Yoko Ono

How To Start a Record Collection, Part III (Record Store Day Edition)

I thought it would be a private relationship between me and my record player. Music collections, no matter what they are made of, can be so intimate they border on embarrassing. Not sure what to buy, I clicked on review after review, talking myself into and out of nearly every purchase. But the thin ... More >>

The New Flaming Lips Album Gets By with a Little Help From Their "Fwends."

I Poured Flaming Lips Vinyl, and Boy Are My Arms Tired

I really didn't know what pouring vinyl entailed when local musician Daniel Huffman asked if I wanted to sit in on a job Thursday afternoon. I envisioned the act of pouring, and then an actual record, but the in between part was vague. I just said yes and drove over to A&R Records on Riverfront. T ... More >>

Well, Looks Like That Flaming Lips/Erykah Badu Collaboration Might Really Happen

Hey, remember last Friday, when we mentioned that Rolling Stone article in which Wayne Coyne mentioned he'd like to collaborate with Erykah Badu? And how that would probably be a good idea? Well, she got in her Badumobile and gunned it to Klearlight Studio in order to restore balance to the universe ... More >>

Wayne Coyne and Erykah Badu, Sittin' in a Tree?

Rolling Stone reported yesterday that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne -- who is seemingly everywhere these days, like those owls I talked about last week -- has put together an album of collaborations slated for April release. While he's already wrangled Bon Iver and Nick Cave (that is a collabo ... More >>

Bring On the Meatless Mondays

​Happy belated birthday, sweet infant Jesus! Now that all that trimming the tree and wrapping presents is over, all Santa's cookies have been eaten, and all the stores are ready to mark down all the stuff you just bought by 60 percent, we can look ahead to the dawning of another year and the d ... More >>

Over The Weekend: After Hours with George Quartz, Live at the Texas Theatre!

After Hours with George Quartz, Live!Texas TheatreJuly 39, 2011Better than: watching that Kings of Leon guy throw the world's least exciting hissy fit and quit the band onstage. If KoL had beat the crap out of each other Brian Jonestown style, it might have been worth it. We think George Quartz wa ... More >>

A Christmas Miracle: On Eight Track Museum's Opening Day, Big Bucks Lives Up To His Name

James "Big Bucks" Burnett in the back room of his Eight Track Museum, sitting in the egg chair filled with stereo speakers​By the time we arrived at the Eight Track Museum, James "Big Bucks" Burnett's tribute to myriad dead media, some 60 or 70 folks had already come and gone, each one gladly fork ... More >>

Erykah Badu: "The Reaction To The 'Window Seat' Video Didn't Teach Me Anything."

Erykah Badu​On Friday morning, Vibe posted a length piece on Erykah Badu well worth the time if you have it--because, as part of the magazine's online "Full Clip" series, it's mostly just Badu on Badu, with the Dallas R&B star explaining her motivations, headspaces and conflicts with each and ... More >>

Other Beatles Games You Won't Remember.

Stereo Total Finds, After 15 Years Touring the World, People Are Pretty Much the Same Anywhere

Sued and Expelled: The Battle Over the Battle Over Evolution

Dipping Further Into Erykah's "Honey"

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.

Having It All

The members of Yo La Tengo produce consistently great records from a stable marriage. What's up with that?

Deerhoof

Thursday, March 8, at the Gypsy Tea Room

The Walkmen

Pussy Cats (Record Collection)

Shoot the Piano

Grail for Sale?

The New Friend of P

Matt Sharp reunites the Rentals, all because of Dallas' Sara Radle. No, really.

Smooth Operator

Park It

Gay BINGO takes out the trash

Miss Independent

Annie Leibovitz makes a permanent mark

Eyes at Front

At the 16th Dallas Video Festival, you cannot--and should not--look away

GZA

Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA)

Robert Rosen

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (Soft Skull Press)

Playing Possum

After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?

Ketchup and Soy Sauce

Cibo Matto gets out of the kitchen and fries up the national prize

The Crit and Shap Poll

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Mind games

Four-CD Lennon anthology leans too heavily on inferior versions of familiar tunes

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

Why Christmas music sucks

Shake your mantra maker

Kula Shaker: Brit-pop with an Indian twist

Mope and glow

Bottle Rocket is a clever mix of optimism and angst

Test Pattern

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance