Music Awards

Abandon All Hope: Your Guide to the 2013 Grammy Award Underdogs

There are certain truths we all accept about the Grammy awards, including but not limited to: no matter how many times she's won Taylor Swift will always make that "ohmygod people like me?!?!?!" face; that NARAS president Neil Portnow will show up to make a speech that no one will remember; someone ... More >>

Lightnin' Hopkins Finally Wins a Grammy

It took the Texas Historical Society long enough to appropriately recognize Houston bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins, but not as long as the Grammys. As part of the run-up to Sunday night's 55th annual Grammy Awards, its governing body the Recording Academy announced that Hopkins, who died in 1982, will ... More >>

15 Things Rocks Off Learned Watching The ACM Awards

Sunday nights, I usually like to watch The Amazing Race after 60 Minutes. I don't usually watch much reality television at all, but something about the combination of total incompetence, vicious backstabbing and exotic locales as several, two-person teams race around the globe is completely intoxica ... More >>

RodeoHouston Wants To Send You To Vegas

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is well on its way to drawing a couple of million more (mostly) country-music fans to Reliant Stadium again this year. Now the rodeo and Reliant Energy want to send one lucky fan to the Academy of County Music Awards in Vegas April 1. No foolin'. All the couple hu ... More >>

Five Curiosities from the Grammy Nominations List

The Grammy nominations were officially presented last night. Not surprisingly, Adele, who is considered a front runner in nearly every category she is nominated in, cleaned up with six nominations for her album 21, but was beaten out by Kanye West who had seven, though curiously not among them a nod ... More >>

The Mayor’s 2010 Holiday Celebration

Houston Symphony: Chris Botti

The Grammy Award winner partners with the CWMP Pops

Archie Bell, Roy Head Tapped for Free Mayoral Inaugural Concert at Discovery Green

Houston mayor-elect Annise Parker's office announced Wednesday afternoon that '60s soul stars Archie "Tighten Up" Bell and Roy "Treat Her Right" Head will be part of a free evening concert at Discovery Green next Monday, January 4. Parker is scheduled to take the mayoral oath earlier that day at th ... More >>

Fix Your Face

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is more hip-hop than most rappers.

MTV VMA Celebrities Ask The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

​Dear Full-Custom Gospel Sounds,I am a multiplatinum rap artist and producer who has won several Grammy awards. You'd think this would be enough to satisfy me, but I am unable to allow other people to enjoy their time in the spotlight - I have often interrupted acceptance speeches, ranted and rave ... More >>

All Falls Down: Kanye West's Six - Well, Seven Now - Douchiest Moments

​If you're aware of Kanye West's - whom Pollstar is reporting stops at Toyota Center with Lady GaGa January 22; good luck selling tickets for that one now, kiddo - past behavior at all, then you're probably surprised this article isn't longer. His habit of blurting out inappropriate, nonsensical n ... More >>

Cleanse Your Dirty, Dirty Soul With the Blind Boys of Alabama at House of Blues

Ladies and gentlemen, Rocks Off doesn't mind telling you he feels a little dirty after editing that last Britney Spears post. We swear, we ourselves have never, ever rubbed one out to the cover art of Oops... I Did It Again - we just wish we knew why we always have such a hard time getting the damn ... More >>

Live from the Rice Lofts...

The Houston Press Music Awards showcase is less than a half an hour from getting underway. Stay tuned to Rocks Off for full coverage from the artists' VIP party at the Rice Lofts and dispatches from all over the 10 stages.

John Nemeth

Olga Tañón

Dafnis Prieto

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SXSW: Day One In Pictures

Good morning! We've just added a slideshow featuring many of the bands who played SXSW yesterday (March 18, you remember, the day after St. Patrick's Day). Have a gander at them, won't you? Photos by Mark C. Austin

Jonny Lang

The artist behind Lie to Me and Turn Around brings his special brand of blues to Houston

Neil Diamond Turns On His Heart Light For H-Town (Again)

When Neil Diamond hit Houston last October, he told us in the crowd that the proceeds from that night's merchandise sales were going into a Hurricane Ike relief fund. He had traveled around our area with Mayor Bill White and seen the destruction and utter insanity that the hurricane had brought us, ... More >>

Middlefinger, 30FootFALL

Can Lil Wayne Overcome His Spotty Live Track Record?

Weezy Peezy

Chatter's Ever-So-HandyAC/DCtionary

Rock Around the Clock

Aftermath: Spain Colored Orange at the Continental Club

Photos by Chris Gray Is Spain Colored Orange the Badfinger of Texas? Why not? Thursday at the Continental Club, the local quintet's heavy, lush pop was dense and intricate, but never at the expense of melody. Its members have also heard at least one jazz album in their lifetimes, evident in their ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Mixed Media at MFAH, Houston Texans and MTV Video Music Awards

Ozone Awards, Tastemaker DJ Contest Headed to Houston

Rap's Rapidly Vanishing Female MC

The Why Chromosome

The Best Country Singer in Houston Contest

Sam Houston Race Park hosts its annual singing competition

Amy Winehouse, Frank

Just released in the U.S., her first album reveals a less troubled Ms. Winehouse

Last Night: King Khan & BBQ at Rudz

Drenched In Blog: The Requisite Britney Spears Post

Maná

Mexican rockers say, “To Love Is to Fight”

Just Dropped Today

You Know You Want It. Too Bad You Can't Have It

That Was the Year That Was

Looking back on the local scene in '06

Shooting the Stars

Snarky comedian Kathy Griffin stops by Houston to dish on Hollywood's elite

Reelin' In the Years

A look back at Houston Press Music Awards of yore

Filling the Blue-Eyed-Soul Hole

Justin Timberlake leads the charge of new melanin-challenged soul brothers

Macy Gray

This Thing On?

Jamie Foxx brings his Ugly Wanda shtick to town

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

Tom Landa and the Paperboys

Tuesday, June 26, at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk

The Art of Getting Broken

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

Louis Armstrong

The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Kid Stuff

He's just a bad boy from the burbs who never learned to play well with others

World Jazz

Highlights from the Houston International Jazz Festival

Toe-Tapping Zapping

Game soundtracks struggle for legitimacy in an industry obsessed with killing machines, not killer tunes

Diana Ross and the Supremes

Diva Divine

End the Innocence

Don Henley -- Stereolab

Bill-bored

At least Tom Jones left the mesh shirt at home

Mucking It Up

Ballot, ballot on the wall, who's the folkiest of all?