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SXSW Releases First Batch of 2013 Performers

Here go hell come, SXSW has just released the first batch of names for the 2013 festival. I know, only a week after Fun Fun Fun Fest and a month since ACL. Did you see the FPSF blog from earlier today? Yeah, time is moving too fast. The big names on the list so far include the Zombies, Alt-J, Akro ... More >>

The Gothic Council on Maintaining Facebook Sanity

The illustrious, honorable, and not at all to be taken seriously Gothic Council went on a membership drive this week, seeking the cream of the goth world for their inspiring insights into every day life... Or I just grabbed the first six people I found in my newsfeed. One of those. The reason for ... More >>

ZZ Top Playing Sugar Land's Constellation Field October 20

Rewind: What Happened to That ZZ Top Show In The Woodlands? ZZ Top Returns to Espanol for September's LA FUTURA Apparently Roger Clemens wasn't enough. Now everybody wants to play. According to its Web site, ZZ Top will play Constellation Field, the home of the Sugar Land Skeeters, on Saturday, O ... More >>

From The Sky Down: U2's "Bittersweet Song Of Disunity"

What was the last great U2 album? Now, before you go and get your snotty Henry Rollins quotes lined up, recall that there was a period in the mid- to late 1980s when the Dublin foursome were both the biggest and most critically acclaimed band on the planet before veering off into sonic experimentat ... More >>

This Just In: SXSW Announces First Round Of 2012 Showcasing Bands, Including Fat Tony and Something Fierce

Photo By Marco TorresFat Tony at a day show at SXSW '11​Sweet lord, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and South By Southwest is making us excited for March in Austin already. Today the industry festival announced a few bands coming to the capitol city next year, and a few Houston names and Rocks ... More >>

Aeros Plan to Take Care of Unfinished Business

Four months ago the Houston Aeros stood on the Toyota Center ice stunned. Stunned that they'd lost to the Binghamton Senators. Stunned that the AHL Calder Cup, which has been in their grasp, was gone. Stunned that the Senators were celebrating on their ice. Stunned that their magnificent playoff ... More >>

Glen Rice Allegedly Slept with Sarah Palin (w/ VIDEO)

Sarah Palin in her Michigan-fan days.​Okay, I'll admit that might have been the most duplicitous headline of a post ever, not because Sarah Palin and Glen Rice didn't sleep together (They apparently did, back in the late '80's. More on that in a minute) but because the "w/ VIDEO" would seem to ... More >>

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm... What Does It Mean?

Happy Birthday to Brad Roberts, lead singer of Canadian folk-pop group Crash Test Dummies, who turns 47 years old today. If you were alive in late 1993 and early 1994, you no doubt remember humming along to the Dummies' hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" from second album, God Shuffled His Feet. Roberts has ... More >>

Aeros' Schedule Finally Out, And Season-Ticket Holders Get Ripped Off

Aeros season-ticket holders get screwed​The long wait for Houston Aeros fans is over as the AHL released the league's schedule on Wednesday afternoon. The Aeros season will open on the road on October when they play the first regular season game in the history of the expansion Oklahoma City Barons ... More >>

Aeros End Up At .500, With Plenty Of Changes On the Way

Photo by Jason Villanueva/Houston Aeros​The season's all over for the Houston Aeros, and a season that started with a defeat in Winnipeg ended with a loss in San Antonio. In between, the wins and losses evened out and the Aeros finished the season with a 34-34-7-5 record (80 points), good enough ... More >>

Five Possible Replacements for Steven Tyler In Aerosmith, Including Morrissey

www.irancartoon.ir​The remaining members of Aerosmith yesterday confirmed the news that singer Steven Tyler has left the band, and that they are currently looking for a replacement while Steven pursues glory with "Brand Tyler," whatever the hell that is. Thought Rocks Off has a hard time imagining ... More >>

Aeros Open Up Their Home Season Tonight, With Big Changes

​The time has come Aeros fans. The time for the team's first home game of the season. They open the home portion of their schedule against the expansion Texas Stars at 7:35 p.m. at Toyota Center. They opened the season last weekend in Winnipeg where they split two games with the Moose."I saw for s ... More >>

It's Hockey Season? Apparently So, And Here's Your Preview

​As hard as it might be to believe, hockey season starts tonight. And for the Houston Aeros, this season starts in the same place that last season's ended. In Winnipeg, Manitoba.The 2009-10 Aeros are going to be a rather different looking team than what you saw on the ice last year. Krys Kolan ... More >>

Aeros Make Another Game Seven Escape, Head To Conference Finals

Photo by Fred Trask/The Third Intermission"If you can't get yourself ready for a game like this," Houston Aeros captain Clayton Stoner said Wednesday morning, "then you don't deserve to be here."The "here" was Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The game was Game Seven of the West Division Finals. The Aeros, who ... More >>

My Winnipeg

The director of The Saddest Music in the World gives us the great black-and-white North

Houston Aeros: Halloween Costumes and Bobbleheads, But No Dildos

Classic Rock Corner: Mudcrutch, Golliwogs, Mynah Birds, Moving Sidewalks and More

Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

Years after Sybil, the debate continues

Coach Kevin Constantine Explains the Difference Between a Good Fight and a Bad Fight in Hockey

DJ Mike Relm and the Blue Man Group

DJ Mike Relm puts the "go" in indigo

Hustle Time

Damon Jones has traveled from UH to all around the NBA chasing stardom and a sound bite

Dark Star

Quebecois artist Diane Landry blows into Rice Gallery

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Saddest -- and Strangest

This nostalgic melodrama will be memorable, if not necessarily enjoyable

Friends FLY Free

FLY and Sandra Organ Dance Company wing it at Miller

Film Buff

The naked truth about why Houston isn’t the third coast

Roller Derby

Wheelchair basketball is for wussies. And park your pity at the door. Welcome to quad rugby, where quadriplegics slam their opponents into the hardwood.

Black Gold

A gusher lay beneath the surface, but you had to drill deep

Isn't He Lovely

Glenn Lewis waits for the world to see him as more than just a Wonderkind

Se Habla Ska

SoCal's Voodoo Glow Skulls bring a Latin tinge to Kingston's sounds

Playbill

The Guess Who

News of the Weird

Pop Goes the Quartet

Quartetto Gelato ain't your father's chamber quartet

Paying the Piper

Atom Egoyan asks who's to blame for a tragedy. But he offers no answers.

Dumb and Dinky

New micro-galleries may go for the small and the stupid, but hey, they're still a breath of fresh air

Northern Exposure

Canada's favorites, The Tragically Hip, try to conquer the lower 48 without violence