The Afghan Whigs

My First Show: Best of 2012 Edition

We decided to check back in with some of the people we interviewed this year for My First Show, and ask about favorite concerts, records, and most-wanted Christmas gifts. Bad Design's Steven Altuna takes the cake for best answer for a Christmas wish. What was the best show you saw this year? Evan ... More >>

ACL 2012: Friday's 12 Best and Funniest Moments at Zilker

In the interest of being tidy and not boring you with minute details of the three-day exercise in sweaty and human endurance underway in Zilker Park this weekend, Rocks Off is giving you a break. Our team on the ground at the Austin City Limits Music Festival -- Brittanie Shey, Craig Hlavaty and Mar ... More >>

Giveaway: Tickets To Afghan Whigs on Sunday, Plus a Bunch Of Other Goodies

Update, 1:15p.m.: Congrats to Seth Bohlman, who snagged tickets to Sunday's show! In my preview of Afghan Whigs' Sunday show at Granada, I perhaps remembered them a little too starkly. And though they were sort of a stark band, they had some genuine moments where they cleaved open greatness on 1993 ... More >>

Afghan Whigs at Granada Theater

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Check out more of this weekend's shows via our shiny new concert calendar Afghan Whigs, Centro-matic Sunday, October 14, at the Granada Theater Within the bowels of the '90s reunion machine, Ohio's Afghan Whigs are one of those bands you never really expected to be spat out again. Their 1993 LP, Ge ... More >>

Afghan Whigs Coming to Granada Theater October 14

After a tour last year with The Twilight Singers, singer Greg Dulli has reunited the band that launched his career, Afghan Whigs. The band's signature blend of rock and soul separated them from other popular acts of the grunge era, yet the band still found commercial and critical success. It's been ... More >>

A Journey Through Lollapalooza in 25 GIFs

BY REED FISCHER See also: What your Lollapalooza outfit says about you Are you ready for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, "I can't fucking hear you!" I said, ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GIFs?! This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on S ... More >>

ACL 2012 Announced: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, Iggy & the Stooges and More

The Austin City Limits Music Festival line-up was announced at midnight, and I'm kind of miffed that RHCP are billed above Neil Young. Beyond that, you've got the usual ACL formula: the top tier of tried and true go-to festival acts (no surprise seeing the Black Keys or Jack White on this bill).Then ... More >>

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship on Record Stores: "We Need That Sense of Community"

​ Few bands have risen from the stale, beer-stained stages of America's dingiest dives only to entertain majestic crowds at some of the world's largest festivals more naturally than My Morning Jacket. Formed in Louisville in 1998, the Jim James-fronted group has undergone a series of personnel ... More >>

Last Night: The Twilight Singers, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's at the Granada Theater

The Twilight Singers, Margot & the Nuclear So and So'sThe Granada TheaterMay 30, 2011Much better than: sitting around waiting for the damn NBA Finals to get going.Twilight Singers​While many folks gathered at parks and other area locales in order to show respect for those who have fought for t ... More >>

Greg Dulli Comes To Terms With His Past. Kind Of.

Show Announcements: Rihanna, Cee Lo Green, Dierks Bentley, Loretta Lynn, George Thorogood, Liz Phair, The Twilight Singers, Snoop Dogg, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pinback, Wild Party, Stryper, Crosby and Nash, The Moody Blues & More!

Cee Lo Green, practicing his best Chris Brown pose for his upcoming tour with Rihanna.​A few days ago, we received a press release stating that pop star Rihanna will be performing at the American Airlines Center on Friday, July 8. We thought "Cool!" and went on about our business. But this morning ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Scott Beggs

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. Scott Beggs​Scott Beggs, once one of the kids in the punk rock crowds back in the day, has been assembling live concerts in DFW since the mid-'9 ... More >>

Gig Alert: Soulsavers Featuring Mark Lanegan Tonight at House of Blues

Very few, if any, alternative rock icons have been as prolific and indisputably talented as Mark Lanegan. The former Screaming Trees frontman and sometime member of Queens of the Stone Age has a restless spirit that has led him to all avenues of artistic expression. And each time, it seems, Lanegan ... More >>

Staggering Statistics

All of This and More (Shake It)

The Twilight Singers

Powder Burns (One Little Indian)

Out of the Closet

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

Jeff Klein

Wednesday, July 13, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Letters

Sorry You Missed It Eyes Wide Open in Frisco

Golden

Apollo Stars (National)

Clumsy

Center of Attention Deficit Disorder
(Idol Records)

Jaws: The Revenge

Take a bite out of cinematic crime, and don't get Whipped

Freaks of the industry

A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about

War in peace

Skip Spence recorded one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a tribute album is giving him life again.

Out There

Slipped discs

Are Virgin and Tower really the enemy, or can the indie stores fight back?

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

Feel his pain

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli is the unsexiest sexy mutha you'll ever meet

Out There

The million-dollar record

Four years after its debut, Slowpoke makes its major-label bow on Geffen

Hasta manana

The sun's about to come out for the Tomorrowpeople

It was a very good year

1996 lived up to its predecessor while presaging great things to come

He stole the soul

Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli exposes his big Black heart

Out There

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard