The Rolling Stones

David Walker Built Cabinets For The Stones, Saw Devo Melt Down and Witnessed Freddie Mother Fucking King

Have Gun Will Travel Wants to Be Exiled While Stranded

​One of the better young acts excelling in rootsy chemistry is Florida's Have Gun Will Travel. While their current album, Mergers & Acquisitions, is the band's strongest to date, the quintet's last LP, Postcards From the Friendly City, was an excellent example of their talents as well. For tho ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Want To Be KXT's Music Director? Because They're Hiring, If You're Sick of Hearing The Songs Already Played On Classic Rock Stations.

​Just a little more than a year after its head-scratching launch, KKXT-91.7 FM KXT, the music-centric offshoot of local National Public Radio affiliate KERA-90.1 FM, remains something of a beguiling beast.In theory, it's great. In practice, it sometimes is, too. Just having a station that will pla ... More >>

It's Just a Screen Away!

​Just a little more than a year after its head-scratching launch, KKXT-91.7 FM KXT, the music-centric offshoot of local National Public Radio affiliate KERA-90.1 FM, remains something of a beguiling beast.In theory, it's great. In practice, it sometimes is, too. Just having a station that will pla ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: From 1972, the Rolling Stones In Exile In Fort Worth

​I mentioned this one in passing one Sunday morning in early March, but with this week's super-duper-deeeeeluxe reissue of Exile on Main St. I figured it was worth a revisit. Besides, you never know when it'll disappear again -- and by "it" I refer to the soundboard sorta-kinda soundtrack to a lit ... More >>

Mick Taylor's May 19 Show At The Granada Canceled Due To Illness

Mick Taylor​With the recent reissue of Exile on Main Street, my favorite effort from the Rolling Stones, my personal interest in catching guitarist Mick Taylor next Wednesday at the Granada Theater was pretty high. Taylor was in the Stones from 1969 to 1974--considered by many to be the band's gre ... More >>

Spoon

Transference (Merge)

Everyone Sing: "Dallas, You Are So Very Chic!"

​As promised (um ... Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten '83 classic anthem "Dallas," written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake, so here 'tis for do ... More >>

You Get What You Need

​As promised (um ... Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten '83 classic anthem "Dallas," written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake, so here 'tis for do ... More >>

Please Stop Listening To Classic Rock

​As promised (um ... Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten '83 classic anthem "Dallas," written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake, so here 'tis for do ... More >>

The Virgins

Tuesday, May 26, at The Loft

Echoes and Reverberations: "The War Across The Alley"

[Editor's Note: This is the last time we'll be running Echoes and Reverberations as a regular feature here on DC9. Will we see future installments? Don't know yet. But in the meantime, a big thanks to Jeff Liles for the past 30 installments of the series. It's been fun.]Shallow Reign, performing at ... More >>

Opening Band Blues: Q&A With Cormac Neeson of The Answer

Scarlet Page The Answer opens for AC/DC tonight, then heads to the Pontiac Garage for a midnight gig.Tonight at the American Airlines Center, before Aussie rock legends AC/DC will be bringing back a lot of high school memories by banging out classic hard rock warhorses such as "You Shook Me A ... More >>

He's The Guy

Scarlet Page The Answer opens for AC/DC tonight, then heads to the Pontiac Garage for a midnight gig.Tonight at the American Airlines Center, before Aussie rock legends AC/DC will be bringing back a lot of high school memories by banging out classic hard rock warhorses such as "You Shook Me A ... More >>

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

Scarlet Page The Answer opens for AC/DC tonight, then heads to the Pontiac Garage for a midnight gig.Tonight at the American Airlines Center, before Aussie rock legends AC/DC will be bringing back a lot of high school memories by banging out classic hard rock warhorses such as "You Shook Me A ... More >>

Pet Peeves

The Beach Boys are popping up everywhere this year in music but don't seem to be getting their due

Stones Unturned at Cotton Bowl in '81

The Beach Boys are popping up everywhere this year in music but don't seem to be getting their due

Kanye West

Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella Records)

The Beatdown

On Friday, take a twisted Z-Trip through the world of hip-hop

Swinging Steaks

Sunday Best (First National)

World Leader Pretend

U2's self-invented legacy is a figment of Bono's imagination

Pleasure Club

The Fugitive Kind (Purified)

Bush League

Uptown Players shoot low with Down South, a wicked rewind to sexual mores of the 1960s

Bottle the Spin

The "40 best artists making music right now?" Nah.

Puff Puff Poof

Smoking ban passed in the name of public health--right?

Various Artists

1 Love: War Child (B-Unique)

Luna

September 28

Best Piano Bar

Pete's Dueling Piano Bar

Cat Scratch Fever

Plus: Good to The Bone, Eat Your Heart Out, Do the Perp Walk

Allison Moorer

Miss Fortune (Universal South)

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Fuck

Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like Records)

Wax On

The Waxwings are the best band you've never heard of, even if you've heard it all

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears--and heart--long after it's over

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

A mother of a father

Bo Diddley created rock and roll -- now, where's his check?

Swank sweat lodge

Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

Take these records, please

Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

Say it ain't so

Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

The Crit and Shap Poll

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Leaves us dry

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

Risky business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Out Here

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Tejano outsiders define what's in

La Mafia continue to break barriers even as their industry ignores them

You invent the future

How ignoring their past left Fleetwood Mac a band out of time

Just meat and potatoes, ma'am

The American Fuse gets elemental

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

No frills, no joke

The Mullens are not the Not the Ramones, and for all the right reasons

At the Palace

The Jayhawks aren't just grieving angels picking at Gram Parson's remains