Subject: Stevie Nicks

• Break the Chain

  April 17, 2007

• We’re Getting the Band Back Together! Or Should We?

  July 24, 2007

• John Royal's Astros Recap. In Song.

  October 2, 2007

• The Houston 100: The Master List

  October 4, 2007

• Last Night: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Super Bowl XLII

  February 4, 2008

• Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More

  May 1, 2008

• Variations on "Hotel California"

  September 9, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Meet Lena Anderssen

  September 18, 2008

• Retro Active: The Five Best '80s Christmas Songs

  Christmas seems to activate a latent part of all musicians' brains that inspires them to spread their holiday cheer all over a perfectly good season. (The scientific term for this part of the brain is called "My Accountant.") Musicians in the '80s were certainly not exempt from this need to whip out their yule logs, and, as with most things back then, the results were often mediocre and pastel-colored. However, there are a few Christmas songs from that decade that were notable for either th

  December 11, 2008

• Fleetwood Mac to Unleash at Toyota Center

  "Go Your Own Way," live in L.A. on 1982's Mirage tour Live Nation announced this morning that soft-rock supergroup Fleetwood Mac - who put the "fun" in dysfunction while going on to sell more than 10 million copies of 1977's Rumors, scheduled to be re-released this year in expanded CD/DVD form - has added a second leg to its greatest-hits "Unleashed" tour, including a stop at Toyota Center Saturday, May 2. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Monday, January 26 at Live Nation and Ticketmaster's Web

  January 14, 2009

• Even the Normal (Get Lucky Sometime)

  April 13, 1995

• Splendid Isolation

  October 31, 1996

• Hum Along with Marshall

  November 21, 1996

• Rotation

  October 2, 1997

• Is the Mac Truly Back?

  October 30, 1997

• Rotation

  October 15, 1998

• The Sound of Money

  January 7, 1999

• The Year in Albums

  December 25, 2008

• Lindsey Buckingham: Gift of Screws

  October 2, 2008

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• 2 Sweet 2 Tolerate

  July 20, 2006

• Noise Fest '07

  Noise Fest '07 is Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, at Southmore House, 3107 Leeland, 832-885-4228.

  May 31, 2007

• Lindsey Buckingham

  Lindsey Buckingham will perform Friday, January 26, at the Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600.

  January 25, 2007

• The Dean Is Risen

  Some Dean Martin albums we wish existed

  August 3, 2006

• Lindsay Lohan

  A Little More Personal (Raw)

  January 5, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 14, 2005

• Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

  Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

  March 17, 2005

• Classics Rock

  Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

  September 2, 2004

• The Dirty Thirty

  The worst songs of all time from Texas

  April 29, 2004

• Hype This

  Fleetwood Mac opens the Toyota Center, the Chron hyperventilates, and a city grumbles

  October 16, 2003

• The Fringes of Twang

  Calexico and Clem Snide stretch alt-country to the breaking point

  March 13, 2003

• Ruffled Feathers

  The Dixie Chicks and other musicians are fighting for their rights -- and a bigger check

  February 7, 2002

• The Anti-Britney

  Michelle Branch rides a golf cart and real live songs to stardom

  November 29, 2001

• Dress to Be Repressed

  Fashion Fascism

  July 20, 2000

• Ode to a Grecian Way

  Opa! Greek Restaurant: If the food doesn't win you, the floor show will

  December 9, 1999

• Get Lit: Storms: My Life With Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac by Carol Ann Harris

  Barely out of her teens, Carol Ann Harris met Lindsey Buckingham in 1977 while working at the studio where the singer/guitarist was putting the finishing touches on what would be the band's huge international hit album, Rumours. As his live-in girlfriend for the next seven years, she'd accompany him and the band all over the world on tours, in the studio, on exotic vacations and to gala events and parties. And she tells all in this highly readable memoir. Harris' take on the Mac's individual per

  May 1, 2009

• Aftermath: Fleetwood Mac at Toyota Center

  Photos by Jay Lee Every night the band goes onstage, Fleetwood Mac faces a concert onus only a handful of other groups need worry about: Are its songs too iconic? Is the rush of watching Stevie Nicks twirl out "Landslide" or "Rhiannon" live any match for the lifetime (or decades, anyway) of memories, associations and emotions those songs bring forth? Of course not. It's a trick question anyway. For one thing, only a fraction of Saturday night's nearly sold-out Toyota Center crowd - twenty- to si

  May 4, 2009

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Press Music Awards: And The Nominees Are...

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a

  May 21, 2009

• Can't Get It Out of My Head: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

  Jay Lee Rocks Off would wholeheartedly like to wish Ms. Stevie Nicks a very happy birthday today; since she's the epitome of a rock and roll lady, we'll refrain from revealing her actual age. At Fleetwood Mac's Toyota Center concert earlier this month, Nicks seemed to be walking with a limp, and her voice was noticeably raspier than on record, but her performances of "Gypsy," "Sara" - during which she walked over to embrace Lindsey Buckingham near the end, a clearly unrehearsed and utterly movi

  May 26, 2009

• Levon Helm Is 69... and Badass

  Rocks Off is having a little trouble looking his "2009 Year of the Rhino" wall calendar in the eye this morning. He trusted it implicitly until Tuesday, when a friend pointed out that in saluting Stevie Nicks, Miles Davis and Hank Williams Jr. on their birthday, he left out former Band drummer Levon Helm, who turned 69. Considering how much Band Rocks Off has listened to since Helm turned 68, and how many times he's watched The Last Waltz, this is just this side of unforgivable. So, naturally,

  May 27, 2009

• Running the Numbers

  May 28, 2009

• Season of the Witch

  October 22, 2009

• Twelve Musical Fuck Yous Better Than Gov. Ah-nuld's Coded Message

  ​Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​We admit, we never thought he had it in him, but apparently the Governator is capable of human cleverness - just like all non-cybernetic organisms. That is, if we accept that the acrostic in this veto message here isn't just a coincidence (read the first letter of each line in the second and third paragraphs). That's a good one, but this being Rocks Off, we would've preferred Schwarzenegger put his F-U into song form, like these folks.

  October 29, 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 Album" Weezer, fellow Floridians Against Me!, and even a few glimpses of My Morning Jacket in the Surfers' vintage sound. "Swim (to Reach the End)," with its anthemic chorus and echoey vocals, is get

  November 3, 2009