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Greg Richling of the Wallflowers Has a Pedigree Equal to His Famous Frontman

Greg Richling, bassist for The Wallflowers, was pretty happy when Jacob Dylan called him and decided to get The Wallflowers back together in 2011. It had been over six years since the band had recorded and Dylan's solo career had brought him some of the best accolades of his career. Thankfully, The ... More >>

"I Have Learned That Running a Company Is a Lot Easier Than Keeping a Band Together": A Chat With Prekindle's Pete Swulius and Dave Howard

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in DFW music. Pete Swulius and Dave Howard are old band pals from a now-defunct outfit called The Virgin Trebles. Nowadays, they devote their energy to supporting other local artists, not just as fans, but through t ... More >>

Andy Lester on Bad Religion, PJ Harvey and Playing "Jazz" with the Blurries

Dallas five-piece The Blurries are riding high from the accolades of last year's Paper Cuts. With upcoming appearances at Dada and 35 Denton, bassist Andy Lester took some time out to talk about the first shows he saw and played, including when PJ Harvey scared him. What was the first show you rem ... More >>

DJ Scott McCullough Remembers Trying to See Pearl Jam Back When They Fought Ticketmaster

Scott McCullough​If you've been to a themed DJ night like The Lollipop Shoppe or The Smoke, chances are good you either saw Scott McCullough DJing or dancing on the floor. These days, he does a regular Wednesday night gig at La Grange called The Thing?, showcasing plenty of Northern soul alon ... More >>

20 Years Later: The 15 Best Albums of 1991

​In last week's edition of our regular feature, The Conversation, Pete Freedman and Daniel Hopkins debated on whether 1991 or 1994 was the greatest music year of the '90s. It was an interesting read for sure. And, since this week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of both Nevermind and The ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Darstar -- "Trapdoor Spider"

​Being as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of such seminal albums as Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's Ten, Pixies' Trompe Le Monde, and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish, the sounds of early '90s grunge and alt-rock are once again becoming fashionable. From its meteoric rise in 1991 to su ... 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 >>

The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments

​As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.And, for sure, MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, eve ... More >>

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My First Show: Joel Buchanan Saw Dennis Rodman Join Pearl Jam at Reunion in '98

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Joel Buchanan and a robot. Guess which is which.​If you happened into Fallout Lounge on a Friday night a few years ago, chances wer ... More >>

Listomania: Ranking the 10 Best Seattle Grunge Bands of the '90s

​On December 31, 2009, when Chris Cornell tweeted that the "Knights of the Soundtable" would "ride again," fans assumed 2010 would become known as the year of Soundgarden, finding the '90s grunge legends reforming and regaining their once dominant form. Disappointingly, they were only half right; ... More >>

Listomania: Top Five Lead Singer Switcheroos

Can you really blame the rest of Creed for wanting to ditch this guy?​In the late '90s and early 2000s, there were few bands higher on the proverbial food chain than Creed, with their first three multi-platinum albums amassing a total sales of over 30 million copies during their heyday. But dozens ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Dialing Up The Future of Music Thanks To The "Daunting Internet"

​This week's pick offers some interesting hindsight at once-emerging technology--like online "forums" where people discuss things like rock music, and new tools like "e-mail"--back when journalists still had to provide definitions and clarifications for things like "electronic mail."Taken from the ... More >>

Today In Music News: Not A Real Supergroup, Pearl Jam Don't Know How The Internet Works And Francis Bean Needs To Unfriend Her Mom

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 11, 2010... Is it really fair to call a supergroup a combination of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin when there isn't a real Zeppelin member in the band?I realize the members of Pearl Jam and their team aren't from the internet generation... but, ... More >>

ACL '09: Pearl Jam Regains Its Rightful Place Atop The Rock World

Photos by Patrick Michels​It had been 15 years--according, at least, to one of Eddie Vedder's asides during the closing set of this weekend's Austin City Limits Music Festival--since Pearl jam had played what he called "The Live Music Capital of the Nation." And, as such, Vedder promised the mud-c ... More >>

ACL '09: The Rain's Stopped (For Now) As Crowds Wait For Pearl Jam--And Maybe The Toadies?

​The early outlook here on the Day Three of the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival isn't too bad. The sun has peeked out from behind the clouds here and there, and, for the time being, the rain has held off. Forecasts appear to indicate more rain as the day continues, though, and, surely ... More >>

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Watch: Pearl Jam At Trees On Oct. 10, 1991

There aren't any Dallas-area Pearl Jam dates in sight--not unless you're among us planning to head to Austin for ACL to see the band headlining the fest on Sunday, October 4--so let's end the day with this little treat, courtesy of an apparent Pearl Jam superfan, who, along with many other of the b ... More >>

"It's Kind of Like Conjuring a Ghost": George Gimarc's Getting the Edge Crew Back Together

Courtesy George Gimarc/94.5 ReunionThat's former KDGE jock Wendy Naylor at left, with the Sugarcubes and some oddly familiar young man backstage at the first Edgefest in 1992.Back in April we brought word of the KDGE-FM 20th anniversary shindig that George Gimarc's been putting together at the Lake ... More >>

Today In Music News: Pink Thinks Kanye Is A Waste, Pearl Jam Hooks Up With Target, And Jimi's Manager Did It... Allegedly

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 2, 2009... Pink thinks Kanye West is a "waste of skin" because he likes fur. Along with independent music retailers, Pearl Jam is going to let Target be the official point-of-purchase for its upcoming release. Way to fight the man, boys ... More >>

Let Me Ask to Speak With the Sportatorium

Steal from Channel 8's old Let Me Speak To the Manager and The Ticket's old Ask the Hard Line and what do you get? A Tuesday variably recurring time-waster featuring a bunch of people asking questions and one poor schmuck doing all the answering. Q: Who do you consider the most knowledgeab ... More >>

Today in Music News: Jeff Ament Is Still Alive, Kanye Blogs Against Twimposters, Stringer Bell Gets Musical

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009... Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing ag ... More >>

Today In Music News: Riots in Minnesota, Courtney Love in Business, and Lilith Fair in Europe

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Are you tired of your husband or boyfriend always wanting to have sex with you?  Well your prayers have been answered: Courtney Love is opening a lingerie store.Pearl Jam aren't selling out, they're buying in.  The ban ... More >>

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

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Equal Pours

Raise a glass for workplace diversity

On the Download

Some of the best music of 2006 wasn't exactly officially released (wink, wink)

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Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) (Epic)

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Riot Act (Epic)

Best Radio Station

KDBN-FM (93.3), The Bone

The Man Who

Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is the guy behind the guys

Letters

Shut Up, Already; Character Killer

Letters

Swine Among Pearls, Speaking of Whining, Slave to Soccer

Shut Up, Jeremy!

Two rock critics tackle all 25 live Pearl Jam albums, and for what? Nothing, man

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Out Here

Who are those guys?

Letters

Out There

Un-rock Star

Fired Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese seeks life after fame in North Texas

Out There

Roadshows

Roadshows

Quite a despair

Neil Young and Pearl Jam create the perfectly imperfect Mirror Ball

Jesus, this is really bad

The Nixons go national with the dread-inspiring Foma

A better man

Drummer Dave Abbruzzese considers life after Pearl Jam

Noise annoys

Compilation of "experimental music" skirts the line between art and nausea

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