Blur (Band)

The Coachella 2013 Awards

The brunette in the backward pink mesh trucker hat and booty shorts grabs a megaphone and addresses her fellow campers. "WECOME TO COOOOACHEELLLA." The congregation of twenty 20-somethings lustily applauds. It's Thursday night, a dozen hours before the festival officially begins, and the rules ar ... More >>

Coachella Lineup 2013: Old Legends Going Solo and a Double Dose of Nick Cave

The 2013 Coachella Lineup is here! In case this is your only source of music information (what else could you possibly need, really?), the headliners are The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Why yes, we do live in a world where New Order gets out-billed by Phoenix. Check out ... More >>

Farewell to Fallout Lounge

Marina was her name. She had a short, dark mod haircut, and knew how to bring out her blue eyes with layers of teal scarves. We were Myspace friends. Still are, I think. But I never knew what became of her. Last I heard, she went north to try her luck in New York. Some of the best times of my life h ... More >>

Crushed Stars on Seeing KISS, Prince and The Replacements

Crushed Stars' newest record, In the Bright Rain, came out this week, and to celebrate, we asked band mastermind Todd Gautreau and drummer Jeff Ryan about their first shows. What was the first show you remember seeing? Were you with your parents? Todd Gautreau: My first show was KISS. I must have b ... More >>

Collaboration-Crazy Erykah Badu To Perform With Yo Gabba Gabba! Cast Tonight on Fallon

​Erykah Badu seems like a pretty awesome mom. I got a solid glimpse of as much first-hand about a week back when interviewing the famed Queen of Neo-Soul and proud Dallasite as part of a Dallas Observer Music Awards preview story that's going to run as the cover in this week's paper. About halfway ... More >>

The Conversation: 1991 Was a Damn Good Year, But Was It The Best Music Year of The '90s?

​Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn't been the same since: Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other influential acts ... More >>

Mission of Burma, Ume, Tre Orsi

Sunday, July 24, at the Granada Theater

Interviewing Fleet Foxes Via Twitter

Glen Reynolds Shares His Earliest Memories of Chomsky, Weener, Bluh and Blow Aces

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Glen Reynolds​These days, you see Glen Reynolds in the crowd at shows more than you see him on the stage. ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Blur Pays Homage to Dallas at Trees on a Cold Night in '96

​The best part of posting secret audio from concerts you've attended is using them as an excuse to ring up others who were also there and reminisce about that, like, amazing night, remember? Like, say, Jeff Liles, who recalls Blur's February 3, 1996, show at Trees (scroll down) as "a mob scene" an ... More >>

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 >>

The Daylights Are Making Up For Lost Time.

Today In Music News: Bret Michaels May Be A Home Wrecker, Damon Albarn Keeps On Working And Marilyn Manson Goes Punk

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 4, 2010...It turns out the split of Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish may have been caused by Tish doin' the deed with Bret Michaels.  Maybe she just wanted a guy who had a career, ya know?Damon Albarn just can't seem to stick to o ... More >>

Last Night: Gorillaz and N.E.R.D at the Verizon Theatre

Gorillaz, N.E.R.DVerizon Theatre, Grand PrairieOctober 20, 2010Better than: an evening spent watching the Cartoon Network.Roger CaldwellDamon Albarn, triumphant at last night's Verizon Theatre show. For a full slideshow from last night, click here.​Shame on anyone who expected a cartoon-ish displa ... More >>

Gorillaz, NERD

Wednesday, October 20, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Listomania: 16 Songs We're Sick Of Hearing At Sporting Events

No more Cotton Eyed Joe! Please!​You know the drill: A pitcher walks three batters in a row, and the coach comes steaming out of the dugout. Whoever's in the stadium's audio control box gets their cue, lunges for button, clicks it, and the entire stadium fills with "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." The au ... More >>

For One Cedar Park Grad Blogging For The NY Times, UT-Dallas Ain't a Bad Fall Back

Temoc welcomes you, Brett Ferdinand of Cedar Park​Since March, Brett Ferdinand -- till days ago, a senior at Cedar Park High School outside of Austin -- has been among six students blogging for The New York Times about their efforts to get into college. Most of the stories aren't especially extrao ... More >>

Rooney Drummer Pays Tribute to Fallen Mentor Carter Albrecht

Stardom Was Never Los Campesinos!’s Intent. But, Hey, You Take It When You Can Get It.

Amadou and Mariam Break Out Of World Music

World Music Must Die

AMADOU AND MARIAM BREAK OUT OF A FLABBY, GENERIC GENRE

Girls Can Too

Richard Ashcroft

Human Conditions (Hut/Virgin)

Multiple Artists

Our writers clean out the CD bin

Marianne Faithfull

Kissin Time (Virgin Records)

Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz

Laika Come Home (Astralwerks)

Kylie Minogue / Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Fever (Capitol) / Read My Lips (Polydor UK)

Blur

Blur: The Best of (Virgin)

Scene, heard

Bluh; Pleasant Grove in Germany; The Early Line; Trees turns 10; Rubber Gloves gets wet; And so much more

Parker right there

Accidental tourist

The Rentals' Matt Sharp goes out of his way for Seven More Minutes

Out There

Everything's just fine

Coming down with the Dandy Warhols

Anarchy in Iceland

With its latest record, Blur invents the wheel

Reef's herbal remedy

Another sign of the end of the Brit-pop invasion?

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Shake your mantra maker

Kula Shaker: Brit-pop with an Indian twist

It was a very good year

1996 lived up to its predecessor while presaging great things to come

Out There

Roadshows