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David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

The 12 Best Things About SXSW 2013

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you only the greatest moments from last week's SXSW madness. Here are the 12 best shows and moments we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need t ... More >>

If the Sound City Soundtrack Rocks Half as Hard as the Movie, It Will Rule

The Dave Grohl-directed documentary Sound City, is a loving and thoroughly entertaining docu-valentine to the legendary studio just outside of L.A. where many landmark albums were recorded. Throughout the film's first half, we're given glimpses of behind the scenes action on the making of such class ... More >>

And Music Lived on Wax!

Is It Me* Or Did the Foo Fighters Disrespect Cobain by Playing "My Hero" for Obama?

Editor's note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn't really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here's his t ... More >>

A Lull, Deleted Scenes and Botany Throw Tempo Tantrums at Dan's Silverleaf

A Lull, Deleted Scenes, Botany Dan's Silverleaf Tuesday, January 31 Chicago five-piece A Lull took the Dan's stage at 11:30 p.m. with two drummers in tow, in front of roughly 20 people. Raucous, tribal beats rolled along for a majority of the set and, propelled by these rhythms, the high-pitched, r ... More >>

An Attendee's Take On "The Hottest, Sweatiest" Show Of The Foo Fighters' Secret Garage Tour

Rebecca DixonThe scene at the Foo Fighters' secret garage show in Dallas last night.​We tried -- really -- but to no avail. We weren't getting into the not-so-secret garage show the Foo Fighters played in Dallas last night. It came as part of the Blackberry-backed promotional tour where the band i ... More >>

Somewhere In Dallas Today, The Foo Fighters Are Playing A Secret Show.

​Two weeks ago today, the Foo Fighters released their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, a disc that has fans going bonkers and critics continuing to hail the band as one of the great rocks acts of its generation.Deservedly so: Recorded in Foo leader Dave Grohl's garage -- despite the band havin ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne, Slash

Thursday, January 20, at the American Airlines Center

No, Ron Kirk Will Not Change Seats With You

​Flipped over to the Kennedy Center Honors late in the show, just as a certain Arts Magnet grad was foo-fighting over Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed."  And first thing I saw was former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, now the United States Trade Representative. Clearly, it still pays to be the Firs ... More >>

Watch: Dallas Native Norah Jones, 35 Conferette Performer Mavis Staples, Dave Grohl, Steven Tyler, No Doubt and Paul Simon Pay Tribute To Paul McCartney at Kennedy Center Honors

​If you've got, oh, 13 minutes or so to spare this morning, then, please, do yourself a solid and check out the pair of clips we've got posted for you after the jump. They come courtesy of CBS's Kennedy Center Honors coverage, aired last night, where Oprah Winfrey, Bill T. Jones, Merle Haggard and ... More >>

Dead Twins

Polarized (Shifting Sounds UK)

Today In Music News: Dave Grohl Is An Addict, It's Cool He Feels Alive; Not Punk Is The New Punk And Phoenix Are Givers

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 25, 2010...Dave Grohl's addiction to coffee recently sent him to the hospital with chest pains.Spinner has declared the 10 musicians they think are "punk," but are really punk.  I can get with most of their choices, but, Cher... really ... More >>

Today In Music News: Gorillaz Works With Watchmen Dude, My Morning Jacket Gets American and Dave Grohl Continues To Mourn

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 11, 2009...Gorillaz has recruited Watchmen scribe Alan Moore to help out with its new album.Sweet pickles! My Morning Jacket will appear in an episode of American Dad! Dave Grohl says that Kurt Cobain's death was the worst thing to happ ... More >>

Broncos 17, Cowgirls 10. My Top 10 Observations.

​10. Fox's Pam Oliver stinks. While she was busy reading some shallow, pre-orchestrated featurette, we went three series before learning that Gerald Sensabaugh was out with a bum thumb. And though Marion Barber played just one snap in the second half, we never received an update. 9. Not ... More >>

ACL '09: Them Crooked Vultures Offer Riff After Riff After Riff After Riff...

​(Check out our final ACL wrap-up slideshow on Monday for photos of this and other acts from ACL) The crowds may not have been all that familiar with the catalog of Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup comprising of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, others), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone ... More >>

Today In Music News: Another Supergroup Emerges, The Pope Rocks and Method Man Gets Trigger Happy

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 5, 2009... Looks like we have another supergroup to contend with (and it's not Damnocracy.) Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones have joined to form Them Crooked Vultures. Looks like Snoop Dogg has a new label mate--The Pope! I ... More >>

Today In Music News: Dave Grohl Gets Honored, Kanye Gets Misquoted, Courtney Love Is Still Crazy and Eminem Releases A Diss Track

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 3, 2009... Dave Grohl will had an alley named after him in the city of his birth Warren, OH. Turns out Kanye doesn't think he's the next "King of Pop." But it's easy to see why it's believable; it just sounds like something he would say ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

AA Bondy, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon

Friday, February 20, at Lola's Stockyards, Fort Worth

Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

Last Night: Foo Fighters at American Airlines Center

Handicapping the Grammys with a Foo Fighter

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

Tenacious D

The Pick of Destiny (Epic)

Holiday Sellout

Stuff your stocking with Nirvana

Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, TV on the Radio

Saturday, June 3, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Out of the Closet

With Trees' fate nearly sealed, we look back at its brave beginnings--and, of course, the blood

Foo Fighters, Weezer

Thursday, September 15, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Foo Fighters

In Your Honor (Epic)

Real Estate Agents

The Fire Theft finds its own day in the sun

Best Hot Bagel

Bagel Chain

Live

September 4

Evanescence

September 9

All His Life

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

Cat Power

March 15

Number One With a Bullet

You know you're right, you can't lose with rare Nirvana

Foo Fighters

One by One (RCA)

Queens of the Stone Age, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

September 29

Tenacious D

April 20

Local H

March 28

Tenacious D

Tenacious D (Epic)

Out There

Foo Figheters

Rock and roll over

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

Roadshows

Listening for Mr. Goodbar

Winning over her heart's as easy as blowing in her ear

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

Roadshows

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