The Black Eyed Peas

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

At Mama Connie's Diner, All You Need is $5.35 and an Old Man to Light the Way

via Oak Cliff Peeps​Other people eating breakfast for lunch count: 5 Level of weirdness felt when "Let's Get It Started" by the Black Eyed Peas played on the speakers in this old-school diner: 4 out of 5 I'm drawn to open restaurants with deserted parking lots like Glee is drawn to sucking. L ... More >>

In Defense of... David Guetta's "Without You (feat. Usher)"

It's hard to say how influential DJ and producer David Guetta has been to today's pop music. I'd argue in his defense. He first broke into American charts in 2009, when he produced "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland. Then there was that whole annoying Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" thing. ... More >>

ACL Stage Banter: The Weekend's Funniest and Most Interesting On-Stage Quotes

Marco TorresAnd the award for ACL 2011's best stage banter goes to Kanye West.​Now that Austin City Limits Music Festival is in the rear view mirror, all we have are the memories. That is, unless you spent the weekend drunk and high, in which case you might not even remember who performed, let alo ... More >>

Last Night at ACL (With Pics!): Kanye West Is The Best Performer You'll See, Just Ask Him.

Kanye WestBud Light Stage -- Austin City LimitsSeptember 16, 2011Better than: what you probably heard about the show, unless you heard it from Kanye.Pete FreedmanKanye West​It didn't take long for Kanye West to buy into his own hype last night, as he headlined the first night of the 2011 Austin Ci ... More >>

A Dispatch From the Frisco In-N-Out, Where Hundreds Wait in Line For Food, Animal-Style

Photos by Alice Laussuade​Here's the scene at you-know-where: Hundreds of people are in line. Guys in In-N-Out uniforms (plus that shitty hat) direct drive-thru traffic. A refrigerated 18-wheeler sits outside, full of back-up meats. If you are one of the hundreds who are in town, dying for a ... More >>

Play-N-Skillz's New Collaboration With David Guetta Has Already Charted In 18 Countries

Steve VisneauCollaboration swag.​Late last week, we passed along word that the latest single from French house producer David Guetta (the man behind, among other songs, the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling") to blow up the Internet was actually a Play-N-Skillz co-production -- and the first of a ... More >>

Dallas Native Ryan Cabrera Is Back, Promises Press Release Promoting Ryan Cabrera

Ry-guy​ Ryan Cabrera is a dude who was born in the Dallas area who used to date Ashlee Simpson and got signed to her father Joe Simpson's management company and made something of a blip on the national pop culture radar in 2004, when his song "On The Way Down" started blowing up Total Request Live ... More >>

The Problem With... Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough"

The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas placing style over su ... More >>

An exciting Super Bowl game couldn't rescue North Texas from a disastrous Super Bowl week.

Last Night: Smith Westerns and Yuck at The Loft

Smith Westerns, YuckThe LoftFebruary 9, 2011 Better than: the Black Eyed Peas half time show...Smith Westerns​Last night's impressive showing for Chicago's Smith Westerns and UK counterparts Yuck was especially significant considering it was not only a Tuesday, but a night where threats of a repea ... More >>

Packers 31, Steelers 25: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Can't believe I just watched Troy Polamalu play like Alan Ball. And James Harrison like Anthony Spencer. I know Harrison had a sack, but for the most part those playmakers were non-factors. 9. Biggest play of the game was Rashard Mendenhall's fumble at Green Bay's 36 on the first pl ... More >>

So There Are Celebrities in Town: A Round-Up of Some Famous Faces on Super Party Circuit

All photos WireImageAshton Kutcher, Demi Moore and noted comedy genius Justin Timberlake at the Rachovsky House​Woke up this morning to find some last-night souvenirs in the in-box -- some, from the Audi Forum at the Rachovsky House on Preston and Northwest Highway, which the car-maker's taken ove ... More >>

Can the albums scheduled to be released in 2011 match the stellar albums released in 2010? They just might be better.

Arbitrarily Grading The Year That Was: A Look Back At The Major Music Happenings of 2010.

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

Jonesing for Art

Listomania: 16 Songs We're Sick Of Hearing At Sporting Events

No more Cotton Eyed Joe! Please!​You know the drill: A pitcher walks three batters in a row, and the coach comes steaming out of the dugout. Whoever's in the stadium's audio control box gets their cue, lunges for button, clicks it, and the entire stadium fills with "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." The au ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 23: DJ WISHFM

​Wade Randolph Hampton, aka DJ WISHFM, is seasoned at his craft. The DJ/booker/promoter and now, band manager, has been spinning for 25 years at this point. Never one to slow down, Hampton books for The W's rooftop club, Ghostbar, serves as that club's resident DJ, and manages popular local acts i ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 21: Mikey Rodge

​Dance Your Face Off! creator and promoter, Mikey Rodge, hasn't been DJing for long. The party-promoter first dabbled in playing tracks two years ago when he decided he'd like to take a shot at some behind-the-booth action. Despite an unsuccessful first attempt, Mikey Rodge kept at it, and eventua ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 13: DJ Bad Holly

​DJ Bad Holly admits that she got her start at DJing through a complete and utter accident. Holly Evans, a.k.a. Bad Holly, volunteered to DJ a party at Doublewide last year at the last minute--and to her surprise received and abundance of positive feedback. "Several people I'd never met came up to ... More >>

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.16.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Not only should Dirk Nowitzki be on the first-team All-NBA squad and a legit MVP candidate, he'll be unstoppable against the Spurs. San Antonio has its nucleus back - Tim Duncan, Manu Ginob ... More >>

Whitt's End: 3.26.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *While Donovan McNabb is dangled by the Philadelphia Eagles and Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers conveniently avoids talking to the police about possible rape charges, isn't it nice th ... 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 >>

Ludacris Bends Genders On New Disc

Manchester Orchestra Wants It All

LMFAO Wants To Be Your Friend, Bitch!

DTC's Midsummer is a Blackboard Jumble of Fun, But the Wyly Theatre is a Hard Sit

Echoes and Reverberations: Liza Richardson's Infinite Axis of Influence

Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>

Sin City

On patrol with the $2 Halloween hos on Lowest Greenville

Mary J. Blige

The Breakthrough (Geffen)

Street Heat

Dallas rap radio is the pits, but saving it would only take two hours a week

Variety Pack

As seen on TV: American Idols Live!

Steal These Albums

The 10 most radical hip-hop albums of all time, featuring Public Enemy, NWA and...Mos Def?

Perfect Fit

Four current and future SMU alums stitch together work, politics and the American dream

Good Cheer

The Turtle Creek Chorale is on Santa's "nice" list

Nowhere Fast

Blackalicious takes its sweet time moving from underground to overground

Best Live Music Venue

Gypsy Tea Room

They got it like that

Rap music, electronic music -- no matter what it is, the Jungle Brothers can do it