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Ten Concerts We Can't Forget in 2012

Ten of the Best Concerts of 2012

There were too many great performances this year, in venues big and small, by acts local and national, to thoroughly cover within the confines of a blog post. This year's DOMA showcase (self-indulgence alert!) provided some transcendent local sets, we had a wealth of great festival acts to consider, ... More >>

This Is Not a Love Song: Thoughts on Fun Fun Fun Fest 7

Fun Fun Fun Fest Auditorium Shores Friday, November 2-Sunday, November 4 In its seventh year, Fun Fun Fun Fest has settled into a very curious meta place. Standing in a crowd at any one of the four stages, you were often watching a show via someone's iPhone or iPad. That Terrence Malick has been f ... 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 >>

Top Five Schedule Conflicts at Fun Fun Fun Fest

Headlined by reunited legends like X, Run-D.M.C. and Public Image Ltd, this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest has a little something for the older folks, as well as the young. With that much talent over three days, there are bound to be some tough decisions between stages. Here are a few scheduling conflic ... More >>

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon Is A Free Man

Public Image Ltd's John Lydon On The Election: "It's Two Blokes Fighting Over A Polished Leather Chair"

Since fronting the Sex Pistols in the mid-'70s and branding the nascent punk rock genre with its promise of "No Future," John Lydon, once known as Johnny Rotten, has appeared on Judge Judy, hosted a show on VH1 and used his name and face in commercials for Country Life butter. Yes, those butter comm ... More >>

Ten Fall Concerts You'd Be Crazy To Miss

Ten of the Best Fall Concerts

See also: Six of the summer's best concerts With this recent open-window weather comes the pitter-patter of the fall concert season, tugging at our sleeve and asking us to pleeeaaase hold it. There's plenty to teethe on in Dallas over the next three or four months, including bigger festivals like ... More >>

The Top Ten DFW Punk Albums

See also: The top 10 North Texas blues albums See also: The top 100 Texas songs The Telefones, Vibration Change Released in 1980, this album is more punk in spirit than execution. Songs like "Rocket Rocket" and "The Ballad of Jerry Godzilla" fuse punk rock's oomph with a new wave sensibility. Th ... More >>

Nine of This Week's Show Announcements: Public Image Ltd, Why?, The Sea and Cake and More

Public Image LtdThursday, November 1, at Granada TheaterBefore the group hits Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dallas gets its own intimate show. It will be cool to see what John Lydon does best: walk around the stage in clown pajamas.

Last Night: Sundress and Final Club at DC9's Locals Only!

Better than: whatever you were doing on a Thursday night. These bands were way cooler than those CSI reruns. Sundress​Last night's Locals Only! show at Jack Daniel's Saloon, put on by, well, us, showcased a couple of up-and-coming Denton bands that managed to put on an impressive show in spit ... More >>

There's One Borders Left in Dallas. If a Savior Doesn't Step Up Tuesday, There May Be Zero.

Courtesy Paula BosseByron Nelson signing copies of his 1993 book at the Preston Royal Borders​A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Centra ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: God Save the Longhorn Ballroom From the Sex Pistols

Via.​Seeing as how C.J. Ramone's in town tonight, I'd hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password's "gle-gle.blogspot.com," if you're so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in ... More >>

Not Donkeying Around, George Gimarc's Laughing It Up With His Latest Radio Format

George Gimarc, like you didn't know​Almost four years ago, the great George Gimarc introduced us to his then-latest rock and roll alternative: a would-be syndicated format called Radio SASS, which stood for "Short Attention Span System" -- as in, no song lasted lasted longer than two minutes. Said ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Keith Emerson and Greg Lake at The Granada Theater

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake Granada TheaterApril 30, 2010(Barely) better than: Listening to ELP's three-album live set Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends over and over.Two-thirds of these dudes played the Granada on Friday.​Let's get one thing straight: As a kid, I liked Emerson, ... More >>

Gig Alert: Derek Comley and the Bastard Sons of Rock n Roll Tonight at the Absinthe Lounge

Derek Comley​While looking for something to do tonight, I stumbled upon the MySpace for local act Derek Comley and the Bastard Sons of Rock n Roll. Intrigued by the band's self-description as "new wave, neo-soul, post-punk," I listened to the available songs and found myself wanting more.Seems Com ... More >>

For Once, The Psychedelic Furs Are Happy

My Punk Rock Dreams Are Shattered: Johnny Rotten Pitches Butter Now.

Downright Filthy

The Inwood has an armory of Sex Pistols

Gimarc Has Another Alternative

Public Image Ltd.

Metal Box (4 Men with Beards)

Freak Scene Revisited

Looking at America

Flogging Molly's Dave King left Ireland for a career in rock, but he couldn't escape his roots

Joe Strummer Revisited

Two long-lost reissues shed light on a punk icon.

Buzzed

SXSW 2005: The crowds, the hype bands and all the Shiner Bock you can drink

Pattern Recognition

Mapping out the trends of 2005

Refuse to Lose

Musician Christy Darlington could have—and perhaps should have—quit years ago. So why didn't he?

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Wheying the Options

Why are there so many cheeses?

Fall Away

Meadows opens a somber season

'Cocks, Rock

Buzzcocks still kick ace, in case you've forgotten

Democracy Inaction

Rotgut responses to questions from the discard pile

The Rebel's Waltz

For 10 years, Joe Strummer made little noise. Finally, the Clash front man returns with a record he can call his own.

Adam and the Ants

Antbox (Columbia Records, UK)

Young guns

Julien Temple and The Sex Pistols set their record straight in The Filth and the Fury

Punk You

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

Gadzooks

Junk rock

George Gimarc and an ex-Pistol make for some Rotten Television

Crash and burn

How two different filmmakers have spent eight years trying to film the story of punk legend Darby Crash--and why nobody likes the idea

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

In the gutter

Penelope Spheeris wallows in the Decline of Western Civilization one more time

Out There

Where water tastes like wine

Roadshows

Out There

Hope you die before we get old

Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

All punk cons

Riot Squad breathes old life into a rotting corpse

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

Roadshows