Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots Fires Scott Weiland: Here's Three Ways A Touring Band Can Confuse Or Mislead Its Audience

Last week, with no apparent malice intended, the Stone Temple Pilots forced us to confront the fact that there was more than one Stone Temple Pilot out there, firing Scott Weiland for--I'm just speculating here--being Scott Weiland, or writing something called "Sex Type Thing," or (and this is just ... More >>

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Of Monsters and Men, Pat Benatar, Dave Matthews Band, Alkeline Trio, Gramatik and More

Of Monsters and Men Tuesday, June 4, at House of Blues, $37.50 Cinematic and instrumental folk rock band Of Monsters and Men are heading out for a much anticipated tour this summer after their debut album My Head is an Animal dropped and the world discovered the track "Little Talks," which eventuall ... More >>

Hormones on Warren Zevon, Death From Above 1979 and Being "Consistently Erratic"

Locally-based Hormones are a familiar fixture at Bryan Street Tavern. They played the venue's Big Fucking Anniversary show a few weeks ago, and will play there again this Saturday, October 27, with The Gorehounds. They will do two sets: one with original songs and the other with songs by Death from ... More >>

Ray Luzier of Korn: "I Almost Peed My Pants Before My First Gig With David Lee Roth."

Before earning a spot as the drummer for Korn, Ray Luzier played some high-profile gigs with David Lee Roth and Stone Temple Pilots. So the guy obviously knows something about working with temperamental frontmen. Speaking from a car while driving from Abilene to Lubbock, and in anticipation of Kor ... More >>

Terminator 2, Lechuguillas, Bludded Head - Rubber Gloves - 4/10/12

Denton label and all-around art/music enthusiasts Gutterth put together a furiously energetic noise show last night at Rubber Gloves. Brent Best of Slobberbone fame and Batey Ray of popular Denton punk trio The Swedish Teens were drink-slinging behind the bar, handling the packed house with an antit ... More >>

Eleven Hundred Springs and Exit 380

Midway Self-released Townies (Hand Drawn Records)

Bonus MP3: Darstar -- "Trapdoor Spider"

​Being as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of such seminal albums as Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's Ten, Pixies' Trompe Le Monde, and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish, the sounds of early '90s grunge and alt-rock are once again becoming fashionable. From its meteoric rise in 1991 to su ... More >>

Jessica Lea Mayfield On Sad Songs: "I Don't Want to Listen to 'Walking on Sunshine!'"

Jessica Lea Mayfield is only 21 years old, but her songs feel like they've been around much longer than that. Dark and heartbreaking, Mayfield's songs have a weight missing from many performers in her age group. Tell Me, Mayfield's sophomore full-length effort, came out this past February and featu ... More >>

My First Show: Les Américains' Jeff Parker Saw Butthole Surfers, Stone Temple Pilots and Firehose -- In A Water Park, Even.

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. Les Americains​Jeff Parker spent many years as the bassist for [DARYL], but Les Américains has been his m ... More >>

Listomania: Top Five Lead Singer Switcheroos

Can you really blame the rest of Creed for wanting to ditch this guy?​In the late '90s and early 2000s, there were few bands higher on the proverbial food chain than Creed, with their first three multi-platinum albums amassing a total sales of over 30 million copies during their heyday. But dozens ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Apples in Stereo at The Granada, Tyler Hilton at The Loft and Nonpoint at Trees

Back to the drudge of the work week. But, hey, at least you have a couple of nice musical options this evening...

Good Friday: Festival At The Switchyard, Free Energy, Los Campesinos, Dawes, Valient Thorr, The Thermals, AC Slater, Bush, Paul Oakenfold, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and More!

Tim DeLaughter and The Polyphonic Spree perform at Festival At The Switchyard on Friday.​Well, we've finally recovered from our Austin City Limits Music Festival hangover--and just in time, too. This weekend's Festival At The Switchyard in Carrollton is yet another suburban rock fest featuring som ... More >>

Watch: Exit 380 -- "Moonshiner Run"

A new music video from the equally noirish country- and Stone Temple Pilots-obsessed Exit 380, which seems to borrow a few plot lines from Boardwalk Empire. You may remember this song from the band's previous cancer-fighting downloading efforts; it'll also appear on the band's upcoming full-length, ... More >>

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Show Quickly Rescheduled For October Date at Trees

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club​We've been doing a lot of talking about that pesky Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show that was originally scheduled at Lizard Lounge next week and then got postponed. BRMC was on tour with Stone Temple Pilots, and, since Scott Weiland and Co. decided to re-route the thing ... More >>

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Show at Lizard Lounge Postponed

​After getting really excited about the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show that was set to happen on Tuesday, September 28, we then shook our heads in confusion that it was scheduled at The Lizard Lounge. Well, today, we're shaking our heads even more: The performance has been postponed.BRMC was sch ... More >>

Show Announcements: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes, Dresden Dolls, Girl In A Coma, NOFX, Free Energy, Harlem, Dignan, Deftones, Cake, Danzig, Thousand Foot Crutch, The Gourds, Godsmack, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Papa Roach & More

Tessa AngusBRMC​Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's 2010 album Beat The Devil's Tattoo isn't quite as popular as their previous efforts, but they still have some pretty big tour plans in support of the disk, including a few Texas dates with Stone Temple Pilots. Initially, though, the band wasn't coming ... More >>

Good Friday: KBFB-97.9 FM The Beat's Custom Car Show, Analog Rebellion, Dead Twins, Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Green River Ordinance, The Budos Band, Tanya Morgan, Brave Combo, More!

​This weekend marks 97.9 The Beat's sixth annual custom car show, which will take place on Sunday, August 22, at the Dallas Convention Center. This year, the event's headliners are Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Waka Flocka Flame, Plies, Bun B, Trina, Slim Thug and a man who will definitely show off his ic ... More >>

Dead Twins

Polarized (Shifting Sounds UK)

Edgefest 20 with Limp Bizkit, 30 Seconds to Mars, Deftones, Phoenix, Metric, Hole and 10 others

Saturday, May 1, at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco

Over The Weekend: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, Iwrestledabearonce, Animals as Leaders at the Granada

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, Iwrestledabearonce, Animals as LeadersGranada TheaterMarch 20th, 2010Better than: driving three hours north and wondering what kind of trainwreck might occur at the Stone Temple Pilots' show at WinStar Casino... Dillinger Escape Plan​The Dillinger Escape Pl ... More >>

Exit 380

Cities Townies (Rockyard Records)

Bonus MP3: Exit 380 - "Street Trash View"

​The last crop we heard from Denton alternative rock band Exit 380 was the 2008 album Mr. and Mrs, Alexander Stone, a perplexing but ultimately satisfying concept record that even earned the band some hardware in the Fort Worth Weekly music awards.For its follow-up, the four-piece led by intense f ... More >>

Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

Last Night's American Music Awards: A Synopsis

What I gleaned amidst the crooners and cleavage:*Former Stone Temple Pilots' front man Scott Wieland is (still) on something. *Paris Hilton is (still) annoying. *Mariah Carey is (still) hot. *Jamie Foxx is cocky with a capital 'K'. *Kanye West wants to be Elvis. Making the feat even more unlike ... More >>

Edgefest 18

Saturday, October 25, at Pizza Hut Park, Frisco

Exit 380

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Stone (Rockyard Records)

So...What's The Deal With Edgefest 18?

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Friday, August 1, Club Dada

Allow Myself to Introduce ... Myself

Stone Temple Pilots, Black Francis

Sunday, June 29, at Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie

Somehow Still Alive

Velvet Revolver

Libertad (RCA)

Army of Anyone, Hurt

Sunday, January 21, at the Ridglea Theater, Fort Worth

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Appetite for Reconstruction

What doesn't kill them only makes them a supergroup: The rise of Velvet Revolver

Goodwin, Tripp Fontaine, Love Vs. Hate, the Bomb Almighty

Thursday, June 3 at the Hard Rock Cafe

Velvet Revolver

Contraband (RCA)

Truth Be Told

It's the docs that rock this year's USAFF schedule

Oleander

January 13

All Wound Up

Stereo Fuse discovers the ups and downs of life on a major label

I Wanna Rock!

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

Family Values Tour

November 6

Scene, Heard

Getting some closure

Scene, Heard

KRBV's change in format causes barely a ripple in the airwaves

Out Here

Space Cadet

Too high. Period.

Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie

Sex bomb

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

Blood wedding

The Lorca Project is a union of experimentalists

Out There