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Ride For Dime Proves "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott Is Not Forgotten.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Cure Disintegrate at Starplex in September '89

​As we head into the long, steamy three-day weekend (for some), let me make good on a promise: In advance of Rhino Records' June 8 release of the three-disc Disintegration: Deluxe Edition, The Cure is now streaming a hunk of its September 15, 1989, Prayer Tour stop-over at Starplex. And by "a hunk ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure (In a Couple of Weeks): The Cure at Starplex

​It ain't hard finding a recording of The Cure's September 15, 1989, stop at Starplex in support of Disintegration -- they're out there, trust me. But there's no need to settle for so-so quality: A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that in advance of Rhino Records' release of the three-disc Disinte ... More >>

The Great Floyd Dakil, Who Taught Dallas to "Dance, Franny, Dance," Has Died at 63

The great Floyd Dakil, at far left, died over the weekend.​David Dennard just sent some devastating news: Floyd Dakil is dead. Circumstances remain a little murky, but his bandmates in both Floyd Dakil and the Pitmen and the Floyd Dakil Combo confirm that the man behind the quintessential Dallas r ... More >>

Finally, Thomas Jefferson High's Mike Nesmith Makes It Into Texas Film Hall of Fame

​The Austin Film Society just sent word: After inducting the likes of Morgan Fairchild, Rushmore, the director of Twilight and most everyone else who's ever made a TV show or rented a movie in Texas, it's getting around to putting Mike Nesmith in the Texas Film Hall of Fame come March. Per the pre ... More >>

Jesus Christ! This Year's Nine Worthwhile Christmas Discs

​The Austin Film Society just sent word: After inducting the likes of Morgan Fairchild, Rushmore, the director of Twilight and most everyone else who's ever made a TV show or rented a movie in Texas, it's getting around to putting Mike Nesmith in the Texas Film Hall of Fame come March. Per the pre ... More >>

Unsatisfied? Not For Long You're Not.

​The Austin Film Society just sent word: After inducting the likes of Morgan Fairchild, Rushmore, the director of Twilight and most everyone else who's ever made a TV show or rented a movie in Texas, it's getting around to putting Mike Nesmith in the Texas Film Hall of Fame come March. Per the pre ... More >>

Diagramming Modern English

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Rock 'n' Rumble: Lovie vs. The Valentines

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

T.D. Jakes Wants Don Imus Fired. He Also Has a New CD He'd Like You to Buy.

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Press Releases...With a Kick!

With a new four-CD retrospective, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Brit rock

Reconsider Him

At the end, Warren Zevon's past is finally unearthed

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November 14

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Play It Loud

Scorsese rockudrama remembers The Band

Hits and Grins

The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold

Say It, Don't Sing It

IFC's new documentary, Crossover

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Back to the Bass

Dallas-born Harry Babasin was one of jazz's great bass players--and is one of its most forgotten pioneers

Out There

The Power Puff Girls

Stop the music

In The Suburbans, one-hit wonders reunite for no-laugh movie

Rock this town

Or: Oh, look...it's another end-of-the-century list

Chick magnet

Don't ask Ani DiFranco about her business

Cardboard tombstones

In the wake of the Ellington 100, lesser zombie boxed sets walk among us

Lush life

Pianist Cedar Walton has played with and known -- and been -- the best

Love hurts

Arthur Lee was the mastermind of one of rock's most influential -- and most forgotten -- bands. Today he's in prison, and for the first time, he's talking.

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Out There

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Soul brother No. 1

Quiet! Do not disturb while Bobby Patterson is making love to a microphone on KKDA-AM

Listen up

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

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

Frustrated

You got the Knack a long time ago, but Doug Fieger thinks you need it again

Not fade away

Two garage-rock compilations raise The Esquires, Irving's psychedelic-rock greats, from the dead

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Out There

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

Out There

This season's Christmas album offerings

Soul brother number one

Ray Charles rules a far-flung kingdom

Out There

Ray Charles rules a far-flung kingdom

Back on the bus

HighTone's Roadhouse tour revives rock and roll caravan

Punk, polka, and puke

New releases: Sonic Youth, Los Lobos, The The, and Mr. Spock

Buzz

New releases: Sonic Youth, Los Lobos, The The, and Mr. Spock