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Today In Music News: Dispute Over Guru Letter, Patti Smith Saved From The Poor House And DJ AM Makes A Cameo

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 23, 2010...The family of Guru are disputing a death-bed letter the rapper supposedly penned.  What, you can't write a letter while being in a coma? Who would've thought 10,000 Maniacs saved Patti Smith from poverty?DJ AM will make a pos ... More >>

Jack E. Jett is a Punk Rocker

​Good friend of the show Jack E. Jett sends word: This weekend he's debuting a new"experiment" on Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial) that's quite the throwback -- two hours' worth of punk rock, nothing but. Here's how he puts it in his missive to Unfair Park:After a brief hiatus, The Jack E. Je ... More >>

Bob & Sam

See the story of Mapplethorpe at the Modern

The Good Barney

The Modern salutes a free-speech icon

Shiny Around the Edges

Holy Roller (Sounds Are Active)

Last [stupid spam filter!] Friday Night: Nada Surf and The Jealous Girlfriends at Hailey's

Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey'sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove  First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey's last night. Seems the "doors open at nine o'clock" line from the club's website was a bit of ... More >>

Echoes And Reverberations: The Ghosts Of The Longhorn Ballroom

Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey'sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove  First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey's last night. Seems the "doors open at nine o'clock" line from the club's website was a bit of ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey'sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove  First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey's last night. Seems the "doors open at nine o'clock" line from the club's website was a bit of ... More >>

Marilyn Manson, Ours

Friday, February 29, at House of Blues

Girl in a Coma

Thursday, August 16, at Andy's, Denton

Y Control?

Karen O and cohorts put on a hell of a show. Too bad they were so nice about it.

X Marks the Rock

Exene Cervenka's Sinners might not be Original

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Exene Cervenka's Sinners might not be Original

Close to You

The music blared, the bodies fell. Our intrepid reporter braves Vans Warped Tour.

'Saur Spot

The music blared, the bodies fell. Our intrepid reporter braves Vans Warped Tour.

2005 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Case Solved: Killer musicians captured, thanks to your tips

Radio Ready

How The Vanished's "My Favorite Scar" became my favorite guilty pleasure

Rockin' Around

Holiday gifts for the music lover in your life

Patti Smith

June 19

Thanks Again

Rhino assembles the definitive '70s punk collection. Pretty much.

PJ Harvey

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island Records)

Best live music venue

Gypsy Tea Room

Critics' Picks

The Distillers

Critics' Picks

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SXSW Diaries

A thousand bands + a dozen parties + one cigarette lighter = average South By Southwest

Pat's the rub

The Smithereens' Pat DiNizio is playing in a living room near you

Heads up

Fifteen years later, the reissue of Stop Making

Sense opens old wounds ... and heals them

Girl trouble

Rock and roll is still a man's, man's, man's, man's world

Young man inside an old man

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

Hash Over

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

Read? What am that?

The year in rock books which isn't such an oxymoron, really

Justice served

As her former band gets embalmed on a new collection, Maria McKee finally finds her voice

Out There

As her former band gets embalmed on a new collection, Maria McKee finally finds her voice

Fair game

Feminism posing as trend, profit masquerading as activism, and a bunch of really bad songs: Why Lilith Fair isn't so fair at all

School daze

Susan Skoog's Whatever is long on '80s atmosphere but short on impact

The Buck stops here

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

Rock and roll over

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

The rise of Auntie Christ

Exene Cervenkova throws down the gauntlet

Gone are the days

Dead on top of your toilet

Warm guns and weathered souls

Psalm 69 gets out of the grey

Music to watch cave paintings by

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Out There

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Out There

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Out There

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Reviews

Ohm taps the roots of cosmic rock

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

Reviews

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

Come, come

The Go-Go's return - again - to finish what they began 15 years ago