Rupert Murdoch

TGITiVo: The Bronx Is Burning

Miss Pop Rocks: I Can’t Handle More Daily Show Reruns!

Drenched in Blog II: Arcade Fire Super Bowl Update

Control Freaks

Being John Malkovich pulls all the right strings

Artist of the Week: Room 101

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. Here at Rocks Off we’ ... More >>

Animal Crackers

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. Here at Rocks Off we’ ... More >>

007 By the Numbers

Most of Tomorrow Never Dies lacks the wit and inventiveness of the best Bond

Out of Time

Narcissism drives Warren Beatty into the 'hood

Sporting News

Astros losing more than just games

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Nas: Untitled

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Thunder from Down Under

Powderfinger has conquered the Fatal Shore. Is America next?

Kyoto Protocol: You're Getting Warmer

The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

The Simpsons Movie

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor

More than Music

Hollywood goes Texan at the South By Southwest Film Festival and Conference

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Revolting

Meet The New Guy, same as the old guy

Net Loss

The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

Happy Hearst

The Chronicle's publisher gives a pep talk, and looks to expand

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

Social Distortion: Killing Tom Softly With MySpace's Song

Oh, 2006. Long lost 2006. The Golden Age of MySpace. Remember MySpace? That social networking site you logged into obsessively before the advent of Facebook and after Friendster's demise? Where Microsoft Paint made a fourth-quarter comeback in the image editing (and annotating) arena? Where b ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Right-Wing Gun Nuts Ain't the Only Ones Who Can Reload

​ We knew it would happen, we just didn't know it would take so long. The so-called Texas music (and right-wing) lunatic fringe has finally located us and zeroed in on Lonesome, Onry and Mean. They've got their self-righteous gun-nut editorial Uzis a-blazin' like a shootout at the OK Corral over o ... More >>

Friday Night Noise: Musicians, Get Your Lazy Asses Off MySpace

​There's no nice way to say this, so Friday Night Noise will just say it: MySpace is not enough, and if you are at all serious about making music and serious about building an audience of fans/listeners (be it 500 or 5,000 or 50,000 or 5 million) - and by "you," FNN doesn't just mean noisers, we m ... More >>

Money Isn't Everything

And all that glitters — including Avatar — isn't gold.

Ten TV Shows That Need To Go Away Now

​We're barely a month into the fall TV season and have already lost three new network shows. My Generation, the show that was to catch us up on a group of high school graduates ten years after the fact (and presumably set to the music of The Who) pulled a Keith Moon after two episodes. Lone St ... More >>

Lucas Henderson, Student from Waco, Allegedly Scams Scores of Companies with Illegal Coupons

From The Smoking Gun22-year-old Lucas Henderson allegedly used his computer powers for evil.​There's been a rash of South-on-East-Coast fraud lately, in which residents from small Texas towns have effectively duped fancy New York firms. Remember April's scamster of the month Andy Surface, the ... More >>

Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano (Part 2) On Social Media & Peter Criss

​Today Rocks Off continues our discussion with Concrete Blonde's bassist/lead vocalist Johnette Napolitano. Part One of our interview can be found here. The band will perform at Fitzgerald's this Sunday, October 30, with Girl In a Coma. RO: In talking about cultural differences between Amer ... More >>