Subject: Morrissey (Singer)

• Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

  August 2, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

  August 27, 2007

• Slideshow: New York Dolls in Dallas

  April 23, 2008

• The Blog of Lists: 25 Vegan Musicians

  April 25, 2008

• Happy Belated Birthday, Morrissey

  May 23, 2008

• Maxïmo Park

  A Certain Trigger

  June 16, 2005

• Election Eve With Fred

  November 4, 2008

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in yesterday's New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Rocks Off detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite so

  December 29, 2008

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in the New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Ballz detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite songs from 200

  December 31, 2008

• Puke Sick

  November 3, 1994

• Rotation

  August 17, 1995

• Rotation

  April 17, 1997

• Tonight: Morrissey Listening Party at Jet Lounge

  Morrissey's back in record stores tomorrow with Years of Refusal, his first album since 2006's Ringleader of the Tormentors and possibly his hardest-rocking album to date. (Its release on primo Americana label Lost Highway only adds to the weirdness factor.) The thick-ass bass and snarling guitars of songs like "Something Is Squeezing My Skull," "All You Need Is Me" and "One Day Goodbye May Be Farewell" may take a little getting used to - and may be his best shot at commercial airplay

  February 16, 2009

• Rotation

  September 11, 1997

• Smiths Reunion Rumored at Morrissey's Jones Hall Show

  Strangeways, here they come: Rocks Off has learned that former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has requested passes for his ex-bandmate Morrissey's sold-out April 11 show at Jones Hall, leading to speculation that the two will perform onstage together for the first time since the influential Manchester band's acrimonious 1987 split. "Johnny's manager emailed us Monday asking for tickets and backstage passes," a source close to the show's promoter told Rocks Off Wednesday. She asked not to be i

  April 1, 2009

• Morrissey Taps His Never-ending Reserve of Lyrical Bons Mots

  April 9, 2009

• Morrissey Will Take Miami and the Points

  "Every Day Is Like Sunday" If you haven't read "Songs from the Heart of a Marketing Plan," Jon Pareles' essay outlining how, basically, the only way for artists to sell their music these days is by licensing it to sell something else, in the New York Times, go ahead and check it out. Ballz detects a faint whiff of Boomer "It's about the music, maaan" sanctimony, but Pareles seems ultimately reconciled to this new market-driven musical climate, and admits many of his favorite songs from 200

  December 31, 2008

• Aftermath: Morrissey at Jones Hall

  Craig HlavatyTropical Storm Morrissey blew through Jones Hall Saturday night, leaving a full house of hyperventilated fans - never more so than when, during "Let Me Kiss You," he removed his shirt to reveal an enviable set of abs - and more than a few moist eyes in its wake; after the show, Aftermath looked around and saw several people sobbing in their seats, too overcome to exit immediately. Then there were the security minders who had to have been either bemused or annoyed&nb

  April 13, 2009

• Bam, It's Kam!

  March 12, 2009

• Morrissey: Years of Refusal

  February 26, 2009

• Girl In A Coma

  December 11, 2008

• Andy Rourke

  December 4, 2008

• Girl in a Coma

  September 25, 2008

• Would Morrissey Approve

  May 1, 2008

• Sitting Down with La Porte's Buxton

  April 10, 2008

• Danseparc’s Morrissey Tribute

  Numbers celebrates the king of music for melodramatic teenagers

  November 8, 2007

• He's the DJ, He's the DJ...

  April 6, 2006

• Morrissey

  Morrissey performs Monday, May 28, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600. Kristeen Young also performs.

  May 24, 2007

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• The Bards of Baytown

  Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly

  July 27, 2006

• Morrissey

  Ringleader of the Tormentors

  March 30, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 28, 2005

• Reel Big Fish, with American Hi-Fi, El Pus, Punchline and Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer

  Monday, July 18, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

  July 14, 2005

• Play It Pretty for Cabaret Voltaire

  A Rice grad stakes his claim as the inventor of the ironic "Freebird" request; also: there's a Lanky new kid on H-town's burgeoning pop-rock scene

  May 26, 2005

• Morrissey

  Live at Earl's Court

  April 21, 2005

• Elf Rock

  The Decemberists bring their magic-realist, Picaresque new album to town

  March 31, 2005

• Rotation

  February 24, 2005

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• Letters

  November 11, 2004

• Mystery Bopping

  Racket searches for the hoppingest grocery store in town

  September 16, 2004

• Playbill

  July 8, 2004

• Mail Call

  June 24, 2004

• This Charming Hombre

  Morrissey's mad love among Mexican-Americans

  June 3, 2004

• Starsailor

  Love Is Here (Capitol)

  February 7, 2002

• Party of Helicopters

  Friday, January 4

  January 3, 2002

• Goudie

  Peep Show

  September 21, 2000

• Illuminating the Stage

  Director Mike Leigh explores the politics and process of theater in Topsy-Turvy

  January 27, 2000

• George Strait Week, Part 1: Sad, Angry George

  Note: All this week, Rocks Off is previewing George Strait's first Houston show in several years by looking at different aspects of King Cowboy's catalog. A few months back, when Morrissey played Jones Hall, we were asking ourselves if there was an artist out there - a Texas artist, namely - who trafficked in the same torment and heartbreak as Mozz. Not in the same grandly emotional ornate way, but in a more sober and uniquely stoic Texas fashion. The way our fathers would deal with the heartbr

  August 4, 2009

• A Few of Music's Biggest Tattoo Enthusiasts - Besides Rocks Off, Of Course

  Don't act so surprised... As we can fatefully attest, rock and roll and tattoos go hand in hand. The first time Rocks Off saw a grizzled punk rocker walk by at Fitzgerald's back in the '90s with two sleeves full of tattoos and a chest full of nautical-themed art, we mentally pointed at him and said "That's what we want", and from that day on we were hooked. Since we started getting tattoos we have seen the world change in regards to how inked people are regarded. They were one or all the follow

  November 5, 2009