Run-DMC

Stop Texting and Help That Guy Crowd Surf: The Overserved's Guide to Concert Etiquette

It's my favorite three-hour tour, no matter which direction I am heading. Leaving Austin late on a Sunday night, I-35 winding behind me as I speed towards bed, always has the same tone. You spend that ride trying to piece together the disparate parts of the weekend, the three hours spent rememberi ... More >>

This Is Not a Love Song: Thoughts on Fun Fun Fun Fest 7

Fun Fun Fun Fest Auditorium Shores Friday, November 2-Sunday, November 4 In its seventh year, Fun Fun Fun Fest has settled into a very curious meta place. Standing in a crowd at any one of the four stages, you were often watching a show via someone's iPhone or iPad. That Terrence Malick has been f ... More >>

10 Acts to Catch at Fun Fun Fun Fest

I've been to every Fun Fun Fun Fest since its inception in 2006, back when it was a one-night event and Spoon played to a small crowd of very cold attendees. Since then, the fest has grown in scope and size, seen legends and up-and-comers grace its stages, and matured out of its original Austin loca ... More >>

Ten Acts To Catch At Fun Fun Fun Fest

Top Five Schedule Conflicts at Fun Fun Fun Fest

Headlined by reunited legends like X, Run-D.M.C. and Public Image Ltd, this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest has a little something for the older folks, as well as the young. With that much talent over three days, there are bound to be some tough decisions between stages. Here are a few scheduling conflic ... More >>

Fun Fun Fun Fest: The Full Lineup Announced

See also: Run-D.M.C. reunite for Fun Fun Fun Fest Fun Fun Fun Fest announced their full lineup last night, and as usual, they knocked it out of the park with the additions. Public Image Ltd. should be a trip to see, and they've stepped up their hip-hop selection (Danny Brown, A$AP Rocky, De La Sou ... More >>

Run-D.M.C. Reunite For Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012

Fun Fun Fun Fest announced this morning that NYC hip-hop pioneers Run-D.M.C. will reunite for the November fest for the first time in a decade, with surviving members Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels. The join a lineup including Rakim, Danny Brown, David Cross, Bob Mould and Agai ... More >>

In Session: Latin House Krew

In the realm of the DJ, it's been proven there's strength in numbers. Dallas DJs Spin, Ivy Tron and Inzo, collectively known as the Latin House Krew, came together in 1997, when Spin and Ivy Tron had their own show on KNON 89.3. Inzo joined soon after, and their respective careers took off. Aside ... More >>

Sleigh Bells - Granada Theater - 4/17/12

Sleigh Bells, Javelin, Elite Gymnastics Granada Theater Tuesday, April 17 Brooklyn's Sleigh Bells made a Tuesday night feel like a Friday, like you've seen Run-DMC, Katy Perry and Atari Teenage Riot all at once. At 15 minutes to 10 p.m., vocalist Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller came out wi ... More >>

The K-Ticket Christmas Eve Music Playlist, With a Few Leftovers For the Morning

​If I'm allowed on K-Ticket airwaves for a fourth annual Christmas dance party, I will ask management to carve space enough for a 17-hour set. The list of songs I wanted to play but didn't is much longer than those that actually made the air. Then again, if you really want a copy of Anya Marina's ... More >>

Five Music Shows We Wish MTV Still Aired

​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Before Ben & Skin, There Was Skinny Fresh & Ruben

​Before there was "Ben & Skin," the local morning sports radio talk show on KESN-103.3 FM ESPN Dallas, there was Jeff "Skinny Fresh" Wade and Ruben Ayala, who made up Hydroponic Sound System. And, in a 2001 issue of the Observer, former music editor Zac Crain profiled the duo, who had just rel ... More >>

Good Friday: Elton John & Leon Russell, Calhoun, The Orbans, Celtic Thunder, Senses Fail, Bayside, Miniature Tigers, The Dandy Warhols, The Felice Brothers, David Allan Coe, The Derailers, Hed PE and More!

Elton John & Leon Russell​The biggest show coming to town this weekend is, without a doubt, Elton John and Leon Russell at the Fort Worth Convention Center on Saturday night. The two piano-playing legends of yesteryear have teamed up on a new album called The Union. And with producer T-Bone Bu ... More >>

LAZER

Twatobahn (Self-released)

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 23: DJ WISHFM

​Wade Randolph Hampton, aka DJ WISHFM, is seasoned at his craft. The DJ/booker/promoter and now, band manager, has been spinning for 25 years at this point. Never one to slow down, Hampton books for The W's rooftop club, Ghostbar, serves as that club's resident DJ, and manages popular local acts i ... More >>

Friday Night, These Folks Wanted to Teach Sarah Palin a Thing Or Two About Adoption

Patrick MichelsLinda and Tommy Burns were among Palin's welcoming committee Friday night, which was nothing compared to the crowd she drew in 2008.If you happened to be driving past the Fairmont Hotel before the big Sarah Palin fundraiser Friday night, and wondered why six people were out with signs ... More >>

Last Night: Everclear at House of Blues

Everclear, Clayton Senne, Oso ClosoHouse of BluesJanuary 2, 2009 (Barely) better than: Staying home and listening to my "best of" Everclear CD We've also got photos from the show here in a slideshow.​A surprisingly large and diverse crowd assembled at the House of Blues last night to catch ' ... More >>

Smokey Gets In Your Eyes and Other Famous Faces from the Dallas Rocks Red Carpet

Danny notes that "Smokey Robinson's eyes are supernaturally intense... like, seriously." Click to expand; see for yourself.​Our Danny Fulgencio happened by the Dallas Rocks benefit Saturday night at Union Station, where Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons gathered quite the hodgepodge of celebritie ... More >>

Aerosmith, ZZ Top

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Download: DJ Fishr Pryce and Mes The Jive Turkey's Stealing Stars Mixtape

Dj Fishr PryceDallas-based DJ Fishr Pryce is recognizable for a few reasons: One, he's often the man working the ones-and-twos behind Damaged Good$' impressive live displays about town; and, two, he always seems to have a new mixtape on his person, ready to hand out, every time you speak with him.Th ... More >>

Today In Music News: Eminem and Flea Head To Hall Of Fame, 50 and Weezy Are Fueding and Jane's Addiction Offers Up Free Reznor-Produced Tracks

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 23, 2009...Eminem and Flea are among the presenters for this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Em will induct Run-DMC; Flea will induct Metallica.It's funny how 50 Cent likes to take jabs at easy targets like Rick Ross, but, when it ... More >>

Today In Music News: Run-DMC To Get Notorious Treatment, Dee Snider's Strangeland To Get Sequel

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 30, 2009... Run-DMC will be the topic of a new biopic from the writer of Notorious. Let's just hope the acting and storytelling are a little better... Can't get enough of Dee Snider's cult classic Strangeland? Well, kids, you ... More >>

Today In Music News: There Are Some New Hall of Fame Inductees; Ryan Adams Says He's Done; Neko Case Teases For A Good Cause

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 15, 2009... Run-DMC (the Kings of Rock!), Metallica and Jeff Beck are the newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wonder who's going to DJ for Run-DMC since Jam Master Jay has passed? I pray to god it's not Grand Mas ... More >>

Christmas Music Alternatives

Hallelujah Chorus

Review: The Roots at House of Blues

The Beatdown

Have April showers led to Derrick May's Saturday night shower?

Whose House?

If you ask the "Rev." from Run-D.M.C., the answer may be "God's house"

Run-DMC

Run-DMC, King of Rock, Raising Hell, Tougher than Leather (Sony Legacy)

Bad Boys

Even a few lame political songs can't suh-suh-stop the Beasties

Steal These Albums

The 10 most radical hip-hop albums of all time, featuring Public Enemy, NWA and...Mos Def?

The Rap Sheet

What's crunk, what's bootleg and what do those words mean anyway?

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Missy Elliott

Under Construction (Elektra)

Border Wars

What's the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex food?

That DJ Made My Day

Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002

True Dat

A Run-act play starring the Simmons brothers, Russell and the Rev

Jimmy Fallon / Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century

The Bathroom Wall (DreamWorks) / Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century (Milan)

Fire Starters

For the Arsonists, there is no underground. It's all just hip-hop.

High Times

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

Tricks and Treats

These are not your parents' magicians

Way Out

For Hydroponic Sound System, mixing hip-hop with everything else is just Routine Insanity

Science friction

Where good villains go to make a buck

Out There

Beastie Boys

My Adidas

Limp Bizkit are the new kings of rock. Why?

Out There

Back in the game

At 38, Public Enemy's Chuck D goes 'where no age has gone before'

Got ill

The Beastie Boys throw down Nasty, but what's the point?

Risky business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things