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The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Record Store Day Approaches and Ben Harper Premiers at The White House

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. The day has finally come and Bill Wisener, Bill's Records owner, can hardly contain his excite ... More >>

The Eleven Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: April 11-17

We've got some good ones for ya this week--a nice, healthy blend of genres and artists, ranging from gigantic pop stars to local unknowns; Young DJs to old classic rock legends. This week in April, Dallas is yours for the taking. See also: -The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List -The Ten Most ... More >>

Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: April 4-10

Editor: April showers, right? But a little water isn't stopping anyone, which is good because there are excellent shows happening this week. Including the blissfully strange Danny Brown, touring with beat master and unexpected meme star Baauer. -topic and his TeamFromNoWhere are throwing a party on ... More >>

KXT Summer Cut 2013 [Update with Presale and Ticket Price Information]

Update: Presale tickets for KXT's Summer Cut go on sale today, January 23, at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Tickets range from $30 to $55 (plus fees). Use the code "kxtradio." The general onsale is Friday at 10 a.m. Original post follows... Summer Cut: The Happy Funtime Festival presented by KXT will ... More >>

The Fort Worth Music Festival - Will Rogers Memorial Center - 9/28/12

The Fort Worth Music Festival Will Rogers Memorial Center Friday, September 28 All the highways and random roads that lead from Dallas to Fort Worth throw me completely out of whack and often I end up lost and late. This happened Friday night as I braved Texas' "HOLY SHIT IT'S RAINING" traffic and ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Find more of this weekend's best shows in our shiny new concert calendar. Fort Worth Music Festival Will Rogers Memorial, Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29 Whether it's the deep soul of Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, the tears-in-my-beer ballads of Hayes Carll, or the smooth ... More >>

Eleven of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Mission of Burma, Willie Nelson, Ben Folds Five, Brutal Juice and More

Mission of Burma Friday, September 14, at Dan's Silverleaf, $13/$16Spune productions' Lance Yocom has been sitting on this show for a while. The Boston punk act, whose reunion has lasted longer than its original run, should make for an interesting show at Dan's. Expect it to be packed and loud.S ... More >>

Homegrown Festival - Main Street Garden Park - 5/26/12

When I finally set foot in Main Street Garden Park on Saturday afternoon, I knew what Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence was talking about. The strip of downtown green is beautiful, well-designed and forces interaction, like any good, walkable park should. Looking up at the old Grand Hotel, wh ... More >>

Five Country Albums To Drink Beer With

While there's certainly an eclectic mix at this weekend's third annual Homegrown Festival, you'll want to keep an eye on Robert Ellis. The Houston musician has been kicking around for a couple of years, but his 2010 New West debut, Photographs, provided the lengthy-maned Ellis a national profile, an ... More >>

Can Homegrown Festival Thrive On An All-Texas Lineup?

Preview: Homegrown Festival at Main Street Garden Park

Saturday, May 26, at Main Street Garden Park

Ray Wylie Hubbard Through The Lens Of a New Generation

Hayes Carll on Hecklers, Hate Mail and Spending "A Lot of Years Playing Shows For Ten People"

With or without the controversy surrounding his song "She Left Me for Jesus", Hayes Carll would still be considered one of our state's greatest songwriters. Over the course of a decade, Carll has released four superb country/rock albums, each one better and more successful than the last. Speaking w ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To Homegrown!

The third annual Homegrown Fest is fast approaching on May 26, and we've got some tickets we want to throw your way. Here's the question: Homegrown performer Hayes Carll has covered a song by which universally divisive singer? Hit us here and we'll give away two pairs of tickets by the end of the da ... More >>

And Our Rock the Park Winner Is...

Hard to believe it's been a month since our eight Rock the Park finalists were announced. This past Saturday, top three finalists the Breakfast Machine, Madisons and Catamaran battled it out at the Shops at Park Lane, and Austin country-folk group Madisons were victorious.They will go on to the open ... More >>

Tonight: Patio Sessions and a Chance To Win Homegrown Tickets

Have you been to Patio Sessions at AT&T Performing Arts Center yet? Best get thee there before the weather goes from pleasant to "blow dryer on full blast immediately in your face when you walk out the door." The event is free and you can bring booze. It's the simple things in life, really. Tonigh ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard Through the Lens of a New Generation

Homegrown Fest Adds Black Joe Lewis, The Bright Light Social Hour and More

The all-Texas lineup for the third annual Homegrown Fest is quickly expanding, with the addition today of Austin's Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and The Bright Light Social Hour, plus the Ticket's own George Dunham. Add those names to a roster including Hayes Carll, Robert Ellis, Octopus Project ... More >>

Good Friday: 35 Denton Isn't the Only Thing To Do This Weekend

​It would be slightly unfortunate to have scheduled a concert on the same weekend as 35 Denton, but it's not like everyone's going up there, right? [Crickets chirping; the entire office is headed North on I-35.] But, for those of us left behind, there are still plenty of things to do around town, ... More >>

Turnpike Troubadours, The Dirty River Boys

Saturday, November 26, at Southside Music Hall

Spillover: ACL Festival Artists Booked to Perform Shows in North Texas This Week

​There are a good many reasons to skip this year's installment of Austin City Limits Music Festival down in Austin.For starters, the weather is supposed to sunny with a high of 98 degrees on all three days. in a giant field with no air conditioning, teeming with thousands of warm bodies, it won't ... More >>

Picture Show: Hayes Carll at House of Blues

All photos by Roger CaldwellHayes Carll​Last time we ran into singer Hayes Carll, he put on a special little two-stepping show at the Double Wide in the midst of a small-club tour throughout Texas. On Saturday at House of Blues, photographer Roger Caldwell caught Hayes armed with new songs fr ... More >>

Good Friday: Analog Rebellion, C.J. Ramone and the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

While definitely not the biggest show this weekend, we thought the above concert promo video for tonight's show at Dada deserved a view. If only we had a "Concert Trailer of the Week" feature on DC9...Oh well. Still pretty cool, though.But if the above lineup featuring Analog Rebellion, Gallerycat, ... More >>

The Documentary Channel Purchases Rights to Documentary Film on The Range's Brett Dillon

Back in 2009, Hey Dillon (The Last Great DJ), a documentary produced by the McKinney-based The Good Fight Motion Pictures and focused on KHYI-95.3 FM The Range disc jockey Brett Dillon, premiered and made its way around the region. The narrative -- independent radio's David facing off against corpor ... More >>

Greg Schroeder

Schroeder (Round One Records)

Good Friday: Hayes Carll, Buddy Guy, Eaton Lake Tonics, Wanda Jackson, Hard Night's Day, American Werewolf Academy, Aska, Spoonfed Tribe, HELLYEAH, Tweed EQ, Wild Party & More!

Hayes Carll​Tonight, Hayes Carll plays the second-to-last show in his North Texas tour. He'll be at Lola's Saloon in Fort Worth, and then, tomorrow night, he'll be at Poor David's Pub. After this little stint, he'll do five shows in the Houston area, then three in Austin and San Antonio. So catch ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Unwed Sailor at Club Dada and Steve Miller at House of Blues

Besides Hayes Carll continuing his North Texas tour of clubs (tonight's stop is at The Aardvark in Cowtown), there are a couple of other interesting musical options also going on tonight.

Last Night: Hayes Carll at The Double Wide

Hayes CarllThe Double WideFebruary 22, 2011Better than: standing around, watching a show in a cramped space four times the Double Wide's size.Hayes Carll​ A little more than halfway through his two-hour performance at the Double Wide last night -- the first of his five-day small-club jaunt through ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Hayes Carll at Double Wide and Gipsy Kings at The Meyerson

After last night's hectic schedule, things get quite a bit calmer tonight. But there are still a couple of shows worth mentioning -- good ones, too.

Hayes Carll Preps For The Big Stage With Some Smaller Ones

Show Announcements: Prince, Menkena, Sarah Jaffe, Toro Y Moi, Victor Wooten, Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Hayes Carll, Underoath, New Science Projects & More!

​As Robert already mentioned a few days ago, Prince will be here soon, reliving his much blogged-about 1984 concert at Reunion Arena on Friday, February 4. One minor snag, though: Reunion Arena was demolished a few years back. No matter -- the show must go on. Prince will set up a huge tent on the ... More >>

Last Night: Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr. and Travis Linville at the Granada Theater

Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr. and Travis LinvilleGranada TheaterDecember 30, 2010 Better than: attending an SMU fraternity keg party Hayes Carll​About three songs into his set, country singer-songwriter Hayes Carll addressed his crowded Granada Theater audience and brought up the ticket ... More >>

Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr., Cary Ann Hearst

Thursday, December 30, at Granada Theater

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to The Granada Theater Tonight to See Hayes Carll and Bobby Bare Jr.

Hayes Carll​In this week's paper, my fellow music editor from the Houston Press, Chris Gray, checks in to let Observer readers know a little something something about Woodlands native Hayes Carll, who stops through Dallas tonight with Cary Ann Hearst and Bobby Bare Jr. for a gig at the Granada The ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Cake at The Palladium Ballroom, 100 Monkeys at The Loft, Hayes Carll at The Granada, Kristy Kruger at The Kessler, Two Tons of Steel at The Glass Cactus, Andrew Tinker at The Belmont and The Ranchero Brothers at Anvil Pub

Quite the hopping Thursday evening we have here. Enough to make a lowly music critic like myself wish he could be in two -- maybe even three -- places at once.

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, December 13, 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.Various ArtistsImus Ranch Record II (New West)With tunes from Jamey Johnson, Sa ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To See Peter Case Tonight At Dan's Silverleaf In Denton

​Perhaps you read Darryl Smyers' Q&A with Peter Case and are still wondering just what about the songwriter that could inspire so many other notables, including Hayes Carll, Victoria Williams and Chuck Prophet, to put together a tribute album, A Case for Case, just a few years ago. Well, you c ... More >>

Rhett Miller Was A Legless, Prosthetic-Armed Al Queda Member (On Squidbillies' Season Finale).

Rhett as a squid? Sure thing.​Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter extraordinaire and frontman for the Old 97's, made a TV appearance last night as a legless, prosthetic-armed Al Queda member. No, really. The creators of Squidbillies, the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim staple about Appalachian squids, gath ... More >>

Old 97's, Rodney Parker Round Out Tyler's Southbound Sound Music Festival

​If you don't mind driving the 92 miles between Dallas and Tyler, there's a nice line up set for the Southbound Sound Music Festival, which is set to take place on Saturday, May 8, at the Texas Rose Horse Park located at 14078 State Highway 110 N. The all day festival will feature (among others) J ... More >>

KHYI-95.3 FM The Range's Texas Music Revolution

Sunday, March 21, at Southfork Ranch, Plano

Good Friday: Calhoun, Hayes Carll, Red Headed Stranglers, Metal Rouge, Wildflower!, The Lash Outs, A Tribute To Stephen Bruton, Dem Southernfolkz, QCBS Benefit

There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it's almost overwhelming. Remember, back in the days when you used to go to video stores to rent movies, how it felt to just stare at the cases with no idea what you wanted to watch, and there were so many choices that you got a headache b ... More >>

Line Up Announced for Austin's 22nd Annual Old Settler's Music Festival

Hubbard's on the Old Settler's bill.A lot of you may be asking yourself--just as I just asked myself--what in hell's name an Old Settler's Music Festival is. But before getting dismissive about anything not called SXSW, you might want to check out the line up for this shindig.Over a four-day period ... More >>

Hayes Carll, Band of Heathens, Jason Eady

Monday, December 29, at the Granada Theater

Musical Portraits

Goldberg captures Texas' best

Slaid Cleaves, Hayes Carll

Friday, July 14, at the Granada Theater

Hayes Carll

Saturday, August 6, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Hayes Carll

Little Rock (Highway 97 Music)