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The Worst Summer Songs of All Time: The Readers' Picks

You know the jingle. It's the kind of hot that leaves a sweat outline in the shape of a chair on your shirt, and one of the world's most teasing, irritating songs comes on the radio: "All of those tourists covered with oil / strumming my six string / on my front porch swing." It's Jimmy Buffett's ... More >>

San Francisco's The Mother Hips Shake Their iPods For Us

For over 20 years, the Mother Hips have expertly offered a soulful, psychedelic sound that just seems to flow in the Northern Californian waters. Although it's been a while since the band's last album, the groove-tastic Pacific Central Dust, was released in 2009, word has it that a new album is nigh ... More >>

The Top Five Musical Resurrections of 2012

Top Five Musical Resurrections of 2012

2012 saw some big-name comebacks, emotional reunions, and just plain weird occurrences, proving that America's thirst for nostalgia has still not been quenched. Have recent years been the worst for this, or have I just forgotten about the last decade already? Could something as joyous as the resurre ... More >>

Eat, Drink and Be Charitable For Once

Blackstone Rangers Make You a Summer Mixtape

In preview of the release party for debut EP Into the Sea, tonight at Bryan Street Tavern, we asked local trio Blackstone Rangers to give us a few of their favorite summer songs. Not necessarily songs about summer, but ones that they associate with the season. Derek Kutzer, guitar Weezer," Surf W ... More >>

The Beach Boys - Verizon Theatre - 4/26/12

The Beach Boys Verizon Theatre Thursday, April 26 In the past few decades, various incarnations of the Beach Boys toured the oldies/county fair circuit, rehashing the popular hits over and over again, usually for a cheap ticket price (or even free). Alas, with Brian Wilson back in the fold, the res ... More >>

Preview: KXT's Triple Play at the Kessler

Thursday, March 22, at the Kessler Theater

Tonight: KXT's Triple Play Part Three Hits the Kessler with People on Vacation, Little Black Dress and Andrew Tinker

The third installment of KXT's Triple Play series tops itself with tonight's DFW uppercut. People on Vacation, the Dallas duo of Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick and Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton, take to the Kessler stage for story time. The two have a natural knack for writing great pop songs -- pee ... More >>

The Beach Boys, Marilyn Manson and This Week's Show Announcements

The Beach Boys, back in the day​For decades, The Beach Boys have been a diluted version of their former selves, touring with the likes of John Stamos on bongos. Since Brian Wilson was fired in 1982, the band never really topped the greatness of 1988's "Kokomo." Rumors of bad blood circulated aroun ... More >>

The Best and Worst Performances of Last Night's Grammys

Five Best Performances 1. Jennifer Hudson Grammy host L.L. Cool J had a hard enough job presiding over a celebration undercut by tragic circumstances, and he achieved a perfect, almost pastor-like tone from the get-go. But Miss Hudson's musical tribute to Whitney Houston - a subtly searing but stil ... More >>

All Time Top Five: Little Black Dress' Favorite Beach Boys Songs

Little Black Dress.​Local dream-pop outfit Little Black Dress has finally followed up on the promise that was displayed with their full-length debut, Snow in June, of a couple of years ago. They're doing so by offering up a pretty sweet-sounding, limited-edition vinyl single, no less. The ne ... More >>

Listen: New Sounds from A.Dd , Flowers of God, Sore Losers, Little Black Dress, St. Vincent, Analog Rebellion and Paul Henry North

If it feels like things have been hectic of late, that's because they have been. October just tends to be that way around these parts, what with standard fall touring schedules pumping up the show-going options on top of the hype and added excitement that comes with such seasonal events as Austin Ci ... More >>

Mom's Greatest Hits: Ten Songs Mom Jammed While Driving

​With Mother's Day almost upon us, we can't help but look back on the days when mom schlepped us kids around in the station wagon, minivan or what-have-you. While we were in the backseat losing french fries in the seat creases, getting chewing gum stuck to the back of mom's headrest and picking on ... More >>

Ty Segall

Saturday, February 19, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

My First Show: The Get Up Kids' Jim Suptic Got A Black Eye in The Pit of A Helmet, The Jesus Lizard and Therapy? Show When He Was 15.

Get Up Kids​Jim Suptic co-founded The Get Up Kids back in 1995. Their first practice came on his 18th birthday. And, in the following years, his band became a touchstone in the emo community. But their beginnings were pretty humble: Eons before Weezer's Pinkerton was worshipped and the members of ... More >>

Magic Kids

Friday, November 5, at The Cavern

Today In Music News: The Beach Boys Get A Movie, Eminem Set To Star In A New Movie And Bruno Mars Gets Busted

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 4, 2010...A new movie about The Beach Boys is in the works that's not a biopic.  I'm not exactly sure how that works, but, I'm sure it will be better than the VH1 movie about the band.Eminem is reportedly set to act in the movie 360 w ... More >>

Today In Music News: The Beach Boys Will Reunite, Weezy Approves The King's Move and Bush Is Back!

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 22, 2010...Most of the original Beach Boys are going to reunite for at least one show next year.Apparently Weezy loves that LeBron James is now part of the Miami Heat and old Charles Barkley commercials.Because all of America has been clamori ... More >>

Lone Star Park: And They're Off!

​The crack of the bat. Allergies. Longer days. Bluebonnets. And, ah yes, the trumpet. Spring has definitely sprung. Tonight in Grand Prairie Lone Star Park kicks off another horse racing season with its $50,000 Premiere Stakes. The 6:30 post time will officially begin the track's 65-date seas ... More >>

Good Friday: Danielson, Black Eyed Peas, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Venus Flytrap, Robert Deeble, Josh Alan Friedman, Mark Growden, Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Shannon McNully, Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter, Off With Their Heads

​With Pete down in Austin attending to all things SXSW, it falls to me to come up with some show recommendations for our area. And there's a lot of stuff going on. Tomorrow brings a Dillinger Escape Plan show to The Granada Theater, and Sunday is especially busy with 97.9's Car Show in Fair Park ... More >>

Apples In Stereo

#1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)

Surf's (Hanging) Up

Weekend Roundup: Morrissey, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Nickelback, Plain White T's, The Beach Boys and Damaged Good$

Morrissey @ Palladium, Friday, April 10 The Smiths, largely due to Morrissey's emotionally-fueled lyrics, are credited with bringing a fragile side to alt-rock in the early-'80s. But make no mistake, dude ain't afraid to make a statement! The Moz has been stirring controversy, causing feuds and ta ... More >>

Good Friday: The Good Friday Edition.

...because a picture of Jesus on the cross might be a little inappropriate for a music blog.Happy Good Friday, everyone! Wait--is this a happy holiday? Hell if this Jew knows. Oh well. Onto the weekend!First, the shows we've already hyped...Tonight, the big 'un is happening over at the Palladium, wh ... More >>

Playing The Ponies

Lone Star Park kicks off another season

Today In Music News: The Killers Are Sick and Tired, The Who Is Beached and Travis Barker Is Still In High School.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009... The Killers are getting sick and tired... of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would've left The Who for The Beach Boys. Can you blame ... More >>

How To Put Together A Valentine's Day Mixtape

Gazelles' Beach Boys Influence Runs Deep

The Queers, The Independents, The Lash Outs

Monday, September 22, at The Double Wide

Pet Peeves

The Beach Boys are popping up everywhere this year in music but don't seem to be getting their due

Sixties Symph

Good Donations

Minus Story, Shearwater

Friday, June 15, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Hot Chip

Thursday, April 26, at the Granada Theater

Cover Me

Callithump provides the hoot, you provide the holler

UFOFU Sighting

Bosque Brown, Tenlons Fort

Saturday, May 20, at AllGood Café

The Beach Boys

Friday, Feburary 3, at Nokia Theater

Hal

Hal (Rough Trade)

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Reason to Smile

After battling mental illness and hit-or-miss records, Brian Wilson is back with a lost classic

dios

dios (Star Time)

The Faraway Places

Unfocus on It (Eenie Meenie Records)

Laugh Riot

Four Day Weekend celebrates the final day of 2003

The forever frown

More than 30 years later, Smile remains the subject of so much mystery

Brian Wilson, reconstructed

For his first solo album in a decade, the Beach Boy recovers himself and his music...sort of

Catch a wave

The only difference between Pet Sounds and Stereolab is a mere 30 years

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