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Y'all Know What This Is: 21-Year-Old Sachse Resident Gets Primed For The Big Time

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

Today In Music News: Beyonce v. The Secret Service, A J.J. Fad Reunion?

Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, January 22, 2009... Even the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday couldn't keep Beyonce from goin' all diva on the Secret Service's ass. It seems the building her hubby Jay-Z was rehearsing in for his inauguration concert was part of a five block, no ... More >>

Bilal / Usher / Chocolate Genius

1st Born Second (Interscope) / 8701 (Arista) / Godmusic (V2)

Ladies Night Out Tour

March 5

The Daffy, Mesmerizing Retro-Soul Surreality of Beyoncé's Younger Sister

March 5

What No. 1 Songs Tell Us About Inaugurations

History, as predicted by Inauguration Day's No. 1 hits

Queens of the Stone Age

Era Vulgaris (Interscope)

Various Artists

One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found (Rhino)

Blog Log

One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found (Rhino)

Waxing Survivor

Beyoncé beyounces into Dallas

Pop Quiz

Diva Dumbdown

Ne-Yo

Friday, July 6, at House of Blues

Oscar Oversight

Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

Dream Works

But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model.

Represent, Y'all

The holler's not that far from the 'hood

Beyoncé

B-Day (Sony)

Ne-Yo | K104 Summer Jam

Friday, July 21, at Purgatory | Saturday, July 22, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Destiny's Child

Destiny Fulfilled (Columbia)

Playing Favorites

Local musicians pick the tops

LeAnn Rimes

Twisted Angel (Curb)

Miller's Crossing

Rhett Miller's The Instigator isn't the wreck of the Old 97's. It's just what he does.

Out & About

Destiny's Child

Today In Music News: The Killers Do Covers, Beyonce Gets Validation, A Gossip Girl Gets A Deal, and J Dilla Gets Another Release

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 27, 2009...In a move that screams "contractual obligation," The Killers are prepping a live DVD and covers album for release.Looks like the Today clip of Beyonce singing horribly was "just a goof" made by some dude.The girl who plays the bitch ... More >>

Download: Symbolyc One's Still Underrated, Vol. 1 Mixtape

Waco rapper/producer Symbolyc One of Strange Fruit Project is one of Texas's most under-appreciated hip-hop talents, flying largely under the radar despite working with Erykah Badu, Little Brother and others. Seems he's kinda embracing his place in life right now, though: Yesterday, S1 released a ne ... More >>

Last Night: Beyonce at American Airlines Center

BeyonceAmerican Airlines CenterJuly 5, 2009 Better than: Filming my own Youtube version of "Single Ladies." Dallas was lucky to have Beyonce stop by last night on her international "I Am" tour de force. From start to finish, the show was phenomenal: Not only was it a showcase of her powerful, ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Less Than Jake, Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Rhett Butler

Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center on Sunday, July 5Anti-Flag, Bad Religion and Less Than Jake headlined the 15th annual Warped Tour. For $40, it offered something for all types of Hot Topic-clad teenage rockers, from the roots of punk to the MySpace man of glamour, Jeffree Star. That's fierce... ... More >>

Today In Music News: Kyp Malone Goes All Beyonce, Katy Perry Had Weird Parents and D'Arcy Comes Out Of Woodwork

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... Kip Malone of TV on The Radio has described his solo record as Beyonce pop fused with biblical analysis. Or something like that. Katy Perry had to refer to deviled eggs as "angelic eggs" as a kid? And I thought my mom was ... More >>

Dixie Chicks and Old 97's Named to Texas Music's Best Albums Of The Decade List, Other Area Acts Named Among Its Artists Of The Decade

​The new Texas Music magazine popped up in the snail mail yesterday, and in a joint celebration of both the end of the '00s and start of the mag's 10th year in existence, the magazine, like many others before it, went ahead and listed its favorite albums and artists of the decade. And, of course, ... More >>

Interesting Quartet: Who's Your Pick?

​Didn't see much at'tall of The Grammys. But I see that Beyonce won six awards and Lady Gaga is an alien and Taylor Swift took the evening's biggest prize: Album of the Year. Swift also, however, apparently sang horribly on a "Rhiannon" duet with Stevie Nicks. Which c ... More >>

Today In Music News: Dead Weather Are Back, Gaga Offended Someone Else And 50 Cent Continues To Diss

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 26, 2010...It's official, The Dead Weather are coming back... soon.Lady Gaga and Beyonce have gone and done it now... they've upset the wrong Mormon has-been pop-star.So how exactly does 50 Cent pick out his diss targets?  I'm assuming th ... More >>

Today In Music News: Gwyneth Goes Country, White Stripes Go For Sale And Beyonce Could Be A Baby Mama

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 21, 2010...Gwyneth Paltrow is taking the next logical step in her career: She's performing at the CMA Awards.A rare White Stripes 7" fetched a whopping $18,000.Is Beyonce preggers? Looks like we'll find out soon...

Sabor: A Taco Joint Brings on Dance Club Flashbacks.

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 21, 2010...Gwyneth Paltrow is taking the next logical step in her career: She's performing at the CMA Awards.A rare White Stripes 7" fetched a whopping $18,000.Is Beyonce preggers? Looks like we'll find out soon...

Listomania: The Five Best and Five Worst Alter Egos in Music

​Tonight, groundbreaking experimental rapper Kool Keith will be gracing The Loft with his presence. And we're hella stoked. Not only is the rapper one of our favorites, but his skill set is undeniable and his advancements in the "horrorcore" and "porncore" genres are fairly irrefutable. Plus. he's ... More >>

Being Beyonce: Is it All in Diet and Exercise?

Hey, little girls, don't you want to be just like Beyonce?​I love me some Beyoncé. Her video for "Single Ladies" is mesmerizing. Kanye was right -- it should have won Female Video of the Year (even though it went on to win Video of the Year). Beyoncé has this ease in her style -- she's like ... More >>

The Problem With... Beyonce's "Run the World (Girls)"

After a year away from music, Mrs. Sean Carter is now looking to get back on the spotlight. Tracks from the 2008 release I Am... Sasha Fierce endured for a while. With "Video Phone," she pushed the gadget industry to include video phone functionality, which the iPhone eventually did. "Single La ... More >>

Beyonce Releases Symbolyc One-Produced "Best Thing I Never Had" As 4's Second Single

​Back in April, a big reveal from fast-rising Dallas-based producer and genuine good dude Symbolyc One: In the wake of blowing the eff up thanks to his production work on Kanye West's "Power," he had a couple more gigs lined up with Kanye and a few other artists you may have heard of -- y'know, al ... More >>

News and Notes: Seryn Gets More Paste Love, Will Johnson Gets NPR'd and Much, Much More

Stand up and take a bow, Seryn.​Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year's best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton's Own Seryn's album, This Is Where We Are. The baroque ... More >>

Rihanna, J. Cole

Friday, July 8, at the American Airlines Center

Beyonce Releases Official Video For Symbolyc One-Produced "Best Thing I Never Had"

​Unlike the subject of Beyonce's new single, "Best Thing I Never Had," we're thinking that it hardly sucks to be Dallas' Own Symbolyc One right now.It was back in April that the local product, also a member of The Cannabinoids and Strange Fruit Project, revealed to us that, in addition to acts suc ... More >>

In Defense of... Kelly Rowland's "Motivation (feat. Lil Wayne)"

I sympathize with Kelly Rowland, I really do. It must suck being constantly overshadowed by your former Destiny's Child groupmate Beyoncé. Really: If Rowland cured cancer tomorrow, the story would probably be buried under another one about Beyoncé's breakfast.

Beats by Dallas' Own Hip-Hop Doctors

I sympathize with Kelly Rowland, I really do. It must suck being constantly overshadowed by your former Destiny's Child groupmate Beyoncé. Really: If Rowland cured cancer tomorrow, the story would probably be buried under another one about Beyoncé's breakfast.

Symbolyc One Explains How He Came Up With Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Excellence" Joint

Symbolyc One's on fire.​In this week's paper, you'll find a heads up of sorts about what's really going on in Dallas hip-hop these days -- essentially it's no longer the rappers making waves so much as it's the producers. And that's not just fluff. As noted in the article, in the past couple of ye ... More >>

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Friday, October 28, at the House of Blues

Company Café: What It Lacks in Gluten, It Makes Up for With Bacon

Alice Laussade​Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she goes gluten-free at Company Café, 2217 Greenville Ave. Spice rack wall art count: 1 Stroller count: 451 Company Café on Greenville Avenue is for high-m ... More >>

Switch Turns on Rio Room with a Less-Than-Edgy Set

DJ Dave Taylor, aka Switch.​The Winter Night Lights series at Rio Room is the staff's attempt to bring edgier, more underground (for lack of a better word) DJ's to town. At least edgier and more underground than the Vegas-style top 40 or electro house sets that can typically be heard at Rio Ro ... More >>

In Defense Of... Mary J Blige's "25/8"

Mary J. Blige has always struck me as a more well-balanced and humble singer than her contemporaries. Instead of overpowering the music with diva crescendos, Mary lets the music flow with her. This anti-diva approach is the reason she's abided twenty-plus years and two generations of boisterous diva ... More >>

In Defense Of... Beyoncé's "Dance For You"

I've noticed that I pick on Beyoncé a lot in my columns. Here's how I know - I've memorized the alt-key number sequence to type the accented e in Windows, and I don't even type in Spanish or French. (That code, by the way, is Alt and 0233) I rail on Beyoncé so much because she's the most success ... More >>

Are You Surprised? Jay-Z Already Has a Song About His Offspring

Terrifying ​Following the birth of his and Beyoncé's daughter, Blue Ivy, on Saturday night -- an event which took over an entire wing of Lenox Hill Hospital -- Mr. Carter, ever the businessman, has already written a song about her. "A younger, smarter, faster me," he declares. How long until ... More >>