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Mercury Records Inc.

  • Music

    March 2, 2000

    Rotation

    Music Reviews

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2008
  • Music

    January 21, 1999
  • Music

    August 17, 2000

    Romper Room

    Lucky enough to be one of Playboy's best

  • Music

    November 2, 2000

    Wayne Toups

    Possumneck, Mississippi's answer to Springsteen

  • Music

    December 14, 2000

    Bucking the Trend

    Former Houstonian Chris Cagle hits the charts at a time when Nashville prefers not to see new faces

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    The Art of Getting Broken

    Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

  • Music

    September 27, 2001

    Farewell, Fair Toadies

    The departure of founding bassist Lisa Umbarger spells doom for the Metroplex band

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

    Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles ... More >>

  • Music

    February 22, 1996

    Static

    Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles ... More >>

  • Music

    March 7, 1996

    Perry Deep

    Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles ... More >>

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Joel Carmona's Last Ride

    A confused custom car show, and a dispute over money, mar the memory of a beloved community activist

  • Music

    July 18, 1996

    Static

    A confused custom car show, and a dispute over money, mar the memory of a beloved community activist

  • Music

    July 25, 1996

    Nasty Conquers All

    Determination, and bad manners, rescue Ugly Americans from a sorry fate

  • Music

    September 5, 1996

    Hold the Tonic

    Determination, and bad manners, rescue Ugly Americans from a sorry fate

  • Music

    June 5, 1997

    Rotation

    Determination, and bad manners, rescue Ugly Americans from a sorry fate

  • Music

    June 12, 1997

    Rotation

    Determination, and bad manners, rescue Ugly Americans from a sorry fate

  • Music

    August 28, 1997

    Wanted Man

    Johnny Cash may just be a legend, but he's never sounded better

  • Music

    October 9, 1997

    Static

    Johnny Cash may just be a legend, but he's never sounded better

  • Music

    August 20, 1998

    Static

    Johnny Cash may just be a legend, but he's never sounded better

  • Music

    September 17, 1998

    Consummate Gentleman

    Pete Mayes, Houston blues' premier nice guy, finally gets busy

  • Music

    December 31, 1998

    Texas Music 1998: The Year That Wasn't

    Pete Mayes, Houston blues' premier nice guy, finally gets busy

  • Music

    February 4, 1999

    Hot Country Punksters

    Pete Mayes, Houston blues' premier nice guy, finally gets busy

  • Music

    February 11, 1999

    That's the Breaks

    Houston rap labels and their artists look for that big deal

  • Music

    November 27, 2008

    The Shredder

    One Show, One Sentence

  • Music

    November 16, 2000

    Rave Rules

    No one over 25 should be in attendance, but if you are, here's the game plan

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

    No one over 25 should be in attendance, but if you are, here's the game plan

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2008

    Dido and Aeneas

    Mercury Baroque and the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater come together for an imaginative collaboration

  • Calendar

    December 13, 2007

    Mercury Baroque’s Messiah

    Step back in time — musically, that is

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    The Return of Cactus Music and Video

    A beloved local institution returns from the grave

  • Music

    June 4, 2009

    Jamey Johnson

    A beloved local institution returns from the grave

  • Music

    May 25, 2006

    Just Say Ho

    A Tennessee-based Virginia rocker salutes the Big Drunk in song; also: Mary Cutrufello gets back on track

  • Music

    January 13, 2005

    She's Gone (Away from) Country

    But Tift Merritt's latest release, Tambourine, is up for Best Country Album

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Teenage Wasteland

    Two artists ask how boys become men in a videocracy

  • Music

    October 9, 2003

    Time Trial

    After nine months in a body cast and years of neglect in his home country, aging rocker Ed Hamell still aims to conquer America

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Drastic Unilateral Action

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

  • Culture

    May 29, 2003

    Dem Blues

    The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Songbird Silenced

    Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

  • Music

    May 16, 2002

    Moving On Up

    A new social club helps affluent young African-Americans to a rich piece of the nightlife pie

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    Downtown's Waterloo

    NoDo nightclub owners ask what hath God wrought

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Letters

    Rockin' On, A Stark Affair, Wrong War?

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    War Zone

    Trendy NoDo club owners bunker down for the invasion of the Richmond-Westheimer crowd

  • Music

    June 22, 2000

    Two-Step Switcheroo

    Kim Richey has shelved her country sound for straight-ahead pop

  • Music

    February 17, 2000

    Playbill

    Brian McKnight, Neural Nectar

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    Amplified

    Local Music News

  • Music

    July 4, 1996

    Big Noise

    Local Music News

  • Music

    October 15, 2009

    Michelle Shocked

    Local Music News

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2010

    Romeo & Juliet

    The Dominic Walsh Dance Theater brings together dance, opera and Baroque music to tell the story of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    SugarHill (Actually Gold Star) In the '50s, The Decade It Became A House Of Hits

    [Ed Note: All this week, to celebrate the release of Dr. Roger Wood and Andy Bradley's new book House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios and preview this weekend's related festivities at Sig's Lagoon and the Continental Club, Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Beethoven Enters Year 241 Of Total Awesomeness

    ​Today is Ludwig Van Beethoven's 240th birthday. It's hard to adequately sum up the man's contribution to music because frankly no modern figure comes anywhere close. In honor of the undisputed master of all that is classical music, Rocks Off thought we'd put together some interesting tidbits ... More >>

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