Paula Deen Is Sorry For Being Racist: UPDATED (Again)

Updated update:There’s another video now, with a slightly higher production quality and a lot more apologies. Watch it while you still can… Original Update: The video has been taken down. Here’s a transcript of what you missed… I want to apologize to everybody, for the wrong that I’ve done. I…

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Highlights Cultural Divide

HBOBy C. Townsend Rizzo It’s not news that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects our right to free speech, press, religion and peaceful assembly. Though reasonable and righteous, it has become a crutch of complacency. Everybody has something to say, but generally, they’re only making a weak…

What Did Kim Deal Even Just Quit From?

The Pixies reunited in 2004 for the sake of nostalgia and money. There can’t be much doubt over this. They never hinted at new music (apart from the bizarre one-off soundtrack single “Bam Thwok”) and unashamedly toured Doolittle to within an inch of its life. This morning, entirely apropos of…

How Music (and Johnny Football) Bring UT and A&M Fans Together

Say it ain’t so #JohnnyFootball:twitpic.com/c05zy6— Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB) February 2, 2013 For decades, music has been used to enforce the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. On Saturdays in the fall, Longhorn fans proudly sing, “Give ’em hell, give ’em hell, make ’em eat shit!” while Aggies…

The Twelve Scariest Bands

Seeing that Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson hit the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie this evening, we thought it would be a good time to compile a list of the scariest acts in music. Scary can be a relative term. One person’s demented can be another’s delightful, but each of…

The Lizard King: Now an Actual Giant Lizard. Thanks, Science!

When the fossils of a giant plant-eating reptile were found in South East Asia, paleontologists wanted to give the world’s largest lizard ever discovered a proper name. They just couldn’t decide between Jim Morrison, a rocker with an affinity for lizards, or Hunter S. Thompson, a rock & roll journalist…

The Top Ten Douchiest Drummers of All Time

What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder…

How Not to Write About Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is playing Cowboys Stadium on Saturday. Here are some important facts about Taylor Swift: 1. She made $57 million from May 2011 to May 2012, making her the highest-paid musician under 30 in that time period. 2. Her latest album, Red, has sold over 5 million copies since…

The 15 Greatest Original Film Scores From the Past Decade

Established musicians composing film scores is nothing new. Some of the best scores of the last 50 some odd years have come from pop stars: Dylan’s score for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Danny Elfman’s whole career and Queen’s legendary Flash Gordon score. With the rise of various indie…

Why Are Old-School Electronic Artists Annoyed With EDM?

Credit: Timothy NorrisBroadly speaking, if you’re an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex. And chances are, if you’re a Skrillex fan under the age of 30, you’re like, “Who the hell is Danny Tenaglia?” Coachella 2013 exemplified the generation gap in the world…

The Ten Best American Hardcore Punk Albums

Seeing that a form of Black Flag is touring right now (and playing Trees on Friday), we thought it a good time to investigate American hardcore punk rock. For all practical purposes, the beginning of hardcore in the states happened in the early 80’s. While many hardcore acts were inspired…

Why Kanye West May Prove to Be the Perfect Punk Rock Rapper

This weekend Kanye West released two new singles off his upcoming album, Yeezus, in the most grandiose possible fashion. On Friday, he announced the video for his newest single, “New Slaves,” would be projected onto 66 buildings across six cities around the world in one night. Crowds gathered by the…

Man, I Used to Really Love Dave Matthews Band

In September 2000, a few days before Dave Matthews Band played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Coca-Cola Starplex, I got into a car accident turning onto Inwood Road from Walnut Hill. My ’99 Explorer was crunched, and the woman I hit injured her arm. I sat on the…

Austin’s Sons of Fathers Busk in Front of the Granada: Video

Sons of Fathers from Austin, who performed at the Granada this past Friday night for the Homegrown Fest’s “Pre-Party” with Telegraph Canyon, got into town early enough to do a bit of video-shooting, it seems. The group is shown in the well-made clip singing their harmony-rich tune “Roots and Vine.”…