Ray Wylie Hubbard

The Benefit of In-Store Performances in Cold, Hard, Record Sales Numbers

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. Local performer, Wayne Hancock recently released his new album Ride and reaches top ten in sal ... More >>

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 Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 14-17

Patti Labelle Thursday, February 14, at The American Airlines Center, $31-$86 KSOC-FM "Old School" 94.5 has earned the nickname "The Baby Making Station," as the station's nighttime programming of "Old School Lovin'" has become a go-to staple of gatherings in the area. So it comes as no surprise tha ... More >>

Toro Y Moi Tops This Week's Dallas 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. Yo la Tengo and Tame Impala are still doing well this week; however, new to the mix and top se ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard on Late Show with David Letterman (VIDEO)

Ray Wylie Hubbard is a storyteller without equal, who inspired a flock of country and blues poets. The Dallas native made a stop this week on Letterman, in promotion of last year's The Grifter's Hymnal. He and his excellent band played a track from that album, "Mother Blues," which remembers the nig ... More >>

Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic at Billy Bob's

Wednesday, July 4, at Billy Bob's

Five Local Songs Worth Checking Out Right Now: Blackstone Rangers, Picnictyme, Mystery Skulls, Lincoln Durham and New Science Projects

We've reached the halftime portion of 2012, where everyone's scrambling to tally their faves from the past six months. Instead of looking back, we thought it'd be more productive to address what you should be listening to in the future. Here are a few DFW songs to check out, as you ease into Memoria ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard Through The Lens Of a New Generation

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Sunday's Float Event with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry and More

The first of three planned holiday weekend concerts on Lake Lewisville goes down this Sunday, May 27, with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Wayne Hancock, Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance, Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos and The O's. The concept of Float: You'll be able to swim, enjo ... More >>

Float Comes To Lake Lewisville Memorial Day Weekend: Are You Ready To Party On A Boat With Ray Wylie Hubbard?

So, you can probably already tell this summer is going to be rough, right? Like, "Fireballs From the Sky" b/w "Heat Gusts From Hell." Enjoy that breeze while you can. With that in mind, the Observer, Spune and Dan's Silverleaf have partnered up for a concert series that actually puts you on a boat ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard Through the Lens of a New Generation

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Townes, Guy and Ray Wylie at the Three Teardrops

​Whenever I drive down this stretch of IndustrialRiverfront, which is often, I think about what used to be there: the Three Teardrops Tavern, the honky-tonk that served as home-away-from for old-timers (Boots Bourquin was a regular), newcomers (Ed Burleson got his start there) and those in-between ... More >>

10 Albums To Not Overlook In 2012

In case you're already blinded by the golden aura of 2012's major releases -- The Shins, T.I., Soundgarden, Nicki Minaj, Mumford & Sons, Muse, Sigur Ros -- we want to make sure you don't forget about some other sure-to-be-top-notch albums that will see release next year. They may not shine on the iT ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Friday, December 9, at the Kessler Theater

Apply To Be the Next Shiner Rising Star; New Grant Jones Song

​For fans of country music here in North Texas, it's hard to imagine hitting the various bars and honky-tonks of our fine area without stumbling upon performances from folks such as Somebody's Darling, The Will Callers or Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos. Aside from being among the area's ... More >>

Take Your Pick: Dance, Drink or Mosh At Tonight's Solid Show Options

Everybody's going to be doing a brand new dance at one of tonight's shows...

The Many, Ongoing Interests of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Good Friday: Wilco Performs in Denton, and the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

Autumn de WildeWilco​As we enter a pretty solid weekend of shows, we can't help but look to Saturday night as the best of them all. That's when Wilco performs at the University of North Texas. The tickets for the show have been sold out for weeks. But, starting tomorrow at noon, according to the b ... More >>

Listomania: Ten Songs To Help The Bronx Zoo Cobra Stay Strong

If you hold on for one more day, things'll go your way.​The infamous, mostly deadly, 20-inch snake that vanished from a Bronx Zoo's Reptile House five days ago (and may or may not have created a Twitter account in the process) was captured this afternoon. According to the Huffington Post, the thin ... More >>

Good Friday: Bro Fest, Kessler Theater Turns One, Peter Murphy, Roman Numerals, Tombs, Robert Earl Keen, Third Day, Rural Alberta Advantage, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Toro Y Moi, Snoop Dogg, Valient Thorr & More!

The Greenhornes headline Bro Fest 2011​This weekend is all about South By Southwest spillover, and the entity that is taking advantage the most is Parade of Flesh, who will be hosting the third annual Bro Fest all day on Sunday at Club Dada. For more information on the 22-band, half-indie, half-me ... More >>

Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr., Cary Ann Hearst

Thursday, December 30, at Granada Theater

Haiti Benefit Concerts Scheduled In Austin And Dallas, And Paste 'Songs For Haiti' Downloads Include Fort Worth Band

Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are among the artists available for download once you donate to Paste Magazine's Songs For Haiti.​Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy char ... More >>

Don't Bogart This Rare (Roach) Clip From Jose Feliciano, Performed Long Ago in a KNUS Haze

​So, yes, this is a weekly feature now -- your Friday acid flashback, courtesy the copious collection of one George Gimarc, with whom we're awfully proud to partner. A brief recap so far: KNUS news tuned up with sitar, followed by A Very Roky Halloween. Now, it gets even better as George continues ... More >>

A Friday (Acid) Flashback, or: Local Radio Newcasts Could Still Use a Little More Sitar

​The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked up hours' worth ... More >>

Gig(s) Alert: Great Roots Rock--At Several Area Spots--Tonight

Those looking for a way to start the weekend early--especially those with a proclivity for Americana--can do so at a variety of local establishments tonight.Aside from the much-heralded Lucinda Williams kicking up her heels at the House of Blues this evening, you can also catch Austinite Jason Allen ... More >>

Line Up Announced for Austin's 22nd Annual Old Settler's Music Festival

Hubbard's on the Old Settler's bill.A lot of you may be asking yourself--just as I just asked myself--what in hell's name an Old Settler's Music Festival is. But before getting dismissive about anything not called SXSW, you might want to check out the line up for this shindig.Over a four-day period ... More >>

Willie-Nilly

The Richardson Wildflower Festival with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Blue Oyster Cult, America, Everclear, Eve Six and more

Friday through Sunday, May 16-18, Galatyn Park, Richardson

Oh, So That's What Happened To Eve 6!

You Don't Have to Head to SXSW to Find a Festival This Week

Dallas has something for all tastes in town

Gurf Morlix

Saturday, April 14, at the AllGood Café

Those Lemony Fresh Scents

Viva La Revolución!

This weekend, Southfork becomes The Range

Adam Carroll

Saturday, July 16, at Plano ArtCentre Theatre

Guthrie Kennard

Ranch Road 12 (Armadillo Music)

Hayes Carll

Little Rock (Highway 97 Music)

Up to Code

In light of recent nightclub tragedies, Gypsy Tea Room takes action

All These Years

Early success was almost the end of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Let's do it again, one more time

Day for Knight

Ray Wylie Hubbard is no longer up against the wall, redneck mother

Red, white, and slew

Snap, crackle, pop! It's the 4th.

Out Here

Ten albums I played a lot in 1997

Out Here

Dedicated amateur

For longtime local music fixture Bucks Burnett, the playing is the thing

Classical gas

Paul Slavens goes from Freak Show to trio to solo

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Roadshows

Fight for a King

Houston club comes to town carrying a lawsuit with Elvis' estate

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