Consisting of nothing more than one hour of two overlaid tracks of guitar feedback, Metal Machine Music ranks near the top of music history's shit list in terms of total amount of critical bile received. Houston's own Ramon Medina summed up the album's status succinctly on the NonAlignment Pact blog:
"There are two general reactions to Metal Machine Music. The first is that is utter unlistenable crap. The second is that Lou Reed was playing an elaborate prank on RCA's classical label and e
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.
Every once in a while, after the Artist of the Week feature is posted each Wednesday, we'll receive a few emails from territorial fans informing us that our selection should have gone to a different band. Most of the time they
But more importantly, do we want it to be? And, God help us, what if it already is?
When Rocks Off polled a cross-section of Houston music insiders for his "dead-tree" column this week - thanks for the term, Jeremy at Space City Rock - he was forced to omit one question from the final version for space reasons. It was a question he didn't even really want to ask, but given Houston's tenuous relationship (especially from a musical point of view) with our neighbors to the north and northwest, he f
