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Finding the Common Ground Between Coheed & Cambria and Jane's Addiction

Claudio Sanchez is incredibly pressed for time, but he has ten minutes to spare for an interview. Afterwards, he has to rush off for Coheed and Cambria's soundcheck. The band is in the midst of a long headlining tour with rocket scientist metallers Between the Buried and Me. Thankfully, Sanchez is w ... More >>

The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high ... More >>

Vinnie Kircher of Jaill On Driving To Denton And Not Puking

Milwaukee-based trio Jaill comes back to Dallas at Bryan Street Tavern this Friday, with the Coathangers and Sealion, in support of their latest album, Traps. We caught up with singer Vinnie Kircher last week while the band was in the middle of an eight-hour drive, and he shared plenty about the fi ... More >>

Dead Flowers Talk About Bad Tattoos, Heartbreak Songs and Getting the Band Together

If you regularly go to LaGrange, Single Wide or Double Wide, you've seen a member of the quintet Dead Flowers. Earlier in the year, frontman Corey Howe was the opening act for The Revival Tour's stop at Trees, playing alongside Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan, Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano, and Against ... More >>

Hollywood Records' John Nicholson Knows How To Make Pyrotechnics Out of Tomato Juice Cans and Gunpowder

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth music. Lima, Peru, native John Nicholson has helped out a lot of DFW musicians over the years. His early gigs included Sound Warehouse, Bill's Records and label promotion for Polygram, A&M and V ... More >>

Melvins Pair With Scion A/V, and Join This Year's Free Music Model

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 >>

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 >>

Amy Ivey Will Bring The Metal For Your Stage Show. No, Really: The Actual Metal.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Amy Ivey grew up in Fort Worth listening to her mother play Elvis records. Later, as a teenager, she ... More >>

The Conversation: 1991 Was a Damn Good Year, But Was It The Best Music Year of The '90s?

​Something happened this week 20 years ago, and music hasn't been the same since: Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the lead single from Nevermind, which would itself come out later in the month. With the song came a new movement in music, a new era. But plenty of other influential acts ... More >>

In Defense of... Bush's "The Sound of Winter"

I feel a bit sorry for the the U.K.-spring alternative-rock band Bush. They appear only in the footnotes of '90s rock, sandwiched between the end of grunge and the rise of Oasis and Radiohead. There was a time, though, when they were huge. If nowhere else, you've probably heard tracks like "Comedown ... More >>

Stone Temple Pilots at The Palladium: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Not sure he remembers any of it, but lead singer Scott Weiland put on quite the show Wednesday night. Two words: Fucked. Up. 9. Among his amusing, entertaining offerings: "The thing I love about Texas is you've got soul. I don't care about politics, you guys care about your community." ... More >>

Feist, Soundgarden, and the Rest of This Week's Show Announcements

The cover art for Feist's Metals​Canadian indie songstress Feist is in the process of building buzz for her forthcoming album Metals. The starlet's record is set to come out on October 4, and she's planning a tour to support the record. Interestingly enough, though, she's only playing nine da ... More >>

Last Night: Chris Cornell at House of Blues

Chris CornellHouse of BluesApril 3, 2011Better than: open mic night at any given local bar, although not by much.Chris Cornell​Let's get something out of the way right up front: I'm a pretty huge Chris Cornell fan. I've seen him live a few times before, and he's always exceeded my expectations. Ne ... More >>

My First Show: Red Animal War and The Light Fantastic's Matt Pittman Was Left Disappointed by The Ramones at Lollapalooza '96.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Matt Pittman​Matt Pittman is a busy man as of late. When not working on new material for the (thankfully) still-active Red Animal W ... More >>

My First Show: Don Cento Saw Van Halen, Metallica and a Trash Tsunami at His First Show

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Allison V. SmithDon Cento​Don Cento is a familiar face around town, given his time as a keyboardist with Chomsky and as a guitarist in Shibboleth. But this skilled ... More >>

Show Announcements: Chris Cornell, Lil Wayne, Unwed Sailor, Tapes N' Tapes, Mix Master Mike, Sleigh Bells, The Psychedelic Furs, Band Of Heathens, Basshunter, Danielson, Black Lips, The Strange Boys, Screeching Weasel & More!

Chris Cornell​Chris Cornell hasn't fallen off the map like most of his '90s grunge-rock counterparts -- he's actually done the opposite. His impressive work with Audioslave and recent Soundgarden reunion tours have kept him in the public eye. Hell, even his dud of an album, Scream, couldn't slow h ... More >>

Early Man Play Metal The Old-Fashioned Way.

The Guys Behind Spinal Tap Return, Unwigged and Unplugged

Show Announcements: Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock & Skynyrd, Meat Puppets, Rookie of the Year

Clearing out a slight backlog, we've got more national acts than usual to add to this week's list. And with summer only a few months away, now's the time for the big outdoor venues to fill their calendars. Besides the acts in the headline, you can look forward to Motley Crue, Godsmack and Depeche ... More >>

N.C.M.'s David Hill Died This Morning

David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill, guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. In the photo above, that's Hill at far left, along with Neal Caldwell and, at the drums, Randy Caldwell. Dennard has known ... More >>

N.C.M.'s David Hill Died This Morning

David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in the competin ... More >>

Big D's Great Roar

Festivus for the Rest of Us

No need for ACL--there was plenty to see within Dallas city limits

Jihad Jerry

Devo's founding guitarist is still pissing on--and then Swiffering--the worst in society

Johnny Cash

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

Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

Out of the Closet

With Trees' fate nearly sealed, we look back at its brave beginnings--and, of course, the blood

Beasts of Burden

Todd Lewis and Taz Bentley want to make it, sure. Mostly, they want to make it last.

Real Whirled

Plus: New Entries in the Dallas Dictionary; “Oh, Laura”

I Wanna Rock!

How did The Bone shock the Dallas radio world? With market research, double entendres and hair bands.

What's Mine

Former Velocity girl Sarah Shannon strikes out on her own

Timo Ellis

The Enchanted Forest of Timo Ellis (Records and Tapes)

Johnny Cash

American III: Solitary Man (American Recordings)

Dude, You Rock

Queens of the Stone Age have the feel-good hit of the summer

Chris Cornell

Candy corn

Or: What do cake walks, the Backstreet Boys, and Jon Cunningham have in common?

Pressing on

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

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Electric funeral

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

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

Out There

Events for the week

Lone Star State of disgrace

Tributes to Buddy Holly and Willie Nelson are anything but

The offspring

Dallas' punk bands resurrect the spirit of the '70s

Beating meat

"Taz" Bentley explains why he left the Rev for Tenderloin

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

A better man

Drummer Dave Abbruzzese considers life after Pearl Jam

Noise annoys

Compilation of "experimental music" skirts the line between art and nausea