Subject: Spinal Tap

• Live Shots: The Police

  July 2, 2007

• Don’t Go To Dubai With Doobie In Your Shoes: A Public Service Announcement From Houstoned Rocks

  March 4, 2008

• King Diamond

  Early recruiter of headbangers

  August 24, 2000

• Joel Osteen Teams Up With Guns N Roses To Rock Your Face Off

  October 31, 2008

• American Potluck

  April 14, 1994

• Hat Trick

  June 30, 1994

• Hole on Halloween

  October 27, 1994

• Static

  April 24, 1997

• Rotation

  May 1, 1997

• Static

  November 27, 1997

• 25 Random Facts About The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

  Logo courtesy HLS&RThe Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo is coming to town this week, the sign that spring can't be far behind.We've promised ourselves for weeks that we would never, ever succumb to the "25 Random Things" meme, or phenomenon, or whatever it is, but we have received in the mail a notice from the federal government that all media outlets must publish at least one such list (Damn you Obama!!)So here are 25 Random Facts About the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo:1. It's

  February 24, 2009

• Spinal Tap Breaking Like the Wind at Jones Hall

  Spinal Tap (and friends), "Big Bottom," Live Earth, Wembley Stadium, London, July 2007 www.unwigged.comLegendary British heavy-metal pioneers Spinal Tap, authors of albums such as Smell the Glove and Shark Sandwich and stars of Rob Reiner's groundbreaking 1984 "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap - who bear a remarkable resemblance to American actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer - announced yesterday they will reunite for an acoustic tour that sto

  March 3, 2009

• Punk Put-On

  December 10, 1998

• Play It Again, Sham

  February 25, 1999

• Random Rodeo and The End of NoTsuOh?

  25 facts about Houston's biggest show

  March 5, 2009

• This is Spinal Tap

  See the first mockumentary

  September 18, 2008

• Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide Soul Calibur IV's Lack of Ideas

  A Bit Force-ed

  August 14, 2008

• Scene But Not Heard

  Houston's student shortage forces the indie scene to go the blue-collar route

  June 7, 2001

• Bayousphere

  July 3, 2008

• Combat Rock

  S.S. Kiss My Ass docks at Super Happy Fun Land

  July 20, 2006

• Blue Cheer

  March 6, 2008

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Worst and Weirdest

  A sampling of some of the most out-there freak-outs and calamitous train wrecks H-Town bands have experienced the last few years

  July 19, 2007

• Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

  Cred Sheet

  June 28, 2007

• Our top DVD picks for the week of August 1.

  August 3, 2006

• Morcheeba

  The Antidote

  January 5, 2006

• Hollywood Holiday

  Judith Owen and Harry Shearer spread some Christmas cheer, L.A.-style

  December 2, 2004

• Playbill

  November 4, 2004

• Children of Bodom, with Iced Earth and Evergrey

  Saturday, May 8

  May 6, 2004

• Zepfest 2004, Featuring No Quarter

  Sunday, April 4

  April 1, 2004

• Fear, and the Toasters

  Friday, January 30

  January 29, 2004

• The Dishes

  3 (File 13)

  December 11, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 6, 2003

• Mighty Mediocre

  Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

  May 8, 2003

• Ironing Out the Kinks

  Infernal Bridegroom Productions resurrects Ray Davies' A Soap Opera after 27 years in rock limbo

  November 7, 2002

• Bowling for Soup

  Saturday, January 5

  January 3, 2002

• Shearer Delight

  The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

  April 26, 2001

• The Man of Many Face

  Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

  October 19, 2000

• The Final Cut

  DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

  May 4, 2000

• Death Camp

  April 23, 1998

• Semi-Spinal Tap Show Moves to House of Blues

  Rocks Off just got word from AEG Live that Friday night's "Unwigged & Unplugged" acoustic show, featuring original Spinal Tap members David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls, has been moved from Jones Hall to House of Blues. Mysteriously, no reason was given, but shows never seem to move from a large venue to a smaller one because they sell too many tickets, now do they?All tickets for Jones Hall will be honored, and more tickets will be available (ahem) 10 a.m. Friday morning at t

  April 30, 2009

• Unwigged & Unplugged

  April 30, 2009

• Behind the Metal

  May 21, 2009

• Eyeballin': The Moody Blues at the Isle of Wight Festival

  Held each year between 1968 and 1970, England's Isle of Wight Festival was the premier outdoor rock party for the British counterculture. The last edition (before its recent revival) proved the largest-attended (600,000!) and best, with a lineup that included Jimi Hendrix in his last major performance, the Doors, the Who, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Sly & The Family Stone and the Moody Blues. The Moodies were coming off a string of successes with albums like In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Thr

  June 11, 2009

• Shacking Up

  June 25, 2009

• The World Salivates At The Thought Of How Bad The New Dallas Cowboys Theme Song Might Be

  The Dallas Cowboys will start the NFL season not only with a new stadium worth over a billion dollars, but with a new theme song we're betting will be worth decidedly less. We can only hope it is as offensively shitty as the team itself.Forbes magazine reports that the team has contracted with a sports-jingle specialist -- a corporation, for crying out loud -- and the company has produced something tentatively titled "Swing It Around (Cowboy Town)."Man, you can smell the crap from here.No one's

  June 30, 2009

• Cutout Bin: The Goldwaters' Liberal-Baiting Folk Songs

  The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals (1964, Greenleaf)​The 1964 presidential election was a pivotal point in our nation's history. After years of the liberal leadership and acronym names of JFK and LBJ, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater sought to take the country in a new direction. Could he win the presidency in the shadow of John F. Kennedy's massively popular legacy? He would need help. The Goldwaters were the brainchild of two brothers from Nashville, Mark and Buford Bates

  August 20, 2009

• In Honor of Michelle Obama and "Shortsgate," the Best Ass Songs of All Time

  In a year when the biggest news stories aren't about war or the environment but a mentally unbalanced woman having a litter of children and the death of a creepy pop singer who hadn't put out a decent album in 25 years, it should come as no surprise that so many people would be up in arms about First Lady Michelle Obama's outrageous decision to wear shorts on Air Force One. On a trip to Arizona. In August. Frankly, we wish more Presidential spouses had gone this route (rumor has it Bes

  August 21, 2009

• With or Without You: Memoirs of a U2 Adolescence and Young Adulthood

  ...I may regret this.​So there was a time, not long ago by geological reckoning, that I was a U2 fan. Growing up during the pre-Internet late 70s/early 80s in a town where the only place to buy music was a Camelot Music in the mall limited your options somewhat. Nevertheless, the Edge's loud, ringing guitar on songs like "I Will Follow" (from Boy) and "Two Hearts Beat As One" (War) sought me out, appealing to that part of my adolescent male brain that liked loud, ringing guitars, and the lyric

  October 14, 2009

• Rocks Off's Picks for This Weekend's Fun Fun Fun Festival

  You can think of this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin as the indie, metal, and hip-hop little brother of the more staid Austin City Limits Music Festival. The fourth edition of the two-day event held in Waterloo Park in Austin starts tomorrow afternoon. Per our stated life path, Rocks Off will be there covering all the bands, fans and assorted debauchery that all that comes with. This year's line-up is rife with musical pioneers, unsung heroes, along with the usual "It" bands that you will

  November 6, 2009