Elliott Smith (Musician)

The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

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. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Good Friday: The Actual Good Friday Edition

Those Darlins perform at Rubber Gloves tonight.​We've already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn't mean the weekend's shows will be spare. There's actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let's start by re-capping the oneswe've been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will brin ... More >>

Eisley Has The Battle Scars to Prove Their Coming of Age.

Everyone Loves Dr. Dog--Except For Pitchfork

Out of the Closet

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

Eisley

December 31

Damien Rice

November 28

Mr. Misery

Elliott Smith officially becomes his generation's Nick Drake

Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song

I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)

Dashboard Confessional

November 29

Done the Collapse

Guided by Voices' Bob Pollard deals with a rough year the way he always does: writing songs

Everyone's a Critic

Or at least a handful of musicians and music-industry types are, for a few brief moments

Dallas Stars

Revisiting the best local albums of 2000

Five for Fighting

Selected Notes on Music, 2000

Listen Up

Who says 2000 was a bad year for music?

Hard Eight

We knocked over the stack of local releases and found eight you need to hear

That's Not Me

Damien Jurado will be the first to tell you: He's not his tragic, razor-sharp songs

Playing Possum

After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?

Flanagan's wake

VH1 vice president's novel about the music business mourns an era just since passed

Finally final

Who had May in the pool? The Toadies' new album is finished.

Out There

Elliot Smith

Scene, heard

DOMA 2000 (of course), Baboon takes it live; Elliot Smith helps The Toadies; and much, much more

Scene, heard

One Ton brings the discipline; Vogler takes the Azz; Zac makes some corrections

Young man inside an old man

With Mock Tudor, Richard Thompson proves you can go home again

Who's there?

Smog's Bill Callahan opens up for the finest album of his career

More Top 10 lists, sort of

The music man

Lenny Waronker is a rock-biz legend, but is that enough to make DreamWorks Records a success?

Out There

The accidental star

Elliott Smith on his new album, the Oscars, and why he needs a new favorite shirt

Down in the tube station

Mary Lou Lord nears the end of her 15 minutes