Glen Campbell

10 of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Justice, Rufus Wainwright, Zammuto and More

JusticeWednesday, October 31, at Palladium Ballroom, $40Justice is sort of a gateway band for many younger electronic music fans. Their concise jams (I'm partial to their high-profile remix of Simian's "We Are Your Friends") make it easy to get on the dancefloor, which is essentially what is expecte ... More >>

The Best and Worst Performances of Last Night's Grammys

Five Best Performances 1. Jennifer Hudson Grammy host L.L. Cool J had a hard enough job presiding over a celebration undercut by tragic circumstances, and he achieved a perfect, almost pastor-like tone from the get-go. But Miss Hudson's musical tribute to Whitney Houston - a subtly searing but stil ... More >>

Staind's Aaron Lewis Talks Country Music, Ron Paul and the Constitution

Known as the bellowing frontman for alternative metal band Staind, Aaron Lewis shocked many when he released the Town Line EP earlier this year. Not only did it feature Lewis singing a collection of country-influenced songs, but the singer was insistent the project was not a one-shot endeavor. F ... More >>

The Conversation: Is Playing Other People's Songs Respectable?

Dallas disco cover band Le Freak​A well-timed cover can be just the thing to take a band's live performance from good to great. But if the execution of the song is off, it could blow the whole set. On the flip side, although playing a cover is a risky move, sometimes the rewards can make an artist ... 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 >>

Still On The Line

Show Announcements: Dawes, The Soft Pack, Glen Campbell, Magic Kids, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, GWAR, Earl Harvin, Aaron Neville, Archeology, Gaslight Anthem and More!

The softer side of The Soft Pack​Just north of Dallas, in Frisco, something is brewing at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery. The bar's enlisted the help of Spune Productions to help diversify the music scene, who, so far, has done a bang-up job. More proof: On Thursday, October 14, garage rock ac ... More >>

The Sounds Of Rebirth

Fair Park to Ask Landmark Commission: How Should We Number the Benches at Band Shell?

​I see here that tomorrow, the Landmark Commission's Fair Park Task Force has but one item on its agenda: putting new row numbers and seat number tags on the wood benches in the Fair Park Band Shell. Which may seem like small progress, but it signifies significant strides in terms of the city's ef ... More >>

Fair Park Needs a Million Bucks Worth of Work

​The Park and Rec board's meeting at the Dallas Zoo today -- appropriate, since the highest-priced item on today's agenda involves the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, scheduled to reopen in September as The Children's Aquarium at Fair Park under the privately operated auspices of Dallas Zoo Manageme ... More >>

Show Announcements: Phosphorescent, Keane, Shakira, Mat Kearney, Built to Spill, Black Crowes,Jimmy Buffet, Jonas Brothers, Brad Paisley, Bel Biv Devoe and More!

Phosphorescent​Brooklyn-based Phosphorescent went from being an unknown indie poet scouring the globe and playing empty rooms to a critical darling almost overnight--many thanks to Willie Nelson. Matthew Houck, the man behind the moniker, made the risky decision to do an album of Nelson covers las ... More >>

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

Good Friday: Danielson, Black Eyed Peas, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Venus Flytrap, Robert Deeble, Josh Alan Friedman, Mark Growden, Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Shannon McNully, Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter, Off With Their Heads

​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike

Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back together

Sonny Burgess

Thursday, February 21, at Glass Cactus, Grapevine

Ex-X-Ex

John Doe is more than the old flame of his old band

Prom Is for Suckers

Lollipop Shoppe is bringing groovy back

Power Lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever. Just don't tell him that.

Dwight Yoakam

Population Me (Electrodisc/Audium)

Richard Ashcroft

Human Conditions (Hut/Virgin)

Scene, heard

Darlingtons bass-less again; Vibrolux takes the stage once again; Deep Blue Something cracks the top 50

He'll be there

Willie Hutch wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but he ain't done yet

'Blue' it

If she isn't careful, LeAnn Rimes could fade away before she's old enough to vote

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

November spawned a Mozza

Morrissey proves that he still matters

Power lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but don't tell him that

The ghost of Xmas passes

Landmark local band packs it in

Thank Heaven for Little Country Girls

She's only 14, but child star LeAnn Rimes knows what she wants. Can Nashville handle it?

Winedale nation

A man, his guitar, and a last-chance bar on Greenville Ave.

Survivor, alive

Two decades after stardom, John Nitzinger tries to prove he ain't "D.O.A."