Subject: Mariah Carey

• Explain Your Most Played

  May 30, 2007

• I Can’t Stand the Rain...

  August 31, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Remembering Ol’ Dirty Bastard

  November 13, 2007

• HPMA Aftermath: Small Sounds, Yoko Mono, Katie Stuckey and the Swagger, Espantapajaros, Buxton, Los Skarnales and Thee Armada

  July 29, 2008

• Artist of the Week: Miss Mykie

  October 1, 2008

• Do You Hear What I Hear?

  Sending mix CDs as gifts is easy. Look...

  December 23, 1999

• Best Chanteuse

  Linda Eder

  September 21, 2000

• Digitalia: iTunes' Top Holiday Songs

  The holiday season is a time to enjoy favorite pastimes like expanding your credit-card debt, eating way too much food, and arguing with your relatives. And of course, there's the best staple of them all: butchering holiday jingles. Never finding a song they didn't want to shill, iTunes offers an extensive holiday collection ready to aid you in your quest to be merry and croon. The Freebies (because you know you love free stuff) Faith Hill, "O Holy Night": Taken from her new Christmas album, Jo

  December 11, 2008

• Bill-bored

  December 15, 1994

• American Idol Returns Tonight... Yawn

  Come back Kelly Clarkson, all is forgiven... If you've been lucky enough to spend the past several months in a media-deprivation tank - or maybe you just don't read the Houston Chronicle - then you no doubt know Fox's shrill-singing flagship series American Idol returns tonight at 7 p.m. (As opposed to its torture-sanctioning flagship series 24, which returned Sunday.) Rocks Off realizes many readers will greet this occasion by turning off their cell phones and instructing family members

  January 13, 2009

• Rotation

  June 19, 1997

• Rotation

  September 25, 1997

• Rotation

  October 16, 1997

• Rap Gets Puffy

  October 23, 1997

• Rotation

  November 20, 1997

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• Riding the Rap

  July 9, 1998

• Rotation

  December 24, 1998

• Idol Beat: The Top Eight Results

  Photos by Frank Micelotta/ Fox Guests of the Sheik: Flo Rida and his "harem."First things first: in yesterday's Idol Beat, I made reference to how excited I was for Idol Gives Back, a wildly successful annual event/trainwreck wherein the program brings a ton of celebrities on in an effort to raise money for various worthy charaties. I've just learned that Idol Gives Back won't be happening this year due to the recession. (The announcement was made last December, and I totally missed it.)

  April 9, 2009

• Mariah Carey

  Thursday, August 28

  August 28, 2003

• Hairpiece in the Middle East: You Don't Mess with the Zohan

  Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

  June 5, 2008

• 5ingles: The Breeders, Mariah Carey, Lupe Fiasco, Madonna, Hannah Montana

  April 3, 2008

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• Miranda Lambert

  November 22, 2007

• Blue Monday

  Louise Glück and Franz Wright keep it solemn

  March 23, 2006

• Björk

  Middle-aged pixie

  June 7, 2007

• Musical Food Groups

  If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

  February 22, 2007

• Never Opening Near You

  Music biopics Hollywood won't make

  November 16, 2006

• Tech? No!

  An imaginary history of electronic music

  October 12, 2006

• My Hips Don't Lie...But Mariah Carey's Do!

  Shakira vs. Mariah, head-to-blond-head

  September 21, 2006

• India.Arie

  Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship

  July 13, 2006

• The Academy Is..., with Panic! At the Disco, Acceptance, Hellogoodbye

  Wednesday, February 22, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700.

  February 16, 2006

• New Year's Resolutions for Houston

  We have a lot to forgive – and forget – about 2005; here's hoping local celebs do better next year

  January 19, 2006

• True Blue Confessions

  Let's join Madonna for a friendly round of Celebrity Breach of Confidentiality

  November 17, 2005

• Swing Time

  On-site clubs are increasingly popular for fans of instant gratification

  October 13, 2005

• French Kissed

  Hollywood Frame Gallery goes Gallic with "March de Triomphe"

  March 24, 2005

• Drastic Unilateral Action

  Universal hopes to JumpSTART flagging CD sales with aggressive price cuts. Who benefits the most?

  September 18, 2003

• Exile in Whinerville

  The hostility flung at Liz Phair's new record is senseless, sexist and abominably stupid

  July 31, 2003

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

  May 29, 2003

• Combat Rock

  In this corner, weighing in at one ton of pomp, the pride of Iceland: Sigur Rós! And in this corner, the moose-wrestling Montreal maulers: Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

  March 27, 2003

• Rotation

  Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Jordan Knight, Juno

  July 15, 1999

• Rotation

  January 14, 1999

• Turning the Screw: Bun B, Trae & Lil Keke, Rihanna, Snoop, Eminem vs. Nick Cannon, Jay-Z, T.I., E-40, South Park Mexican and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Grey Cassette," Trae feat Bun B and Lil Keke Wire To Wire Ummm, we're not going to link to them, but should you be curious to see some pictures of Rihanna sans clothes, you presumably know how Google works. (And, wow.) All is not well in the house that Run built: Jo-Jo arrested. Snoop Dogg does not ha

  May 11, 2009

• Realizing You Don't Have What It Takes To Want To Be A Millionaire

  Photos by Blake WhitakerOn the way to our first ever game-show tryout today, we saw what we took at the time to be cosmic encouragement. Competing for space in Airline Drive's forest of signage was the Moonlight Inn marquee, which spoke to us: "You are awake. Don't dream it -- do it." Of course, if you're at a motel like the Moonlight Inn, you probably are awake -- high on meth, having sex with a prostitute or both. (Legal note: We said "like the Moonlight Inn," not the Moonlight Inn itse

  July 1, 2009

• Michael Jackson Funeral Coverage Coming Tomorrow

  Somehow the folks at West Coast Sound, Rocks Off's sister music blog over at L.A. Weekly, have scored the hottest ticket in show business in years: a ticket to Michael Jackson's funeral Tuesday at Los Angeles' Staples Center. So far Stevie Wonder, Jackson's old Motown boss Berry Gordy, Brooke Shields, Usher, Kobe Bryant, John Mayer, Mariah Carey and many more are scheduled to appear. Weekly music editor Randall Roberts promises to Twitter from the ceremony "when it's not considered vulgar to do

  July 6, 2009

• Michael Jackson, You Will Be Honored...And Twittered

  The Most Important Event Ever....Will Be Twittered!!!!Our colleagues at West Coast Sound, the music blog of our sister paper L.A. Weekly, will be in attendance when The Nation Stops at noon tomorrow (Houston time) to give a final send-off to Michael Jackson at Los Angeles' Staples Center. So far Stevie Wonder, Jackson's old Motown boss Berry Gordy, Brooke Shields, Usher, Kobe Bryant, John Mayer, Mariah Carey and many more are scheduled to appear. Weekly music editor Randall Roberts promises to

  July 6, 2009

• Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial

  Daniel Kramer ABC News is reporting that Beyonce, who sang tributes to Michael Jackson at her Toyota Center concert and at New Orleans' Essence Music Festival over the weekend, will perform at Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles this afternoon. Also expected to attend are Justin Timberlake, P Diddy, Smokey Robinson, Akon and Jennifer Hudson, while previously confirmed guests include Motown Records' Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Usher. "You're talking about the A-list of all A-lists,"

  July 7, 2009

• Black Lightning

  November 5, 2009

• Minute by Minute at Robin Thicke's Sex Therapy Listening Party

  Photos by Marco Torres​ 7:15 p.m. Ack. Parking on Washington Avenue at night is just about the worst. It's such an uneasy feeling. If we had to choose between parking on Washington or juggling knives with no pants on, it'd end up being something we actually had to think about. We mean, we're just saying we'd consider the alternative. We'd eventually pick the parking. C'mon, it's knives. We're not entirely retarded. 7:25 p.m. We finally settle on a dark, anonymous lot a block or so over from th

  November 10, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: Suck It, Maxim Model!

  Kelly Osbourne gives her best "suck it, you model bitch" pose.​This is it. The ninth week of Dancing With the Stars has now come and gone. Only now do I understand the bittersweet joy of watching a baby grow up. This week's pointless encore command performance was Mya's salsa, which had earned her a perfect 30 the night before. Len Goodman touted her "tooty fruity booty" in his intro, which was as physically repulsive as you'd imagine. There was also even more filler and teases than ever

  November 18, 2009