Vincent Price

Friday Night: Peter Murphy at Numbers

Peter Murphy Numbers April 25, 2013 Maybe Peter Murphy should get arrested more often. That may be a horrible thing to say, but if you had seen him at Numbers, you'd understand. This tour had been previously announced, but whether his March arrest in California for DUI and alleged drug possession ... More >>

Contessa Andrea Von Schmidt, Dwayne Gator Liggins: It's the Quarterly Strange (Accused) Criminal Name Report

As we head into what passes for fall down here, it's high time we came up with another list of the strangest, funniest and most awesome names to pass through the Harris County Criminal Justice Center over the last few months. (Or years. We stumbled on some older ones.) As always, some of these peop ... More >>

Why So Serious?

Self-important and overstuffed, The Dark Knight Rises feels like Batman forever.

Digital Chaos: 8 Experiments In Wub Machine Remixing

Contrary to what they want you to think, Diddy his crew at Bad Boy did not invent the remix. If you really wanted to meet the people who first made dance remixes you'd have to go back a bit further in music history, to the land of the mid-'70s. In sweaty discos across the land people were looping so ... More >>

Thriller Turns 29: Five Reasons It Rocked

Yesterday marked the twenty-nine-year anniversary of the release of Thriller, which broke basically every record in the book. It remains the best selling album of all time with over 10 million in total sales. It not only solidified Michael Jackson as one of the biggest pop stars of all time, it deli ... More >>

Happy Biebermas: 2011's Bumper Crop Of Holiday Albums

Wishing You An Adorkable Christmas...​The Christmas season started back in the late summer for Rocks Off when we began getting PR e-mails about so and so's new Christmas album, and then in October they started showing up in our stacks of snail mail. This year the biggest complaint amongst ev ... More >>

The 25 Most Influential Music Videos Of All Time

​It's hard to fathom a time before music videos, and it's even sadder to remember when channels like MTV and VH1 were wall-to-wall music videos. In between there was a golden age, when with every clip that you watched could spark a revolution in you, or at least change your fashion sense. It's ... More >>

Gothic Council Debates How To Rule Our New Planet

​After years of searching, scientists have finally discovered a planet that may be able to support human life. Gliese 581d, as it is known is 20 light years from Earth, and though it's just a bit on the cool side for comfortable human habitation, it looks like a pretty good bet that he planet ... More >>

Hyperbubble Heat Up Hot Fuzz On "Chop Shop Cop"

myspace.com/hyperbubble​Sooooooo... Hyperbubble. We've mentioned them a couple of times in the past referencing the fact that they are pretty much the best electronic act in Texas that doesn't involve those bondage pants and stompy boots that Korg sends bands like CTRL when they buy keyboards. ... More >>

The Haunted Palace

Vincent Price and director Roger Corman were masters of the macabre

Messer Chups' Important Lessons From The Vincent Price Bible

Every day Rocks Off trolls the tubes of you in search of videos to share. If you have something that you think deserves to be video of the day, send a link to jef_rouner at yahoo dot com. ​The perfect man, the man all other men should aspire to be, is Gomez Adams. Rich, passionate, kind, athl ... More >>

One Vampire Movie That Really Sucks

Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.

True Blood, Episode 10: Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Frenzy" and a Naked Crazy Town In Peril

Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. Though we're picking up midway through Season 2, from here on out as ... More >>

Celebrity Death Is The Death Of Us All

A friend of mine wrote a witty Facebook status update that referenced the passing of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson on the same day.  "First the 70s died. Then the 80s. Better watch your back, Spice Girls."I chuckled at the same time that I realized that in a matter of seconds, dozens of my ... More >>

DreamWorks, In Your Face: Monsters vs. Aliens

In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

The Best DVDs of 2007

They made old movies feel new again

I Am Legend

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works

Drenched in Blog: Happy 25th, Thriller

Creepshow: Halloween Party Music

Music to keep your soiree from sucking like Dracula

Keeping The Meter Running

Architecture in Helsinki

Wednesday, September 20, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483

The Illusionist

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Heady Metal

In 2005, longhairs got more progressive than ever

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey is in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Maya Bond

Pink Drums, Purple Lights (Business Deal Entertainment)

The Class of '03

Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

The Evolution Control Committee

Plagiarythm Nation (Creations/Seeland)

Nightmare Before Christmas

The Voodoo Organist brings his Beelzebub blues to town

Hide and Seek

The pAper chAse isn't a weird band. You're just not paying close enough attention.

Playbill

Coming This Week

Burning for Faust

HGO's Mefistofele brings Hades to light

Megascreen Cinemas March In

Big complexes threaten end to neighborhood era

Sound Evidence

A documentary delves into theera of electronic music

Press Picks

Press Picks

Cormanosaur

Dinosaurs Run Amuck Again, This Time B-Movie Style