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Craig Hlavaty

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Your Houston City Limits Music Preview For 2012

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 30, 2011

For the past few weeks I have been asking local acts to tell us about their 2012 plans, be it touring, recording, breaking up, or just gigging around town. You would have thought more rappers would have chimed in sense they are veritable promotion machines, but I didn't get much...
First Look at the Band Lineup for Chris Gray Day January 14

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 29, 2011

Chris Gray Day will be held in Houston, Texas on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at The Continental Club complex, at 3701 Main, affectionately known to locals that live near and haunt the grounds as "The Island". Today Rocks Off gets to announce the first round of bands playing that day's...
New Year's Resolutions Via E Cards: Popular & Stupid & Why You Won't Keep Them Through 2012

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 29, 2011

Here we sit just a few days away from January 1, 2012 -- at the dawn of a new year, which could very well be the last year of Earth ever if you believe the Internet. For most people, a new year means just more hassles, like learning to write...
In Memoriam: Musicians And Industry Giants We Lost In 2011

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

For Rocks Off, one of the creepiest parts of our job is to report on deaths in the industry. Now matter how old or young the musician or mogul is, it's hard to try to quantify a person's life over the course of a few hundred words. How can you?...
Eruption: Our Dream Van Halen Concert Setlist

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

I gave you all fair warning - pardon the pun - on Monday morning when the Van Halen concert announcement went out that Rocks Off wouldn't be quiet when it came to Van Halen. In the next few weeks we will be getting word of the Houston date, so until...
Internet Death Pools Take Aim at Kirk Douglas, Fidel Castro and Sean Connery for 2012

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

Internet death pools are either the most morbid thing online, or the most human. How many times have you sat around a party or your workplace and opined about what celebrity would die next? Whenever celebrities and other public figures run afoul of police, booze or drugs, most people openly...
Nyan Cats & Golden-Voiced Hoboes: The Best Viral Videos of 2011

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

This was another banner year for stupid shit to waste time at work watching, with a plethora of viral videos making the rounds, spreading like proverbial wildfire -- all too real of a metaphor for us Texans -- and also creating a cottage industry of videos spoofing the most popular...
Hayes Carll

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

If it seems Hayes Carll has been gigging in the Houston area almost every other month during 2011, then we agree, and damn sure aren't complaining. This has been a great year for Woodlands native Carll, with the release of his heavily adored KMAG YOYO, which not only made it...
Fitzgerald's New Year's Weekend

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 28, 2011

Celebrate the coming pain of 2012 — possibly the planet's last year of existence — this weekend at Fitzgerald's, which is throwing a two-day party to ring in the New Year over Saturday and Sunday nights. As Fitz says on its Web site, it's all a "distraction from the impending...
Chafing 101: Rocks Off's 2011 Music Festival Odyssey

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 26, 2011

Music festivals are now a part of our lives, just like deadlines, angry commenters, lack of sleep, and eye fatigue. And eating at our desk. That sucks. But at least we have food and a desk, right? Rocks Off ventured all over the state -- OK, really mostly Austin --...
Van Halen Announces 2012 Tour On Twitter, Official Site

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 26, 2011

Here it is folks, your first stirrings of Van Halen's 2012 tour, long rumored, but now a sweet reality. OK, we won't believe it until we have a tour tee in our hands outside Toyota Center and a sweaty, torn ticket stub in our wallet. Late Sunday night on Twitter,...
Merry Christmas From The Houston Music Scene: Free Music Downloads (UPDATED)

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 23, 2011

Welp, it's been a year to say the least. There has been so much great music, amazing shows, new discoveries, many sad and happy milestones, and Rocks Off tried to cover all of it these past 12 months. Next year will be even more awesome, for so many reasons, which...
Lemmy Turns 66: Get Your Kicks With A Collection Of Great Pics

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 23, 2011

Tomorrow, on Christmas Eve, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister turns 66 years old. Is it a coincidence that Lemmy was born the day before we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? If Lemmy is in fact God, it gives us all a chance to reflect on the father before we indulge in...
Kim Jong-il Dropping The Bass: In Memoriam

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 22, 2011

Maybe all along, the Dear Leader's starvation and darkness deal with his oppressed people was just his way of keeping them slim and hot, for fun in the dark, because we all know only fun things happen in the dark right? Like that Lady Gaga song "Dance In The Dark"...
Happy Motherlovin' Birthday Samuel L. Jackson: The King of the F-Word

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 21, 2011

Today is actor Samuel L. Jackson's 63rd birthday. The man can currently be seen on Broadway as Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop with Angela Bassett. Pretty far away from Snakes on a Plane and Coming to America, huh? He's been getting rave reviews, as people see him in...
Having A Hall & Oates Emergency? Callin' Oates Is Here To Help

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 21, 2011

We've all been there. Stuck in traffic after a long day at work, at your iPod just isn't cutting it, you're sick of AM talk radio, the birthday scams are getting stale, FM radio is just Maroon 5 and LMFAO, and you don't feel like calling your grandmother to say...
Did Someone Order a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Porn Parody? (NSFW)

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 21, 2011

As Internet Rule 34 states, "pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject," and this week we finally found This Isn't Christmas Vacation: The XXX Parody, released last year, just in time for the holiday season. It wasn't until we were working on a porn parodies piece for...
Better Off

A '90s alt-rock band that has stuck together and even ended up in the black.

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 21, 2011

New Orleans rock-trio Better Than Ezra is one of the few '90s alt-rock bands that have stuck around, through music industry ups and downs, coming out the other end as a group of independent artists in charge of their own career path. Because of a lucky deal they signed with...
Band of Heathens

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 21, 2011

The road-dogging, Austin-based Band of Heathens combines twangy, sandpaper vocals with hard-bought harmonies. The core trio in BOH — Colin Brooks, Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist — began to coalesce about a decade ago around the singer-songwriter scene at Momo's in Austin, which explains the varied sounds in the group...
Tumblrin' Dice: Clipart Covers Hurt Your Eyeballs

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 20, 2011

Today I discovered Clipart Covers, a Tumblr site dedicated to remaking classic album covers with just clipart and comic sans, turning them into nightmarish, though amusing, affairs. Random urban-looking folks and what looks like a Wii avatar make up the cover of N.W.A 's borderline offensive Straight Outta Compton, and...
Distant Early Warning: Al Green, Balaclavas, Built To Spill, Gladys Knight, Los Campesinos!

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 20, 2011

Al Green: Fri., April 27. Arena Theatre, 7326 SW Freeway, Houston. Balaclavas, Black Congress, Psychic Palms: Fri., Jan. 13. Mango's, 403 Westheimer Road, Houston. Ben Kweller: Thu., April 19. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston. Brandi Carlile: Wed., Feb. 8. House of Blues, 1204 Caroline, Houston. Built To Spill, Lucero: Mon.,...
YASSEAH!: Creed Hitting Houston For A Two-Night Stand This Spring

By Craig Hlavaty
Dec 19, 2011

It's hard to believe, but Florida rock giants Creed will be celebrating 15 years of 1997's landmark debut, My Own Prison. Well, it's not that hard to believe if you can do math and shit we guess. The band will be at Verizon Wireless Theater on April 30 and May...

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