Subject: OutKast

• Best Non-2007 Music of 2007

  December 27, 2007

• Highly Anticipated Albums of 2008

  January 25, 2008

• Music Awards Nominees Announced Today; UGK, Indian Jewelry, Arthur Yoria, Tontons Head List

  July 2, 2008

• 2008 HPMA Winner List

  July 30, 2008

• Ozone Awards Update: There Were Some Winners, Too

  August 12, 2008

• Rotation

  May 28, 1998

• Tonight: Crystal Stilts at Rudyard's

  Crystal Stilts hails from Brooklyn, N.Y., and specializes in the sort of shoegaze-indebted garage rock that's so dangerously laid back it's just short of comatose. I've never caught 'em live, but my guess is that their shows are rapturous, daze-inducing events - religious drone-pop experiences, one suspects. Aside from the Zombies, Clinic, or maybe the Velvet Underground, it's tough to imagine what artists and groups singer Brad Hargett, guitarist J.B. Townsend, keyboardist Kyle Forrester,

  March 18, 2009

• SXSW Journal: Wild Moccasins, Day 2

  [How bassist Nicholas Cody of Houston's Wild Moccasins spent his SXSW Thursday.]Nicholas CodyBig Boi Bumps the Austin Music HallAfter playing three shows in one day, including our official showcase, we all looked forward to being able to relax and having time to watch some free day shows. Thursday began with a little cable television, but then we all splintered off to do our own things.Andrew O. and his girlfriend went their way, Zahira and Cody of course were together, Andrew Lee followed them,

  March 20, 2009

• Fishbone

  December 4, 2008

• Nappy Roots

  Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz (Atlantic)

  May 16, 2002

• Lost in Rotation

  Rounding Up Recordings by HPMA Nominees

  July 26, 2007

• Playas on Parade

  Halloween brought out the inner pimp in all of us, but some playas don’t go away after the holiday

  November 8, 2001

• They Don't Fold

  February 2, 2006

• Pea Break

  April 6, 2006

• Snap to It

  Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

  December 14, 2006

• Idlewild

  OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

  August 24, 2006

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• A Pack of Mutts

  The lone wolves of 2005

  December 8, 2005

• Funky Bunch

  Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

  August 11, 2005

• Thug Life

  Slim Thug has paid the cost to be the Dirty South boss

  July 14, 2005

• Mouth of the Dirty South

  May 5, 2005

• Rotation

  March 3, 2005

• Last Night at the Alamo

  A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

  February 24, 2005

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming, and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• Feelings, Nothing But Feelings

  The New York Times misses the point in its attack on "rockism"

  November 11, 2004

• How Long, Oh, Lord, How Long

  Another outpost of crap plops onto the Houston dial, as this open letter reveals

  September 30, 2004

• Modest Mouse

  Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)

  April 29, 2004

• Joss Stone

  Sunday, April 25

  April 22, 2004

• Down Low

  Sex, sex and more sex at Reggae Bodega

  April 22, 2004

• Cee-Lo

  Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine (Arista)

  April 8, 2004

• Family Feud

  Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  April 1, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  February 26, 2004

• Rechenzentrum

  Director's Cut (Mille Plateaux)

  January 8, 2004

• The Class of '03

  Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

  December 25, 2003

• Always Darkest Before the Dawn

  Trotting out the clichés for a year-ender piece

  December 25, 2003

• Rappin' Up Gifts

  A lucky seven underground hip-hop releases to slip into Christmas stockings this year

  December 18, 2003

• Not the Sweetest Thing

  What a bad feeling -- and taste -- Honey leaves behind

  December 4, 2003

• Ludacris

  Chicken & Beer (Def Jam South)

  October 23, 2003

• OutKast

  Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista)

  October 2, 2003

• Best Hip-hop Radio Show

  Vinyl Frontier

  September 25, 2003

• Mark Ronson

  Here Comes the Fuzz (Elektra)

  September 25, 2003

• David Banner

  Mississippi: The Album (Street Records Corporation/Universal)

  June 26, 2003

• Tyrannosaurus Raps

  Jurassic 5 will help you remember hip-hop the way it oughta be

  August 8, 2002

• Smoke Damage

  Jim Pirtle's slipshod nicotine habit spells the end of an era for No tsu oH, but he hopes to rise from the ashes

  June 27, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• The Hilarious B.I.G.

  Bruce Bruce may be nice, but not nice enough to let other comics steal his material

  August 23, 2001

• Listening Room: What's Been Tickling Our Earholes Lately

  As Rocks Off has noted in our periodic Mail Call entries, even though the tide of promo CDs has been greatly reduced by the digital revolution - Rocks Off can count on one finger (the middle one) the times he's actually used the streaming/download email link publicists are ever more fond of these days - he still gets more new CDs via snail mail than any one person can rightfully be expected to audition. Most of these are eliminated either through gut instinct or a quick glance at the accompanyi

  April 27, 2009

• Turkeys Of The Past: 2003 Edition

  ​We're about a week away from the always highly anticipated Turkey of the Year award issue. There's absolutely no telling who will walk away with the coveted honor this year, because for the love of Christ there have been a ton of worthy nominees.It's our seventh annual list; in the days leading up to it we'll go on a bit of a nostalgic trip to days of yore.Today: 2003!! The first list of all!!We could put in a link to it, but we want to see if you can remember that glorious year's picks witho

  November 18, 2009