Athens (Georgia)

The Whigs Think We Should All Stop Being Jerks to Kings of Leon

Hailing from Athens, Georgia, the garage rock trio known as The Whigs has been plying their craft for over a decade. In that time, they have released four amazing records including last years' Enjoy the Company. Speaking from a tour stop in Los Angeles and in anticipation of Friday's show at the Pr ... More >>

I Folking Love SXSW 2012: Acts to Watch After the Fest

There's an electricity in the air around certain bands. It's the ionic charge of a precise, practiced act on the cusp of becoming huge. Alabama Shakes are a lightning bolt. Just as the Shakes finished their knee-melter set at the Aquarium Drunkard day party, a friend put his hand on my shoulder and ... More >>

Reptar - The Prophet Bar - 2/24/12

Reptar, Quiet Hooves, Zhora The Prophet Bar Friday, February 24 "We are about to get nasty," said Graham Ulicny moments before "Sebastian," a standout from Reptar's self-titled album. The Athens, Georgia group didn't disappoint. Combining the nerdy dance vibe of early Talking Heads with the more mo ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Brent Best Explains These 42 Slobberbone Covers

​I've still got a few of the work-week rock-and-roll adioses stashed away, and guess I'd better use 'em or lose 'em between now and the next week or so. So let's start with this -- a bootleg officially known as The Bone Collection, featuring 42(ish) covers performed by Slobberbone and, in a few in ... More >>

Jason Isbell on Social Networking: "You Can Pretty Much Be Antisocial."

Alabama-raised Jason Isbell has pretty much met, if not exceeded, the expectations of just about any interested party following his departure from the beloved band of southern-rock story-tellers, The Drive By Truckers. Each of Isbell's three albums since leaving his former band in 2007 has progres ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers, Centro-matic

The Best Of SXSW Music Wednesday: Folk Beards, Nite Jewel and Nudity

Nick RalloAnd the award for Best Folk Beard goes too...​People drunk. After day one-ish of SXSW Music, it's a new term. People drunk is the dulled sensation, the open-mouth brain shock of trying to figure out which great band to catch in a completely huge crowd. Looking at yesterday's schedule ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to Tonight's Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Show at The Loft

​There's been a lot of talk about the upcoming Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Show that's going on at The Loft tonight -- and most of it is about the possibility of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum showing up and adding to the "surprise" factor, a rumor that's persisted in light of his appearance at ... More >>

Wolf Parade's The Closest We're Gonna Get to Neutral Milk Hotel

Tonight, Tonight: Kings of Leon, The Black Keys and The Whigs at Superpages; Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at Palladium; Semi-Precious Weapons at the Loft; Torche at The Nightmare; and More!

Crazy busy night, huh? Thursdays really must be the new Fridays...

The Hold Steady, The Whigs

Saturday, July 10, at Granada Theater

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Widespread Panic (Athens, Georgia)Dirty Side Down (ATO)It's been reported mo ... More >>

Watch: The 40 Nights of Rock & Roll Team Crushes Pretty Hard on Denton

Last week, we showed you some clips filmed as Scott Sloan and Steve LaBate stopped through Dallas as part of their 40 Nights of Rock & Roll documentary tour--footage that featured Centro-matic's Will Johnson playing piano in easily the best laundry room performance I've ever seen. That stop at J ... More >>

Last Night: of Montreal at the Granada Theater

of Montreal, Noot d' NootGranada TheaterMay 24, 2010Better than: the last show I saw at Granada. Andrew ShepherdFor more shots from of Montreal's performance at the Granada last night, check our slideshow.​Quite the spectacle last night from of Montreal at the Granada Theater. Not quite a repeat o ... More >>

Q&A: Former Paste Scribe Steve LaBate and Filmmaker Scott Sloan Tell Us Why You Might See Cameras At The Granada Tonight...

Similar, but different.​Seeing 40 concerts in 40 different cities over the course 40 consecutive nights. Sound cool? Sure does. While such a trip would be an unrealistic fantasy for most of us, former senior writer from Paste Magazine, Steve LaBate and his good friend, filmmaker Scott Sloan, decid ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Thursday, May 20, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.The Service Industry (San Antonio, TX) Calm Down (Sauspop)Sadly, this week's st ... More >>

Is Midlake's The Courage of Others the Most Important Record Ever to Come Out of Denton? Possibly.

Good Friday: Salim Nourallah, Vic Chesnutt, Bridges & Blinking Lights, 311, Grooms, 100 Damned Guns, Air Review, Deathray Davies, Eric Hutchinson, Trivium, and Knights In Satan's Service.

​Well, the weekend's here, thank the Lord. And, as always, we're here to present you with your concert-attending plans. First, as always, the shows we've already hyped...Tonight, Bill Callahan stops by the Granada Theater, Colourmusic pops on in to The Cavern and The Edge Steals Christmas out at t ... More >>

The Wyndemere Cries, "Quarter Mil"

View Larger MapThe New York Times' Great Homes and Destinations blog wonders what kind of pad you can get for $250,000 and comes up with a few options: a three-bedroom, three-bath 179-year-old house near the Fore River in Portland, Maine; a five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house in Athens, Georgi ... More >>

Black Kids Contradict Themselves

What It Was Like: Efterklang, Alela Diane, Camera Obscura, Dark Meat, Megafaun

Patrick MichelsEfterklang under a tent at the French Legation MuseumBand: EfterklangWhere: Other Music Party at the French Legation MuseumWhat It Was Like: Seven people from Copenhagen playing ornate pop combining violin, trumpet and flute with glitchy electronics. Closer "Cutting Ice to Snow" start ... More >>

Good Friday: The Halloween Weekend Edition

The Whigs look to establish themselves live

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Dead Confederate And Wax Fangs On Saturday

The 15-Piece Dark Meat Collective Isn't Another Polyphonic Spree

Last Night: The Whigs, What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Dead Trees and Collin Herring

Good Friday: The Whigs, Fight Bite, Car Stereo (Wars), Sarah Jaffe

R.E.M.

Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

Beard Sweat

ZZ Top and friends rock Smirnoff

Cheaper Cuts | His Blowness | Ugly Image | Um...

Centro-matic Does It "All Night Long." Seriously, All Night.

Madeline

Thursday, November 2, at 1919 Hemphill, Fort Worth

Odds & Ends

At this week's Dallas Video Festival, local audio gets the spotlight treatment

Scene Heard

No camera, but lights and action were the top subjects at a grassroots meeting meant to revitalize Deep Ellum

'70s Glam-Disco Party

Of Montreal proves there's life, funk and creativity after Elephant 6

Phosphorescent, Castanets, Voxtrot

Friday, December 2, at the Cavern

Maria Taylor, Statistics, Zykos

Thursday, July 7, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Of Montreal

Thursday, June 9, at Rubber Gloves

Barnes Storming

Athens' Of Montreal gives its whimsical psychedelia a raucous jolt

Time Is Free

Widespread Panic may experiment, but it's all part of the song. Usually.

Macha

Gypsy Tea Room

Dream weaver

Olivia Tremor Control rustles through the Black Foliage for the perfect sound(s)

Macha men

More than a decade after fronting one of Dallas' first new-wave bands, Joshua and Mischo McKay go out of this world

Grown Up

R.E.M.'s new adventure in hi-fi is its finest in years

Emotional rescue

There's paradise found and innocence regained in the music of Neutral Milk Hotel

Jerry's kids

Jam bands burst into bloom

Power trio

Peter Buck goes West with Eitzel, Middle Eastern with Tuatara, and everywhere else with Minus 5

Sells like teen spirit

Hype! dreams and other bull about grunge, Seattle, and Sub Pop

Events for the week

Roadshows