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Vox Pop, Rd. 1: JMack vs. AnonymousCulture

Tue Feb 9, 4:41 PM

?This week, for the first go 'round of our new weekly, online hip-hop battle competition, both of our top performers--JMack and AnonymousCulture--chose to go the a cappella route with their submi... More >>

Eisley Announces Split From Warner Bros.

Tue Feb 9, 4:10 PM

?In November, when we spoke last with Eisley's Stacy Dupree, the singer implied that she and her family/bandmates weren't necessarily all that stoked with their situation at Warner Bros. Records. ... More >>

Picture Show: Mardi Gras Texas Style at Fair Park

Tue Feb 9, 3:58 PM

?Mardi Gras Texas Style drew thousands of fans to Fair Park on Saturday, for a bill of 20 country acts including the Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Cory Morrow and more. As if you ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Smile Smile -- "Beg You To Stay"

Tue Feb 9, 3:30 PM

?Today marks the first day in which audiences can head on out--or just sit in and click over to iTunes or your digital download store of choice, whatever--and purchase the new Smile Smile disc, Tr... More >>

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  • Our North Of The Dial Scribe Signs Off
    Thursday, February 04
    He plopped down on one of the rickety chairs on the sidewalk in front of J & J's Pizza with a copy of the Dallas Observer, and after lighting his... More >>
  • Chris Knight, Justin Townes Earle
    Saturday, February 6,at the Granada Theater
    Thursday, February 04
    As if being the son of legendary alt-country godfather Steve Earle wasn't pressure enough, young singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle also bears... More >>
  • Jokersdeck
    Me Timbers (Self-released)
    Thursday, February 04
    Sometimes a band's name can be immensely revealing—especially when wondering about the tunes that reside on a given album. Take, for an apt... More >>
  • Bowerbirds Fly Higher With Their Latest
    Thursday, February 04
    Bowerbirds emerged in 2006 as a back-to-basics act in more than one way: The band's debut LP, Hymns for a Dark Horse, surveyed a stark loping... More >>
  • Eleven Hundred Springs Laughs Off Adulthood
    Thursday, February 04
    It shouldn't exactly be a surprise at this point. Tales of drinking beers and smoking drugs and getting through life (if not flat-out reveling in... More >>
  • Flogging Molly, Frank Turner, The Architects
    Tuesday, February 9, at the House of Blues
    Thursday, February 04
    While The Pogues may have minted the style, no one has done as much to popularize Celtic-punk as Flogging Molly—and the band's energetic... More >>
  • Stu Discious
    Stu Discious (Self-released)
    Thursday, February 04
    At first, it appears the kind of local album we see all too often. Take, for instance, the terrible-looking presentation. The CD cover is... More >>
  • Eli Young Band Adds A Little Nashville Spice to Denton
    Thursday, February 04
    They don't refer to Denton as Austin North for nothing. In a small college town that's rife with bands spanning all genres and any kind of... More >>
  • Motion City Soundtrack, Set Your Goals, This Providence, The Swellers
    Wednesday, February 10, at The Door
    Thursday, February 04
    Motion City Soundtrack comes to Dallas supporting its newest record, My Dinosaur Life, in what will most definitely be a packed show. No surprise... More >>
  • Summer Ames
    Complicated Daydream (EP Self-released)
    Thursday, February 04
    Ames' voice, at the very least, is above average—and it certainly doesn't lack charm. But, to her detriment, her music has a bit of a more... More >>
  • Is Midlake's The Courage of Others the Most Important Record Ever to Come Out of Denton? Possibly.
    Thursday, January 28
    There's nothing exciting—and certainly nothing glamorous—about the studio in which Midlake recorded its third full-length album, The... More >>
  • The Dark, Cloudy Future Of Your Music Collection
    Thursday, January 28
    "The Cloud is coming to steal my music collection!" It sounds like a bad horror movie, and yet it might be true. The common way to listen to... More >>
  • Mark Growden
    Thursday and Friday, January 28 and 29, at Lola's Stockyards, Fort Worth
    Thursday, January 28
    Mark Growden creates the kind of rich, evocative, cabaret-noir-Americana that thousands of Tom Waits imitators would give their porkpie hats to... More >>
  • Spoon
    Transference (Merge)
    Thursday, January 28
    More than once I've seen Spoon's seventh album mentioned with some Radiohead reference—a friend even liked it to In Rainbows, insisting... More >>
  • Girls' Pop Music Goals Are Hardly Modest
    Thursday, January 28
    One of the wonders of modern music is how there are always emerging new artists capable of using the familiar building blocks of chords, melodies... More >>
  • The Biggest Weekly Party In Denton Is At A Rodeo?
    Thursday, January 28
    "It's a party at a Rodeo, man!" Big J shouted over Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." during last week's Back to School Bash at Rockin Rodeo. The... More >>
  • Yo La Tengo,Times New Viking
    Saturday, January 30, at Granada Theater
    Thursday, January 28
    Like a healthy tan or acting natural, Ohio trio Times New Viking is an oxymoron. The group is abrasive yet warm, chaotic but crisp, sweet and... More >>
  • The Slack
    The Deep End (Idol)
    Thursday, January 28
    If there were ever an album that suffered from an identity crisis, The Slack's album The Deep End would certainly be a fine candidate. It's not... More >>
  • For Exene Cervenka, X No Longer Marks The Spot
    Thursday, January 28
    For someone with a history of depression, Exene Cervenka sounds positively bubbly. And why shouldn't she? Currently on tour supporting her... More >>
  • Sondre Lerche, JBM
    Tuesday, February 2, at House of Blues' Cambridge Room
    Thursday, January 28
    Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche has already taken home a Grammy in his native country, and thanks to his growing appeal among a... More >>

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Willie Nelson Plays Boca's Sunset Cove Amphitheater

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Denver

Tjutjuna's music takes you far beyond the mundane world of the everyday

Named after a Siberian cryptid cognate of Bigfoot, Tjutjuna emerged from the band Mothership... More >>

Houston

Ultimate Victory

Fences with Paul Wall mended, upcoming tour planned, Chamillionaire is comfortable being the rapper next door.
Chamillionaire is the rapper you can take home to mom and dad. His albums contain very little... More >>

Kansas City

The Entrance Band could be a psych-rock dream

Keeping Guy Blakeslee on point is like gripping a balloon in a whirlpool. You just have to let... More >>

Miami

French group Nouvelle Vague makes punk and New Wave go bossa

The origin of French group Nouvelle Vague's name is three-pronged. First, of course, it... More >>

Phoenix

George Strait Is Classy and Totally Underrated

George Strait is underrated. Perhaps that statement sounds ridiculous: Strait has 34 albums... More >>

San Francisco

The Zen Buddha of the N-Judah: Rapper Richie Cunning

Some San Franciscans make a Mission burrito run as soon as they return to town. Rapper and... More >>

St. Louis

Murphy Lee returns with a new album — and a positive outlook

In 2010, the hardest-working man in St. Louis just might be hip-hop mainstay Murphy Lee. In... More >>
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