Dead Kennedys

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 >>

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #100-80

"Between the Hank Williams pain songs And Jerry Jeff's train songs And blue eyes cryin' in the rain Out in Luckenbach, Texas Ain't nobody feeling no pain" - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas" With that introduction, welcome to the first in a five-part series, in which we attempt ... More >>

Van Halen - American Airlines Center - 6/20/12

Van Halen, Kool & The Gang American Airlines Center Wednesday, June 20 See also: The five worst and five most underrated Van Halen songs You have to hand it to Diamond Dave. Sure, he can't hit all those high notes like back in the day, but he gave it the good fight. Often talking more than singin ... More >>

Mark Your Calendar: Texas Theatre's Got a Copy of Urgh! A Music War

If you have yet to see Urgh! A Music War, you're in for a treat, as Texas Theatre has obtained a rare 35mm copy, and will be screening it on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26, with live performances from Peopleodian, George Quartz and Marriage Material. If you have seen it, you'll likely agree t ... More >>

An Oral History of the Dallas Music Scene

Some of Dallas' most successful musicians recount the rebirth of its most storied entertainment district: Deep Ellum.

Happy PARK(ing) Day, Dallas!

Photo by Danny HurleyNoodling around: One of many photos from PARK(ing) Day Dallas, with a slide show to come.​We briefed you earlier about PARK(ing) Day Dallas, which organizer Noah Jeppson told us was supposed to help Dallasites and visitors "rethink the function of our public spaces ... and hav ... More >>

Hank III: "I Take Pride in Being The Only Guy Who's Ever Had a Mosh Pit at Billy Bob's."

Hank Williams, III​Last week, Hank Williams III released four CDs of new music -- songs that he had written over the span of six months. Sure, a lot of the ideas have been percolating in Williams' brain for a while as a nasty spat with his former record label has worked itself out. But the sh ... More >>

The Dodos' Logan Kroeber Names For Us His All-Time Top Five Bay Area (Musical) Giants.

The Dodos​Earlier this week, when Meric Long of the San Francisco-based band The Dodos told us about some of his earliest concert-going experiences, our Eric Grubbs noted that the band "plays folk, but with a kick to it." Give their Live from Akropolis, Prague album a listen, as well as their most ... More >>

The Strangest Stage Names In Music History

Metta World Peace​When Lakers forward Ron Artest announced last week that he is legally changing his name to Metta World Peace, the Internet exploded with bafflement and criticism. Obviously, this is coming from sports fans. We in the music world are accustomed to odd stage names. Dallas' own Eryk ... More >>

Last Night: The Adolescents at The Loft

The Adolescents, Lower Class Brats and The ScandalsThe LoftDecember 29, 2010Better than: Staying home and watching Sid and Nancy.The Adolescents​A surprisingly large collection of Dallas' unwashed and unwanted gathered together at The Loft last night to witness a fine triple-bill of old-school pun ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Adolescents at The Loft, Devin the Dude at the Granada, Shinyribs at City Tavern and Sir Silky at Renfield's Corner

I guess things are ramping up for New Year's Eve, 'cause tonight's pretty stacked for a Wednesday, y'all...

Local Music 'Mericans: Kim Keebler

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. Kim Keebler​Kim Keebler was raised in Deep Ellum as a young pup. Her first concert was there: The Dead Kennedys, back in the mid '80s.She bought h ... More >>

M.D.C., The Restarts, Warcola, Odor, Teenage Kamikaze

Sunday, May 23, at the Prophet Bar

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Another Punk Icon Visits The Richard Hunter Show, Preps For Prophet Bar Gig

Jello Biafra​Two weeks ago, it was Marky Ramone who visited with Richard Hunter on Hunter's afternoon radio show on KMNY-1360 AM. Today's it's punk icon Jello Biafra who graces our area airwaves at 4:30 this afternoon, spewing forth his seemingly endless (but still funny) diatribes against corpora ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

R.I.P., Temo

That picture you see here is from my 1983 Thomas Jefferson High School Document yearbook. It's of a guy named Tim Watson -- or Temo, as most knew him throughout much of his life. Figured I'd share it, since Tim happens to be the subject of Jeff Liles's Echoes and Reverberations piece for DC9 this we ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Crazy, But That's How It Goes

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Ozzfest

Gogol Bordello Offers Bizarre World Harmony

The band is open to all

Wiggle Room

Take in some Jello at the Granada

Obituary for a Storefront

Videos from Hell

Whole Wheat Bizkit

Dallas' Uncontrollable Urge leaves everything onstage, from its extremely mixed sound to its bleeding jock

Plugged In

Dallas bloggers fan the flames and flame the fans of local music

X Marks the Rock

Exene Cervenka's Sinners might not be Original

Mudhoney

Under a Billion Suns (Sub Pop)

Jello Biafra with the Melvins

Sieg Howdy! (Alternative Tentacles)

I'll Drink to That

Keep that New Year's Eve spirit all year long with these boozy sing-along tunes

Thanks Again

Rhino assembles the definitive '70s punk collection. Pretty much.

Strong Foundation

Bar of Soap founders celebrate 20th year in Dallas music scene

All His Life

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

Tear Jerker

The world according to John Irving

Bratmobile

July 17

Dross in Space

The American Astronaut trashes the galaxy

Not easy being Green

Ralph Nader's running for real this time

Hank's for the memories

Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

Punk You

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

Take me home, country roads

Producer Dave Willingham makes noise in the middle of nowhere

Grits ain't groceries

Soul Food Cafe tries to take blue-eyed soul to another level

Little mascara

The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up

Bass player for mayor

Ex-Killbilly member Richard Hunter runs for Fort Worth office--no, seriously

Unclean thoughts

An indie-rock revolution is happening in the Alamo City

The offspring

Dallas' punk bands resurrect the spirit of the '70s

Too punk to f--

Ethyl Merman makes 'dance music for the poor'

No frills, no joke

The Mullens are not the Not the Ramones, and for all the right reasons