Michael Stipe

To the Ends of SXSW Film

Being Spike Jonze

The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

Weekend Roundup: R.E.M., Breve Eternidad, Kessler, Edgefest

The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

Hunger Strike

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

Last Night: Jackson Browne At Nokia Theatre

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

More Gift Ideas: 'Tis the Season for Reissues

Still looking for that perfect gift for the music lover in your family? Well, the holiday season is traditionally a time when compilations, box sets and reissues flood the marketplace--and this year is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the surprising high quality of this year's re-issue ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Out There

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Out Here

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Roadshows

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Who's that girl?

Surprise! It's Syd Straw.

Imagine there's no Beatles

Caught between two generations of Beatles fans

Beercan boys

Pop punkers Pansy Division love sex, so they sing about it. A lot.

Rock and roll over

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

Out There

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

Only a memory

The Deep South decadence of Memory Dean

The Buck stops here

With Tuatara and R.E.M., Peter Buck goes on some new adventures in hi-fi

Grown Up

R.E.M.'s new adventure in hi-fi is its finest in years

Roasting Chesnutt

No one loves Vic Chesnutt like Vic Chesnutt

More Top 10 lists, sort of

No one loves Vic Chesnutt like Vic Chesnutt

Timewarp again

No one loves Vic Chesnutt like Vic Chesnutt

R.E.M.

Reveal (Warner Bros.)

Wanna Be MySpace Music's CEO?

Rupert Murdoch's toy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

R.E.M.

Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

The Big City

The Inwood gets spacey

Maria Taylor, Statistics, Zykos

Thursday, July 7, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Substitute

Placebo's Stefan Olsdal finds U.S. reaction hard to swallow

Poster Boys

Placebo's Stefan Olsdal finds U.S. reaction hard to swallow

The Heavenly States

Black Comet (Baria)

Turn Around, Bright Eyes

If Conor Oberst overcomes his disdain for his president, his audience and himself, he'll rule the world

Road Rules

The Deathray Davies remember a few of 500 shows

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Making a Difference?

For musicians these days, speaking out against President Bush isn'trisky so much as trendy

R.E.M.

Around the Sun (Warner Bros.)

The Tragically Hip

In Between Evolution (Zo Records)

Free to Download

How can you steal music you can't even buy?

10,000 Maniacs

Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings (Elektra/Asylum)

Keepin' id real

The writer-star of Chuck & Buck on sexual ambiguity and the dark parts inside people

The old new media blues

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Natalie good

A top-notch cast compensates for dubious credibility in Where the Heart Is

What a Jem

Cohen plays Fugazi like an Instrument

He wants to freak you

Jeff Buckley tries to make pop music you've never heard before

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Staff Trax: Rusko, INXS, Big Dumb Face, MIracle Legion, Glass Candy, Rival Schools

​Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

If You'd Like to See Natalie Merchant at the Winspear, Go to the Front of the Line

​Our pal Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center sent about an hour ago that Natalie Merchant, one of the 10,000 Maniacs, will be performing August 19 at the Winspear Opera House in support of her new album Leave Your Sleep. She confirms: This'll be the first pop show in the Winspear (rec ... More >>

For Your Easter Sunday Listening Pleasure: R.E.M. Sends One Out to the Grads of SMU

Via.​Speaking of great shows at Moody Coliseum ...Floating out in the ether, all by its unmarked lonesome, is this resonant echo: R.E.M. at Moody Coliseum on November 18, 1987 -- a stop along The Work Tour in support of that year's Document, the band's fifth and final album for I.R.S. Records. I w ... More >>

For Your Monday Listening Pleasure: Robert Hunter Comes Alive at Poor David's in 1986

David Card at Poor David's on Lower Greenville in a photo taken some time in the mid-1980s​I was digging through our old photo archives Friday afternoon -- I think I'm the only one left 'round here who knows we even have such a thing -- looking for a photo that, turns out, I remembered wrong. I th ... More >>

R.E.M. May Be Gone Now, But We'll Always Have That '86 Fair Park Band Shell Show

​If you care at all, by now surely you've heard: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills have called it a day. Good Lord -- has it really been 31 years? "I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision," Stipe writes on the band's website, "but all things must end, and we wanted to do it rig ... More >>