Philip Glass

Saturday Night: The xx at House of Blues

The xx, Austra House of Blues February 9, 2013 For a band that revels in bringing icy silence to post-punk, it could be relatively easy for The xx to lose all of that so-called "negative space" when playing to a cavernous venue packed to the gills with Houston concertgoers who love to talk. The ve ... More >>

The Rocks Off 100: Beau Beasley, Organist For the End of Time

Who? For this edition of the Rocks Off 100, we reached out to Beau Beasley, of Houston grind legends Insect Warfare, The Homopolice, NO TALK, Born Liars, Reason Of Insanity, Knuckle Scraper, Machine Gun Romantics, Race Against Time, KG Beasley And the Leather Violence, and a host of other bands that ... More >>

Omotai's Terrestrial Grief Shows Daring Steps Towards Masterpiece.

Even though Omotai is always on the list of Houston's top metal acts, this is the first time I've really had the opportunity to check them out. Seeing as how their live prowess is always shouted from the rooftops, I was curious how that energy translated into their first full-length and oft-delayed ... More >>

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Dracula, the Music and the Film with Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble

Project Armageddon: The Phillip Glass Of Metal

Project Armageddon has an album out, an eight-song collection of a particularly unique brand of stripped-down metal called Tides of Doom. As you may have judged from the name, it's not a sunshine-and-daffodils opus, but rather a bald, stark look at a world careening towards a destruction that it mor ... More >>

You Have to Love Your Job: Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Before you go to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi -- which you absolutely should, and at your earliest convenience before it leaves town on April 22 -- know one thing: This is not a movie about sushi. One could be forgiven for thinking that it is. After all, there are roughly 100 shots -- many of them verg ... More >>

Last Night: Radiohead At Toyota Center

Radiohead Toyota Center March 3, 2012 Radiohead just doesn't add up. The band has effectively turned its back on the music business, pioneering alternative methods of distribution of its music to fans (most of it online), short-circuiting the traditional promotional apparatus by releasing last year ... More >>

10 Bizarre (And Surprisingly Expensive) Ways to Hide a Cat Litter Box

What are you looking at, bitch?​I have cats. Yes, I'm a 40-something man with cats. You got a problem? What I have learned over the years is that the biggest pain in the ass when dealing with cats is the litter box. Hair is annoying. Vet bills can be expensive. But the foul ammonia smell of ca ... More >>

Gem Club: You Will All Die Sexless and Alone

​We've been searching for a while for something as disturbingly beautiful as the Irrepressibles' "The Lady is Dead" video. We haven't found it in Gem Club's "252," but it is pretty damned close. It's never going be beautiful because there is just too much pain in it. Granted, there is no true ... More >>

10 Songs For Pissed-Off Travelers

This spring, Austin honky-tonker and Pasadena native Dale Watson had some dates in Australia and made the mistake of booking a flight from Sydney to Melbourne on Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, not only did the airline charge Watson a $500 exce ... More >>

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7th Jubilee of Dance

Seven Modern Bands We'd Like To See At The Symphony

​This evening at Jones Hall, the Houston Symphony will be playing the music of Queen. Pretty fitting, considering the grand, orchestra-friendly nature of many Queen songs. However, there are a slew of other bands whose oeuvres Rocks Off would like to see interpreted by a symphony, and they're ... More >>

Barnes and Ignobles

The battle over a Philadelphia art collection — as culture, money and power collide — in The Art of the Steal.

Live with Me

The best Houston concerts of 2009: U2, George Strait, Kid Cudi, Jandek, Peaches and even T-Pain.

The Top 20 Freaks You'll Meet at Ren Fest

We went to the Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville this weekend to attend our cousin's wedding, and wouldn't you know we brought a camera along to document through our drunkenly narrow and judging eyes all the WTF-ery walking amongst the trees. Secretly we wish we could also don a pair of ti ... More >>

Richard Alston Dance Company

Dance like you want to

Thrilling Tharp

The Houston Ballet's strong, talented dancers rock in this rep program.

Houston Ballet: "Without Boundaries"

Houston Ballet's latest spread mixes classical and contemporary

The Power of Movement

Every top dance company in town comes together for a whirlwind concert

Jubilee of Dance

They can’t take ballet away from me

"Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine"

The CAMH showcases jazz on paper

“Deeply Rooted”

Houston’s newest dance troupe, Urban Souls Dance Company, makes its debut

Without Air: Choreography Is King, But Where’s the Star Power?

Three Classics, Five Tangos

The Houston Ballet presents a trio of premieres

It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah

Eleanor Sandresky’s A Sleeper’s Dream

The composer/performance artist/pianist presents a piano ballet

The Illusionist

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Drums and Tuba

Sunday, May 22, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.

HUSH Money

Big cash is in the cards at the Houston Hold 'Em Tournament

Stoot Session

Corey Stoot's jazz guitar brings live music back to the club scene

Rev Up

Motorcycle rally comes to Galveston

Sour Hours

Streep, Moore and Kidman reveal that it's sad to be sad

Swamp Thing

Out of the soup of southern Louisiana comes a collection of Cajun all-stars with an indescribably sweet sound

Vampire Music

The Kronos Quartet presents a Philip Glass score for the 1931 movie classic Dracula

Out There

Gods and Monsters

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

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The Reich Stuff

A new boxed set gives minimalist Steve Reich maximum exposure

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Three to the Beat

Peter Martins' Waltz Project gets its Houston debut

Conversation Piece

The Alley's All in the Timing examines the pains and pleasures of language

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