Gospel Music

Patrick Stark is Dallas' Most Rock and Roll Chef

He's played music in front of 25,000 people, opening for Styx, and cooked for folks like Johnny Winter, Butthole Surfers (we don't even wanna know what they ordered), ZZ Top and more recently, as part of his sweet new gig as the head cuisine honcho at Sundown at Granada, actor Will Ferrell. He also ... More >>

Michelle Shocked Does Not Hate Gay People, So Why Did She Say God Does? [Update: There Was Bad Information on the Internet! Surprise!]

Update, 3/22: You can listen to audio from Michelle Shocked's rant below. So we have a great deal of information now -- her initial lunatic outburst, her highly measured response and the reaction of the masses. Judge for yourself. Update, 3/20: The Texas Observer has an open letter from Michelle S ... More >>

Brad Paisley Tells Country Audiences There's Nothing Wrong With White Folks Becoming the Minority

Brad Paisley, "Southern Comfort Zone" Current Billboard Country Singles Chart Position: 10 The Verdict: Holy shit, songs on the radio can still be important! So, here, in a shimmering single whose title buzz markets a godawful no-whiskey whiskey liqueur, we have a black gospel choir belting "Dixie" ... More >>

Liberty Institute: Assault on Religious Liberty is at All-Time High (and That's Just Counting Christians)

You know the Liberty Institute as the group that has steered Plano's infamous Candy Cane Case through the courts. More recently, it's championed the cause of Angela Hildenbrand, the Texas high school student who wanted to pray during her valedictory speech. As part of its work, in 2004 the nonprofi ... More >>

Jason Pierce of Spiritualized: "In An Odd Way, I Was Making a Record As a Distraction To Being Ill."

"It's ironic that, in some ways, when I needed music the most, making this record really fucked it up for me." So explains Jason Pierce, the mastermind behind English band Spiritualized and the newly released Sweet Heart Sweet Light, their sixth studio album. He's juggling phone interviews and rehe ... More >>

Spiritualized Frontman Jason Pierce Contemplates Illness and Freedom

Last Night on The Voice, Anthony Evans Moved From Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship to Team Xtina

Might as well put my faithful Voice viewing to good use, though no doubt in coming weeks Audra will follow Anthony Evans's reality-TV travails over on DC9 at Night. But even before the Marvin Gaye-covering Evans was intro'd as a Dallas native last night it was clear who he was: Not only is he an es ... More >>

Legendary Sexpot Ann-Margret Preps New Disc With Preston Hollow Church Choir? Um, OK!

Hey, now.​As you'll see and hear after the jump (courtesy of a video of the legendary sex symbol accepting the Star Award at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival), Ann-Margret "loves Texas." "Loves Dallas," too. She's even named one of her sons Dallas, go figure. Makes sense, maybe. For a t ... More >>

Fourteen Texans Walked Away From the 2011 Grammy Awards With Trophies To Bring Home

The big winner at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night? That, surely, was The Arcade Fire, who, whether you've heard of them or not, walked with the coveted Album of the Year title at this year's festivities. But, really, Texas as a whole didn't do too bad as the Texas Music Office in Austin has remind ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See Peter Wolf Crier and Retribution Gospel Choir Tonight at Hailey's

Not a bad bill tonight at Hailey's -- something that we haven't really been able to say of late, to be honest -- thanks to a couple of touring, up-and-coming acts out of Minnesota stopping through Denton for the night.Aside from the whole both being from the Land of a Thousand Lakes tie-in, though, ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of Arizona Dranes

​I've considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we're about out of the good stuff, I fear -- unless you're just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in '82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in '94, which I'd briefly considered last night. ... More >>

We'll Have a Hughes Christmas

Look Out For No. 1

Low

Thursday, July 9, at The Loft

Breaking Down The Grammy Nominations (Or: Hey, Some Love For DFWd!)

The 2009 Grammy nominations were announced last night, which means, yep, we're being INUNDATED with press releases from ecstatic and eager publicists touting their clients' successes.Like we have any say in the matter. Yeah, right.But, by my count, DFWd's doing OK here. Here's a breakdown of area ar ... More >>

Michelle Shocked To, Ahem, Shock Crowds At House of Blues

The Gospel of Vickie

Winans honors MLK at Bass Hall

Saved

T.D. Jakes Wants Don Imus Fired. He Also Has a New CD He'd Like You to Buy.

Nashville Cats

Sacred and Profane

Al Green may be saved, but he's still sexy

Praise God and Pass the Vivid

Jews for Jesus (Sorta, Kinda, Not Really)

The Gospel of Clear Skin

Djore sings at St. Luke

Soaring Harmony

Hip-hop's Public Enemy

Minister G. Craige Lewis has one goal: Get hip-hop out of the church. Forever.

Don't Give Up...

And don't be afraid to suck. A music editor's parting words.

Odds & Ends

Grammy noms, Denton cares and Deedle's last dance

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti)

All Praise Kirk Franklin

Gospel singer makes the Hall of Fame

Holy Roller

Arizona Juanita Dranes died in obscurity, but she is remembered now

Lift Him Up

The gospel truth about Christian blues pioneer Washington Phillips

And the Nominees Are

Various Dallas acts up for Grammy awards

Johnny Cash / Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden (Sony Legacy)
American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
Dressed in Black (Dualtone)
Kindred Spirits (Sony)

Best Barbecue

Sweet Georgia Brown Bar-B-Que Home Cookin'

Do The Evolution

Merle Haggard makes a triumphant return. Wait -- he never went away.

Jesus' Favorite Singer

Fifty years after leaving the Soul Stirrers, Rebert Harris has been called home

S'up, Jesus?

Put on Travelin' Shoes and journey to a place where gospel meets rap

Signing off

Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

James Blackwood and The Light Crust Doughboys

Red River Valley Memories: The Texas Swing Sessions Vol. 2 (self-released)

Funk that

James Brown used them. Hip-hoppers stole from them. Will these women finally get their due?

Rave on cats, he cried

Carl Perkins, 1932-1998

Get it while you can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

Come on feel the Noyze

Local group gets a gospel sound that's contemporary yet sanctified

Joyful noise

New Arts Six and Langston Hughes celebrate a stirring Black Nativity

Out There

Can he get an 'amen?'

Al Green returns with his first all-secular album since 1977