Subject: Pink Floyd

• South By Lomax: Part One

  March 15, 2007

• Meet Paul Ford, the 763 mp3 Guy: He Covered the Waterfront like No Other, from Over 1,000 Miles Away

  March 20, 2008

• Reverberations: Bipolaroid’s E(i)ther Or

  April 16, 2008

• RIP, Father of LSD

  May 1, 2008

• Tonight: Psilli Psybin at the Big Top

  July 31, 2008

• XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

  September 8, 2008

• Guilty Pleasures, Part II

  More music figures confess their deep, dark secrets

  January 6, 2005

• Sunday Sunday Sunday: Zechs Marquise at the Mink

  A natural talent for psychedelia must be as common as Y chromosomes in the Rodriguez-Lopez family DNA. That gene pool has produced a trio of rockers - Omar, Marcel and Marfred - that has proved its mastery of the genre in more than one incarnation. The most notable, of course, is Omar, co-mastermind of post-hardcore act At The Drive-In and its (now Grammy-nominated) experimental spawn The Mars Volta. Brother Marcel lends his keyboard to the latter but splits his time with other brother Marfre

  December 5, 2008

• Mail Call: Post-AC/DC Edition

  AC/DC may be gone (sniff), although the ringing in several of Rocks Off's friends' ears (and his own) lingers on, but the mail goes on... Waylon Jennings & the .357s (Littlefield/Nashville, R.I.P.), Waylon Forever (by request): "'I'd been playing my dad the music I was inspired by at the time,' [son] Shooter explains. 'Whether it was Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Pink Floyd or Cream, he really enjoyed being part of my musical journey. It was then he suggested we do an album together." C

  December 15, 2008

• Eyeballin': A Technicolor Dream

  This documentary, originally broadcast on BBC television, traces the coalition of the "underground" movement in swinging '60s London. Beginning with a groundbreaking 1965 gathering/reading of the Beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall and following with the opening of the Indica bookstore and gallery, the London Free School, the revival of the Notting Hill Carnival, and publication of the first issues of the newspaper International Times, it all culminated in "The 14-hour Technicolor Dream." The

  December 18, 2008

• Good Keen Fun

  February 3, 1994

• Classic Rock Corner: In Memoriam 2008

  You know, the Grim Reaper don't care if you're a multiplatinum music legend, a one-hit wonder or studio-only sideman - he's comin' for you someday! And in 2008, he seemed to like keyboardists and drummers most. A number of classic rockers left for "The Great Gig in the Sky," foremost of whom is the composer of that song... Rick Wright, keyboardist, Pink Floyd (1943-2008): While David Gilmour and Roger Waters were locked in an often ugly head-to-head in battle for creative control and band leade

  December 29, 2008

• Rotation

  March 24, 1994

• Pink Pigs and Scarred Psyches

  March 31, 1994

• I'm a Believer...

  April 14, 1994

• Saturday Night: Echoes at FBI Rocks

  If you say you want the Pink Floyd experience, it generally means you're going to the laser show at the Planetarium, probably with pharmacology of questionable legality. But if you actually want a chance to stand in the audience of a Pink Floyd concert when they ruled the 70s like gods, then seeing Houston's own Echoes is probably as close as you can come. Focused mostly on the 1971 - 1977 era of Floyd (Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals), Ech

  January 30, 2009

• Tonight: California Guitar Trio at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

  Simone Cechetti/ cgtrio.comCreated in 1991 after taking part in Robert Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists, the trio formed by Paul Richards, Bert Lams and Hideyo Moriya forms a rare musical partnership that reaches across various genres without any form of prejudice. During the trio's live sets, they go through tunes as diverse as Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (including the opera section), Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells," Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and The Simpsons theme without (literally

  February 26, 2009

• (Another) Local Album of the Week: Spain Colored Orange's Sneaky Like a Villain

  Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of us, though, Sneaky - released on Brooklyn's Shout It Out Loud Music - is a mellow, eclectic album that sounds both cagey and carnivalesque, accessible and exotic. Some passages recall the Beatles' Sgt.

  April 3, 2009

• Spain Colored Orange

  Gilbert Alfaro and Eric Jackson sound off.

  April 9, 2009

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  November 27, 2008

• Paris Falls

  This group makes killer ‘60s/’70s rock

  September 4, 2008

• Later, Floyd

  Laser rock shows at the Museum of Natural Science go the way of the dinosaurs

  June 29, 2000

• Flying Pigs and Presidential Politics

  Deep Waters

  May 15, 2008

• Roger Waters

  May 1, 2008

• The Fiery Furnaces

  January 31, 2008

• The Beautiful Creatures

  This local crew enhances the Rocky Horror experience

  June 7, 2007

• Shine On!

  January 26, 2006

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  The annual return of the Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter

  December 21, 2006

• The Church

  Wednesday, July 26, at The Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  July 20, 2006

• Secret Machines

  Ten Silver Drops

  April 27, 2006

• The Flaming Lips

  At War with the Mystics

  April 13, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• Explosions in the Sky, with the Octopus Project and A Hawk and a Hacksaw

  Saturday, January 28, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  January 26, 2006

• True Blue Confessions

  Let's join Madonna for a friendly round of Celebrity Breach of Confidentiality

  November 17, 2005

• Two Gallants

  Monday, October 3, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.

  September 29, 2005

• The Heavenly States

  Friday, April 15, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-869-2727.

  April 14, 2005

• Secret Machines

  Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)

  October 7, 2004

• Best Public Art Project

  September 23, 2004

• Comets on Fire

  Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)

  September 2, 2004

• Rock and Roll Never Forgets

  Classic rock finds a new generation of fans and keeps on keepin' on into the new millennium

  May 13, 2004

• Air

  City Reading: Tre Storie Western (Record Makers/Astralwerks)

  September 11, 2003

• The Mars Volta

  De-Loused in the Comatorium (Gold Standard Labs/Strummer Recordings/ Universal )

  July 17, 2003

• Prog's New Face

  Deadwood Forest isn't your father's progressive rock band

  February 17, 2000

• Doesn't It Make You Feel Better: Songs About Swine

  [Update: Now with the Loco Gringos' "Nurture My Pig" and Houston's own Flying Fish Sailors' "Flu Pandemic."] April is almost over and we're coming into Sweeps Week, when commercial sponsors look at TV ratings to decide where they're going to advertise, and you know what that means: time for another media-generated mass panic. This time they've taken a cue from 1976 and the boys from Fort Dix - now tell me that unintentional rhyme ain't a Kinky Friedman song waiting to happen - and are providing

  April 29, 2009

• Get Lit: I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto by Dave Thompson

  If productivity alone conferred greatness, then flinty rock scribbler Dave Thompson would be the Trollope of pop-culture quick reads. I Hate New Music is the latest of over 100 titles this insta-book wizard has blinked into being. And dig the intro penned by the legendary Richard Meltzer, the Big Bang of exhibitionist gonzo rock criticism. The former Noise Boy delivers his usual caveman-crit jibber-jabber, while making creative use of the CAPS lock and asterisk keys on his steam-powered IBM Word

  May 5, 2009

• Pink Floyd, Dr. Dre, Velvet Underground and Other Artists We're Glad Discovered Drugs

  It was 45 years ago this past Friday... that Bob Dylan met the Beatles for the first time and, more importantly for Rocks Off's purposes, introduced them to marijuana. While this meeting of musical titans would never lead to any actual musical collaboration or "Monsters of Hippie Rock" series of concerts, the Fab Four's induction into the 420 Club undeniably steered them away from making songs about holding hands and on to writing tunes about living in a yellow submarine and "elementary penguin

  August 31, 2009

• 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 are in our twilight years, we will think wistfully back to how we lived as teenagers, how we lived as college students, how freely we loved our first loves... and tearfully, we will remember the peop

  September 17, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Girl Talk

  Photos by Groovehouse​Of all the bands at ACL this year, Ghostland Observatory and Girl Talk competed heavily against one another for the most visually compelling acts. But because we can see lasers down at the Pink Floyd show at the planetarium just about any old time, our vote goes to Girl Talk. ​Complete with requisite handfuls of confetti, wild dancing on stage (by both Gregg Gillis and hundreds of his frenzied audience members), buckets of sweat and streaming ribbo

  October 5, 2009

• Aftermath: Dengue Fever Explores The Lost World at Warehouse Live

  There was a moment at the beginning of Dengue Fever's performance Saturday night where the movie the band was scoring, 1925's The Lost World, kind of faded into the background and all we could concentrate on was how their music was filling the space like warm water in a bathtub. We usually complain about the muddy sound at Warehouse Live, and with the exception of Ludo's music seeping through the walls during the film's more somber moments (they were playing in the room next door), this was the

  November 17, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Exes, Part 2

  ​ Oh lord. This could get ugly. Sorry, mom. When it comes to - ahem - unresolved issues in a relationship, almost nothing is better to help us commiserate, haterate and self-medicate than music. She Said sometimes likes to image what the soundtrack of her life would look like. The songs below would be played during the sappy scenes, where one lover meets another or leaves another. As tempting as it is for us to hit below the belt (pun intended), we'd like to think of ourselves as a little mor

  November 20, 2009