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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 >>

Jeff Liles Tells Stories From Dallas' Past and Looks to its Bright Creative Future

There it is. Nestled in South Dallas, rescued by caring souls of our local arts. The beacon that is The Kessler. A majestic Texas juke joint, pampered with TLC and vision that only a handful of true music fans could bring. The Kessler (or rather, "The Kessler X " as our subject refers to it) is o ... More >>

Local Independent Record Vendors are Rooting for the Underdogs

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. Similarities emerged at CD Source and Good Records this week with top artists reaching high sa ... More >>

How The Atomic Tanlines Went From Church Choir to Crawling Around in Broken Glass

The Atomic Tanlines received plenty of praise last year with their blend of punk, free jazz and soul. The Denton-based five-piece sat down with us at the Waffle House where they started to discuss their background in music. You can catch them this week at Le Bitch Manor on Thursday and at Dada on Sa ... More >>

Babb Bros. BBQ and Blues: Going a Bridge too far for Brisket

Where does this bridge even go? Why does it have so many names? Is this how I get on the bridge? Why is it so fancy while being a portal to the middle of nowhere? What the hell is the speed limit? Is this a freeway, or a bridge? These are just some of the important questions that I was tackling as ... More >>

Fedoras and $12 Drinks Don't Make the Bar

It's a relatively quiet Wednesday night at Deep Ellum's newest watering hole, Swallow Lounge (double entendre or just a hastily chosen name? You be the judge). I take a seat at the empty bar lined with bright red vinyl stools. Above the bar, back-lit swallows -- those little birds that adorn collarb ... More >>

Mike Doughty Talks Getting Off Drugs and Getting On With His Solo Career

​As the leader of Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty made a name for himself as a songwriter with a penchant for jazz grooves and stream-of-consciousness poetry. Too bad feuding amongst Doughty and the rest of the band over songwriting credit and other issues brought an end to Soul Coughing after jus ... More >>

Last Night's Wilco Show Served to Remind: Fair Park Music Hall Ain't Bad For a Concert

​I won't horn in on the music blog's review of last night's Wilco-Nick Lowe show in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Seems about right to me, though the first-timer can't appreciate the giddy shock of hearing A.M. standard "Passenger Side" slid into that short, sharp, shard-filled set list that seemed ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Roky and the 13th Floor Elevators Were Sump'n Else

Via.​Bud Buschardt has spent the last several years writing a book I've always wanted to read: a history of the Sump'n Else show, the Ron Chapman-hosted rock-and-roll dance party shot at NorthPark Center that aired on WFAA from September 1965 till January 1968 and featured performances from the li ... More >>

Lenny White of Return to Forever: "Anything That Is Great Will Last An Eternity."

Along with Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea's Return to Forever brought jazz music to a rock audience. And though the "jazz fusion" label seemed to piss off the purists, Corea and the other talented musicians didn't mind the increased profile and accompanying profits. Nearly ... More >>

Here's a Cure for the Summertime Blues: The Who at Memorial Auditorium on July 23, 1967

Via.​Earthquake. "Today may end up being the coolest day thru the middle of the upcoming week." Sun storms. "U.S. drought may persist for another year." Pastor Perry.But, amidst all that awful news, there's this reprieve posted just Thursday: "The Who - Live at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, 23 July ... More >>

The Ten Best-Selling Musical Soundtracks

Hook 'em.​Today marks a milestone of sorts: On July 8, 1958, the RIAA issued its very first gold record. The recipient of this gold record? The Oklahoma! soundtrack. Not as exciting as other music being produced at the time, but, hey, people liked it. And people bought it. Musical soundtracks we ... More >>

Critics' Pick: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Thursday, April 28, at South Side Music Hall

Q&A: Warpaint's Theresa Wayman Wonders Why There Aren't More All-Girl Rock Bands

In 2008, Los Angeles noise pop quartet Warpaint released their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse, an effort that earned the band massive amounts of attention -- enough so that the band was asked to open for several high-profile acts, including Akron/Family and the nationally sold-out tour from The xx. Now, ... More >>

Dallas, An "American Icon"

​On Christmas Eve afternoon, radio-radio's Julia Barton stopped by the offices to interview Schutze and me for an episode of Public Radio International's Studio 360, which is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Barton had been tasked with doing a piece on Dallas as part of the show's "American Icons" series, ... More >>

Listomania: Top Five Musician National Anthem Fails

Honestly, "The Star-Spangled Banner" can be a beating even when performed in a competent manner. Only a select few have ever really knocked it out of the park -- Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Jose Feliciano, etc. -- and most of them had to change up the song considerably to do so. Your average pop mu ... More >>

ACL 2010 So-Far Superlatives: The Best Performers, Songs and Movements of Days One and Two.

Here we are, final morning of Austin City Limits, and we're getting all wistful and whatnot. It's a busy day ahead filled with North Texas connections like whoa: 15-year-old Dallas-born fiddle wunderkind Ruby Jane kicks the entire day off with her 11:15 a.m. set; Midlake will somehow have to physica ... More >>

Q&A: Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule Shares His Thoughts on Turning 50, Jimi Hendrix, David Allan Coe and More

​Besides being ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, Warren Haynes is also one bad mother on stage.But, off stage, the Allman Brothers/Gov't Mule guitarist turned out to be a pretty affable guy who spoke quite eloquently about a number of subjects--beginning with wha ... More >>

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

Cocktail Christ

The Magnolia Bar hosts Black Jesus

Heat Rave

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

Q&A: Blues and Rock Guitarist Rocky Athas

A Metal Monument, Or: Trying to Build a Bronze Statue of Dimebag Darrell

Metal Monument, Literally

Che Guevara's Hair Sells for $119,000 to Houston Man Who Loves to Shop

Prince

Planet Earth (Sony/BMG)

Make My Funk Tha P-Funk

George Clinton still wants to get funked up

Oops!

Sometimes we screw up. So sue us.

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Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives

Deep Art

Deep Ellum comes alive in the daylight

Strung Up

CMH Records is having a classical gas with every band, like, ever

Who Is Chip Taylor?

Songwriter, gambler, musician, legend

Robert Randolph & the Family Band

March 28

North Mississippi Allstars

51 Phantom (Tone-Cool)

Various Artists

Chitlin Circuit Soul (Rhino Records)

Look Ahead

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

Tortoise

Standards (Thrill Jockey)

Out & About

Prince

Hijinks at Trees

Long-overdue debuts

Cardboard tombstones

In the wake of the Ellington 100, lesser zombie boxed sets walk among us

Will success spoil Junior?

An ax to grind

Roadshows

Black Maria, Don't You Cry

Mary Cutrufello's music is full of country heartache. But Texas' most unlikely honky-tonk star is about to become her own boss.

Goldfingers

Why the classical world is sending love letters to Dallas guitarist Carlo Pezzimenti

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone

Out Here

Out Here

Out there

Letters