Music

DJ Sober has been collecting and scanning cassette tape covers from local stores like Forever Young, and posting them over here at Taped Up. Some nice eye candy in there…

If it seems like we’ve been bringing you plenty of news about many of the fine regional country artists who are quick to lend their names and talents to causes whose worthiness can’t be questioned, well, that’s because there’s often a compelling story behind it. On Monday, July 23, treasured…

Songs #100-80 Songs #79-60 Songs #59-40 Songs #39-20 The Spotify playlist for songs #19-1 19. Billy Preston, “Nothing From Nothing” Houston pianist Billy Preston got to hang around some decent talent (The Beatles, The Stones), but his solo material went in another direction altogether. This is his most well-known hit,…

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 Best Texas songs, #59-40 The Spotify playlist for songs #39-20 39. Billy Joe Shaver, “Live Forever” “Live Forever” is an emotional experience. The line, “Don’t let the darkness take them” is tear-inducing, given that his own son, Eddy, was taken by heroin…

And to give you a bit of a teaser for the remainder of our 100 best Texas songs list, which we’ll resume on Monday, here’s Lightnin’ Hopkins performing “Baby Please Don’t Go.”…

Recently, over at NPR, a 19-year-old intern was tasked with reviewing Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, an album he had ostensibly never heard or had little knowledge of. He reviewed it, didn’t really like it, and was subsequently annihilated in the comments section…

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 trends specific…

I am going to overlook my fear of octopus tentacles and endorse this show tonight, not only because it’s free and at a doughnut shop, but because the lineup is pretty yankin’, and includes a set from Budapest folk combo Morzsa Records…

See also: Our Gorilla vs. Bear II preview See also: The Mohicans’ Good Records Challenge See also: Sarah Jaffe’s Good Records Challenge We are back with another Good Records challenge! Did you miss us? We have presents for you because we care not only about winning your affection, but keeping…

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…

Last year, we detailed five fantastic post-rock bands that scoff at the term post-rock and, more or less, pissed on the very thought of being tagged as such. With Luna’s Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips conquering the grassy hill at the Belmont Hotel tonight as a part of KXT 91.7’s…

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…

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #59-40 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…