Mariah Carey

Poster Of The Week: Roxmas 6

​ Well, John Jurik's poster for Roxmas 6 certainly puts holiday cheer in perspective. After pushing through lines of screaming children (and adults) at Wal-Mart and enduring Mariah Carey's version of "All I Want For Christmas" 50 times a day, who wouldn't want to thump Santa with a shovel and put ... More >>

Gavin Mulloy Designed Fliers For Area Bands Before Handling The Granada's Promotions

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Gavin Mulloy​Gavin Mulloy is a young marketing pistol for Granada Theater, and he appears to be pois ... More >>

Best Of SXSW Saturday-Day: Owen Pallett, Rock Screams and Rumors

Nick RalloAh, remember 35 Conferette? Good times, good times.​The final day--and night as Rocks Off discovered--of SXSW was a long one. After perusing an absolutely epic line for Rachel Ray's Feedback Party at Stubb's (yeah, you read that right), we ventured over to Peckerheads to meet Dallas-fr ... More >>

A Very Indie Christmas: Ten Songs To Conquer Your Parents' Karen Carpenter Blues

Bring a little rock to your Christmas.​There are few things more refreshing on Christmas morning than wheeling the dial and finding an original Christmas song. Or, at least, one that is not by Mariah Carey. Our parents have to be sick of it too. They just have to be. The frustrating thing is that ... More >>

There's Something for Everyone With These New Holiday Albums.

Listomania: The Songs That Give Thanks, a Field Guide

Not a song, but we sure are thankful for this.​It's hard to argue with Charlie Brown: Thanksgiving is here, man (paraphrased). Over on our on food blog, City of Ate, the writers are counting down to Thanksgiving with odes to their favorite T-Day foods. DC9's thinking: why can't we join in on t ... More >>

Good Friday: Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Music Festival, Autolux, Designer Drugs, Sarah Jaffe, Dave Matthews Band, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Nick Cannon, Lyfe Jennings, Guitar Shorty, Paramore, Tegan & Sara, Rigor Mortis, Jonas Brothers & more

​This weekend is stuffed with some pretty big shows, but the biggest one coming to town this weekend might be Saturday's Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Music Festival at Superpages.com Center with Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, our own Hellyeah and many more.Maybe getting all jacked up on repackaged ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See Designer Drugs Tomorrow Night at Granada Theater

New York electro duo Designer Drugs has a knack for turning out excessively danceable bangers, although their biggest hits have come from the remixes they mix in among their of original tracks. Their most popular remix? Mariah Carey's "Lovin' U Long Time." These days, the New York scenesters are tak ... More >>

Today In Music News: Czech Radiohead Fans Make A Movie, Mariah Carey With Child And Blink-182 Plan New Record

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010...A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download.  The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the master reco ... More >>

Have Yourself a (Cannon)Ball

Ladies, Mind Yer Fortunes

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Mimi Serenades Big D

Show Announcements: Van Morrison, Muse, Mariah And More

​No matter what the weather is like in late January, there'll be a couple of marvelous nights for a moondance. Van Morrison will perform at Bass Concert Hall in Fort Worth Sunday, January 24 and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas Monday, January 25. Tickets for both shows go on sale ... More >>

Year in Review: The Worst Lyrics of 2009 Aren't Trying for Funny, But Get There Just the Same

​The lowest common denominator having been achieved in 2005 with the release of the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business, popular musicians have had to work extra hard in recent years to find new and inventive ways to be inane. They found great success in 2009, with artists as varied as Lady Gaga, Bru ... More >>

Today In Music News: Dave Grohl Gets Honored, Kanye Gets Misquoted, Courtney Love Is Still Crazy and Eminem Releases A Diss Track

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 3, 2009... Dave Grohl will had an alley named after him in the city of his birth Warren, OH. Turns out Kanye doesn't think he's the next "King of Pop." But it's easy to see why it's believable; it just sounds like something he would say ... More >>

Art Divaz Bring A Gallery To Cliff Cafe

An image from the Art Divaz-affiliated Caprichos Studio.No surprise that anyone who calls herself a "diva" would use the term "retail therapy" for what most of us call "shopping." The million-dollar spending sprees of notorious divas like Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson come to mind ... More >>

The Daffy, Mesmerizing Retro-Soul Surreality of Beyoncé's Younger Sister

Today in Music News: GNR backs out, Mariah doesn't add up, Jennifer Hudson gets justice, Soulja Boy gets real, and Lil Wayne gets floored.

Your daily music news for the first day of 2009... Don't get your hopes up for a two year Guns N' Roses tour. It looks like Tommy Stinson was misquoted. Doesn't it always happen that way? Scientists are mad at Mariah Carey for "misreading" algebra with her album title E=MC2. You would th ... More >>

Last Night's American Music Awards: A Synopsis

What I gleaned amidst the crooners and cleavage:*Former Stone Temple Pilots' front man Scott Wieland is (still) on something. *Paris Hilton is (still) annoying. *Mariah Carey is (still) hot. *Jamie Foxx is cocky with a capital 'K'. *Kanye West wants to be Elvis. Making the feat even more unlike ... More >>

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Cadence Weapon, Final Fantasy

Friday, November 2, at Hailey's, Denton

JoJo, T-Squad, Nuttin' but Stringz

Thursday, August 16, at American Airlines CenterWhat

The Price is Righteous

A gospel singer honors a King

Sweet, Sweet Fantasy

Mariah Carey visits Dallas

The Beatdown

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

P.O.D.

Testify (Atlantic)

Grandmaster Flash

Friday, September 30, at Liquid Lounge

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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Dance Party

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Kelly Clarkson

Breakaway (RCA)

Oh, Olivia

Britney, Jessica, Mariah: They learned it from watching you!

Jessica Simpson

July 10

Beauty and the Beat

Aria ready for Renée Fleming?

Without Clearance

Or, how Eminem's new single spawned a dozen of the best (illegal) songs ever

The Right Stuff

Producers say Space Station 3D is "over the moon"

Holidaze

Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings--and beatings

Letters

No, you take him; Scenic Huntsville; Hell's grannies; Not us; Fair market; Blame it on Bossa Nova

Letters

Mending fences; Texas export; The doctor is in; Judge not

Body shots

Mariah Carey's new video is an insult to your intelligence, but it's much more than that

TV dinners

Swarna Palace plies good food and great tube

Live in Chicago, 1999

Yule be sorry

All we want for Xmas is Jessica's two front teats

Signing off

Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

Night & Day

June 4 - 10, 1998

Rap gets puffy

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs fathers a return to hip-hop pop

Deep six: The ungrateful dead

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

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