Subject: No Doubt

• Best Albums of the Year, 2006 Part II

  December 14, 2006

• Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

  August 2, 2007

• Sanity Claus: Separating Holiday-Music Gifts from Seasonal Disorders

  December 22, 2007

• Aftermath: No Doubt, Paramore, and The Sounds at Cynthia Woods

  Photos by Mark C. Austin Any returning mega-band thinking of mounting a huge reunion tour to drain poor folk of their cash (cough Blink-182 cough) need look no further than No Doubt's current tour and sold-out set last night at Cynthia Woods to see how it should be done. For the bands that were fortunate enough to be opening for the SoCal power-poppers, it also stands as a lesson in how to age gracefully in an industry that increasingly seems to be honoring youth over experience. Hell, in

  June 1, 2009

• Aftermath: No Doubt, Paramore, The Sounds at Cynthia Woods

  Our review of last night's epic No Doubt reunion show out in the Woodlands is coming. We still have the cheers and screams of thousands of women in our ears, so we are a tad wobbly. For now, here's a taste of Mark C. Austin's camera-wielding skills from last night. More is on the way! Mark C. Austin

  June 1, 2009

• Rocksteady Ska-lawags

  Austin's Stingers put the buzz back in a tired genre by revisiting its roots

  April 18, 2002

• Trading Spaces

  Monique Powell dumps Save Ferris and heads out on her own

  May 15, 2003

• Dandy Affair

  March 28, 1996

• Nails in the Coffin

  May 15, 1997

• Spit and Polish

  October 30, 1997

• A Buck's Worth

  November 27, 1997

• Night & Day

  July 23, 1998

• Reznor's Rabble

  August 27, 1998

• Rotation

  October 1, 1998

• Rotation

  February 11, 1999

• Idol Beat: The Top Nine

  Fox Scott McIntyre: Don't go changin'...Remember last week's requiem for the Sarvernator? Turns out that Anoop - Season 8's Great Dork Hope - is in the same damn leaky boat: a phenom before the judges, a lamestain when serenading America. His put-on Usher turn last night cemented his unworthy status, and officially killed any affection I ever had for the guy. In all likelihood, Anoop will be in tonight's bottom three with Megan Joy and Lil Rounds, and he will deserve it. Last night was r

  April 1, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Navigating the Economic Crisis

  January 8, 2009

• Matt Costa: Unfamiliar Faces

  May 29, 2008

• Hello, Houston!

  April 23, 2009

• Gwen Stefani and Lady Sovereign

  Lady and The Vamp

  May 3, 2007

• Yellow and Green

  Paris Green's new CD Rambling Yellow Paper

  December 21, 2006

• Leela James, with Kem

  Friday, March 17, Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1666

  March 16, 2006

• Destroying Babylon

  Death by Stereo wants to unite the world's punk and metal kids. How sweet.

  October 13, 2005

• The Hipster's Guide to Rock and Roll Vendettas

  And you thought rappers were the only ones who had beefs

  August 11, 2005

• Who's Your Diddy?

  It's Cristal and basketball with Coach Combs

  June 16, 2005

• Playbill

  February 24, 2005

• Monday Night Fleshballs

  What could be more thrilling than football? Football at a strip club.

  November 11, 2004

• Chiba Pets

  Ska-punkers Change Up may be the next Japanese sensation

  October 21, 2004

• Paradise Found

  Two years ago, the Velvet Teen took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference

  July 29, 2004

• Don't Choke

  Fishbone skanks into town

  May 13, 2004

• Rock of Ages

  Mayor of the Sunset Strip presides over pop

  April 29, 2004

• Pop It, Lock It, Yo

  You Got Served exhumes something suspiciously akin to break dancing

  January 29, 2004

• Fear, and the Toasters

  Friday, January 30

  January 29, 2004

• Oral Surgery

  Reconstructing Smash Mouth

  January 8, 2004

• Drastic Unilateral Action

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

  September 18, 2003

• Mentally Disturbed

  Dan Donegan wonders what's nü-metal about his band

  April 3, 2003

• No Doubt

  Tuesday, May 7

  May 2, 2002

• Damned Amusing

  Not all the howls are intentional in this entertaining Anne Rice fare

  February 21, 2002

• Be Cool

  Elmore Leonard finds fodder for fiction in the Stone Coyotes, a real-life rock and roll band

  October 18, 2001

• Local Rotation

  Local Music Reviews

  March 30, 2000

• Old School

  MU330 makes ska as it was intended

  February 10, 2000

• Rotation

  Save Ferris

  January 20, 2000

• Free Radical

  March 25, 1999

• Idol Beat: The Top Four Results

  Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxNo More Pencils: Slash (right) took American Idol's Final 4 to school Wednesday night. "Who will graduate from the school of rock? And who will just get schooled?" Ryan Seacrest asked, rhetorically, at the beginning of Wednesday night's episode of American Idol. We wondered, then. I smelled an upset, myself. Just felt it. Kris Allen should be going home, I knew - but the likelihood that America could screw up and shaft Allison Iraheta or Adam Lambert just as easily. (L

  May 7, 2009

• Summer Sounds

  May 21, 2009

• No Doubt

  May 28, 2009

• Houston's Rememberances of Warped Tours Past

  For the past 15 years, the Vans Warped Tour has been barreling through city after city across the globe creating punk rockers out of boy scouts and riot grrls out of band geeks. The traveling punk, hardcore and emo road show has been coming to Houston since 1995. The first taste local punks got of founder Kevin Lyman's tour was at the AstroArena, starring such future luminaries as No Doubt, Sublime and the Deftones, along with members of the old guard like Sick Of It All and L7. Everyone who is

  July 2, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: Tchrite's Unpronouncable Take-No-Shit Ecstacy, Ascites' So-Called "Soft Adult Contemporary"

  ​Tchrite, "Casahdt": Houston duo Tchrite - don't ask FNN how to pronounce that - are an experimentalist train wreck. They sew samples (No Doubt's "Don't Speak," the sorta public-access sound scraps that The Books go gaga over) into woozy patches of static tone. They puree and smush and smash samples together. They chop breakbeats into bits. They go in for disorienting-yet-forgettable laptop electronic wave modulations that aren't quite "techno" but aren't totally IDM, either - even if a lot of

  August 21, 2009

• My Ding-a-Ling: Iggy Pop, Tommy Lee and Rock's Other Dirk Digglers

  This album isn't called Fore! because Huey Lewis likes to play golf...​So the other day, Rocks Off wrote briefly about Huey Lewis in regards to the Back To The Future soundtrack, not even thinking to chime in just a little bit about his reportedly huge male member. You know that certain part of the male anatomy all those soft-core porn stars are always talking about on those late night infomercials for boner pills? That one. Which got us to thinking, what about other rock star penii? We have h

  August 28, 2009

• Twice-Told Tales

  October 15, 2009