Paul Westerberg

My Jerusalem's Jeff Klein On Getting Soy Bombed, The Replacements and X

Jeff Klein, frontman and main songwriter behind My Jerusalem, has shared some of his background before, but not for My First Show. My Jerusalem, whose new album, Preachers, is out next week, comes back to Dada on Friday. Klein took time out a few weeks ago to share his obsession with Paul Westerberg ... More >>

The Five Best Slobberbone Songs

See also: The top 100 Texas songs In honor of the great Slobberbone playing tonight at The Kessler Theater (on a terrific bill with The Deathray Davies and Calhoun), we've decided it was time to make a list of the five best from Brent Best and crew. Please feel free to chime in with your own select ... More >>

Cory Branan Is No Mutt

Tommy Stinson Talks Working With Axl Rose and Paul Westerberg, Possible New Guns N' Roses Album.

When Tommy Stinson joined Guns N' Roses way back in 1998, there were many people who didn't have a clue who he was. Stinson's career path just hadn't taken the route that one would think might lead to playing on stage with Axl Rose. Starting out in the Replacements when he was barely a teenager, ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Replacements Will Dare at the Bronco Bowl

Via.​A couple of months back, Friend of Unfair Park Bob wrote: "Waiting patiently for you to find and post a Replacements performance in Dallas. I think there was only one, yes?" But as we ascertained, no, there were several, from a Theatre Gallery gig to that unfortunate and wildly disinterested ... More >>

Q&A: Pete Yorn On Getting Lucky With Scarlett Johansson, Producers and Gram Parsons

Lanky and perhaps too good-looking for his own good, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn was both blessed and cursed by having a successful debut album. Back in 2001, when he released Musicforthemorningafter, Yorn became an instant success story. Here was this charismatic and handsome guy, who wrote music t ... More >>

Matthew Gray at The Kessler, Lo-Fi Chorus at Dan's, The Virgin Wolves at Lochrann's and Within Chaos at Trees

We've got a nice and busy Thursday evening of shows for you this time around. Looks like Friday got here a little early...

Staff Trax: Shawn Chrystopher, Autolux, Drew Kennedy, Karen Elson, The Gaslight Anthem, Great Northern and The Psychedelic Furs.

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ou ... More >>

Throwback Staff Trax: The Replacements, The Fugees, Depeche Mode and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Staff Trax: Roadside Graves, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimi Hendrix, Little Dragon, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Alice in Chains, Fan Death and Beth Orton

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Super Cool Music-Related Father's Day Gift Ideas, Guys!

You want to show your dad you really love him? Well, stop being a cheap ass and buying those lame hallmark cards. Get your dad a gift that makes up--at least a little--for all the shit you gave the old guy. Here are some music-related gift ideas that are guaranteed to have pops thinking he raise ... More >>

Gig Alert: Kevin Devine, Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz and Sarah Jaffe at The Loft Tonight

Denny MuiKevin Devine loves baseball, too.Brooklyn singer/songwriter Kevin Devine delicately walks the line between the personal and the political, and his nearly decade-long career has seen him signed and dumped by a major label while still maintaining a dedicated following. And Brother's Blood, De ... More >>

Next Week Gig Alert: Tommy Keene at The Cavern

Sometimes I just hate promoters. A couple of months back, I was sent the new album by Tommy Keene, In the Late Bright. The album is great of course, like almost all of the shimmering power pop Keene has released over the past 25 years. Anyhow, I asked the promo guy at the label to let me know when K ... More >>

AA Bondy, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon

Friday, February 20, at Lola's Stockyards, Fort Worth

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Collin Herring CD Release Show

Saturday, April 5, at The Cavern

How Major Labels Vie for a Comeback

It's finally dawned on record companies that they're screwed. But is it too late?

Getting Gossip on The Replacements

A new oral history reads like a family member wrote it

Johnny and the Moon

Friday, June 29, at the Cavern

Sodajerk

2 (Self-released)

Trent Summar, Two Tons of Steel

Thursday, January 18, at the Granada Theater

The Best Song Around "These Days"

Paul Westerberg

Open Season Soundtrack (Lost Highway)

Travis Hopper

All the Lights in the City Tonight (Self-released)

Will Johnson, Collin Herring

Saturday, August 5, at Bend Studio

Hey, Paisano!

Modern Machines deliver catchy irony by aping the Replacements' former glory

The Replacements

Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (Rhino)

Boys Named Sue

The Hits Vol. 1 (Crow)

He Will Dare

The reclusive Paul Westerberg reaches out. Sort of.

Paul Westerberg|Grandpaboy

Come Feel Me Tremble (Vagrant)|Dead Man Shake (Fat Possum)

Sighs, Not Silent

A second chance to learn everything About a Boy

Up in Arms

Plus: Rave for a Rave, Barking up Wrong Tree

Paul Westerberg

Stereo/Mono (Vagrant)

Damnations

March 7

The Replacements' replacement

Slobberbone's Brent Best gets a chance to be Paul Westerberg

Letters

Letters

Letters

Bastard of middle age

Paul Westerberg digs intoa deep, dark place and makes a brilliant, horrible record

Grown Up

R.E.M.'s new adventure in hi-fi is its finest in years

Tommy Boy

Tommy Stinson escapes the shadow of the Replacements as he tries to be Perfect

Out There

Out There

Roadshows

Out There

Stabbed in the redneck

KNON fixture Roy Ashley bids a fiery farewell

Bastard of young

How the Hebrew school bully got the Perfect gig with a Replacement

Deep six: The ungrateful dead

No mere replacement

Chris Mars looks back at the 'Mats even as he runs forward

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