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​ Remember the days before the Internet? We only vaguely do, yet we have to wonder how certain fringes of our society found happiness. If your thing was to dress up as an anime character and have... Continue reading "Public Access: Five of YouTube's Craziest Musicians" >

This Sunday, Valentine's Day if you nasty, Warehouse Live gets a two-tone shot of ska history when the English Beat and Fishbone hit the stage. The two bands tour together quite a bit and have be... Continue reading "Back To The Future: Ska Selecters Who Beat The English Beat" >

This past weekend, we took our esteemed new intern out on Washington Avenue to take some video of the area's native wildlife at night. We hope the video gives you a little taste of our "Washingto... Continue reading "Check Out This Video Preview of Our "Washington Shore" Party" >

Brooklyn indie-rock duo the Fiery Furnaces comes to Walter's on Washington tonight behind last year's I'm Going Away and it's quasi-remix album Take Me Round Again. The brother and sister team of... Continue reading "Back to the Future: How Fiery Furnaces Came to Pass" >

​This Sunday night, Austin's The Sword pulls into Warehouse Live to lay waste to our city's collective eardrums. The band was in town last August for Summerfest and was shit-hot, coming right of... Continue reading "Back to the Future: The Musical Lineage of the Sword" >

All right, this is what we have been waiting for: cool videos from Houston artists. Hell, we have enough cats here with state-of-the-art equipment and skills, it seems silly to let it all go to w... Continue reading "No "Hesitation"... Just Watch Peekaboo Theory's New Video" >

Late last Friday, Rocks Off learned that Gumby and Davey and Goliath creator Art Clokey had passed away in his sleep at age 88. The pioneering stop-motion animator and his clay work were fixtures... Continue reading "Gumby, We Hardly Knew Ye: 10 Stop-Motion Videos for the Late Don Lokey" >

​ Houston scuzz-punk heroes the Hell City Kings are filming part of a new music video upstairs at Rudyards tonight. If you have seen the band in their live element, you can imagine where this shoo... Continue reading "Hell City Kings Filming New Video at Rudyard's Tonight" >

Starting tonight and through weekend the Alamo Drafthouse (1000 W. Oaks Mall) will be screening the documentary Until The Light Takes Us, an unflinching look at the Norwegian black-metal scene fr... Continue reading "Black-Metal Documentary Sees the Light at Alamo Drafthouse This Weekend" >

This year Rocks Off added a few Flip cameras to our devastatingly amazing blogatory weapons. We have been taking as many live videos at shows as we possibly can, and what better way to show our t... Continue reading "Rocks Off's YouTube Video Explosion 2009: U2, Steve Earle, 10th Grade Cutie and Everything In Between" >

Electric Purgatory screened almost two years ago at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, but Rocks Off still hasn't seen Houston director Raymond Gayle's film about the plight of the black rocker. W... Continue reading "Tonight: Houston Filmmaker Raymond Gale's Electric Purgatory at Domy Books" >

Rocks Off has a special place in our heart for Sig's Lagoon - we do live upstairs from "Midtown's Only Record Store" - so we were pleasantly surprised to see Sig's owner Tomas Escalante post the ... Continue reading "Let Sig's Lagoon Help You With Your Holiday Shopping Needs - Even Music" >

Video by Craig Hlavaty Right now Rocks Off HQ looks more like a MASH unit as we slowly recover from this weekend's Westheimer Block Party. We won't be on the shelf for long - not with the Marleys... Continue reading "See What You Missed (or Didn't) at Westheimer Block Party With These Lovely Videos" >

Sing the blues, Kermit... or greens. We know how you feel. Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Elmo and Grover have something to celebrate. Sesame Street, their fictional New York burroug... Continue reading "On Its 40th Birthday, the Top 10 Sesame Street Musical Guests" >

​ This weekend Rocks Off also brought along our littlest member, our Flip camera, to Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin. It proved to be indispensable in tight places where a regular still camera may not... Continue reading "Video from Fun Fun Fun Fest In Austin: Metallagher, Death, Jesus Lizard and More" >

This has been making us laugh since 1992. Enjoy... and remember, God loves 'em, so you should too! ... Continue reading "One Last Bit of U2 - Sort Of - Before We See Y'all at Reliant" >

Rocks Off loves songs about Houston. Here's a pretty good new one by a rapper called Young Twinn. While the video doesn't offer much we haven't seen before - please, one shot of the skyline as se... Continue reading "We're So Houston: Young Twinn Sets It Down For His City" >

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSlim Thug Feels the Recessionwww.thedailyshow.comD aily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul Interview Houston's own Boss of All Bosses, Sli... Continue reading "Slim Thug Laments the Recession's Impact on His Entourage, Video Hos on The Daily Show" >

​Most people in the world of music videos may not recognize the name Nahala Johnson, but lately, they've recognized his nom de film: Mr. Boomtown. The Port Arthur native (he now splits his ti... Continue reading "Chatting With "Mr. Boomtown" About Directing Mike Jones, Slim Thug and More" >

Dig on these video of Israel titan's Monotonix playing last night at Super Happy Fun Land. We followed the band from the floor of the venue, to the bathroom of the venue, to the dumpsters, and all... Continue reading "Where Didn't Monotonix Play Last Night?" >