Blue Oyster Cult

Five Stray Thoughts From Wildflower! Festival

1. When you're the rebellious band all the kids listen to so they can annoy their parents, forty years on after those kids grow up you're going to be playing family-friendly sets to them and their kids. And so it was with Blue Oyster Cult, still remarkably retaining two (almost) original members fro ... More >>

The Eight Best Shows in DFW This Week

Is there such a thing as the end of festival season here? I don't know. What I do know is that there are a couple more this weekend -- Fort Worth Music Festival features twang on Friday and fuzzy guitar bliss on Saturday. And Wildflower remains the most fun I can imagine having in the general proxim ... More >>

The Eight Bands Most in Need of a Senior Citizen Ticket Discount

So the Rolling Stones have announced their first large tour in 6 years, and their "50 And Counting" jaunt will see them stop in nine cities across North America. This is borderline amazing considering that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are 69 and CHARLIE WATTS IS 71 FREAKING YEARS OLD. Can you imag ... More >>

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Divine Fits, Blue Oyster Cult, Ben Folds Five, Rob Zombie and More

As we sit in our cubicles, school chairs or desks today, the Texas sky is relentless with its 73-degree beauty, tempting all of us to turn on some tunes, throw up our hands and have recess. Texas has just reached the perfect time of year when all of the alchemy is correct for hosting a plethora of m ... More >>

Evan Chronister Talks About His Love of Rush, Seeing the Sex Pistols in Dallas

Evan Chronister is a local music enthusiast, a masterful mix CD maker, and an avid blogger. He can talk your ear off about seeing legendary bands in their prime, but his first show is something he's never forgotten: Rush. In honor of Rush playing the American Airlines Center tonight, we caught up wi ... More >>

Converge's Jacob Bannon On Queen, Texas Wrestling and Being a Licensed Mixed Martial Arts Instructor

Jacob Bannon, lead singer of the mighty Converge, returns to Dallas tomorrow night at Dada, as the four-piece promotes their latest, All We Love We Leave Behind. We caught up with him about the first record he bought, his first tattoo, how he got into mixed martial arts and his love for Texas wrestl ... More >>

Listomania: The Ten Best Bands That Might Actually Be Cults

Listen: When you all wear the same uniform, people are gonna accuse you of being a cult.​There are plenty of bands over the years who have used the word "cult" in their names. From '70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult to '80s Brit rockers The Cult to '90s art rockers Cloud Cult to current indie darl ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Joe Satriani at the Granada Theater, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger at Dan's Silverleaf, Leg Sweeper at Canton Co-Op

Not the craziest Tuesday night we've ever seen, no. But there are at least two cool touring shows coming through tonight. And, for a third option, you can help a favorite local act kick off its own tour.

Parking Lot Nights

And The Winner Is...

​Not a bad week, comment-wise--especially considering how everyone is pretty much huddled up in their cubicles this time of year trying to clear things before the holidays...right?It helped that newswriter (and alcohol lightweight) Kimberly Thorpe decided to seek tolerance-building advice so she ... More >>

Top 25 Food-Related Quotes Of The Past Decade

​Almost a decade ago, I wrote this: "Every time this country ends up with a Bush in the White House, several things most assuredly occur: The government inflicts some regrettable incident on Japan, the nation tumbles into a recession, a presidential pet writes a book, and everyone worries about th ... More >>

Step To This

Oh, So That's What Happened To Eve 6!

The Door Offering Locals Spots on Wildflower Festival

Guitar Hero Breeds a New Kind of Bar Band

Videogamers are living out rock and roll fantasies on screens at your local pub

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

Mullet Over

Let's end this. Now.

The Dark Side of Nokia

See some lasers in Grand Prairie

The Great Greats

Cowbell Blues

Dance Party

The Latino Cultural Center has a folklorico explosion

Black on Black

Why Jables is a "cross between a lightning bolt and James Dean"

Bag Limits

Why do men hit on female bartenders?

Best Bookstore (Used)

Half Price Books

Follow the winners

Major-label survivors Royal Trux peel away experience to make a fresh, funky new album

Heavy mettle

Bless 'em, Dooms U.K. make art for Art Rock's sake

Jerry's kids

Jam bands burst into bloom

Roadshows

Roadshows

Bronco hole

Dallas' last great concert hall suffers growing pains

Saturday hangover

The Toadies, the Daisy, and the Rev join tribute to Cartoons' Greatest Hits

Fight the power

Reprise Records president defends the rights of his artists against the Right and the wrong

Anal attentive

Local CD for kids' charity backs into trouble over rape song