Subject: Ol' Dirty Bastard

• Last Night: GZA in Austin (Cuz We Missed Him in Houston)

  June 1, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Remembering Ol’ Dirty Bastard

  November 13, 2007

• Beyonce and Luke the Drifter

  Because her public appearances are stage-managed to the hilt, and otherwise she generally stays out of trouble (or out of sight altogether), Beyonce is of constant interest but limited use to gotcha!-media outlets like TMZ. "It's hard to imagine Beyonce scratching an itch without undergoing a little media training first," Blender senior editor Jonah Weiner writes in "Pop Dopplegangers," an interesting article Rocks Off ran across today on Slate.com. Playing off Beyonce's decision to reco

  November 26, 2008

• Rotation

  September 25, 1997

• Busy Body

  June 11, 1998

• Battle of the 'Bots

  December 17, 1998

• Rotation

  January 21, 1999

• The Distillery: N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo

  Truth be told, we envy N.A.S.A.'s bumptuous production acumen almost as much as we envy principal astronauts Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon the depths of their Rolodexes - even if, somehow, they couldn't rope Lil Wayne into their genre-mashup free-for-all. Seriously - as you'll see below - N.A.S.A.'s debut, The Spirit of Apollo, is on some profoundly next-level Judgment Night-soundtrack shit. It's not all amazing, of course, which is why it's the subject of Rocks Off's inaugural "The Distille

  March 16, 2009

• MP3 Monday: Music From Teenage Kicks, LSPS, Hash Brown & Fat Tony, OSIRUS and Dave Wrangler

  [A while back, Rocks Off sent out a call for Houston bands and musicians to send him MP3s of their recent work. It took a little bit, but here are the fruits of that planting...] Courtesy Teenage Kicks  Here's some snappy punk from Houston trio Teenage Kicks... ...and some STP-esque power-rock from LSPS...

  March 16, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Top Eight Results

  Photos by Frank Micelotta/ Fox Guests of the Sheik: Flo Rida and his "harem."First things first: in yesterday's Idol Beat, I made reference to how excited I was for Idol Gives Back, a wildly successful annual event/trainwreck wherein the program brings a ton of celebrities on in an effort to raise money for various worthy charaties. I've just learned that Idol Gives Back won't be happening this year due to the recession. (The announcement was made last December, and I totally missed it.)

  April 9, 2009

• Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

  February 5, 2009

• Mariah Carey

  Thursday, August 28

  August 28, 2003

• Britney Spears

  Britney (Jive)

  December 13, 2001

• Wu-Tang Clan

  8 Diagrams

  December 20, 2007

• Another Bump

  Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  July 5, 2007

• Beat Kings

  Beat Kings: The History of Hip Hop

  February 22, 2007

• Ghostface

  Saturday, April 1, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-9483

  March 30, 2006

• ODB

  A Son Unique

  September 15, 2005

• Singing from the Gut

  You never know what'll be spewed at a Heist at Hand show

  September 8, 2005

• Various Artists

  The Kings of Hip Hop, Compiled and Mixed by DJ Premier and Mr. Thing

  June 23, 2005

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

  January 20, 2005

• Houston Resolutions

  Ten ways to make our town a better place

  January 20, 2005

• New Angels in Rock Heaven

  Scoring the grim reaper's 2004 harvest

  December 30, 2004

• Dishing the Dirt on Dirty

  We chronicle the greatest moments of Ol' Dirty Bastard

  October 14, 2004

• Strikes and Spares

  Original punk Richard Tomcala rejoins the nightlife fray; also, Greg Wood's new crib bowls us over

  July 1, 2004

• The Neptunes

  Clones (Star Trak/Arista)

  September 11, 2003

• Killah Priest

  Thursday, July 3

  July 3, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• Letters

  Letters For the Week of 05-23

  May 23, 2002

• Tha Liks

  Saturday, February 2

  January 31, 2002

• D12

  Thursday, November 1

  November 1, 2001

• Music Awards Winners

  The votes are in! See who you picked as winners in the HPMA 2000

  July 27, 2000

• Men in Black

  Method Man and Redman have a Blackout, tour with Family Values

  October 28, 1999

• Artist of the Week: OSIRUS

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.There comes a time in every man's life when he has to ask himself one serious question: Am I a fan of polished alt-rock? Prior to a few weeks ago, we would've answered that with a succinct, if not curt, "no, bitch." The grittie

  May 13, 2009

• Sound Off on The Kanye's Jackassery at Sunday Night's VMAs

  This is what happens when MTV pulls all its VMA footage from YouTube... their lawyers were up early this morning.​ By now you've seen or at least heard about Kanye West's latest bit of spotlight-grabbing at Sunday night's MTV awards - Rocks Off doubts morning-drive DJs are talking about little else (Serena Williams, cough) - when Mr. "Love Lockdown" interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech to let everyone know he thought Beyonce should have won. Which she did, a little later for Video of t

  September 14, 2009

• "Rock Your World" Hot Sauce, Anyone? Like Kenny "Roaster" Rogers, Musicians Will Give Their Name to Anything

  ​This is how we want to remember you, Kenny.​Kenny Rogers brings his vast collection of hits and the plastic-surgery disaster he calls a face to Jones Hall to perform with the Houston Symphony tonight, and obviously Rocks Off's extremities are sweating profusely in anticipation. Not because he can't wait to hear "She Believes in Me" with full orchestral backup, but because we're such huge fans of his Kenny Rogers Roasters chain of restaurants, featured in one of our favorite Seinfeld episode

  November 5, 2009