Subject: Tina Turner

• Hurricane Party: Will Ike Hit Houston?

  September 11, 2008

• Where's Houston's Hurricane Relief Benefit?

  September 16, 2008

• Weekend Music: (Just Like) Starting Over

  September 19, 2008

• Tony Joe White/Mike Barfield

  Saturday, July 13

  July 11, 2002

• Slideshow: Tina Turner at Toyota Center

  October 28, 2008

• Aftermath: Tina Turner at Toyota Center

  October 28, 2008

• Election Eve With Fred

  November 4, 2008

• Aftermath: Latin Grammys at Toyota Center, Pt. 2

  Gloria Estefan meets the media/ Photo by Olivia Flores Alvarez The woman of the hour Thursday night was unquestionably 2008 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Gloria Estefan, whose “Mi Tierra” was big, brassy, jazzy, horn-heavy and as Cuban as a fine Cohiba cigar. So was “Oye Mi Canto,” a sprightly cumbia marked by elastic piano and both horns and percussion going crazy. “No Lloren” slowed things down just a little, all the better to accommodate Carlos Santana’s fluid

  November 14, 2008

• Top Ten Latin Music Albums of 2008

  Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled up, and that should come as good news to alternative gringos hoping to spruce up their castellano. This year's Latin-music highlights come from all over the Spanish-speaking map. We'll start in the farthest geographic c

  December 25, 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

• Farm to Mall Court

  September 29, 1994

• In the Room

  January 5, 1995

• What's Soul Got to Do with It?

  May 1, 1997

• Static

  December 11, 1997

• In the Groove

  August 13, 1998

• Cracked

  December 24, 1998

• Play It Again, Sham

  February 25, 1999

• Hot Flash

  May 20, 1999

• Happy April Fool's Day: Fools in Popular Music

  Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray In the Tarot, "The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world." Hat sold separately.As you've hopefully been able to tell from our previous two entries (and yes, we were KIDDING about both of them), Rocks Off has been having some fun with April Fool's Day today. According to Wikipedia - unless, you know, they're joki

  April 1, 2009

• Happy Birthday, "Louie Louie"

  Forty-six years ago today, a group of teenagers gathered in a Portland, Oregon, studio to record a ridiculously simple anthem that would go on to become one of the most influential - and most misunderstood - songs in rock history. The group was the Kingsmen - none of whom was over age 17 - and the song was, of course, "Louie Louie," which sent shockwaves through the music world that are still being felt to this day. As ubiquitous as it is now, "Louie Louie" spent the first decade of its l

  April 13, 2009

• Skybar's Saturday-Night R&B "Party With A View"

  March 26, 2009

• Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.

  March 26, 2009

• Alejandra Guzman

  December 11, 2008

• The Shredder

  One Show, One Sentence

  October 23, 2008

• Rotation

  February 2, 1995

• The Best of ACL Fest

  October 2, 2008

• What's in a Name?

  Sammy's at 2016, now with less Sammie

  May 15, 2008

• Music Deaths

  The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

  December 27, 2007

• Being There

  The Sixth Annual Austin City Limits Festival feels like home...almost

  September 20, 2007

• SPOOKY SPOTLIGHT

  The Houston Press guide to all things Halloween

  October 26, 2006

• Spooky Spotlight

  The Houston Press guide to all things Halloween

  October 19, 2006

• SPOOKY SPOTLIGHT

  The Houston Press guide to all things Halloween

  October 12, 2006

• Getting Lucky with Luke Boor

  From the Bayou City Showcase to Hollywood

  September 14, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibits

  January 5, 2006

• Tony Joe White

  Friday, September 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 29, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 23, 2005

• Flowers of Evil

  Porn 'n' roses for Kemah's mayor

  May 27, 2004

• Scoring the Super Bowl

  NFL Films' music may be stirring, but these songs tell the real story of the big games

  January 29, 2004

• City Under Siege

  Musicians provide HPD with plenty of overtime pay

  November 6, 2003

• If He Could Turn Back Time...

  Sylvester Turner's second coming

  July 17, 2003

• The Bellrays, with the Lazy Cowgirls and Magnetic IV

  Friday, March 7

  March 6, 2003

• Crash and Burn

  Landlords and bounced checks abort the Fabulous Satellite Lounge's ten-year mission to rock the Heights

  October 24, 2002

• Kellye Gray

  Friday, February 22, and Saturday February 23

  February 21, 2002

• Attack of the Surf Punks

  The Magnetic IV ride the waves of B movies and surf guitar gods

  January 17, 2002

• Wizard of Boz

  Boz Scaggs evolves along with his beloved R&B

  October 18, 2001

• In Ali's Corner

  Once a scout for the Kansas City Chiefs, Lloyd Wells caught the champ's attention with all his "pretty girls"

  November 30, 2000

• Two for the Road

  In which our man in Dallas joins Sofia Staks, Kayla Kleevage and other noted First Amendment activists on a mission to rescue Houston from the pashas of prudery. Or something like that.

  January 2, 1997

• Listening Room: What's Been Tickling Our Earholes Lately

  As Rocks Off has noted in our periodic Mail Call entries, even though the tide of promo CDs has been greatly reduced by the digital revolution - Rocks Off can count on one finger (the middle one) the times he's actually used the streaming/download email link publicists are ever more fond of these days - he still gets more new CDs via snail mail than any one person can rightfully be expected to audition. Most of these are eliminated either through gut instinct or a quick glance at the accompanyi

  April 27, 2009

• Girl Star, Grown Up

  June 11, 2009

• Vamplification: Dirty Fuzz, Von Iva and Boris

  Screw those pink sparkly Daisy Rock guitars. Chicks can stroke the neck of a Fender Strat right alongside the guys. The best girl rockers also deliver some of the wickedest vocals out there and, as an added bonus, usually look damn sexy doing it. Rocks Off thinks it's high time to give these sirens some special attention. To kick off the inaugural Vamplification, here are three female rockers you may not have heard of, but whose music is as dangerous as those Greek femmes fatale who serenaded s

  June 15, 2009