Subject: The Edge (Musician)

• Them’s Fighting Words, Broseph!

  August 1, 2007

• Fuck-off Friday: It’s Too Hot to Work Anyway

  August 10, 2007

• U23D Marq-E = OK

  February 11, 2008

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

  May 1, 2008

• Aftermath: Kings of Leon at Verizon Wireless Theater

  October 29, 2008

• The Five Best Bond Themes

  Critics may have found the 22nd James Bond caper, Quantum of Solace, "grim and downcast" (The New York Times), but audiences didn't seem to mind, turning out in sufficient numbers for Quantum to set a new 007 opening-weekend record of more than $70.4 million (domestic). But never mind the movie - true Bond-philes know the most important action happens before the suave superspy ever appears onscreen: the trademark opening montages that usually suggest both softcore porn and postmodern dance,

  November 18, 2008

• U2 Lace Up Their Dirty "Boots"

  Among, you know, a few other things, the past 24 hours have been the start of a very, very big year for the band Rocks Off affectionately refers to as the Best Band Ever. U2 appeared alongside Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, "One" pal Mary J. Blige and many more as Barack Obama's opening acts at yesterday's massive "We are One" concert on the National Mall in Washington D.C. "Restraint" is not a word normally associated with Bono and the boys, but they showed it yesterday. Not so much in th

  January 19, 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

• Rotation

  March 6, 1997

• On Beyond Christian Rock

  December 17, 1998

• Recent Super Bowl Halftime Highlights and Lowlights

  January 29, 2009

• Crash Into Me: Predicting the Economy's Impact on the Music Biz

  April 16, 2009

• Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  October 30, 2008

• The Best of ACL Fest

  October 2, 2008

• Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

  July 3, 2008

• Kings of Leon

  With a No. 1 album in the UK, the Kings of Leon are all but exiled from Main Street, USA

  May 10, 2007

• Stealing the Show

  October 19, 2006

• Walk Away, Walk Away

  And we will follow as local music figures recall tales of U2

  October 27, 2005

• Bono for Pontiff

  The only problem: Who could possibly replace him in the arena-rock pantheon?

  April 28, 2005

• Onward, Christian Rockers

  Out of nowhere comes the Finalist, the latest Houston rock band to sign a major-label deal

  April 7, 2005

• Playbill

  March 10, 2005

• How to Dismantle an Atomic Mom

  A critic debates the merits of U2's latest with his mother

  November 25, 2004

• The Walkmen

  Bows + Arrows (Record Collection)

  March 11, 2004

• Cold Relief

  Radio wild card Coldplay struts in from the UK with plenty of attitude

  January 23, 2003

• Songbird Silenced

  Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

  October 10, 2002

• Fallout From This Year's Houston Press Holiday Party

  John Lomax leaves the paper to pursue singing career after surprise debut

  December 20, 2001

• Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

  What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it's a radio station, which in an age when people stream Pandora on their iPhones - to say nothing of car stereos with iPod plug-in ports - makes it almost as big a media dinosaur as the printed page. T

  April 29, 2009

• Texas Spider-Man Fans: You Could Be A Broadway Star! (Or, Maybe Not)

  Spider-Man geeks, rejoice!! You may not only get to live out your fantasy -- being Peter Parker and his alter ego -- but you can be a Broadway star!! Or, on the other hand, you can participate in a huge publicity stunt. They're making a musical out of Spiderman, complete with a new (to us, anyway) hyphen in the name. (Hey, a little research shows he's always had the hyphen. Who knew?) Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, otherwise known as the two U2 dude

  May 22, 2009

• Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 2: Blondie, Green Day, U2 and More

  There are so many artists coming to Houston this summer and fall who should pick up on the "classic album" trend Rocks Off could hardly stop at just five. See our picks for Nos. 6-10 here. 5. Blondie (Arena Theater, August 23) Album: Eat to the Beat (Chrysalis, 1979) After 1978's Giorgio Moroder-assisted "Heart of Glass" ripped Blondie's CBGB past to shreds but brought the band massive pop success, Eat to the Beat, which opens with the practically perfect "Dreaming," continued down those paralle

  July 8, 2009

• The Quotable Bono

  October 8, 2009

• Five Great U2 Songs Even the Band Has Probably Forgotten About

  Well, now you've seen the set list from Monday's U2 Dallas show, and it's pretty short on both pre-Joshua Tree songs and surprises in general. This will be Rocks Off's eighth U2 show since 1992, and we can't remember ever having seen the band do "The Unforgettable Fire" live, but besides the No Line on the Horizon stuff, everything else we have. So instead of cuing up "One" - which we fully expect to be played at our funeral - or "Where the Streets Have No Name" for the 16 millionth time,

  October 13, 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

• The Best U2 Songs Not Actually Written by U2

  Anton Corbijn​U2 is one of the biggest, most influential rock bands of all time. Their sound has changed over the years, yet remains unique. Thanks mostly to The Edge's signature guitar playing, they've invented entire chunks of pop-rock along the way, and you know what that means: they've been ripped off. But sometimes, that's okay. Rock and roll bands steal from one another all the time - some would argue U2 themselves have been guilty of this - and the results aren't always dreadful. Here a

  October 14, 2009

• Rocks Off's Self-Guided Tour of U2's Stage Setup, and Other Fun Stuff We Learned About the Most Gargantuan Tour In Rock History

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshowYes, "The Claw" is really fookin' huge.​"At a certain point, the only thing you can compare it to is the Stones. I've done the Stones. This is bigger." That's Jake Berry, Production Director for U2's 360 Tour, talking about the gargantuan "Claw" configuration stagehands were in the final, well, stages of completing at Reliant Stadium Tuesday afternoon at a media preview of the tour. This "Claw" is one of three custom-built for the biggest t

  October 14, 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

• Season of the Witch

  October 22, 2009