Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake Is Coming to Dallas: Presale and Ticket Information

Update, 5/13: As of 11:30, or an hour and a half into the regular on-sale, there are still plenty of tickets available. Our searches included hits for tickets nearly on the floor, toward the back of the arena, for $197 (!!) and some at the lowest price point, which is $68 (including fees). That seem ... More >>

Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban, Devin the Dude and More Top Show Announcements

Yesterday we unleashed the beast of information that is Justin Timberlake coming to town. For those of you who are fans and who haven't yet heard, commence pants-shitting. Now on to other business! Let's not forget about Alpha Rev, Devin the Dude and more; specifically Josh Groban, who has been keep ... More >>

The Power of Dallas: Erykah Badu Gives Tyler a Bump and Bill's Old Friend Makes the White House

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. Tyler, The Creator features several artists on his new album, and according to CD Source owne ... 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 >>

Don't Feel Guilty About Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience

Fuck me, I am going to overdose on this new Justin Timberlake album. I know that I'm supposed to be ashamed of certain selections in my album collection. I know this from all of the times that people have looked through my CDs or records or iTunes and been all, "Hey, what's this doing here?" before ... More >>

The Nine Worst Things About SXSW

This year, Dallas Observer music blog DC9 at Night and Houston Press music blog Rocks Off teamed up to bring you dispatches from the SXSW madness. Here are the nine worst things we saw. See also: -There's an App to Get You Laid at SXSW, But You Absolutely Don't Need the Help -The 50 Commandments of ... More >>

Justin Timberlake and Kanye West's Feud And Avoiding Famous-Guy Backlash

The foundation of Justin Timberlake's fame--broad-based and consistent and weirdly resistant to automatic internet backlash--is that it came, originally, from looking this ridiculous, and he seems to accept that. That's the only thing I can come up with to explain just how many people I heard talkin ... More >>

Alan Light's new book explains how Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" went from obscurity to ubiquity

Justin Timberlake "Suite & Tie" is a Boring Rehash

The last month in music news has been a bit of a time machine, with the likes of David Bowie, Destiny's Child and Justin Timberlake promising to dominate the music universe in 2013. Even without a single, you could sense the collective yearning building up across the Internet in reaction to Timberl ... More >>

Ten Movie Moments That Were Made By The Music

Last week saw the limited release of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and the director is currently receiving the type of media love reserved for those who rarely misstep and whose work is hailed as classic the moment it's released. What's always interested me about Anderson is his ability to perf ... More >>

Five Ways To Deal With a Budding Music Snob

See also: Ten songs to accompany very specific dorm-room scenarios If I am going to be honest, I think snobs get kind of a bad wrap. Pretension aside, fans who have a critical ear and high standards are good for the medium. And when two music snobs get together, it can make for a great back and fo ... More >>

Duran Duran, Neon Trees

Thursday, October 6, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Five Music Shows We Wish MTV Still Aired

​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

Watch: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Take Us Through "The History of Rap 2"

​While we're waiting for a story to come in, here's yet another hilarious collaboration from Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon. It's no "Barry Gibb Talk Show," but it's still pretty brilliant. And there are some local ties. The two roll over a few seconds of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," and "Tea ... More >>

Ten Career Suggestions for Justin Timberlake, Since He's No Longer That Interested In Music

"I'm totally posting this on Myspace later."​The word has gotten around quickly: Justin Timberlake was indeed among the investors that bought a stake in floundering social networking site Myspace this week. According to the press release from Specific Media, Timberlake's partners in this ventur ... More >>

Bad Teacher and the Downside of Equal Rights in Hollywood

Going SoBro: Like Nick Before Him, Joe Jonas Goes Solo, Releases Debut Single "See No More"

​So, this morning, Joe Jonas, after months of threatening to do so, released the lead single off his upcoming full-length album, which is pertinent news to us here in Dallas because, like seemingly every other Disney-backed teen star of the post-millennium, the middle JoBro's family calls the Dall ... More >>

The Black Angels Tell Us That "Entrance Song" Isn't About Dallas. But It Was Written Here.

The Black Angels​ There's a definite aesthetic at play with Austin-based psych rockers The Black Angels -- a droney, swirling sheen present in almost everything the band does. It's very much intentional: Vocalist Alex Maas doesn't like to say that his band is in the music industry so much as he li ... More >>

Janet Jackson

Saturday, April 2, at the Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie

The Oscars: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Funny, but I don't think Justin Timberlake is Banksy. Is he? 9. As far as early-year Super Bowls of industries go, give me football (Super Bowl), followed by music (Grammys), auto racing (Daytona 500) and movies (Oscars). 8. Original score? Original song? Sound mixing? Sound editing? En ... More >>

So There Are Celebrities in Town: A Round-Up of Some Famous Faces on Super Party Circuit

All photos WireImageAshton Kutcher, Demi Moore and noted comedy genius Justin Timberlake at the Rachovsky House​Woke up this morning to find some last-night souvenirs in the in-box -- some, from the Audi Forum at the Rachovsky House on Preston and Northwest Highway, which the car-maker's taken ove ... More >>

Yogi Bear: More Dimensions Than Your Average Bear

The Problem With... Mike Posner's "Please Don't Go"

It seems that Duke's new mascot has a new single out, begging you not to go. The last we heard of Mike was his angsty single "Cooler Than Me." We learned from the track that he thinks no one deserves to be cooler than him... or something like that. The raspy-voiced graduate returned to the char ... More >>

Delorean, Lemonade, Florene

Friday, November 5, at Hailey's Club, Denton

At 93.3 FM, Cumulus Has Gone Off a KLIF

Yes, but will we see the return of these klassic kollections?​Late yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested that Cumulus Media's going to rebrand 93.3 on Your FM Dial as a pop-40 station -- as in, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas. Maybe so. But this much is (almost) certain: Sooner th ... More >>

Today In Music News: TLC Is Reuniting... Kinda, The Cranberries Reunites And Bob Dylan Possibly Has A New Second Career

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 26, 2009... What's left of TLC--Chilli and T-Boz--will perform with Justin Timberlake in Las Vegas. You gotta wonder how they're going to work out Left Eye's parts... With the '90s music revival gaining steam, I guess it only makes sense ... More >>

Easy There, Jessica

Today In Music News: Britney Tweets, 50 Cent Drinks, Lance Bass Dreams and Kelly Clarkson Beams

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 6, 2009... Someone hacked into Britney Spears' Twitter account to let the world know that her cooter is four feet wide and has teeth. Yikes! TMI, Brit! 50 Cent has been signed by a liquor company to help market their cognac.&nb ... More >>

It's A Dance-Off!

Justin Time, A Tony Romo Super Bowl Ad (Sort Of)

Duran Duran

Red Carpet Massacre (Epic)

Gay Odyssey with Lance Bass

50 Cent

Curtis (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

K104 Summer Jam

Saturday, June 30, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

T-i-i-i-im-ber!

Justin's love interests just keep taking a fall

This Is Their Brain on Drugs

Cassavetes Jr. and Justin "in a box" Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads

Making Adjustments

What do Justin Timberlake and Thom Yorke have in common?

Be Good Jonny

Yeah, But How Was the Music?

Way Out of Sync

Dillinger Escape Plan, Dysrhythmia

Wednesday, July 19, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Snoop Dogg

R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (Geffen)

Cursive, Saul Williams, Planes Mistaken for Stars and Mike Park

June 9

Look No Further

In 2003, the best was hard to find but easy to hear

Best New CD Store

CD World

Give Peas a Chance

Keepin' it real? The Black Eyed Peas would rather keep it fun.

Oops! (the tour)

July 27

'N Sync

Celebrity (Jive)

Out & About

'N Sync

Pop tarts

'N Sync's Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears live and love at the top of the pops. Or do they?