Debbie Harry

Blondie, Nico Vega

Saturday, October 1, at the Granada Theater

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: God Save the Longhorn Ballroom From the Sex Pistols

Via.​Seeing as how C.J. Ramone's in town tonight, I'd hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password's "gle-gle.blogspot.com," if you're so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in ... More >>

What It Was Like: Eighteen Bands In Twelve Hours.

Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day.​ The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>

It's Tough Not To Think Of Jackson Browne When Discussing Somebody's Darling, Huh?

Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day.​ The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>

Punk's Greatest Hits and Biggest Dicks

Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day.​ The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>

Aging Musically

Blondie's frontwoman is still stage-worthy

Ladytone

Pop? Rock? Who cares?

Let's dance

The Beatdown

Chase and Status leave their mark--not their tags--on the global DNB scene

Just What You Needed

Blondie drives in with some New Cars

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Sally Timms

In the World of Him (Touch and Go)

Go Blond

In the World of Him (Touch and Go)

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Rooney, The Sounds and Paloalto

September 17

Glass Candy; A.R.E. Weapons

July 5; July 8

The Kids Aren't Alright

Spun spins cranky youths into an American freak show

A Hard Heart

In this unflinching porn-biz peek, a man will fluff for love

The Nobody

Marilyn Manson won't destroy the world, but he just might save it

Out & About

Cave In

Luscious Jackson
Ben Lee

Cave In

The ponce

The sort-of true adventures of a kind-of real rock star and her not-made-up boyfriend

The tide is low

Blondie is reunited and it feels so...good?

Oedipus hex

Portrait of the psycho as a young man

Square to be hip

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes

Out There

Coolness and a cast of dozens can't save 200 Cigarettes

Write or wrong?

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

Believe the hype

Austin's Sixteen Deluxe is as good as advertised

Roadshows

Austin's Sixteen Deluxe is as good as advertised

Everybody hurts

The morose, human dramas of the '70s make a startling comeback in Secrets & Lies and Heavy

Events for the week

The morose, human dramas of the '70s make a startling comeback in Secrets & Lies and Heavy

Roadshows

The morose, human dramas of the '70s make a startling comeback in Secrets & Lies and Heavy

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

Come, come

The Go-Go's return - again - to finish what they began 15 years ago