Joan Jett

The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local 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. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

Snoop Dogg's St. Patrick's Day Concert: Review and Photos

Snoop Dogg delivered an hour-plus of his finest yesterday on Greenville Avenue for the Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert. We had a fine contingent of writers there, but I, your highly addled editor, was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-35 on the Megabus headed back from Austin. Throughout t ... More >>

Kaia Bellanca Beggs: "I've Always Been Fascinated by Strong and Wild Front Women."

If you recognize Kaia Bellanca Beggs, it's most likely been from walking through the door at recent Deep Ellum casualty La Grange. Handling the door, and other La Grange duties, was just one of her jobs. Kaia is quite immersed in the local music community and has her own small business doing makeup ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, November 1-4

Kreayshawn Friday, November 2, at The Palladium Ballroom, $17.50 With controversial 23-year-old rapper Kreayshawn's new album out, of course she's hitting the road. She takes the stage at the Palladium to deliver songs from debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay, and hopefully offer something that eclipses the ... More >>

Ume's Lauren Larson on the Band's Future and Getting a Mohawk in the Eye

Might sound like skipping record coming from us, but Austin's Ume is back in town this weekend. And if you've never seen them play, do yourself a favor and see this trio. Frontwoman Lauren Larson, her husband, bassist Eric Larson, and drummer Rachel Fuhrer play the Ambhar Stage on Saturday afternoon ... More >>

Love and a 45: Fate Lions Talk Favorite Wax Tracks

Fort Worth five-piece Fate Lions just dropped a new three-song 7-inch and and are celebrating with a show at the Kessler on Friday. With that in mind, I asked guitarist Jerko Dabelic and singer/guitarist Jason Manriquez about some of their favorite 45s growing up. Jason Manriquez Barry Manilow "A ... More >>

Penny Lazo Works For Universal Records and Gets Celebrities To Pose for Pics With Her Taco.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Penny Lazo. With LMFAO. And a taco. No, the taco isn't real.​Penny Lazo is a DFW-based rep for Universal Records. Despite being very rock 'n' roll in appearance, her main beat is coun ... More >>

Women in (Local) Rock

Good Friday: Memorial Day Weekend Edition!

The Twilight SingersSam Holden​This week, since we won't be around on Monday, we're going to include Monday's shows in this here weekend round-up of sorts. And it just so happens that what may be the biggest show of the weekend is on Monday: The Twilight Singers and Margo & The Nuclear So & ... More >>

Welcome to the Rileys: Kristen Stewart and the Birth of an Anti-Star.

What It Was Like: Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp 2010

​Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp is a chance for musicians to get a crash course in playing in a rock band. Whether your drumming skills are on par with Meg White's or somebody who can play "Pride & Joy" note-for-note in a dark corner of a Guitar Center, the intent of the camp is to become a better ... More >>

Show Announcements: Black Tie Dynasty, Happy Birthday, Sundress, The Black Angels, Deer Hunter, Best Coast, Blitzen Trapper, Better Than Ezra, David Allan Coe, and others

Bill EllisonI can't tell if Black Tie Dynasty is saying hello or goodbye.​I always thought it would be kind of a great idea for a band to only play break-up or reunion shows. Think about it: You can get a lot of people to come to your last concert. And, likewise, when your band gets back together. ... More >>

Picture Show(s): This Music Packed-Party Weekend

Caity ColvardThe Double Wide Had a Pool Party, but not a real pool.​This weekend was particularly warped. Aside from the Hurricane, and the Fourth of July being on the Fifth, and the Vans Warped Tour 2010 bringing sometimes bloody-nosed Andrew W.K. (and more) to Dallas, there was Joan Jett and Bla ... More >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Weekend Roundup: Summer Meltdown, True Colors Tour

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

Will Rock Band and Guitar Hero Save Us?

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

Indie Women Unite at GoGirls Fest

Joan Jett Still Loves Rock 'n' Roll

The Sheena Militia, The Seas

Friday, June 29, at Hailey's, Denton

Wild 'n' Out

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

I Hate Sally

Friday, May 18, at the Door

Avril Lavigne

The Best Damn Thing (RCA)

Or Maybe You Just Listen to Coldplay

Missing from the Dallas Scene: You

Bush-whacker

Peaches gets serious

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

Those Lemony Fresh Scents

Imported Talent

Dallas gets invaded

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

Rivers Runs Dry

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

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.

Clem Snide

You Were a Diamond (spinART)

Out & About

Joan Jett

Whose Young Turks?

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

Reviews

Come, come

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

Reviews