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The Worst Supergroups Of All Time

A supergroup is a difficult project to make a success of. The work of previous band members overshadows any new material, and although it brings a ready-made fan base, it also brings unreasonably high expectations. Not only that, those that make up the new band might have similarly unreasonably high ... More >>

Lovestory Tour

Thursday, August 23 at Sandaga 813

DC9 at Night's Favorite Summer Songs

The summer I bought The Breeders' Last Splash on cassette at the mall was the summer I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid, and woke up with ants on my pillow. It was the summer I lost my grandfather, though my mother swears that was him making our lights flicker every once in a while. It was the summer I sp ... More >>

Some Thoughts On The "Digital Resurrection" of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

News came this week that TLC plans on touring again. Yes, even the "L." In our post-Coachella hologram world, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes will be joining the tour through use of video projections, announced exactly ten years after her death in 2002. Cue heavy, sad, sigh. I remember MTV News sharing the ... More >>

Duran Duran, Neon Trees

Thursday, October 6, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Listomania: The 15 Most Unexpected, Unlikely, and Downright Awkward Collaborations of All Time

Beck​Yesterday Beck announced that he had been "recording some tracks" with country singer Dwight Yoakam. And yeah, we guess we could kind of see that, as Beck has run the gamut of styles during his career, touching on hip-hop, electronic, folk, and mariachi. But, even though it makes sense when ... More >>

Chris Cornell Has One Weakness, Turns Out.

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Today In Music News: Soundgarden Reunites and The NFL's Urged To Drop The Who From Super Bowl

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 4, 2010...It's official, kids: Soundgarden is reuniting after a 12-year break-up. Let's just hope that Timbaland won't be involved in any way if new material is recorded.The NFL is being urged to drop The Who from performing during halftime ... More >>

Today In Music News: Reznor Slams Cornell, Jack White Offers Up Another Band and Joaquin's Still At It...

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 13, 2009...Sweet! A good ol' fashioned rock 'n' roll feud with 21st century technology! Trent Reznor has taken to his Twitter account to blast Chris Cornell's new Timbaland-produced album. Of course, if you heard any of the songs on Cornell's ... More >>

In Grapevine, Jonas Brothers Fans Experience New Dimensions in Cold, Boredom

Patrick MichelsIt was all scarves on the red carpet early Sunday morning.See more photos from the night here in our slide show.While kids across the country flocked to theaters to catch the Jonas Brothers in concert on the big screen this weekend, the teen-pop trio treated fans and press to a specia ... More >>

Picture Shows: The Pretenders at House of Blues on Friday Night, The Jonas Brothers Movie Premiere

Drew WilliamsChrissie Hynde and The Pretenders stoppd through town on Friday night for a gig at the House of Blues, and somewhere in the crowd--or, from the looks of it, everywhere in the crowd--Observer photographer Drew Williams was in attendance, documenting the event for a slideshow, which you c ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Pet Peeves

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

It's Too Late for OneRepublic to Apologize

Colorado Sprung

Duran Duran

Red Carpet Massacre (Epic)

Review: Timbaland at Palladium Ballroom

Steal: Lions, Tah-Dahs, Timbaland

Bjork Starts a Second Fire at ACL

M.I.A.

Kala (Interscope)

Hot Chip

Thursday, April 26, at the Granada Theater

Singles Going Steady

What's Hot on iTunes

In With the New

Despite doom-and-gloom predictions, 2006 wasn't at all bad

New Jack Swing Reunion

Friday, April 28, at Nokia Theatre

B-Sides

Suicidal tendencies, gut locker lovers and men who wail on their axes

Alicia Keys, John Legend

Saturday, March 5

The Game

The Documentary (Aftermath/G-Unit (Interscope)

Ludacris

The Red Light District (Def Jam)

LL Cool J

The DEFinition (Def Jam)

Very Clever, Boys

The top 10 indie-rock albums of 2003

Obie Trice and Bubba Sparxxx

November 5

A Whisper in the Crowd

Hip-hop rediscovers minimalism, thanks to a sea of surprisingly great singles

Lillix

Falling Uphill (Maverick)

Greek Out

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

GZA

Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA)

Missy Elliott

Under Construction (Elektra)

Garbage, Abandoned Pools

May 17

Spinning Webs

The Top 10 Things I Downloaded in 2001 That Weren't Applications Made to Download Things That Aren't Applications

Crunk and Disorderly

Timbaland and Organized Noize are making the music go bang, and rap radio's never sounded so good

Out & About

Snoop Dogg

Bilal / Usher / Chocolate Genius

1st Born Second (Interscope) / 8701 (Arista) / Godmusic (V2)

Sex Machine

Under the disguise of Peaches, Merrill Nisker says things that would make Luther Campbell blush

Mass N.E.R.D.er

Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are revolutionary producers. Now they're doing it for themselves.

Various Artists

Off-Centre: A Riot on Old Street (BBE), Beats & Pieces Volume Two (BBE), Funk Rock (BBE)

Jay Dee

Welcome 2 Detroit (BBE)

TLC

Summer suns and some aren't

Going steady with the singles of the summer

Throw your hands in the air

Beatin' down hip-hop in 1998 like a stepchild