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The Nine Best and Funniest Moments from Saturday at ACL 2012

The return of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad rain made Saturday a muddy but fun mess. Thankfully, the downpours didn't dampen the spirits of the crowd on day two of ACL, but it did seem to thin out the herds. Aside from remembering how to walk in inches-deep goop like we did back at the Dillo ... 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 >>

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival - 8/10/12

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but vene ... More >>

This Week's Top Show Announcements: The Weeknd, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Ariel Pink and More

The WeekndFriday, June 15, at House of Blues, $30/$35-$49.50At age 22, critically acclaimed R&B innovator Abel Tesfaye, the man behind The Weeknd, has accomplished more than most artists in a lifetime. All of his music has been released via digital download, and now it looks like he's ready to c ... More >>

ACL 2012 Announced: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, Iggy & the Stooges and More

The Austin City Limits Music Festival line-up was announced at midnight, and I'm kind of miffed that RHCP are billed above Neil Young. Beyond that, you've got the usual ACL formula: the top tier of tried and true go-to festival acts (no surprise seeing the Black Keys or Jack White on this bill).Then ... More >>

Life is an Erotic Cabaret in Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Brent Best Explains These 42 Slobberbone Covers

​I've still got a few of the work-week rock-and-roll adioses stashed away, and guess I'd better use 'em or lose 'em between now and the next week or so. So let's start with this -- a bootleg officially known as The Bone Collection, featuring 42(ish) covers performed by Slobberbone and, in a few in ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Neil Young at the Bronco Bowl (Half of It, Anyway)

Sugar Mountain​Someone once asked: "Which Neil Young shows would you like to see officially released?" To which one of the answers was: Neil Young & The Restless at the Bronco Bowl on January 14, 1989 -- "My personal Neil holy grail." And without a doubt, this is among the most adored of the t ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Drive-By Truckers and Centro-matic at the Granada Theater

Drive-By Truckers, Centro-maticGranada TheaterSeptember 2Better than: "Freebird."Drive-By Truckers​In the Drive-By Truckers documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, a young female fan jokes that she often wears diapers to DBT shows, just so she won't miss any of the show waiting in a bathroo ... More >>

Built to Spill Comes to Terms With Its Sound

Lotta Love for Neil Young in Fort Worth '76

Sugar Mountain​Several years ago, out of nowhere, a reader sent me a copy of the four-disc Rock and Roll Cowboy collection, which consists of Neil Young live tracks spanning '66 to '94. It was an astoundingly kind gesture: The set had been compiled by an industrious (Italian?) bootlegger tired of ... More >>

Other Beatles Games You Won't Remember.

Good Friday: Slow Roosevelt at Trees, Slayer and Marilyn Manson, Los Campesinos!, Heartstring Stranglers

It's been fun, and yet... we are so done with this week.​OK everybody. Show me some grace here, because this Good Friday you're reading marks the first time Mr. Pete Freedman has trusted your mostly-friendly neighborhood Denton correspondent to offer up the show-going options for the weekend. Ther ... More >>

What It Was Like: Port O' Brien, Those Darlins, Phosphorescent, Deer Tick, Hacienda

Noah W. BaileyPort O' Brien channels Neil Young at Buffalo Billiards.After the three-and-a-half hour drive from Dallas I decided to start the evening off right at Hut's Hamburgers before finally checking out some music. Here's what I saw. Now it's time for breakfast tacos at Nueva Onda and more band ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

Waylon Jennings and the .357's

Waylon Forever (Vagrant)

Magnolia Electric Co., David Vandervelde

Molina's Eclectic Co.

Will Magnolia Electric Co. Preview Upcoming Releases? We Think So.

Theatrical Version of Neil Young's Greendale Leaves an Unpleasant Aftertaste

Be Young Again

Undermain rides through Greendale

Q&A: Quiet Life's Sean Spellman

Neil Young

Chrome Dreams II (Reprise Records)

Oakley Hall

Friday, September 14, at Hailey's, Denton

Frog Eyes

Thursday, May 10, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Bands on the Run

Amid the SXSW cacophony, there was good stuff to be found

Alejandro Escovedo, Milton Mapes

Saturday, August 19, at the Granada Theater

The Bottle Rockets

Zoysia (Bloodshot)

The Gourds

Heavy Ornamentals (Eleven Thirty)

Mazinga Phaser, The Night Game, American Vodka

Friday, July 15, at Hailey's

Son Volt

Okemah and the Melody of Riot (Transmit Sounds)

Head Full of Beer

The Slobberbone chronicles: An oral history

Okkervil River, The Elected

Friday, January 28, at Hailey's

Out of Africa

Kwanzaa is community, not characters and catchphrases

Heart of Gold

Neil Young charts his Greendale via "a little love and affection"

Mark Kozelek

January 25

Decent Folk

Summer Hymns' summer hymns define the purdy South

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Distance Between (Ultimatum Music)

Neil Young

Are You Passionate? (Reprise)

Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song

I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)

Wingless horsey

The Pegasus is good food at a snail's pace

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Back up on the horse

A look into the still-beating heart of an enduring rock institution

Country comfort

Crazy Horse offers urbane delights in Waxahachie

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

Out There

Out There

A whiter shade of black

Roadshows

Quite a despair

Neil Young and Pearl Jam create the perfectly imperfect Mirror Ball

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music