Polydor Records Ltd.

Frightened Rabbit's Less Scared These Days

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Mercy beat

Earl Harvin joins Matt Johnson's ever-changing band, The The

Signing off

Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

Vibrolux, at last

Kim Pendleton and Paul Quigg return

All the catchy songs

There was no bigger or better Texas band in the 1980s than The Judy's, who are long gone but not forgotten

Rory in the sky

The long-coming canonization of an Irish hero

Roadshows

The long-coming canonization of an Irish hero

Good vibrations

After a brief setback, local prodigy is again on track

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners

Stabbed in the redneck

KNON fixture Roy Ashley bids a fiery farewell

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

There's a tear in his beer

Carrol Collyer struggles to pay the tab at Naomi's Lounge

Big drummer boy

Funland's Will Johnson steps out from behind the kit

Hank, junior

Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

Star maker

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