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June 22, 2009
Slide Show: Bun B and Friends at Warehouse Live
Marco Torres A who's who of rap talent from both Houston (Devin the Dude, Lil' Flip, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire) and out of town (Lupe Fiasco, the Cool Kids) turned up at Warehouse Live Saturday, June 20, to help the one and only Bun B "Swang on 'Em" for a couple of hours. Photographer Marco Torres w ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Five Spot: A Crap N.O.R.E. Track Reminds Us of Bun B's Better Days
Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.Marco Torres Yesterday, N.O.R.E. released "Set Trip," a wispy, "Look How Tough I Am," available-via-Internet tr ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Flashback: Rakim at House of Blues
Marco Torres One of the true architects of hip-hop, Rakim stopped by House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room Tuesday night to conduct a clinic in peerless lyricism. Rocks Off's lensman Marco Torres was there. Did you know Rakim is the nephew of R&B trailblazer Ruth Brown? We didn't either. Click ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Slide Show: Alicia Keys And Robin Thicke At Toyota Center
Marco Torres If time is indeed money, occasionally the amount of time reviewers can spend waiting for artists' management to approve our requests for tickets and photo passes can add up to more than if we'd actually paid for them ourselves. That's what happened over the weekend, as Rocks Off ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
The Opening Day Street Festival Is in Full Swing
Photo by Marco TorresIt's not just a nice day out -- it's a nice Opening Day. And the street festival in front of Minute Maid Park is already in full swing.A ton of Clear Channel radio stations are on hand, there are interactive games, Junction Jack is walking around, and later this afterno ... More >>
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April 14, 2010
A Feast Of Fun At Menu Of Menus
Photos by Marco TorresIf a large crowd happily swaying and singing loudly to a cover band belting out "Purple Rain" at only 9 p.m. on a Tuesday night is any indication of success, last night's Houston Press Menu of Menus was a hit. Clever folks who bought V.I.P. tickets started noshing at 6 ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Cypress Hill's Hazy Tuesday At Warehouse Live
Photos by Marco Torres For more photos from the show, see our slideshow here. If Aftermath never sets foot inside another rock concert for the rest of our life, we will still more than likely not pass a drug test until our grandson's freshmen year of college thanks to the giddily oppressive conta ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Bun B Has A Trill Tuesday At Greenspoint Meet & Greet
UPDATE (9:59 a.m.): Hip-hop journal The Source has just published its opinion of Trill OG, giving it the magazine's first five-microphone rating in more than five years. Photos by Marco TorresLike Kanye West before him, Houston's beloved Bun B is getting to know this thing called Twitter. Tu ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Live: More Notes From the HPMA Awards Ceremony
Marco TorresThe Umbrella ManMore notes from the awards, in full swing: The Mighty Org just won best guitarist. Practice those cards, presenters. Fat Tony's acceptance speech for Underground Hip-Hop: "Third time for Third Ward." Tony says he's meeting with a label Monday -- he didn't say whi ... More >>
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September 3, 2010
You've Been Kanyed: 16 Musicians Soon To Become Verbs
Marco TorresEveryone was completely Gagaed when James Lee took several hostages at the Discovery Channel's headquarters earlier this week.Some names become synonymous with an action - just ask Thomas Crapper. With the overwhelming fame of some superstars being beamed at us day in and day out, ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 1
Brittanie SheyThe EttesBrittanie Shey: Things seem incredibly crowded, and hotter than Houston, if that's even possible. The dust is already flying. Some of us here braved the bro-crowd at the Black Keys (see jump) but some of us, seeing the mile of bodies wobbling before the stage, decided t ... More >>
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October 9, 2010
Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 2
Brittanie Shey: When you go to a festival lit this, you're always looking for the discovery. The one band that either blows you away or causes you to alter all your expectations. Today it was Dan Black, a performer we caught only because there was nothing else going on. As soon as we get home, we' ... More >>
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October 10, 2010
ACL Day 2 Recap: M.I.A., Gogol Bordello, Deadmau5, Mouse Masks
credReturn of the Bamboo Banger: M.I.A.Aftermath was eager to catch Gogol Bordello, only because our companion had missed their last Houston show at Meridian in 2008. We were convinced he'd get a kick out of them so we dragged him over to the AMD stage early in order to get a good view. One ... More >>
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October 10, 2010
Live From The Austin City Limits Festival, Day 3
Marco TorresTrombone ShortyCraig Hlavaty: News coming out of the media tent: Don Henley of the Eagles had a stent put in his heart this past week. He will be singing and possibly playing guitar, but not exerting himself on drums. This could very well be the last Eagles show for a while - if e ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Friday Night: Legends Of Rap At Verizon Wireless Theater
Photos by Marco TorresRakim"Legends of Rap" featuring Rakim, Slick Rick, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, MC Lyte Verizon Wireless Theater October 15, 2010 For more photos from Friday, see our slideshow here. Friday night at Verizon Theater was a celebration of hip-hop legends, the types that would ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
Tax The Wolf Shines As Velvet Underground
Photos by Marco TorresWho loves the sun? Tax the Wolf does. Dressed for the occasion in ties and turtlenecks, the Houston prog-rockers downshifted into downtown chic to cover most of the Velvet Underground's 1970 album Loaded at the return of Rocks Off's Reduxion Wednesday night at Walter's o ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
In Case You Missed It...
Marco TorresIt's a bird... it's a plane... it's... Usher!Rocks Off knows you have had a busy week. So have we. But, we figured, what with Thanksgiving and Black Friday and traveling to and from your various other holiday ports of call, you may not have had as much time in front a computer as ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Rocks Off's Most-Viewed Slideshows of 2010
Faith Silva10. Adam Lambert at Hobby CenterRocks Off will be pulling together a collection of our favorite concert shots from the past year shortly, including some pics of you all in the audience. But right now we've decided to take a look at your favorite music slideshows of 2010 -- that is, ... More >>
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December 31, 2010
Rocks Off's Favorite Shows Of 2010
Marco TorresEditor's Picks: Mary J. Blige, Reliant Stadium (RodeoHouston), March: Exquisite. Beach House, Walter's on Washington, April: Can't hate on this one either. Magical. Wu-Tang Clan, Numbers, December: Against all odds, they brought the motherfuckin' ruckus.
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February 2, 2011
Z-Ro Actually Smiles, Laughs - We Have Proof!
Marco TorresZ-Ro at Arena Theatre, Jan. 22, 2011This morning, one of Rocks Off's readers in Dallas sent us an email. In fact, that sentence was almost the headline of this blog - apparently we actually have readers up there, so maybe those North Texans Southern Oklahomans aren't as hopeless a ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Is It Right To Ask Fans To Pitch In For Health Care?
The current economic environment has made times a bit rougher for artists in America, particularly musicians. Take DJ Kool Herc. The pioneering hip-hop DJ, who created the music's breakbeat foundation by switching back and forth between the breakdown section of two different funk sides, was h ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Wu-Tang, Fishbone, Trae Top Village Voice/Frank 151 SXSW Party
Marco TorresMethod Man returns to Texas to smoke our SXSW party this year.We finally have the full lineup for the 2011 Village Voice Media/Frank 151 SXSW party, and it's a doozy. Heading up the bill are Staten Island Shao-Lin spitters the Wu Tang clan, still coasting on their late 2010 reunio ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Last Night: Ice Cube At House Of Blues
"Look at me; I'm just doing my motherfuckin' thang!" Photos by Marco TorresIce Cube House of Blues March 2, 2011 We all know the drill: You attend a rap show, buy a few drinks, say hello to your cousin/co-worker/pastor who also bought tickets, and then proceed to sit through a slew of openi ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
SXSW Live Pics: Tyler The Creator's Ripped Abs & Odd Future At The Fader Fort #SWAG
Marco Torres Rocks Off has these exclusive pics from Odd Future's set at the Fader Fort, just a hours ago. It was an insane hour of hysterics from Tyler The Creator and his group of full-contact loudmouthed young hip-hoppers. SWAG!
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March 19, 2011
SXSW Last Night: Birthday Boy Bun B & Erykah Badu Team Up For Noisey.com Launch Party
Marco TorresBun B celebrated his 38th birthday last night at the launch of Vice magazine's new music site, Noisey.com at Austin warehouse district club Kiss & Fly.
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March 19, 2011
SXSW Saturday: Hot Sauce Hawker Billy Gibbons Smokes Elmore James At Rachael Ray Party
Craig Hlavaty Billy Gibbons sat in with The Cringe at Rachael Ray's Feedback Party at Stubb's just after lunchtime for a cover of Elmore James' blues standard "Dust My Broom". The ZZ Top guitarist also mentioned his BFG hot sauce line, which he had a bottle of in his back pocket.
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April 6, 2011
Showing Off Our Photogs at Shot In The Dark Photo Show
Photo by Jay LeeIn 2008, Rocks Off began giving our readers some of the best live concert reviews and photos to go along with them. When we started, it was usually up to the writers themselves to take the pictures from the photo pit or from the crowd. This writer remembers shooting the Foo Fi ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
“Shot in the Dark: Houston Press Concert Photo Exhibition”
Photo by Jay LeeIn 2008, Rocks Off began giving our readers some of the best live concert reviews and photos to go along with them. When we started, it was usually up to the writers themselves to take the pictures from the photo pit or from the crowd. This writer remembers shooting the Foo Fi ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Mr. Boomtown Coats Bun B, E-40 With "Candy Paint"
Marco TorresE-40 on the set of "Candy Paint"(phone rings) "What's up, this is Boom... Sure, I can do Boston... It's gonna cost ya." (click) The acclaimed music-video director and filmmaker Nahala Johnson, better known as Mr. Boomtown, sits inside of a Midtown bar one night last week, drink ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Chingo Bling Gets New York Times Love - Food Love
Marco TorresChingo Bling, sans tamales in L.A.Hey, guess what? A Houston musician finally got some love from The New York Times - not the semi-weekly Texas Tribune spread printed special for the paper's Lone Star press run, but the actual Gray Lady herself. Guess what else? It's in the food ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
World Naked Bike Ride Comes To Houston (Semi-NSFW)
Photos by Marco Torres(This Item was written by Marco Torres, who also took the photos.) A select group of free spirits congregated at Super Happy Fun Land on Saturday night for the first-ever session of the World Naked Bike Ride to be held in Houston. Organizer David Collins, who dubs hims ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Houston Dynamo Support Groups Squash the Drama, Unite Forces
Marco TorresIt's an hour before game time on a late Saturday afternoon and members of the Texian Army and La Bateria congregate in a modest grassy area outside of Robertson Stadium. The Dynamo support groups have been camped out here since 1 p.m. in advance of seeing the home team take on the ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Houston Web Awards: The Best Tweets From Last Night's Ceremony
Marco TorresJenny Kelley of I Love Flavor accepts the award for Best Food Video.Check out all our pics from last night's inaugural Houston Web Awards. Bun B was a busy man last night. If you check the Houston Twitterverse's timelime from about 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., you'll probably see dozens of ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Houston Press Music Awards Moved To November (Probably)
Marco Torres2010 HPMA Musician of the Year Nick Gaitan accepts his award.Recently Rocks Off has been getting phone calls, emails and even one early-morning text message from someone who apparently has our private number (but we don't have theirs) wondering whatever happened to the Houston Pre ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Swagometer: Brawling Strippers & Fat Tony's Filthy New Band Name
Despite what you may have heard, swag isn't dead yet; at least not in Houston. Have any swagged-out projects or general ideas? E-mail alliswagoner@gmail.com. Ryan GrimesBest. Photo. Ever.Aside from working every day at Girls Rock Camp Houston, this week provided Rocks Off with its usually co ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Trae & Friends Go Gangsta For A Day On "Strapped Up"
Photos by Marco TorresTuesday night, Trae The Truth called upon his followers to meet him at 2001 Commerce Street for the "Strapped Up" video shoot, the first track from his album Street King. His specific instructions were to "wear all black & ski mask", and wanted all of his fans to show ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
10 Rappers In The Guinness Book Of World Records*
*At one point or another Marco TorresComing in at No. 10...The Guinness Book of World Records has always been a fascinating and somewhat random thing to be a part of. Some people strive to be in the book to get noticed, while others get in the book completely by accident for good and bad th ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
ACL: Cults Semi-Wows To Start Our Day And Ha Ha Tonka Bassist Says To Hell With Smoking Ban
Craig HlavatySmoking ban? What smoking ban? Ha Ha Tonka bassist Lucas Long don't care about the smoking ban at Zilker Park. Good times, y'all.
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September 16, 2011
ACL: Adele & Mumford & Sons - Not Here, But Here
Photos by Marco TorresTrain a-Comin': The Secret Sisters3:30 p.m. Still they file in. Watching the crowds trudge along Barton Springs Road, their eyes fixed on the pavement about five yards in front of them (not their phones), always reminds Rocks Off of a pilgrimage. And each festival has i ... More >>
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September 18, 2011
ACL: The Rain Came Down, To The Delight Of Thousands
Marco TorresYesterday at about midday at Zilker, a front of dark clouds began drizzling on us during J. Roddy Walston & The Business' set at the ginormo Bud Light, and the rain continues off and on until later in the afternoon. It was a welcome sight and feeling after months now of the jerky- ... More >>
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September 18, 2011
ACL: Batman's Bale At Bingham, Nick 13 is a 10 On Sunday Afternoon
Marco Torresoh hai Batman!The widget on our phone says it's only 91 degrees here at Zilker Park but we don't believe that voodoo. The humidity and heat pounding the park reminds us of Houston. We smell Pasadena and our fair city's taco trucks all the way from Austin. Our day started by walk ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Friday Night: B.B. King at the House of Blues
Photo by Marco TorresB.B. King at the House of Blues Friday.The blues is a funny ol' gal. By definition, the musical genre is a projection of the sadness and melancholy caused by a broken heart, or the lament of a "just can't catch a break" life. Yet the sold out crowd at the House of Blues ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Last Night: Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull at Toyota Center
Photos by Marco TorresWhat 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 >>
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October 28, 2011
Last Night: Mastodon At Fitzgerald's
Photo by Marco TorresMastodon gets the devil horns.Mastodon, Black Tusk, Venomous Maximus Fitzgerald's October 27, 2011 Mastodon on the stage upstairs at Fitzgerald's is like a bull in a china closet, an anaconda in a cage full of mice, or at least John Travolta in a room full of handsome me ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Operation "No Tacos" - A 30 Day Challenge
Portrait of a Taco Enthusiast as A Young ManThat's me up there with my dad, eating a plate full of tacos, the happiest 4-year-old ever. It was there in that one-bedroom duplex in the East End where my love of tacos and all things Mexican originated. Menudo for breakfast? Yes, please. Tamales for ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Comment of the Day: Marco's Taco Hell
Here on Eating Our Words, the commenters absolutely make the blog, and our Comment of the Day honors the best of the bunch. Every day, we read you guys and pick the commenter, or commenters, who made us laugh, cry, salivate over something delicious, or think about things in a new way. In re ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
$10 for 10 Tacos at Tacos a Go-Go, Today Only
Photo by Jason McElweenieWhat are the odds that Tacos a Go-Go would announce a one-day-only sale on its tacos the day after our own Marco Torres announced that he's going taco-less (and Mexican food-less) for the next 30 days? Sorry, Marco. Better luck next time... For the rest of us, this i ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Operation "No Tacos" Progress Report: Taco Torture
Photos by Marco TorresMexico City Tacos 2009, a.k.a. The Photo That Haunts My DreamsIt's been 15 days since I started this challenge. Fifteen. Long. Days. But I'm hanging in there! People still think I'm crazy, and I partly agree, but the truth is... my mind was made up to take on this chal ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Dominic Levar Brown a/k/a Money Clip D, 34, Bayou Body Count No. 184 (UPDATED)
Photo by Marco TorresMoney Clip D dies in nightclub shootingDominic Levar Brown, who as Money Clip D was a key assistant and friend to Houston rapper Trae, was shot and killed outside a southwest-side after-hours nightclub early Friday morning, police say. Brown, 34, was outside Breakers in ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
10 Rock Stars the GOP Should Nominate for President
Now, we're talking!As the 2012 presidential race begins to heat up in earnest, Rocks Off can't help but feel that the front-runners for the Republican nomination are lacking a certain je ne sais quoi. Call it star power. Call it sex appeal. Whatever it is, these guys ain't got it. If the G ... More >>
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