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Rachel Behring Tells Rock Star Hospitality Stories and Explains her Love for Local Music

Ever been backstage at House of Blues Dallas? Rachel Behring painted the cool murals you see on the walls back there of some of rock and soul's legends. But hell, that's just her showing she loves where she works ... and who wouldn't? Behring spent a good stretch of time managing backstage at HOB, a ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In DFW This Week, December 10-13

Bloc Party, The Burning Hotels Tuesday, December 11, at House of Blues, $30/$35 Bloc Party are coming to town after the release of their fourth full-length earlier this year, appropriately titled Four. The band reverts back to the guitar-centric sounds of its past, recreating the same feel as their ... More >>

Soviet and The Longshots On Their First Shows: "There's Still Nasty Dreadlock Hair Tangled All Through The Pegs"

Usually, we only interview one band for this feature, but given the chance to interview members of Soviet and The Longshots, to hell with regulations. Both bands will open for Pujol tomorrow at Dada, certainly one of the better shows this week. John, what can you remember about the first Soviet sh ... More >>

A Road Trip Through Texas, And The State of Dallas Radio

In the last few months, research for a project has taken me across the state and, more recently, into Mexico. It may be something sentimental in me, or this weird notion that road trips are meant to be soundtracked by where you are and not by a list you cultivated online, but I noticed what was popu ... More >>

Preview: Los Campesinos!, Wednesday, February 15, at Club Dada

Q&A: Tokyo Police Club Drummer Greg Alsop Talks Vegetables, One-Hit Wonders Glass Tiger and Making Eye Contact With Rivers Cuomo

It's not often that, when you call up a band for an interview, the conversation gets kicked off by the interview subject asking the interviewer what to do with a vegetable that "looks like an old lady's finger." And yet, when I recently caught up with Tokyo Police Club drummer Greg Alsop in advance ... More >>

Q&A Giveaway: The Futureheads' Barry Hyde Shares The Importance Of Sweating and Moving, and Punk's Role as Society's Critic.

On Monday night, English post-punk act The Futureheads stop by for a gig at The Loft in support of their new, fourth studio full-length, The Chaos--and, for the first time in about a week or so, it's a gig from a worthwhile band that isn't just stopping through the region as part of its trip to Aus ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Jon Anderson at the Lakewood Theater, Miami Horror at the Granada, Charlie Shafter at the Boiler Room and Black Tie Dynasty at 8.0

The end of the workweek is solidly in view as we cruise into Thursday. And lots of interesting national and local acts are parlaying their collective talent all over the area tonight...

We Were Promised Jetpacks Makes The Most of Its Debut

Regina Spektor

Thursday, November 12, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Today In Music News: Kele Okereke Goes Solo, Weird Al Joins The Pixies And Carl Sagan Rocks

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Bloc Party's Kele Okereke is recording his first solo album.Apparently Weezer aren't the only band into weird collabos: Weird Al will sing the Pixies' "I Bleed"... with the Pixies. Jack White's Third Man label is going to release ... More >>

Today In Music News: Spector Hates Prison, Bloc Party May Not Record Again and Chris Brown Charts

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 31, 2009... According to Phil Spector's publicist he's "not doing great" in prison. Really? I'd expect a 60-year-old super-producer to be having the time of his life. Of course, if he's bored, he can always strike up a coll ... More >>

Last Night: Rx Bandits at The Granada Theater

Rx Bandits, Dredg, Good Old WarGranada TheaterJuly 14, 2009  Better Than: Staying in to watch that overrated jackass on Hell's Kitchen. Rx BanditsThey look unwashed, unshaven, lazy and listless.     They're wearing what looks like the same clothes they pulled on days ago. &nb ... More >>

Regina Spektor

Far (Sire)

Get Yer Independence Day Dance Jam On With A Few Choice Local Mixtape Downloads

There's gonna be a whole lot of barbecuing and pool-hopping this weekend, if common sense is any indicator for what we should expect to go down on this Fourth of July weekend. Course, there needs to be a soundtrack to it all...So, on that note, here are a couple DC9-approved mixtapes from area DJs ... More >>

Viva Voce, Cut Off Your Hands, Robert Gomez

Friday, June 12, at Hailey's Club in Denton

Magnetic Subtraction | Classic Schlock

Weekend Roundup: The Derek Trucks Band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Cut Copy, Matt and Kim and White Tie Affair

Ready to take your weekly trip into the rockin' world of this past weekend's music? Bust out those headphones and let's do it! Remember, all videos come courtesy of your friends and mine, those camera-wielding folks at the front of the club. They press on, despite tired arms, so that you can I can e ... More >>

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Intimacy (Atlantic)

Diagramming Modern English

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Norah Jones Kicks Off New ACL Season

Bloc Party, Deerhoof, J versus K

Saturday, September 22, at House of Blues

ACL Day Three: In Photos

ACL Fashion Run-down

Arctic Monkeys, The Coral

Sunday, September 16, at the Palladium Loft

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A Weekend in the City (Vice Music)

Bits and Pieces

Greenville gets a boost

Falling Forward

Not even middle age can slow the tongue of Mark E. Smith

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball videogame. Really.

British Invasion

Richard Alston dances across the pond

Great Men

Gang of Four return, and all pretenders should watch their arses

Rain or Shine

We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

Bloc Buster

Bloc Party's rapid ascent didn't happen overnight-- it just seems that way

Buzzed

SXSW 2005: The crowds, the hype bands and all the Shiner Bock you can drink

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Silent Alarm (Vice)

Detached Youth

The Futureheads ignore their post-punk contemporaries--and their buzz