George Harrison

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: May 2-8

Ringing in your first week of May is a week of music that's as diverse as it gets. We've got everything from Rodriguez, the legendary musician and subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman, to the Dwarves, a group of disgusting punk badboys. Get a taste for them by watching cli ... More >>

Paul Slavens will Not Sing About Saggy Balls for One Dollar. Five Dollars, On the Other Hand...

J. Paul Slavens has a combination of charisma and sarcasm that is enough to leave any audience in stitches. Slavens made a name for himself in the '80s as a member of the popular North Texas band, Ten Hands, and has since had a career as a composer, radio show host, and award winning musician. Now S ... More >>

B.B. King Gave the House of Blues His Picks, His Bracelets and a Holy Blues Masterpiece: Review

"Electrifying," "Magnetic," "Memorable" are just some of the words that people used to describe an evening with B.B. King at the House of Blues in Dallas. His sophisticated style of soul-wrenching guitar playing inspired tears of joy and calls of "Amen," "Preach it, brother" and "Oh Lord, I'm coming ... More >>

Tomahawk's Duane Denison: "Maybe We Can Make High-Tech Inuit Music"

As a full-time member of Tomahawk -- with vocalist Mike Patton, drummer John Stanier of Battles and bassist Trevor Dunn of Patton's other band, Mr. Bungle -- guitarist Duane Denison has seen the tides turn over his 15-year career, but says the only thing that's really changed about rock and roll is ... More >>

Life's a Parade of Beards for David Mayfield

For those fortunate enough to have witnessed a Cadillac Sky performance before the genre-blurring bluegrass outfit's January 2011 break-up, many things were apparent after the show. The group's expert craftsmanship would likely be the main memory, but not too far behind would be the energetic showma ... More >>

When You've Lost Someone You Love: Doyle Brahmhall Has Died at the Age of 62

Garage HangoverDoyle Bramhall in 1967, as one of the Chessmen​Thirteen days from now, Doyle Bramhall was to return to the Granada, scene of this performance in 2007. But that show will not take place: The Dallas-born singer-songwriter and drummer -- a former Chessman with Jimmie Vaughan, a frequen ... More >>

Songs For Your Casey Anthony Trial Hangover

​OK, so it wasn't the trial of the century or anything. But with planking beginning to become passe, all the good sports either in their off-season or lockout, and no high-profile Robert Blake/Phil Spector/OJ Simpson murder cases going on, the Casey Anthony murder trial thing provided plenty to c ... More >>

Sue Sue, Sue-dio: The Ten Most Interesting Lawsuits In Music History

​The finger-pointing game has begun in the wake of this year's Electric Daisy Carnival.  Although any legal repercussions in regards to the festival that took place this weekend have yet to be determined, we're keeping our eye on the whole thing -- mostly because, let's face it, music and leg ... More >>

Idol Rich: Two Locals Aim for Top 40

​Last night, this season's remaining 50 Idol contestants left the City of Angels for the City of Sin and began working on Beatles classics in pairs and trios. Vocal coaches were essentially flogging them with barbed critiques during rehearsal and in what I assume was meant to be a cute montage, an ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, November 23, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Aaron Neville (New Orleans, LA) I Know I've Been Changed (EMI Gospel) Kic ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: George Harrison Brings Friends to Fort Worth in '74

​Legend has it George Harrison's '74 tour, kicked off shortly before the release of Dark Horse late that year, was a fiasco best forgotten -- in large part because the former Beatle, whose wife Pattie had just left him for Eric Clapton, had gone on the road following the same bout of laryngitis th ... More >>

Leon Russell

Thursday, September 9, at the Granada Theater

Guess Where I'm Eating: Find Peace, Peas and Delicious Tea at This East Dallas buffet

​If you think vegetables deserve to die and be consumed without mercy and are also a particular fan of George Harrison, no doubt you recognized the source of the offerings on this plate.​A pair of stony felines invite diners -- and others with less gastronomical intentions -- to step off the sha ... More >>

Staff Trax: Bonjay, Tommy Keene, The Helio Sequence, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Derek and The Dominoes

May TruongBonjay​Bonjay -- "Gimmee Gimmee"I was fortunate enough to catch these guys, completely at random, this past week at SXSW--and they impressed the heck out of me with their high-energy performance, and an eclectic, beat-heavy, R&B-tinged sound. Bonjay, which calls Toronto home, release ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Rachel Bazooka -- "My Mirror"

It was way back in 2007 when the above video of Taylor Young, he of THe BAcksliders and The O's, made its way to Youtube, posted as the visual accompaniment to the song "Chrissie Hynde" from Bucks Burnett's long-in-the-making Rachel Bazooka outfit. Turns out the project, which, at its core, is jus ... More >>

Smothered and Covered

The Shaky Hands

Let It Die (Kill Rock Stars)

Last Night: Leon Russell at the Granada Theater

Leon RussellGranada TheaterAugust 23, 2009Better than: Hearing a medley of classic Leon Russell songs sung in an Asian karaoke bar, but not much better...This Leon was nowhere to be found last night.​During the 1960s and '70s, Leon Russell was the consummate sidekick and bandleader--and he was eve ... More >>

Holy Hump Day, Batman! More Gig Alerts!

The masked men in Hollywood Undead hit the HOB with some friends tonight.Must (still) be SXSW backwash pleasantly infecting our area, as there's quite a bevy of shows on tap for this evening around the region...

Mexico's Niños Héroes Were Brave by Any Standard

Grody To The Max

Meet a pop art legend

Remembering Jerry Wexler

A friend recalls the legendary record man

Murry Hammond

I Don't Know Where I'm Going but I'm on My Way (Hummingbird Records)

Q&A: Blues and Rock Guitarist Rocky Athas

Boxed Out

Do we really need to hear every last studio detail?

Cellar Beware

Os Mutantes

Barbican Theatre, London 2006 (Luaka Bop)

Khaki Blues

Clapton plays in white at the AAC

Golden Smog

Another Fine Day (Lost Highway)

Camera Obscura

Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)

Twist at the End

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

Strat-Tastic

Those about to rock should attend the Dallas Guitar Show

Los Lonely Boys

December 27

Mr. Misery

Elliott Smith officially becomes his generation's Nick Drake

David Bowie

Reality (ISO/Columbia)

Panjabi MC

Beware (Sequence)

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

More Friends (Rhino)

Talkin' Trash

Earth Day needs schooling

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

Sweetness and Light

Plus: Blame the Parents

Jools Holland

Small World Big Band (Warner Music UK)

Pernice Brothers

The World Won't End (Ashmont)

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

The Crit and Shap Poll

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Stars of India

Two generations master an ancient art

Out There

Out There

Shake your mantra maker

Kula Shaker: Brit-pop with an Indian twist

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard