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November 20, 2008
Metallica for Soccer Moms
No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other ... More >>
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February 16, 1995
Letters
No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other ... More >>
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February 13, 1997
Static
No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other ... More >>
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December 18, 1997
Bang with Brains
No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other ... More >>
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December 10, 1998
The Master Interpreter
No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other ... More >>
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April 26, 2007
Heaven and Hell
The Heaven and Hell tour stops Wednesday, May 2, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Robbins Dr., 281-363-3300.
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August 17, 2006
Bobaflex
Friday, August 18, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846
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December 23, 2004
Up from the Underworld
This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music
Year End
December 23, 2004
Up from the Underworld
This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music
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December 2, 2004
Playbill
This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music
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July 29, 2004
Head Trip
Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself
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July 8, 2004
O'Doyle Rules
No Place Else to Go (Self-released)
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June 29, 2000
Show (and Tell) Tunes
Theatre New West's riveting Fairy Tales depicts the gay life through song
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February 17, 2000
Indies in Town
Three adventuresome acts new to Houston set to perform
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December 16, 1999
Rusty
Remember when Megadeth used to be the fastest, most talented metal band around?
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April 2, 1998
Hard to Kill
Remember when Megadeth used to be the fastest, most talented metal band around?
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January 19, 1995
MegaStoopid
Remember when Megadeth used to be the fastest, most talented metal band around?
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September 18, 2009
For Rosh Hashanah: Musical Mystery Jews
There are sure to be many Rosh Hashanah celebrations this weekend, but here at Rocks Off, we'd like to suggest you "think outside the box," as the kids say, and shake up your holiday musical selection by considering a few acts that you might not have realized were composed (in some part, anywway) of ... More >>
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November 27, 2009
For Black Friday, The Top 5 Videos Set In Shopping Malls
"Are you off your fucking meds or something?"We at Rocks Off are a bit puzzled by the continued practice of cramming ourselves into local malls on "Black Friday," or whatever we're calling the day after Thanksgiving this year (we perfer to remember it as a Megadeth song). Wasn't online shoppi ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
Monoliths & Dimensions: The Best Metal Records of 2009, Part 1
This year was such a good one for heavy music, I wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. I just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of candidates. The best I could do was fourteen, so each of my top four slots are ties. 10. Meg ... More >>
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January 26, 2010
Distant Early Warning: Blue October, Felix Da Housecat, Hank III, Les Claypool, Megadeth and Roky Erickson Returns
Blue October: Sat., May 15. The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park. "Choo-Choo Soul" With Genevieve: Sat., April 24. Verizon Wireless Theater. Cody Kouba: Thu., March 18. The Firehouse Saloon. Dale Watson: Wed., March 10. The Hideout @ Reliant Stadium. "Dirty Honey" With DJ Brett Koshkin, Ceepl ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Megadeth
Blue October: Sat., May 15. The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park. "Choo-Choo Soul" With Genevieve: Sat., April 24. Verizon Wireless Theater. Cody Kouba: Thu., March 18. The Firehouse Saloon. Dale Watson: Wed., March 10. The Hideout @ Reliant Stadium. "Dirty Honey" With DJ Brett Koshkin, Ceepl ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Dave Mustaine, Johnny Ramone, ZZ Top And A Few Other Right-Wing Rockers
Most people wouldn't associate right-wing conservative politics with dirty rock and rollers, but you would be surprised. Not all rock cats are card-carrying communists and lily-livered liberals trying to save the sacred animal of the week and converting their buses to biodiesel. In fact, many ol ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Aftermath: Megadeth And Testament Power-Metal Through Irritating Fans
Photos by Groovehouse / Click here for a slideshowWhy would you want to piss off Dave Mustaine? The Megadeth front man doesn't seem like the proverbial shrinking violet. He's a pissed-off and generally irritable redhead who sings about crushing people's heads and not taking prisoners. So wh ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Aftermath: A Metal Reawakening With High On Fire And Priestess At Walter's
Photos by Craig HlavatySo about a month ago Aftermath swore off metal shows. Well serious ones that is. Yeah, we hit up Steel Panther, who are in fact metal but that didn't count, seeing that they are hair metal which immediately disqualifies them. Anyhow, High on Fire's packed gig at Walte ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
Answers To Our "Metal Or Hymn?" Quiz
au_tiger01 via flickr.com A little harder than you thought, wasn't it? If Sunday-morning hymns belong to the King of Kings, and heavy metal is the Prince of Darkness' domain, they sure seem to copy each other's notes a lot. If you haven't seen our little sacred-vs.-profane brain-teaser yet, go ah ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
Metallica Likes Death... A LOT
This video (watch it after the jump) claims to collect every single time that Metallica has mentioned death or dying in the band's music, which tallies up to 81 instances. Somehow that seems awfully low to us, being almost life-long Metallica rats, and fans of, well, death. According to the v ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
"Metal, Dude!": Ten Juicy Quotes From The Ultimate Metal Movie
With hair-metal legends(?) Ratt playing Warehouse Live this evening, Rocks Off decided we'd take a look back at the definitive document of that era of metal in Los Angeles: Penelope Spheeris' rockumentary The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years. Ratt isn't featured in the fi ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Seven Modern Bands We'd Like To See At The Symphony
This evening at Jones Hall, the Houston Symphony will be playing the music of Queen. Pretty fitting, considering the grand, orchestra-friendly nature of many Queen songs. However, there are a slew of other bands whose oeuvres Rocks Off would like to see interpreted by a symphony, and they're ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Music's Top 10 Biggest Post-Drug Comebacks
The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
This Week In Set Lists: Pixies, Kings Of Leon, Tom Petty, Rush, Etc.
GroovehouseKings of Leon, Toyota Center, October 2009Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though n ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax
GroovehouseKings of Leon, Toyota Center, October 2009Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though n ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Anthrax's Charlie Benante Shouts Out King's X And The Refused
Of the three bands on the bill at Sunday's Jagermeister Tour Houston stop, Anthrax is perhaps the one with the most varied reach. Sure, everyone loves Slayer, and Megadeth has a dedicated following of Mustaine-iacs, but it was Anthrax who touched the most upon hip-hop and hardcore punk. The ... More >>
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September 27, 2010
Last Night: Slayer, Megadeth And Anthrax At Verizon
Photos by GroovehouseSouth of Heaven: Slayer's Tom ArayaSlayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Verizon Wireless Theater September 26, 2010 With the end of this concert, Aftermath was sort of sad. Not only did it mark the end of a marathon music week in Houston and for Rocks Off, it also signaled that we ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
A Fistful of Soul
One righteous vintage vinyl party.
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February 3, 2011
Over One Million Served
Cedar Lounge a Northside institution.
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March 29, 2011
GWAR Singer Vows To Swap Sex For Votes
Marc BrubakerGWAR at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Waterloo Park, Austin, November 2010What do you do when your band is up for a prestigious award against the likes of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Megadeth? If you're GWAR front "man" Oderus Urungus, you promise to get up close and personal (very personal) ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Slayer Girlfriend Reigns In Love
Christopher VictorioA few hours ago, while reviewing the OC Weekly's coverage of the Big 4 metal festival in Indio, Calif., we came across this picture of a female metal fan with a sweet-ass Slayer tattoo in the middle of her abdomen. Why does God creates such beautiful things, and then keeps ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Faster Pussycat
Christopher VictorioA few hours ago, while reviewing the OC Weekly's coverage of the Big 4 metal festival in Indio, Calif., we came across this picture of a female metal fan with a sweet-ass Slayer tattoo in the middle of her abdomen. Why does God creates such beautiful things, and then keeps ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Temptations Musical Heralds End Of The World
Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! Zoran Veselinovic The Temptations have been in the music business ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
10 American Anthems That Tell It Like It Is
Captain America, Marvel's newest superhero movie, comes out today. We'll pause until the excitement passes. ... Rocks Off likes Captain America. The three comic books we read with any regularity as a scupper were Cap, Batman (Detective Comics), and Spider-Man. But we love America. The land ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
MTV's Early VJs: Where Are They Now?
vegastripping.comMTV's original VJ crew (l-r): J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn and Alan HunterWhen it comes to the attention spans of teenagers, entertainers are on borrowed time. Which might explain the turnover rate of MTV's Video Jockeys, or VJs for short. Currentl ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Pop Rocks: New Clear Days
Explains a lot.I was discussing career choices (don't ask) with an acquaintance of mine, and in the course of talking about how we got where we were, I mentioned that I'd never really planned for life beyond college when I was in my teens. The decision wasn't a "non-decision" or anything lik ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
The 95th Anniversary of the Tank: Nine Iconic Moments
Ninety-five years ago today, the tank made its debut at World War I's Battle of the Somme. It played a role in bringing an end to that appallingly bloody and stupid battle, and tanks have since gone on to become vital symbols of military might. Here are nine iconic moments or personalities involvi ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Gigantour Hitting Houston March 2 With Motorhead And Megadeth
Photo By GroovehouseMegadeth's Dave Mustaine in Houston in March 2010And just like that, my normally non-soiled jeans were not. Yes, March 2 the traveling metal bonanza Gigantour is hitting Houston's Verizon Wireless Theater, with Megadeth, Motorhead, Lacuna Coil, and Volbeat in tow. Are we e ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
The Value Of Being Important: How Much Would You Pay for VIP Tickets?
Photo By Daniel KramerHow much would you pay to be in front of all of those hands in the air?Very. Important. Person. For music fans those three words conjure up images of skipping out on standing in line, being at the side of the stage while the show takes place, and partying with the band ... More >>
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