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December 30, 1993
Celebrity Photographer, Photographer Celebrity
Talking with Annie Leibovitz about the manufacture of cultural identity and the American dream
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May 5, 1994
A Month of Mutt
"That small band" Dyn@mutt pursues the weird science of Houston rock
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July 17, 1997
Rooting Interest
The Roots make rap for both your hips and your head
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July 17, 2008
What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales
That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story -- part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine.
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December 27, 2007
Asylum Street Spankers
Austin’s vaudevillian country and blues rockers
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October 18, 2007
Alice Cooper
Austin’s vaudevillian country and blues rockers
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January 12, 2006
Leaving His Mark
Austin’s vaudevillian country and blues rockers
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April 5, 2007
HARD ROCK CAFE'S
ROCK N' ROLL PUNCH
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January 27, 2005
The Best Cex Ever
Take combustible hip-hop, add a dash of indie pop, and watch the jaws drop
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October 2, 2003
King of the Roads
A Houston author tells how our traffic got jammed
Music
May 15, 2003
Punk of the Month Club
Good Charlotte knows it's more than a passing fancy. But does America?
Music
January 2, 2003
Mag Hags
What's wrong with the state of music journalism -- and how to fix it
Music
October 24, 2002
Division of Laura Lee
Monday, October 28
Music
February 8, 2001
Kid Stuff
He's just a bad boy from the burbs who never learned to play well with others
Culture
September 14, 2000
A Fan's Notes
After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally
News
March 25, 1999
News of the Weird
After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally
Music
July 14, 1994
Flop Like an Eagle
Brad Tyer checks out of the Hotel California after five songs
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November 3, 2009
Tonight: Florida Indie Beach Boys Surfer Blood Sail Into Mango's
Florida-based indie kids Surfer Blood pull into Mango's tonight, touring ahead of their upcoming Astro Coast LP. The band was recently anointed by Rolling Stone's online feature "Hype Monitor" as "bright and booming and hooky as FM radio in the late '70s." Rocks Off can hear traces of early "Blue ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
Self-Admitted Wanker John Mayer Is Far From Alone at the Musical Spank Bank
Photo illustration by John Seaborn GrayThe chicken is Photoshopped. The swimsuit, sadly, isn't.Guess what you're missing if you haven't picked up the latest copy of Rolling Stone? Go on, guess. All right, we'll tell you: according to their website, you're missing the lowdown on John Mayer's " ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Meals on Reels: Food, Inc.
Chef Monica Pope serves up a heaping helping of truth
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June 29, 2010
Is The Westheimer Block Party Done For?
Bun B For Lafayette - ATLiens Freestyle from Decatur Dan on Vimeo. • Dave Bry at the witty pop-culture blog The Awl writes about rap music's eternal embrace of consumerism, using Bun B's most recent release, a rap written in honor of Japanese clothing company Lafayette, as an example. It's a great ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Sheryl Crow
Bun B For Lafayette - ATLiens Freestyle from Decatur Dan on Vimeo. • Dave Bry at the witty pop-culture blog The Awl writes about rap music's eternal embrace of consumerism, using Bun B's most recent release, a rap written in honor of Japanese clothing company Lafayette, as an example. It's a great ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
Dave Matthews Band
Bun B For Lafayette - ATLiens Freestyle from Decatur Dan on Vimeo. • Dave Bry at the witty pop-culture blog The Awl writes about rap music's eternal embrace of consumerism, using Bun B's most recent release, a rap written in honor of Japanese clothing company Lafayette, as an example. It's a great ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Drive-By Truckers
Bun B For Lafayette - ATLiens Freestyle from Decatur Dan on Vimeo. • Dave Bry at the witty pop-culture blog The Awl writes about rap music's eternal embrace of consumerism, using Bun B's most recent release, a rap written in honor of Japanese clothing company Lafayette, as an example. It's a great ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Rhett Miller Talks Old 97's, Bob Dylan, Trains And More
Piper FergusonThe band probably doesn't remember this, but one of the first interviews Rocks Off ever conducted as a quote-unquote professional journalist was talking to the Old 97's in their tour van behind Austin's Liberty Lunch as opener Don Walser(!) yodeled in the background. That was ar ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
The Top 10 Rock-Musician Film Scores
David Fincher's Facebook creation tale The Social Network has been the No. 1 film in America the past two weekends, and no doubt it will continue that streak this weekend, barring an assault by Jackass 3-D which comes out today. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone is already hailing Network as a ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Tea Party: At The Race Track With George Washington
Photos by Craig HlavatyNo treading allowedOn Saturday afternoon I visited the North Houston Tea Party's "I Will Vote" rally, held at the Sam Houston Race Park. This was my second Tea Party rally in six months, following on the heels of the one in April at Discovery Green where my photographer was ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Rolling Stone's 25 Worst Cover Misfires
Happy Birthday, Rolling Stone, the first magazine that made us want to pick up a pen and notebook paper and go on an ether binge. The current-events and music magazine turns 43 years old today, and we wish them 43 more. The magazine's first cover boy was John Lennon on the set of the film H ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Top Five Musician Religious Conversions
Marc Israel Sellum/ Isreality.comThe opposites of life attract us, we've always believed. Time and time again, that philosophy proves itself right. It's why in high school, the Catholic school girls were the biggest freaks. No, that's not a myth. They were suffocated with religion or "right" ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
More Like "Hall Of Lame," Am I Right?
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is ready to admit a new class: Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, Darlene Love and Dr. John have all been inducted for 2011, the foundation announced Wednesday. With the exception of Wai ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Slutwave: Pop Phenomenon Or Feminist Scourge?
"Every generation needs a new revolution." - Thomas Jefferson Marc BrubakerKe(Dollar Sign)ha at House of Blues, July 2010As one of the few women on the Rocks Off writing team, we were fervently proud to take an introspective stab at the new, curiously named micro-genre that 2010 bestowed upo ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Don't Stop Beliebering
The subtitle to the interview (coming in the March 3 issue of Rolling Stone) reads, "How Justin Bieber became the biggest teen idol in the world," so I have to assume at some point RS reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis gets to the subject of his rise to fame (and if he's familiar with the name "Rya ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Comment of the Day: Justin Bieber, Political Sage
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Arcade Fire Tickets On Sale Next Friday
We'll lead off this week's Magnolia City Mixtape with, well, the headline. It's 10 a.m. next Friday (March 4) at livenation.com or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. In other late-breaking concert news, Bob Seger hits Toyota Center April 30. Tickets for that one go on sale next Saturday. Our soundt ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Killa Kyleon's Epic T-Shirt, Mixtape & Video Party: A Report
Photos by Larami CulbertsonSaturday afternoon, Authentik Music Group's most OMG figure hosted a release party for his new "Don't Mess With Killa" T-shirt that turned into a mixtape listening party that turned into a video shoot at Check Other Outfitters. Rocks Off went, hung out for some ti ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
SXSW Last Night: Queens Of The Stone Age At La Zona Rosa
Craig HlavatyRolling Stone magazine surely knows how to throw a showcase, bringing forth Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis, Mini Mansions, and Black Angels to open for a reinvigorated Queens Of The Stone Age on Wednesday night. Every band on the bill coalesced with each other beautifully and succinctl ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Settle Down, Chris Brown: Songs To Temper A Hot Temper
Marco TorresChris Brown at House of Blues, November 2009Have you ever heard that phrase "When I do good, no one remembers; when I do bad, no one forgets"? This is the story of candy-rapper Chris Brown's life the past few years since he beat the ever-loving shit out of ex-girlfriend Rihanna fo ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Shot In The Dark: How The Whole Mess Started
Mark C. AustinKings of Leon at Verizon Wireless Theater, October 2008Just a couple of days now before Rocks Off - the person and the blog - proudly presents Shot In the Dark: Houston Press Concert Photography, our first-ever exhibit of live pics we've collected in about three and a half years ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
KTRU Departs FM Airwaves Defiant, Unique As Ever
Marc BrubakerPatricia Bacalao at the statue of Rice founder "Willy" Marsh Rice"I'm so nervous," declared former KTRU station manager Joey Yang as he took over the helm for the final hour of programming that would be broadcast on the FM band. "Since 1971 we've been on FM, and it's all coming d ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
10 Great Bob Dylan Songs Rolling Stone Left Off Its List
Craig HlavatyYesterday was Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, and to honor the milestone, Rolling Stone releaseda list of the best 70 songs from his now 50-year-old catalog. With contributors like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, David Crosby, and Tom Morello, they came up with a stellar list, a primer f ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Sgt. Pepper & Three Other Bum Albums By Rock Icons
It was 40 (four) years ago today - in the UK, and tomorrow in the U.S. - that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, history stopped, the Summer of Love began, and critics freaked the fuck out. When the Beatles released their LSD-soaked counterpunch to the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in June 1967, K ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
25 Unfortunate '90s 1.5-Hit Wonders
The bearded Mark Oliver Everett and his fabulous eels...Rocks Off loves the '90s more than we probably should, especially all the dumb little things about the pop music that clogged the radio and MTV. We could probably write a book about the songs that helped shape our formative musical knowl ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
The X Factor: Boot Camp, Minus Sgt. Hartman
The pace of the audition rounds was so fast, I didn't realize the judges put through 162 people in the first two weeks of The X Factor. When the field arrives in Los Angeles for "boot camp," they are informed that they will be shaved down to a field of 100, which will ultimately be reduced by ... More >>
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December 4, 2011
RIP Hubert Sumlin, Legendary Blues Musician
Hubert Sumlin, former guitarist with Howlin' Wolf and member of the Blues Hall of Fame is dead at the age of 80. Sumlin was ranked at number 65 in Rolling Stone's greatest guitar players of all time and has been cited as an influence on a wide range of blues and rock guitarists. He was born ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Last Night: My Morning Jacket At Verizon Wireless Theater
Photos By Marc BrubakerCheck out our slideshow of photos from the show. My Morning Jacket, at least to me, are a festival band. It's their natural habitat. Their records are built to be projected across city parks. Out of the half dozen times we have settled in front of Jim James and company ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Happy Birthday David Knopfler: 7 Lesser Known Rock Music Siblings
David KnopflerIn the holiday movie Fred Claus, Vince Vaughn plays Fred, the bitter older brother of Santa Claus. In one scene, he goes to a group counseling session with the brothers of Sylvester Stallone, Bill Clinton, Alec Baldwin and others to vent his frustration. Today is the 60th birthd ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
You Bettah Work: 10 Rock/Pop Musicians Who Could Take Up Modeling
Lucky for Lana Del Rey -- whose awkward-at-best Saturday Night Live performance last weekend left indie critics second-guessing her skill -- she has a backup career on which to fall, if needed. Last week, days before becoming a poor bundle of nerves on SNL, the up-and-(maybe)-coming songstres ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2012
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Lucky for Lana Del Rey -- whose awkward-at-best Saturday Night Live performance last weekend left indie critics second-guessing her skill -- she has a backup career on which to fall, if needed. Last week, days before becoming a poor bundle of nerves on SNL, the up-and-(maybe)-coming songstres ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Gothic Council Legitimizes Gothic Porn as Art (NSFW)
This debate starts, as many debates do, with your humble narrator taking a poop. Our usual bathroom reading fair is Lovecraft, the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and our own Liisa Ladoucuer's Encyclopedia Gothica. No book is better for suited for a quick, random flip-through than her exhaustive li ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Express Yourself: The 10 Best Deep Tracks of Madonna's Career
Daniel KramerPhoto by Daniel Kramer.Madonna is one of those artists that does it all: she sings, dances, acts, and occasionally writes. The main thing that keeps her fans begging for more is that she always seeks to reinvent herself - whether it be her 'Borderline'-era '80s street-style or th ... More >>
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