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The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

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Five Great 2012 Concerts in Non-Traditional Venues

Certainly, there will be lists coming forth that will discuss the wonderful local tour stops for many national and international bands in 2012, whether Radiohead at the AAC, Sharon Von Etten at Trees or Frank Ocean at South Side Music Hall. See also: - The top five musical resurrections of 2012 ... More >>

The long, strange trip of Girls' Christopher Owens

"Rehearsal Spaces Are Designed For the Kind of Bros Who Apply Band Stickers to Urinals" and Other Wisdom From Indian Jewelry's Tex Kerschen

Some bands just like to be mysterious. Take Houston's Indian Jewelry for example. Although the band has been around for a little over a decade, very little biographical material is available. Various articles on the band list five members, but some list only two, and even then, pseudonyms are used. ... More >>

Four Other "Big Four" Shows We'd Love To See

​The recent Big Four shows featuring thrash-metal kings Metallica, Megadeath, Slayer and Anthrax were massive, epic spectacles that were barely contained by the huge venues they were performed in -- legendary spots such as the Coachella-approved Empire Polo Club and Yankee Stadium, and some Europe ... More >>

You've No Doubt Seen "Crazy Picture Guy" At Area Shows. Now Learn His Backstory.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Scotty Mankoff, aka "Crazy Picture Guy."​Scotty Mankoff can be a bit menacing to witness at a live music show, with his hulking frame draped in black clothing, a flowing, curly ma ... More >>

At Mission Of Burma's First Reunion Show, They Sold Out a Venue They Were Originally Banned From

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Mission Of Burma​Roger Miller sings and plays guitar for a band that might have been forgotten about years ago. Luckily, Mission of ... More >>

A Look at The "New" Moody Coliseum (and a Listen to Some Classic Moody Music)

​Perhaps you've heard: The Moody Foundation is putting $20 million toward giving the great Moody Coliseum an extreme makeover, as evidenced by the conceptuals provided by SMU (more follow after the jump). But that's but half of what the Hilltop needs to fund the project, expected to run closer to ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Kirby Brown and Whiskey Folk Ramblers at The Jack Daniel's Saloon, Acid Mothers Temple at The Loft, Bruce Hornsby at the House of Blues and Yelle at the Granada

Tonight's not quite as busy as last night, but there's a good selection of diverse musical acts this evening as well -- including the launch of our own free concert series.

BUZZ KILL: Fifteen Songs About What Happens To You When You Do Drugs.

​Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, "totally killer."Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to "harsh your mellow" and all, but, um, some of us don't work behind the counter at the local head shop; w ... More >>

Listomania: The Ten Best Bands That Might Actually Be Cults

Listen: When you all wear the same uniform, people are gonna accuse you of being a cult.​There are plenty of bands over the years who have used the word "cult" in their names. From '70s hard rockers Blue Oyster Cult to '80s Brit rockers The Cult to '90s art rockers Cloud Cult to current indie darl ... More >>

Show Announcements: Tobacco, The Adicts, Yelle, The Black Angels, The Submarines, Stone Sour, Katy Perry, The Raveonettes, Joe Pug, Keith Urban, Yes, South by So What? & More!

Tobacco​Less than a year ago, Tobacco, the Pennsylvania-born electronic musician and frontman for the experimental group Black Moth Super Rainbow, released his latest solo album, Manic Meat, a dark and seedy work that outshone its 2008 predecessor, Fucked Up Friends. As a solo artist, Tobacco ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Los Lobos at The Granada and Needtobreathe at House of Blues

A bit of a slow hump day evening, but at least one legendary band is playing our region tonight.

Last Night: Here We Go Magic and Beach Fossils at The Loft

Here We Go Magic, Beach FossilsThe LoftAugust 4, 2010Better than: Seeing these headliners open in a hot and crowded Granada, as was the case last time around.Here We Go Magic​ Last summer, Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic opened for Grizzly Bear in what many considered to be one of the concert highli ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 19: Lucy Wrubel

​Lucy Wrubel has been DJing for over a decade now. The stand up comedian turned DJ got her start in Rome Italy, where she found she could overcome the language barrier through music. "I found myself unable to communicate with the locals, unless I was choosing the music." Wrubel says, "After spen ... More >>

Good Friday: Brent Best, Telegraph Canyon, Greg Schroeder, Bob Log III, Brave Combo, The Hold Steady, The Whigs, True Widow, Dove Hunter, The O's, Rodeo Ruby Love, Mini Kiss, Second Saturdays and Others!

Larry Brown​American writer Larry Brown was born and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. His works caught the eye of Alejandro Escovedo, who often played back-up for Brown during his public readings. Brown passed away in 2004, but Brent Best, Chris Welch, and Isaac Hoskins will celebrate his birthday ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Bonnie "Prince" Billy at the Granada Theater

Bonnie "Prince" BillyGranada TheaterJune 6, 2009Better Than: The George Strait concert at Cowboys Stadium, or pretty much anything else any of you suckers were doing on Saturday night.Noah W. BaileyOpening with a ramshackle version of the Stanley Brothers classic "Nobody's Darling on Earth," it was ... More >>

G. Love and Special Sauce Keep Jamming

Echoes and Reverberations: The Night of the Tripping Dead

The 11th grade Biology teacher once shared this insightful observation aimed specifically at those of us with long hair: "Sons, this country is divided into three groups of people: the people who shower before work (re: white collar workers); the people who shower after work (see "blue collar"); and ... More >>

The Cardinals featuring Ryan Adams

Heat Rave

Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Up In Smoke

See a Western spoof in Plano

Dallas Man Putting on "Highest Concert Ever." But It's For a Good Cause, Swear.

Widespread Yawning

Pass the bong—and the NoDoz

Countrified

The legendary New Riders of the Purple Sage are only slightly jammy

Birds of a Different Feather

How the Fans of Fred Eaglesmith Stack Up Against Other Transients and Vagabonds

Politics as Usual

Make martinis (and music), not war

Forgiven

Stranger Things have happened to Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

Still Burning

Deep Art

Deep Ellum comes alive in the daylight

Train Kept A-Rollin'

In a vault for 30 years, the Festival Express was put back on track

Strung Up

CMH Records is having a classical gas with every band, like, ever

Widespread Panic

July 20

Time Is Free

Widespread Panic may experiment, but it's all part of the song. Usually.

Out & About

Neil Michael Hagerty

It's Only Rock & Roll

Gimme Shelter

The grass is blue

Writing hits for the Dixie Chicks has given Jim Lauderdale his own wide open space

Ben Harper and the
 Innocent Criminals

Letters

Hit or miss

Kacy Crowley savors the moment between anonymity and fame

Night & Day

March 19-25, 1998

Keep coming back

Singer Edie Brickelland some old Bohemians Slip into something viable

Blast from the past

In days of old, when nights were bold

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

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

Roadshows

Scene, not heard

A few clubs and a few bands do not a "music town" make