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Groovy, Far Out and Monkee Business

You Gave Me What? Part 5: Reliving Husker Du

Last Night: No Age, Abe Vigoda and Infinite Body at The Loft

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Roger McGuinn, Legendary Frontman For The Byrds, Is Still Flying

Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop canon hav ... More >>

Last Night: Roger McGuinn at McDavid Studio

Roger McGuinnMcDavid StudioNovember 22, 2008Better than: Watching one of those Time Life infomercials about reliving the '60s though a 10 CD compilation featuring the likes of Hermann's Hermits and Ten Years After.Starting promptly at 8:00, Roger McGuinn treated the packed house in Ft. Worth's McDav ... More >>

Roadshows

Roger McGuinnMcDavid StudioNovember 22, 2008Better than: Watching one of those Time Life infomercials about reliving the '60s though a 10 CD compilation featuring the likes of Hermann's Hermits and Ten Years After.Starting promptly at 8:00, Roger McGuinn treated the packed house in Ft. Worth's McDav ... More >>

Gig Alert: Off With Their Heads, Over Stars and Gutters at Rubber Gloves

Hailing from Minneapolis, Off With Their Heads continues the impressive lineage of Twin Cities punk rock that began with Husker Du, Soul Asylum and The Replacements back in the '80s. From the Bottom, the band's most recent effort, is packed full of spite and bile, just as good punk record should b ... More >>

Listen: Will Johnson Plays Centro-Matic, Husker Du, New Material At A Recent Dan's Show

Matt Pence The Captain's Dead blog, which, let's face it, is about as good a source on Centro-matic as any thanks to its incessant fanship of the band, has an awesome bootleg available for yourdownloading pleasure of frontman Will Johnson (pictured above) performing solo at a recent Dan's Silverleaf ... More >>

Clearing Out the Mailroom: Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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 four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Late of the Pier (Castle Donington, England)Fantasy Black ChannelDarryl ... More >>

Ageless Spirit

No Age's sound isn't quite punk—but that's still the simplest way to describe the band's attitude

North of the Dial

No Age's sound isn't quite punk—but that's still the simplest way to describe the band's attitude

Bob Mould

District Line (Anti-)

Making a List, Checking It Twice

District Line (Anti-)

Rock Gods, er, Gourds

District Line (Anti-)

Plain folk

Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

These Bands Are Your Bands

Dan's Silverleaf hosts the ultimate tribute

Farsighted

Brent Best and his longtime friends in the Drams don't have a bone to pick

Soul Asylum

The Silver Lining ( Sony)

Hey, Paisano!

Modern Machines deliver catchy irony by aping the Replacements' former glory

Mono, Pelican

Monday, May 22, at Hailey's

Hold, Please

How 34-year-old Craig Finn became famous singing about drug-huffing 20-somethings

Out of the Closet

How 34-year-old Craig Finn became famous singing about drug-huffing 20-somethings

Another Look at a Legend

How 34-year-old Craig Finn became famous singing about drug-huffing 20-somethings

Rain or Shine

We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

Bob Mould

Body of Song (Yep Roc)

Head Full of Beer

The Slobberbone chronicles: An oral history

Young Gun

Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Husker Du--and that's a good place to be

Mono

Walking cloud and deep red sky. Flag fluttered and the sun shined (Temporary Residence)

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Letters

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen turned into a very mighty weapon

All His Life

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

The Shins

July 12

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Dashboard Confessional

November 29

The Who?

Little Grizzly finds itself, and its new album, somewhere along the way

Band Aid

Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts, and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

Master of Puppets

Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul, and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

Punk You

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

Former Big Star Bassist Andy Hummel Doesn't Regret Leaving America's Most Influential Cult Band For A 9-to-5 Life In Weatherford

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Gig Alert: Lemuria, O'Pioneers, and Empire! Empire! Tonight at 1919 Hemphill

​Another packed indie bill tonight at the DIY paradise known as 1919 Hemphill in Fort Worth. And unlike some previous outings, the headliner is actually the best band of the bill.Hailing out of Buffalo, Lemuria has been around since 2004, but the trio of Sheena Ozzella (guitar, vocals), Alexander ... 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 >>