in shock and sadness as ... More >>

Dengue Fever

​It was 19 years ago today that the Los Angeles riots began after four white police officers, caught on videotape beating the African-American Rodney King after a drug-fueled high-speed chase, were acquitted by a Simi Valley, Calif. jury. The rest of the world watched in shock and sadness as ... More >>

Chingo Bling Unlocks Hollywood's Key Club

When last we left Chingo Bling in Los Angeles, he was at his agent's Beverly Hills office, holding out for a better offer for a proposed September tour... Photos by Marco TorresChingo Bling and John T. Edge (right) wait in Latino 96.3's lobby.​FRIDAY, MAY 6 Latino 96.3 studios, Los Angeles, ... More >>

DJ Brandi Garcia: From City Of Syrup To City Of Angels

Photos by Marco TorresDJ Brandi Garcia enjoying her new life in Los Angeles​During Rocks Off's recent trip to Los Angeles, we caught up with radio personality DJ Brandi Garcia, who spent five years in Houston working for 97.9 The Box before being controversially dismissed in the fallout surrou ... More >>

Christina Perri

Photos by Marco TorresDJ Brandi Garcia enjoying her new life in Los Angeles​During Rocks Off's recent trip to Los Angeles, we caught up with radio personality DJ Brandi Garcia, who spent five years in Houston working for 97.9 The Box before being controversially dismissed in the fallout surrou ... More >>

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

Salon of Beauty

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>