Jimi Hendrix

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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 was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

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 >>

Don't String Me Along

Texas Psychedelic Trailblazers The Moving Sidewalks Reunite After 40 Years

Chelsea Light Moving is This Week's Top Sell in Dallas 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. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is still ma ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix Plays Memorial Auditorium: A Recording From 1969 and A Poster from '70

​One of the best photos we've ever posted to Unfair Park was this February 16, 1968, snapshot of Angus Wynne and Jimi Hendrix taken at Love Field, shortly before Dallas experienced the man and his band at the Fair Park Music Hall. That picture, of course, accompanied an audience recording of the J ... More >>

All-Time Top Five: Testament's Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick Give A Metal History Lesson

Testament​Berkeley's Testament has now been shredding for almost three decades. Just the fact that they're still making quality examples of the style they helped usher in says a great deal about the group's artistic character. Sure, as is the case with just about every other band that's stayed rel ... More >>

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Talks His Band's Legacy, Plus Grunge's Revival and Future.

Kim Thayil​With the 20th anniversary edition of Nevermind being released earlier this year -- and with the subsequent buzz it churned -- it would seem we are on the brink of a full-blown grunge resurgence. But what is being somewhat overlooked in all the Nirvana hype is that the early '90s Seattle ... More >>

Nude Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Statue's Sculptor Tells Us The Motivation For His Piece

"Justin and Selena as One."​The announcement yesterday from 46-year-old Connecticut-based sculptor Daniel Edwards -- that he'd created a (mostly) nude sculpture of teenage music superstars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, and that it would soon be put on public display in an adult store right here ... More >>

At Mission Of Burma's First Reunion Show, They Sold Out a Venue They Were Originally Banned From

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. Mission Of Burma​Roger Miller sings and plays guitar for a band that might have been forgotten about years ago. Luckily, Mission of ... More >>

Hard Rock Celebrates 40th Anniversary With Michael Jackson's Old Stuff

​FYI: The Hard Rock Cafe totally still exists. Believe it or not, we actually have one here in Dallas. And, on Saturday, the chain dedicated to rock 'n' roll history, iconic t-shirts and overpriced bar food is celebrating 40 years in the biz. According to the note we just got from the Hard Rock fo ... More >>

Iconic '60s Artist Peter Max Talks Taylor Swift, Jimi Hendrix and Bridging The Generational Gap

Peter Max's representations of Taylor Swift's Speak Now and Fearless.​In his 73 years, Peter Max has watched the inter-generational shift of modern music begin as a segment of counterculture and eventually become a staple of mainstream consciousness. And, this past weekend, at the Wisby-Smith Fine ... More >>

Q&A: John McLaughlin Talks Miles Davis, Indian Philosophy and Frank Zappa's Jealousy

At 68, legendary guitarist John McLaughlin has nothing left to prove. He's played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. And, as leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the '70s, McLaughlin created a bold new fusion of jazz, rock and Indian influences that remains some of the most challenging ... More >>

My First Show: The Posies' Jon Auer Saw Jimi Hendrix--Sort Of

Welcome to a new feature here on DC9 called 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. Julian Ochoa ​ Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow have (save for a couple years apart) kept The Posi ... More >>

Buzzing Over The Brews At Buzzbrews

Jesse Hughey​Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials. Where: Buzzbrews, 4334 Lemmon Ave., 214-521-4334 When: All day Monday, 3 to 7 p.m. ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Jimi Hendrix on Fire at the Fair Park Music Hall

Photo Taken by Chris Campbell Turner/Courtesy Angus Wynne​When I first met Angus Wynne some 20 years ago, when I was at the Dallas Times Herald, this photo was on his desk -- a most impressive introduction. I remember asking him: "Were you friends with Jimi Hendrix?" But I didn't remember his answ ... More >>

Today In Music News: You Can Soon Play Like Jimi, She & Him Headlines And Sebastian Bach's A Crime Fighter?

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 17, 2010...Rock Band is coming out with a Jimi Hendrix edition.  Sweet, more white dudes tryin' to play like Jimi...She & Him is heading across the pond for their first ever headlining show in England. Here's a novel idea, how ... More >>

Conversions with God (aka Lemmy)

Today In Music News: Pink Thinks Kanye Is A Waste, Pearl Jam Hooks Up With Target, And Jimi's Manager Did It... Allegedly

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 2, 2009... Pink thinks Kanye West is a "waste of skin" because he likes fur. Along with independent music retailers, Pearl Jam is going to let Target be the official point-of-purchase for its upcoming release. Way to fight the man, boys ... More >>

Bonus MP3: The Kül -- "We Can Live"

In last week's paper, I reviewed The Kül's new release Soul 4 Gold, a disc that blends a whole mishmash of funk, psychedelic and even stoner rock influences into a disc that, at various points throughout its listen, recalls Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Prince, Gnarls Barkley, TV On The Radio and Lenny ... More >>

The Kül

Soul 4 Gold (Rare Image)

He's The Guy

Once and for All, Was Jimmy Hendrix Mexican?

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

The Summer After

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

Wild Bill

Frisell shows off in Cowtown

Rock St-art

We KLUV our art shows

Holy Diver Fired for Being 'Too Awesome'

Your Wildest Dreams

Fort Worth gets Moody

Smothered in Cool

These Brothers are truly legendary

Try a Little Tenderness

Relive the Summer of Love at the AllGood

Doors to Nirvana

Jimi, Janis, Jim and Kurt haunt the Granada

On the Download

Some of the best music of 2006 wasn't exactly officially released (wink, wink)

Chopper Fooey

4050 skips the chophouse boilerplate

Wolfmother

Night Riders

Local musicians play Cupid, offer sexy song suggestions for V-Day

Walking the Line

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

Dallas Observer's top DVD picks for the week of September 15

Johnny A.

Thursday, December 2

Train Kept A-Rollin'

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

Los Lonely Boys

December 27

Robert Plant

Dreamland (Universal)

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

SRV (Epic Records/Legacy)

Don't Touch My Jimi!

Belonging only to history

Jimi Hendrix

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Pickin' a winner

CMH Records has given '80s faves a musical makeover, whether you like it or not

Out There

Cry tough

Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there

Goin' through them changes

The slow healing of Buddy Miles

Roadshows