Subject: Weezer

• We Now Present... Steroids, The Musical

  June 4, 2008

• Potential Theme Songs for the Astros

  June 13, 2008

• The Kids are Alright: Seventh Grader Reviews Weezer's "Red Album"

  June 24, 2008

• Five Spot: Rock's Top Flavor Savers

  August 1, 2008

• Five ( 3) Spot: Christmas With Weezer!

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every week, 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. Because God loves us: Weezer, one of our all-time favorite bands, has recorded six Christmas covers, the greatest musical holiday activity of all, to be used in an iPhone Guitar Hero-like video game, a game we totally own at. They've done this before ("Christmas Celebration," "Christmas Song") but doing more is c

  December 5, 2008

• Classic Rock Corner: The Greatest Band Logos of All Time, Part 1

  Daniel Kramer With our ears still ringing from last night's AC/DC concert at Toyota Center (I knew we should have stayed away from the end of the stage with the cannon...), we got to thinking about the Aussie boys' iconic band logo. Sketched in pen on a million different school notebooks, and gracing T-shirts, denim jackets, and bad tattoos for more than 30 years, it's as big part of the band's legacy as "Back in Black." And so because Rolling Stone shouldn't have a monopoly on "g

  December 15, 2008

• The Best Videos of 2008, Part 2

  5. Killer Mike feat. Ice Cube, "Pressure" 4. Weezer, "Pork and Beans" 3. Justice, "Stress" (above) 2. Hayes Carll, "She Left Me for Jesus" And the best video of 2008 is... 

  January 1, 2009

• Beck's Prime

  June 16, 1994

• Bad Motocaster

  October 20, 1994

• Ready for Recess

  February 5, 1998

• Unusual Suspects at The Usual

  Trackside bar welcomes amateur karaoke stars — and everybody else

  February 12, 2009

• Good Luck Academy

  December 11, 2008

• The pAper chAse

  Grammy-nominated music producer fronts sinister Dallas rock quartet

  December 4, 2008

• Ludo

  August 28, 2008

• Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar Has an Open-Mike Night That Doesn't Suck?

  July 31, 2008

• Single File

  July 10, 2008

• On Weezer's Mystifying Red Album

  The world has turned and left them here, and it'll take more than a great video to redeem them

  June 19, 2008

• Hootenanny

  January 3, 2008

• The '90s Continue Unabated At House Of Blues, Homeslice!

  Seriously, what's with the House of Blues downtown toying around with all our '90s modern rock nostalgia as of late? In the past eight months or so since the HOB has opened, the folks on Caroline have booked almost every quasi-major alt-rock band of the last decade, that has not died of an overdose or succumbed to early senility (cough, Courtney Love, cough). It was just last week that Gavin Rossdale of Bush trotted out his solo pony show to a packed crowd of aging Gen-Xers. Live came and pl

  June 3, 2009

• The Rentals, Copeland, Goldenboy

  September 6, 2007

• Lost Albums

  CDs that deserve another listen

  June 14, 2007

• Ozma

  Ozma performs Tuesday, June 5, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Eastern Conference Champions and The Actual also perform.

  May 31, 2007

• Cred Sheet

  Stuff you need to know to avoid musical ostracism

  March 1, 2007

• Partners in Rime

  People Under the Stairs fix the leak

  May 25, 2006

• Angst à la Mode

  How I became my own personal Jesus

  May 18, 2006

• Pretty Girls Make Saves

  As video games go indie, Wack imagines a few likely pairings

  April 13, 2006

• Mötley Goüge

  Wanna hang out with Vince Neil? Got an extra five grand on ya?

  March 30, 2006

• Between the Cracks

  Profiling local bands

  February 2, 2006

• Gay-Unit

  Twisted G is most definitely not trapped in the closet

  January 26, 2006

• Comeback Clips

  A music-video renaissance is afoot -- but it's strictly on the download

  December 29, 2005

• Confessions of an Airbrushed Anglophile

  A veddy British Madonna wants to keep it bloody real

  December 15, 2005

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

  December 8, 2005

• Overlooked in '05

  Ten great discs that were underserved by the media but are more than worthy

  December 8, 2005

• Ludo

  Saturday, October 15, at Java Jazz Coffee House, 419 Gentry, 281-528-8129.

  October 13, 2005

• Rivers Runs Dry

  Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

  September 8, 2005

• Freshen Up, Freshen Up

  Pearland new-wave legends the Judy's reunite for a benefit show and possibly more

  May 12, 2005

• Mark Ronson

  Here Comes the Fuzz (Elektra)

  September 25, 2003

• Best Concert Poster Artist

  Jermaine Rogers

  September 26, 2002

• Weezer

  Maladroit (Geffen)

  June 6, 2002

• Wet Dreamer

  Andrew W.K. is oozing with gratitude. Watch out -- you might get it on your clothes.

  April 25, 2002

• Ultimate Fakebook

  Friday, March 29

  March 28, 2002

• The Sperlings

  Green Manilow (Self-released)

  June 14, 2001

• 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

• Aftermath: The McKenzies, the Howlies and Springfield Riots at the Mink

  Photos by Chris GrayThe McKenzies To Aftermath, the Mink's Backroom has always seemed more like a house than a music venue - especially inside, with the dark floors, corner bars and abundant, comfortable seating, it's like one of those cozy but spacious multi-resident dwellings where we all went to at least one party in college. Judging by the average age of the crowd at Tuesday night's show, that's pretty much what it was.

  July 8, 2009

• Pump Up the Volume

  July 16, 2009

• Asher Roth

  July 30, 2009

• Sorry Dave, We Had To: Top Ten Songs to Listen to While Having Sex With Co-Workers

  If The Late Show with David Letterman hasn't seemed very funny lately, it's probably because Dave has been spending more time apologizing for banging his subordinates than he has making fun of Paul Shaffer. Admittedly, it was a bold move: coming forward and confessing his past missteps in order to expose the extortion attempt against him. Then again, the guy blackmailing him tried to cash a $2 million check; obviously we're not dealing with Professor Moriarty. In the spirit of Letterman's most

  October 8, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Lil Keke, Trae, Dre vs. Rush Limbaugh, Weezer, Weezy, Chamillionaire, 50 vs. Jay-Z, The Kanye, Nas, DMX, Big Pokey, etc.

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Still Here," Lil' Keke Wire To Wire Again, congratulations to Trae and the newest tiny Trae. Hey, Rush: Fuck off. Sincerely, Dr. Dre.

  October 26, 2009

• Tonight: Florida Indie Beach Boys Surfer Blood Sail Into Mango's

  ​Florida-based indie kids Surfer Blood pull into Mango's tonight, touring ahead of their upcoming Astro Coast LP. The band was recently anointed by Rolling Stone's online feature "Hype Monitor" as "bright and booming and hooky as FM radio in the late '70s." Rocks Off can hear traces of early "Blue Album" Weezer, fellow Floridians Against Me!, and even a few glimpses of My Morning Jacket in the Surfers' vintage sound. "Swim (to Reach the End)," with its anthemic chorus and echoey vocals, is get

  November 3, 2009

• Aftermath: Surfer Blood, More Than the Poor Man's Vampire Weekend, at Mango's

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ One can sit around all day and wax faux intelligent about where a band gleams their influences from. It's armchair quarterbacking for the kind of folks who wake up in the middle of Sunday afternoon and could give a good goddamn about 100 yards and monied monoliths of bro. For some people the best part of listening to music is trying to reverse-engineer each piece of band that comes through, and sadly finding greasy defective second-hand parts or amazing finding keen me

  November 4, 2009