Tom Petty

Nine Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: June 6-12

This week in DFW music, it's all about folk and pop. The two genres are spanning the calendars this summer, and this week in June is no exception, so in honor of that, here are five super surprising pop music facts, according to BuzzFeed. (By the way, it wouldn't be Dallas without a Manson/Cooper sh ... More >>

James Villa Might be Dallas' Most Passionate Photographer, and He's Starting a Publication

Showing up to see a starving local rock band from the neighborhood is a nice gesture within itself, but to show up ready to work...for free...well, that's support worth noting here. The DFW rock scene, specifically, has been pretty lucky to have James Villa showing up the last 12 years. Villa is on ... More >>

Chris Masterson: "I Don't Think People View Ripping Songs As Theft"

New York by way of Texas husband-wife duo The Mastersons are too perfect of an idea to never happen. Chris Masterson has performed and produced for many others (Jack Ingram, Son Volt, Bobby Bare Jr.) while also releasing a bit of his own material in the past. Same for his wife, Eleanor Whitmore, who ... More >>

Lucinda Williams' Nine Most Emotionally Damaged Songs

​Master songwriter and storyteller Lucinda Williams has made her near-legendary career on raw, open-chested emotion. But over the course of her last couple of albums, including her most recent release, Blessed, Williams has seemingly found it easier to revel in the safer side of vulnerability. Cre ... More >>

Kathleen Edwards: "Justin [Vernon] Helped Me Construct Something That's a 180 For Me."

Kathleen Edwards​Canada's Kathleen Edwards has, perhaps too quietly, put together one of the stronger collections of albums by any young artist in the past decade. After turning heads at SXSW in 2002, she released her debut, Failer, a vulnerable audio-diary that had people lazily drawing the typic ... More >>

Larry Crowne: Unbelievable Lightness of Being

Tom Hanks ages into mid-life obsolescence.

Eric Nadel Really Loves His Job This Season (And Has a Musical Recommendation Too)

Courtesy the Texas RangersThe great Eric Nadel, baseball broadcaster and music aficionado​Long ago I used to run into Eric Nadel -- The Voice of Your Texas Rangers -- all the time in the music section of the Borders in Preston Royal, which should tell you how long ago that was. First time I saw hi ... More >>

My First Show: Elkhart's Travis Hopper Shares His Memories Of Seeing The Jacksons, Guns N' Roses and The Hold Steady For The First Time.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Travis Hopper​You might have seen him play with The Americanos, J.D. Whittenburg or as a solo act, but, these days, Travis Hopper s ... More >>

Q&A: Ben Kweller Talks Production, His New Album, Parenthood and Finding Out That an Old 97's Song Was In His Wedding Video

Ben Kweller​The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts--from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as "the next Nirvana" to then following his girlfriend to New York where he'd end up re ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Without You, I'm Nothing

"Well, I was passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town, something caught my eye and stop and turned around / I stepped inside and then I spied in the middle of it all, was a beat up old guitar hanging on the wall / 'What do want for that piece of junk?' I asked the old man / He just smiled and ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Roger McGuinn, Legendary Frontman For The Byrds, Is Still Flying

Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop canon hav ... More >>

Dallas Out-Rocks Houston, Las Vegas and Seattle

AA Bondy's Celebrated Nu-folk Sound is a Far Cry From His Earlier Works

Tom Hicks is Now a Global Billionaire Bozo

He's a vilified clown of an owner on two continents. Or at least he should be.

Happy Christmas, Your Arse

Local musicians weigh in on their favorite—and least favorite—Christmas songs

Tom Leppert: Same As He Ever Was

Sure Hope You Like Norah Jones

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert Maintains His Lite-Rock Rhetoric

Misdirection and Irony

Roy Bennett is a band and a guy and God knows what else

What Would Kenny Laguna Do?

Joan Jett loses her voice but not her mystique

Crowe Flies Home

Elizabethtown is a mess, not that its director should care

Barnstormer

Tift Merritt breaks through with an impressive album and an even more impressive Grammy nomination

God Save the Scene

Plus: Smells Like Indie Spirit

Live Baby Live

Danny Deckchair sends an upbeat message from Down Under

20 Bands 7 Days

For one week, Sarah Hepola saw every band that invited her. God help her.

Top Dog

Plus: Bad Medicine; Sack of Kittens

The Reel Who

Twenty-five years later, a filmmaker comes to grips with his Kids

War of Words

Learning to love the bomb in Circle Theatre�s Ad Wars

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners and wants no sympathy

I Wanna Rock!

How did The Bone shock the Dallas radio world? With market research, double entendres and hair bands.

Jackson Jive

Michael Jackson vowed to raise millions for 9/11 victims. And he hired a gay-porn producer pal to help.

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Dream On

For Todd Deatherage, the waiting is the hardest part

Listen Up

Who says 2000 was a bad year for music?

The Last Laugh

Willis Alan Ramsey's cult keeps growing, 28 years after cutting his first--and final?--record

Out & About

Melt-Banana; 90 Day Men, Black Heart Procession

Johnny Cash

American III: Solitary Man (American Recordings)

Good Harvest

Virtual unknowns in America, Wheat finds a bumper crop of fans in Europe

Out Here

Darlington and Todd Deatherage

I don't want my MP3

Or: How the Internet could kill the album

Frustrated

You got the Knack a long time ago, but Doug Fieger thinks you need it again

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

All his ghosts

With a new album, Frank Black tries to live up to his own past

The Butcher and the baby

Radish's Ben Kwellar needs a rock and roll mentor, and a guy named Joe is just the man for the job

Rave on cats, he cried

Carl Perkins, 1932-1998

Town and country

Whiskeytown and No Depression pour into town

Junkyard jazz

The Calways go a little crazy

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?