The Ramones

Ten of This Weekend's Best Shows, Starring Iron Maiden, Fang Island, Shonen Knife and More

Every Thursday, we bring you ten of the weekend's best shows. Of course, you can find even more of them with our handy concert calendar. Fang IslandThursday, August 16, at DadaMore on this show here. DJ Ruthless RamseyFriday, August 17, at Elm Street BarAudra's got a good preview about the world's " ... More >>

All-Time Top Five: The Devil Makes Three's Favorite Albums

It's not inconceivable to figure that curious folks of the next few decades will look into the music and movements that surged just beneath the surface of the glossy mainstream in this millennium's first decade. Those would-be students of music history won't have to dig through too many virtual copi ... More >>

On The King Bucks, and The Importance of Really Connecting With an Audience...

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks​Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They're good lookin'. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don't like 'em and I'll tell you why: Because they don't care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of ... More >>

A Different Sort of Texting

Paul Collins Brings His Beat Back. Plus: Three More Worthwhile Showgoing Options.

Fans of punk, emo, classic funk, alt-country and even food will all find plenty of options on tonight's fairly busy -- ahem -- menu.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Frampton Comes Alive on KZEW on July 4, 1975

​It's perhaps the most common request among the Friends of Unfair Park: Where oh where is Peter Frampton's January Sound Studios sessions, which aired on KZEW back in February of '75? The complete show too -- not just "Do You Feel Like I Do," the version of which hopped to the top of the local pop ... More >>

Aural Ambush: West Village Rocks Turbo Fruits

Or if YouTube is more your flavor, click here... This week, we traveled to West Village to see how people there felt about Turbo Fruits, the Tennessee-based indie rock outfit.The folks we stumbled across in West Village compared Turbo Fruits' "Where The Stars Don't Shine" to the likes of the Ramones ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Futureheads at The Loft, Lissie at The Granada and Peelander-Z at Rubber Gloves

Back to work and our area is still being affected by ACL spillover. So rest assured: Whatever Monday blues you may be suffering from, it be cured by heading out this evening to one of these fine shows.

That Rhett Miller Makes One Adorable Punk

At some point today, Pete will no doubt post his musings on last night's LCD Soundsystem spectacular-spectacular at the Palladium. I look forward to that. But, alas, poor Pete bailed too soon. There was the after-show, after all, otherwise known as Rock Star Karaoke in the upstairs Loft (where the B ... More >>

Fishboy Preps New Release, Nom, Which, Actually, Kinda Is and Kinda Isn't A Fishboy Release At All?

Denton's Fishboy is a super fun act for a number of reasons: For one, there are the songs like "Half Time at the Proper Name Spelling Bee," which toe the line between the cutesy and the smartly funny (and are so adored by fans that people decide to make tribute videos to the band, like the one above ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"

The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>

Stereo Total Finds, After 15 Years Touring the World, People Are Pretty Much the Same Anywhere

The Nervebreakers To Reunite For Austin, Club Dada Shows

The Nervebreakers To Reunite For Austin, Club Dada Shows

The Nervebreakers are back. While Zac Crain is geeking out over on Frontburner today about a Sex Pistols cover band playing the Longhorn Ballroom next month (my how the mighty have fallen...), he was able to touch on some interesting news that I'd missed earlier today...(Thanks, spam filter!)...name ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

Retirement Rock

Seniors jam in Young at Heart

Avett Brothers, Matt Butcher

Wednesday, April 30, at the Granada Theater

Dallas Punk News...From Finland?

Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you get the best: Guitar Hero III

Satan's Playlist

Never fear—we've got your Halloween mixtape here

Avi Adelman: The Next Lars von Trier?

Radio Birdman

Monday, June 25, at the Palladium Loft

Didn't You Used to Be a Guitar Hero?

Rhys Chatham

Die Donnergotter (Table of Elements)

Arcadia Fire Sale

Spector 45

We Wanna Go! (Self-released)

Just What You Needed

Blondie drives in with some New Cars

Hamell on Trial

Thursday, February 9, at Dan's Silverleaf

Now Dirtier Than Ever

The End Is Near

Growing older with The New Year

Thanks Again

Rhino assembles the definitive '70s punk collection. Pretty much.

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Bratmobile

July 17

Safe at Home

Don’t forget the local boys...and girl

Scene, Heard

Getting some closure

The Donnas

Turn 21 (Lookout! Records)

Critics' Picks

Marky Ramone & The Intruders

The Handsome Family

L7

Slap Happy (Wax Tadpole/Bong Load)

"Let's not rock!"

The Lilith Fairies is must-hear TV!

Even punks get the blues

Reliving not-so-happy days in Salt Lake City, 1985

Third time's a charm

If the rock Fitz, then Dylan Silvers will wear it

Roadshows

Out Here

Roadshows

The offspring

Dallas' punk bands resurrect the spirit of the '70s

Fight the power

Reprise Records president defends the rights of his artists against the Right and the wrong

Shock rock

Hagfish tries to figure out if they're punk, pop, or just plain horny

Reviews

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things