Rage Against The Machine

David Bowie Tops the Dallas Independent Record Store Charts

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Consensus arose at Good Records and CD Source as David Bowie takes the lead in top selling alb ... More >>

The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high ... More >>

So, What's On Mitt Romney's iPod?

Over the last two nights of the Republican National Convention, both Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taken the time to mention the music on Romney's iPod, with Ryan, a noted Rage Against the Machine fan, saying, "There are the songs on his iPod whic ... More >>

Justin Young: "We Played This Place Called Club Nowhere in Fort Worth, That Was Opened By the Bouncer From the Apollo"

At some point in the near future, Justin Young might end up playing in every active band in Dallas. He recently filled with Menkena while also finding time to play with J. Charles and the Trainrobbers, Auxiliary Voice, Arm Tha Homeless and the beloved Hall & Oates cover band, The Rich Girls. Just a ... More >>

Ask Indie Grandpa: The Coachella Lineup

With the release of Coachella's lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and "good old days" music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella's lineup? First of all, morning ever ... More >>

Q & A: Clay Cook of the Zac Brown Band: "I Feel Like I Am Just The Icing On The Cake."

Douglas "Clay" Cook is the secret weapon in the Zac Brown Band. Not only did Cook earn his country rock credentials with two stints in the Marshall Tucker Band, the guy also has proven songwriting chops care of several collaborations with John Mayer. Although Cook was enjoying a moderately succe ... More >>

The Ten Best Songs Clear Channel "Banned" In The Days Following The September 11 Attacks

Courtesy of our sister paper up in New York.​Ten years ago today, three days after the September 11 attacks, Clear Channel sent out a mass email to its over 1,000 affiliate stations. The email included a list of songs with lyrics and/or titles that Clear Channel considered questionable in the wake ... More >>

Why Don't Mexicans Just Come to this Country Legally?

And how can we keep them out otherwise?

My First Show: The Get Up Kids' Jim Suptic Got A Black Eye in The Pit of A Helmet, The Jesus Lizard and Therapy? Show When He Was 15.

Get Up Kids​Jim Suptic co-founded The Get Up Kids back in 1995. Their first practice came on his 18th birthday. And, in the following years, his band became a touchstone in the emo community. But their beginnings were pretty humble: Eons before Weezer's Pinkerton was worshipped and the members of ... 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 >>

Unexpected Influences: Like The Rest of Us, Jonathan Tyler Loved Oasis As A Kid. And, Yes, He Wanted a Vanilla Ice Haircut, Too.

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Patrick MichelsJonathan Tyler​With the help of his band, The Northern Lights, Jonathan Tyler has used a passion for a variety of musical influences to fuel his soul-infused brand of Souther ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 30: Dean Dillinger

​Christian Dean Ward, perhaps better known around town as Dean Dillinger, got his start spinning records way back when, as a producer/board operator at WERQ-92.3 92Q Jams in Baltimore. "I used to play records for Reggie Reg and K-Swift (Rest In Power) when they went to the bathroom, or were on the ... More >>

Denton's Own Sly Stone Is The 38th Greatest Musical Artist of All-Time, Says VH1...

Speaking of Denton ranking highly on lists today, have you guys been watching VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time countdown this week? It's a guilty pleasure, for sure, especially if you enjoy hearing people like Sebastian Bach and members of the Barenaked Ladies talk about their musical heroes. ... More >>

Today In Music News: Gettin' Back In Time, Rage Heads To Arizona And Diplo Sees Through M.I.A.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 28, 2010...Because there was one band everyone missed, and now it is back. Ladies and gentlemen... The Time.Rage Against The Machine are headed to Arizona to protest their new immigration law.  Now, where again were it during the Bush adm ... More >>

Now, R.I.P. Dallas Has a Dream

I don't know -- stripped of Rage Against the Machine, the latest R.I.P. Dallas ad doesn't have the, ya know, punch. Still, though, I'd be interested to hear how the pro-hotel group came up with its second choice: Cincinnati-born Christian artist Nicole C. Mullen's "I Have a Dream," off her 2008 Word ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Chris Cornell, The Academy Is..., Mudvayne and Black Tie Dynasty

Chris Cornell @ The House of Blues, Saturday, Mar. 28Dude has been making music for 25 years!  A pioneer of grunge, Cornell was the vocalist (and drummer up until 1986) for Seattle-based band Soundgarden. After the group disbanded in 1997, Cornell went on to work with former Rage Against the Ma ... More >>

Mad Mexicans

Mad Mexicans EP (Self-released)

(Not So) Great Dane

Mr. Cook annoys the AAC

Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you get the best: Guitar Hero III

Action Sports Take Over Dallas

Those crazy kids have built our li'l skate rink into a huge international sport

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Fair Enough

The Great Mustachio

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Rage Against City Hall

Various artists

Assassination City Derby: Watch Your Head, Vol. 1 (Crow)

Deep Shit

Thought Deep Ellum's rep was bad? It only gets worse at this weekend's Dallas Music Festival.

System of a Down

Mezmerize (Sony)

On the Warped Path

Music, mud wrestling and middle fingers at the Vans Warped Tour

Rock On, Denton

A report from the first-ever WakeUp '04 festival

Rage Against the Machine

Live at the Grand Olympic Ballroom (Epic)

The Zapruder Sequence

The Zapruder Sequence (Self-released)

The Vans Warped Tour

July 19

Set It Off

Tom Morello rages against a different machine with Audioslave

Papa Roach

February 1

A List of Lists

Counting down 2002

Audioslave

Audioslave (Epic/Interscope)

El-P

Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)

System of a Down

February 18

Sum 41

November 23 and 24

Scene, Heard

Selected songs disappear from the playlists at Clear Channel stations

Rage Against the Machine

Renegades (Epic Records)

Drive Away

Living in Los Angeles, At the Drive-In does Texas proud

In sync

The Dark Side of Oz? Man, that's just the tip of the iceberg

Korn

The weak in rock

Out Here

Wizards of Wu

How Wu-Tang Clan won the world

Out There

Little mascara

The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up