Marc Anthony

Donde El Cantante?

Miss Pop Rocks: Is Jennifer Lopez Pregnant? Is Jennifer Lopez Pregnant? Huh, huh, huh?

Aeros Lose to the IceHogs

Go Find Something to Do, Dammit

Best Manly Ballet

Ben Stevenson's Cleopatra

Down Payment Blues: Musicians With Tax Trouble

Finished that tax return yet? Not to worry: you've still got a few hours until midnight, and the post offices are open late. Over the years, these musicians have gotten in hot water with their countries' internal-revenue collectors as well... Bono Forever a proponent of all things charitable, ... More >>

Megafest 2008

Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Fernandez lead an all-star blow-out

2007 Halloween Guide

Haunted houses, parties, festivals and other trails to terror

2007 Halloween Guide

Trails to Terror

Gian Marco

Peruvian singer makes Houston stop

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Español Sung Here

Crossing over -- who's doing it, who's not

Letters to the Editor

Crossing over -- who's doing it, who's not

Dance Lessons

Getting banged on the floor

Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis and Laura Pausini

Sunday, July 23, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 866-466-8849

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

The Hipster's Guide to Rock and Roll Vendettas

And you thought rappers were the only ones who had beefs

What a Ruckus

Monkey around at Theatre Illuminata's cabaret

Ballads Nuevo

Corridos get updated with drugs and guns

VuDú Café

VuDú Café (Self-released)

Music Awards Winners

The votes are in! See who you picked as winners in the HPMA 2000

Voters' Vida Loca

Uncle George's nephew finds what he never knew at Rice: Latino causes

Mortal Soul

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Willie Colon

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Filipino Rockers Channel K Discover How To Get A Write-Up: Hurt Our Feelings

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 sheaserrano@gmail.com.​"I'm gonna be completely be ho ... More >>

World Music At iFest, From Galveston To Colombia, West Africa And Oklahoma(?!)

Over the next two weeks, Rocks Off will be previewing acts performing at this year's Houston International Festival Saturday and Sunday and April 24-25 broken down by genre (loosely, anyway) and with a guest pick from a true insider: iFest Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell. We begin with tha ... More >>

Ranch Style Beans

Local folk hero is well-rounded, to say the least.

Idol Beat: Austin, So Much To Answer For

​Rocks Off would like to apologize for last week's outrageous behavior by Pete Vonder Haar. He has been warned, and assures us he will never compare Marc Anthony to an extra from Dawn of the Dead again. Steven Tyler dropped an F-bomb on this week's audition episode, which definitely warrants ... More >>

Idol Beat: Idol Worship

Fox​The Daily Beast had a story up yesterday about how this season of American Idol might be the best ever: This year, the contenders have already proven energetic, and the audience is responding, with half a dozen developing breakout followings across the Internet, even before the finals hav ... More >>

Idol Beat: Mass Hysteria!

​Shock! Outrage! Shenanigans! Casey Abrams voted off! Last night, American Idol had all the signs of the Apocalypse rolled into one (all the Ghostbusters ones, anyway). Dogs and cats living together? Well, James Durbin is like a big puppy dog, and Pia has a certain cattiness about her. Check. ... More >>

Idol Beat: I Do Not Like That will.i.am

​Only nine hopefuls remain in this, the 10th season of American Idol (AKA the Greatest Talent Competition Since the Battle of the Bands at San Dimas High School). It's time to separare the wheat from the chaff, the post-adolescents from the mere adolescents, those who are "in it to win it" fro ... More >>

Idol Beat: American Idiots

Spoiler alert: the smug one wins.​Thanks to Shea Serrano for taking the bullet yesterday. After what felt like eons, the 10th season of American Idol lurched to its inevitable anticlimax last night. It was as especially torturous affair, stretching well over two hours and mixing performances ... More >>

Top 5 Healthy and Unique Smoothies

ilovemypit​For nearly two years I lived without a blender. I know, talk about a hardship, right? Well, the dog days are over, because I have been reunited with one of my favorite kitchen appliances once again and am making up for lost time. In addition to being a blender enthusiast, I also h ... More >>

Last Night: Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull at Toyota Center

Photos by Marco Torres​What do you get when a Latino playboy from Spain joins forces with a Cuban party animal from Miami? The biggest fucking dance party that Houston has ever seen, that's what. The Euphoria Tour rolled into the Toyota Center last night and filled it with party anthems, lase ... More >>

If the American Music Awards Fell in the Forest, Would Anyone Hear Them?

Male street dancers are powerless against J-Lo's Fiat-powered hips.​Last night, the American Music Awards were broadcast on ABC to record low ratings. A show that featured typically lackluster performances from artists far more interested in choreographed dance moves than actually singing and ... More >>