Subject: Prince (Musician)

• Get Lit: Prince: A Thief in the Temple, by Brian Morton

  October 19, 2007

• Prince Fielder Sued in Houston Federal Court for Allegedly Helping Pops Hide Assets

  December 27, 2007

• Beck at ACL Fest

  September 28, 2008

• Ozzy Lore

  Several Texans are trying to separate Ozzy the myth from Ozzy the man

  April 25, 2002

• Artist of the Week: Prince AJ

  October 23, 2008

• Playbill

  August 5, 2004

• Buckcherry's Sweet Success

  Drinking and drugging with crazy bitches sounds like more fun than the law will allow, but playing in a red-hot rock band is not always an all-you-can eat orgy. "I think people realize there's a lot more to this band than just fucking and partying," says Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson. That revelation, surrendered by a man whose hits include the cocaine anthem, "Lit Up," and the self-explanatory, "Too Drunk," is due in no small part to Buckcherry's ubiquitous 2007 power apology, "Sorry."

  December 5, 2008

• Five Spot: Prince Drives Us to Distraction

  Welcome back to The Five Spot, another new Rocks Off recurrent. Every Friday (but sometimes Monday), we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. So we were all pumped about the songs that the enigmatic Prince leaked from his upcoming album - essentially, he called up some personnel at an L.A. indie-rock station, brainstormed about a possible non-record-label release with them, then offere

  December 22, 2008

• Were These Really the Best Songs of 2008?

  The Gutter Twins Maybe Rocks Off spent a lot of 2008 with his head in the archives, but he was paying attention to new stuff too. Occasionally. It's as easy as satellite radio, channel 47's (Ethel/Alt Nation) weekly new-music hour Submission/Transmission. Monday night, S/T happened to be playing its picks for the past year. One thing is immediately apparent: the '90s are back, big time. The Black Keys' "Strange Times" is total Soundgarden, the Kills' "Tape Song" almost out-Breeders Kim Deal

  December 30, 2008

• Gazing Ahead into 2009, Part 2

  [Note: see here for Rocks Off's previous prognostications.]   U2 (March) Best Case Scenario: Armed with the backing of Live Nation, they release their best album in over a decade and Bono shuts his face as they sell out Reliant Stadium in two minutes. Worst Case Scenario: The recession (finally) hits the touring industry hard; people stay home and listen to The Joshua Tree drinking beer in their garage.

  December 31, 2008

• Flannel File: "Girl Bros." Wendy & Lisa

  [Note: Flannel File is an offshoot of Retro Active, focusing on the new hot nostalgia decade - the '90s, of course.] As Retro Active expands its purview from the '80s to the '90s, it's somewhat appropriate that this post remarks on some folks who became massively popular in the '80s but who, oddly enough, didn't truly find their voice until the next decade. Prince cohorts Wendy & Lisa have just released their first new album since 1998's Girl Bros. LP. Written and recorded as a form of crea

  January 13, 2009

• Monster Men

  April 27, 1995

• Rotation

  October 16, 1997

• Ball of Confusion

  April 9, 1998

• Aftermath: Stephen Lynch at Verizon Wireless Theater

  If anyone knows crowd control, it's Stephen Lynch. He has to. Just as he assured us in our interview, someone was bellowing out for "Almighty Malachi, Bowling God" after the evening's very first song Saturday night. Lynch improvised a short, two-line ditty instructing the fan to "bowl yourself into my nuts," and assured him "that's as close as you're getting to the bowling song, motherfucker!" It is the talent of a veteran comic to chastise his audience and make them happy for it. No matter

  April 6, 2009

• Unusual Suspects at The Usual

  Trackside bar welcomes amateur karaoke stars — and everybody else

  February 12, 2009

• Recent Super Bowl Halftime Highlights and Lowlights

  January 29, 2009

• The Year in Albums

  December 25, 2008

• Mount Coy

  South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

  July 26, 2001

• The Geto Boys Reunite

  July 3, 2008

• Howl at the Moon

  Dueling Piano Bar > Old Auto Shop

  December 6, 2007

• Still a P.I.M.P.

  September 13, 2007

• Her Prince Will Come

  Catch a rising star with a purple legend

  March 2, 2006

• Pop Goes the Dead

  July 6, 2006

• The Music Critics Dictionary

  Translating critic-speak

  March 29, 2007

• Through Thicke and Tim

  Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake face off -- again

  November 23, 2006

• Silk

  Always and Forever

  October 12, 2006

• Fair Play

  Uneven "Moby in Motion" spotlights Houston Ballet's lesser-knowns

  June 1, 2006

• Cat Scratch Fever

  The Pussycat Dolls

  April 13, 2006

• Texas Burger Binge

  August 25, 2005

• Forecast: Reign

  This is what it sounds like when local artists pay tribute to Prince

  June 9, 2005

• Nouvelle Vague

  Nouvelle Vague

  April 28, 2005

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  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

• 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

• Letters

  December 16, 2004

• Prince

  Musicology (Columbia)

  April 29, 2004

• Boobs Versus Prudes

  Only Prince can walk the tightrope between sensuality and artistry

  February 26, 2004

• Metro Area

  Metro Area (Environ)

  November 14, 2002

• So Retro

  DJ Mike Snow finds that '80s nights are the Cure for Loverboys and Talking Heads looking for a not so Quiet Riot

  July 11, 2002

• Revenge of the Nerds

  Rainer Maria's twin solitudes protect and touch and greet each other

  July 12, 2001

• Living in a Scream

  Scary Movie aims for all the obvious horror targets - and actually nails some

  July 13, 2000

• International Festival

  April 20, 2000

• Rotation

  Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Jordan Knight, Juno

  July 15, 1999

• Five Ways to Improve 107.5 the Eagle

  Paging the Purple One... the Eagle Needs You!For Houston music commentators, picking on the sorry state of the city's commercial airwaves is even more fun than sportswriters must have making fun of the Astros. But on the rare occasion a new format does come along - even if it's hardly "new" - it still inspires a glimmer of hope in even the most jaded among us. That's why Rocks Off still can't quite bring ourselves to give up on the Eagle (107.5 FM), "Houston's Classic Hits." For one thing, morni

  July 21, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: Dominique, Karina Nistal, Chango Man, the Mighty Orq and Sideshow Tramps

  Henry Rizoh​It's hard for Aftermath to believe it's been a year since the last Music Awards showcase. Thanks to the "old-person-friendly" in-stores at Cactus Music, we've been able to keep up with the scene better than usual in the past year, and can truthfully say that in the 19 years we've lived in this city, this is the most vital time in local music we've ever seen. Since the Press showcase is when we usually catch up, we decided this year to go for acts that I had not seen before. W

  July 27, 2009

• This Town Needs an Enema: Rocks Off Movie Night at the Mink with Batman

  Note: The date on the above poster should say September 1.​This week's film selection for Rocks Off Movie Nite at the Mink - that's right, we're now officially co-sponsoring this thing - is Tim Burton's 1989 reboot of Batman, starring the third-coolest man to step into the cowl and cape - "Mr. Mom" himself, Michael Keaton. Sorry, Val Kilmer and George Clooney, you make better drunken rock-star buffoons and caper-planning cads than Caped Crusaders. One of the things that go into the curation of

  September 1, 2009

• 9/9/09: Songs With a Certain Number in the Title

  ​As Hair Balls pointed out, we've only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden obsessive-compulsive in all of us, so join us as we wash our hands nine times, lock the door nine times, and listen to nine great songs featuring the number nine. The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9: The titular love potion that turns this song's protagonist into a maniac who starts "kissin' everything in sight"

  September 9, 2009

• Werewolves Got Fingered: The 5 Worst Movies (Besides Twilight: New Moon) With the Best Soundtracks

  ​Good news, all you fans of condensed screen versions of self-indulgent Mormon vampire pseudo-erotic clit-tease fantasies: Twilight: New Moon is being released in only eight days. Rocks Off, accustomed to scorn from literary snobs for his steadfast support of the Harry Potter series, actually picked up the first Twilight novel in a Barnes & Noble once, fully expecting to like it. After the first six pages, however, we were disgusted enough with Bella's asinine, unlikable prattling to uncer

  November 12, 2009

• I Gave Her a Ring...: Musical Minutiae About Fingers and Birds

  ​Although we recently discovered how to access the primitive version of Facebook on our non-iPhone (so watch out), Rocks Off generally lives in an Internet-free bubble outside the office. And happily so, so it took until Monday's late local news for us to see - and subsequently laugh our fool heads off at - the video of Houston Oilers Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams going all Hopalong Cassidy with his middle fingers during last Sunday's Titans/Buffalo Bills American football contest. Naturall

  November 17, 2009