The Beatles

Local Independent Record Vendors are Rooting for the Underdogs

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Similarities emerged at CD Source and Good Records this week with top artists reaching high sa ... More >>

Finding Consolation In a Bowl Of Soup -- In A Shopping Mall

Maybe you've been there. You're all excited to check out the latest blockbuster at the NorthPark Center theater, and after spending 10 minutes jockeying around the lot and shunning the valet to find your own parking, you approach the ticket booth and your show is sold out. Not just the 7:05 p.m. you ... More >>

Preview: Wildflower! Art and Music Fest at Galatyn Park

Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20, at Galatyn Park, Richardson

The Complete, More or Less, Collection of Covers Performed By St. Vincent

​I hear Pete's gone; wonder if I can be music editor aga ... excuse me, I've just been told: No, no way. Ah. Anyway. Doesn't mean I can't post this playlist that's been sitting on my desktop for way too long: a complete-ish collection of covers performed by St. Vincent, for whom DC9 at Night was q ... More >>

Riley Breckenridge of Thrice: "We Like to Think of Music as More an Art Form Than a Product."

For nearly 15 years, California's Thrice has been one of the more intriguing alternative rock bands going. With an attitude of constant growth, the four-piece has incorporated elements of punk, metal and electronica into their heady and literate stew. Thrice's highwater mark would have to be The Al ... More >>

Smith Westerns, Sundress

Wednesday, September 14, at Dada

Listomania: 30 Songs That Make Us Hungry But Probably Shouldn't

​Ricky Martin will be performing at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie tomorrow night. And, yes, that kind of has our mouths watering. No, not because we have a thing for the recently outed Latin singer, but because, gluttons that we are, our stomachs have always growled when we hear his song "Shake ... More >>

More Than 20 Years After Their Death, Eight-Tracks Are Resurrected In Dallas.

Unexpected Influences: Datahowler Doesn't Always Listen To Music -- But When He Does, He Prefers Obscure African or Latin Records.

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like.Datahowler​Datahowler, mad processor of decades of international culture, has a lot on his mind. Born Ross Edman (and formerly using the moniker Objectiv One), he has managed to push himself ... More >>

The Daily Fail: Beady Eye

Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis band Beady Eye isn't going for the same Beatles-aping sound of his past work. It's going for something different--the same indie garage rock thing everyone else is doing these days.

Taste The Fashion

Idol Rich: Hey, Everyone It's Lennon & McCartney Week

​It was sorta-kinda-Beatles week. And Macca even sent a "Good Luck!" message via satellite from tour and everyone thought it was awesome. Looks were shared around the theater. People probably embraced, it was hard to tell. The band mates just played better knowing that message came from Sir with l ... More >>

Pirate Radio Gets A Tame U.S. Release But We Still Love Its Rock 'N' Roll

Smothered and Covered

Free Yourself In Uptown

Last Night: Paul McCartney at Cowboys Stadium

Paul McCartneyCowboys StadiumAugust 19, 2009Better than: a competitive round of Rock Band: Beatles, to say the least.Patrick Michels​Download: For more pictures from last night's show, check Patrick Michels' slideshow from the night.For the first hour or so of Paul McCartney's set at Cowboys Stadi ... More >>

Hash Over: Steal This Wine, State & Allen's New Bottles, And Chocolate Is What's For Dinner

​Paul Burrough at Sacred Cellars has started a new promotion that can make your wine habit a bit less financially ruinous. Steal of the Week, Burrough writes, is Sacred Cellars' "own version of wine.woot.com, but only waaaay better. For example, [last] week's offering [was] priced at less than 50% ... More >>

Continental Rock

Paul McCartney To Play Cowboys Stadium On Wednesday, August 19

Another coup for that spaceship out in Arlington: It's the Beatle's first Dallas show since 2005, and his sole Texas stop on his current North American tour. Perhaps most impresively, though, the press release announcing the show indicates that the concert should last a solid 2.5 hours. Ticke ... More >>

The First Time Paul McCartney Played Dallas

Pete's got the details concerning Paul McCartney's just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones's EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles' interview with WFAA's Bert Shipp during the band's September '64 ... More >>

Locksley Loves Robin Hood. Tom Hanks Loves Locksley.

Head On Over To Bill's Records, Like Right Now

Ra Ra Riot, The Morning Benders, Walter Meego

Thursday, October 2, at The Loft

The Summer After

The Summer of Love got all sorts of coverage on its 40th Anniversary. So where’s the love for 1968?

N.E.R.D.

Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)

Postage Paid

Welcome. Now get out.

Boxed Out

Do we really need to hear every last studio detail?

Are We Blue?

Frisco certainly is thanks to the Bluegrass Festival

Are We Blue?

Frisco certainly is thanks to the Bluegrass Festival

Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

History Lessons

Let the music take you there

Peel, Tammany Hall Machine, Lalaland

Friday, June 8, at Hailey's, Denton

Gras Roots

Oasis

Don't Believe the Truth (Sony)

John Lennon

Acoustic (Capitol)

Gomez

Thursday, October 14

The Happy Bullets

Blue Skies and Umbrellas (Jeez Louise Records)

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

What's Up, Doc?

Ken Burns’ Ken Burns

Cheap Trick

Special One (Big3)

Write Wrongs

Max Stalling is a songwriter from Texas, not a Texas songwriter.

Letters

Letters for the issue of April 24

Best Piano Bar

Pete's Dueling Piano Bar

Best Place to Get That TV-Land Look

Metro Retro

Crit and Shap 2000

The worst of the worst

I, somebody

Three decades later, the Residents are still anonymous -- and still butchering sacred cows

Leaves us dry

Robert Christgau's collected essays read like the day the music died

You've got to hide your love away

Hard Night's Day to continue despite departure of founding member

Roadshows

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad