Jerry Lee Lewis

Smokey But No Fire at WaterTower Theatre, While Amphibian's Understudy Underwhelms

DTC Sews Up Its Season with Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Declaring War on the War on the War on the War on the War on Christmas

​Man. I cannot believe it. Just got back in the house. Catching my breath. Had to wade into the crowd out there on the street. Major neighborhood squall. We've been waiting 20 years for the city to patch our street. They have big crews out there now doing it -- and a bang-up job from what I h ... More >>

Last Night: R. Stevie Moore at Hailey's Club in Denton

R. Stevie Moore, Tropical Ooze, Marriage Material, Hares on the MountainHailey's Club, DentonJune 30, 2011Better than: waiting in line to see Santa in the mallChild DetectiveR. Stevie Moore and Tropical Ooze​Last night at Hailey's, R. Stevie Moore really lived up to his reputation. The singe ... More >>

On The King Bucks, and The Importance of Really Connecting With an Audience...

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks​Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They're good lookin'. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don't like 'em and I'll tell you why: Because they don't care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of ... More >>

Lucero's First Show Was Also Guitarist Brian Venable's First On-Stage Performance

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Lucero's Brian Venable​Lucero has played Dallas a few times in recent memory (including our DOMA showcase last year). But they've n ... More >>

Pictures Galore: Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians Reunion, Jerry Lee Lewis at Wildflower and LMFAO at Cuervo Games

Mike Brooks / commiebike.comEdie Brickell​ Down in Blanco this weekend, a rare treat: The New Bohemians -- and, yes, with Edie Brickell -- performed a gig, this one coming as part of a benefit concert held to help raise funds for the Blanco High School Band. And, lucky us, Friend of DC9 Mike Brook ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Wanda Jackson at the Kessler Theater

Wanda Jackson, The King Bucks, LalagrayKessler TheaterFebruary 26, 2011Better than: a normal Saturday night spent with a 73-year-old.Wanda Jackson​ Just before the clock struck 11 on Saturday night, Wanda Jackson sauntered, quite slowly, onto the stage at the Kessler Theater, ushered in by a stand ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of Arizona Dranes

​I've considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we're about out of the good stuff, I fear -- unless you're just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in '82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in '94, which I'd briefly considered last night. ... More >>

Last Night: Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience at The Music Hall at Fair Park

​Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin ExperienceFair Park Music HallNovember 18, 2010Better than: I could have ever expected.Not being a fan of cover or tribute bands, I ventured down to Fair Park Music Hall with quite a bit of trepidation. Sure, Jason Bonham was the son of John Bonham, the (sadly deceased ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

What It Was Like: Twelve More Bands To Close Out SXSW 2010 in Style

Pete FreedmanWashed Out played the Fader Fort on Saturday, backed by Brooklyn's Small Black.​Another year, another grueling sprint to South by Southwest's end--only, this year, well, things seemed a little different than in year's past. Especially on Saturday night.More so than on any previous nig ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To The Gourds Saturday At Lola's Sixth In Fort Worth

​"We're Bill Burroughs meets Jerry Lee Lewis at the funeral of Robert Johnson on the Millennium Falcon piloted by Joe Strummer and Neil Young," says The Gourds' Kevin "Shinyribs" Russell in an interview with William Michael Smith in this week's issue of the print product. He goes on to describe t ... More >>

The Gourds Keep On Keeping On

Different Strokes

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Holy Hump Day, Batman! More Gig Alerts!

The masked men in Hollywood Undead hit the HOB with some friends tonight.Must (still) be SXSW backwash pleasantly infecting our area, as there's quite a bevy of shows on tap for this evening around the region...

Apes

Ghost Games (Gypsy Eyes)

He Sure as Heckfire Remembers You

Country to the Bone

James Hand sings it straight

A Formerly Vibroluxurious Singer, Kim Pendleton's New Band is Totally Worth a Listen...and Looksee, Yessir

Jerry Lee Lewis

Friday, March 30, at Nokia Theater

Call Her Ms. Jackson

Rockabilly queen was more than Elvis' girlfriend

What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Lord Henry

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

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

The White Stripes

Get Behind Me Satan (V2)

All’s Pair

Is wine only for fine dining?

The Late, Great

Ronnie Dawson proved there are indeed second acts in rock and roll

Creep Thrills

The attraction of Thrillvania is horrifying

Holy Roller

Arizona Juanita Dranes died in obscurity, but she is remembered now

Honky-Tonk Heaven

WaterTower Theatre goes country with a sweet, dreamy musical about Patsy Cline

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Hey, Mr. Spaceman

Sun Ra, the prolific progenitor of space-is-the-place jazz, gets more of the reissue treatment

Gave the People What They Had

Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

Out There

Rockabilly Rave-Ups

Ray Charles

You Beta, you bet

The elusive Beta Band turns cuckoo clocks and laser gunshots into definition-dodging sounds that -- somehow -- make perfect sense

Kim Lenz and the Jaguars

The One and Only (Hightone Records)

South by South Austin

The Cornell Hurd Band is in it for the long haul

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Out Here

Legendary stardust cowboy

"Groovy" Joe Poovey dies just as his Greatest Grooves are set for release

Night & Day

October 8 - 14, 1998

Jerry Lee, Dino, and Homer Henderson

The "Amazing One-Man Band" signs on with one of the greatest living American writers

Out Here

Rave on cats, he cried

Carl Perkins, 1932-1998

Events for the week

Back on the bus

HighTone's Roadhouse tour revives rock and roll caravan

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

Dust and wind

Joe Ely sends a sad, beautiful Letter to Laredo

Roll over, Chuck Berry

In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'