The Beatles

Jimmy Menkena: "I Thought The Beatles Wrote Every Single Kind Of Music."

We praised Menkena when their debut album, With You I'll Travel, came out last year. But the lineup has changed since then, and now features prominent members of The Polyphonic Spree, The Demigs and The Felons. In advance of their free show at The Foundry on Saturday with Fort Worth's The Cush, we a ... More >>

Bruce Corbitt of Rigor Mortis: "One Day We're Getting Signed To Capitol Records And The Next I Am Getting Stabbed In The Back Five Times At A Show."

Hugely influential on the local metal scene, Rigor Mortis' violent live performances throughout the mid-to-late-'80s are the stuff of legend. Vocalist Bruce Corbitt was fired in 1989 and the band was never the same. Luckily, after a 20-year cooling off period, the original line-up has been playing r ... More >>

Listomania: Nine Songs That May or May Not Be About Paying Your Taxes

​As part of their ongoing strategy to make April the most hated month of the year, the U.S. government requires that you turn in your taxes on Monday. Yes, that's right: It's the time of year again where you have to strain your eyes and flip through your receipts, desperately hoping to find possib ... More >>

Idol Rich: Two Locals Aim for Top 40

​Last night, this season's remaining 50 Idol contestants left the City of Angels for the City of Sin and began working on Beatles classics in pairs and trios. Vocal coaches were essentially flogging them with barbed critiques during rehearsal and in what I assume was meant to be a cute montage, an ... More >>

Listomania: Ranking The Beatles' Musical Kids

​It can't be easy to grow up with famous parents -- especially when you plan to follow in their career footsteps. As tough as it can be for the typical (we use this phrase loosely) celebrity offspring, having the additional scrutiny of the expectations that come with having a Beatle for a father w ... More >>

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

Tuesday, January 18, at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton

Listomania: Ten Songs That Love the Beatles

Apple's HomepageGood News, Everyone!​This morning, a headline on CNN read, "Beatles come to iTunes." Innocuous enough, yes, but, gosh, where the hell else are you going to buy music from (arguably) the world's biggest band? At Best Buy? Apple's official announcement (the above pic is from their ho ... More >>

Fab Four Friday

Liverpool Pickin'

Today In Music News: U2 Wants Its Own Rock Band, Does It Offend You Yeah? Wants You and Boston Shows Are All Wet

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 9, 2009...U2 would like their own version of Rock Band, just like The Beatles. Would you get more points for preening like Bono?Do you want to be on the new Does It Offend You Yeah? album? All you need to do is say "yeah."Don't go to see sh ... More >>

Want The Beatles In Mono Box Set? Good Luck.

​Just how dedicated are local Beatles fans? Well, at least one has already agreed to pay $500 for a rare copy of The Beatles In Mono--about $200 more than the set's $299.99 list price. The mono set is part of the big 9-9-09 marketing blitzkrieg, which also included the release of the band's remast ... More >>

Other Beatles Games You Won't Remember.

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Dandy Warhols Gig at The Granada

The above streaming cover of the Beatles' "Blackbird" comes courtesy of The Dandy Warhols, who, as Darryl Smyers noted in his interview with the band in last week's print edition, were kinda obligated to cover the song as soon as Michael Jackson passed away. And ... More >>

Good Records To Celebrate Beatles Re-Issues With Hard Night's Day, Screenings

​A week from today, the Beatles catalog will see a digitally remastered release, and to celebrate, starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Good Records will be throwing a party, complete with a "megamix" screening of Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Help, Hard Day's Night, and Anthology, a Rock Band ... More >>

Today In Music News: Radiohead Advised To Split, Jeff Is Breaking Jay's Heart, Beatles Stuff Is Pricey, Paul Banks Next Exit: Solo Album

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 6, 2009...Radiohead's manager told the band they needed to split up when the band stalled out in the studio during the recording of In Rainbows. Former Wilco drummer, Jay Bennett, is suing current Wilco leader, Jeff Tweedy, for at least $50,0 ... More >>

Long (And Wide) Range

Today In Music News: The Beatles Get A Rock Band, Chris Brown Gets Charged, Eminem Doubles Your Pleasure, and Wayne and Win Are Beefing.

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 6, 2009... The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores on 9/9/09, at which point it will become the most overrated game ever. Yeah, yeah. Chris Brown got charged with felony assault.  Marshall Mathers is making up for lost time by ... More >>

Come and Get It

You're a fan of the Beatles, right? What's that you say? No? Hunh. My bad. So sorry. Then if I were you, I most certainly wouldn't bother with this. Didn't mean to trouble you on a Friday night. Never mind then. Get back to what you were doing.

Working Like a Dog

Take a Beatle break at the Inwood

Lou Gramm's Still a Jukebox Hero

For ex-Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm, it still feels like the very first time, every time

Hey Beatles Fans, Any Plans For That Last Paycheck?

DOMA XX: Best Cover/Tribute Act Nominees

Rain Drips With Beatles Nostalgia, While Freakshow and Misanthrope Make for Hard Day's Nights at the Theater

A Day in the Life

Rain showcases the Beatles' career

Sixties Symph

You Gave Me What? Part 1: Badfinger's Back

The Hunt for Red Octopus' Garden

AllGood hosts a Yellow Submarine

The Beatles

Love (Capitol)

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Blood Brothers

Scissor Sisters

Ta-Dah (Universal/Motown)

Pete Knows Best

If you could Beatle a dead horse, you'd do it too

Secret Machines: All You Need is Bono

Paul McCartney and Freelance Hellraiser

Twin Freaks (Parlophone)

Hot Potatoes

Killer Green

Audrey II eats up the stage

DJ Danger Mouse

The Grey Album (Self-released, sort of)

Revolting

Two Marx beat as one

Photo Op

Maybe they should call it The Fab Seasons

100 Bullets

MTV and Rolling Stone pick the 100 greatest pop songs ever, "from The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys." We demand a recount.

Still Fab

A spiffed up Hard Day's Night continues to dazzle, with its jump cuts, slow motion, and sped-up Beatles antics

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Paul McCartney

Liverpool Sound Collage

Pickin' a winner

CMH Records has given '80s faves a musical makeover, whether you like it or not

Meet the Beatles' lawyers

And kill the pigs too

Mind games

Four-CD Lennon anthology leans too heavily on inferior versions of familiar tunes

We can work it out

Baboon jumps out of the frying pan and into the fire in pursuit of major-label green

Imagine there's no Beatles

Caught between two generations of Beatles fans

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

Let it be? Never

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

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