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This Week In Dallas Music History: Steve Holt Breaks Up Tablet

​This week 14 years ago, Dallas's then-next-big-thing, Tablet, suddenly decided to call it quits. Well, actually, according to the story written by former Observer music scribe Matt Weitz, the only one who was ready to break up the band was lead singer Steve Holt (no, not the guy from Arrested Dev ... More >>

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

As Bat For Lashes Flies, Natasha Khan Stays Grounded

Q&A: Steve Poltz Says Jewel is Hot and Austin is Stupid

Stoner Symphony

Get down with The Planets in Arlington

Critical Appreciation

TV on the Radio, the Wrens and the Panthers

March 21

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

Launch Ramp

Five years later, Ben Kweller is taking off on his own.

Not Wasting Any Time

Dallas duo creates an online record label

Scene, Heard

Deep Ellum's club owners and retailers set aside egos in the name of charity

Scene, Heard

Dallas-Denton-Forth Worth bands make their biggest impact yet at SXSW

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Impossible to ignore

Scene, heard

Darlington disolves; Rubber Gloves gets booked; Mandarin time; Club anniversaries; Shabazz 3 heads north; Plus, much, much more

Across the Bar

New Year's day; Texas Punk Sweethearts; Growth spurt for Polyphonic Spree; Waging Red Animal War

Cajun against the machine

Wayne Toups tries to unite the worlds of Zydeco and Cajun music. Wait, they weren't already?

Mr. Ed

Back on his own, Ed Hamell is still on Trial

How it should be

Ben Kweller will eventually release another record, but it won't be Sha Sha

Home groans

Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?

Ben there, done that

Radish may be loosening their label's restraining bolt

Black and blue

DTC's Dinah Was strikes a jaunty balance between decay and delirious musical celebration

Hamell on Trial

Free Radish

Mercury Records will be making a huge mistake if it doesn't release Sha Sha

Lady sings the Blues

Chonita "N'Dambi" Gilbert is a back-up singer no more

Hash Over

Major Mistakes

Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?

Nothing but static

Broadcast Data Systems listens to the radio so you don't have to

Tele like it is

George Reagan ponders grown-up life during -- and after? -- Hagfish

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Redrumm is the case

Local rap label gets no love at home and takes its show on the road

Beat down

Dallas' hip-hop scene is more vital than ever, but you'd never know it: no clubs, no radio, no major-label deals. But the musicians, some of this city's best, refuse to give up.

Busting big shoes

Revamped Seventeen Seventeen may overfill its considerable footwear inheritance

Out There

Broken Fever

The hardest thing Nick Brisco ever did was grow up

Sound ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Out There

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

The Butcher and the baby

Radish's Ben Kwellar needs a rock and roll mentor, and a guy named Joe is just the man for the job

Come Again

The best reissues of 1997 prove nostalgia pays off

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Out There

Out There

Ja, das is country punk

The old world discovers the Old 97's

Bitter pills

Stop freaking out-- Tablet's deeper than you think

The education of Michelle Shocked

Once portrayed as a bumpkin, she's finally wised up

Roadshows

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

Good rockin' last night

Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise