Subject: Manchester

• SXSW: Carbon/Silicon, Ting Tings, Santogold, MGMT, The Cribs, White Rabbits, Supersuckers and Robyn

  March 15, 2008

• Overnight Express: Simply Red Does Bobby "Blue" Bland

  April 22, 2008

• Tonight: Back Door Slam at Warehouse Live

  September 25, 2008

• Soul Day at ACL: I Feel Good!

  September 27, 2008

• Free Ting Tings Tickets Right Here

  October 20, 2008

• Disco Knights

  January 13, 1994

• Rotten Johnny

  January 27, 1994

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in yesterday's New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Rocks Off detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite so

  December 29, 2008

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in the New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Ballz detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite songs from 200

  December 31, 2008

• Noise Doctors

  May 12, 1994

• Trancey Groove

  February 16, 1995

• Rotation

  April 13, 1995

• Souls Shaken, Minds Stirred

  February 6, 1997

• Tonight: Morrissey Listening Party at Jet Lounge

  Morrissey's back in record stores tomorrow with Years of Refusal, his first album since 2006's Ringleader of the Tormentors and possibly his hardest-rocking album to date. (Its release on primo Americana label Lost Highway only adds to the weirdness factor.) The thick-ass bass and snarling guitars of songs like "Something Is Squeezing My Skull," "All You Need Is Me" and "One Day Goodbye May Be Farewell" may take a little getting used to - and may be his best shot at commercial airplay

  February 16, 2009

• The Unchanging Face of Milby

  October 9, 1997

• No Monkey Business

  March 12, 1998

• Smiths Reunion Rumored at Morrissey's Jones Hall Show

  Strangeways, here they come: Rocks Off has learned that former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has requested passes for his ex-bandmate Morrissey's sold-out April 11 show at Jones Hall, leading to speculation that the two will perform onstage together for the first time since the influential Manchester band's acrimonious 1987 split. "Johnny's manager emailed us Monday asking for tickets and backstage passes," a source close to the show's promoter told Rocks Off Wednesday. She asked not to be i

  April 1, 2009

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in the New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Ballz detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite songs from 200

  December 31, 2008

• Andy Rourke

  December 4, 2008

• Smackdown at City Hall

  Candidates clash in a castaway district, exes attack, and Bell wringers rumble for a final round with Brown. Voters, pick your fight.

  October 25, 2001

• The Very Best of the Stone Roses ; Outpost Transmission

  Silvertone; Instinct

  May 1, 2003

• Music Deaths

  The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

  December 27, 2007

• Bottomless Pit, Hammer of the Gods

  Hammer of the Gods

  November 15, 2007

• Control

  Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

  November 1, 2007

• Joy Division's Expanded Reissues

  Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Still, Control Original Motion Picture Sound Track

  October 25, 2007

• Hooked Up

  January 12, 2006

• He's the DJ, He's the DJ...

  April 6, 2006

• Party Boy

  Matt Sonzala puts on Houston rap parties all over the world

  September 28, 2006

• The Bards of Baytown

  Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly

  July 27, 2006

• Bring On the Backlash!

  Flinging poo at the haters with the Arctic Monkeys

  June 8, 2006

• Nine Black Alps

  Tuesday, March 21, Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727

  March 16, 2006

• The Hype of March

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

  March 16, 2006

• The Doves, with Longwave

  This Meridian show has been canceled because of the threat of Hurricane Rita

  September 22, 2005

• Morrissey

  Live at Earl's Court

  April 21, 2005

• Make Mine a Guinness

  The author discovers his genetic Irishness

  April 14, 2005

• House Music Scratches for a New Vibe in Houston

  May 6, 2004

• The Fall, with Low Flying Owls

  Sunday, May 2

  April 29, 2004

• Magnums at Opus

  Are you beautiful? Then head to downtown's newest club

  January 22, 2004

• Whatcha Gonna Do?

  July 17, 2003

• Psychic Gothline

  Find out what the late Ian Curtis thinks about Interpol. No, really.

  February 20, 2003

• Bearly Necessary

  Jungle fever fails to catch hold again in this routine sequel

  February 13, 2003

• Hounded by the Pound

  Plus: Tribute to Oliver, Wrapping It Up, Bigotry 101

  November 21, 2002

• Goodnight, Miss Moonlight

  Maxine Mesinger departs for the big swankienda in the sky

  February 1, 2001

• Blowing Smoke

  December 26, 1996

• 9/9/09: Songs With a Certain Number in the Title

  ​As Hair Balls pointed out, we've only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden obsessive-compulsive in all of us, so join us as we wash our hands nine times, lock the door nine times, and listen to nine great songs featuring the number nine. The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9: The titular love potion that turns this song's protagonist into a maniac who starts "kissin' everything in sight"

  September 9, 2009

• Ain't No Party (Around Here) Like Houston's The Factory Party

  www.myspace.com/thefactorypartymusic​ It always amazes Rocks Off how we'll start liking one band - Bunnymen-loving London post-punks White Lies, in this case - and then a little while later, stumble across a local band who could be their twin. If only, you know, they weren't from halfway around the world. That's what happened with Houston's The Factory Party. Just as we were ending our extended honeymoon with White Lies, which lasted from a week or two before Austin City Limits to the trio's d

  October 26, 2009