Subject: Paul McCartney

• I Want My MP3

  June 21, 2007

• This Just In: New Radiohead Next Week (Really!)

  October 1, 2007

• Last Night: Arrowfest at the Woodlands Pavilion

  October 15, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Happy 25th, Thriller

  November 30, 2007

• The Blog of Lists: 25 Vegan Musicians

  April 25, 2008

• Paul McCartney Stuns Oklahoma City

  August 7, 2008

• Ten Performers Besides Bruce Springsteen Who Were Considered for the Super Bowl

  October 2, 2008

• Tale of the Tape

  KHOU gets defensive about airing a blurry spring break tape

  April 12, 2001

• Get Lit: Beatles for Sale by John Blaney

  Another Beatles book? Doesn't the world already know everything it possibly can about the Fab Four, from the nickname of their favorite Hamburg pill dealer to the mustache style of the cab driver who took George through the streets of Rishikesh? Well... no. And as long as interest in the band continues to flower - and pass along to new generations - Ye Olde Beatles Bookshelf will continue to groan under the accumulated weight of its tomes. Beatles for Sale, though, is the first one to make

  December 2, 2008

• All Rise

  March 24, 1994

• The Song Remains the Same

  May 11, 1995

• Static

  November 7, 1996

• Bass Boss

  May 15, 1997

• Rotation

  June 12, 1997

• Classic Touch

  July 3, 1997

• Static

  February 5, 1998

• Tonight: Windsor Drive EP Release at Fitzgerald's

  Windsor Drive Bridges EP www.myspace.com/windsordrive The second EP, Bridges, from local indie darlings Windsor Drive (currently signed to Ping Pong Music) drops this Saturday at what promises to be a spectacular show. Luckily, Rocks Off managed to snag an advanced copy in electronic form so you readers can know just what to expect. Produced by Stephen Short, who has worked with artists ranging from legends like Queen, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Paul McCartney to emerging artists like

  March 7, 2009

• Best of Burt

  May 6, 1999

• News Hostage

  September 9, 1999

• A Musical Guide to Navigating the Economic Crisis

  January 8, 2009

• Up in the Air

  Continental Airlines helps out Lee Brown's re-election campaign

  August 16, 2001

• French Kicks: Swimming

  June 5, 2008

• Sarah Tollemache

  Local funny gal jokes about video games, prosthetics and porn-star hairstyles

  January 10, 2008

• Local Motion

  December 20, 2007

• Girl Talk

  November 1, 2007

• Hinder, Papa Roach, Buckcherry

  September 20, 2007

• Houston Music Map

  Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  June 5, 2003

• Musical Food Groups

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

  February 22, 2007

• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

  So Divided

  January 11, 2007

• The Chieftains

  The Chieftains perform with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pops, Friday through Sunday, January 5, through January 7, at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, 713-224-7575.

  January 4, 2007

• Old Folks Rock

  McCartney doesn't pretend to be anything but a sap. And Jagger still acts like he's God's gift to sexdom.

  December 1, 2005

• Paul McCartney

  Saturday, November 19, at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 713-758-7200.

  November 17, 2005

• On Da Lingo, Part II

  Confused by what all our hometown rappers are talking about? We’re here to help.

  November 17, 2005

• Local Rotation

  February 24, 2005

• Elvis Costello

  The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
  il Sogno (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft)

  November 4, 2004

• A Thin Line...

  Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

  September 23, 2004

• Guided By Voices

  Friday, January 16

  January 15, 2004

• Gettin' Jiggy

  The Chieftains rule with their traditional Irish tunes

  January 8, 2004

• Super Furry Animals

  Wednesday, September 24

  September 18, 2003

• Rotation

  March 5, 1998

• Remembering 1969, Part 1: Altamont, Rosemary's Baby, Santana at Woodstock and More

  1968 might have been - at least politically - one of the most turbulent years of the '60s. Students rioted left - specifically, the Left Bank in Paris - and right against the war in Vietnam, while back home racial tensions escalated, especially after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The political landscape shifted that year as Robert Kennedy was assassinated, opening the door for the Republican Party, via Richard Nixon, to rise to power. But 1969 proved to be an equally important one f

  June 10, 2009

• Remembering 1969, Part 3: The Beginning of the End for the Beatles

  Note: see Part 1 here and Part 2 here. For most of 1969, the Beatles were pretty much comatose - after the disastrous Get Back sessions (which would later spawn the Phil Spector-produced Let It Be), they reconvened to the studio that spring to record the music for what would become their final recorded opus, Abbey Road. But the soon-to-be former members of the band were not in any way inactive. On September 13, John Lennon and Yoko Ono assembled a pick-up band formed by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voor

  June 15, 2009

• Slide Show: Day of the Duos

  Today marks the anniversary of the day in 1957 that John Lennon met Paul McCartney, when Paul happened to take in John's pre-Beatles band, the Quarrymen, at a Liverpool church picnic. Exactly seven years later came the London premiere of A Hard Day's Night, the manic movie whose soundtrack cemented Lennon & McCartney as one of the greatest songwriting duos of all time. Here's a look at some other great songwriting duos who got by with a little help from... each other, we suppose.

  July 6, 2009

• Maybe Miley Would Be Better Off Dead Like Selena, Kurt and These Others...

  In case you missed it - and if you value your immortal soul, we're sure you did - Hannah Montana star/future tell-all memoir author Miley Cyrus unveiled a newer, more "mature" look last weekend at the only venue appropriate for such things: the Teen Choice Awards. Nothing says "successful transition from 'tween idol to grown-up entertainer" like booty shorts and pole dancing, and we here at Rocks Off hope the 16-year old is prepared for the coming decades, which will likely be spent drinking ma

  August 13, 2009

• StubHub: Houston Is More "Rockin'" Than Vegas, Less So Than Hartford and Milwaukee

  Craig HlavatyThe Phish of the Southwest and king of Houston's summer concert hill: George Strait​Online ticket broker StubHub.com released its annual list of America's Top 20 "Most Rockin' Cities" Friday, with Houston holding steady at No. 17 for the second year in a row. We probably would have been even higher - in several ways - if Vermont jam-band overlords Phish, who reunited this summer for the first time since 2004, weren't such pussies and booked some shows south of the Mason-Dixon line

  August 21, 2009

• The Beatles: Rock Band Is In the House

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ It's like Christmas morning here at Rocks Off today. We just got our copy of The Beatles: Rock Band and, like a car wreck or the Williams Tower waterwall, can't stop staring at it. (Must... look... away...) It looks like developer Harmonix spared no expense - and, at $250 for the limited edition, neither will you - but even before hooking the damn thing up, Rocks Off can kind of understand what all the hype is about. As an old bassist ourselves, we're especially lookin

  September 9, 2009

• Five Direct Beatles Connections to Texas

  Four postcards included in the limited edition of The Beatles: Rock Band​ Looks like Beatlemania 2.0 is in full swing. Rocks Off may have mentioned how excited we are to play The Beatles: Rock Band at Coffee Groundz tonight, with prizes, drink specials and much laughter as we try to gnash our way through "I Saw Her Standing There." Shortly after noon, we called over to Cactus Music to see how the freshly released remastered Beatles catalog was selling. The complete box set sold out in pre-sale

  September 9, 2009

• More Musical Medocrity For Houston's Private Party Of The Year

  ​For those folks out there wondering if superlawyer Mark Lanier had suddenly -- after all these years -- finally developed good musical taste, you can rest assured: He hasn't.Tort King Lanier is famous for his Christmas parties, elaborate (if liquor-free) bacchanals that feature kiddie rides, top-notch food and high-priced entertainment.In the past, the acts have included Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire. (Dolly and Reba have their moments, but tend to play their

  October 22, 2009

• Congratulations to Our Live Nation Club Passport Winners, and More Background on That John Entwistle Photo

  ​ We finally have a winner in Rocks Off's photo contest for those Live Nation Club Passports we started giving away back when George W. was president. Not really, but it seems like it. Congratulations to Houston's Mitsy Parsons, whose shot of her with NYC up-and-comer Ryan Star at September's Collective Soul show at House of Blues (above) was our popular choice. (You can tell Star hasn't had a whole lot of media coaching yet, because his eyes are closed.) Enjoy! This week's Live Nation "No Ser

  October 27, 2009

• Shonen Knife

  November 5, 2009