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Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival - 8/10/12

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but vene ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Tom Cruise as a Hair-Metal God and Hair-Metal as Something Un-Awful

The Gay Selma

Schools ignore gay bullying at their own peril

Van Halen Postpones Handful of Concert Dates: Dallas Is Still On, Though

Better grab tickets for Van Halen's June 20 show at the American Airlines Center while you still can. The band's North American tour just got significantly lighter. Turns out the group (David Lee Roth'll be on hand for the Dallas) has postponed 30 or so concert dates after June 26, which means the ... More >>

Rolling Stone Article Launches Fracking Fight with Chesapeake

Chesapeake Energy and Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell are battling over his March feature. The abridged version of the lengthy piece, unpacked further by Brantley, goes like this: Drilling appears to be a Ponzi scheme with Chesapeake's founder, Aubrey McClendon, as its leader. Neither McClendon no ... More >>

Fracking Boom a Ponzi-Inflated Bubble About To Pop? Rolling Stone Sure Thinks So.

Is the United States the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas?" as President Barack Obama has said. Or has the energy industry used fuzzy math to hype its estimated reserves to entice buyouts and Wall Street investment? Tough to say for sure, but last month the U.S. Energy Information Administration scaled ... More >>

Well, Looks Like That Flaming Lips/Erykah Badu Collaboration Might Really Happen

Hey, remember last Friday, when we mentioned that Rolling Stone article in which Wayne Coyne mentioned he'd like to collaborate with Erykah Badu? And how that would probably be a good idea? Well, she got in her Badumobile and gunned it to Klearlight Studio in order to restore balance to the universe ... More >>

Wayne Coyne and Erykah Badu, Sittin' in a Tree?

Rolling Stone reported yesterday that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne -- who is seemingly everywhere these days, like those owls I talked about last week -- has put together an album of collaborations slated for April release. While he's already wrangled Bon Iver and Nick Cave (that is a collabo ... More >>

Hanson's MmmHop IPA To Be Released Next Year, Other Boy Band Beers Sure To Follow

​Rolling Stone, NME, and other outlets have reported that zit-laden superstars Hanson are preparing to market their own beer early next year. Cleverly titled Mmmhop, the IPA promises to bring bitter beer face to horny teenage girls all over the country. The band thinks the move is a logical ex ... More >>

Listen to Rhett Miller's New Live Covers Album The Interpreter: Live From Largo

​Looks like Rolling Stone has a jump on Rhett Miller's new live covers album The Interpreter: Live From Largo. The record is set to be released November 22, but you can listen to the entire thing on the Rolling Stone site.Just a word of warning, there are no original songs on this record. If you'r ... More >>

British "Factual Programme" Makers Want to Shoot 3D Documentary in Dallas County Jail

​Electric Sky's filmography is extremely large and extraordinarily varied, its titles ranging from Hookers for Jesus (about a born-again Vegas prostitute) to The Ronnie Wood Show (a talk show starring, of course, the Rolling Stone) to A 3D Guide to Belly Dancing (a 3D guide to belly dancing). To ... More >>

On Deck with The Sheepdogs

Rolling StoneHey, Sheepdog, be sure to send five copies to your mothers.​An artist's musical selection can sometimes even foretell what a next album might sound like. So if you've ever wondered what the artists who grace your stereo are getting funky to, here's your chance to find out. Each we ... More >>

The Sheepdogs List Their All-Time Top Five Favorite Canadian Acts You Should Also Know

The Sheepdogs on the cover of the Rolling Stone.​From any way one might look upon them, The Sheepdogs of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, are living the dream of being rock stars on the rise. Earlier this year, the band became the first unsigned act to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, and it didn't t ... More >>

Do Melatonin Brownies Actually Do Anything? An Unfair Park Special Report.

No pot references here, no sir.​"You're going to eat that now?" the guy at the head shop asked. He looked worried. "That's not a good idea. I don't take 'em in the daytime. It renders me non-functional."Well, shit. It was Friday afternoon, and I was about to drug my co-workers.A little background, ... More >>

Sia, Oh Land, Ximena Sarinana

Sunday, August 7, at the Granada Theater

Just Like We Told You Months Ago: Old 97's Plan To Release Grand Theatre, Vol. 2 On July 5

Patrick MichelsOld 97's back at the 2010 Musink festival in Fair Park​Lest you doubted our note from way, way, way, way back in March -- y'know, that the Old 97's were going to release the second installment of their two-part Grand Theatre release on July 5 -- well, now the folks putting out the r ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Angela Chase Will Play Your Band On The Eagle -- If She Thinks Your Music Matches KEGL's Format.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't necessarily members of a local band, but are more behind-the-scenes folk.Angela Chase​Most rock-jocks' physical appearances tend to be a jarring opposite of how we picture them in our he ... More >>

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

Q&A: Joe Satriani Can't Talk About His Case Against Coldplay. But He'll Glady Talk Being Left Off Rolling Stone's List of Top 100 Guitarists...

​Joe Satriani is considered by many to be one of the best guitar players in the world. Although excluded from Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 guitar players of all time, Satriani has taught such legendary string benders as Steve Vai and Mettalica's Kirk Hammett. And, besides doing the solo thi ... More >>

Joe Satriani

Tuesday, January 18, at the Granada Theater

The Grand Theatre, Volume One, Earns Old 97's The Highest Billboard Chart Position of Career

​Good news out of Old 97's camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, No. 25 in the Rock Chart, No, 15 ... More >>

Central Market Canvassing For Cheese Votes

Central Market is hoping its patrons can muster more enthusiasm for Limburger and Gouda than they've shown for the current crop of political candidates. ​The grocer is rolling out a cheese promotion tomorrow that calls upon shoppers to vote for their favorite cheeses in an online poll. "Which c ... More >>

Just Trust Us On This And Go Stream School of Seven Bells' Upcoming Disconnect From Desire In Its Entirety. Like Right Now.

We've made our adoration of School of Seven Bells abundantly clear in the past--many times, in fact. So, yeah, no surprise here: We're pretty stoked for the band's upcoming disc, Disconnect From Desire, which will earn its release on July 13. Have been ever since DFW native Ben Curtis gave us the sk ... More >>

DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 23: HYMNS

...and for the Youtube-inclined, here's your link.Fresh off a three-star review Rolling Stone review of its new EP, Appaloosa, Brooklyn-based retro-rock outfit HYMNS stopped by to participate in our ongoing DC9 in SPACE series last Wednesday night, offering up toned-down versions of the new EP's so ... More >>

Shutter Stars

Rolling Stone Thinks Telegraph Canyon's Pretty Neat.

Jill JohnsonLaugh it up, gang.​ Over on its Rock & Roll Daily blog today, Rolling Stone writer J. Edward Keyes gives Fort Worth's Telegraph Canyon some serious praise in a feature called Hype Monitor, where the band gets mentioned alongside longtime bubbling-under acts Bryan Scary & The Sh ... More >>

Today in Music News: The Gamblers Get A Nod, Modest Mouse Releases Ledger Video, Alan W. Livingston Passes

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 16, 2009... The former Dentonites in The Riverboat Gamblers were named in Rolling Stone writer David Fricke's "Fricke's Picks" this week. Modest Mouse will soon release the Heath Ledger-directed video for their b-side, "King Rat".& ... More >>

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