The Rolling Stones

Record Store Day Approaches and Ben Harper Premiers at The White House

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. The day has finally come and Bill Wisener, Bill's Records owner, can hardly contain his excite ... More >>

Murder by Death's Matt Armstrong on The Cure, SXSW and John Congleton

Murder by Death started in Bloomington, Indiana, but bassist Matt Armstrong is a local who grew up in University Park. He took some time out and shared his first show experiences with us, told us why MBD is not playing SXSW and revealed a little about their forthcoming John Congleton-produced album. ... More >>

Here Are Some Photos of the V Spot

All Photos by Catherine DownesHouse-made arugula fettuccini with basil, cherry tomatoes and pistachio pesto​Dallas welcomed yet another sexual double-entendre named eatery to the scene on Wednesday: the V Spot Vegan Café. I paid a visit to the tiny space, wedged between the Pearl Cup and We ... More >>

It Only Took 33 Years For Dallas Filmmakers to Get Due Credit For "Lost" Stones Concert Film

Jagger and Richards in Some Girls Live shot in Fort Worth​A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band's Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the "London Green Shoed Cowboys." ... More >>

One Week From Tuesday, Relive Rolling Stones' July 1978 Show at Will Rogers in Fort Worth

We've been here before: the night the Rolling Stones played Will Rogers Auditorium as the "London Green Shoed Cowboys" in the summer of '78. The boot, known as Handsome Girls, remains one of the finest in my collection; I revisit it regularly, particularly that rendering of "Starfucker." No wonder i ... More >>

Rolling Stones Ready Plans To Theatrically Release Film of 1978 Fort Worth Concert

​No date has yet been announced -- just a "Coming Soon!" promise -- for the stateside release of the new Rolling Stones concert film, The Rolling Stones: Some Girls -- Live in Texas. But, starting early next month, the United Kingdom and Ireland (followed shortly by Denmark, South Africa, Cro ... More >>

How An All-Girl, Michigan-Based Punk Group Fell For Dallas' The Telefones 30 Years Too Late

​A little over a week ago, Robert posted something of a gem to Unfair Park: Seems an all-girl punk band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 30 years after the fact have released a response song to the great "She's In Love With The Rolling Stones," a fine, fine single released by Dallas New Wavers The Tel ... More >>

Food Fight, or: Beginning Your Friday With a Chance to Get Iron Fork-ed For Free

​While awaiting several calls back about items forthcoming, allow me to dispense with these four VIP ducets to Wednesday's Iron Fork event at the Fashion Industry Gallery, where chefs John Tesar and Scott Romano will square off whilst attendees dine on samplings from the likes of Il Cane Rosso and ... More >>

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 >>

For One Night Only, a Chance, Finally, to See the Rolling Stones Play Fort Worth in 1972

More than once I've directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the '72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas -- two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two at the U ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Rolling Stones' Long Day's Journey Into Night at Sumet-Burnet Studios in June 1972

​Back in May I directed your attention to what remains my favorite Stones live comp, much of which comes from two Tarrant County Convention Center shows on June 24, 1972. Here's its exiled companion, which, till recently, I'd only heard in bits and pieces, and maybe with good reason -- it's six ho ... More >>

Old 97's To Release Covers EP, Mimeograph, Next Week

​Well, this kinda came out of nowhere: Next week--a week from tomorrow, in fact--the Old 97's will release a four-song covers EP, called Mimeograph, via new West Records. The album, which comes before the band's planned double-album release this fall, finds the old Dallas favorites covering The Ro ... More >>

Taste The Fashion

Last Night: Papa Roach and Hellyeah! at the Palladium Ballroom

Papa Roach, Hellyeah!, 12 Stones, Seasons AfterMay 5 2010Palladium BallroomBetter Than: cutting your lift into pieces, suffocation, and no breathing.Roger CaldwellPapa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix makes love to the camera. For more of photographer Roger Caldwell's shots of the night, check out his ... More >>

Idol Rich: The Texas Two Take On the Rolling Stones

​So, this was the week that American Idol transitioned away from the gender-defined 3-day broadcast schedule, or what I like to call "over saturation." The Top 12 also moved from the in-the-round set-up and performed on the "new" stage--which is basically just the stage you saw last year with all ... More >>

Today In Music News: Mystical Is Free, Music For Unborn Babies And Coco Loves The Stones

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January22, 2010...Mystikal has been released from prison after six years. Finally, even unborn babies get to listen to the iPod! Conan O'Brien sticks it to NBC with the help of the Rolling Stones. Suck it, Leno.

Giveaway: A Pair Of Tickets To Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Tonight At Longhorn Saloon

​This week's Observer includes a piece by Chris Gray describing Jason Isbell as an old soul, and describing the Stones influence on Isbell's latest album, apropos of his show with his band The 400 Unit and openers Macon Greyson tonight at the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth. Writes Gray, "Exhausted ... More >>

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Macon Greyson

Friday, November 13,at Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth

Today In Music News: The Hulk Wants To Slappa The Bass, Kings Of Leon Gets Clothing Line and Sublime Isn't Sublime Anymore

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 4, 2009...Hulk Hogan has revealed that he has a dream to play bass for Metallica or The Rolling Stones. If I were him, you know what I would dream of? Fixing my broken family.Will it ever stop? Now Kings of Leon has its own clothing li ... More >>

Today In Music News: Ron Wood, Sexagenarian Fashionista; Lightspeed Champion Comes Back; and Liam Gallagher Can't Hack It Solo

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, October 28, 2009...Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood has launched his own clothing line. I can only imagine that he'll come out with a line of orthopedic shoes in the not-too-distant future.Lightspeed Champion is set to make a "comeback" in early ... More >>

Top 10 Uses Of Food On Album Covers

As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

Today In Music News: Charlie Watts Is Leaving/Not Leaving This Stones, Matthew Herbert Loves Swine and Muse Can't Keep A Secret

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 3, 2009... Charlie Watts is leaving The Rolling Stones?! Oh, wait... no he's not. Music producer Matthew Herbert is making an album comprised of pig noises. Top that Radiohead! Muse's PR company might want to look up what "secret ... More >>

Today In Music News: Brian Jones' Death Gets Another Look, Michael Bolton Attempts Relevance and Sublime Gets Back Together

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 1, 2009... British police are going to re-examine the death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones.  In the ultimate attempt to recover from a floundering career, Michael Bolton has been writing songs for his new album with Lady ... More >>

Of Dead Flowers, Midnight Ramblers, Honky Tonk Women and Street Fighting Men

Fort Worth-born horn player Jim Price is usually a footnote in most Rolling Stones histories; his contributions to the canon -- he appears on Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Goats Head Soup -- seldom merit mention, save as a sideman to sideman Bobby Keys, the Slaton, Texas, native oft consider ... More >>

The Summer After

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

DOMA XX: Best Cover/Tribute Act Nominees

Allstoned

In Shine a Light, Seniors Scorsese and The Stones Together Again

Rape! Murder!

It's just a shout away at the Inwood

Frank Campagna's Unofficial Rolling Stones Album Cover Art

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Gorge yourself on the good stuff

Rolling Stone Teases with Best Bootleg Ever (or Something), But We Actually Deliver

When They're 1964

Critical Appreciation

North Mississippi Allstars

Friday, January 20, at Gypsy Tea Room

The Rolling Stones, Merle Haggard

Tuesday, November 29, at American Airlines Center

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

Classic, Rock

Why is the most important producer in rock history a footnote?

Miranda Lee Richards / Paula Frazer

The Herethereafter (Virgin) / Indoor Universe (Birdman)

100 Bullets

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

It's Only Rock & Roll

Gimme Shelter

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

Apocalypse then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Tell me when it's over

The world might not be coming to an end, but maybe it should be

Night & Day

March 19-25, 1998

A tale of two venues

The difference between the Stones' two area appearances was more setting than set list

Through the past (lightly)

The Rolling Stones grind along in their worn-out money machine

Out There

Roadshows

Roadshows