Tom Petty

The Ten Best Jukeboxes in Dallas

Jukeboxes serve a simple yet critical role in bars everywhere. They can help you cope after a breakup, relax you after a long day of work, remind you of what you love mos or fire you up and give you something to dance to. A jukebox used to be the imprint of a bar's spirit, hosting a select set of ... More >>

If the Sound City Soundtrack Rocks Half as Hard as the Movie, It Will Rule

The Dave Grohl-directed documentary Sound City, is a loving and thoroughly entertaining docu-valentine to the legendary studio just outside of L.A. where many landmark albums were recorded. Throughout the film's first half, we're given glimpses of behind the scenes action on the making of such class ... More >>

Five New Rules for Internet Jukeboxes

By John Seaborn Gray Used to be you'd have to hit bar after bar until you found just the right jukebox, which promptly became your own personal lair of alcohol consumption. Folks demanded more freedom of choice, however, so many bars have switched over to Internet jukeboxes, where you can download ... More >>

Union Park, New Gastro Pub on Main Street in Downtown is One Friendly Lounge

Union Park opened at 1311 Main St. in downtown last week -- or maybe it was two weeks ago. I'm not exactly sure, but last night I scored a metered parking spot just down the block, which is free after 6 p.m., so I was able to check it out and avoid circling the block nine times and the $8 valet. A ... More >>

Phil Hamilton Wants Tom Petty's Damn The Torpedoes If He's Stuck

Phil Hamilton's latest Red Dirt, Southern rock record, Renegade Rock n Roll, runs the gamut from heartsick love songs to working-man rock anthems. The local's played stages from South Texas to Kansas in recent weeks, celebrating the release of his second album. The video for "You Can Have Me" has be ... More >>

Chuck Ragan Knows Good Road Music, Plugged or Unplugged

Scott ToepferChuck Ragan.​Gainesville, Florida's Chuck Ragan is one of those dudes who just can't go wrong. His more-than-a-decade's work with the still-revered punk act Hot Water Music is often cited by younger punk bands as a key motivator for their own punk-ish endeavors. In the more recen ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Cover/Tribute Act, Best Label, Best Producer

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Cover/Tribute Act, B ... More >>

Needtobreathe's Bear Rinehart Talks Opening for Taylor Swift, Being Named After Bear Bryant

Being the opening act for a megastar like Taylor Swift can be both a blessing and a curse. Let's face it: Stadium crowds are not known for their patience when it comes to waiting for the headliner; still, the chance for some big-time exposure is just too much for most acts to refuse. That's the cas ... More >>

Balancing Food and Mood at RedFork, the Subject of This Week's Review

Sara Kerens​Would you hang out in a terrible space if the food proves worthy of a sonnet? I do it all the time for good tacos and barbecue. Would you put up with an over-cooked steak because your server dotes on your table through the evening? These are the thoughts that flooded my brain as ... More >>

The Ten Best Songs Clear Channel "Banned" In The Days Following The September 11 Attacks

Courtesy of our sister paper up in New York.​Ten years ago today, three days after the September 11 attacks, Clear Channel sent out a mass email to its over 1,000 affiliate stations. The email included a list of songs with lyrics and/or titles that Clear Channel considered questionable in the wake ... More >>

Noah & The Whale, Bahamas

Friday, June 10, at Dada

Tonight, Tonight: Tom Petty and ZZ Top at Superpages, Jurassic Park: The Musical at Dan's, Black Tusk and Radio Moscow at The Nightmare

Interesting couple of "shows" happening in the North Texas area tonight. Fans of classic rock, metal and bizarre performance art all have something to look forward to this evening.

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, July 12, 2010

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Giving Tree Band (Yorkville, Illinois)      &n ... More >>

A Golden Ticket Can Be Found At The End Of KXT's Pledge Rainbow...

​Surely, you've noticed the pledge drive efforts going on over at KKXT-91.7 FM of late, yeah? Us too.Annoying? Mostly. Necessary? Most definitely, given the station's public radio domain.But it's not all bad: Anyone and everyone who pledged to the station this week--and anyone and everyone who doe ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 4: Killtron

​Joel Trujillo, Jr. is better known around town as Killtron, and he's been playing party-jams in the Metroplex since 2005. He got his start by listening to "Energy," a segment on nonprofit listener-supported station KNON, catching the show at every opportunity he had, eagerly listening in, and eve ... More >>

Sweet Climbing Movie Trailer, Brah! Also? Cool LehtMoJoe Soundtrack!

My still-brand new Mad Rock shoes have gone woefully unused since I moved away from the mountains of Colorado some two years ago now, but, man, if the above trailer for the new climbing doc, Core, doesn't make me want to bust 'em out and take a trek up to Dallas Rocks for a little bouldering sesh... ... More >>

Reel Big Fish,The English Beat

Sunday, July 26,at the Palladium Ballroom

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

Stomp It Out

GrapeFest returns to Grapevine

Mike Rhyner's Wednesday

If You're Gonna Throw An Elvis Costello Tribute Night...

Tom Petty Won't Back Down (Uh, Zing? Anyone?) From Helping Flood Victims

Literally Rocking The Vote

Tom Petty Free Fallin' to Dallas

Beard Sweat

ZZ Top and friends rock Smirnoff

Hot Burrito No. 2

Chris Hillman visits Dallas

Dixie Chicks/Pete Yorn

Monday, December 4, at American Airlines Center

The Ghosts of Classic Rock

Birdmonster, Division Day

Wednesday, August 23, at the Double Wide

Double Trouble

Eels still reel from one of history's best double albums, but history isn't so kind to others

Tom Petty

Highway Companion (American)

Golden Smog

Another Fine Day (Lost Highway)

Blog This Fest

The Solace Bros, Redbud Revival

Friday, July 22, at Gypsy Tea Room

Thanks Again

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

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

What Else Is On?

The Simpsons' new season opens with a whimper not a bang

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The Last DJ (Warner Bros.)

The Sound of Violence

In a world at war, there was still plenty of beauty to be found

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Out There

Justice served

As her former band gets embalmed on a new collection, Maria McKee finally finds her voice

Night & Day

May 7 - 13, 1998

Roadshows

Roadshows

Out Here

Roadshows

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played