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The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

Record Store Day Approaches and Ben Harper Premiers at The White House

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. The day has finally come and Bill Wisener, Bill's Records owner, can hardly contain his excite ... More >>

The Power of Dallas: Erykah Badu Gives Tyler a Bump and Bill's Old Friend Makes the White House

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Tyler, The Creator features several artists on his new album, and according to CD Source owne ... More >>

Local Independent Record Vendors are Rooting for the Underdogs

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Similarities emerged at CD Source and Good Records this week with top artists reaching high sa ... More >>

The Benefit of In-Store Performances in Cold, Hard, Record Sales Numbers

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Local performer, Wayne Hancock recently released his new album Ride and reaches top ten in sal ... More >>

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

Chelsea Light Moving is This Week's Top Sell in Dallas Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is still ma ... More >>

Diversity Tops the Charts: From Local Artist, Bradley James to Swedish Native Band, Goat

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds rightfully take the top three spots this week with their excellent ... More >>

The Grammys are Good for Something, at Least: Dallas Record Stores Get a Sales Bump

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner Lance Price says the Grammys still seem to be effecting who is rising to the t ... More >>

Dawn Richard Makes Local Appearance and Reaches Top 10

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, was exhilarated to have Dawn Richard make an appearance at his s ... More >>

Is Adele's 21 the 21st Century Commercial Equivalent to Thriller?

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Fleetwood Mac will be playing in Dallas at the American Airlines Center June 4, and their reis ... More >>

Toro Y Moi Tops This Week's Dallas Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Yo la Tengo and Tame Impala are still doing well this week; however, new to the mix and top se ... More >>

Adele Postpones Upcoming Dallas Gig. Again.

​Adele was originally set to play the House of Blues back in June in support of her phenomenal, surefire album of the year contender, 21. Everyone seemed super stoked on it at the time, too. But, because of laryngitis, that gig got canceled. It was soon rescheduled, though, and this time, it was s ... More >>

Young the Giant Grows Into Its Name

Chiodos, Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, The Color Morale, The Air I Breathe, Mod Sun

Friday, July 29, at The Door

The Avett Brothers Refuse To Look Back.

Arbitrarily Grading The Year That Was: A Look Back At The Major Music Happenings of 2010.

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

Lady Antebellum Isn't Country's First Pop Sensation.

The Grand Theatre, Volume One, Earns Old 97's The Highest Billboard Chart Position of Career

​Good news out of Old 97's camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, No. 25 in the Rock Chart, No, 15 ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Dorrough feat. DJ Drama, Diddy, Yo Gotti, Bun B, Diamond, Shawty Lo, Wiz Khalifa & Maino -- "Get Big (Remix)"

Dorrough's getting bigger.​Well, we're a week in to the official release of Dorrough's sophomore album and it looks like the disc going to be the successful follow-up Dorrough that was hoping for. Or, at least, the singles are still doing well. Currently, lead single, "Get Big," 14 weeks after bre ... More >>

B.o.B. Finally Figures It Out

Watch: Jermaine Dupri And Dondria Preview The Sachse Product's Upcoming Release

We just keep getting closer and closer to the August 17 release of Sachse product Dondria's upcoming Jermaine Dupri-backed debut full-length, Dondria vs. Phatfffat. And the anticipation's getting more and more palpable: Next week, the R&B singer will release the music video to "Shawty Wussup," t ... More >>

Vampire Weekend, Abe Vigoda

Sunday, April 11, at House of Blues

Flogging Molly, Frank Turner, The Architects

Tuesday, February 9, at the House of Blues

Listen: Lil Twist & Lil Chuckee -- "Girl I Got You"

​Up to this point, we really haven't heard too much from 16-year-old Dallas rapper Lil Twist. We knew a few things, of course: Namely, that he's a member of Lil Wayne's Young Money crew and stopped by to join the man on stage at Wayne's American Airlines Center performance back in December '08. (H ... More >>

LMFAO Wants To Be Your Friend, Bitch!

The Roots Tease New Badu Track On Late Night. Oh, And Her New Disc Is Set For A February 23rd Release... Officially.

Best friends forever.​Last week, just after a potential upcoming single from Erykah Badu leaked to the Internet, the Dallas-based neo-soul queen formally announced the release date for her upcoming album, New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. The disc, reported Billboard late on Friday afternoon ... More >>

Good Friday: Brent Best, Bridges & Blinking Lights, Days of the New, Babyface, Pitbull, Doug Burr, All That Remains, Binary Sunrise, Rhett Miller, RTB2, Saboteur, The Sounds, Shinedown

​The weekend's here, which is good news for anyone hoping to catch up on sleep and boost their immune systems so they don't catch that darn H1N1 virus going around. And good news for music fans, too, as there's enough rock going on to melt both your face and all potential germs it might be keeping ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Does Not Hook Up, You Say? Hmmm.

Here's the thing, Kell: We started out friends..."I Do Not Hook Up," the second single from Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson's latest album, All I Ever Wanted album, is indeed a catchy little gem (written by Katy Perry, who stopped through town last night, dontchaknow). But unlike the first single, "My ... More >>

Last Night: Slipknot and Coheed and Cambria at Nokia Theatre

Slipknot, Coheed and CambriaNokia Theatre, Grand PrairieFebruary 22, 2009 Better Than: Accidentally stumbling onto the set of a Rob Zombie movie without realizing you've been written into the plot. Last night at the Nokia Theatre, the earth shifted, the foundation cracked, and hell poured out t ... More >>

Scary As Ever, the Cover Bands Come Out on Halloween

Who knew tributes would be a Halloween thing? Also: the New Frontiers break up and Ricky Bobby returns

Billboard Runs A Ruthless Records Retrospective, Calls The D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It Better" One Of The Label's Seminal Hits

Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie at Nokia Theatre

Q&A: Chiodos

South by Southwest Bounty Overflows to Benefit Dallas

This and next week are full of big-name acts making their ways to or from the Austin festival

Johnny's Sweet Jams

Mathis performs at the Meyerson

More Plugs

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E-40

My Ghetto Report Card (Reprise/BME)

Sounding Off

Swedes try to put some new into new wave

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Carrie Borzillo

Nirvana: The Day By Day Eyewitness Chronicle Thunder's (Mouth Press)

Travis

Baby, hit 'em one more time.

International incident

Dragonball Z is the Cartoon Network's top-rated show, thanks to a Fort Worth-based company that's unleashing a controversial American version of this Japanese hit

Out There

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Rap gets puffy

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs fathers a return to hip-hop pop

Let it bleed

Fireworks goes back to the garage

Get it while you can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

Rise and shine

Weekend offers a whirlwind tour of local music scene

Roadshows