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May 16, 2012
Summer Fest Releases Schedule & Stage Times
Time to make some hard choices, folks. Free Press Summer Fest just released the schedule for this year's two-day event June 2 and 3 in Eleanor Tinsley Park.
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May 4, 2012
How Bizarre: How the Hell Are These Songs All 15 Years Old?
"Simple. Fifteen years have gone by." Nineteen ninety-seven may have been one of the most magical years in trash-pop history. You had the Spice Girls, Hanson, Shania Twain, Puff Daddy, Toni Braxton and Aqua burning up the radio as old-timers like David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and Elton John made retu ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Summer Fest Adds Pretty Lights, Erykah Badu, 3 Dozen Locals
After raising ticket prices Monday night, Free Press Summer Fest announced more headliners Thursday morning. What are you getting for that extra dough? How about Pretty Lights, Erykah Badu, Fitz & the Tantrums, Phantogram, R3hab, David Garza? Respectively, that's one Colorado EDM space cadet, one ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Summer Fest Ticket Prices Go Up At 10 p.m.; More Talent "Soon-Ish"
Free Press Summer Fest is increasing ticket prices tonight, with a promise to compensate by adding more talent to the two-day music festival on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. According to FPSF's email blast this morning, the price of passes will go up at 10 p.m. tonight, and the festival will announce ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
'90s Soundtrack Battle: Angus & Batman Forever Duke It Out
The movies couldn't be any more different. One is about an obese, kindly high school guy with a heart of gold. The other is about an crime-fighting millionaire orphan inside a cartoonish world full of super-villains, cringe-worthy puns, and Jim Carrey at his muggiest. Obvious Angus is a bette ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Four Local Bands to Keep an Eye On in 2012
At the tail end of 2011 these bands seemed to be popping up on bills more and more frequently. And it looks like they have no intentions of slowing down. Now, some of y'all grumps out there might just see them as competition, but not me, I look forward to seeing the audiences for these up and coming ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Snubs Rush...Again
Photo by Jeff BalkeA couple years ago, I was sitting on the back porch at the Continental Club talking music with a fairly well known music writer who seemed to believe that anything with a big hook or the slightest inkling of musicianship beyond the garage band aesthetic was utter garbage. I ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Huh-Huh-Huh: 20 Bands Beavis and Butt-Head Turned Us Onto
Next Monday, Beavis and Butt-Head returns to MTV with original episodes for the first time in 14 years. The final episode of the show's original run aired on November 28, 1997, and marked the closing of a chapter of our lives. Not only were they instrumental in forming our vocabulary - fartkn ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Out Today: New West Strikes Gold On Robert Ellis, Old 97's Discs
It's a light batch this week as far as new releases go, with the Independence Day holiday cutting into the label's schedules. As it stands now, Rocks Off is holding a jug of coffee in our hands to try to wake up from the food and chill-time coma we embarked on last Friday. We are surely not in th ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Ponderosa Gives House Of Blues A Mouthful
Photos by Jason WolterRocks Off is usually ambivalent, at best, about restaurant shows. One of the few times we're not interested in live music at all is when we're eating, and we imagine we're hardly the only person who feels that way. Strolling violinists and mariachi groups especially get ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Last Night: Weezer At Free Press Summer Fest
Ed. Note: Much more on Summer Fest to come throughout the day. Jim BrickerWeezer Free Press Summer Fest Eleanor Tinsley Park June 5, 2011 For almost two hours on Sunday night, Weezer led a sea of thousands through some of the saddest and happiest times of their lives an their 18-song set of ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
The 25 Most Influential Bands Of The '90s
Trent Reznor, you know, before the Oscar and all the weightlifting. As a music writer, we are asked constantly to compare the new with the old, to decipher the periphery where modern bands' influences come from to understand where we are going and what we are seeing. We can hear everything Ke ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Out Today: Danger Mouse In Rome, Nick Cave & Queen Reissued
It's back to the usual grind for Rocks Off after last night's late-night Austin City Limits Festival lineup announcement. Sadly, we will not be seeing the Foo Fighters play songs from Wasting Light in Austin come September. And yes, still playing it, along with a steady diet of Guns N' Roses. ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
The Ultimate Musical Space Shuttle Crew
The first man to ever leave the Earth and venture into space was a Russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin, who, if he hadn't died at the young age of 34 in a plane crash he would be 77 years old today. Garagrin was launched into space on April 12, 1961, and orbited once around the planet in 108 ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Friday Night: Joe Ely Band At Rockefeller Hall
Photos by Jason WolterJoe Ely Band Rockefeller Hall February 11, 2011 Saturday night, almost exactly 24 hours after the Joe Ely Band's triumphant return to Rockefeller's Rockefeller Hall, Aftermath and a friend were chatting on Facebook about Houston's current bumper crop of up-and-coming in ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
The Irrepressibles Stage A Mirror Mirror Spectacle
Last year, Rocks Off was completely caught off guard by the sheer, unholy awesomness of The Irrepressibles. Director Roy Raz set their then-unreleased song "In This Shirt" to one of the most amazing and innovative music videos ever in a short film he called The Lady is Dead. The video, in add ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
"Come On Buick, Light My Fire."
Not official Nike footwear.Like most of Western society, I'd figured I was pretty much numb to the use of popular songs in commercials. I don't know how far back the practice dates, exactly, but I remember the anecdote from No One Here Gets Out Alive about Jim Morrison shooting down the sugge ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
ACL Day 3 Recap: Eagles, Norah Jones, Wayne Coyne's Diet
Ed. Note: Updated at 1:42 p.m. to include information on Don Henley's medical condition we received from Eagles manager Irving Azoff. Photos by Marco TorresIt's just a few hours after the Eagles left the stage at this year's Austin City Limits Festival, closing out the weekend. Rocks Off mad ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
ACL Day 3 Recap: Flaming Lips, The National, And We're Out!
Photos by Marco TorresIf there was one band this member of Aftermath was most looking forward to seeing at ACL this weekend, it was the Flaming Lips. But explaining why requires a bit of a backstory. From 1980 to 2003 (the first 23 years of our life) we lived in Oklahoma City. In the early-' ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
What If The KTRU And Fitzgerald's Sales Were Reversed?
Rocks Off is quite keen on alternate realities, the kind where The Joker is actually a superhero or Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four. That kind of thing. This summer has seen two of Houston's seemingly most-stable institutions thrown into complete chaos. First, Sara Fitzgerald turned ove ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Pat Green Or Monkeys Riding Dogs? A July 4 Dilemma Solved
Sunday, the City of Houston will celebrate our fine country's independence from the Redcoats in the same way it does every single other year, with the self-proclaimed "Largest Land-Based Fireworks Show in the Nation," Freedom Over Texas. This year, the festival's blander-than-white-bread head ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Blogging From Bonnaroo: Damien Marley and Nas, Tori Amos, Steve Martin
Photo by Mark C. Austin/See a slideshowHouston artist Tyagaraja recently won the Ford Fiesta Team Houston Battle of The Bands, the grand prize of which was a trip to perform at the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. Meghan Hendley, keyboardist/vocalist for Tyagaraja, reports back to us wit ... More >>
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June 8, 2010
Adios Summerfest, Until Next Year
Marc Brubaker Black CongressSophomore slumps apparently don't apply to Summerfest, seeing that Saturday and Sunday they came out swinging all over Eleanor Tinsley Park and Allen Parkway with Girl Talk, Slim Thug and Bun B, and the Flaming Lips, alongside dozens of Houston's best local band ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Flaming Lips Close Summerfest With Love And Lasers
Marco Torres Houston, you don't get a spectacle like this but maybe once a year. Last October we had U2 with the Claw inside Reliant Stadium, putting on a show that literally had the building shaking with spirit and goodwill. Sunday night at Eleanor Tinsley Park, the Flaming Lips closed the secon ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Fat Tony, Uh Huh Her, Slim & Bun Beat The Summerfest Heat
Eggs/ breakfastontour.comFat Tony popped up during the Eastern Sea's set as well.For years, Aftermath has listened to young people complain about Houston's (supposed) lack of a music scene. He has even been guilty of believing it at times - hey, we were all young once. But over the weekend, Summe ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Rocks Off's Handy Summerfest Survival Guide
Shelby HohlThere's a slim chance you may have already heard that our distinguished competition, Free Press Houston, is throwing a little shindig this weekend, which they have for some reason chosen to call Summerfest. We understand it's some kind of outdoor festival and a couple of bands fr ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Flaming Lips Still On For Summerfest... For Now
Neuski via flickr.com The Grand Ole Opry, which was supposed to celebrate its 85th birthday party May 25, is currently underwater, like most of Nashville (above). Nashville Public Radio is reporting that the Cumberland River crested at a whopping 52 feet. When does hurricane season start aga ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
Dr. Dog, Deer Tick
Neuski via flickr.com The Grand Ole Opry, which was supposed to celebrate its 85th birthday party May 25, is currently underwater, like most of Nashville (above). Nashville Public Radio is reporting that the Cumberland River crested at a whopping 52 feet. When does hurricane season start aga ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
Your Guide To The Annual March Music Invasion Of Texas
March can be a harrowing, exhausting time to be a music fan in Texas. Or it can be the most exhilarating time of all.Everyone knows about the monster that is SXSW. It can be far too easy to be overwhelmed by options, last-minute hype and logistical nightmares. Luckily, this week's feature provide ... More >>
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February 15, 2010
It's True: Flaming Lips Headlining Summerfest In First Houston Show In 8 Years
In case you hadn't already heard (like on our Twitter feed), the Flaming Lips are this year's headliner for Free Press Summerfest, the Oklahoma psych-rockers' first Houston appearance since their joint tour with Beck stopped at Jones Hall back in 2002. The Free Press' Omar Afra and Pegstar's Jagi K ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Rocks Off's 2010 Predictions: The Fate of Owl City, Chingo Bling vs. Chamillionaire, the Next Twilight Soundtrack and Madchester In Katy
www.flickr.com/photos/dherholz/ Adam Young of Owl City will mystify the scientific community, yet surprise no one in the music community, when he is hacked in half in a freak sawmill accident, and it's discovered he is filled with gummi bears. The Arcade Fire/Flaming Lips feud is resolved when ... More >>
Music
December 17, 2009
Damaged
Surly one-man Houston feedback storm Jon Read, a.k.a. The Wiggins, stays solo.
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December 10, 2009
He Said She Said: Our Christmas Musical Wishlists
She Said's music listening habits have become so lazy thanks to the Internet. She can barely bring herself to pay for a full CD any more when there's so much awesome music for free online. She can't even remember the last time she bought a full CD in the concrete, plastic wrap and all. That said, ... More >>
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November 19, 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 ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2009
Ghosts of Washington Avenue
Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.
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July 8, 2009
Aftermath: The McKenzies, the Howlies and Springfield Riots at the Mink
Photos by Chris GrayThe McKenzies To Aftermath, the Mink's Backroom has always seemed more like a house than a music venue - especially inside, with the dark floors, corner bars and abundant, comfortable seating, it's like one of those cozy but spacious multi-resident dwellings where we all went to ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
(Another) Local Album of the Week: Spain Colored Orange's Sneaky Like a Villain
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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October 2, 2008
The Best of ACL Fest
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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May 8, 2008
Dark Meat with Quiet Hooves
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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December 13, 2007
Dizzy Pilot: Shit Out the Bones
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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August 9, 2007
Prodigal Players
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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July 13, 2007
Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey
Spain Colored Orange Sneaky Like a Villain www.myspace.com/spaincolouredorange Thanks to differences with Spain Colored Orange's former label Lucid Records, the songs on the local psych-pop quintet's brand-new disc Sneaky Like a Villain are already old hat to the band members. For the rest of u ... More >>
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March 8, 2007
Downloading Music
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April 13, 2006
The Flaming Lips
At War with the Mystics
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January 12, 2006
Bayou City Music Mindbender, Part II
Another chance to test your knowledge of local lore
Music
December 1, 2005
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, with Drop Trio
Thursday, December 1, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.
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September 8, 2005
Letters
Thursday, December 1, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.
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August 26, 2004
Like a Prayer
FrenetiCore's latest production sings praise without being preachy
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January 29, 1998
Labor of Love
For Austin's Sixteen Deluxe, fun and hard work are one and the same
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May 16, 1996
Same Old Sir
For Austin's Sixteen Deluxe, fun and hard work are one and the same
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