Drive-By Truckers

The Eight Best Shows in DFW This Week

Is there such a thing as the end of festival season here? I don't know. What I do know is that there are a couple more this weekend -- Fort Worth Music Festival features twang on Friday and fuzzy guitar bliss on Saturday. And Wildflower remains the most fun I can imagine having in the general proxim ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

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 >>

Jason Isbell on Social Networking: "You Can Pretty Much Be Antisocial."

Alabama-raised Jason Isbell has pretty much met, if not exceeded, the expectations of just about any interested party following his departure from the beloved band of southern-rock story-tellers, The Drive By Truckers. Each of Isbell's three albums since leaving his former band in 2007 has progres ... 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 >>

O'Death's David Rogers-Berry Drove Hours To See The Violent Femmes For His First Concert

O'Death​Back in March, our own Kelly Dearmore was among the many who caught New York band O'Death's stunning set at the 35 Conferette (now 35 Denton). He loved it, as you can see form what he wrote:As Josh T. Pearson and his beard watched on, New York's O' Death began their set and immediately im ... More >>

Good Friday: Labor Day Edition

Flickr user d double uA previous Double Wide pool party​In the past, Labor Day has unofficially marked the end of the hot summer. But, this year, the heat will continue. There are some Labor Day parties this weekend, though, that will offer a chance to cool down and catch some good bands. The Doub ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers, Centro-matic

Poster of the Week: Drive-By Truckers and Centro-matic at the Granada Theater on Friday

​ Illustrator and former musician Wes Freed has a pretty good gig these days: He's the exclusive artist for the Drive-By Truckers, which explains why he's the guy behind the above poster promoting the band's Austin and Dallas performances with North Texas' Own Centro-matic this week. He does their ... More >>

Wild Flag, Justin Townes Earle and a Heaping Pile of Other Show Announcements

Wild Flag​Wild Flag is something of a web phenomenon, gaining loads of notoriety before ever releasing any music. It helps, of course, that front-lady Carrie Brownstein and Wild Flag bandmate Janet Weiss were members of the legendary rock trio Sleater-Kinney. But now, with their new act, they're t ... More >>

Tonight Is Crazy Busy. Nights Like These Make Us Wish Teleportation Were Possible.

What a busy musical evening we have on our hands tonight! The only problem? Making a decision on where to go. Anybody got a coin?

Night Three of 35 Conferette: A Joyous Night of Rump-Shaking, Art Rocking and Flute-Playing Performances Brings The Fest To Its Highest Point Yet

​After a bumpy start on Thursday, with things then smoothing out a bit on Friday, it shouldn't have been terribly shocking that Saturday made for some clear sailing. Seemingly everything went off without much trouble. Of course, any night of concerts that starts with a stage full of rap video-st ... More >>

The colliding past and presents of local music.

Over The Weekend: Drive-By Truckers, The Henry Clay People at House of Blues

Drive-By Truckers, The Henry Clay PeopleHouse of BluesSeptember 25, 2010Better Than: The Drive-By Truckers' SXSW show in March, when they methodically rushed through their new album.Drive-By Truckers​It's always interesting to see and hear how a beloved band's newest material is received by its ... More >>

Good Friday: Oysterfest, The Drums, Slayer, Glen Campbell, Jamie Lidell, Drive By Truckers, Marc Ribot, Jeff The Brotherhood, Black Crowes, Rush, and More

Jen Sorensen Frisco Rock City​For two weekends in a row, the biggest show in town is in Frisco. There is, in fact, something fishy going on up there, and  you can read about that here. While you're at it, make plans to attend the inaugural Oysterfest at Lochrann's Irish Pub and Eatery on Sat ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers, Henry Clay People

Saturday, September 25, at House of Blues

Rhett Miller Was A Legless, Prosthetic-Armed Al Queda Member (On Squidbillies' Season Finale).

Rhett as a squid? Sure thing.​Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter extraordinaire and frontman for the Old 97's, made a TV appearance last night as a legless, prosthetic-armed Al Queda member. No, really. The creators of Squidbillies, the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim staple about Appalachian squids, gath ... More >>

The Gourds Keep On Keeping On

Year in Review: 2009's Best Indie Records, the College Rockers Honor Roll

Yeah, pal, that's "college rock," scare quotes very much included. Look, it's a meaningless term. As are "indie," "alternative," "hipster," etc., etc. Let's not overthink this: Here we have ten splendid records with an amorphous rock 'n' roll designation, albeit in a perhaps slightly more experiment ... More >>

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Macon Greyson

Friday, November 13,at Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth

Select House of Blues, Cambridge Room and Superpages Tix Available On The Cheap Today

​The folks at Live Nation aren't showing any signs of slowing what was originally supposed to be a summer-only deal of not charging service fees on Wednesday. In fact, since launching its deal back in June, the offers have only gotten more extravagant and varied. Why? Well, for one, I imagine, bec ... More >>

AA Bondy, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon

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

Ready For Bettye

LaVette Belts it for McFarlin

Soul Day at ACL: I Feel Good!

Dallas benefits, again, from being near Austin City Limits

Look at all the concerts ACL is leading our way this weekend (while ignoring the ugly side effects)!

Centro-matic's Will Johnson is a Study in Opposites

...just like the Texan president who fascinates him

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup

Bettye LaVette|Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

The Scene of the Crime (Anti- Records)|100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)

Backtrackin'

Things you may have missed the first time

Beard Sweat

ZZ Top and friends rock Smirnoff

Down to Earth

The Beard is Back!

Backyard Tire Fire

Vagabonds and Hooligans (o.i.e.)

Centro-matic Does It "All Night Long." Seriously, All Night.

Black Crowes, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Drive-By Truckers

Friday, June 30, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Mixed Blessing

The Drive-By Truckers try to drive their way out of a self-imposed Southern label

MySXSW

Austin's biggest music fest was anything you wanted it to be. Dallas acts made theirs a blast.

SXSW, Scene and Heard Day Two

Odds & Ends

Radiant goes Over There, Ward Richmond goes to jail and every band in Dallas gets put on hold

Young Gun

Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Husker Du--and that's a good place to be

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Thursday, November 11

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers

The Dirty South

Li'l Cap'n Travis

...In All Their Splendor (Glurp)

The Lost Trailers

Welcome to the Woods (Universal Records)

Playing Favorites

Local musicians pick the tops

Day Trippers

Drive-By Truckers have sacrificed all in their quest to be the next Skynyrd

Bar Exam

Slobberbone is the best bar band in America. Here's proof.

Gov't Mule, Drive-By Truckers

October 29