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January 11, 2001
Shelf Life
Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing
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June 27, 1996
Sound Check
Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing
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February 13, 1997
They're the Queers, They're Here
Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing
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November 13, 1997
Too Much Genius
Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing
Music
July 23, 1998
Reconstructing Brian
The troubled creative light behind the Beach Boys salvages himself and -- to an extent -- his music
Music
April 15, 1999
Rotation
The troubled creative light behind the Beach Boys salvages himself and -- to an extent -- his music
Music
April 15, 1999
Beach Gents
Good ole vibrations from the Beach Boys this summer
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December 4, 2008
News on the March
Good ole vibrations from the Beach Boys this summer
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October 30, 2008
"Gulf Coast Beach Boys" the Coastliners Return...with the Beach Boys
Still 'Alright'
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September 18, 2008
The Queers
Still 'Alright'
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May 29, 2008
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
This 1994 Sundance Filmmakers Trophy winner documents the life of one of Russia’s greatest inventors
Music
May 29, 2008
The Science of Pop
Do we really need a formula for perfect music?
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October 25, 2007
Dr. Dog
Do we really need a formula for perfect music?
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May 18, 2009
Slide Show and Bonus MP3: Albums Influenced by the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Sgt. Pepper's was only the beginning... To celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the Beach Boys' sonically revolutionary album Pet Sounds - released May 16, 1966 - Rocks Off is featuring a cavalcade of albums which have, according to critics, fans, friends of the artist or even the artists themselves, b ... More >>
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June 29, 2000
Watt Go Surfing Now
The Beach Boys
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June 14, 2007
Lost Albums
CDs that deserve another listen
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November 10, 2005
dios (malos), with Swords and Go Spread Your Wings
Saturday, November 12, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Avenue, 713-864-2727.
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July 28, 2005
He's So Klute
Tom Withers drops his drum 'n' bass on Clark's
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October 21, 2004
Half Smile
Brian Wilson's long-delayed magnum opus fails to topple Pet Sounds from its pedestal
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July 25, 2002
The Vines
Saturday, July 27
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June 28, 2001
The Beach Boys
Hawthorne, CA: Birthplace of a Musical Legacy (Capitol)
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September 7, 2000
The Imposters
Poseurs are performing under famous band names, including one with a Houston connection
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July 20, 2000
Shored Up
Brian Wilson returns from hell to inhabit a self he hasn't seen since the '60s
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May 6, 1999
Letters
Brian Wilson returns from hell to inhabit a self he hasn't seen since the '60s
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August 25, 2009
Stranger Musical Pairings Than Dancing With the Stars' Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke
Dancing With the Stars announced the pairings for its upcoming season Monday - like you care - and while some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and...that Russian chick in the finals, local interest is still focused on fo ... More >>
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November 3, 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 ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Aftermath: Surfer Blood, More Than the Poor Man's Vampire Weekend, at Mango's
Photos by Craig Hlavaty One can sit around all day and wax faux intelligent about where a band gleams their influences from. It's armchair quarterbacking for the kind of folks who wake up in the middle of Sunday afternoon and could give a good goddamn about 100 yards and monied monoliths of bro. ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Distant Early Warning: Akron/Family, Beach Boys, Dark Star Orchestra, Jonathan Richman, Noah & the Whale, Xiu Xiu, etc.
Akron/Family, Warpaint: Tue., Feb. 23. Walter's on Washington. The Beach Boys: Fri., March 19. Jones Hall. Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys: Fri., Feb. 26. Continental Club. The Boxmasters: Fri., Dec. 18. Fitzgerald's. Dark Star Orchestra: Thu., March 4. House of Blues. Eddie Griffin: Sat., Jan ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
Rooney
Akron/Family, Warpaint: Tue., Feb. 23. Walter's on Washington. The Beach Boys: Fri., March 19. Jones Hall. Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys: Fri., Feb. 26. Continental Club. The Boxmasters: Fri., Dec. 18. Fitzgerald's. Dark Star Orchestra: Thu., March 4. House of Blues. Eddie Griffin: Sat., Jan ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
Eyeballin: James Brown Cape-Walks Away With The T.A.M.I. Show
Often written about, mythologized, and showing up in clips on rock docs and YouTube, the 1964 concert movie The T.A.M.I. Show has amazingly never been released in uncut format until now. And though it was shot in black and white, the exuberance and energy of the concert overcomes any pigmentation pr ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
A Weird Pop Heaven Via Bay City's "Happy Radio"
Along Rocks Off's various Texas travels, we almost never listen to an iPod or compact discs anymore. Anything we could pop in wouldn't match the rhythm of the road; the Stooges or Metallica don't really jive with Highways 59, 71 or 77. In today's world of satellite radios, streaming tunes on your ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
What If The Beatles Broke Up After Revolver?
Thursday is the 44th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' pivotal Revolver, an album that continued their growth away from their boy-band roots and into something stranger, better and far more complex. 1965's Rubber Soul had started the transformation with its multiple psychedelic influ ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Rocks Off's 10 Favorite Family Bands
Tonight Kings of Leon plays their fourth Houston date in three years at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. The band of three Followill brothers and one cousin can't stay away from us, or touring, or recording. This date precedes the upcoming release of the band's new album, Come Around Sund ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Capital Steps
Dispatches from ACL 2010
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October 26, 2010
Five Ways Rock Stardom Is Like Your Boring Office Job
All photos from work.failblog.orgThe Beach Boys are mired in a controversy resulting from accusations that they lip-synced at an Australian concert last Saturday. That just goes to prove something we've known all along. Namely, that being a rock star isn't all that different from being one of ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Sleigh Bells: Not Just For Christmas Anymore
Christmastime: A time for family, for giving, and much to the displeasure of many, a time for incessantly grating holiday music. Christmas spirit frozen in cheesy songs monopolizes radio stations and relentlessly stalks our every step. A key component of much holiday music is often the percu ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
The Galleria Is Hardly A Winter Wonderland
confarta.comRocks Off, like the rest of you, hasn't finished all of our holiday shopping. Every Christmas, we tell ourselves that we'll begin earlier next year, but it never quite pans out the way we want it to. Ain't that feeling all too familiar? While we braved the crowds at the Galleria ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
10 Uncool Artists Primed For Hipster Rediscovery
Tumblr"Aw, dammit, I grabbed Dad's iPod by mistake. Paul Simon... is that one guy, or two Beatles?" Remember emo kids? Only a few short years ago, the nation's venues of the nation were filled with kids in all black, wearing ultra-skinny jeans, eyeliner, white belts, and identical chopped-mea ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Match These Bands With Their Awful Original Names
Provided they didn't take the easy way out and name themselves after a song (Rolling Stones), their hometown (Boston) or each other (Hall & Oates), almost every band that went on to sell millions of records, get tons of radio play and sell out arenas has had some form of the following convers ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
25 Famous Bands' Less Famous Previous Names
As promised, here are the answers to Rocks Off's "Original Band Name" quiz from Tuesday. John St. Lee, if you'd care to email us, we'll see what we can do about getting you a prize. Do you like Devo? 1. Chicago: At about 25 or 6 to 4, the Windy City jazz-rockers realized The Big Thing sucked ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
The United States Of Music
Monica FuentesFull-size image belowRocks Off's sister blog Hair Balls did it with murderers and serial killers. Food blog Eating Our Words, riled the beer snobs with one about the best beers from each state in the union, and a teetotaling follow-up chronicling the best soda pops. For the pas ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
SXSW: The Best Things Come In Small Packages
Brittanie SheyThe VandellesIf we'd been playing SXSW bingo yesterday, Rocks Off would have scored multiple squares for animal hats and "more badges than clothing." We spied a guy in a Borat swimsuit (sooo 2007, brah) and had the pleasure/pain of riding our bike behind Leslie Cochran wannabe w ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Pet Sounds: Still Blowing Minds 45 Years Later
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Beach Boys releasing the sonic and social landmark Pet Sounds The album influenced not only generations of bedroom producers and sad-eyed romantics, but also pushed the Beatles to create their own headphone masterpiece in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club B ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Pit Crew
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. prefer the Beach Boys to NASCAR.
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June 20, 2011
Happy Birthday Brian Wilson: His Modern Indie-Rock Offspring
Brian Wilson in watery reposeToday, ace pop-music architect and Beach Boys talisman Brian Wilson turns 69. In his nearly 50-year (!) wake of music he has helped give rise to generations of shameless copycats and other reverent rockers who find inspiration in his musical style. Obviously, th ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
The 10 Most Horrible Music-Biz Bosses
The movie Horrible Bosses comes out today, and while the heinous supervisors in question all work in areas unrelated to entertainment, this shouldn't be taken to mean the music industry is free of bad managers and executives. Rocks Off knows if anything, the music biz has had more than its fa ... More >>
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September 18, 2011
ACL: Batman's Bale At Bingham, Nick 13 is a 10 On Sunday Afternoon
Marco Torresoh hai Batman!The widget on our phone says it's only 91 degrees here at Zilker Park but we don't believe that voodoo. The humidity and heat pounding the park reminds us of Houston. We smell Pasadena and our fair city's taco trucks all the way from Austin. Our day started by walk ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Glen Campbell's 15 Greatest Hits - As A Guitarist
Yet another reason to love Pet Sounds.In a few hours, Rocks Off will be down at the Stafford Centre, watching the sold-out first Houston-area stop on Glen Campbell's extended "Farewell Tour." It might be the only one, but the tour is booked well into 2012, so we figure there's got to be a Dos ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Beach Boys Reunite for New Album, Ensure Armageddon.
Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. We were wrong last time, but we're totally right this time! White House Photo OfficeThe Beach Boys with Ronald and Nancy Reagan̴ ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
No-Fun Number Ones: The Worst Chart Toppers Since Tiffany
Denim never dies.It's no secret that chart success is no real guarantor of musical quality. Hell, "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" went number one way back in 1952, pissing kids off so badly that they had to invent rock 'n roll. Twenty-five years ago this week, however, Billboard ... More >>
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