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N.C.M.'s David Hill Died This Morning

David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill, guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. In the photo above, that's Hill at far left, along with Neal Caldwell and, at the drums, Randy Caldwell. Dennard has known ... More >>

N.C.M.'s David Hill Died This Morning

David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in the competin ... More >>

Ben Kweller On His Own Sound: 'The Mix Of Eagle, Edge and Young Country'

Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father--and says he's eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing Hors ... More >>

Dream a little dream

Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father--and says he's eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing Hors ... More >>

Last Night: Lucinda Williams at the House of Blues

Lucinda WilliamsHouse of BluesFebruary 19, 2009 Better than: sitting on my couch trying to (badly) play Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel" because it has easy chords (as opposed to "Crescent City" which has harder ones). Patrick MichelsWord was that folks at the House of Blues were fairly blue--ti ... More >>

What It Was Like: U-N-I, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Funeral Party, Efterklang, Yelle, The Pack A.D., Bosque Brown, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Bobby Bare Jr.

Patrick Michels Yelle turned her Emo's performance into an all-out dance party on Saturday night.Act: U-N-I, a backpacker hip-hop duo from Inglewood, California.Where: SpeakeasyWhat It Was Like: Stumbling into a nice surprise. There's a high energy feel and definite grittiness to U- ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"

The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>

Would Morrissey Approve of Bands Like Girl in a Coma Who Take Their Names From His Songs?

The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>

Avril Lavigne

The Best Damn Thing (RCA)

Will Rock Band and Guitar Hero Save Us?

Are rocker videogames the new MTV—and will they help us save the music universe?

The Sheena Militia, The Seas

Friday, June 29, at Hailey's, Denton

Indie Women Unite at GoGirls Fest

Friday, June 29, at Hailey's, Denton

Joan Jett Still Loves Rock 'n' Roll

Friday, June 29, at Hailey's, Denton

Ghosthustler Resurrects '80s Synth Beats

Ghosthustler's sound leaves you nostalgic for the future

Imported Talent

Dallas gets invaded

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Missing from the Dallas Scene: You

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Bush-whacker

Peaches gets serious

Wild 'n' Out

The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party

I Hate Sally

Friday, May 18, at the Door

Applicate This!

Five Women From Austin Embrace Punk Rock's Legacy

What Would Kenny Laguna Do?

Joan Jett loses her voice but not her mystique

Ready to Blow

With Terrell Owens, which comes first--the Super Bowl ring or the explosion?

Peaches

Impeach My Bush (XL)

Naked and Androgynous

More than two decades later, Joan Jett still has a few surprises to reveal

Now Dirtier Than Ever

More than two decades later, Joan Jett still has a few surprises to reveal

Various artists

Freaks and Geeks Original Soundtrack and Score (Shout! Factory)

Please Kill Me

The sounds, the sweat, the stink, of SXSW 2004

Bottle the Spin

The "40 best artists making music right now?" Nah.

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

Clem Snide

You Were a Diamond (spinART)

Jimmy Eat World

Bleed American (DreamWorks)

Out & About

Joan Jett

On and on

The Muffs' Kim Shattuck doesn't need a major label to be Alert Today

Heart to hold

Ann and Nancy Wilson aren't a nostalgia act...yet

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Whose Young Turks?

Little Jack recruits some new blood and resurrects the ghost of e.e. cummings

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part I)

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Come, come

The Go-Go's return - again - to finish what they began 15 years ago

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To Tonight's Screening of The Runaways. And A Prize Pack!

So: This weekend marks the release of the rock 'n' roll biopic on The Runaways--called The Runaways, natch--which tells the story of the noted '70s punk rock jailbait act that offered up "Cherry Bomb" to the masses (what's up, Dazed and Confused, soundtrack?) and introduced the word to frontwoman Ch ... More >>

The Runaways: A Rock Biopic with Sex, Drugs and Feminist Thought

So: This weekend marks the release of the rock 'n' roll biopic on The Runaways--called The Runaways, natch--which tells the story of the noted '70s punk rock jailbait act that offered up "Cherry Bomb" to the masses (what's up, Dazed and Confused, soundtrack?) and introduced the word to frontwoman Ch ... More >>

What It Was Like: Here We Go Magic, The Middle East, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Frightened Rabbit and Those Darlins

Night One of SXSW 2010 saw things kick off on quite the bitchin' note--and not just because of the big names. They were around, sure--Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells and Spoon all shared a stage at Stubb's (and a massive line to get in, natch)--but there was plenty else to see without ... More >>