Subject: Stevie Nicks

• Octogenarian Christmas: The Five Best Rock CDs Made By Older Folk In 2008

  In all these year-end, best-of lists, I'm seeing little respect given to the over 50 crowd. So, since I'm heading that direction myself, I thought I would be the one to share some AARP Holiday Cheer. 1. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws The Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer finally incorporates some of what made his band so great and produces his best solo effort. By far. Period. Of course, several members of Mac (not Stevie Nicks) make an appearance on Gift of Screws and songs like "Did You Mi

  December 24, 2008

• The language of lite

  November 24, 1994

• Events for the week

  September 7, 1995

• Born again

  September 5, 1996

• You invent the future

  October 30, 1997

• Rock and roll over

  January 1, 1998

• Justice served

  January 7, 1999

• That's a real shocker

  March 18, 1999

• The Dixie Chicks

  April 15, 1999

• Hole in fun!

  May 6, 1999

• Whassup, Kennyman?

  May 27, 1999

• Home Coming

  July 25, 2002

• What It Was Like: U-N-I, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Funeral Party, Efterklang, Yelle, The Pack A.D., Bosque Brown, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Bobby Bare Jr.

  Patrick Michels Yelle turned her Emo's performance into an all-out dance party on Saturday night.Act: U-N-I, a backpacker hip-hop duo from Inglewood, California.Where: SpeakeasyWhat It Was Like: Stumbling into a nice surprise. There's a high energy feel and definite grittiness to U-N-I's sound, thanks to beats that blend the backing tracks of modern acts like The Cool Kids and older, East Coast acts like Boogie Down Productions.Verdict: Worth looking into further, for sure.

  March 23, 2009

• Heavy Duty

  November 6, 2008

• The Blues Period

  August 14, 2008

• Tough Breaks

  Presenting the best breakup albums of all time

  June 12, 2008

• USA Film Fest Unspools New Titles, Rare Favorites, Worthy Tributes, Starck Club Doc

  Good Lord, was Blood Simple really 25 years ago, USA Film Festival honoree M. Emmet Walsh?A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the trouble of running down this year's highlights, I've posted after the jump the entire eight-page program, where you'll find dates and times for screenings for such titles as Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 noir

  April 14, 2009

• Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak

  Friday, June 1, at Smirnoff

  May 31, 2007

• Tegan & Sara

  The Con (Vapor/Sire)

  August 2, 2007

• Feel Good Gaithering

  January 5, 2006

• Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

  March 16, 2006

• Simonized

  April 13, 2006

• Moon Landing

  March 29, 2007

• World Turning

  With or without Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham goes his own way

  January 25, 2007

• Carla Bozulich

  Evangelista (Constellation)

  June 29, 2006

• Calexico

  Garden Ruin (Touch and Go/Quarterstick)

  April 13, 2006

• Crowe's Songs

  Plus: Sleepy Hero History, Tull Tag

  October 13, 2005

• Camp Out

  Viva Las Vegas with the Caring Friends Follies

  September 23, 2004

• Under Control

  Two years later, the Strokes are still on Fire

  November 6, 2003

• Can't Stop

  For Fleetwood Mac, making music remains a troubled love affair

  July 3, 2003

• Kings of Clubs

  The coke-drenched era of nightclubs is over, but now a new group of entrepreneurs is ready to reinvent the scene

  May 1, 2003

• Walking the Wire

  Calexico finds the sweet spot between being its own band and being someone else's

  March 6, 2003

• Don't Know How

  On her way to the Top 10, Norah Jones had to decide what to do--and what not to do

  September 19, 2002

• Mary Timony

  June 25

  June 20, 2002

• Made on the Margins

  For 15 years, the Dallas Video Fest has flickered on the fringe

  May 9, 2002

• Way Out

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

  March 8, 2001

• Emily Does Dallas

  Dixie Chick Emily Robison riffs on Fly, high-fives, and why you need to check your tube top before you sing

  August 10, 2000

• Critics' Picks

  The Distillers

  August 3, 2000

• Critics' Picks

  Warren Zevon

  April 6, 2000

• Out Here

  Gropius

  March 30, 2000

• Take these records, please

  Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

  January 6, 2000

• Heart to hold

  Ann and Nancy Wilson aren't a nostalgia act...yet

  August 5, 1999

• Dour times

  Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality

  April 6, 1995

• Whitt's End: 5.01.09

  And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt's End on its head ... *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I'll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185's upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey playoff games. Game 3 of the President's Cup championships series is Sunday at 3, Game 4 Tuesday night at 7 and Game 5 Wednesday night at 7. As for radio, Saturday I'll be in my regular seat on 105.3

  May 1, 2009

• Last Night: Fleetwood Mac at the AAC

  Fleetwood MacAmerican Airlines CenterApril 30, 2009Better Than: Seeing a Fleetwood Mac cover band at an AARP Convention.Seemingly every MILF in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area made their way to the American Airlines Center last night to catch a truncated (but still powerful) version of Fleetwood Mac. The legendary rock act brought out 23 chestnuts spanning the band's four decade career, even throwing in a couple of numbers from solo efforts from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The ne

  May 1, 2009

• Starck Reality: Michael Cain's Making Two Movies About the Late Dallas Danceteria

  Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works -- the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns out, that's not the end of the story: Cain told me last week that in addition to the doc, he's also prepping a narrative feature about the legendary danceteria -- a "project I've been working on for 12 years," he

  May 7, 2009