Gordon Lightfoot

M83 at Granada Theater, Andrew Bird at Majestic Theatre, and More Show Announcements

M83​As we approach the end of the year like a car full of people not wearing seat belts unknowingly drives toward a brick wall, it's time to start thinking of year-end top-ten album lists. A shoe-in for ours is M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. So, you can imagine our excitement when we receive ... 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 >>

Ring Them Bells, Gordon's Here

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 >>

Show Announcements: Christina Aguilera Cancels, But Chromeo, Josh Pierson, ZZ Top, Blues Traveler, Lady Gaga and Others Are Coming...

Christina, clearly frazzled by a busy tour schedule​In last week's show announcements post, we made a big to-do about Christina Aguilera's forthcoming album, Bionic, and the tour she has planned to support it. Well, in a press release we received yesterday, Aguilera's people informed us that the t ... More >>

Ol' Gordy

Who doesn't love a little Lightfoot?

Ex-X-Ex

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

Hardline History

Gordon Lightfoot and Mike Rhyner form an unlikely bond

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway )

Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

Gallo's Pole

The weirdo auteur drives morbidly toward his own money shot in The Brown Bunny

The music man

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

Nostalgic picnic

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

Out Here

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

Thank God he's a pretty boy

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

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band