Don Henley

Tonight, Tonight: Lucero at Club Dada, Colin Herring at Lola's, Norma Jean at The Door, Mojo Nixon at All Good Café, Civil Twilight at The Loft and Marnie Stern at Sons of Hermann Hall

Holy shit, Sherlock, we have a busy musical Thursday evening on our hands! If you can't find a quality show to go to tonight, then you're not a real fan of music.

Tonight, Tonight: Death Angel at Trees and Kristopher Roe at The Loft

Tonight's hump day musical experience offers up a few varied and talented options -- especially if you're into massive metal bills.

Bandits Answer One of History's Mysteries

A Blow-by-Blow Field Report From Austin City Limits 2010.

ACL 2010 So-Far Superlatives: The Best Performers, Songs and Movements of Days One and Two.

Here we are, final morning of Austin City Limits, and we're getting all wistful and whatnot. It's a busy day ahead filled with North Texas connections like whoa: 15-year-old Dallas-born fiddle wunderkind Ruby Jane kicks the entire day off with her 11:15 a.m. set; Midlake will somehow have to physica ... More >>

Into the Woods

Good Friday: The Labor Day Long Weekend Edition

"Yazz Flute!" At Amsterdam Bar​It's Labor Day weekend, and the parties will be happening all over town. One of the most interesting is the Expo Park Jazz Festival's "The Many Faces of Jazz." This two-day jazz festival will happen at Amsterdam Bar on Sunday and Monday and will feature 14 local and ... More >>

Houston Press Writes Blog Post Saying Dallas Music Sucks, Presumably Because There Was No Interesting Houston Music News To Report.

​Listen: I'm not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We've got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.) But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press music blog call ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Joe Walsh Brings the Funk (#49) to Reunion Arena

​No need to rehash my feeling about The Eagles -- if only I'd kept that fax Don Henley sent me back when I was at the Dallas Times Herald and he tried to bar me from his Starplex show. Though, on second though, I guess he was trying to do me a solid. Still, I would have missed opener Susanna Hoffs ... More >>

Kirby Warnock's Return to Giant Returns to Texas Theatre for One Night Only This Month

Courtesy Kirby WarnockJames Dean taking a break from filming Giant, in a scene from Warnock's doc​Dallas filmmaker and journalist Kirby Warnock's doc Return to Giant, about the making of George Stevens's Texas-sized '56 epic with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, is available on the ... More >>

Maybe The Eagles Aren't So Bad, Actually.

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Dude Food: Noah's Year In Review

​Another year, another 10 to 15 pounds gained in pursuit of the best burgers, pizza and Tex-Mex I can find. Sure, I do it for you, dear readers, but mostly I do it for me. Culled from some 25 entries, here are my five favorite Dude Food moments of 2009.5. El Fenix Dude Factor: 10, or Jerry Ha ... More >>

Country Hunks And The Women Who Love Them.

Good Friday: New Science Projects, The Theater Fire, Red, Air Review, George Strait, I Was A King, Pops Carter, Josh Weathers, Bowling for Soup, J.D. Souther, Grand Funk Railroad, Better Than Ezra, Les Claypool, Girl In A Coma

Why, yes, that is R. Kelly playing from my computer speakers in the office right now. Which means it must be the weekend. And means I must be running late on posting Good Friday. My sincerest apologies. Here are your weekend plans, friends. First up, the shows we've already hyped.Tonight's kinda cra ... More >>

Don Henley's Eying Studio Spaces In Dallas

An interesting item of potential note in this interview with noted UNT alum and North Texas native Don Henley in the Tulsa World today: Seems the Eagle/Boy of Summer/Dirty Laundrist is considering opening up a studio in Dallas. No, really--he says so himself. Might happen this year even. Check it: ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Mad Chops and Culture Jamming on Fry Street

Check out our accompanying slideshow for more images from this week's installment of Echoes and Reverberations.Sly Stone was born there. Roy Orbison and Don Henley went to school there. Pat Boone and Dr. Phil even made the scene. But enough about all that: Let's talk about skronk monkeys trippin' b ... More >>

Breaking Down The Grammy Nominations (Or: Hey, Some Love For DFWd!)

The 2009 Grammy nominations were announced last night, which means, yep, we're being INUNDATED with press releases from ecstatic and eager publicists touting their clients' successes.Like we have any say in the matter. Yeah, right.But, by my count, DFWd's doing OK here. Here's a breakdown of area ar ... More >>

Guess Who's Playing Fred Baron's Christmas Party

To Kill a Sunrise

Who would win in a fight: The Eagles or The Eagles of Death Metal? Let's go to the tape!

The Eagles To Soar Through The AAC In September. Or: God, I’m Begging You--Defrost Hell Already

Charlie Sextion Talks Working With Dylan, Struggling To Find His Own Sound

On the Border, Off the Fence

Soon, Everyone in the Country Will Know the Ballad of Becky Miller

The Eagles

Long Road Out of Eden (Universal Music Group)

The Ataris

Thursday, September 13, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Counting Money

Talk of the Town

Fountains of Wayne

Traffic and Weather (Virgin)

Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak

Friday, June 1, at Smirnoff

Chicks with, uh, Grammies

If You Got the Money, I Got the Time

The Skilling to Pay the Billing

Re: "Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

At the Crossroads

Bovine Bliss

The Dirty Projectors

Sunday, September 18, at Rubber Gloves

Various Artists

Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon (Artemis)

Best Honky-Tonk

Adair's Saloon

Steak Stoked

A new Bob's steak house draws Consilient Restaurants' Monte Morris back to Denver

Messing With Texas

Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

Reconsider Him

At the end, Warren Zevon's past is finally unearthed

Puffed Poss

Restaurant association endorses its first mayoral candidate

Scene, Heard

Another drummer steps to the mike

Critics' Picks

Don Henley

Buzz

All he wants to do is sue; Good planning

Letters

Rise and shine

Weekend offers a whirlwind tour of local music scene

Roadshows

The Devil and Mr. Newman

America's greatest songwriter descends to hell and aspires to heaven in Faust