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April 27, 2012
iFest: Top 5 Argentine-American Musicians
The Houston International Festival enters its second weekend tomorrow, with featured musical acts WAR, Joe Louis Walker, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Texas Tornados, Del Castillo, Steel Pulse and lots more. Although iFest's performers come from all over the world, all around the main stages will be the sig ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
5 Bands That Should Break Up Immediately
Music fans are selfish. We might act like we only want what's best for our favorite bands, but the truth is that we really just want what will give us the most gratification. A lot of ink, both real and digital, has been used this year to talk about reunions. And while writers might dissect the mot ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Verizon Wireless Theater Now Known As Bayou Music Center
Verizon Wireless Theater will no longer be known under that name, because owner Live Nation's sponsorship deal with the communication provider has expired. The venue, which holds about 3,000 people within downtown entertainment complex Bayou Place, will now be known as Bayou Music Center. Rocks Off ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Last Night: O'Brother & Junius At Warehouse Live
O'Brother, Junius, The Tempest Warehouse Live March 11, 2012 Check out our slideshow from O'Brother and Junius last night. Maybe it was the gloomy, chilly weather and maybe it was the scads of cold medicines we'd been taking all day, but Rocks Off found ourselves in a weird headspace on Sunday nig ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
In Prog We Trust: Five Progressive Rock Bands You Hate, But Shouldn't
There are some forms of music that struggle to find critical acclaim while others are loved by critics but universally dismissed by the public. Then, there is another group that, despite a loyal and sometimes massive cult following, are disliked by critics and everyday music fans alike. Meet prog-r ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Five - Wait, Six - Great Moments In Lead-Singer Douchery
A few weeks ago, when I saw What Made Milwaukee Famous at the Main Street Block Party, I wanted to like the band's performance, but I just couldn't ignore that the lead singer was texting during his set. Sure, I thought that What Made Milwaukee Famous' cover of Wings' "Let 'Em In" was great and ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
5 Bands Your Musician Friends Love...But You Don't
austinpost.comYep. Robert Plant "copped everything" from this guy.In a 2005 interview with Esquire, Johnny Depp discusses the unwavering authenticity of Hunter S. Thompson, and likens his late friend to another great, often-troubled mind, saying: "...like Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elev ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
The 11 Best Female Rock Bassists of All Time
seanyseult.comWhile there are and have been so many notable women in rock-and-roll, and we'd like to honor them all, we've chosen the specific starting point of recognizing rock's best female bassists. As a bassist, I looked up to nearly each and every one of these women as I learned the bass ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Happy International Youth Day: 6 Songs For The Young
Kenneth FreemanRocks Off has become obsessed lately with finding playlists to celebrated some of the more obscure holidays on the calendar, and thankfully the United Nations is just great at providing those. Today is International Youth Day, a holiday that started in 2000 and is designed to b ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Top 10 Most Underrated Music Video Artists
The Material Girl. The King of Pop (and his sister). The Chili Peppers. Mr. West. Very few artists have become the musical equivalent of the two-sport athlete: Making memorable music and monumental videos. When those people had a new video to premiere, it wasn't a just a video, it was an event. I ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
The Best Summer Movie Soundtracks Of The '90s
This movie is old enough to drive.Summer is officially here, even though it's been ball-dripping sweaty since at least early May. This is also about the time that we are already steeped in big-budget Hollywood summer would-be blockbusters, the kind of movies that have fast-food promotions and ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Top 10 Musician WTF Hobbies
Zazzle.comMusicians are weird. Well, the good ones, at least. It's a little-known, beloved factoid. While artists' news, drama, and private lives are sometimes aired to the point of over-saturation, it becomes more interesting when we learn relatively kept insight into their rockers' offstage ... 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 4, 2011
Lost '90s Songs Houston's The Zone Should Play
A few weekends back, Craig's Hlist spent his whole weekend driving around town running errands listening to 106.9 The Zone, Houston's newest "alternative gold" radio station. In those 48 hours, our entire adolescence flew into our ears, reminding us of most every good and bad moment, at least ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
1991: Best Music Year Ever?
Rocks Off Sr.'s choice for 1991's best album.1991 was one of the biggest years in modern music. It was when metal went pop, radio country ruled, grunge went mainstream, and rap began its climb to chart dominance, even if it was spearheaded by a white candy rapper from Dallas. There were man ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Top 10 Non-Traditional Christmas Songs
"Baby Jesus, born to rock..." Amidst the time of year when we're bombarded with cliché holiday tunes and trite Christmas-carol covers, Rocks Off will now take time to appreciate a few original nontraditional takes on festive songs. Whether they're dismal adaptations of holiday malaise, tale ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
Last Night: Smashing Pumpkins And Jimmy Eat World At Verizon
Photos by GroovehouseStill bleeding: Jimmy Eat WorldBuzzfestivus with Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World Verizon Wireless Theater December 5, 2010 Ringing in the radio-friendly holiday spirit, 94.5 The Buzz welcomed Jimmy Eat World and Smashing Pumpkins to the first night of its annual "Buzz ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World
Photos by GroovehouseStill bleeding: Jimmy Eat WorldBuzzfestivus with Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World Verizon Wireless Theater December 5, 2010 Ringing in the radio-friendly holiday spirit, 94.5 The Buzz welcomed Jimmy Eat World and Smashing Pumpkins to the first night of its annual "Buzz ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Top 10 Double Albums That Should Have Stayed Single
Not all double albums should have been double albums, just as some albums had to be double albums in order for their point to be made. Each case is different with each band or artist. The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia had to be double albums to tell their stories of teenage wastelands and po ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Top Five Musician Twitter Feuds So Far
The times they are a-changin'. Gone are the days of musicians airing bad blood toward one another behind a lyrical veil a la Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dandy Warhols vs. Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ice Cube vs. N.W.A. In our brave new world, Rocks Off has succumbed to the instant-gratific ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Hurt: Concert Injuries In And Out Of The Line Of Duty
Marco TorresAbout ten days ago, my parents and brother came into Houston for Sunday dinner, and I noticed my brother - whom we'll call "John," because that's his name - was limping something awful. It turns out John decided to take a spin in the mosh pit at the end of the Bad Religion show I ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Last Night: Smashing Pumpkins At Warehouse Live
Photos by Marc BrubakerSmashing Pumpkins Warehouse Live September 21, 2010 See photos from last night's jam-packed show. Tuesday night's nearly sold-out Smashing Pumpkins set at Warehouse Live should have been a greatest-hits affair, at least in the eyes of most people who haven't been keep ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Billy Corgan: Still A Smashing Pumpkin, But No Shrinking Violet
Kristin BurnsA couple of weeks back, Rocks Off spoke with the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan for our print edition about the state of the music world, who excites him now and the indie-rock "shell game." The initial interview was only scheduled for 15 minutes but we ended up chatting for a h ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
This Week In Set Lists: Pixies, Kings Of Leon, Tom Petty, Rush, Etc.
GroovehouseKings of Leon, Toyota Center, October 2009Rocks Off has been both eagerly anticipating and dreading this week for months now. Anticipating because several of our all-time favorite bands are playing within the span of a few days, as are a couple of our favorite newer bands (though n ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Girl Talk Toilet Paper Mash-Ups Balloons = Party!
Marc Brubaker Aftermath didn't think it was possible to up the ante any more at this year's Summerfest until Girl Talk took the stage Saturday night. In our estimation, it was the biggest and baddest Summerfest party to date. We might even venture to say that achieved the biggest and baddest summ ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
The Top 10 Music-Video Riots
From Agnostic Front's "Riot, Riot Upstart"Just like the Stones said, "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy." Only the best social insurrections and riots happen in the heat of the summer. It makes us wonder why Houston hasn't had more angry, heat-stoked street ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Why Is The Buzz Still So Popular?
The only other concert in recent months to sell out at a Gaga-like pace has been the perennial Buzzfest, the semi-annual schlock-rock festival organized since 1995 by Houston's "new rock alternative," 94.5 The Buzz. The concert sells out almost every time - like it is Saturday, but you can probab ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
FAIL - Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, Justin Bieber, Celene Dion, Apple
If you're reading this, you're either on the Internet, or else you've mastered multi-dimensional thought-projection processes that would make Michio Kaku cry like a little girl. We'll assume the former, and just in case you don't already know, the Internet has decided that the word "failure" is too ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Listology: Gold Sounds' Top 5 Seismic Love Songs for Valentine's Day
This weekend, starting tonight with a gig at Walter's On Washington and tomorrow afternoon's 3 p.m. in-store set Cactus Music, Houston's Gold Sounds begins properly unfurling long-gestating LP, Seismic Love. It's fitting that the album gets it's proper debut over Valentine's weekend, seeing t ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
This Week in Deliciousness
Golden-brown is the proper tone for any loaf of sourdough / Hollywood starlet.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where today we're bitterly sniffling at the fact that everyone else from the office is at the Austin City Limits festival. It's cool! There's lots of fun ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
The Night a Well-Aimed Shoe Ended Smashing Pumpkins' Houston Goodwill
Today Rocks Off is starting a recurring series of local music urban legends; not so much 'urban legends' in the sense of oft-repeated stories that turn out to be false - though those are fine too - but actual legends: events and incidents that get talked about so much they become a part of local lor ... More >>
Music
June 4, 2009
Fight for Your Right
Does the U.S. belong with the Axis of Evil?
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December 29, 2008
The Whole Wide World: Toubab Krewe's Live at the Orange Peel
Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>
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April 17, 2008
Pelican, with Thrice and Circa Survive
Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>
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December 27, 2007
Our Favorite Albums of 2007
Panning for gold in an avalanche of 2007 releases
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November 8, 2007
Paul Oakenfold, Greatest Hits & Remixes
Greatest Hits & Remixes
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July 12, 2007
Your Billy Corgan Fix for This Year
Greatest Hits & Remixes
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May 17, 2007
Summer Concert Survival Guide
Who loves the sun?
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January 30, 2003
New Bands from Old
Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"
Music
April 5, 2001
Jump-Started
Engine Room owner finds there's still gas in his tank after a long and winding road
Music
October 12, 2000
Dune, TX
Rocking out with the bare essentials
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September 21, 2000
Incubus
Make Yourself; When Incubus Attacks! Vol. 1
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July 9, 1998
This Year's Model
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May 28, 1998
Rotation
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February 12, 1998
Rotation
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July 17, 1997
Rotation
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November 28, 1996
Matter of Importance
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August 31, 1995
Pollyanna for the '90s
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February 23, 1995
Sound Check
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August 18, 1994
Lollapalooza, Year Four: The bloom is back
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