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         <title>Art Rock: Health and Lovvers at Mango&apos;s</title>
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         <title>Art Rock: Crank! (Not the Drug) at the Mink</title>
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         <title>Art Rock: An Albatross at Mango&apos;s</title>
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         <title>Which Hard-Rocking Northern Irishmen Might Blow AC/DC Off the Stage Sunday? The Answer Is The Answer</title>
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         ​Rocks Off is about as excited about Sunday's AC/DC show as we were for the Black Ice ballbreakers' show 11 months ago, but for a much different reason. Last time it was because we hadn't se...]]></description>
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         <title>Lonesome Onry and Mean: Old Home Weekend at Anderson Fair</title>
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Two alumni of Houston's fabled folk scene return to Anderson Fair this weekend.
Vince Bell lives in Santa Fe, N.M., these days, but he will always be associated with the heyday of the Houst...]]></description>
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         <title>Please, Kenny Rogers, Just Sing and Spare Us the Pictures of Your Kids</title>
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Kenny Rogers is now 71 years old. And, as of a few years ago anyway, his boys can still swim.
Aftermath knows this because we were treated to a slideshow of Rogers' twin five-year-old son...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:29:41 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Rocks Off&apos;s Picks for This Weekend&apos;s Fun Fun Fun Festival</title>
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You can think of this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin as the indie, metal, and hip-hop little brother of the more staid Austin City Limits Music Festival. The fourth edition of the two...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:43 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Friday Night Noise: Musicians, Get Your Lazy Asses Off MySpace</title>
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         ​There's no nice way to say this, so Friday Night Noise will just say it: MySpace is not enough, and if you are at all serious about making music and serious about building an audience of fa...]]></description>
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         <title>The Music of True Blood, Episode 1.5: Playing Chicken With the Train, and an AIDS Burger</title>
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         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 Louisia...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:15:09 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Five Spot: Jigga, Skiing, Gay Sex and Swishahouse</title>
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         Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, 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.
We'...]]></description>
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         <title>Lone Star Scorecard: What Do Chris Rea, Webb Pierce and the Flamin&apos; Groovies Know About Texas?</title>
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There are a million songs in the naked [Lone Star] state. Some - okay, most - are boastful, some are introspective and some are merely stupid, as the Austin Lounge Lizards once noted. What...]]></description>
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         <title>Inquiring Minds: Lucero&apos;s Ben Nichols Explains Why Stax Soul + The Replacements&apos; Pleased to Meet Me = His Band</title>
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         Lucero "Sixes and Sevens" from Lucero on Vimeo.​A decade and six albums into their career, Memphis country-punks Lucero made the leap late last year from their own indie label, Liberty &amp;...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:00 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Wednesdays are Honky-Tonk Heaven In Houston, and Thursdays are Hillbilly Hell</title>
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It's no secret Rocks Off is a big fan of the country music, which is why we're starting to get a little excited about the inner-loop honky-tonk scene that's taking root. Over the weekend...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:49 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers, Part 2</title>
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         He Said Grandpa Songs
He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage. The man was arguably o...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:20:25 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers</title>
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She Said has something she wants to admit. Here goes nothing. We... like... country music.
No big deal, right? You wouldn't think so, unless you grew up in a town filled with racist rednec...]]></description>
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