R.E.M.

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 >>

R.E.M. May Be Gone Now, But We'll Always Have That '86 Fair Park Band Shell Show

​If you care at all, by now surely you've heard: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills have called it a day. Good Lord -- has it really been 31 years? "I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision," Stipe writes on the band's website, "but all things must end, and we wanted to do it rig ... More >>

Live, From Reunion Arena, It's R.E.M. on MTV

Over on Unfair Park a little while ago I said my piece about R.E.M.'s unexpected farewell, conveyed via the band's website, and directed your attention to the band's 1986 stopover at the Fair Park Band Shell -- a must-have on this or any other day. I also reminded Pete about the '95 show at Reunion ... More >>

Looking Back at Some Other Local Music MTV Moments (Not All Involving the Toadies, Swear)

I see our music blog's celebrating MTV's 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I'm old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left off the list -- like, say, the ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode at Bronco Bowl

​So far on this apparently never-ending jaunt down Amnesia Lane we've visited the Bronco Bowl a handful of times, dropping in on the Clash, Squeeze, the Cure, the Replacements and Bruce Springsteen. But there are still myriad memories from the Fort Worth Ave. haunt I'd like to chase down, among th ... More >>

For Your Easter Sunday Listening Pleasure: R.E.M. Sends One Out to the Grads of SMU

Via.​Speaking of great shows at Moody Coliseum ...Floating out in the ether, all by its unmarked lonesome, is this resonant echo: R.E.M. at Moody Coliseum on November 18, 1987 -- a stop along The Work Tour in support of that year's Document, the band's fifth and final album for I.R.S. Records. I w ... More >>

Old 97's To Release Covers EP, Mimeograph, Next Week

​Well, this kinda came out of nowhere: Next week--a week from tomorrow, in fact--the Old 97's will release a four-song covers EP, called Mimeograph, via new West Records. The album, which comes before the band's planned double-album release this fall, finds the old Dallas favorites covering The Ro ... More >>

Stu Discious

Stu Discious (Self-released)

Today In Music News: Everybody Really Hurts, Fall Out Boy Could Be Done And Black Grape Gets Back Together

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 3, 2010...What's worse than a remake of "We Are The World?" A Simon Cowell-headed remake of REM's "Everybody Hurts," featuring Miley Cyrus, James Blunt and Susan Boyle. At least it's for charity...?So, Fall Out Boy may be permanently fi ... 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 >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Tomorrow Night At The Granada

George Wright In this week's print product, Elliott Johnston offers up his approval of noted underground eccentric Robyn Hitchcock, practically imploring you to check out his performance with his backing band, The Venus 3 (REM's Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, The Minus 5's Scott McCaughey), tomorrow n ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

More Gift Ideas: 'Tis the Season for Reissues

Still looking for that perfect gift for the music lover in your family? Well, the holiday season is traditionally a time when compilations, box sets and reissues flood the marketplace--and this year is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the surprising high quality of this year's re-issue ... More >>

R.E.M., Old 97's

Friday, October 24, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

R.E.M. Announce Dallas Show With Old 97's As Opener

R.E.M.

Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Fair to Midland Grind on with New Single, Tour

What You Will Be Listening to This Weekend With Your Ears

Listen Up: Midlake, R.E.M. Tribute

Interpol

Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

The Shiny Happy Spree

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

Hooked on Hookers

Amphi-Theatre

Oxford Collapse

A Good Ground (Kanine)

New Order

Waiting for the Sirens' Call (Warner Bros.)

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Making a Difference?

For musicians these days, speaking out against President Bush isn'trisky so much as trendy

Bright Eyes, Jim James, M. Ward

Friday, October 8

R.E.M.

Around the Sun (Warner Bros.)

Punk Monk

Paul Bettany gets medieval in The Reckoning

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

Reggie and the Full Effect, Midtown, A Static Lullaby and Motion City Soundtrack

July 25

Busy Schedule

NextStage has a full dance card

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

The Polyphonic Spree, Now It's Overhead, Broken Spindles; Girls Against Boys, Radio 4; Seana Carmody, Emily Sparks, the Reputation

September 20 & 25

I Am the World Trade Center, VHS or Beta

June 20

Hefner

Dead Media (Too Pure)

Listening In

Three girls sing their Song, and you can't forget the words

R.E.M.

Reveal (Warner Bros.)

Pickin' a winner

CMH Records has given '80s faves a musical makeover, whether you like it or not

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

The music man

Lenny Waronker is a rock-biz legend, but is that enough to make DreamWorks Records a success?

Grown Up

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

The Buck stops here

With Tuatara and R.E.M., Peter Buck goes on some new adventures in hi-fi

Power trio

Peter Buck goes West with Eitzel, Middle Eastern with Tuatara, and everywhere else with Minus 5

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music