George Jones

Loretta Lynn

Saturday, February 9, at Arlington Music Hall

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 7-10

The xx Wednesday, February 13, and Thursday, February 14, at The Granada Theater Achingly hip Londoners the xx have a two-night stay at The Granada this week, meaning twice as many Dallasites will be swept away by songs from their now-ubiquitous debut album and the recently released Coexist. We're k ... More >>

Waltz Around Our 100 Best Texas Songs

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

Preview: George Jones at Arlington Music Hall

CANCELED

Eleven Hundred Springs and Exit 380

Midway Self-released Townies (Hand Drawn Records)

DJ Contest at Artopia and the Best Shows in Town This Weekend

​As we mentioned on Tuesday, this year's edition of the Dallas Observer-sponsored Artopia event on Saturday at Dallas Contemporary will have a music angle. Three DJs -- Skrause, DJ-O and The Latin House Krew -- all compete for a chance to perform at Lights All Night, December 30 and 31. If you wan ... More >>

Q & A: Tab Benoit: "There Are Other Things That I Pay Attention to Besides Just Playing the Guitar."

Guitarist/singer-songwriter Tab Benoit is Cajun to the bone. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but raised in the small town of Houma, Benoit was brought up on a steady diet of Hank Williams, George Jones, B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. It's no wonder that Benoit's songs echo the influences of classic ... More >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

Good Friday: Arcade Fire, Edgefest 21 and The Rest of This Weekend's Awesome Shows

Arcade Fire's Win Butler is so pissed at Edgefest.​We've got a full weekend, with loads of shows ahead. Most notably, of course, is the Arcade Fire show at Gexa Energy Pavilion, which is up against Edgefest at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. Check out Pete's breakdown of the two events here.But, hey, if ... More >>

Joe Pug Tells Us The Songs He'd Love To Cover One Day, Shares Some MP3s

Joe Pug​Back in July of last year in the paper version of DC9, we stated that folk troubadour and musical entrepreneur Joe Pug "devised a strategy for marketing himself that simply wouldn't have been possible only a few years ago." We were talking about the Internet, of course -- and in the blo ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Ryan Bingham, Telegraph Canyon, The Orbans

Friday, November 27, at House of Blues

Music and the Munchies: A Day of Mourning

I attempt to lift my pen peck my keyboard today with a heavy heart, and an empty stomach. For, alas, two staples of my life's diet are no more. R.I.P., NIN. And Luby's, 4:45 p.m. dinners will never taste the same. Trent Reznor, one of the most chaotic, rhythmic, unique and dark nois ... More >>

Shop Till You Bop at Forever Young Records

Not to drop hints or anything, but Xmas is coming, and Forever Young is open, sooo...

Bumpkin Battle

One Rockin' Senator

Don't Take Your Guns to Town

Country music pistol packers

Deryl Dodd

Full Circle (Dualtone)

White Lightning

George Jones visits Bass Hall

The Hotrod Hillbillies

Friday, December 9, at the Darkside Lounge

Quack Addicts

Where does Ryan Adams fit in among the great meltdown artists of yore?

Best Jukebox

Lakewood Landing

Best Home Away From Home

Lakewood Landing

Back to Lyle

Spend An Evening with Lyle Lovett

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Loretta Lynn

Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

Letters

Weasel Out

Pocket Sandwich Theater kills and grills

Good Times

The Hag brings his songs to Fort Worth this week

Best Place to Put Money in a Jukebox

The Elbow Room

Cajun against the machine

Wayne Toups tries to unite the worlds of Zydeco and Cajun music. Wait, they weren't already?

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

His and hers

For Buddy and Julie Miller, love, God, and country music are all that matters

Rees, in bits and pieces

The grass is blue

Writing hits for the Dixie Chicks has given Jim Lauderdale his own wide open space

Out Here

Country and Midwestern

The best of the alt-country lot salute the majesty of the past--while defining the future

Legendary stardust cowboy

"Groovy" Joe Poovey dies just as his Greatest Grooves are set for release

Pen pal

Jim Lauderdale is the write man in the wrong place

Unlikely hybrid

The cocktail country of the Lucky Pierres proves to be the right mix

No retreat

After the setback of the Cartwrights, Donny Ray Ford gets a taste of success

Roadshows

The damage undone

The Geraldine Fibbers write a new chapter about rock and its tragic aftermath

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

Strait to hell

George Strait saved country music. Then he killed it

Out here

Reviews

Thank God he's a pretty boy

Ty Herndon is country music's latest hunk of the month. But is he for real?