Townes Van Zandt

The Power of Dallas: Erykah Badu Gives Tyler a Bump and Bill's Old Friend Makes the White House

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Tyler, The Creator features several artists on his new album, and according to CD Source owne ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #79-60

Best Texas songs, #100-80 The Spotify playlist for songs #79-60 79. Lift to Experience, "Falling From Cloud 9" From one of the best albums of any North Texas act in recent history, "Falling From Cloud 9" is one of the more accessible songs on 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads. It's probably t ... More >>

Eleven of This Weekend's Top Shows: Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest, Nicki Minaj, Kool Keith and More

Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest IISaturday, July 28, at Granada TheaterIn its second year, Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest has (smartly) shortened things a bit, thus giving more breathing room to the bands, which included Glass Candy, Chromatics, Twin Sister, Chromatics, Taken By Trees, Laurel Halo, A.Dd and DJ Sober.

Byrd Song

Jonathan Byrd's got Texas on his mind, Carolina in his heart.

Open Stage Showcases the Power of Positive Thinking

Richardson venue welcomes all, from bards to belly dancers.

Last Night: The Jayhawks, Jolie Holland

The Jayhawks.​Last Night: The Jayhawks, Jolie Holland Granada Theater November 16 Better than: rummaging through closets for dubbed copies of Crossroads episodes. Looking only at The Jayhawks' set list from last night, you could think the show was more for a hardcore fan than a casual one, b ... 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 >>

Grant Jones Names His All-Time Top Five Non-Texan Country Artists

Grant Jones​Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos by now. Between celebrating a great victory in the 2009 Shiner Rising Star Contest (where they won a recording contract) and suffering ... More >>

Q&A: Richard Buckner Talks Music, Murder and Musical Career Assassins

For 17 years now, Richard Buckner has been one of the most unique singer-songwriters going. Eschewing choruses, Buckner writes in a stream of consciousness matter that resembles free verse poetry set to a fascinating musical backing. Although Buckner was erroneously marketed as a hunky country go ... More >>

Sons of Hermann Hall Turns 100

Nine Local Acts Worth Seeing at 35 Conferette

​The headliner list for the 35 Conferette is incredibly impressive this year, with big names like Mavis Staples, Big Boi and !!! highlighting the bill. But, among the 200 and counting bands that are playing the festival, there's also a pretty great lineup of local talent. In fact, almost 100 of 22 ... More >>

Which Musicians Will Die in 2011?

Over The Weekend: The Flatlanders at Sons of Hermann Hall

Better than: Seeing the Flatlanders at the Wyly or the Granada, where they've played their last two shows. The ballroom at the Sons of Hermann Hall is their natural element, as dusty and real as the colorful West Texas characters that populate the band's best songs.Will Van Overbeek​The silver-hai ... More >>

Gig Alert/Bonus MP3: Greg Reichel Plays Adair's Tonight, Shares A Song From His Debut

Greg Reichel​Raised in Oklahoma, but now a resident of Dallas, Greg Reichel is the best kind of alt-country songwriter, one who enjoys both the old-school, rural soul of Townes Van Zandt and the snotty genius of Ryan Adams.Reichel released his debut album back in 2007 and he's been skimping and sa ... More >>

What It Was Like: Boys Named Sue, The Naptime Shake and Fox & The Bird at the DOMAXXII Showcase

All photos by Patrick MichelsFox & The Bird kept things in line at La Grange on Saturday night.​Boys Named SueLa Grange10 p.m.What can be said now about the Boys Named Sue that hasn't been said already over their rabble-rousing course of recent history? Not much, really, but we'll give it a sh ... More >>

It's Good To Make Time For A Bro, Even After SXSW and NX35.

Year in Review: 2009's Best Alt-Country Proves that Yes, Willie Nelson is Still a Badass

We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favorite ... More >>

Deer Tick Latches On

Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score

Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>

Danny Schmidt

Little Grey Sheep (Waterbug Records)

No Business Sense

Dylan Sneed left the corporate rat race to embrace his talent and his faith

First, the Good News: Jandek's Coming to Town. And Wayne Coyne Shops IKEA!

Blue Norther

Jesse Sykes spreads the joy of melancholy

Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas

How Jim Schutze forsook his hippie-dippy days and learned to love the snout house

Cleanin' Out the Closet

The Lowdown

Music tidbits from the Big D

Texas Bard

Guy Clark remains an understated statesman of true country

No Surrender

Marah is back in fighting form on If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry

Find the River

Smog's Bill Callahan discovers new sounds and voices...and cleans up with Chloe Sevigny

I Heart Winnipeg?

The Weakerthans' John Samson loves his hometown--and hates it, too

Norah Jones

Feels Like Home (Blue Note)

Queen of the Road

Shelley King has been up and down The Highway, looking for a home for her music

Good Times

The Hag brings his songs to Fort Worth this week

Dig Dug

RCA unearths 100 "lost" Elvis recordings, just in time to celebrate his death day

Robert Earl Keen, Cory Morrow

May 26

Ode to Billy Joe

Billy Joe Shaver has a stunning new album in stores. But he can't enjoy it.

The Last Laugh

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

True believer

From punk to rock to country, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Out There

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Lost legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

Letters

Long journey home

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels roll on a perfect road

Roadshows

Close to the bone

Tom House's backwoods sound carries essential sparks

A fistful of tunes

The Big Gundown squints into the sun, throws its serape over its shoulder, and makes its play

Black Maria, Don't You Cry

Mary Cutrufello's music is full of country heartache. But Texas' most unlikely honky-tonk star is about to become her own boss.

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Angel's wings

Cowboy Junkies drone and moan toward brilliance

Out There