Nick Drake

Is Midlake's The Courage of Others the Most Important Record Ever to Come Out of Denton? Possibly.

What Else is New?

DVD releases for the week of October 9

Millennium Man

Richard Thompson doesn't let his guitar playing get in the way of his songwriting

Whiz Kid

Daniel Folmer wants you to wear headphones but stop watching football

Sleepyhead

Todd Gautreau hops from a Pink Moon to land on Crushed Stars

MySXSW

Austin's biggest music fest was anything you wanted it to be. Dallas acts made theirs a blast.

No Surrender

Marah is back in fighting form on If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry

Bent Life

Bazooka Tooth isn't a fable. It's Aesop Rock's reality.

Badly Drawn Boy

November 18

End Hits

Now that's what I call music

Shot in the Arm

Wilco may have been abandoned by its label, but it still had its fans

Royal's Screwups

Wes Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius

Kind of Blue

When Norah Jones left Dallas, she had no idea she'd end up living the jazzer's fantasy

Dynamic Duo

With playwright Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik sidesteps his usual breezy pop

See By Be Seen

At the annual South by Southwest music festival, it's the singer, not the song

Dallas Stars

Revisiting the best local albums of 2000

Hard Eight

We knocked over the stack of local releases and found eight you need to hear

Out There

Mark Kozelek

Who's there?

Smog's Bill Callahan opens up for the finest album of his career

The language of lite

Everything But the Girl's Ben Watt laments the duo's adult alternative fate