Rick Rubin

If the Sound City Soundtrack Rocks Half as Hard as the Movie, It Will Rule

The Dave Grohl-directed documentary Sound City, is a loving and thoroughly entertaining docu-valentine to the legendary studio just outside of L.A. where many landmark albums were recorded. Throughout the film's first half, we're given glimpses of behind the scenes action on the making of such class ... More >>

Keith Morris and Steven McDonald Explain Off!'s Rise From The Ashes of The Circle Jerks.

Off!​From the Raymond Pettibon album art, which invokes his classic album covers for his brother Greg Ginn's band, Black Flag, to the thundering downstrokes, rubbery machine gun rhythms and brash spirit, Off! is a time machine to the early days of West Coast punk. And the band boasts two illu ... 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.

Q&A: Robert Randolph On Making His New Record With T Bone Burnett--And Hobnobbing With Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Robert Randolph​For the past decade, few artists have become as synonymous with their instrument as has Robert Randolph with his blazing steel guitar. And, given his place on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time list, Randolph had quite the luxury in choosing from an elite list ... More >>

Vinnie Paul and HELLYEAH! Find Their Rhythm

Chris Cornell's Made Some Missteps Along The Way To Stardom

Echoes and Reverberations: Liza Richardson's Infinite Axis of Influence

Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

The Halftime Report

With six months X'd off of the calendar year, we look back at the best music of the year—and wonder which albums we'll remember come December

MC 900 Ft. Jesus Lives

Indie-rap innovator MC 900 Ft. Jesus spins on, quietly, at Lee Harvey's

Singles Going Steady

High-Class Broads

Dixie Doc

In an instant, the Dixie Chicks went from country darlings to America's goats, and two filmmakers caught it all.

Waylon Away

Embryonic Chicks

Free to Download

How can you steal music you can't even buy?

Words of Wisdom

Hyah! Hyah! Sha-Clack-Clack! Or, the hip-hop poetry of Saul Williams.

Fade to Black

Jay-Z previews his latest opus, The Black Album

Set It Off

Tom Morello rages against a different machine with Audioslave

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners and wants no sympathy

The Force is With Them

MossEisley is young and talented. Will that be enough to keep these four siblings and the boy next door away from the music industry's dark side?

Johnny Cash / Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden (Sony Legacy)
American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
Dressed in Black (Dualtone)
Kindred Spirits (Sony)

Spider Webs

Mark Griffin resurrects MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Up Beats

Platinum records reward workaholic Cypress Hill producer Muggs

Oh bury me not

Johnny Cash sings of Love, God, Murder and how all three make him a legend

Out There

AC/DC , Steely Dan

All his ghosts

With a new album, Frank Black tries to live up to his own past

Out There

Timeless flights

The Byrds soar though the changes

Arts and craftsmen

After the Beasties and Beck, the Dust Brothers strike out on their own

Letters

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)