Subject: Tool (Musical Group)

• Pony Tricks

  The Deftones stick to aggressive rock and watch as the rest of the world plays catch-up

  July 27, 2000

• Metalocalypse: Getting to Know Scarlet Sins

  [Note: this is the first entry in a partnership between Rocks Off and Houston-based metal Web site UNdergroWNd MiNdbloW. In the hot seat is all-female Toronto quartet Scarlet Sins. Enjoy.] My name is Chris, and I have a long ongoing love affair with music. Especially heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, grindcore and metal in general. The first time I saw a live show and an unknown band hit the stage, I was a fan. It was at the Cotton Bowl in the 1970s, and this "unknown" band came out. Th

  January 5, 2009

• A Useful Idiot

  Photo courtesy of deep_schismic. Maynard James Keenan performing with Tool. Quality wine doesn't usually come from a vineyard named after a pubic wig (Merkin Vineyards) or a man called "Maynard" who happens to front one of the most popular metal bands in the world and who once carried business cards with "Jesus H. Christ" printed on them. But Caduceus Wines seems to be the exception to the rule. Notoriously eccentric entertainer Maynard James Keenan, lead singer for hardcore metal bands T

  March 24, 2009

• Maynard James Keenan, Rock's Most Unusual Winemaker

  Ron NewkirkMaynard James Keenan Maynard Keenan has to be one of the most enigmatic and musically schizophrenic men in rock. A soldier in the U.S. Army in the '80s, Keenan did a four-year tour of duty and then entered civilian life. He met future Tool guitarist Adam Jones in 1988 and one year later, the monolithic prog-metal group was born when the two enlisted drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor. Keenan has had a myriad of side projects in music and film. He blew up modern-rock r

  March 26, 2009

• Tool

  November 15, 2007

• Tool

  Monday, September 11, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300

  September 7, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• Hot-Rodding with the Top Down

  The DragStrippers show why girls 'n' cars go so well together

  January 1, 2004

• Sky Pilots

  Tell Superna's members their heads are in the clouds and they'll agree

  September 4, 2003

• Rock No More

  Mike Patton chops through traditional song forms with a mighty Tomahawk

  May 29, 2003

• Pinup Guy

  Poster artist Jermaine Rogers isn't always in concert with critics

  January 30, 2003

• Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

  Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

  July 18, 2002

• Prison Love Scene

  Truth (Moneyshot Music)

  June 28, 2001

• Hookers and Blow

  Buckcherry says screw that PC crap, and take us as we are

  June 21, 2001

• Playbill

  The Melvins

  April 12, 2001

• Ka-Blam!

  If the X-Men were a metal band: Powerman 5000

  February 3, 2000

• 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