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Paul McCartney's Austin Show will Sell Out Instantly. "Get In Line" Right Now.

Final update, I swear: They've added a second Austin show on May 23rd. It's also on sale right now. Update, 4/12: The sale for Paul McCartney tickets starts in half an hour, but you can "get in line" at the Texas Box Office site right now. You should do that, if you want to go. Update, 4/9: Well ... More >>

It Seems the Morning News Thinks the Olympics Can Help Save Southern Dallas

Talk of Dallas serving as a potential host city for the Olympics has ramped up in recent weeks, in part because Dallas attorney Matt Wood has begun work to woo the 2024 Summer Games, and partly because Dallas, along with Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rochester, New York, was one of an elite group of 35 cities ... More >>

Jordan Buford has a Simple Plan to Save the Music Industry: Show Up and Buy Merch

Jordan Buford has been checking out local bands in DFW for about 8 straight years now, for a group called Rya Entertainment, and for a podcast he hosts called "The Real Music Enthusiast" which airs as part of the Whiskeyboy Radio Network. The great thing about Buford, apart from his genuine music e ... More >>

The Year in Dallas Theater

At Lake Texoma, A Man, His Boat House, and a Decades-Long Fight With the Corps of Engineers

Charles Paternostro was 14 when, in the mid-'50s, his father purchased an acre of land on a five-story cliff overlooking Lake Texoma and built a modest, three-bedroom home. The family lived in Dallas full-time but spent their weekends at the reservoir, boating and swimming and fishing. After his pa ... More >>

Tiny East Texas Towns Join Fight Against Keystone Pipeline. Should Dallas?

Together, they have a population of fewer than 2,000, but the tiny East Texas hamlets of Reklaw, Alto and Gallatin have an outsized mission: To halt the southern portion of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit designed to ferry some 830,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands a day from an Oklaho ... More >>

Other Lives, The Relatives and The Best of This Weekend's Shows

​Lots of big shows are happening this weekend -- several on the Good Records stage -- including Stillwater, Oklahoma's, Other Lives. The band, who will be joined by Dallas violinist Daniel Hart, is making a quick stop at Good Records just before they open for Radiohead on Monday. The biggest show, ... More >>

VNV Nation - Trees - 2/23/12

VNV Nation Trees Thursday, February 23 A lanky blonde, clad in black pumps, fishnet stockings, satin booty shorts, elbow-length gloves and a red corset that didn't leave much to the imagination, stepped up to the bouncer guarding the front door of Trees last night. The young girl frowned when the b ... More >>

PETA Ends Meat-Eating Forever With Brave Public Make-Out Session Downtown

Photos by Jay Barker​Let's give credit where it's due: you can't ever accuse PETA of letting cold weather, common sense or good taste ruin the opportunity for a perfectly good publicity stunt. As promised, the group returned to their favorite downtown street corner, Main and Akard, this morn ... More >>

Calhoun's Tim Locke Talks U2, Metallica and My Morning Jacket

​ Calhoun frontman Tim Locke will be live and full in effect on Thursday night at Dan's Silverleaf. Opening for The Life and Times, the Fort Worth four-piece will deliver a show that could be as inspiring as the shows Locke saw as a kid, which range from John Denver all the way to Metallica. H ... More >>

Whole Foods Market to Close Local Bakehouse and Ship from Houston Instead

Whole Foods Market​Whole Foods Market announced recently that it will close its Dallas bakehouse, located on University near Central, which for the past 12 years has produced breads and pastries for its eight area stores, as well as Little Rock, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. After the spring closur ... More >>

Gypsy Comes Up Roses

Lyric Stage's production has brassy bawls; lots to see at Uptown Players' Pride Fest.

Fox & The Bird's Road to Tonight's Album Release Show at Sons of Hermann Hall

Sara KerensOn the road with Fox & The Bird...​For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas' Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band's long-awaited debut release, which formally com ... More >>

OK Sweetheart

Home Self-released

Bonus MP3: OK Sweetheart - "Before You Go"

OK Sweetheart's Erin Austin​Splitting time between Tulsa, San Francisco, Denton and New York City, OK Sweetheart is grounded by the seductively soulful voice of Erin Austin. Sounding quite a bit like Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, Austin has an evocative set of pipes that suits the band's dreamy vibe ... More >>

Tony Harper Remembers Seeing KISS. His First Slobberbone Gig Memories Are A Little Hazier.

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. Tony Harper​Tony Harper has bee ... More >>

Fair To Midland Officially Sets June 14 Release Date For New Album, Arrows and Anchors.

Fair to Midland​ Back in November, the Sulphur Springs-sprung progressive hard rock act Fair to Midland announced a new label home and promised its fourth full-length come springtime. Well, clearly, they really meant summertime. A new press released issued late yesterday announces a new release da ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Blind Guardian at Trees, Jay Brannan at The Loft and Mini Mansions at The Cavern

Tuesday evening brings a couple of decent triple-bills and a tandem of sensitive singer-songwriters to our area for your musical enjoyment. Which is as good an excuse as any to leave the house tonight.

Surely, The Best News You'll Hear All Day: The Pixies Will Perform Doolittle At Grand Prairie's Verizon Theatre On September 19

Pixies​A huge thanks to the Friend of DC9 who emailed this morning to pass along a note he'd noticed while scoping the Pixies' MySpace page today: This morning, the Pixies announced via a blog post on the social media site that they will be touring again come the fall, hitting 11 U.S. cities and s ... More >>

More Arguing Over Viability of Hypothetical Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Link

​Earlier this month, Harvard economic pro Ed Glaeser wrote a series of pieces for The New York Times's Economix blog in which he argued that a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston wouldn't be economically viable. (Keep in mind, this was all hypothetical, since the Obama administration's ... More >>

Good Friday: Slobberbone, Shibboleth, Austin Brown Sounds, Cory Branan, PVC Street Gang, Chris Holt, Salim Nourallah, Mount Righteous, Teenage Cool Kids, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Oso Closo, Tesla, Gov't Mule and Slider Pines

Slobberbone plays two reunion shows this weekend.Let's do this. First, as always, the shows we've already discussed.The biggest show tonight's probably the first of Slobberbone's two nights of reunions (this one at Dan's Silverleaf). The O's open. But there's also the Don Cab show at RGRS, the Dr. J ... More >>

WaterTower gets little musical mileage from a girl, a bus and a busted face in Violet.

Bonus MP3: Caterpillars -- "Bury Your Words"

At the moment, Dallas rock band Caterpillars is on the road, headed for its first out-of-state gig at FUBAR in Saint Louis tomorrow night, followed by dates in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. You can catch them at the Lakewood Bar and Grill in Dallas February 10. Meanwhile, in tomorrow's print supplement t ... More >>

The Feds Announce Split, Final Shows

Last Night: The Cardinals At Nokia Theatre

Good Friday: The House Harkonnen Does Weezer, Motörhead, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Firewater Goes Bananas, Lovie, First Lady Assassins

So, the Bushes Are "Househunting"?

One Bad Apple, So, Sure, Let's Chop Down the Entire Orchard

Hot for Hombres

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Rufus Wainwright

Release the Stars (Geffen)

Wayne Hancock

Friday, December 23, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

Sweet Jesus Camp

The Robert Tilton Files

Go to HAL

Party like it's 2001 at Dallas Comic Con & Sci-Fi Expo

New releases available this week

Turn Out for New Tunes

North Texas New Music Festival welcomes 230 bands to Deep Ellum

Against All Odds

2003's theater winners gambled on edgy themes, took risks on new talent, new material

Blow It

Put the money where your mouth is

Sail On

Baby-faced Brett Shipp grows up--film at 10

O'Dowd's Goes Flat

Last call at the McKinney Avenue pub

Belo Blues

What does Mark Cuban have that Belo doesn't? Money. Lots and lots of money.

Night & Day

October 15 - 21, 1998

Out There

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Second Coming

A jet-settin', Scotch-sippin' Robert Tilton washes up in South Florida--and he still wants your money

Roadshows

Own a piece of the sod

Their boss invested the retirement fund in real estate, and employees wound up with dirt

Wired and Woolly

The geeks come out at night for Dallas' 'First Saturday' cyper swap meet

Sex as a weapon

Kids and Love and Human Remains rattle us with apocalyptic sensuality