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Not gonna bore you with too many details here–we’ve already seen plenty of other special ticket price offers from Live Nation all summer long–but, anyway, here’s the latest one: For a one-time purchase price of $49.99, Live Nation is giving area music fans the opportunity to purchase a “Club Passport”…

In a spoken-word bit, Henry Rollins tells a story about being on a plane whose take-off has been delayed due to the last-minute arrival of some VIP passengers. The door opens, and in wafts the smell of whiskey and leather, followed by its source: Motörhead, led by inimitable frontman Ian…

Although it’s been six years since Living Colour released a new album—and seemingly that long since the band played a gig in its home country—lead singer Corey Glover doesn’t think the time off will affect his band adversely as it hits the road on its current tour of the States…

When Britney Spears crashed and burned, we wrote her off as another child star crushed by the weight of celebrity. But then a funny thing happened: Britney fought back, bitch. By all accounts, she has regained control of her life and career. Now she’s returning to Dallas for the second…

Putting its abject, aesthetic abomination of a band name aside, supergroup Chickenfoot is—and, I admit, this feels wrong in so many ways—more fun than three barrels of monkeys. Or at least more fun than half a case of Cabo Wabo-brand tequila. The self-titled debut from the act—consisting of Van Halen’s…

2006 may not seem like that long ago to most folks, but, in the time since, Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot has been through a lot. It was in that year that the band survived the drowning death of original drummer and major creative force John Pike even before recording its…

This week, Manned Missiles will start its third attempt at recording the band’s debut EP—that is, if everything goes according to plan. But founding member and frontman Benjamin Rodriguez says that even the band’s forming last year wasn’t according to plan. “I wasn’t really thinking about being in a band,”…

After 25 years, the unexpected should be expected from Yo La Tengo. The Hoboken trio has kept fans’ attention by dabbling in unfamiliar styles and reinventing old ones. And, though not as ambitious as 2006’s all-over-the-map I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, the band’s…

To a nonbeliever—or to those unfamiliar with the evangelical beliefs that defined the first 30 years of David Bazan’s life—Curse Your Branches sounds as if it were written by a man who has made up his mind about God. The album is Bazan’s first full-length since the breakup of popular…

Somewhere around Space Heater, new Reverend Horton Heat stopped mattering. Jim Heath could still write a decent song, but at a rate of one or two per album—if that. A best-of CD, a Christmas album and his side project, jazz-and-blues cover act Reverend Organdrum, only reinforced the appearance that he’d…

One of the hardest parts of growing up? Being hampered by the expectations your parents and others had for you—they can shackle you to your younger self, even as you’re undergoing rapid change. It’d be great, maybe, if you could just change your name. Too bad that’s not an option…

There were bigger names at the Monolith Festival last weekend—the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Of Montreal, Phoenix, Girl Talk, The Mars Volta—but deep within Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, in an indoor performance space with a limited audience capacity, Alan Palomo, Jason Faires and Leanne Macomber, who together perform as…

…and for the Youtube freaks, your link’s right here.Last week, two artists stopped by our weekly DC9 in SPACE taping in celebration of our 20th episode of the weekly installment. First up? The always cheerful Johnny Lloyd Rollins, who excitedly spoke about his upcoming record with the small crowd of…

In last week’s paper, I spoke at length with Macon Greyson about the band’s new record because, well, it’s good, and free, and worth your grabbing. But I also did so, in part at least, to preview the band’s show at the Green Elephant tonight with Springfield, Missouri’s Ha Ha…

Tomorrow night, the Granada Theater showcases what’s likely to be one of the best all-rock, all-local affairs of the year, as it hosts Dove Hunter, True Widow, The Boom Boom Box and Tre Orsi, all on the same bill. And here’s some more good news: I know for a fact…

In this week’s paper, I talked briefly about tonight’s Mars Volta show at the Palladium Ballroom…It’s been eight years since the break-up of At the Drive-In, the influential post-hardcore El Paso outfit that, post-dissolution, saw its members split off into the separate factions of Sparta and The Mars Volta.The former…

Very few, if any, alternative rock icons have been as prolific and indisputably talented as Mark Lanegan. The former Screaming Trees frontman and sometime member of Queens of the Stone Age has a restless spirit that has led him to all avenues of artistic expression. And each time, it seems,…