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The Dallas Zoo's Safari Nights Concert Series: For Those who Like Animals And Music

It's hard to deny that Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is a king of the music jungle. So, it's only fitting that Springsteen tribute band Bruce in the USA will kick off the Dallas Zoo's weekly Safari Nights concert series this Saturday, June 8. For eight consecutive Saturday nights this summer, beginn ... More >>

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The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, March 11-14

The time has come. We are officially knee-deep in festival season. On top of that, all of the best shows happen in the springtime, when the weather is best, which means that we won't get a break until we're running on fumes, with our little engines barely puttering into summer. For now, we're going ... More >>

How a Sports Talk Station May Also Be the Best For Music Fans: A Report From Ticketstock

There is one radio station in DFW that takes the time to play an interesting mix of music every day. This same station also takes the opportunity to discuss and explore music in ways that all the other stations are sorely lacking. The thing is, this station just so happens to be the area's number on ... More >>

Loving the Turntable at Tried and True

When the music matches the digs, NHS's latest is a great bar.

Tony Ferraro On the Soul of David Ruffin

See also: Shiny Around the Edges on Death Grips, Patti Smith See also: Oil Boom on Donnie and Joe Emerson We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't even c ... More >>

Celebrate Johnny Cash's 80th Birthday By Listening to His March '97 Show at the Majestic

​Been saving this one for today: February 26, the day John R. Cash was born in Kingland, Arkansas in 1932. It's a keepsake from Cash's last-ever show in Dallas: March 15, 1997, at the Majestic Theatre, with June Carter Cash by his side. Johnny had hoped to hit the road months earlier to tour behin ... More >>

Good Friday: Lil Wayne at Gexa Energy Pavilion, and The Rest of This Weekend's Shows

Lil Wayne​It seems that The Young Money Millionaire is making up for time lost while locked up last year. Lil Wayne is returning to Dallas on Saturday at the Gexa Energy Pavilion after performing at the American Airlines Center only five months ago. And the opening acts are reason enough to check ... More >>

Joe Ely Tells Us Why He's Now Satisfied At Last

Joe Ely​At 64, Joe Ely is the elder statesman of Texas music. For over three decades, Ely has continuously released some of the most influential country-rock and folk albums around, inspiring and influencing bands as disparate as The Clash and Uncle Tupelo. Beginning his career in Lubbock while pl ... More >>

The Grammy Awards: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Was it just me or did Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean Combs sound just like Mike Tyson? 9. Acceptance speeches are always fascinating. Last night Lady Gaga thanked Whitney Houston and Arcade Fire thanked all of Canada. But strangest of all, Train lead singer Pat Monahan gave a shoutout to Howar ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton Can't Hear Enough Frank Sinatra, John Mellencamp or Third Eye Blind.

Smile Smile's Ryan Hamilton​Delightfully catchy.That's exactly how you can describe the folk-flavored indie pop being made by the boy-girl duo Smile Smile. Members Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme are riding high on the success of their Kirtland Records-released sophomore offering Truth on Tape ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.1.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Sobering number right outta the gate: Since July 1 the Texas Rangers are 42-40. Are we fooling ourselves thinking they're an elite team that can actually win a playoff series against one of the ... More >>

The colliding past and presents of local music.

DFW's always Been A Haven For Cover and Tribute Acts

TCU's Football Team Demands National Recognition While SMU Takes Relatively Quiet Steps

Country Hunks And The Women Who Love Them.

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

Under the Covers, Vol. 2 (Shout Factory)

Q&A: Candlebox Frontman Kevin Martin Is Still Miffed Over His Band's "Grunge Lite" Tag

Rarely has a band's hometown been held against it, but that's definitely the case with Candlebox. Forming in 1990 and hailing out of Seattle, Candlebox was compared, for better and worse, with bands that were a part of the then burgeoning grunge scene. With more in common with classic rock acts such ... More >>

Still On The Line

Glen Campbell plays the Nokia

Jacksonian

Jackson paints the town Browne

Best Bets for New Year's Eve Concerts

Mr. Nasal Voice Man

A young Dylan visits the AllGood

Dallas Talk Radio Drums Up Local Music Support

Rock 'n' Rumble: Lovie vs. The Valentines

Clearing the Air: Clear Channel's Dallas Boss Dials Up KZPS, KDGE Issues

Please Release Me

Big ups to those who are gettin' down

Backtrackin'

Things you may have missed the first time

Stevie Nicks, Chris Isaak

Friday, June 1, at Smirnoff

Backyard Tire Fire

Vagabonds and Hooligans (o.i.e.)

Festivus for the Rest of Us

No need for ACL--there was plenty to see within Dallas city limits

Texas Toe Jam

The days of great summer music festivals in Dallas are history. Aren't

Crowe's Songs

Plus: Sleepy Hero History, Tull Tag

Odds & Ends

Who says you need to go to Austin this weekend for a good concert or four?

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Johnny Cash / Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden (Sony Legacy)
American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway)
Dressed in Black (Dualtone)
Kindred Spirits (Sony)

Bar Exam

Slobberbone is the best bar band in America. Here's proof.

Hairy Plotters

Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

Scene, Heard

A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

You Slaid me

On the road in his Dodge Dart, Slaid Cleaves is the last of the traveling troubadours

Scene, heard

We'll try to write something good

Scene, heard

Earl Harvin shows; Sugarbomb signs; Dooms U.K. get the Details; Plus more

Restless farewell

Bob Dylan, the voice of a generation, to be silenced after Paul Simon tour

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

Stars of India

Two generations master an ancient art

Out Here

Song of the South

Trish Murphy, literate regionalist

Cut to the chase

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Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

More a legend than a band

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