Billy Joel

The Ten Best Jukeboxes in Dallas

Jukeboxes serve a simple yet critical role in bars everywhere. They can help you cope after a breakup, relax you after a long day of work, remind you of what you love mos or fire you up and give you something to dance to. A jukebox used to be the imprint of a bar's spirit, hosting a select set of ... More >>

Big Rich Fashions

Smokey But No Fire at WaterTower Theatre, While Amphibian's Understudy Underwhelms

Tony Ferraro On the Soul of David Ruffin

See also: Shiny Around the Edges on Death Grips, Patti Smith See also: Oil Boom on Donnie and Joe Emerson We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't even c ... More >>

At the Drive-In, Zechs Marquise - Trees - 4/10/12

At the Drive-In, Zechs Marquise Trees Tuesday, April 10 The last time At the Drive-In graced the stage at Trees, they looked like a band falling apart. Vocalist Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriguez stayed on stage right, bouncing off each other while guitarist/vocalist Jim Ward, bassist Paul ... More >>

Wisdom from the Windmill's Charlie Papaceno

Charlie Papaceno, originally from Warwick, New York, opened the Windmill Lounge with his partner Louise six years ago. In that time, they've both garnered reputations for making honest, strong drinks. At their little dive bar on Maple, DART trains speed over the bridge just outside, the deer above ... More >>

Jeff Jacobs Went From Playing College Bars to Rocking The Keys on "We Didn't Start The Fire."

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Jeff Jacobs​Jeff Jacobs, a fairly recent transplant from Chicago, spends ... More >>

For Bastrop: 10 Songs About Putting Out Fires

​The wildfires raging through the greater Austin area have everyone on edge. The Forest Service has stated that they're taxed to the limit, Rick Perry briefly abandoned his presidential run to focus on the blaze and the smoke is causing breathing problems as far north as Waxahachie. Meanwhil ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Bruno Mars at The Palladium, Hey Monday at The Prophet Bar, Nitzer Ebb at The Granada and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at House of Blues

Quite the array of shows we have this evening before the day before Turkey Day. Bruno Mars at South Side Music Hall Peter Gene Hernandez, aka Bruno Mars, was supposedly born in Hawaii, but I have my doubts. The Hawaiian Health Authority refuses to provide a bona fide copy of an authentic birth c ... More >>

Last Night: Mumford & Sons and Cadillac Sky at the House of Blues

Mumford & SonsNovember 4, 2010House of Blues Better Than: Going to a show at House of Blues when the Mavericks or Stars are in town.Andrew ShepherdMarcus Mumford. For more photos, check the slideshow.​ The frenzy that currently envelopes English folk-rockers Mumford & Sons is as clear as ... More >>

Billy Joel Rocks a Better Block, or: How an Oak Cliff Experiment Is Turning Into a National Movement (and a Website and a Book!)

Billy Joel recently did a version of Oak Cliff's Better Block Project in his hometown of Oyster Bay​This afternoon I stumbled across this website: The Better Block: A Planning Tool for Urban Retrofit . Which, of course, refers to Jason Roberts's twice-executed Oak Cliff experiment in which the peo ... More >>

Staff Trax: Delorean, Wintersleep, Tripping Daisy, Das Racist, Them and The Boss.

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Handle The Proof: Sidecar

​In my school of thought--and keep in mind, it's not a very well attended school--cocktails born in the heyday of gentlemanly drinking are to be revered. Drinks such as martinis, old fashioned and the great sazerac came from an era when even the prettiest glass carried a big, stiff belt of alcohol ... More >>

The Other Piano Man

Today In Music News: The Get Up Kids Apologizes, Billy Joel Is Sick and Coldplay Heads To Springfield

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 28, 2009... The Get Up Kids have formally apologized for a nation full of eyeliner and tight jean-wearing emo kids. Thank you, it's long overdue. Billy Joel and Elton John's Face 2 Face tour has been forced to cancel a few shows because Joel ... More >>

Twinkle Toes Tharp

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Bill Clinton Stops By Thomas Jefferson for Democratic Party Pep Rally

ACL: Sunny Sweeney Yes, Vampire Weekend No

Dallas Out-Rocks Houston, Las Vegas and Seattle

Shearwater

Rooks (Matador)

Uptown Grill

Billy Joel's lady visits Dallas

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.  

Last Night: Billy Joel at American Airlines Center

(Not) the Firestarter

Billy Joel "rocks" the AAC

Hannah Montana, More Gold Than Silver

A New-Wave Flashback, Courtesy the Ghost of PM Magazine

Waking Ashland

The Well (Immortal)

Cutting Crew

The Scissor Sisters are gay, dorky and big in Japan

Train Rex

Super Sunday

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Dirty South

My, My!

Lay all your love on Mamma Mia!

Poseidon Adventure

Myths make a splash in Metamorphoses at Theatre Three; Far Away close to perfect at FIT

Modern Love

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

To: Broadway

Elledanceworks doesn't dance around reality

Milemarker, the Blood Brothers; the Juliana Theory, Something Corporate, Vendetta Red; Atom & His Package, Mae

February 20, February 24

Diana Krall

November 25

Best Piano Bar

Pete's Dueling Piano Bar

Crit & Shap

You wanted the worst--you got it!

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Scene, Heard

Music heals, now more than ever

God Only Knows Why

There's much to learn -- and forget -- about TNT's All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

Well, it rhymes with City

The artist sometimes known as Chris Gaines comes to Austin

Billy Joel

Out There

Roadshows