Subject: Usher (Entertainer)

• Chart Check: R. Kelly

  June 6, 2007

• The Kids are Alright: Seventh Graders Review Usher and Coldplay

  June 23, 2008

• Playbill

  August 12, 2004

• Usher's Security Don't Take No Mess

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty Click here for a slideshow Last night at one of the last stops on Usher's"Ladies Only" tour, I realized that I was one of maybe two dozen or so dudes in attendance. And I was working the damn thing, so even then. I don't think it was the tour's name that accounted for the lack of men. I think it was Usher's sheer presence. The guy is handsome has hell and can dance. Uh, I mean, he's very talented. But do you really want to spend an hour and half around

  November 25, 2008

• Busted Rhymes: The Top Ten Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know Manuel Noriega, T

  December 24, 2008

• Press Picks

  April 27, 1995

• Five Spot: Smoove Up In Ya

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Michael Keith, formerly one-fourth of R&B man-band 112, has released a solo album. (He's not the guy that you're thinking of, that's Slim. And Slim rocks tits.) We don't plan on buying Keith's album because we were never particularly attached to him - matter of fact, after "Peaches and Cream" was releas

  January 23, 2009

• Made in Houston

  January 15, 1998

• Press Picks

  January 22, 1998

• Rotation

  April 16, 1998

• Played Out

  April 23, 1998

• Teen Scheme

  January 28, 1999

• Shit Hole

  May 6, 1999

• New Year's Resolutions from a Few Big Musical Names

  January 1, 2009

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

  April 16, 2009

• Usher : Here I Stand

  June 12, 2008

• Top 10 Most Hated Rappers

  Who made the shit list

  January 10, 2008

• R. Kelly, Double Up

  Welcome to R. Kelly's sex planet

  November 29, 2007

• Chris Brown

  The fleet-footed teen idol's latest

  November 15, 2007

• The Essence of Gordon Chambers

  From journalist to songwriter to singer

  February 15, 2007

• In with the New

  Despite doom-and-gloom predictions, 2006 wasn't at all bad

  January 4, 2007

• Sovereign Ruler

  Is the U.S. Ready for the S-O-V?

  November 23, 2006

• Bunnyface Killahs

  A veteran Liverpudlian rock band and a kung-fu-obsessed Staten Island MC have more in common than you think

  January 12, 2006

• Uncorking the Truth on Nuwine

  How to go from Christian to crunkster in six short years

  August 4, 2005

• Whitney's Dookie Bubble

  Being Bobby Brown is not all fun and games

  July 14, 2005

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

  January 20, 2005

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming, and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• On the Down-Low

  Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures

  December 23, 2004

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• Anarchy in da USA

  Looking for the true spirit of the Ramones? Try going to an underground hip-hop show.

  December 16, 2004

• Feelings, Nothing But Feelings

  The New York Times misses the point in its attack on "rockism"

  November 11, 2004

• Playbill

  October 7, 2004

• Songs Of Freedom

  Perhaps the candidates running in the 2004 election could use some help selecting their campaign music

  August 12, 2004

• On Da Lingo

  Tracing Houston roots in three omnipresent hip-hop terms

  July 15, 2004

• Usher

  Wednesday, July 3

  June 27, 2002

• [S]hit

  Behind current blaxploitation pulp literature is - surprise! - the music biz

  March 30, 2000

• 1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

  June 25, 1998

• Michael Jackson Funeral Coverage Coming Tomorrow

  Somehow the folks at West Coast Sound, Rocks Off's sister music blog over at L.A. Weekly, have scored the hottest ticket in show business in years: a ticket to Michael Jackson's funeral Tuesday at Los Angeles' Staples Center. So far Stevie Wonder, Jackson's old Motown boss Berry Gordy, Brooke Shields, Usher, Kobe Bryant, John Mayer, Mariah Carey and many more are scheduled to appear. Weekly music editor Randall Roberts promises to Twitter from the ceremony "when it's not considered vulgar to do

  July 6, 2009

• Michael Jackson, You Will Be Honored...And Twittered

  The Most Important Event Ever....Will Be Twittered!!!!Our colleagues at West Coast Sound, the music blog of our sister paper L.A. Weekly, will be in attendance when The Nation Stops at noon tomorrow (Houston time) to give a final send-off to Michael Jackson at Los Angeles' Staples Center. So far Stevie Wonder, Jackson's old Motown boss Berry Gordy, Brooke Shields, Usher, Kobe Bryant, John Mayer, Mariah Carey and many more are scheduled to appear. Weekly music editor Randall Roberts promises to

  July 6, 2009

• Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial

  Daniel Kramer ABC News is reporting that Beyonce, who sang tributes to Michael Jackson at her Toyota Center concert and at New Orleans' Essence Music Festival over the weekend, will perform at Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles this afternoon. Also expected to attend are Justin Timberlake, P Diddy, Smokey Robinson, Akon and Jennifer Hudson, while previously confirmed guests include Motown Records' Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Usher. "You're talking about the A-list of all A-lists,"

  July 7, 2009

• Houston Sounds Off on Michael's Memorial

  L.A. Weekly's Twitter updates have slowed down, but there's plenty of Houstonians following along. Here's a selection from the past 30 minutes or so: cashless: "Blanket, FTW!" joeyguerra: ""we need to look up, where he is undoubtedly perched on a crescent moon, and we need to smile." - brooke shields" Htwngirl: "Damn you Brooke soooo heartwarmingly sad. I am fighting the tears and it's bug the shit out of htwngirl day at work. ugh!!" Htwngirl: "Wow how Jermaine can sing. OMG holding in the tears

  July 7, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs for Getting It On, Part 2

  [Ed. Note: Here's Web Editor Katharine Shilcutt's top 10 picks for baby-makin' music. Now it's the boys' turn.] 1. Ryan Adams, "Come Pick Me Up": This has to work, because it shows vulnerability and warmth. It tells her you are the kind of guy who will be the one to get out of bed to get the Wet Ones or the dry towel. 2. Sam Cooke "Cupid": Chicks dig smooth-ass vocals, and it's got that deep sense of longing and just the right hint of dementia that comes with true love. Seriously, the song is a

  July 24, 2009

• Rap Vixen And Houston Radio Host Tangle To The Death

   Quick, who's Karinne Steffans?You're supposed to know that. At least, according to her you are.Steffans, massive internet research reveals, is a former model and moneymaker-shaker in videos who wrote a tell-all book about her high-flying life called Confessions of a Video Vixen. (Among the people she claimed to have had sex with: Ja Rule, Bobby Brown, Dr. Dre, Shaquille O'Neal and Usher.)She has a new book out now, the Vixen Manual, and went on the Rod Ryan show at 94.5 The Buzz to promote

  July 24, 2009

• Glee, Episode Six: Shark vs. Bear

  ​After a filler ep last week that played out the string on the musical subplot, Glee was back on point last night in a big way. Co-creator Ryan Murphy was once again the credited writer this week's "Vitamin D," a fun episode that moved the season forward and had all kinds of conflict. Plus the two performance numbers were the most energetic and dazzling yet. Plus the solid character narration introduced in the pilot came back with a wicked vengeance, recalling bits of Election. Glad to hav

  October 8, 2009

• Graveside Songs for Edgar Allan Poe's Long-Overdue Funeral

  ​Kicking the bucket at the age of 40 is bad enough, especially when, to this day, nobody's really sure how you died (everything from syphillis to rabies to political "cooping" has been thrown out there as a possible cause). But getting buried in an unmarked grave after a three minute "service" is an indignity usually reserved for pet rabbits that escape from their hutch and die under the sofa. That's why Rocks Off is happy to report that this weekend, 160 years after the fact, Edgar Allan Poe

  October 9, 2009