​We've razzed Yoko Ono on Rocks Off a bit this past year. This week we poked fun at her Facebook presence, and we even did an analysis of how some feel she continues to matter in the art and pop worlds. We made the argument that she helped usher in the avant-garde into the mainstream, but her treatment of her late husband John Lennon's legacy polarized folks.

"Does using the image of her husband in a car commercial really count as keeping his legacy?" was the counter to our argument. Depends on your business and ethical sense and how you choose to rectify them with each other we presume. But there were also plenty of supporters of Ono, mostly for her art contributions. Her musical feats sort of get sweeped of the table, understandably. I liked 2007's Yes, I'm A Witch if only for the guest spots from Peaches and Flaming Lips, and the fact I'm a contrarian douchebag.

Ono is now a part of our daily lives through Twitter, that magical machine that lets celebrities spout off at the fingers any time, day or night. Predictably, Ono's tweets are just as oddball as you would expect. Maddening even.

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UPDATE X3: The remaining U.S. dates of the tour have been CANCELLED. Better luck next time.

UPDATE X2: Kings of Leon's Woodlands date has been rescheduled for September 22.

UPDATE: We have just called the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion business office and they have said the show has been postponed. No further details have been given, and no new date has been set as of this time. Band Of Horses secret show? Keep you posted...

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Caleb Followill in Houston this past April.

​The tweets started coming fast and furious out of Dallas' Gexa Energy Pavilion last night after Kings Of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill walked off stage, after apologizing for his voice being shot, joshing the meatheads in the crowd, being overcome by the heat of the venue and the city, and drifting off into a rambling, wistful monologue, repeating "you guys are so fucking awesome!" repeatedly.

Here's Darryl Smyers' review of the show from our sister blog DC9 At Night. Sounds very trainwreck-y.

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Earlier this week we chronicled for you our favorite Super Bowl halftime shows, from Petty and the Who, to the Boss and the Stones. Tonight we will be live-blogging all the musical attractions from Super Bowl XLV from Dallas, er, Arlington. ​

Lined up in the next few minutes we will see Christina Aguilera singing the opening national anthem. Her performance has already been getting snickers for how long it might last, considering her penchant for ovvvvvering enuunnnnciiiiiating when she sings. Odds are that she takes up five minutes belting the historic patriotic jam.

Let's settle in with a bottle of Faygo and see what happens...

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​To Rocks Off's eternal anoyance, we can't be everywhere at once, so Saturday we had to fall on our sword and skip the sold-out Toadies show at House of Blues. This time... we won't let them come back without seeing them, promise. Especially since the general opinion among those who were there - curse you, Weird Al - was that Tarrant County hard-rockers were pretty sick, and openers Quiet Company and Dead Country weren't bad either

However, we'd hate for you to miss some sweet pictures from the show by our own Groovehouse (click here for a slideshow), and thanks to Twitter, we can take you back there (sort of).

Rocks Off cobbled together some pretty excited tweets from Saturday night. Rock fists at the ready...

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​Sadly, Prince will not be releasing his next album online, despite being one of the first artists to release music exclusively on the Internet. He recently pronounced the Internet as "over," remarking, "All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."

Aw, Prince, come on. Thanks to the internet, so far today Rocks Off has read an article about which nine days out of the year are the most statistically dangerous, cringed at a gallery of scary-looking Easter bunnies, listened to a heavy-metal remix of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and come across three new memes. It's not even lunch time.

The Internet is far from dead, and Rocks Off feels it still has plenty to offer someone as business-savvy as Prince. His Purpleness would especially benefit from the massive information hellstorm that is Twitter. What would that be like, we wonder? Hmmm...

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Allow us to step out of the usage of the royal "we" that we use at Rocks Off for a blog that will have a lasting impact for the rest of our lives. Not Rocks Off at large, but one member who made a promise on the Internet that he can never take back. Well, he probably could, but then he would look like a royal liar.

​Sometime before SXSW, I made a passing (most likely drunken) promise to the followers of @hprocksoff, the Twitter arm of Rocks Off, that if we ever got to 2,000 real live followers, that I would get a small RO tattoo somewhere on my body.

It was a quick and thoughtless comment that, somehow, people remembered. I goaded it on out of jest to get more people to follow. If more people follow us on Twitter, more people can see how awesome music is in Houston and so forth. Everyone wins in the end.

Tuesday at our weekly RO blog meeting, I let it slip that I had made the deal, which immediately made it into law. My big mouth and I need to have a long talk before he makes any more decisions that involve any other parts of my body. Believe me, he's wily. As revenge, I should get Rocks Off tattoo inside my bottom lip. How you like them apples?

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​This week MTV announced an online campaign looking for the network's first-ever TJ, or Twitter Jockey. Unlike the video jockeys of the cable station's past, these folks would instead live-tweet from MTV events for a year, earning a salary, and live in New York City. In addition to Twitter, the winner would also be the online personality of their Facebook enterprise.

It's not like Rocks Off would want to sign up or anything (@craighlavaty) or even that he would enjoy living in New York for a year while earning a six-figure salary (@craighlavaty), he's just saying that for anyone who runs two Twitter accounts and loves music more than life it itself it would probably be a good opportunity (@craighlavaty) to probably meet and scare any number of starlets with his rakish ways and wayward eyebrow. Also, the bars close at 4 a.m. in New York, so there's that.

MTV has a long lineage of memorable and infamous VJ's, from the side-burned pretty boy Carson Daly on Total Request Live in the late '90s to indie-before-it-was-cool Martha Quinn back in the station's infancy of the early '80s. It was the bald and beautiful Matt Pinfield who schooled us on T. Rex so we didn't have to learn about Marc Bolan on the mean streets of the suburbs while we were in junior high.

Here are ten favorites from the station's nearly 30 year history. From a land far, far away filled with music videos, Kurt Loder, and our beloved Jenny McCarthy.

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Although Rocks Off agrees with a commenter from our review that people really need to STFU when they go to concerts, especially if the music is intimate and acoustic - if you want to talk at Warehouse Live, folks, Lucky's Pub is right next door - Jenny Lewis' rhythm guitarist Johnathan Rice really stirred up a hornet's nest Wednesday night when he pointed out that Lewis' Austin and Dallas audiences did not feel the a similar need to converse during her set.

It's not like Houston has any kind of chip on its shoulder about those two cities or anything. Here's a brief selection of the Tweets that were flying fast and furious during and after the show. As always, please follow Rocks Off at www.twitter.com/hprocksoff. We promise to follow you back.

chalupamecrazy: "@OfficialAudrina im kinda sad you disrespected jenny lewis by using her music for a freakin burger commercial."

xy22y: "@da7id Jenny Lewis was great. Controversy when she stopped during her acoustic set because the crowd was chatty. @skyl3r @lablakely"

astromark: "'@clickwindrepeat @groovehouse @thehza Better tact would be for Jenny Lewis to say, "Boy you guys are loud, but at least you aren't Detroit!"

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New live shots of thetontons: "Awesome. Add them to our flickr group. RT @kittenfc got a few photos of y'all at warehouse live last week. http://tinyurl.com/nf4uyy" R.I.P. Dave Rask, via CraigHlavaty: "Will Miss Dave Rask....Thanks for the music and the friendship....http://www.myspace.com/daverask"

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Kim Douglass

It's now been exactly a week since the Wild Moccasins kicked off their first-ever extended tour with a sweaty show before a packed house at Mango's, and like a lot of people (we imagine), Rocks Off is curious how the H-pop heroes are faring on the road. Luckily, instead of having to rely on their finding a pay phone - though the Moccasins may not be old enough to know what one is - or somewhere with wi-fi (which isn't always easy out in the hinterlands), we can keep tabs on them through the miracle of Twitter.

So far the band seems to be faring pretty well. They're eating, which is no guarantee on the road, found some free juice in Florida, saw a rock star walk by in Athens and appeared on CNN while visiting Atlanta Tuesday (hope they plugged their show). On the other hand, they've already had to pawn a pair of sunglasses. Either way, they're certainly taking a lot of pictures...

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