Woodstock

Drugging The Peanut Gallery

How a Small Band Can Get a Big-Name Producer

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Remembering Levon Helm

Last Friday, Voice Media Group announced the winners of their first music writing awards. This winning piece by Jesse Sykes first appeared in Seattle Weekly's print edition. By Jesse Sykes As I was growing up in New York state--where the residents want you to know they don't live in "The City"--th ... More >>

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

Eat this Dallas Dish, Not That: Local Alternatives to the Men's Health 20 Worst Foods in America

This is a bad bad list, people. Nasty. Men's Health has published a list of the top 20 Worst Foods in America. Usually it's fun to look at gut bombs, but after cruising through this list you'll want to brush your teeth and wash your face. The list is part of Men's Health on-going "Eat This, Not Th ... More >>

The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the '60s blues reviv ... More >>

Give Art A Chance

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: 25 Years Ago Tonight, The Band Played Fast and Cool

​Earlier today I spent as much time as I could, which wasn't anywhere near close to enough, listening to a song Wilco posted to YouTube late yesterday: the band performing The Band's "The Weight" backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago, joined by show-opener Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples, who ... More >>

Lenny White of Return to Forever: "Anything That Is Great Will Last An Eternity."

Along with Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea's Return to Forever brought jazz music to a rock audience. And though the "jazz fusion" label seemed to piss off the purists, Corea and the other talented musicians didn't mind the increased profile and accompanying profits. Nearly ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Led Zeppelin's Gonna Groove at Memorial in 1970

Via.Click to embiggen if you want to remember laughter. Or Minsky's Music.​For those playing along at home, this long-weekend's offering fills in an estimable blank. Because so far we've time-traveled back to that field in Lewisville in '69, when Led Zeppelin joined Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Johnny ... More >>

Felice Brothers

Sunday, April 10, at The Loft

Iconic '60s Artist Peter Max Talks Taylor Swift, Jimi Hendrix and Bridging The Generational Gap

Peter Max's representations of Taylor Swift's Speak Now and Fearless.​In his 73 years, Peter Max has watched the inter-generational shift of modern music begin as a segment of counterculture and eventually become a staple of mainstream consciousness. And, this past weekend, at the Wisby-Smith Fine ... More >>

Duck and Cover

Picture Show: Rock n Roll Circus at Sons of Hermann Hall

Mattie Stafford​Somewhere between burlesque and Woodstock was this weekend's Lollipop Shoppe Rock n Roll Circus at Sons of Hermann Hall. Rolling Stones cover band Black and Blue was the headliner, along with costumed folks ready to dance. See more of Mattie Stafford's slideshow, which apparently f ... More >>

You Dirty Rats

Border Poet

Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

The Godfather of Zaire

Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.

Listen to This, Sons

Poster Of The Week: The Shapes At The Cavern Saturday

​Dallas psych-rockers The Shapes, featuring Lollipop Shopper Patricia Rodriguez on bass and vocals, have finally started playing live shows again after a two-year hiatus, and will bring their '60s-loving jangle-rock to The Cavern Saturday night. This poster for the show, which also features DJ Mar ... More >>

Today In Music News: T.I. Goes To Jail, The Gorillaz Get a Doc and the Woodstock Anniversary Is In Question

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 30, 2009... In case you didn't hear, T.I. was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. Ceri Levy will release a documentary called Bananaz that will go behind the scenes of animated band the Gorillaz. You can watch a trailer for the film he ... More >>

Folksy Lady

Joan Baez plays the Lakewood

Havens Sent

A musical legend rocks the Rock House

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets For MC Frontalot Saturday At The Double-Wide

The popularity of nerdcore, a subgenre of hip-hop so steeped in irony that you can practically see the air quotes framing the stage, is a phenomenon I'll never understand. But for those who are into white dudes rapping about video games or whatever, Saturday night at the Double-Wide is practically W ... More >>

Heat Rave

Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.

Lazer

Saturday, September 8, at Forum Roller World, Grand Prairie

Dirty Hippies

The AllGood goes to Woodstock

Theory's Company

Big Bang wastes no time with facts in a mad, mad musical history of the world

Accordion Days

The Polka Fest returns for another year

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

Dallas Observer's top DVD picks for the week of September 15

The Cutter

The woman behind Raging Bull

Art of the Scare

It's not a museum anymore, Dorothy

Scars and Bars

Bukowski gets his in a touching, terrifying documentary

Train Kept A-Rollin'

In a vault for 30 years, the Festival Express was put back on track

Rock of Ages

The Mayor of the Sunset Strip presides over pop

Comfort Food

This tour keeps you in stitches

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

For Hal Samples, who uses photos to help the homeless, nothing—and everything

Look No Further

In 2003, the best was hard to find but easy to hear

Going Wonkas

Willy Wonka hangs ten at Hurricane Harbor

Hot and Bothered

Get buzzed off the green stuff

Tortoise

Standards (Thrill Jockey)

It's Only Rock & Roll

Gimme Shelter

Apocalypse then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Out There

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Collect them all!

Naked and proud and stupid -- meet the new Woodstock

Cry tough

Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there

Roadshows