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The Top Five Musical Resurrections of 2012

Top Five Musical Resurrections of 2012

2012 saw some big-name comebacks, emotional reunions, and just plain weird occurrences, proving that America's thirst for nostalgia has still not been quenched. Have recent years been the worst for this, or have I just forgotten about the last decade already? Could something as joyous as the resurre ... More >>

Rolling Stones Ready Plans To Theatrically Release Film of 1978 Fort Worth Concert

​No date has yet been announced -- just a "Coming Soon!" promise -- for the stateside release of the new Rolling Stones concert film, The Rolling Stones: Some Girls -- Live in Texas. But, starting early next month, the United Kingdom and Ireland (followed shortly by Denmark, South Africa, Cro ... More >>

Good Friday: TV On The Radio, Broken Social Scene, the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

TV On The Radio​This weekend, Dallas benefits heavily from the Austin City Limits Music Festival spillover effect, which has some of the best bands in the world looking for a place to play in and around town. There are a whole bunch of these shows, as well as a few others, making this weekend an e ... More >>

Last Night At 35 Conferette: !!! Pave The Road To Big Boi With Bass Intentions

​!!!6:30 p.m., Main Stage OneIt took all of one song for !!! singer Nic Offer to whip the Main Stage crowd into wild abandon; by the end of opener "AM/FM," from last year's Strange Weather, Isn't It?, Miami Horror was a distant memory. If the band's hypnotic grooves and electronic textures are ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Joe Satriani at the Granada Theater, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger at Dan's Silverleaf, Leg Sweeper at Canton Co-Op

Not the craziest Tuesday night we've ever seen, no. But there are at least two cool touring shows coming through tonight. And, for a third option, you can help a favorite local act kick off its own tour.

Tonight, Tonight: The Gay Blades at Rubber Gloves, Jennifer Perryman at The Library Bar and The Oak Ridge Boys at The Eisemann Center

On this somewhat slow Monday night, you can go check out a decent touring show, particpate in a holiday-themed event or take in a weekly performance you might otherwise skip on a busier night. We'll get into specifics after the jump...

Last Night: Ray Davies and The 88 At The Palladium Ballroom

Ray Davies, The 88The Palladium BallroomMarch 17, 2010Better than: Being the oldest person in the crowd, which I seemed to be at NX35.Sarah Jane Semrad​What a fickle position to be Raymond Douglas Davies. To be simultaneously a rock-and-roll oldies generation entertainer and a darling to the indie ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Without You, I'm Nothing

"Well, I was passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town, something caught my eye and stop and turned around / I stepped inside and then I spied in the middle of it all, was a beat up old guitar hanging on the wall / 'What do want for that piece of junk?' I asked the old man / He just smiled and ... More >>

Last Night: Old Crow Medicine Show at the Granada Theater

Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes EarleGranada TheaterMay 6, 2009 Better than: Drinkin' your corn liquor and lettin' cocaine be. From the time the crowd started arriving at the Granada it was apparent that Old Crow Medicine Show was the place to be: If it wasn't apparent by the crowd in th ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... 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 >>

Todd Rundgren to Produce Next New York Dolls Album

I know the local connection here is barely tangential, but two of the best shows to come through our area this past year were The New York Dolls at The Granada in April and Todd Rundgren at House of Blues in July. Now news comes that Rundgren is producing the next Dolls' effort. Back in the summer ... More >>

Hobo Historian

Ramblin' Jack steams into Fort Worth

Soup Man

A mall hosts Warhol

Beat the Crowd

Miami Twice

To Tie-Dye For

Jupiter aligns with Mars and Hair returns in all its flaxen, waxen glory

Rock Star

The smart money wants a mayor with sex appeal

Breaking Glass

This American voice steps out of the studio

American Idol's Freak Factor

Finally, Dallas has its own William Hung

Fashion Files

Erykah Badu's Rockin' Runway combines music and style for Charity

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

Get the Word Out

Promotion was the priority at the Dallas Music Festival

The Man Comes Around

Placebo's Brian Molko can't stop growing old

Anatomy Lesson

At Kitchen Dog, Hedwig proves size does matter; Flower Drum Song sounds lovely at Fair Park

End Hits

Now that's what I call music

Mag Light

Today's music magazines suck up to celebs--and just plain suck

They Blinded Buzz with Science

The Texas Freedom Network keeps a watch on the state's textbooks

Crunk and Disorderly

Timbaland and Organized Noize are making the music go bang, and rap radio's never sounded so good

Buy the Numbers

Because it does matter how much a gift costs

Out & About

Richard Buckner

Out Here

Kevin Deal

Out There

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Out There

Pete Townshend

Young man inside an old man

With Mock Tudor, Richard Thompson proves you can go home again

Thin line between love and hate

Cork is a promising wine bar that's plugged its excitement for the drink

Out There

Why are you?

Roger Daltrey is still out on the road singing Who songs, and why the hell not?

Out Here

Risky business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Out Here

Out There

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Another dead hero

The gospel according to Bill Hicks

Messing up in public

Ray Davies gets the kinks-- but not the Kinks-- out of his career

Out Here

Out Here

Needs a trim

DEOT's three-hour Hair suffers from conditioning

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released