Subject: TV on the Radio

• Is There a Doctor in the House?

  March 28, 2007

• Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey

  July 13, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Scarlett Johansson Teams Up with Dave Sitek, Is Totally Hot

  August 3, 2007

• Proletariat’s Denise Ramos: “It Just Didn’t Make Sense for Me to Keep Dealing with This”

  December 13, 2007

• SXSW: Carbon/Silicon, Ting Tings, Santogold, MGMT, The Cribs, White Rabbits, Supersuckers and Robyn

  March 15, 2008

• Aftermath: The Walkmen, Little Ones and Young Mammals at Walter's on Washington

  October 10, 2008

• Aftermath: TV on the Radio at House of Blues

  October 30, 2008

• Top Ten Indie Rock Albums of 2008

  In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling variations on what were once sure things while desperately searching for career exit strategies that don't involve tall buildings, open windows and running leaps. As a result, fringier artists have ha

  December 23, 2008

• Were These Really the Best Songs of 2008?

  The Gutter Twins Maybe Rocks Off spent a lot of 2008 with his head in the archives, but he was paying attention to new stuff too. Occasionally. It's as easy as satellite radio, channel 47's (Ethel/Alt Nation) weekly new-music hour Submission/Transmission. Monday night, S/T happened to be playing its picks for the past year. One thing is immediately apparent: the '90s are back, big time. The Black Keys' "Strange Times" is total Soundgarden, the Kills' "Tape Song" almost out-Breeders Kim Deal

  December 30, 2008

• The Best Videos of 2008, Part 1

  10. TV on the Radio, "The Golden Age" 9. Arcade Fire, "Black Mirror" 8. The Kills, "U R A Fever"

  December 31, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 7

  Jay-Z, House of Blues, October 16: "Jay-Z and his dozen-man band tore through the Brooklyn rapper's phone-book-thick catalog -- topped by the thunderstruck, 'Back in Black'-­borrowing "99 Problems" -- as Bun B, several Houston Texans (and Texans Cheerleaders) and the rest of the sold-out house got their swerve on in high style." Butthole Surfers, Meridian, October 23: "I can't speak for the band, but frontman Gibby Haynes was either on something unknown to even Central American shamen or

  January 2, 2009

• Annual Pazz & Jop Results Released

  Congrats, TV on the Radio! This morning our sister paper in Manhattan's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop poll, where hundreds of music writers and editors rank their favorite albums of the past year in what has to be an absolute nightmare for the people who actually compile the thing. Participants are given 100 points to among their favorite ten albums and singles. Check it out here. Unsurprisingly, TV on the Radio's Dear Science - which top

  January 21, 2009

• Aftermath: The Killers at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Torey Mundkowsky Next year this decade will be over, and very few new bands have distinguished themselves either at the turnstiles or the cash register. Even one of the main ones that has, the Killers, chose to hit the theater circuit this winter after releasing its third album, Day & Age, instead of risking arenas - in most places, that is; about two weeks ago, the Vegas quartet and friends acquitted themselves at Madison Square Garden quite nicely. In the pro

  February 3, 2009

• Tonight: Erykah Badu at the Arena Theatre

  Marc Baptiste/ courtesy www.baduworld.comLast week, Rocks Off had the distinct pleasure of chatting with R&B Earth mother Erykah Badu as she looked after her brood at her South Dallas home. The first part of our interview appears in this week's print issue and online here. Here's the rest. Rocks Off: How have you managed to stay so independent within the structure of the major-label music business? Erykah Badu: I don't know. I'm not trying to do anything in particular. I just do what

  March 6, 2009

• Playing Favorites

  April 2, 2009

• R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystique

  Ankh-ology

  March 5, 2009

• The Year in Albums

  December 25, 2008

• TV on the Radio: Dear Science

  October 23, 2008

• This One Time at BandCamp

  October 16, 2008

• House of Blues Changes Houston's Live Music Landscape Before Even Opening

  August 14, 2008

• Foals: Antidotes

  June 19, 2008

• Goodbye, Proletariat

  The Montrose clubhouse is closing. What now?

  January 10, 2008

• Radiohead and In Rainbows

  The band's most blogged-about barn in America

  November 1, 2007

• Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

  October 18, 2007

• How Classic Is Classic Rock?

  June 4, 2009

• Exile on Main Street

  Racket and the new guy take the annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase plunge

  August 2, 2007

• Local Motion

  July 19, 2007

• No Sleep for Brooklyn

  Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns...bombastically bleak as ever

  May 24, 2007

• TV on the Radio

  TV on the Radio performs Friday, April 6, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

  April 5, 2007

• Independence Day

  What's indie rock? Who cares? Here's ten great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition

  December 14, 2006

• Junior Boys

  So This Is Goodbye

  September 14, 2006

• The Raw Power of Really Smooth Music

  Climb aboard the Yacht Rock revolution at this week's Michael McDonald/Steely Dan show

  July 13, 2006

• Celebration, with TV on the Radio

  Saturday, April 22, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700

  April 20, 2006

• Freestyle Fellowship

  Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio

  December 8, 2005

• Christmas in July

  Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

  July 21, 2005

• Local Rotation

  January 13, 2005

• Smells Like Indie Spirit

  Music that made the world safe for the word ³alternative² again

  December 23, 2004

• Smells Like Indie Spirit

  Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again

  December 23, 2004

• Midtown Honky-tonkin'

  Trains and the vintage sounds of the Swank Countrypolitans bring a time warp to the Continental Club

  January 15, 2004

• Dear Sy~3nc3

  May 7, 2009

• Going Viral

  May 14, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: MELOVINE, the Snake Charmers, LL Cooper, Peekaboo Theory and Buxton

  Mark C. AustinThe Snake Charmers take a breather after bluesing up Martell's.​ It was hot as hell when the Houston Press music staff met up at the Flying Saucer ordering different shades of exotic beers and several different kinds of cheese. Bands were divided up between writers, and pretty much everyone got to go see the Tontons but us. Aftermath has never seen metal in the afternoon before, so it was nice to have MELOVINE start the evening off with a first. After being sorely disappointed a

  July 27, 2009

• Aftermath: U2 at Reliant Stadium - One Love, We Get to Share It

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshow​A day or two before U2 (and love) came to town, a friend emailed us a joke. At least we think it's a joke. It really doesn't have anything to do with U2, except that it has everything to do with U2. "I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, terrorism attacks, World War III, global warming, my retirement savings, Social Security, my job, national health care and my credit card debt that I called Lifeline. "Got a freakin' call ce

  October 15, 2009

• Where the Boys Aren't: Anna Garza Talks About Bringing Girls Rock Camp to Houston

  Photo courtesy of Anna GarzaThe Girls Rock Camp Houston Board (l-r): April Brem Patrick, Linda Younger, Dianna Ray, Anna Garza​Long before Anna Garza thought that Houston needed a girl-centric music camp, she put the city on the map as a viable tour stop for indie bands as talent buyer for booking collective Hands Up Houston. Bringing the Bayou City artists like Blonde Redhead, Coco Rosie and TV on the Radio, the collective proved to be one of the most successful local ventures of its time. Ga

  October 22, 2009

• A Rocks Off Playlist: Halloween Songs That Don't Suck

  Yeah... screw this thing.​Let's face it: the Monster Mash blows. So do many of the songs we're forced to suffer through every Halloweentide. A couple of years ago, Rocks Off heard "One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater" on XM Radio's Halloween-themed channel, and wanted to sneak into a haunted house and hang himself just like that urban legend. We won't put you through that. Instead, we've compiled a playlist of a bunch of songs with spooky themes that won't make you want to hunt down

  October 29, 2009

• Never Mind Twilight, Here Are the Best Werewolf and Vampire Music Videos

  ​ Werewolves and vampires have been at each others' throats long before Twilight: New Moon (opening tomorrow) had them making pouty duck-faces at one another. Thankfully, the tradition of the vampire and the werewolf in the art of the music video is a much richer one than the antics of the crybaby douchemobiles in the Twilight series would suggest. The Kills, "Black Balloon" This video puts a gritty, almost documentary-style spin on the vampire, which is a refreshing change from the usual gla

  November 19, 2009