Peter Gabriel

We Have a Meat Fight Winner

Alice "Cheap Bastard" Laussade has spoken, so we have a winner in our Meat Fight caption contest. Apparently -- and this surprises her co-bloggers, who pegged her as more of an Anthrax fan -- Alice is into Peter Gabriel, 'cause she picked commenter mitchiswright's entry. How ... sensitive of her. S ... More >>

Santigold Finds a Balance With Her New Album

Yes Go's Jason Whitbeck: "Somebody Please Open Up Club Clearview Again."

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. Jason Whitbeck's come a long way since his earliest days in Deep Ellum, as a street rep slinging free Camel cigarettes. He's become quite a successful video director, shooting for notable ... More >>

One in a Brief Series: How Do Texas Rangers Fans Make It Through the Day After Last Night?

Photo by Rachel ParkerWhen you're put in tonight, C.J., yes, do that.​I'm having a rough day; from the sound of it, many of you are too. On the drive in to work today, this version of Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" came up on the iPod, randomly shuffled. I had to pull over. I asked Jamey Newberg: ... More >>

The Best Double Entendre Songs Of All Time

You mean that Primus song wasn't about this guy?​Primus is a band we discovered pretty early on in life and whose sharp and innovative playing we've only grown to respect more and more as we've aged. Unfortunately, though, our first exposure to the group was to their biggest single of the '90s:&nb ... More >>

Mom's Greatest Hits: Ten Songs Mom Jammed While Driving

​With Mother's Day almost upon us, we can't help but look back on the days when mom schlepped us kids around in the station wagon, minivan or what-have-you. While we were in the backseat losing french fries in the seat creases, getting chewing gum stuck to the back of mom's headrest and picking on ... More >>

A Look at The "New" Moody Coliseum (and a Listen to Some Classic Moody Music)

​Perhaps you've heard: The Moody Foundation is putting $20 million toward giving the great Moody Coliseum an extreme makeover, as evidenced by the conceptuals provided by SMU (more follow after the jump). But that's but half of what the Hilltop needs to fund the project, expected to run closer to ... More >>

Get Piggy Wit It: 20 Slogans Better than Pork's New One

The Frisky​Today the Associated Press regaled us with the news that the National Pork Board (right? Take your time with that one) announced its decision to replace its nearly 25-year-old slogan "The Other White Meat." Bold decision -- the old one's a brilliant slogan. It equates pork with the ubiq ... More >>

The Problem With... Bruno Mars' "Grenade"

I sorta get it: Bruno Mars is an innocent puppy who sees the best in women. He showed as much in his first single "Just the Way You Are." Well, checking back on that song, the title should have read, "Just the Way You Look." Why? Because it focused mostly on the girl's appearance. And let's face it: ... More >>

35 Songs Hollywood Needs To Stop Using

"Somebody Once Told Me The World..." SHUT UP​Dear Hollywood, We know it's hard to cut trailers, and you want to the maximum possible appeal. It's understandable, and we all know the game. Unfortunately, you've recently achieved critical mass on one subject: overused, hackneyed trailer songs. Some ... More >>

Watch: Alan Palomo Interviews The Crap Out of Peter Gabriel for Stereogum's New Series

Yesterday, Stereogum launched a new bit called Exposure, where musicians interview other musicians--like a hipster, music-focused Interview magazine (redundant?) except that it's on video and online. For the debut episode, the Dallas-bred Alan Palomo of Neon Indian gets tapped to interview one Peter ... More >>

Today In Music News: Aerosmith Heads Up Download Festival, Franz Ferdinand Starts New Album And Peter Gabriel May Or May Not Reunite With Genesis

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 16, 2010...Aerosmith is slated to headline the Download Festival in England this summer... if the band has a singer by then.Franz Ferdinand is working on its fourth album.Peter Gabriel may reunite with Genesis for their Rock and Roll Hall ... More >>

Flashback Friday: Genesis's Moody Blues

​I have some hazy memory of my slightly older cousin going to SMU in March 1977 to see Genesis, then touring behind A Trick Of The Tail, the band's first album with Phil Collins as lead singer. My cousin -- who, earlier today, threatened a libel suit if I printed his name -- also has a vague recol ... More >>

Playhouse Builder

Ten Years!

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 >>

Today In Music News: Smashing Pumpkins Auditions News Drummers, Green Day Preps American Idiot For Stage and Peter Gabriel Tries Saving Mexico

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 31, 2009... Play drums? Like being bossed around by a bald ego-maniac? Then run right down and audition to be the new drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins on April 10! If you had any doubts that Green Day had moved on from their punk rock roo ... More >>

Yaz Reunites, Plans Total Situation At Lakewood Theater

Genesis Concert Footage From 1977

Fair to Midland Grind on with New Single, Tour

Low

Thursday, October 4, at the Palladium

Favorite Fables

Local boys make good

Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts

Friday, May 11, at House of Blues' Cambridge Room

Singles Going Steady

What's Hot on iTunes

Paul Brill

Harpooner (Scarlet Shame)

Spock´s Beard

Sunday, May 14, at Ridglea Theatre

Robert Downey Jr.

The Futurist (Sony Classical)

The Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

Gere and J. Lo Dance, and there's nothing dirty about it

Daniel Lanois

July 24

Libby Kirkpatrick

November 6

2003 Dallas Observer Music Awards

A Sad Salvation

At SXSW, you couldn't hear the bad news over all that music

Now Hear This!

Apartheid didn't stand a chance against so many songs

Erasure

Other People's Songs (Mute)

Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys; the Black Heart Procession; Joseph Arthur

October 22-24

Cat Scratch Fever

Plus: Good to The Bone, Eat Your Heart Out, Do the Perp Walk

Bad Ideas, Inc.

The Bone rocks The Merge right off your FM dial

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Three Axes to Grind

The California Guitar Trio is a band that really does deserve the labels of "eclectic" and "synergistic"

Coop de grace

These British filmmakers do Chicken right

Out There

Peter Gabriel

Swank sweat lodge

Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

Out Here

Out Here

Out There

Out Here

Holmes style

NY's Holmes Brothers are the Magi of soul

Water from a deeper well

TV special documents the building of Wrecking Ball

Out There

Roadshows