Bono (Musician)

Alan Light's new book explains how Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went from obscurity to ubiquity

The Life and Times Light Up Dan's Silverleaf

The Life and Times, The Cush, Calhoun Dan's Silverleaf Thursday, January 19 The Life and Times didn't get their set going until 15 minutes after midnight, but almost everyone who came stayed until the very end. The trio, lit only by four lights placed at waist level around the stage, showcased song ... More >>

Last Night at ACL: Coldplay Plays All the Hits and The Others, Too.

Coldplay AMD Stage -- Austin City LimitsSeptember 16, 2011 Better than: waiting for Coldplay to release a Greatest Hits album. Coldplay​It would be a pretty hipster thing to say that the Coldplay show at Austin City Limits Music Festival on Friday was cheesy and overly sincere. But you won't actu ... 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 >>

He Came to Dallas to Save Superman. Now, Maybe, He's Off to N.Y. to Rescue Spider-Man.

Danny FulgencioRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa, playwright and Big Love staff writer, at the Dallas Theater Center during Superman rehearsals last year​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark hasn't officially opened yet on Broadway; due date's still a month away. Still, it's considered The Most Amazing, Spectacula ... More >>

Those Who Opposed Bush Presidential Center at SMU Still Opposed to Bush Presidential Center

George W. Bush Presidential CenterThe baseball Bush used to throw out the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series in New York City after September 11, 2001​They won't break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book's released. But beginnin ... More >>

The Pixies Worry They're Overstaying Their Welcome

Local Musicians Are Suddenly Dabbling In Politics

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: U2 at Reunion Arena in 1985. And, Again, in 2001.

Flickr user: drewesqueU2 at Reunion Arena on November 25, 2001. You were there once. You can be again.​And, while you're at it, throw in the May 12, 1997, Cotton Bowl show from the Popmart Tour and the October 29, 2005, Vertigo-go at the American Airlines Center. Really, all we're missing is the A ... More >>

Muse, Silversun Pickups

Wednesday, March 17, at Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth

Colourmusic is Exactly What it Sounds Like

The W. Stands For Wicked

Paul van Dyk Is On A Mission

The Paper Chase Avert Disaster with New Disaster Album.

Last Night in Austin, a Sneak Peek at Bruno's Bad Behavior in Carrollton Last Summer

Sacha Baron Cohen as BrunoBack in June, Michael Granberry wrote in The Dallas Morning News that "at one of those big office parks on International Parkway" in Carrollton, "a whole bunch of people got really mad" and stormed out of the taping of a television show. His 23-year-old son related t ... More >>

Visitor Q

Big D and Mr. Jones got a thing going on

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should ... More >>

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 >>

Boston Phoenix Names Greatest Bands, Solo Artists and Current Acts For All 50 States

Literally Rocking The Vote

Last Night: Ben Lee with Kate Voegele at House of Blues

Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

Evan Can Wait

Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

Craic Den

Friendly atmosphere and good food bring you baic

Chairmen of the Board

Erik Wofford and John Congleton on the art of production

Erin Go Blah

The minions of Shane MacGowen share Irish thoughts

First Impression

Poking around the new Deep Ellum W/W: Deep Ellum | Dallas Observer Losers Awards Show

Get Your Gore On

Dreams of Syndication

Smile Smile

Smile Smile (self-released)

Heading Out

A prayer journal reveals life on the other side of Korn

Back to Africa

Live 8 makes some noise. Hopefully, eight world leaders were listening.

Scars and Bars

Bukowski gets his in a touching, terrifying documentary

Paint by Numbers

Inside the life of Southlake's child prodigy artist, 15-year-old Olivia Gennett

Rock and Roll High School

An honest critic is your best friend, and other lessons from a teenage Battle of the Bands

Freaky Lindsay

A Teenage Drama Queen with sass and style, go figure

Fall Away

Meadows opens a somber season

Magic and Gloss

Producer of geniuses Daniel Lanois whips out his pedal-steel and goes it alone on Shine

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

Play Nicely

Don't ask Moby about his business

Mick Jagger / Paul McCartney

Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin) / Driving Rain (Capitol)

Milton Mapes/Milton Mapes-Nate Fowler/Deadman

The State Line (My Aunt Jane's Recordings)/Sway (Neighborhood Recordings)/Cuatro Canciones (Self-released)

Oh bury me not

Johnny Cash sings of Love, God, Murder and how all three make him a legend

Thanks, but no thanks

D Magazine has an interesting take on the local music scene

Justice served

As her former band gets embalmed on a new collection, Maria McKee finally finds her voice

Out Here

Out Here

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Licensed to steal

Negativland makes its case in a new book and album