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Top Ten Underrated Iron Maiden Songs

Seeing that the first show I ever took my son to was Iron Maiden, I get a special feeling every time the legendary metal act makes its way to our area. Anyone who calls themselves a metalhead knows the "hits," so in honor of the band playing tonight at Gexa Energy Pavilion, here is my list of the te ... More >>

Huey Lewis: "Phil Lynott Taught Me Most of What I Know"

At 62, Huey Lewis is happy to get by on the hits. His tour with Joe Cocker comes to the Meyerson tonight, so we asked about his band's popular ascension in the '70s, how he feels about singing with one of his idols and why he will never produce another album. How did this tour with Joe Cocker come ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

All-Time Top Five: Testament's Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick Give A Metal History Lesson

Testament​Berkeley's Testament has now been shredding for almost three decades. Just the fact that they're still making quality examples of the style they helped usher in says a great deal about the group's artistic character. Sure, as is the case with just about every other band that's stayed rel ... More >>

Last Night: Judas Priest, Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy at the Allen Event Center

Judas Priest, Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy Allen Event Center Sunday, October 16, 2011 Better than: getting all decked out in studs and leather and going to Oak Lawn.Judas Priest​ Back in the '80s, when Allen, Texas, was nothing more than a speed trap between Dallas and Oklahoma City, folk ... More >>

Q&A: Rob Halford of Judas Priest Talks Coming Out and His Band Continuing On.

For over four decades, England's Judas Priest has been making one hell of a heavy metal racket. Formed in 1969, the band didn't find widespread success until the late '70s and early '80s. But classic metal songs such as "Living After Midnight" and "Breaking the Law" (both off the seminal album Bri ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase and The Rest of Your Weekend Shows...

​This is one of our favorite weekends of the year, where a good handful of acts nominated for the Dallas Observer Music Awards perform all over Deep Ellum on Saturday night. The much-anticipated headliners, Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-Matic and Sarah Jaffe will perform on Elm Street in the lot acros ... More >>

Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Black Label Society

Sunday, October 16, at Allen Event Center in Allen

The Sword, Kyuss Lives!, Monstro

Sunday, October 2, at South Side Music Hall

Raised An Army Brat, Jerry Rutherford's Now a Deep Ellum Metalhead Through and Through.

Jerry Rutherford​Within Deep Ellum's metal scene, Jerry Rutherford is everybody's friend. It seems like he's at all the shows, always up to do a shot and let out that rallying, supportive cry-of-the-rocker that barely edges up above the volume of whichever hard rock act is blaring not far in front ... More >>

Centro-matic Offer Up a Year-End Candidate

Okkervil River, Chromeo and a Ton of Other Show Announcements

One of the many incarnations of Okkervil River​Still fresh from the release of their new album I Am Very Far, Austin's Okkervil River seems to be working quite hard to let everyone know about it. The album is quite solid, thanks in part to the production work of local producer John Congl ... More >>

Songs For Your Casey Anthony Trial Hangover

​OK, so it wasn't the trial of the century or anything. But with planking beginning to become passe, all the good sports either in their off-season or lockout, and no high-profile Robert Blake/Phil Spector/OJ Simpson murder cases going on, the Casey Anthony murder trial thing provided plenty to c ... More >>

15 Year of Obsessive Wilco Coverage

Listomania: Ten Songs To Help The Bronx Zoo Cobra Stay Strong

If you hold on for one more day, things'll go your way.​The infamous, mostly deadly, 20-inch snake that vanished from a Bronx Zoo's Reptile House five days ago (and may or may not have created a Twitter account in the process) was captured this afternoon. According to the Huffington Post, the thin ... More >>

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 >>

Free Energy Brings Back A Classic Sound

Over The Weekend: Wilco at the Palladium

WilcoPalladium BallroomOctober 9, 2009Better Than: Anything?Patrick MichelsJeff Tweedy of Wilco. For more shots, check out Patrick Michels' slideshow from the event.​Two songs into the set came the climactic moment: "A Shot in the Arm," off 1999's Summerteeth. Pure rumble and all rapture, the soun ... More >>

Flashback Friday: Genesis's Moody Blues

​I have some hazy memory of my slightly older cousin going to SMU in March 1977 to see Genesis, then touring behind A Trick Of The Tail, the band's first album with Phil Collins as lead singer. My cousin -- who, earlier today, threatened a libel suit if I printed his name -- also has a vague recol ... More >>

Today In Music News: Rivers Cuomo Is A Rip-Off Artist, Kings Of Leon Continue To Imitate and Kyp Malone Goes Solo

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, August 28, 2009... Rivers Cuomo says he basically ripped off "Undone (The Sweater Song)" from Metallica.  Nathan Followill says Kings of Leon's new record is going to sound like Radiohead and Thin Lizzy. I guess that's a break from U2, ri ... More >>

Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Poison

Friday, August 21, at Superpages.com Center

Catch Up On A Slew Of Recent, Interesting Local CD Releases

Supersuckers Stick With What Works

Twenty years into his career Eddie Spaghetti has no intention to change his band's sound—for better or worse

Q&A: Blues and Rock Guitarist Rocky Athas

A Metal Monument, Or: Trying to Build a Bronze Statue of Dimebag Darrell

Metal Monument, Literally

The Beard is Back!

Gear Hound

Shake Rag's John Gasperik puts the "garage" in garage band

The Replacements

Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (Rhino)

Girl in Bloom

Megan Reilly's Southern grace is somewhere between Flannery O'Connor and...Thin Lizzy?

Grand Champeen

Thursday, April 20, at Rubber Gloves

Pop Rocks

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

D4 / The Datsuns

6Twenty (Infectious/Flying Nun) / The Datsuns (V2 (Import))

Matt Pond PA, the Mayflies USA; the Damn Personals

November 21; November 25

Something to Brag About

The Tipperary Inn gets a makeover

Playing Possum

After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?

Out There

Metallica

Everclear

Out There

KISS rock 'n' roll over again

Across the Bar

Rockville Music closes shop; Puerto Rico gets DJ Nature's call; Rubber Gloves still waiting for the Old 97's other shoe to fall; Pantera plays Detroit Rock City; Buck Jones Blushes

Bastard of middle age

Paul Westerberg digs intoa deep, dark place and makes a brilliant, horrible record

Roadshows

Out Here

Reign of toads

The Toadies tell why Bush deserves to die

More a legend than a band

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

Rock and rollercoaster

After mulling its future for two years, Funland releases its first album

Reviews

Mekons, you Rhett

A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's

No mere replacement

Chris Mars looks back at the 'Mats even as he runs forward

Reviews