Alice Cooper

The Worst Summer Songs of All Time: The Readers' Picks

You know the jingle. It's the kind of hot that leaves a sweat outline in the shape of a chair on your shirt, and one of the world's most teasing, irritating songs comes on the radio: "All of those tourists covered with oil / strumming my six string / on my front porch swing." It's Jimmy Buffett's ... More >>

Rob Zombie On Revenge, Frank Zappa and Frankenstein

All Hallow's Eve is almost upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with Rob Zombie, who will be performing with Marilyn Manson on the Twins of Evil Tour at Verizon Theatre tomorrow night. It'll be a fright night filled with elaborate stage designs, terrifying costumes and metal. I had a chanc ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012, The Wrap-Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper, Skrillex and Bouts of Vomiting

See also: Bonnaroo Thursday See also: Bonnaroo Friday Do not, under any circumstances, forget to bring earplugs to a Mogwai concert. Thank the concert gods I didn't learn this lesson the hard way during their Saturday evening set at Bonnaroo, having just bought a pair from some high-schoolers rais ... More >>

Dark Shadows Dusts Off the Ol' Culture-Clash Bit.

DISD Parents Can Vote on School Calendars, Both of Which Run Well Into June. Unless ...

​So much for that proposal to stretch some Dallas Independent School District students' calendars till July 26. Still: District parents have till Monday to vote on two calendar options, down from the five presented to trustees earlier this month, and on the surface, at least, both run longer than ... More >>

Midlake's Bar Classes Up Denton's Square

The 10 Best Music Videos Featuring Puppets

​On Saturday, the world celebrated the birthday of the late master of puppets and all-around creative genius Jim Henson. Henson modernized the age-old art of puppetry by using foam rubber to coat the puppets' limbs. Previously, most TV puppets were made of carved wood. But Henson believed that fo ... More >>

Last Night: Ke$ha, LMFAO and Spank Rock at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Ke$ha, LMFAO, Spank Rock Gexa Energy Pavilion at Fair Park August 4, 2011 Better than: trying to get by without water in this climate.Taryn WalkerK. E. Dollar sign. Ha?​ The Gexa Energy Pavilion's stage housed a two-story steel scaffolding with vertical LED light rods and a large diamond in the ce ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get You Through International Kissing Day

​According to the people I follow on Twitter, today is International Kissing Day. How annoying is that? As if Valentine's Day wasn't bad enough, now we have International Kissing Day to annoy the pants off anyone who doesn't have someone to smooch on. Apparently, Kissing Day was dreamed up as an a ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets to Tonight's of Montreal Show at the South Side Music Hall

There are a lot of different things one could say about of Montreal -- like, say, for starters, that the band isn't from Montreal at all, but from Athenes, Georgia. Furthermore, trying to pin a genre on them is a challenge; they've flip-flopped between a multitude of different sounds over the past 1 ... More >>

Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum To Hold Grand Opening on Valentine's Day With Some Help From The Tom Tom Club and The O's.

​Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday -- Valentine's Day, which, in case you've somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February 14.A ... More >>

My First Show: True Widow's Dan Phillips Saw A Decapitated Alice Cooper At The Bronco Bowl

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.That's Dan over there on the couch.​As impressive as their 2008 self-titled debut was, expect plenty of good things to come from Tru ... More >>

October's Music Offerings Are Unrelenting. And We Likey.

Before It's Official, DISD Releases Preliminary List of Exemplary, Recognized Schools

​We said it just last week: The Texas Education Agency won't release its 2010 Accountability Ratings till the end of July, which hasn't stopped the Dallas Independent School District from spreading the good news concerning a fifth straight year of improved TAKS scores and additional schools being ... More >>

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

CBS Turns To Noted Art, Rock Critic Vincent Furnier for Badu Video Review

Alice Cooper talking Erykah Badu on CBS this morning​Over on DC9 this morning, Pete posted a video of Erykah Badu performing "Window Seat" on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show earlier this week -- oh, right, so there's a song in that naked video. Speaking of: Alice Cooper was on CBS's The Early Show ... More >>

Gig Alerts: Death Hickey Blues at Poor David's Pub, La Dispute at 1919 Hemphill

​For all the losers like me who are not going to the Death Star in Arlington to catch U2 and Muse tonight (or, for that matter, either the Alice Cooper show at the Palladium or the Maxwell/Common show at the AAC), there are a few out-of-town artists who dare show their faces in our area the same n ... More >>

Does ACL Actually Hurt Dallas?

Go See Alice

McConaugh-Art

Mayor Tom Is Far From a Guitar Hero

If Stan Richards Hates Your "Piece of Crap," You'd Best Duck

Steady Rockin'

The Hold Steady hit the Palladium

Headbangin' Christ Child

Christmas goes metal with the TSO

No Reservations

Change is on the menu for Pretty Girls Make Graves

Iron and Whine

Inwood conducts a midnight study

45 Grave

Sunday, February 19, at Club Clearview

Show Tuned

Reefer Sadness

Dazed and Confused has a flashback

Rock of Ages

The Mayor of the Sunset Strip presides over pop

Bad Boy

Peer Gynt is a cautionary tale in tights

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

Rock & Droll

The members of White Light Motorcade are road scholars

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

A*Teens, Baha Men

August 13

Rob Zombie

March 8

The Nobody

Marilyn Manson won't destroy the world, but he just might save it

Young guns

Julien Temple and The Sex Pistols set their record straight in The Filth and the Fury

Scene, heard

Bad mouthing good bods; Keeping up with the Buck Joneses; the Broose is loose; Tim DeLaughter speaks; And much more

That's a real shocker

Marilyn Manson saved himself from a life of decadence. Now he thinks he can save rock and roll.

The Crit and Shap Poll

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Plain Jane in the membrane

Reputation aside, ICP is just your dull, everyday pair of lunatic clowns

Out Here

Out Here

Out Here

Out There

Metal's crimson King

The mellow Satanism of King Diamond

Roadshows

Roadshows