The Velvet Underground

The Twelve Scariest Bands

Seeing that Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson hit the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie this evening, we thought it would be a good time to compile a list of the scariest acts in music. Scary can be a relative term. One person's demented can be another's delightful, but each of these 12 scary acts has ... More >>

Did the Internet Kill the Debut Album?

See also: Old records are outselling new ones for the first time Remember Lana Del Rey? It's OK if you don't, but 10 years from now, we might remember her for a different reason: the death of the debut. I know, technically Born to Die wasn't a "debut." But her manufactured reinvention and the unw ... More >>

Real Talk

In which our new music editor has a lot of feelings.

Listen: New Sounds from A.Dd , Flowers of God, Sore Losers, Little Black Dress, St. Vincent, Analog Rebellion and Paul Henry North

If it feels like things have been hectic of late, that's because they have been. October just tends to be that way around these parts, what with standard fall touring schedules pumping up the show-going options on top of the hype and added excitement that comes with such seasonal events as Austin Ci ... More >>

Good Friday: The O's, The Hope Trust, Reverend Horton Heat, The Sword, Jonathan Richman, Lynch Mob, The Boom Boom Box, Dax Riggs, Max Bemis, Plain White T's & More!

Allison V. SmithThe O's​It's hard to put your finger on an actual date when The O's will officially celebrate the release of their new album, Between The Two. The hilarious duo, who we caught up with in this week's print edition, have already played a handful of release shows this week, but Club D ... More >>

Jonathan Richman and Four Other Criminally Underappreciated Talents

Good Friday: A Spune Christmas, How The Edge Stole Christmas, Drowning Pool, Justin Townes Earle, Cheap Trick, John David Kent & The Dumb Angels, Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World, Sundress, Will Johnson & More!

​It doesn't feel like the holiday season yet, but Spune Productions is ushering in the holiday spirit with its sixth annual Christmas Party tomorrow night at Hailey's Club in Denton. The festivities will include free (Christmas?) tacos, free wassail, and, of course, music. Telegraph Canyon is head ... More >>

Over The Weekend: The Dandy Warhols at The Granada Theater

Dandy Warhols, HopewellGranada TheaterNovember 13, 2010Better than: Watching a TV marathon with everything that The Dandy Warhols have been featured in.The Dandy Warhols​On Saturday night, for the second time in two years, the Dandy Warhols rocked out at the Granada, this time in support of t ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: David Bowie and Stevie Ray and the Tour That Wasn't

​I had intended to provide as this week's aural audio the entirety of Beck's redo of INXS's Kick, which features on guitar and vocals none other than Lake Highlands' own Annie Clark, or St. Vincent. (The formerly Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated St. Vincent, Pete asks me to remind you as I d ... More >>

Listomania: Eight Jewish Musical Icons To Celebrate On This Final Night of Chanukah

​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

Good Friday: Blue Jungle, True Widow, Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things, Sydney Confirm, Sore Losers, Yeahdef, Keith P, DJ Sega, Killanova, Prince William, Yeahdef, Beauxregard, Land Mammals, Jesse Gage, Mara Lee Miller, Theater Fire, Mimicking Birds

​The ACL festival may be going on right now down in Austin town, but North Texas music lovers aren't going to let some silly little no-compete clause ruin the weekend.First, let's review the shows we've already mentioned. Tonight, Telegraph Canyon releases The Tide and the Current at Lola's in For ... More >>

The Family-Friendly Lisa Loeb and Gustafer Yellowgold

The Magnetic Fields Turn Down the Volume

Stephin Merritt uses Distortion to protect the Magnetic Fields from mothers everywhere

North of the Dial

North of the Dial

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Is Is (EP) (Artist Records)

Singles Going Steady

Why buy the whole thing?

Look, It's The "Definitive 200" Albums of All Time. Sure, If You Don't Have Ears, Absolutely.

Angels of Mercy?

One man's Gabriel is another man's Lucifer.

The Living '60s

Austin's Black Angels fly high with a gust of drone 'n' roll

Pink Mountaintops

Axis of Evol (Jagjaguwar)

Oh, Norah

Miles Davis

The Cellar Door Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)

John Cale

Tuesday, November 1, at Granada Theater

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

Find the River

Smog's Bill Callahan discovers new sounds and voices...and cleans up with Chloe Sevigny

The End Is Near

Growing older with The New Year

Thanks Again

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

School of Rock

Are the Dandy Warhols a rock-and-roll flowchart or just a rock-and-roll band? You decide.

The Year in Music

Eleven things that made local music great in 2002

WWJD?

Plus: Dalbie and Tex, A List

Luna

June 13

The Strokes/The Walkmen

The Modern Age (Rough Trade/XL/Beggars Banquet)/The Walkmen (StarTime International)

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Big Riffs

Cave-In finds Rock and Roll on Jupiter and brings it back to Earth

Critics' Picks

Patti Smith

My heart's reflection

Genius plus love still equals Yo La Tengo

Out There

Luna

Out Here

Art-pop explosion!

Go Metric USA makes pop music for smart people

Absolute perfection

Reed Easterwood's record is one of the year's best. Good luck finding it

Something about Jonathan

Jonathan Richman helped invent punk and geek rock. Now, he comes pogo-sticking back into your life with There's Something About Mary

Out There

Roadshows

Roadshows

In search of the perfect melody

The outer-space roots of Transona Five

Out Here

When the well runs dry

The vitality stops, but the music just keeps on comin'

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

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

Beavis' older brother

A portrait of Megadeth's Dave Mustaine as a lonely young man