Robyn Hitchcock

The Good Show's Tom Urquhart: "Robyn Hitchcock Says Music Is Communion, and I Believe That"

Tom Urquhart's Saturday KTCU FM 88.7 radio show, The Good Show, is up for another nomination in this year's Dallas Observer Music Awards, for Best Radio Show. It's exactly what Fort Worth needs a little more of: A vehicle to make their local music scene all the more cohesive and accessible. Urquhar ... More >>

Neil Young's Latest Journey Hits the Demme Trilogy, Opens Tonight at the Angelika

by Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's something wilder--or at least, more directly stimulating and pure--about Jonathan Demme's live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Hea ... More >>

Jonathan Demme's Neil Young Journeys, Another Journey Worth Joining

Crushed Stars on Seeing KISS, Prince and The Replacements

Crushed Stars' newest record, In the Bright Rain, came out this week, and to celebrate, we asked band mastermind Todd Gautreau and drummer Jeff Ryan about their first shows. What was the first show you remember seeing? Were you with your parents? Todd Gautreau: My first show was KISS. I must have b ... More >>

140-Character SXSW 2011 Show Reviews: Yuck, James Blake, Josh T. Pearson, John Vanderslive, Sun Airway, The Cave Singers, Small Black and Okkervil River

​Because nothing is more happening at SXSW than Twitter right now -- or so we can only assume by all the people we're seeing with eyes fixated on their cameras instead of their phones -- we present to you reviews of the shows we caught last night, in standard, 140-character form. In all, we caught ... More >>

Joe Ely Does "Dallas," In Dallas

What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely's extraordinary, intimate "Storytellers" performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night's "Behind the Bamboo Shade" followed by Ely's rendition of the immortal "Dallas," penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the ... More >>

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 >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Tomorrow Night At The Granada

George Wright In this week's print product, Elliott Johnston offers up his approval of noted underground eccentric Robyn Hitchcock, practically imploring you to check out his performance with his backing band, The Venus 3 (REM's Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, The Minus 5's Scott McCaughey), tomorrow n ... More >>

Good Friday: Riverboat Gamblers, Quintron, True Widow, Free Reign, Two Tons of Steel, Weener, Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Hoyotoho, Obscenely Unseen IV, Taproot

It's coming up on that time of the year...Sorry this is coming a little late, folks. Been busy around here all day. In fact, I just left our first planning meeting for the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards. What can I reveal? Well, we turn 21 this year, so there's that. Also, the showcase will ... More >>

Robyn Hitchcock

Saturday, April 4, at the Granada Theater

Roger McGuinn, Legendary Frontman For The Byrds, Is Still Flying

Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop canon hav ... More >>

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

Blinded by Ambition

Thomas Dolby continues searching for science and some overdue respect

Paul Brill

New Pagan Love Song (Scarlet Shame)

Summer Camp

Demme goes for the knowing giggle in his Candidate overhaul

Please Kill Me

The sounds, the sweat, the stink, of SXSW 2004

The Misfits

The fantastic, the majestic...the Decemberists

Turn Up the Volume

Check out Robot Monster Weekend, the best new band we've heard in a while

Various Artists

Brand New Boots and Panties (Gold Circle Records) / Listen to What the Man Said (Oglio Records)

Booby Traps

Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt keep abreast of crime in Heartbreakers

Tired of Waiting

The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

The old new media blues

The singer-songwriter hasn't died. He's just gone online.

Bug in your ear

For 25 years, Bug Music has protected the rights of songwriters. In the process, it's gotten Willie Dixon's songs back from Led Zeppelin and transformed Iggy Pop into a TV commercial composer.

War in peace

Skip Spence recorded one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a tribute album is giving him life again.

Across the Bar

Bill's Records get Hitchcock; Quality Park fills Centro-Matic; Tripping Daisy headlines and mainlines Joe Butcher; Go Metric stays

More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album

Various artists (Birdman Records)

Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue

Deep Ellum Live, August 8

Robyn Hitchcock

Jewels for Sophia (Warner Bros. Records)

Slick 57

Drunk Life (Deuce-Hi Records)

Big bear hug

Denton's Little Grizzly debuts with a quiet but gratifying roar

Homewardsounds

Picking the best locally made records of 1998 was easy. Who knew?

Frogs on film

Robyn Hitchcock's new record is a soundtrack to a film that does exist--yet doesn't

Art-pop explosion!

Go Metric USA makes pop music for smart people

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

You've got to hide your love away

Hard Night's Day to continue despite departure of founding member

Bad news

Death of Rockadelic co-owner leaves a scene in the lurch

Out There

Out Here

The unusual suspects

At South by Southwest, the magic moments count the most

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released