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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 >>

B.B. King Gave the House of Blues His Picks, His Bracelets and a Holy Blues Masterpiece: Review

"Electrifying," "Magnetic," "Memorable" are just some of the words that people used to describe an evening with B.B. King at the House of Blues in Dallas. His sophisticated style of soul-wrenching guitar playing inspired tears of joy and calls of "Amen," "Preach it, brother" and "Oh Lord, I'm coming ... More >>

The Seven Sexiest Guitars

If there's one thing that starts a guitarist's heart thumping, it's the heat from the fretboard as his or her fingers slide across the strings. It's a sordid love affair that leaves fans screaming for more, and the guitarist's soul longing for more. In fact, B.B. King loved his $30 guitar so much t ... More >>

From the Archives: A Great Old Photo of Gale Hess and Cafe Noir, Along With a Soundtrack

​Many have asked since yesterday if there will be a memorial of some kind for Gale Hess. Today I was told: No, not yet. There will be a small service for family and close friends, and there may be something else down the road. But, I was told, it will be at least a month away. Said a family member ... More >>

Say Farewell to Cafe Noir's Gale Hess, Who Made Some Extraordinarily Beautiful Music

Word began to spread late last night: Gale Hess, said friends, died two days ago. Cancer is to blame, say those who've been close in recent years. Gale was young -- young enough to have been first violinist in the W.T. White Symphony Orchestra in 1973, at least. And she was among the most talented m ... More >>

Tiptoe Through This Sneak Peek at Big Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Doc Featuring Tiny Tim

The Dallas Video Festival, now in its 24th year, makes it bow September 21 with a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme at the Texas Theatre, which will be immediately followed by a sequel of sorts to Richard Linklater's Slacker. The full schedule's here, and, of course, we'll have more in ... More >>

Empty House? Perhaps It's Time To Chuck Pandora and Check Your Play List.

Flickr user Heather Clemons​Picture this. You've just sat down at one of Dallas' fine dining establishments. Your date looks stunning. The service is cordial. Wine is delivered. And then a sumptuous basket of bread. You use a butter knife to shave some beautifully salted butter and ... "Hey ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Clapton, Beck & Page's Reunion at Reunion in Nov. '83

​This work-week ender is a double-header -- two nights in November 1983, back-to-back benefits for the great Ronnie Lane, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1976. It was Lane himself who came up with the benefits, held beneath the banner of Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis -- ... More >>

Q&A: Eels Frontman Mark Oliver Everett Talks Writing Albums While Horny and Being a Rockstar

For the four-year period between 2005 and 2009 Mark Oliver Everett didn't release any new material with his alt-rock outfit Eels. But it didn't mean he was resting on his laurels. Quite the opposite, actually, as the privilege of hindsight reveals it as one of the truly prolific periods of his care ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Led Zeppelin's Gonna Groove at Memorial in 1970

Via.Click to embiggen if you want to remember laughter. Or Minsky's Music.​For those playing along at home, this long-weekend's offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we've time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in '69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny ... More >>

Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum To Hold Grand Opening on Valentine's Day With Some Help From The Tom Tom Club and The O's.

​Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett's Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday -- Valentine's Day, which, in case you've somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February 14.A ... 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 >>

Listomania: 10 Signs You're a Closet Dave Matthews Band Fan

Is this poster in your room right now? You're all in, dude.​The Superpages.com Center is pretty busy this weekend. Rockstar Energy Drinks' UPROAR Fest featuring Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold is tonight, the JoBros and Demi Lovato take over the place on Sunday, and, on Saturday, Dave Matthews Ban ... More >>

Jeff Beck

Sunday, April 25, at the Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

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 >>

Another Stairway

Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs

Axe Men

It Might Get Loud

A Case For Air Guitar

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

Echoes & Reverberations: Van Halen’s “Almost Infamous”

Buddy Guy with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Thursday, April 17, at House of Blues

Pantera's "Walk" Has the No. 12 Riff Of All Time

Zofo A La DSO

Black Crowes, Son Volt, Cross Canadian Ragweed

Sunday, September 2, Fort Worth Stockyards

Your Time Is Gonna Come

Livin' and lovin' maybe, but don't call them maids

Lez Zeppelin

Thursday, July 5, at House of Blues

Groovy, Far Out and Monkee Business

Heaven in Fort Worth

FWSO's songs do not remain the same

Various Artists

One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found (Rhino)

CD Source

We pick out the best undiscovered albums so that you don't have to

Save Yourself

Separate the "crap" from the "gold" at the Rock 'n' Roll RedemptionSale

Debate Team

Strung Up

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

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

Autograph Hound

Buy some music memorabilia and help out a good cause

The White Stripes

Elephant (V2)

Scene, heard

Bluh; Pleasant Grove in Germany; The Early Line; Trees turns 10; Rubber Gloves gets wet; And so much more

Out There

Morphine

Out Here

Absolute perfection

Reed Easterwood's record is one of the year's best. Good luck finding it

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Out There

God help him

Vanilla Ice, hip-hop's trivia answer, wants to prove he's still cool--but was he ever?

'Kill him again, he's not dead yet'

Memories of Ronnie Lane, 1946-1997

Off the record

After seven wacky years, 14 Records prepares to close its doors

Sweet cesspool

Filmmaker and scandal-monger Kenneth Anger might be the grandfather of America's tabloid culture

Beavis' older brother

A portrait of Megadeth's Dave Mustaine as a lonely young man