Paul McCartney

The Search for the Perfect Guitar, Part II

Editor: In last week's music feature, Christian McPhate began his search for a guitar. Not just any guitar, but his Trigger, his missing part. In that story, he went north to our weird music utopia, Denton, and came away with nothing. Here, he tries his hand in Dallas. I'll start you with his opener ... More >>

Paul McCartney's Austin Show will Sell Out Instantly. "Get In Line" Right Now.

Final update, I swear: They've added a second Austin show on May 23rd. It's also on sale right now. Update, 4/12: The sale for Paul McCartney tickets starts in half an hour, but you can "get in line" at the Texas Box Office site right now. You should do that, if you want to go. Update, 4/9: Well ... More >>

Phil Ramone Made Crappy Music the Right Way

Phil Ramone, who died Saturday following an aneurysm, produced an astonishing number of albums it's not cool to enjoy. Wikipedia helpfully provides a category full of them. He was in on Rod Stewart's first pop standards album; he did the Sinead O'Connor album after the one Sinead O'Connor album; he ... More >>

Morrissey feuds with Paul McCartney, Jimmy Kimmel, Staples Center, et al, But it's a Great Career Move

Like most Smiths fans under 30, I think I heard about Morrissey being pissed off for some reason or another before I'd heard him croon over a single perfect Johnny Marr riff. He's a self-consciously difficult figure to ignore once he's wedged himself into the news, a stout British guy with a volumin ... More >>

Now's Your Chance to Get Guitars Seized In Tony Rand's $100 Million Oil Fraud Scheme

Tony Rand and his two boys, Greg and Bill, owe the government money, and a lot of it. Last year, they admitted that their humble family business, Aspen Exploration, was more of a Ponzi scheme that leveraged the company's supposed oil and gas holdings to raise $100 million from investors. Rather than ... More >>

David Walker Built Cabinets For The Stones, Saw Devo Melt Down and Witnessed Freddie Mother Fucking King

PETA Asked the State Fair of Texas For a Booth. Wanna Guess How Big Tex Responded?

Just got off the phone with a lovely young lass from PETA, America's favorite activist group turned performance troupe. They're always really nice to talk to, those PETA folks, right until they start trying to reincarnate your lunch. Apparently they had applied for a booth at the State Fair of Texa ... More >>

Listomania: The 15 Most Unexpected, Unlikely, and Downright Awkward Collaborations of All Time

Beck​Yesterday Beck announced that he had been "recording some tracks" with country singer Dwight Yoakam. And yeah, we guess we could kind of see that, as Beck has run the gamut of styles during his career, touching on hip-hop, electronic, folk, and mariachi. But, even though it makes sense when ... More >>

Monster Jams

No, Ron Kirk Will Not Change Seats With You

​Flipped over to the Kennedy Center Honors late in the show, just as a certain Arts Magnet grad was foo-fighting over Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed."  And first thing I saw was former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, now the United States Trade Representative. Clearly, it still pays to be the Firs ... More >>

Watch: Dallas Native Norah Jones, 35 Conferette Performer Mavis Staples, Dave Grohl, Steven Tyler, No Doubt and Paul Simon Pay Tribute To Paul McCartney at Kennedy Center Honors

​If you've got, oh, 13 minutes or so to spare this morning, then, please, do yourself a solid and check out the pair of clips we've got posted for you after the jump. They come courtesy of CBS's Kennedy Center Honors coverage, aired last night, where Oprah Winfrey, Bill T. Jones, Merle Haggard and ... More >>

Pedestrian Playlist: What Does Cowboys Stadium Architect Ralph Hawkins Listen To?

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to people of interest in the metroplex about their taste in music, including likes, dislikes, and guilty pleasures. We're calling it Pedestrian Playlist -- because, hey, everyone listens to music. A dude wearing a tie like that is bound to ... More >>

Listomania: The Best Songs to Listen to During a High-Speed Chase

High speed car chase at DC9 HQ, y'all!​Just a few minutes ago, the not-so-high-speed chase that happened in Dallas passed by the Dallas Observer offices. We cheered as the carjacking suspect led about six or seven cop cars down Maple Avenue, and we discussed his motive, his determination, his lack ... More >>

You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello: Tom Hicks Is Finally Getting Out of Liverpool.

​Significant dates in Liverpool break-up history:April 17, 1970: Paul McCartney releases first solo album in the United Kingdom. It is accompanied by a self-interview, in which McCartney acknowledges, after much speculation, that the Beatles have broken up. He attributes his departure from the ban ... More >>

One Last Year-End List: 2009's Best Concerts

​Listen: My job description requires me to see a lot of concerts. More than is probably healthy, to be honest. I'm out at least three nights a week (often more like five or six) seeing local or national shows around town. Believe me, I'm not complaining. But, when you see that many shows a year, y ... More >>

Last Night: Paul McCartney at Cowboys Stadium

Paul McCartneyCowboys StadiumAugust 19, 2009Better than: a competitive round of Rock Band: Beatles, to say the least.Patrick Michels​Download: For more pictures from last night's show, check Patrick Michels' slideshow from the night.For the first hour or so of Paul McCartney's set at Cowboys Stadi ... More >>

Carry That Weight: Because Of 'Overwhelming Demand,' Live Nation Releases More Tickets To Paul McCartney's Cowboys Stadium Gig

​Like with yesterday's announcement that, upon the completion of production details, more tickets were being released to the upcoming U2 show at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, today comes news that--again, upon the completion of "production details," whatever those are--more tickets are being relea ... More >>

Paul McCartney To Play Cowboys Stadium On Wednesday, August 19

Another coup for that spaceship out in Arlington: It's the Beatle's first Dallas show since 2005, and his sole Texas stop on his current North American tour. Perhaps most impresively, though, the press release announcing the show indicates that the concert should last a solid 2.5 hours. Ticke ... More >>

The First Time Paul McCartney Played Dallas

Pete's got the details concerning Paul McCartney's just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones's EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles' interview with WFAA's Bert Shipp during the band's September '64 ... More >>

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

Today In Music News: Paris Hilton's Got Balls, Chris Brown's Got Problems and Q-Tip's Got A Mixtape

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 11, 2009... That no talent ass-clown known as Paris Hilton apparently approached Sir Paul McCartney backstage at the Grammy's asking if he would consider doing a duet with her. I believe he answered by doubling over in laughte ... More >>

Today In Music News: Coachella Sets Its Lineup, Bruce Hears Some Gripes

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 2, 2009...The line-up for the 2009 Coachella Music and Arts Festival was announced late last week, and Paul McCartney is headlining on Friday night. Wait, really?The Boss may have scored with a great Super Bowl halftime show.  But fans ... More >>

Rock St-art

We KLUV our art shows

LehtMoJoe's Holiday Remix: 50 Cent, Paul McCartney, Free Agent

Painful Memories

Joey Molland points a bad finger at his band's misfortune

Paul McCartney

Memory Full (Hear Music)

Friends in Low Places

Poverty Doesn't Suck

Johnny Lloyd Rollins deals in a different currency

The Beatles

Love (Capitol)

Regina Spektor

Thursday, November 9, at Gypsy Tea Room

Behind the Muzak

You didn't keep score while watching last week's Grammys? We did.

Party Paws

Rodney Crowell

The Outsider (Columbia)

Hot Potatoes

The Cutter

The woman behind Raging Bull

John Lennon

Acoustic (Capitol)

Brian Wilson

Gettin' in Over My Head (Rhino)

Super Furry Animals

May 3

Beulah, Mazarin; Of Montreal, Marshmallow Coast

April 26, April 28

Fixing Downtown

Plus: Beatle Mush, Beyond Her Nose, Parking Payback

Various Artists

Brand New Boots and Panties (Gold Circle Records) / Listen to What the Man Said (Oglio Records)

The White Stripes

White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Indoor Fireworks

In ABBA's old studio, Elvis Costello and Anne Sofie von Otter reinterpret pop music history

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Paul McCartney

Liverpool Sound Collage

Sound ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Out There

Out There

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard