Madonna (Entertainer)

How the Super Bowl Halftime Show is Exactly like the Andrews Sisters (Kind Of)

Let me enter these facts into evidence: I enjoy the Super Bowl Halftime Show well enough, and I love the Andrews Sisters. One more: I think the 2013 Super Bowl Halftime Show, featuring the indestructible Beyonce, is liable to be the strongest show in--well, since your favorite of the aging rock star ... More >>

Debauchery, Resurrected

The Most Exciting (Non-Football) Super Bowl Moments!

TEXANS CELEBRATE AMERICA - Neither of the pre-game patriotic performances achieved Whitney Houston-level kudos, but both were delivered tastefully and capably. Lindale's Miranda Lambert did some nice harmonizin' with her hubby on "America the Beautiful," and Burleson's Kelly Clarkson shared her Nati ... More >>

Grimes, Dr. Dog and an Impressive List of Show Announcements

​There are weeks when the show announcements are about as flimsy as a wet persimmon. Fortunately, this is not one of them. For starters, Grimes is coming to town. Her last performance  was a brilliant showing at Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest, in which she wooed the audience with her mix of Madonna's ... More >>

Higher Ground's Passionless Prodigal

Vera Farmiga tentatively tries to build a better role.

Dallas Native Ryan Cabrera Is Back, Promises Press Release Promoting Ryan Cabrera

Ry-guy​ Ryan Cabrera is a dude who was born in the Dallas area who used to date Ashlee Simpson and got signed to her father Joe Simpson's management company and made something of a blip on the national pop culture radar in 2004, when his song "On The Way Down" started blowing up Total Request Live ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Semi Precious Weapons, Scissor Sisters

Monday, March 14, at American Airlines Center

The Problem With... Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"

For every good idea that Lady Gaga has, she also has a bad one. Bad enough, even, to make you reconsider how good the original idea was in the first place.This even applies to her image. Hey, I'm all for creating fantastical characters -- they're inseparable with popular music culture, from Bob Dyla ... More >>

The Problem With... Taio Cruz's "Higher"

Have you ever met any music fans who tell you they only listen to British music? The ones who think British music is superior to North American music? Yeah, they must be pretentious bastards viewing the greener grass on the other side. Yet, in listening to both versions of Taio Cruz's latest dancefl ... More >>

Listen: Play-N-Skillz Samples Madonna's "Holiday" For New Song Featuring Snoop Dogg

​Speaking of local hip-hop bigwigs trying to make the most of Super Bowl weekend, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas production duo Play-N-Skillz released to iTunes yesterday its new single, a song scheduled to come on the brothers Juan and Oscar Salinas' upcoming EP release, Alter Egos. Here's the th ... More >>

Listomania: What Scents Would Be Most Appropriate For The Future Perfumes and Colognes of Today's Biggest Music Icons?

OK, here she probably smelled like blood and semen...​According to fragrance industry insiders, Lady Gaga has requested that Monster, the perfume she is developing, smell of "blood and semen." Frankly, that's a head-scratcher for us -- it sounds more like a Bloodhound Gang scent, or perhaps a Load ... More >>

The Problem With... Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me"

After a quiet 2010 consisting of an appearance in a Glee episode dedicated to her, Britney Spears is wasting no time getting back in the spotlight in 2011. And her first release/leak of this year is a jambalaya of dated electronic sounds hidden behind a chipmunk/Cajun Britney Spears.The song's calle ... More >>

John David Kent and the Dumb Angels: Letting the True Artist Shine Through.

Today In Music News: Billy Ray's Marriage Hits The Skids, Weezer Heart Toni Braxton And Madonna Wants You To Shape Up

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 28, 2010...Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife has filed for divorce from his wife.  I guess that leaves him more time to be Miley's creepy dad.Who knew Rivers Cuomo was such a Toni Braxton fan? Tired of looking in the mirror and thinking ... More >>

The Problem With... Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream."

Oh, joy! Everyone's favorite California girl's got another track on the charts.

Ellis Short Goes Down Sunderland

A Friend of Unfair Park wants to make sure we know that Ellis Short -- co-founder of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, and a bigwig at locally based asset management company Kitano Capital -- is no longer partial owner of the Premier League's Sunderland club (otherwise known as The Black Cats). Nope -- ... More >>

A Different Animal

Polk presents her own Gaza Zoo

The Other Red-Headed Annie

Lennox performs her brand of adult contemporary at McFarlin

Lone Star Funds' Co-Founder Owns a Castle. Everyone Should, Just Once.

"Invisible Sun"? Damn It.

Gwen Stefani

The Great Escape (Interscope)

The Beatdown

Judging by his huge remix portfolio, Junior Vasquez is a house music senior

Big Not-Easy

Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.

Coldplay

X&Y (Capitol)

Book 'Em

Rock memoirs take us behind the music

Julia Fordham

Friday, August 20

Strung Up

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

Revolting

Two Marx beat as one

Look No Further

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

Rockin', Man

Water Tower offers a holiday creation nuttier than a fruitcake

Club Directory

Shakira

January 20

Rising Stock

With Berry, the interest is high--and, indeed, the latest Bond yields a big payoff

Various Artists

The Osbourne Family Album (Epic)

Pink

May 15

Kylie Minogue / Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Fever (Capitol) / Read My Lips (Polydor UK)

Spinning Webs

The Top 10 Things I Downloaded in 2001 That Weren't Applications Made to Download Things That Aren't Applications

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Over and Dunne

Lisa Picard treads a well-worn path

Buy the Numbers

Because it does matter how much a gift costs

Bertrand Burgalat

The SSSound of Mmmusic (Emperor Norton)

Ketchup and Soy Sauce

Cibo Matto gets out of the kitchen and fries up the national prize

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

The great Pumpkin

With Adore, Billy Corgan has finally made a record as good as he thinks it is

Buzz

Roadshows

Fight the power

Reprise Records president defends the rights of his artists against the Right and the wrong

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

Myth, martyr, musician

With each passing day, the ghost of Selena looms larger over the mainstream

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things