Stevie Wonder

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Why The Chronic is the Greatest Album in Rap History

Gary Myrick on Working With Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and Big Audio Dynamite

Born and raised in Dallas, Gary Myrick found his greatest success after moving to California and forming The Figures. In 1980, Gary Myrick & The Figures released a self-titled album that featured the new wave hit "She Talks in Stereo." The song, along with another Myrick original, ended up in the mo ... More >>

Playlist: Seven Great Songs Featuring Moog Synthesizer

If you've tried to Google something today, you'll notice the logo has been transformed to celebrate Robert Moog's 78th birthday, which allows you interact with his most famous creation. He's the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, and to say he was influential is undercutting the fact that he essentia ... More >>

Levon Helm, 1940-2012

I can't remember the first time I heard Levon Helm's voice. It's a warm, reassuring presence that's just always been there. During his career, it was a voice of the downtrodden and desperate, of a fun-lovin' rambler, and of a faithful farmer. Despite his Southern drawl, he was very much a voice of A ... More >>

Sore Losers Collectively Reinvent Themselves

Ruby Jane Gets Inspired

Austin City Limits Music Festival: A First-Timer's Recap

Pete FreedmanThe sweet, sweet ACL crowd.​Before this weekend, I'd never been to Austin City Limits Music Festival. Actually, I'd never been to any outdoor music festivals the scale of ACL. I've probably been to eight or nine South By Southwests, and, before heading down to Austin this weekend, I h ... More >>

Tonight Is Crazy Busy. Nights Like These Make Us Wish Teleportation Were Possible.

What a busy musical evening we have on our hands tonight! The only problem? Making a decision on where to go. Anybody got a coin?

Tonight, Tonight: The Wailers at the Granada, Camila at House of Blues and The Books at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

It's a weird and wonderful variety of shows happening in our area this evening. Fans of classic reggae and neo-classical avant-garde will be especially pleased...

Unexpected Influences: Dem Southernfolkz Finds Inspiration In Folk, The Jungle Fever Soundtrack and Jerry Seinfeld's Stand-Up

Welcome to Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. ​Local hip-hop trio Dem Southernfolkz have provided a breath of fresh air in the local scene, laying down the groundwork for the current fire-hot trend that has seen artists such as Sore Loser ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 29: DJ Fishr Pryce

​ DJ Fishr Pryce thrives off spontaneity -- and, as has been made clear in the past, he doesn't like to take himself too seriously."I'm not afraid to be goofy," he says. "And I think that makes me a little different [from other DJ's in town]." Fittingly, the experienced hip-hop DJ, who has been sp ... More >>

Q&A: Two Door Cinema Club's Kevin Baird Talks His Band's Fast Rise, Its Favorite Festival Moments and Its Problem With Light Beer.

In just four years, Two Door Cinema Club have gone from a group of high school buddies to rocking thousands at festivals all over the world. That much isn't necessarily surprising: The band's sharp, dance-infused indie rock has drawn comparisons to Passion Pit and Hot Hot Heat. And, while they may n ... More >>

Listomania: 10 Songs Dad Made Us Hate

Hey Dad, need to put old Bob Seger back on the shelf. ​Dear Dad, First of all, Happy Father's Day. OK, now that that's done, we've got something to say. Our heads our going to explode, Scanners-style, if we hear you jack up the radio to ZZ Top's "La Grange" again. Maybe back in the day, when you ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Alicia Keys, Melanie Fiona

Friday, April 2, at Nokia Theatre

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 4: DJ A1

​This week's DC9er takes you behind the booth with Dallas-based, hip-hop expert DJ A1. Having been exposed to DJ culture at a young age (back in the day, he used to tag along with his cousin, who was a DJ at the time), A1 entered his first DJ battle at age 16--and he came in second place. Not too ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Nick Jonas & The Administration at the House of Blues

Nick Jonas & The Administration, Diane BirchHouse of BluesJanuary 2, 2010Better than: covering a Jonas Brothers show.Dylan HollingsworthNick Jonas, swaggering away. Check out more photos here in our slideshow.​The smell of hundreds of competing perfumes and shrill shrieks, squeals and screams ... More >>

Gig Alert: Raphael Saadiq Tonight at House of Blues

Patrick MichelsSaadiq at ACL last month​Sure, it's the day before the day before Thanksgiving and most folks are either packing up for a trip or thawing out the big bird, but there are still some musical happenings worth looking out for. Case in point is old school soul/R&B singer Raphael Saa ... More >>

Hophead: Notes From Flying Saucer's Fourth Annual Fall Beer Festival

​A beer tasting event like last Saturday's Fall Beer Festival at the Fort Worth Flying Saucer is an easy way to try several new beers at once, hang out with fellow beer people and see a lot of hilarious T-shirts. However, as I discovered, it's also an easy way to get a bad impression of a beer for ... More >>

Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacy

Echoes and Reverberations: Anthony and Flea's Tube Sock Diaries

When you're 23 years old, it's all about smoking dope out of an empty beer can, having sex in the backseat of your car, and watching Soul Train the next morning with a hammer-to-the-forehead hangover. At least, it would've been for me, if I had actually owned my own automobile. That period of my lif ... More >>

Hot Chip is keenly aware and danceably fun

Rebel Assault

So...Where has all the George Michael love gone?

More Wright Than Wrong, But ...

Last Night: Dan Dyer at Bend Studio

Dan Dyer

Friday, February 29, at Bend Studio

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud

Dallas Soul Music Conference

Friday-Sunday, April 27-29, at the Black Forest Theater

Blinded by Ambition

Thomas Dolby continues searching for science and some overdue respect

The Beatdown

DJ Franck Roger spins savoir faire back into being French

Little Orphan Trannies

Big hand for Quad C's puppet Rocky Horror; DTC marries into the myths of Wife

Legend in the Making

As a teenager, John Legend was already recording with Lauryn Hill. Seven years later, he's only gotten bigger.

Dr. John

All By Hisself: Live at the Lone Star (Skinji Brim)

The Weird Girl

Erykah Badu is serious about saving the soul of the city

Jaguar Wright

Denials, Delusions and Decisions (MCA)

Out & About

Boz Scaggs

Soul Alone

N'Dambi doesn't need a record label. She just needs you to listen.

Jeff Beck

You Had It Coming (Epic)

Out & About

David Sanborn

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Out There

Har Mar Superstar; Sean Na Na

Apocalypse then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

The show-me slate

DeRogatis' Top 10 Reasons for Living in 1999

Nic at night

Scorsese manages to bring out the dead, especially in the living

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Sucking on the '70s

A new boxed set is the cardboard tombstone for a dead decade

Life is a carnival

The musical midway of Citizen Lane

Man with a horn

Jeff Aycock hasn't hocked his dreams just yet