Chuck Berry

Blues For Bugs: A Few Friends Remember the Dallas Guitar Hero

In Honor of Nicki Minaj's Dallas Hotel Skirmish: The Ten Best Musician Fights of All-Time

​By nature, musicians are a rowdy bunch. When tempers run high, as they often do with this hot-blooded bunch, stuff gets broken. And by "stuff," we mean musicians themselves. When musicians fight, it's often very public, very bloody, and the source of national news.Such was the case this week when ... More >>

John Congleton Talks The Paper Chase's Tragic First Show, The Nighty Nite's Early Goings.

Michael BriggsJohn Congleton​John Congleton is a name you've long associated with his roles as a producer and as the leader of The Paper Chase. But be ready to hear more from his new band, The Nighty Nite, in the coming months.As the band, which also features Jason Garner of the final Paper Chase ... More >>

Cage the Elephant's Matt Shultz On Why He Had To Move To London To Discover The Pixies

For the past few years, Cage the Elephant has been on a classic music industry roller coaster ride. Formed in Bowling Green five years ago, the band was signed in 2007 by the UK-based Relentless Records on the strength of an existing catalog of unreleased songs and wild live performances at SXSW. Th ... More >>

The Best Double Entendre Songs Of All Time

You mean that Primus song wasn't about this guy?​Primus is a band we discovered pretty early on in life and whose sharp and innovative playing we've only grown to respect more and more as we've aged. Unfortunately, though, our first exposure to the group was to their biggest single of the '90s:&nb ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Die in 2011?

You mean that Primus song wasn't about this guy?​Primus is a band we discovered pretty early on in life and whose sharp and innovative playing we've only grown to respect more and more as we've aged. Unfortunately, though, our first exposure to the group was to their biggest single of the '90s:&nb ... More >>

Good Friday: Black Friday Edition

Eisley​If you've already picked up a copy of this weeks Dallas Observer, you might have noticed our music feature on Tyler band Eisley, who will be in town at The Loft on Saturday night with Ives The Band, and Christie DuPree. The story sheds light on the ups and downs that the band has experience ... More >>

For Your Long Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Stones Bring Some Girls to Will Rogers in '78

​Figured we might as well get the usual week-ending rock-and-roll-and ender out of the way sooner than later, though we will return Friday (if not sooner). Besides, I've got cooking prep work to do tonight (this, highly recommended) and could use the company. And this offering, from July '78, also ... More >>

Q&A Giveaway: Bosco Delrey Talks Combining Dancehall and Retro Rock Into One Sound

​You may have not heard of New Jersey's Bosco Delray yet, but if the early buzz is a signal of things to come, you will certainly know the guy soon. Mixing early rock and roll (Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry) with dancehall and hip-hop, Delrey is plying his craft in a genre all of his own. He recen ... More >>

Listomania: The 30 Best Songs About Genitalia

The Caddyshack soundtrack is slightly phallic.​If Cee-Lo wrote the greatest song of all humankind with "Fuck You," which has sufficiently taken over the Internet this week, then Meat Loaf certainly deserves a firm No. 2 spot for his own masterpiece, "California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl)," ... More >>

Taking Flight At The Meddlesome Moth, Plus Upcoming Beer Events

Jesse Hughey​One recent trend in the culinary world, the concept of the "gastro-pub," is a boon for beer lovers. Pubs that focus their efforts on good food tend to serve higher quality beers and wines than your average bar. The late, great Zymology on Lower Greenville was one short-lived example, ... More >>

South-By On A Dime: Thursday and Friday

Free doesn't always mean free, I've learned after striking out twice on the hunt for freebies Thursday before settling for a Reuben sandwich at B.D. Riley's.The first stop was the Longbranch Inn on 11th Street in East Austin, where King Khan and BBQ Show, Past Lives and Tera Malos held court in a da ... More >>

Our annual Death Pool: Which artists will croak in '09?

Who should fear the reaper this year?

Cadillac Records Gets Nothing Right, Especially the Facts About Chess Records

Who should fear the reaper this year?

Roy Orbison

The Soul of Rock and Roll (Sony Legacy)

The Lash Outs

The Lash Outs (Zodiac Killer)

Frankenprints

See the pop art of Campagna

Everybody Back in the Pool

Who in music will join the Choir Invisible this year? Let's bet.

Cellar Beware

Who in music will join the Choir Invisible this year? Let's bet.

Backtrackin'

Things you may have missed the first time

Joe Ely

Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch (Rack 'Em)

Reverend Horton Heat

Saturday, December 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

Bob Dylan

Modern Times (Columbia)

The Sadies

In Concert, Volume One (Yep Roc)

Vampires of Moscow

In Concert, Volume One (Yep Roc)

The Beatdown

Have April showers led to Derrick May's Saturday night shower?

Richard Thompson

The Life and Music of Richard Thompson (Free Reed Music)

Walker, Texas Ranger

From Dallas came the man who first plugged blues into an amp--and into popular culture

Joe Strummer Revisited

Two long-lost reissues shed light on a punk icon.

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Rock It

Concerts in the Garden features rockets' red glare and the birth of rock and roll

The Bellrays

The Bellrays perform March 6 at Gypsy Tea Room, with 20 Miles and Bob Log III.

England's Dreaming

Get hooked on The Getaway

Hits and Grins

The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold

Swank sweat lodge

Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

The Tight Bro's From Way Back When

Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Out Here

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

The oldest story in the world

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Roadshows

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Why Christmas music sucks

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Out Here

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

A dream deferred

Gene Summers hasn't had to work a day job since 1958, but it took him more than 30 years to get back to the music he loved

Roadshows

Gene Summers hasn't had to work a day job since 1958, but it took him more than 30 years to get back to the music he loved

Out There

Gene Summers hasn't had to work a day job since 1958, but it took him more than 30 years to get back to the music he loved

The maitre d' of R&B

Elvis T. Busboy drives his soul train into the future

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad

Roadshows

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad

Roll over, Chuck Berry

In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

Reviews

In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'