Olivia Newton-John

5 New Holiday Albums For Your Halloween Horror

Right now, as soon as you can either get to year nearest music retailer or click over to iTunes or Amazon, you can buy the first holiday-themed 2012 album we have heard of, Jason Gray's Christmas Stories: Repeat the Sounding Joy. If that sounds early to you, well, yeah, but we actually got the email ... More >>

Shanti: Music's Top 10 Yoga Enthusiasts

This weekend, the Texas Yoga Conference hits town at the University of Houston Recreation and Wellness Center. It's like a big party where everyone practices yoga and learns or improves yoga techniques. At the end of the weekend, there will be musical performances by the Desert Dwellers, Tyagaraja, ... More >>

Other "Coachella" Festivals We'd Like To See

So, Coachella tickets sold out a few weeks ago. Evidently, the lineup is killer, accommodating to most tastes. Last year, the festival sold out in a week. This year, even with two weekends available, tickets sold out within a couple of hours. Don't have tickets to the show? Don't fret! What if ... More >>

Movies at Miller: Grease (Rockin’ Rydell Edition)

SXSW: Bob Geldof, Master Of The F-Bomb

Photos by Chris Gray​Leave it to Sir Bob Geldof to turn the SXSW keynote address into a 45-plus minute combination elaborate cultural history of the past 60 years with rock and roll at the center, personal narrative of how rock and roll ("pop with a hard-on") shook loose his inner social activ ... More >>

15 Awesome Things About This 1987 Phil Simms Workout Video

With the ongoing studies of head trauma and player safety, we're always talking about how NFL players are "bigger, stronger and faster" in this day and age. A lot of this has to do with advancements in nutrition and training. While the league will likely spend millions paying doctors to conduct al ... More >>

Tangerine: Yacht Rock, Golden Triangle-Style

​Ahh, Yacht Rock... Yacht Rock...Back in 2006, when we were still the music editor here, this unlikeliest of pop revivals filled our tattered sails with it's magical zephyr: The raw power of really smooth music. While those days now seem as long ago as Jim Messina's relevance on the nationa ... More >>

We Hold Britney Spears Against Us For Four Minutes

Bellamy Bros. may hold new single against her a good deal longer... Jive Records​Britney Spears' new single, "Hold It Against Me," leaked yesterday and was officially released earlier today. As of this moment, it's blowing up the charts at iTunes and radio. The song sounds as if she walked ou ... More >>

Glee: Long Day's "Journey" Into Night

Accept no substitutes​Where has the time gone? It seems like just last week that New Directions was contending with Sue Sylvester's evil schemes and singing Journey songs, and here in the season finale they're...doing that all over again. Give the show points for consistency, at least. Region ... More >>

Glee: Long Day's "Journey" Into Night

Accept no substitutes​Where has the time gone? It seems like just last week that New Directions was contending with Sue Sylvester's evil schemes and singing Journey songs, and here in the season finale they're...doing that all over again. Give the show points for consistency, at least. Region ... More >>

Goldfrapp Gets "Physical" In Hell

​So, Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger were just chillin' in Hell (like they do), when suddenly they thought it would be pretty cool to come back and throw a party. So they contacted Olivia Newton-John, who is really a Satanic cult leader with laser-light manipulation abilities, and she raised the ... More >>

Glee: Redemption Songs

​Our favorite show that doesn't at all remind us of Fame halted the steady slide into mediocrity we've been witnessing since it returned from hiatus with a rather frenetic episode dedicated to the idea that reputations, like songs, can be redeemed.So the assignment this week -- prompted by Kurt po ... More >>

Glee: Redemption Songs

​Our favorite show that doesn't at all remind us of Fame halted the steady slide into mediocrity we've been witnessing since it returned from hiatus with a rather frenetic episode dedicated to the idea that reputations, like songs, can be redeemed.So the assignment this week -- prompted by Kurt po ... More >>

Kick 'em While They're Down: The Worst Songs Ever Recorded For Charity

Please take this thing away from me. Please.​ When Rocks Off received an email touting Sting's new MySpace charity video for the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project, we almost chipped a fingernail hurriedly clicking on the link, which promised oodles of celebrities such as Olivia Newton-John, Rich ... More >>

Ten Cover Songs So Bad They'll Shrivel Your Soul

Two nights ago, while carelessly patrolling the back alleys of the internet, Rocks Off stumbled across Hilary Duff's execrable cover of The Who's "My Generation". Well, what did you think, YouTube commenters? ​ You sure you're not being too harsh? ​ Yeah... ours too. Someday, when we ... More >>

Five Memorable - But Not Necessarily Good - Astrodome Concerts

Bobby Weatherford​It was (semi-seriously) billed as the Eighth Wonder of World, the brainchild of Judge Roy Hofheinz was the first domed ballpark and - for better or worse - ushered in the era of the homogeneous, multipurpose stadiums. The Structure Formerly Known as Harris County Domed Stadium si ... More >>

Grease

A classic musical hits Houston, with Idol in tow

Beaumont PI Is On The Case Of Olivia Newtown-John's Missing Lover

​Strange doings out of Beaumont, involving a private investigator, a faded pop star and the mysterious semi-death of her lover.Beaumont PI Philip Klein tells RadarOnline that he has proof that Pay McDermott is alive! He's alive!!!Which leads to the question "Who is Pat McDermott, and why should we ... More >>

We Now Present... Steroids, The Musical

Grease Sing-along

The River Oaks Theatre invites you to sing along to an undying musical

Stage Capsule Reviews: Blue, Dreamgirls, Rumors, Sordid Lives and A Streetcar Named Desire

Stage Capsule Reviews

Capsule Stage Reviews: Blue, Jeannette Clift George Onstage, Musical of Musicals, the Musical! and Sordid Lives

Musical Food Groups

If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

An ABBA to Zebra of Guilty Pleasures

Music figures tell all abou their most shameful faves

Still the Word

Frankie Avalon comes to Houston to chastise a beauty-school dropout, once again

Funeral Rights

A Texas family confronts death, homosexuality and repression

Songbird Silenced

Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

Thibeaux for the Soul

Houston songstress crafts her sounds down to the last teaspoon

Thunder from Down Under

Powderfinger has conquered the Fatal Shore. Is America next?

Shotgun Wedding

With Planner, rookie filmmakers force their characters into some compromising situations

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Clune's Chicks takes a cheeky look at the '70s

The Sound of Money

Barely Staying Alive

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