Janis Joplin

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 >>

Foodie, Drinkie and Bourdain-ie Events for the Week

Dallas Beer Week gets tapped this Thursday and lasts for a solid eight days of sudsy celebrations. All you need to do is get your fancy beer-drinking pants out of the cleaners then just drink local beer everywhere. The goals, aspirations and, most important, calendar for the city-wide drink-off can ... More >>

Hopdoddy Burger Bar Opens Wednesday in Preston Center

Hopdoddy is an upscale, yet casual, burger restaurant and bar that originated in Austin just a couple years ago. Founders Larry Perdido and Chuck Smith are old hats in the restaurant business. According to Austin Culture Map, they sold their Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille to the ... More >>

Waltz Around Our 100 Best Texas Songs

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

Best Texas Songs of All Time: #19-1

Songs #100-80 Songs #79-60 Songs #59-40 Songs #39-20 The Spotify playlist for songs #19-1 19. Billy Preston, "Nothing From Nothing" Houston pianist Billy Preston got to hang around some decent talent (The Beatles, The Stones), but his solo material went in another direction altogether. This is ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #79-60

Best Texas songs, #100-80 The Spotify playlist for songs #79-60 79. Lift to Experience, "Falling From Cloud 9" From one of the best albums of any North Texas act in recent history, "Falling From Cloud 9" is one of the more accessible songs on 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads. It's probably t ... More >>

Six Unlikely Covers of "Summertime"

George Gershwin's "Summertime" has racked up thousands of covers since it appeared on the soundtrack to Porgy & Bess is 1935, and while several jazz and blues artists covered it in the 20th century - Billy Stewart's version being perhaps the most goosebump-inducing, next to Janis Joplin's - its appe ... More >>

Demi Lovato, Ray Benson and This Weekend's Top Shows

​A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend's shows are from local acts. That doesn't mean there aren't some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas' own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon Th ... More >>

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... 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 >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Led Zeppelin's Gonna Groove at Memorial in 1970

Via.Click to embiggen if you want to remember laughter. Or Minsky's Music.​For those playing along at home, this long-weekend's offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we've time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in '69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Man Man, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers at Sons of Hermann Hall

Man Man, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers Sons of Hermann Hall May 6, 2011 Better Than: Wearing sunglasses at night. Doug DavisHonus Honus and Pow Pow before the lights dimmed​ One of the images that comes to mind when I hear the musical chaos known as Man Man, is the clown scene in the Disne ... More >>

The Top 10 Shows on the New ESPN/UT Network

​Yesterday ESPN and Texas agree to a 20-year, $300 million deal to launch a 24-hour Longhorn network in September. Planned programming includes sports, original series, studio shows, historical programming and academic and cultural events. More precisely ESPN/UT hopes to televise at least one exc ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas International Pop Festival "Box Set"

​Richard Hayner, keeper of the Texas International Pop Festival website, maintains he's still -- still -- writing a book about that Labor Day Weekend when Angus Wynne brought Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Ten Years After, Santana, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone and on and on and ... More >>

Last Night: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Palladium Showroom

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Grace Potter and the NocturnalsPalladium ShowroomSeptember 23, 2010Better than: well, not beholding the power of music that can make a white man try to dance.Sharon Jones and her Dap-Kings​Last night, an audience of about 600 people at the Palladium Showroom (former ... More >>

The Ginger Man Branches Into Plano Operating Under the Business Model of More Beer

​All pubs are not created equal. Typically, a Dallas pub, whether of English, Irish, or generic extraction, will have a wide selection of beers and ales on tap and in bottles, plus a sufficient selection of eats. You can usually count on fish and chips, burgers, sandwiches, maybe nachos, and a fe ... More >>

Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

Please Stop Listening To Classic Rock

You Might Be A Redneck

Bill Engvall carries Foxworthy's torch

Echoes and Reverberations: The Night of the Tripping Dead

The 11th grade Biology teacher once shared this insightful observation aimed specifically at those of us with long hair: "Sons, this country is divided into three groups of people: the people who shower before work (re: white collar workers); the people who shower after work (see "blue collar"); and ... More >>

Good Friday: The Labor Day Weekend Edition

Heat Rave

Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.

The Summer After

The Summer of Love got all sorts of coverage on its 40th Anniversary. So where’s the love for 1968?

Through the Night

Kristofferson helps Bass Hall make it

And The Listenin' Is Easy

Blue Pearl

Didn't she make you feel...

Opposites Attract

Two worlds collide, then coincide

Nothing Roky About This Show

One Rockin' Senator

Led Zeppelin Comes to Lewisville, ca. 1969

Try a Little Tenderness

Relive the Summer of Love at the AllGood

Doors to Nirvana

Jimi, Janis, Jim and Kurt haunt the Granada

Jay-Z

Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella)

Forget Friday

Check out hip-hop, indie rock and superstar secret shows--all before Hump Day.

Walking the Line

More music biopics? Good. Bad musicians starring in them? Not so much.

Piece of Her Heart

Blues States

Singing it loud and proud at WaterTower; Echo trio tries red-hot political comedy

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band and others take the happiest trip of their lives

Train Kept A-Rollin'

In a vault for 30 years, the Festival Express was put back on track

All Grown Up

Patrice Pike goes solo, and she's better than she's ever been

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Lesson Learned

Ghetto Fame-Us lost three members but gained much more

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

Lost legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

'Sunday Morning,' coming up

Kris Kristofferson has lived a dozen lifetimes, and they keep on coming

Get it while you can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX