Jefferson Airplane

Dallas Rocks

War in peace

Skip Spence recorded one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a tribute album is giving him life again.

The straight dope

Playing it safe is all the rave for kids seeking peace, love, and ecstasy

Reviews

Playing it safe is all the rave for kids seeking peace, love, and ecstasy

Scene, not heard

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

Fight the power

Reprise Records president defends the rights of his artists against the Right and the wrong

Heart-shaped box

Velvet Underground set charts the still-unknowable

Honestly asinine

Jim Carrey returns to what he does best in Liar Liar--mostly pointless inanity

Events for the week

Jim Carrey returns to what he does best in Liar Liar--mostly pointless inanity

More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album

Various artists (Birdman Records)

The Summer After

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

Dinosaur Jr. Still Avoiding Celebrity

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

Try a Little Tenderness

Relive the Summer of Love at the AllGood

Pop Quiz

Failure isn't an option

Of Claws and Loins

Steve Fields is steak-and-lobsteriffic

Blue's Clues

Blue Man Group started as a joke. It's not as funny anymore.

Wave On

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its stars

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

Space is the Place

Miranda Lee Richards opens up with a stellar debut

It's Only Rock & Roll

Gimme Shelter

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

Out There

Broadcast

Apocalypse then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Thompson's twins

Three decades later and smarter, Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson holds a mirror up to his first freakout

On The Range: Burritos

Kvanhorn, via FlickrOn The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.San Francisco in the mid-1960's. Peace, love, and cable cars. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you were into music, you could go to the Avalon Ballroom or Bill Graham's Fillmore Wes ... More >>

North of the Dial

Kvanhorn, via FlickrOn The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.San Francisco in the mid-1960's. Peace, love, and cable cars. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you were into music, you could go to the Avalon Ballroom or Bill Graham's Fillmore Wes ... More >>

Your Second Friday (Acid) Flashback: A Saturday in the Life of KNUS, Ads Included

KNUS99.com​We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you'll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon's FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 -- some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig? The best part: the ... More >>

Cannes Wrap-up: The Cannes crew picked a true winner, but the best of the fest wasn't even allowed to compete

KNUS99.com​We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you'll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon's FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 -- some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig? The best part: the ... More >>

Staff Trax: Roadside Graves, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimi Hendrix, Little Dragon, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Alice in Chains, Fan Death and Beth Orton

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

The Primary

Days Among Giants (Self-released)

Q&A: DJ Shadow Talks Hip-Hop's Past, The Internet's Present and Music's Future

DJ Shadow​Long hailed as one of the untouchable patriarchs in the storied past of hip-hop royalty, producer, DJ, and vinyl archivist DJ Shadow has been responsible for some of the most innovative music that the genre has seen over the course of his nearly 20-year career. These days, having not rel ... More >>

From 1971, Supreme Court Justice Douglas's Thoughts on DPD's Raid of Burns's Dallas Notes

​That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns's Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within, on Page 3, is a story headlined ... More >>

From 40 Years Ago, The Other Dallas News

​A few days ago I was offered at a rather reasonable price a small but estimable stash of local relics, dating as far back as a thick, musty scrapbook of 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition newspaper clippings that belonged to Otto Herald, its general manager. (We'll get to that, oh, next week -- and ... More >>

Sundown, the New Bar at the Granada, is Open (Photos)

All Photos by Catherine Downes​Sundown at Granada, owned and operated by Granada Theater owner Mike Schoder and girlfriend Julia Garton, opened its doors yesterday in what used to be M Street Bar. The once dingy and abrasively painted red and black interior has been transformed by earth tones ... More >>