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Out There

Blood on the tracks

A former Chili Pepper embraces his demon

Echoes and Reverberations: Anthony and Flea's Tube Sock Diaries

When you're 23 years old, it's all about smoking dope out of an empty beer can, having sex in the backseat of your car, and watching Soul Train the next morning with a hammer-to-the-forehead hangover. At least, it would've been for me, if I had actually owned my own automobile. That period of my lif ... More >>

Tracy Feith Was "Now" Long Before Dressing Michelle Obama and Target Shoppers

Courtesy Jeff LilesDecadent Dub Team in Oklahoma City in 1993, from left: Jeff Liles, Tracy Feith and DJ EZ Eddie D. Says Jeff, "Check out Tracy's belt buckle, beeper and coonskin hat."Jeff Liles, whose can't-miss trip down Amnesia Lane this week features a visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at th ... More >>

Out There

Courtesy Jeff LilesDecadent Dub Team in Oklahoma City in 1993, from left: Jeff Liles, Tracy Feith and DJ EZ Eddie D. Says Jeff, "Check out Tracy's belt buckle, beeper and coonskin hat."Jeff Liles, whose can't-miss trip down Amnesia Lane this week features a visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at th ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

Scene, heard

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

Blur

Blur: The Best of (Virgin)

Tricky

Blowback (Hollywood Records)

The Coral

March 14

Echoes and Reverberations: When 'The Summer of Love' Meant Sex In a Club

"Are you one of the beautiful people? Is my name on the list? I want to be with the beautiful people... I wanna feel like I'm missed..." Eels - "Guest List" I went to high school with a kid named Greg Holman. His father was a painter named George, who lived in the old Expo Park space that l ... More >>

The Mars Volta | Vendetta Red

De-Loused in the Comatorium (Strummer/Universal) | Between the Never and the Now (Epic)

Name dropping

Does a Bicycle Theif by any other name sound as sweet?

Cred Sheet

Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

Road Trippin'

Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley

Saturday, January 13, at the American Airlines Arena

Double Trouble

Eels still reel from one of history's best double albums, but history isn't so kind to others

Dixie Chicks

Taking the Long Way (Columbia)

Dancin' Shoes

Our judge gets down at the Ultra DJ competition

Pattern Recognition

Mapping out the trends of 2005

Book 'Em

Rock memoirs take us behind the music

Falling Stars

The Next Generation of sci-fi

Melody and malady

Blonde Redhead turns some Lemons into lemonade on its latest album

Section-al harassment

Who's improv bit is it anyway?

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: Kiss Get Own M&M's, Angels & Airwaves Gives It Away and Red Hot Chili Peppers Return To The Studio

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 4, 2009... I would've thought the guys of Kiss would've thought of this one a lot sooner: Limited edition Kiss M&M's. Tom DeLonge may be touring with his old band Blink-182 this summer, but he still has his other band Angels & ... More >>

Girls, Girls, Girls

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 4, 2009... I would've thought the guys of Kiss would've thought of this one a lot sooner: Limited edition Kiss M&M's. Tom DeLonge may be touring with his old band Blink-182 this summer, but he still has his other band Angels & ... More >>

Chickenfoot

Monday, September 21,at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Kick the Bucket in '10?

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Swiss Ave. Church, Now Actor's Home and Artists Residence, Almost a City Landmark

Good night, Corabeth: The city is one step closer to certifying the former St. Joseph's church and school a historic landmark.​I may have to tag along with the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee on Wednesday evening when it makes a visit to the former St. Joseph's Church and Academy on Sw ... More >>

It Took Less Than a Year to Resurrect the 68-Year-Old Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff

James BlandBack when Mark Griffin was better known as MC 900 Ft Jesus​It was but 10 months ago we first told you about Edwin Cabaniss's efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theater on W. Davis Street in Oak Cliff. How time flies, as tomorrow night it makes its formal bow with, among other events, Jame ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Concerts I've Been To In Dallas

​Saw Blue October Friday night at House of Blues. Good. But not the best I've seen them. That would've been the show back in the summer of 2004 at the Lakewood Theater when lead singer Justin Furstenfeld - bum knee and crutches be damned - was as passionate as any singer I've ever seen. Got m ... More >>

Today In Music News: Smashing Pumpkins Get New Bassist, Carlos D Splits And Chili Peppes Get Different

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 11, 2010...Billy Corgan sure does have a thing for female bass players... and being an ego maniac.Carlos D and his sweet over-the-shoulder pistol holster has quit Interpol.The Red Hot Chili Peppers are hard at work on a "different sound" on it' ... More >>

Good Friday: The Hood Internet, The Gourds, Air Review, Dead Meadow, The Eagles, Chicago, Femme Fest, The Orbans, Sir Silky, Early Republic, and others...

Clayton HauckThe Hood Internet​The Hood Internet is playing The Loft tonight, and as Pete explained earlier in the week, "White people really like hearing their favorite rap lines placed over their favorite indie rock anthems," which is what The Hood Internet does really well. And since the theme ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Misery and Gin and Merle Haggard at the Longhorn

​A couple of years back, in his Echoes & Reverberations piece about the Longhorn, Jeff Liles ran the picture you see here -- good God, that must have been quite the back-to-back. But that's from January 1978. This week's offering comes later, in February 1982, when Merle Haggard and the Strang ... More >>

Arbitrarily Grading The Year That Was: A Look Back At The Major Music Happenings of 2010.

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

Under the Bridge Downtown

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

BUZZ KILL: Fifteen Songs About What Happens To You When You Do Drugs.

​Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, "totally killer."Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to "harsh your mellow" and all, but, um, some of us don't work behind the counter at the local head shop; w ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

The Problem With... Lil Wayne's "How to Love"

​After a couple of delays this year, Lil Wayne's next album, Tha Carter IV, is coming out next month. And, presumably to make amends for the pushbacks, he went ahead and released a mixtape, Sorry 4 The Wait, yesterday.I don't mind waiting a little longer for an album to drop if an artist is good f ... More >>

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 >>

UPDATE: Red Hot Chili Peppers Reschedule Dallas Date For October

Red Hot Chili Peppers. Is there no end to their zaniness?​In the days leading up to Friday night's How The Edge Stole Christmas, KDGE 102.1-FM The Edge's annual holiday music festival at Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre, the radio station talked up a big concert announcement that was to be made som ... More >>

Best Musical Trends of 2011

OK, Sexy Sax Man. Just 15 more minutes. ​Tell the world, rock is coming home This year saw a wave of rock bands catching up to a new generation. We got Soundgarden touring again, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink-182 and even less renowned bands like Urge Overkill and Bush releasing new albums. Aft ... More >>