Subject: Taylor Swift

• Last Night: The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato at Superpages.com Center

  July 10, 2008

• Cowboys 115, Steelers 55

  I hear we've matriculated from MySpace to Facebook, right?Well, screw me. I never got around to creating a MySpace page. Was reminded why today.Don't tell the teens and the 'tweens - or my wife - but something about the whole deal strikes as, um, ridiculously fraudulent.Like, for example, the fact that there are  exactly 72 profiles using the handle, photos and persona of "Tony Romo".A little digging and I uncovered that the Cowboys may no longer be America's Team, but, compared to Sunday's

  December 4, 2008

• MTV Brings Us The Year In JoBromances

  MTV News this morning has a delightful little feature looking back on the year that was 2008--in Jonas Brothers romances. Seems Westlake's own abstinence-pledging JoBros have had themselves quite the year in love, having been seen about town with tween music starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, among others, and MTV's got the breakdown on all the moves (or, more likely, non-moves) the Jonases have put on display this year. As MTV so eloquently puts it: "Don't hate the player, ha

  December 16, 2008

• Top 10 Country Albums of 2008

  Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and George Strait kept filling arenas and at least maintaining their popularity on the road, if not with record sales. But as has often been the case, the best country music has little to do with what's

  December 23, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast f

  December 26, 2008

• Ben Kweller On His Own Sound: 'The Mix Of Eagle, Edge and Young Country'

  Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father--and says he's eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing Horses, set for release next Tuesday, finds Kweller searching for vintage authenticity: He recorded the LP in analog format in only 11 days at Austin's Public Hi-Fi studio, founded by Spoon drummer Jim En

  January 28, 2009

• Good Friday: B.B. King, Kate Voegele, Max Stalling, Robert Gomez, Bosque Brown, Slaid Cleaves, John Cowan Band, Mad Mexicans, Alpha Rev, The Campaign, Brandi Carlile

  Not exactly a ton of big names swinging through our area this weekend, but it's a decent mix of local and out of town talent who will ply their craft this last weekend in May. First the shows we've already clued you to in print or via the blog: Tonight's one-man band meltdown with Bob Log III, Williem Maker and El Paso Hot Button at Dada; Paramore opening up for No Doubt and The Sounds Saturday night at Superpages.com Center; also on Saturday, it's the poster of the week show featuring The A

  May 29, 2009

• Taylor Swift, Butch Walker and Others Offer Up Their 2008 Favorites

  ...Oh, and we got a few well-known out-of-towners to share some of their favorites too

  January 1, 2009

• Over The Weekend: Care Bears On Fire At House of Blues

  Care Bears On FireJuly 19House of BluesFirst off, I am a father of a 9-year-old daughter and, as such, I sometimes have to succumb to the musical tastes of a girl whose obsession with Taylor Swift is beginning to become disconcerting. So when my daughter asked me to take her to see something called Care Bears on Fire, I was dreading an experience that might rival Disney on Ice for sheer inanity. That said, I was surprised and shocked to walk into the House of Blues on Saturday (at 4:30 in the af

  July 20, 2009

• Today In Music News: Vampire Weekend Announces New Album, Kanye May Actually Feel Sorry and Joe Satriani Is A Loser

  Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 16, 2009... The blog darlings in Vampire Weekend are set to release their new album, Contra, in the new year. No need to use up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-select-start to acquire it. Wow... could Kanye actually be sorry about the Taylor Swift shit-storm he stirred up? He blogged his apology twice, apologized on Leno's new show and he actually called Swift after her appearance on The View. Maybe he felt b

  September 16, 2009

• Today In Music News: Kanye and Lady Gaga Tour Gets Canceled, Flava Flav Wants Back On TV And Amy Winehouse Raps

  Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2009... How sad: The Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been canceled. I hear someone tried to tell 'Ye the tour was canceled, but was interrupted by Taylor Swift. Flava Flav is shopping a series where he goes back to high school to receive his diploma. The lengths that man will go to just to be on television... You know who is a horrible rapper? Amy Winehouse.

  October 2, 2009

• With Local Radio Sucking, What Does KXT's Launch Mean?

  November 6, 2009