Subject: Lou Reed

• Live Shots: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

  April 27, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: What Happens at Half Price Books....

  September 4, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: SXSW Rumblins'

  January 15, 2008

• SXSW Day 1: Tricks of the Trade

  March 12, 2008

• SXSW Ephemera: Random Notes from the Field

  March 13, 2008

• SXSW: Lou Reed. Live. For One Song. Lou Freakin’ Reed.

  March 14, 2008

• South By Scavenger Hunt

  March 14, 2008

• Laurie Anderson: "The World Has Turned Itself Inside Out in the Last Few Weeks"

  October 10, 2008

• Rotation

  Cat Power -- Bloodhound Gang -- Rollins Band

  April 27, 2000

• Ten Gruesomely Good Halloween Songs Pt 2: Violent Femmes, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nick Cave and More

  October 31, 2008

• The Summer of Our '80s Youth in Adventureland

  Great America

  April 2, 2009

• Get Lit: The Pitchfork 500

  November 12, 2008

• Wordy Jukebox

  February 17, 1994

• Celting Point

  March 3, 1994

• Rotation

  May 4, 1995

• Eat Your Vegetables: Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music

  Consisting of nothing more than one hour of two overlaid tracks of guitar feedback, Metal Machine Music ranks near the top of music history's shit list in terms of total amount of critical bile received. Houston's own Ramon Medina summed up the album's status succinctly on the NonAlignment Pact blog: "There are two general reactions to Metal Machine Music. The first is that is utter unlistenable crap. The second is that Lou Reed was playing an elaborate prank on RCA's classical label and e

  January 23, 2009

• Rotation

  March 21, 1996

• Static

  April 3, 1997

• Rotation

  April 23, 1998

• 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

• Original Punks

  July 1, 1999

• The Tastes of Textile

  March 12, 2009

• Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing

  April 17, 2008

• The Last Word from the Press on SXSW 2008

  We swear, we're done now

  March 20, 2008

• Culturcide: Year One

  January 31, 2008

• Okkervil River

  October 4, 2007

• Bill Callahan

  Bill Callahan will perform on Wednesday, April 18, at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, 2402 Munger, 713-926-6368.

  April 12, 2007

• Pavement

  Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition

  December 28, 2006

• Number of the Beeyotch

  The Iron Maidens encourage you to bring your daughter to the slaughter

  April 6, 2006

• Sam Winch

  The Lullabadeer

  February 9, 2006

• Antony and the Johnsons

  I Am a Bird Now

  January 5, 2006

• Hip-hop, Year Two AJ

  Still no Jigga, but Kanye, some lovable limeys and a great Beyoncé substitute held it down

  December 8, 2005

• Walk on the Wild Side

  Meet Supestar diva Holly Woodlawn at the Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

  September 8, 2005

• Biirdie

  Wednesday, August 17, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  August 11, 2005

• The Fall

  The Real New Fall LP (Narnack)

  July 29, 2004

• Messing with Texas

  Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

  January 15, 2004

• Here Come the Drums

  Dhol Beat International takes the stage at Lotus

  July 24, 2003

• A.R.E. Weapons

  Wednesday, July 9

  July 3, 2003

• The Strokes

  Is This It? (RCA)

  November 1, 2001

• Desert Rose

  Victoria Williams, a native of swampy Louisiana, finds her muse in the dry beauty of Southern California

  October 26, 2000

• Mortal Soul

  Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

  October 21, 1999

• Rum Punk

  Though Alejandro Escovedo has kicked the booze, he still churns out symphonic hardcore

  June 10, 1999

• Rotation

  August 25, 1994

• Friday Night Noise: Caddywhompus and Alarmcock

  Caddywhompus, "Fun Times at Whiskey Bay": If nothing else, this Houston/New Orleans noise-pop unit is a prime contender/offender for an international "worst name imaginable" contest. Singer/percussionist Sean Hart and singer/guitarist/keyboard player Chris Rehm are certainly more plugged-in than the vast majority of noise-related enterprises, updating their blog with a regularity that puts even pro bloggers to shame. Some readers may cry foul, here, smacking Friday Night Noise down for championi

  June 26, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs for Getting It On

  [Ed. Note: While we were off watching Night Ranger videos or something - which should tell you all you need to know about our own sex life at the moment - Rocks Off No. 2, Craig Hlavaty, and Web Editor Katharine Shilcutt started going back and forth about how men and women want to hear very different things while making sweet, sweet love. Rocks Off decided there's only one real way to settle this. As always, ladies first.] Take it from a woman: We do not want to hear Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get

  July 24, 2009

• It's 09-09-09. This Is A Big Deal To Some People, Somehow

  ​Everyone's making such a big deal out of today: It's September 9, which means it's 9/9/09.It is, according to one site, "the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium (mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to count it."That seems a little bit of a stretch to us when it comes to statistics, kind of like "most hits on the road against lefties with runners in scoring position on even-number

  September 9, 2009

• Stuck In a Moment You (Still) Can't Get Out Of: Remembering 9/11 In Music

  Just as none of us will ever forget where we were the morning of September 11, 2001, Rocks Off will never forget what he was listening to most of the day of the terrorist attacks. Sadly, he admits it was System of A Down's Toxicity, which had come out just the week before. For us the album conveyed the same sense of hysteria that we would see that whole day, the rest of the week, the year, and for almost a decade later. Don't hate, we were also in a deep Lou Reed trench at the moment (stupid gi

  September 11, 2009

• Graveside Songs for Edgar Allan Poe's Long-Overdue Funeral

  ​Kicking the bucket at the age of 40 is bad enough, especially when, to this day, nobody's really sure how you died (everything from syphillis to rabies to political "cooping" has been thrown out there as a possible cause). But getting buried in an unmarked grave after a three minute "service" is an indignity usually reserved for pet rabbits that escape from their hutch and die under the sofa. That's why Rocks Off is happy to report that this weekend, 160 years after the fact, Edgar Allan Poe

  October 9, 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

• Coma White: A Sampling of Songs About the JFK Assassination

  Craig HlavatyDealey Plaza in downtown Dallas​ Warning: Some of these videos contain very graphic images. Anyone who knows Rocks Off, even in passing, knows of his fierce JFK assassination obsession. The theories, the scientific data, the literature and the various opinions shooting through the Internet with a lightning-fast velocity are all like catnip to us. We even make the trek up to godforsaken Dallas every year to visit the Grassy Knoll and throw down our own conspiracy theories about JFK

  November 20, 2009