Rick Rubin

Preview: ZZ Top at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Sunday, June 24, at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Producer Lou Medina: "Learning How To Manage a Session and Keep Everyone From Arguing Is an Art."

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in local music. Lou Medina was born in Denton, grew up in Brooklyn, and moved back to DFW after getting his feet wet behind the turntables. He makes his living as a studio producer and devotes his time beyond that ... More >>

Celebrate Johnny Cash's 80th Birthday By Listening to His March '97 Show at the Majestic

​Been saving this one for today: February 26, the day John R. Cash was born in Kingland, Arkansas in 1932. It's a keepsake from Cash's last-ever show in Dallas: March 15, 1997, at the Majestic Theatre, with June Carter Cash by his side. Johnny had hoped to hit the road months earlier to tour behin ... More >>

Yelawolf

Saturday, February 18, at Trees

10 Intriguing Classic Rock Albums to Watch for in 2012

Roger CaldwellFinally, another excuse to use this photo​Most all of us know the deal when it comes to new music from a famous, old school rock artist: It's a waiting game. A waiting game daunted with a lot of vague answers, and sometimes pretty flaky behavior. Some would say this is due to ... 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 >>

The Avett Brothers Refuse To Look Back.

Tonight, Tonight: Linkin Park at the AAC, Diana Ross at the Majestic, GalleryCat at Club Dada, Sic Alps at Hailey's and The Slackers at The Loft

It's a busy Wednesday evening that features a rescheduled arena show, two great club performances and a local bill that will definitely have the oddest fashion sense out of all of these options...

Linkin Park

Wednesday, March 2, at American Airlines Center

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 >>

Tonight, Tonight: Tom Petty and ZZ Top at Superpages, Jurassic Park: The Musical at Dan's, Black Tusk and Radio Moscow at The Nightmare

Interesting couple of "shows" happening in the North Texas area tonight. Fans of classic rock, metal and bizarre performance art all have something to look forward to this evening.

Brothers in Arms

The Avetts don't let success get in the way of family

ACL '09: School of Seven Bells Starts Day One Off On A High Note--And Offers Us Some Details On its Next Release.

Sorry if this post comes off as a little, I dunno, off. As I write this in the ACL press tent, Daniel Johnston's giving an on-air interview to my right, School of Seven Bells is giving a web chat interview to my left, and Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights are talking up a print report ... More >>

Metallica Returns To Relevance

Today In Music News: Perez Gets His, Kid Rock Teams With Rubin and Chris Brown Is Guilty

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 23, 2009... Perez Hilton allegedly got punched by the Black Eyed Peas' manager for calling Will.I.Am a "faggot."  It's funny how it's OK for him to call a straight man that. A little bit of a double standard, ya think? Kid Rock is ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Zune Lives, Jay-Z Gets Closer To Sony, and Chris Brown Wants Us To Know...

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... What do you do when your competition has about 90 percent of the market? You make your product link to the Xbox. Yep, Microsoft isn't ready to give up on the ol' Zune yet; it will launch the Zune HD in the fall. Looks like ... More >>

Britney Spears And The Greatest Music Comebacks Of All Time

Today In Music News: DMX In More Trouble, No Doubt Returns, Rick Rubin Works with Clipse, A Barenaked Lady Goes Solo

 Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 26, 2009... Apparently DMX has decided not to follow the Lord. It seems he'd rather assault a police officer while he's up in that system. He's possibly looking at another eight years. After a very long hiatus, No Doubt  ... More >>

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Danzig's Blackest of the Black Tour Promises to Melt Your Face Off

Heat Rave

Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.

Louisiana Woman

Loretta Lynn visits Bass Hall

Like Father, Not Like Son: Jakob Dylan Skipping Dallas

Making a List, Checking It Twice

He Will Survive

Cornell outlived grunge and didn't sink "Like a Stone"

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway )

Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

White Lightning

George Jones visits Bass Hall

Dixie Chicks

Taking the Long Way (Columbia)

It's the Chicks' "Time"

P.O.S.

Saturday, February 25, at Hailey's

Neil Diamond

12 Songs (Columbia)

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Paradise Found

The Velvet Teen might have been stars. They'd rather be a great band.

Various artists

Music From and Inspired by Spider-Man 2 (Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax)

Loretta Lynn

Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

The Definitive Take

Indie hip-hop label Definitive Jux plays kingmaker for the underground

Johnny Cash, 1932-2003

The Man in Black left his mark not only on the music world, but on ours as well

High Times

Once dismissed as novelty, G. Love & Special Sauce find a serious niche with Electric Mile

Hop online

Is Russell Simmons' 360HipHop.com the best hope to bring hip-hop culture onto the Internet?

Pressing on

Finally, June Carter Cash gets her own record, and maybe some of the credit she's always deserved

Out There

Electric funeral

Black Sabbath has reunited, but has it cost its members their souls?

Long journey home

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels roll on a perfect road

Back in black

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash are still our greatest Storytellers

The last roundup

Soul Food Cafe throws in the towel

Blood on the tracks

A former Chili Pepper embraces his demon

Blues with a feeling

Paul Size, ex-Red Devil guitarist and one-time Jagger sideman, leaves L.A. and returns home

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

Roadshows