Jeff Buckley

The Sales Power of In-Store Performances

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. CD Source owner, Lance Price, saw a combination of new releases and classic albums creep towar ... More >>

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 >>

Does Neutral Milk Hotel Suck? A Debate Involving the Merits of "Elephant 6" as a Safe Word

Jeff Mangum plays the Majestic Theater on Sunday, January 20. Gavin: You know how we always say Kiernan should publish our gchats? WELL GUESS WHAT! WE'RE IN THE MONEY! Jaime: Wait, we're going to talk NMH? Gavin: Yes. And how you think they suck, and then as a follow-on topic, how you are wrong. ... More >>

Alan Light's new book explains how Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went from obscurity to ubiquity

A Dispatch From the Untapped Beer and Music Festival

See also: The people of Untapped Festival Listen: Dallas, Texas has become unstuck in time. At least that's how it felt in the short break between the shot glass full of beer and the guy in front of me wearing a Vonnegut jersey that bore the number five. That's a Slaughterhouse Five reference, rig ... More >>

The Conversation: 1991 Was a Damn Good Year, But Was It The Best Music Year of The '90s?

​Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn't been the same since: Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other influential acts ... More >>

Watch: Fair To Midland Acoustic Set on Violitionist

Alex ScottFair To Midland​The brain trust behind Violitionist Sessions have a good thing going. As seen on their most recent session with Fair To Midland, this grassroots Denton-based organization recruits artists coming through Denton to sit in their living room (from the looks of the video, it's ... More >>

Last Night: The Antlers, Little Scream at The Loft

The Antlers, Little ScreamThe LoftJune 9, 2011Better than: Being in some hospice somewhere.Looks like the guy in the bottom left might have come for the wrong Antlers.​When DC9 spoke with The Antlers' keyboardist Darby Cicci for a piece we ran in last week's paper edition, he mentioned that on the ... More >>

Joan As Policewoman and As Many Other Things.

Chocolatier Stephen Smith On Cooking With Mom and the Guilty Pleasure of Twinkies

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

Is It Better To Be Virgin or Take American from DFW to San Francisco? A Taste Test.

We tested out the new Virgin-American rivalry from D/FW to the West Coast so you don't have to.​Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast -- specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small- ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif

The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif The Palladium Showroom Saturday, July 24, 2010Better Than: staring at Lady Gaga fans. Eric Grubbs​ On their third visit to the Dallas area, The New Pornographers finally got to be a headliner. (See more photos in Hal Samples' slideshow.) Given the s ... More >>

Idol Rich: Yay for Queen and Enough With the "Hallelujah"

​I'm going to warn you, I am going to disagree with the American Idol judges today. Hard. So very hard. I realize you may not like it because you may be rooting for sweet-faced hipster-haired youngsters. But, I am not related to said youngsters and don't feel the need to support anyone who decides ... More >>

Today In Music News: Aldrin Raps, Jacko Gets Another Video Game and Jeff Buckley Releases A New Song

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 25, 2009... The music world is getting some new music from an unlikely source: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Joining the second man on the moon? Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli and Soulja Boy. Michael Jackson is in talks to release a video game that l ... More >>

Today in Music News: ScoJo Keeps Singing, Metallica Cop Fans Are Pissed, and Miley Cyrus Loves Maiden

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 28, 2009... Scarlett Johansson remains dead set on adding "singer" to her resume: She has now covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the soundtrack for He's Just Not That Into You. You know the movie your girlfriend ... More >>

Shine On: My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden Brings It Back Home

Cold War Kids Get by on Bravado

On stage, Cold War Kids ooze with confidence. In the real world, they’d rather stay out of trouble.

Last Night: Dan Dyer at Bend Studio

As Tall as Lions

Saturday, June 7, at House of Blues Cambridge Room

Good Wine, Good Records

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Gorge yourself on the good stuff

Bird on a Wire

IM'ing—the new criticism

Apostle of Hustle

National Anthem of Nowhere (Arts&Crafts)

The 411 on The 111

Just Let Her Go

What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Lord Henry

Thursday, July 6, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Odds & Ends

Baby, we got them House of Blues blues

Spune Christmas

Sunday, December 12, at Gypsy Tea Room

Odds & Ends

Rock Lottery, rock for charity and rock GoGirls-style

Paradise Found

The Velvet Teen might have been stars. They'd rather be a great band.

Mr. Misery

Elliott Smith officially becomes his generation's Nick Drake

Maroon 5 and Gavin DeGraw

October 4

Beauty and the Beat

Aria ready for Renée Fleming?

Chris Lee

July 26

The New Boss?

Pete Yorn on Bruce, bongs and “Burrito”

Badly Drawn Boy

Have You Fed the Fish? (ARTISTdirect/XL Recordings)

Multiple Artists

Our writers clean out the CD bin

Starsailor

Love is Here (Capitol)

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

Pete Yorn

musicforthemorningafter (Columbia)

Dynamic Duo

With playwright Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik sidesteps his usual breezy pop

Blind Man's Bluff

Six things you have to hear

Scene, Heard

Smirnoff sucks them in; The Rocket Summer waits 'til fall; Jeff Buckely's mom; North Texas Music Festival jab; Plus, much, much more

Amazing grace

Three years after his death, Jeff Buckley continues to build a mystery with a new live collection

Under the radar

Flickerstick might be one of the most popular bands in the area, even if no one has heard of it

Out There

Roadshows

Scene, not heard

A few clubs and a few bands do not a "music town" make

He wants to freak you

Jeff Buckley tries to make pop music you've never heard before