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These Machines Are Winning: "I was Really Obsessed with Superman's Death."

If you're excited about These Machines Are Winning, Dylan Silvers' latest project, you're in for plenty of background. We got the rundown on their musical beginnings, their first shows, and what to expect in the near future, and you can expect more in next week's print edition. As a preview of their ... More >>

Riot Fest - Gexa Energy Pavilion - 9/22/12

Riot Fest Gexa Energy Pavilion Saturday, September 22 Though the inaugural Dallas edition of Riot Fest was a mild success, here's something the festival's organizers should consider if it returns next year: give the audience some kind of clue when bands are going on. While the Heineken Pavilion sta ... More >>

Riot Fest

Saturday, September 22, at Gexa Energy Pavilion

This Week's Top 11 Show Announcements: Beach House, Animal Collective, Grimes, Air Supply and More

Beach HouseFriday, September 21, at Palladium Ballroom, $22/$25Would a Beach House fan go buck wild if I said their new album, Bloom, sounds pretty much the same as its predecessor, Teen Dream? I'm not saying Teen Dream isn't an immaculate record, or that the band's previous performance in Dallas at ... More >>

Riot Fest 2012 Expands From Chicago to Dallas, Brings Rise Against, Andrew W.K., The Sword and More

Are you experiencing Festival Fatigue yet? Too bad. One more all-day-er has been announced for the summer: In addition to Toronto and Brooklyn, Chicago-based punk circus Riot Fest is expanding its reach to Dallas on September 22 at Gexa Energy Pavilion. Rise Against, Descendents, Municipal Waste, ... More >>

Sealion on Playing Their First Show in Sweaters

You've seen the white and black Sealion sticker at most bars around Deep Ellum. Luckily, the band is worth the attention, and they're even hitting the road with the Toadies at the end of March. Friday, they play "the final Annex House show" at the fabled Lakewood crash pad. All four members of the ... More >>

Here Holy Spain remembers the Galaxy Club, among other first shows

​ With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>

The Conversation: 1991 Was a Damn Good Year, But Was It The Best Music Year of The '90s?

​Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn't been the same since: Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other influential acts ... More >>

Looking Back at The Best and Worst Lineups Seen In Warped Tour's 17 Years Of Existence

​The Warped Tour has always had a lot of bands and a lot of different bands. Sure, you're not going to see these bands end up on any Pitchfork best-of, but the tour doesn't exactly play to people who decree most things in life as "meh," either.Even in its first few years, you could see a hardcore ... More >>

Over The Weekend: True Widow, The Nighty Nite and Joey Kendall at the Double Wide

True Widow, The Nighty Nite and Joey KendallDouble WideJune 11, 2011Better than: killing a litter of kittens.A few minutes before acclaimed area rock producer and former Paper Chase frontman John Congleton took to the stage at the Double Wide with his new band, The Nighty Nite, for their much-antici ... More >>

Last Night: Best Coast, Wavves and No Joy at the Granada Theater

Best Coast, Wavves, No Joy Granada Theater January 24, 2011 Better Than: Being separated from your best friend/cat. Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino and Wavves' Nathan Williams​Over the past year, the relationship between Nathan Williams and Bethany Cosentino, lead singers of Wavves and Best Coas ... More >>

Against Me!, Cheap Girls, Fences

Monday, January 24, at Trees

Tonight, Tonight: Ozzy at the AAC, Authority Zero at Trees, Danny Balis at Lola's and NOFX at House of Blues

Pretty busy Thursday evening we have here, highlighted by the Price of Darkness himself, and a pair of punk rock quadruple-bills.

Hagfish, Riverboat Gamblers, The American Fuse

Saturday, December 25, at Trees

Unexpected Influences: Denton's DJ Yeahdef On How He Became A Fan of Jazz Fusion

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Yeahdef​Long-hailed as one of the region's Meccas for live music, Denton is a fine place to become well-known. And popularity is just what DJ Yeahdef, née Joey Lietchy, has achieved in t ... More >>

Show Announcements: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes, Dresden Dolls, Girl In A Coma, NOFX, Free Energy, Harlem, Dignan, Deftones, Cake, Danzig, Thousand Foot Crutch, The Gourds, Godsmack, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Papa Roach & More

Tessa AngusBRMC​Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's 2010 album Beat The Devil's Tattoo isn't quite as popular as their previous efforts, but they still have some pretty big tour plans in support of the disk, including a few Texas dates with Stone Temple Pilots. Initially, though, the band wasn't coming ... More >>

After Warped Tour, It's Off To The Double Wide.

This Week In Dallas Music History: Before Major-Label Debut, Hagfish Sets The Record Straight: Not Phonies, Not Fake, Not Green Day

When this article appeared in the June 15, 1995, edition of the Observer, London Records was just weeks away from releasing Hagfish's major label-debut, Rocks Your Lame Ass--which also means that the band was just about two years away from being dropped by London Records, and about three years away ... More >>

MusInk's Might Be The Best Festival Dallas Proper's Seen in A While.

Today In Music News: William Bailey Gets Sued, Mark Ronson Gets Charitable And Fat Mike Gets Disgusting

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 29, 2010... William Bill Bailey, better known by his stage name, Axl Rose, is being sued by his manager for not paying $1.9 million in in commission.If you've got enough money, Mark Ronson will produce exactly one song for you.  Granted ... More >>

The Used Added To Dallas MusInk Bill

The Used can get a slightly more professional-looking tat at MusInk than depicted on the cover of their latest.​As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago when Lucero and Telegraph Canyon were added to the bill, the lineup for the MusInk Tattoo & Music Festival April 9 through 11 looked like it wou ... More >>

Telegraph Canyon, Lucero To Join Old 97's At MusInk Tattoo & Music Convention In Fair Park

​You may have noticed the item about the April 9-11 MusInk Tattoo and Music Convention in Fair Park in the November 18 Show Announcements post. At the time, all we knew was that Old 97's, Shooter Jennings and Roger Alan Wade would be performing--certainly enough to pique our interest. After all, A ... More >>

NOFX Offers Up Limited 7" Pressing To Raise Money For Injured Riverboat Gambler Guitarist

Cokie the Clown cover art.​Last week, we passed along the sad news of Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian MacDougall being hospitalized after getting struck by a car while bicycling home from work. We even pointed you in the direction of how to make donations to the mounting hospital bills cause.Then ... More >>

Last Night: The Warped Tour at Superpages.com Center

Vans Warped TourSuperpages.com CenterJuly 5, 2009 Better Than: falling asleep on the beach and getting a funny-looking tan. The weather could have been way worse for Sunday's Warped Tour date. It could have rained all day. Or it could have been sunny and extremely hot. Luckily, the weather fl ... More >>

Distant Gig Alerts: Air Guitar Tournament and Vans Warped Tour Lineup

Dallas' own Forever the Sickest Kids are headlining this year's Warped Tour.Oh my, what a summer it's going to be. Last year, Pete and I got ferociously booed at US Air Guitar Regional Tournament at the House of Blues because we didn't buy into some of the acts' hype. Oh well. Even so, I must admit ... More >>

Good Friday: The House Harkonnen Does Weezer, Motörhead, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Firewater Goes Bananas, Lovie, First Lady Assassins

What It Was Like: Monotonix, The Breeders, Ra Ra Riot (again), Kid Sister, Chromeo

NOFX, No Use for a Name, Flatliners

Saturday, March 1, House of Blues

Vans Warped Tour

Saturday, July 1, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Drumming Up Business

Mudhoney

Under a Billion Suns (Sub Pop)

Please Kill Me

The sounds, the sweat, the stink, of SXSW 2004

Messing With Texas

Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

NOFX

The War or Errorism (Fat Wreck Chords)

Critics' Picks

MxPx

On and on

The Muffs' Kim Shattuck doesn't need a major label to be Alert Today

Hope you die before we get old

Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

Case hardened

In the studio and on the road, the education of Hagfish continues

Roadshows

All punk cons

Riot Squad breathes old life into a rotting corpse