Subject: Steve Albini

• Banana Flambé

  Caution: Improper use of Melt-Banana may lead to tissue damage

  June 26, 2003

• Neo Nuthin'

  The Fleshtones have got your garage-rock revival hanging low

  August 28, 2003

• Artist of the Week: Shit City High

  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. Regardless of genre, a musician's sound indirectly reflects his or her identity. To wit, some females are dainty pretty girls by nature; these girls typically own an all white power-suit and/or dress. Some have been through

  January 14, 2009

• Critic's Choice

  June 8, 1995

• Rotation

  July 4, 1996

• Rotation

  March 20, 1997

• Letters

  April 10, 1997

• Rotation

  April 2, 1998

• Rotation

  April 16, 1998

• Artist of the Week: Guitars

  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. Erin Krimian/ courtesy GuitarsLook, the last thing we want to do is come off as chauvinistic or sexist or anything like that, but we really dig indie bands where the lead singer is female. It's hard to quantify th

  February 25, 2009

• Dirty But Honest

  June 18, 1998

• Rotation

  November 5, 1998

• Bop Lite

  February 18, 1999

• Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

  Road Warrior

  March 19, 2009

• We're All Gonna Die

  So you might as well rock out with XBXRX

  November 3, 2005

• The Science of Pop

  Do we really need a formula for perfect music?

  May 29, 2008

• The Stooges

  The Weirdness

  March 29, 2007

• The Jonx

  No Turn Jonx Red

  January 25, 2007

• Nirvana

  Nirvana: In Utero -- A Classic Album Under Review

  November 23, 2006

• Joanna Newsom

  Ys

  November 9, 2006

• Shellac

  Saturday, June 10, at Numbers, 300 Westheimer, 713-526-6551

  June 8, 2006

• Pelican, with Mono

  Sunday, May 21, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-862-2513

  May 18, 2006

• Girls' Night Out

  Le Tigre and Electrelane bring an evening of transatlantic feminist mayhem to the Engine Room. Don't worry, boys -- you can come too.

  July 28, 2005

• Take Me Out...

  ...to the ball game. Lauding baseball-in-rock's finest moments.

  May 26, 2005

• Playbill

  October 14, 2004

• Playbill

  September 9, 2004

• Playbill

  June 3, 2004

• Ride Like the Wind

  NASA scientists fear tepid response when aliens encounter Christopher Cross

  January 22, 2004

• Hit the Road, Jack. Permanently.

  According to former Houstonians the Business Machines, that's the only way to get a career

  October 9, 2003

• Just Do It

  Selling out isn't on Michael W. Dean's list

  March 20, 2003

• Bellini

  Snowing Sun (Monitor)

  February 13, 2003

• New Bands from Old

  Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

  January 30, 2003

• Number One with a Bullet

  Our take on "rare" Nirvana

  January 9, 2003

• Flogging Molly

  Friday, March 29

  March 28, 2002

• Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Poison

  August 13, 2009