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• DC9 At Night: Busking

  Busking with The Voice Star Melanie Martinez
  12/02/2014 By Jeff Gage
  Oftentimes when we feature an artist on the ongoing Globe Trek Productions busking series, it's someone who's local or whom at least has ties to Texas. That could mean local rapper Blue,...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, 12/1-12/7
  12/01/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
  We hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now it's time to usher in the Christmas season, which will certainty be shoved down your throat for the next four weeks. This can...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, 10/20-10/26
  10/20/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
  Sorry that the beautiful, beautiful weekend left you. It's sad, but the weekend will be back in a few days, so chill. You've got some serious clinginess issues. To tide you over, we've got...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The Best Concerts in Dallas This Week, 10/06-10/12
  10/06/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
  Welcome to the working week, folks. There's more than a few shows you should keep on your docket in the days ahead. Brit rockers Temples are taking their talents to where Big Things Happen,...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Lily Allen at House of Blues, 9/15/14
  09/16/2014 By Eva Raggio
  Lily Allen With MR Little Jeans House of Blues, Dallas Monday September 15, 2014 On her first visit to Dallas at the House of Blues, Lily Allen took the stage purple-haired and dressed like...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  Garfunkel and Oates' Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome on Making Funny and Beautiful Music Together
  08/22/2014 By Danny Gallagher
  Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, the comedians who make up the musical comedy powerhouse of Garfunkel and Oates, are living the dream of every guitar-ukulele musical comedy duo. They...

• DC9 At Night: Local Music

  Dallas' House of Blues is the Fourth Most Popular U.S. Club Venue
  08/21/2014 By H. Drew Blackburn
  Billboard, everybody's favorite trade music magazine, just put together a list of the 25 Most Popular Music Clubs is the U.S. There are many takeaways here, but the most pertinent one for...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Fitz & the Tantrums at House of Blues, 7/24/14
  07/25/2014 By Michelle Ofiwe
  Fitz & the Tantrums House of Blues, Dallas Thursday, July 24, 2014 Pop music has always been interested in making us dance. Pop stars, not so much. If it was up to the average star, pop...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Tesla's Jeff Keith: "Management Told Us Everything About Nikola Tesla"
  07/15/2014 By Darryl Smyers
  When they formed in the early 1980's, Tesla was a pleasant anomaly, a group of regular guys from California that for some reason got lumped in with the seemingly endless array of hair metal...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen at House of Blues, 7/9/14
  07/10/2014 By Kelly Dearmore
  Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour House of Blues, Dallas Wednesday, July 9, 2014 An unusually functional prop set the stage, both literally and figuratively, for...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Randy Rogers' History of the "Hold My Beer and Watch This" Tour
  07/09/2014 By Kelly Dearmore
  For a decade now, Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, along with their trusty band mates, have become A-Listers in the nebulously defined, increasingly lucrative world of Texas Country Music. The...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The 10 Best Dallas Concerts This Week, 7/7 - 7/13
  07/07/2014 By Michelle Ofiwe
  Sometimes the only thing that's worse than a Monday is the Monday after a three-day weekend. Honestly, what does anyone have to look forward to now? Aside from, you know, some real summer...

• DC9 At Night: Previews

  The Best North Texas Country Shows in July
  07/02/2014 By Kelly Dearmore
  We're halfway through the year and for most of the past week we've been turning our gazes back at these six months past, taking stock of all the fine music that's been released in North...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Failure Sounded Like They'd Never Been Away at House of Blues
  06/11/2014 By Eric Grubbs
  Failure House of Blues Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Over the course of two hours on Tuesday night, reunited Los Angeles trio Failure showed why they were such a highly regarded band back in the...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Neon Trees with Small Pools and Nightmare & the Cat
  05/29/2014 By Eva Raggio
  When you're trying to start a successful rock band, moving from California to the ultraconservative city of Provo, Utah, would seem to be a move in the wrong direction. Yet that's exactly...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Manchester Orchestra's Chris Freeman on Losing Band Members and Appearing on Letterman Four Times
  04/22/2014 By Darryl Smyers
  Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra play indie music with an epic feel. Over the course of a decade, this nimble five-piece led by the enigmatic Andy Hull have released four albums of quality...

• Calendar: Highlights

  What a Teese!
  03/27/2014 By Katey Margolis
  She has helped make burlesque a household name again, and now Dita Von Teese brings her show Burlesque: Strip, Strip, Hooray! to the House of Blues. The show will include four...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Irish Eyes Smile at House of Blues
  02/13/2014 By Patrick Williams
  Kicking off a U.S. tour, Irish tenor Paul Byrom will perform Wednesday night on the Voodoo Stage at House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St.. Former lead tenor with the group Celtic Thunder, a...

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  Take It Off
  02/06/2014 By Allison Perkins
  Chippendales is coming to the House of Blues (2200 N. Lamar St.), and it’s not the Rescue Rangers version. It’s the male-strip-down-to-a-banana-hammock version. So if your great...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Different Kind of Drumstick
  12/26/2013 By Jennifer Davis-lamm
  Christmas is past and all that happy family Norman Rockwell stuff is done. There’s no question you need to get out to shake your tail feathers a little bit, and there’s no better...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Meet Miss Excitement
  11/28/2013 By Luke Darby
  Veteran performers are a rarity in striptease. Burlesque too, for that matter, though proponents of burlesque say that it’s less about conventional beauty and sexuality and more about...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Steve Vai on What it Takes to Be a Good Collaborator
  11/22/2013 By Darryl Smyers
  First hired in 1979 by Frank Zappa as a music transcriptionist, guitarist Steve Vai has just about done it all. Whether as a solo artist or playing with everyone from David Lee Roth to John...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Ron. Effing. Swanson.
  11/14/2013 By Jamie Laughlin
  What do you suppose an evening with Nick Offerman consists of? Hand-sharpening straight razors, then fine-tuning our collective facial-hair growth? Possibly. Sipping scotch while minimally...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Even Her Name Is Hilarious
  10/24/2013 By Jamie Laughlin
  She’s gone from Chelsea Handler’s sassy panelist to star of her own popular television show, and now Whitney Cummings will bring those size-zero jeans of hers to the White Swan...

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  Shake Those Crown Jewels
  08/29/2013 By Merritt Martin
  As loath as we are to agree with R. Kelly, we don’t really see anything wrong with a little bump and grind. Also, nothing wrong with a hip rock or sashay accentuated by some...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  Paul Varghese on Vinyl (Sort Of): A Q&A with the Comedian on His First Album, Paul & Oates
  07/26/2013 By Danny Gallagher
  It only takes about five minutes for someone in the noisy crowd of social drinkers at the Old Monk pub on North Henderson Avenue to recognize comedian Paul Varghese. An attractive blond...

• Calendar: Highlights

  In Australia, Strippers Undress Backward
  06/13/2013 By Jennifer Medina
  If you glean most of your world knowledge from talk shows and reality TV like Project Runway, then you know that the guys in Thunder from Down Under are built like no other men on...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week
  05/30/2013 By Audra Schroeder
  The line between Tracy Morgan, the actor and comedian, and Tracy Jordan, his unpredictable, stubborn character on 30 Rock, got pretty blurry for a while, especially during a 2011 run of...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Roll Over, Andrew Dice Clay
  05/30/2013 By Jamie Laughlin
  After comedian Anthony Jeselnik informed Donald Trump that nobody would mourn him if he got cancer, and after he created a sketch called “9-11 Babies” that involves dressing...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Without A Full Deck
  05/23/2013 By Audra Schroeder
  More and more open-mic comedy nights are popping up in unexpected places around town, like The Amsterdam Bar and the Texas Theatre. Joker’s Wild started last fall in the Voodoo Room at...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, May 16-19
  05/16/2013 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Amy Schumer at the House of Blues Schumer is the creator, star and...

• Calendar: Highlights

  More Like “Piano Guy”
  04/25/2013 By Jennifer Medina
  True story: Five middle-aged guys from Utah have managed to become a real live touring act after they covered One Direction with a piano and deconstructed cello. Thanks, YouTube! Known as...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  They Might Be Giants Does Not Need More Conspiracy Theorists
  03/12/2013 By Darryl Smyers
  Hard to believe that it's been over three decades since John Flansburgh and John Linnell first started playing music as They Might Be Giants. What started as two nerds and a drum machine has...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Dragonette Talks About the Canadian Music Scene, Electro-Music and Their Growing Commercial Success
  03/11/2013 By Catherine Downes
  Canadian band, Dragonette has had a big year so far. The electro-pop act has been nominated for a Juno award (a Canadian music award, for those not familiar with music on-goings north of the...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys Feels a Responsibility to Sing About Unions
  02/26/2013 By Kelly Dearmore
  In what has become a yearly tradition, the Dropkick Murphys make their way through town just before St. Patrick's Day. Their date in town is usually near to the dates of the Flogging Molly...

• DC9 At Night: My First Show

  The Jealous Sound's Blair Shehan Remembers his First Guitar: A Black and White Epiphone
  02/12/2013 By Eric Grubbs
  In honor of the Jealous Sound's third appearance in the DFW area in 12 months (they play in the House of Blues' Cambridge Room tonight), we caught up with frontman Blair Shehan on how he...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Return of the Tease
  02/07/2013 By Merritt Martin
  Whoever said variety is the spice of life had definitely seen a good burlesque show. Because you know, a burlesque revue is essentially a variety show filled with jokes out-to-there, dance...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Chuck Billy of Testament is Ready for the End of CDs and Records
  02/06/2013 By Darryl Smyers
  It's pretty rare for a band to wait nearly three decades to release its best album, but that's exactly what Testament did. Last summer saw the release of Dark Roots of Earth, Testaments...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  B.B. King Gave the House of Blues His Picks, His Bracelets and a Holy Blues Masterpiece: Review
  01/14/2013 By Christian McPhate
  "Electrifying," "Magnetic," "Memorable" are just some of the words that people used to describe an evening with B.B. King at the House of Blues in Dallas. His sophisticated style of...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, January 3-6
  01/03/2013 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. LOL! at the House of Blues Local comedy stalwart Paul Varghese...

• Calendar: Highlights

  They Work. You Laugh. It's A Deal.
  12/27/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  How about a show of hands. Are you more inclined to give a comedian a chance if you’ve A) paid a cover (cricket sounds), or B) gotten into a show for free? (Field of waving arms)...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Wink Back to Burlesque's Roots
  12/27/2012 By Jennifer Medina
  Burlesque has recently made one hell of a comeback, and with all of its innovations and evolutions, it’s easy to forget the art form’s roots. If you’re a new convert to the...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Comedic Full House
  11/15/2012 By Jane LeBlanc
  So we all survived another election year. Whew. Need cheering up? Go check out The Jokers Wild Comedy Show this Thursday at the House of Blues (2200 N. Lamar St.). It’s the inaugural...

• DC9 At Night: Dallas Observer Music Awards

  It's Here! The Lineup For the 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase!
  10/08/2012 By Audra Schroeder
  Last week, we alerted you to our 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees. Today, we've got the yankin' lineup for our showcase on Saturday, November 10, which serves as the big ol'...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  The Five Best Comedy Outings in Dallas This Weekend, September 14-16
  09/13/2012 By Jane R. LeBlanc
  Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Mitch West at the Dallas Comedy House benefiting the DREAM...

• Calendar: Highlights

  The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
  08/09/2012 By Jennifer Davis-lamm
  The members of the Extreme Midget Wrestling team don’t need your politically correct tiptoeing. They don’t care that the Little People of America organization are a bit dismayed...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Friday Just Got More Fashionable
  08/02/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  Local designer Tashumbra has that something special. It’s in the way prints are layered, the boldness of the color palette selected and the unexpected surprises that accompany the...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  LOL at House of Blues: Deep-Fried Dilemmas and Other Home-Grown Jokes
  07/30/2012 By Obed Manuel
  The House of Blues over the weekend hosted the LOL! comedy showcase, which brought together four local comics for one home-grown show. Here's what you missed, from Obed the Intern: - Aaron...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Got the Blues? Take Four, They're Hilarious
  07/26/2012 By Obed Manuel
  It's been a few years since it's happened, but House of Blues has cornered Dallas' most pedigreed comedians and trapped them together on one stage. It's also demanded that they use their...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Cannibal Corpse's Alex Webster: "A Good Attack And A Good Tone Are Important"
  07/25/2012 By Darryl Smyers
  Over two decades, Buffalo's Cannibal Corpse has become one of the best-selling death metal bands in the United States. Unflinchingly confrontational, bassist Alex Webster and crew have...

• The Mixmaster: Comedy

  Ticket Giveaway: See Paul Varghese and Other Great North Texas Comics at House of Blues
  07/25/2012 By Jamie Laughlin
  While every major touring comic pops into Dallas, our local comedy scene is often overlooked. We've got the talent, it's just scattered all over the metroplex. House of Blues is going to...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A-Ten-Hut
  06/28/2012 By Brentney Hamilton
  When the Ruby Revue graces the House of Blues, “standing at attention” usually is just an awkward side effect, and this summer’s red-hot Stars-n-Bars tribute, The Ruby...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A G'day for Sheilas
  06/28/2012 By Jennifer Davis-lamm
  There are countless schools of thoughts about lady “performers” — the pole-swinging girls with daddy issues, empowered glamazons, victims of the patriarchy, etc. But the...

• Calendar: Highlights

  A Chelsea-Free Experience
  06/14/2012 By Merritt Martin
  You may well recognize the Comedians of Chelsea Lately from their boss' talk show. But if Chelsea Handler’s rants make you too tense to get your eight hours, you may know the stand-ups...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Michael Sweet of Stryper: "We Have Always Thrown Bibles And We Always Will."
  05/17/2012 By Darryl Smyers
  When the Christian rock band Stryper first emerged in 1983, many people thought they were both a marketing ploy and tasteless joke. After 1986's To Hell With the Devil sold over two million...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Again
  03/08/2012 By Daniel Rodriguez
  Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes have entertained and offended audiences as Jay and Silent Bob for nearly two decades, all the while creating a lasting cult following. But since first appearing...

• Music: Show Preview

  Preview: Dropkick Murphys at House of Blues
  02/23/2012 By Kelly Dearmore
  At the end of the 2005 movie Sideways, Paul Giamatti's character Miles decides to create a special event by drinking a bottle of high-dollar wine on a less than extraordinary day, instead of...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Mark Heylmun of Suicide Silence: "The Purpose of Our First Record Was To Offend Everyone"
  02/13/2012 By Darryl Smyers
  Intense barely scratches the surface when talking about Suicide Silence. The California extreme metal outfit has been around for just over a decade, and in that time, they've created three...

• Music: Show Preview

  Preview: Machine Head, Monday, February 13, at House of Blues
  02/09/2012 By Eric Grubbs
  Machine Head's latest opus, Unto the Locust, only adds to their vast catalog of smart, powerful metal. Expect the new stuff to mix effortlessly with classics like "Davidian" and "Ten Ton...

• Calendar: Highlights

  It’s Tassle Time!
  02/02/2012 By Allison Perkins
  The Dallas Burlesque Festival is back and this year it’s a four-night, multi-multi-multi-boobied event. Seventy-five acts will be performing, including some of the biggest names in the...

• Calendar: Highlights

  Roasted to a Turn
  01/26/2012 By Jesse Hughey
  Perhaps the best indicator that your level of fame has peaked is when you are the subject of a comedy roast. But if Andy Warhol’s prediction that in the future each of us gets 15...

• Music: Show Preview

  The World/Inferno Friendship Society
  01/26/2012 By Chris Parker
  Like Gogol Bordello enduring Madness, revolving Brooklyn collective The World/Inferno Society favors loose-limbed cabaret rock equally informed by ska and klezmer. The only consistent member...

• The Mixmaster: The Master List

  The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 13-15
  01/13/2012 By Elizabeth Bair
  If there's ever a zombie attack or outbreak of some mutated virus that turns most of the population into blood-thirsty cannibals, we hope we don't survive because we're not equipped to kill...

• Music: Show Preview

  Robert Earl Keen
  12/29/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  With his 56th birthday quickly approaching, one might think Robert Earl Keen would be happy to just coast along on two decades of music. Yet his most recent effort, Ready for Confetti, has...

• The Mixmaster: The Master List

  The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Holiday Weekend
  12/23/2011 By Elizabeth Bair
  We're two days away from Christmas, which means many of us will be doing requisite family duties this weekend, but skip out a little early on your commitments tonight to see a classic...

• Calendar: Highlights

  So Get Married Already
  12/22/2011 By Alex Copeland
  It’s Chanukah season once again, and midway through the holiday festivities you encounter the same problem that people of all religions suffer this time of year: the nagging parent....

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Over The Weekend: GWAR, Every Time I Die and Warbeast at House Of Blues
  11/21/2011 By Shahryar Rizvi
  GWAR, Every Time I Die, WarbeastHouse Of BluesNovember 19, 2011 Better than: a Pulsar action figure whose blood has congealed. A cloaked Death character entered the House of Blues darkened...

• Music: Columns

  Between the Buried and Me
  11/17/2011 By Chris Parker
  They're one of the most adventurous bands making music today, an experimental-metal act in thrall to a grab-bag of influences ranging from King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Palmer to Dream...

• Music: Show Preview

  Sondre Lerche; here, in arms
  11/10/2011 By Chris Parker
  Had he come of age in the '70s during the golden age of the singer/songwriter, Sondre Lerche (pronounced "Sonder Lerkay") would likely be an international star rather than a Norwegian...

• Music: Show Preview

  CSS
  10/27/2011 By Ernest A. Jasmin
  CSS is the São Paulo-based pop outfit that lifted its moniker from a Beyoncé quote (their name is the Portugese translation of Beyoncé's "I'm tired of being sexy" quote)...

• Music: Columns

  Fitz & The Tantrums Get A Little Soul Power
  10/20/2011 By Chris Ziegler
  Right now, Fitz and the Tantrums singer Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick is about 6 feet and change of focused enthusiasm in a very shiny suit, able to catch an audience in one agile hand and haul...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Star Slinger and Mux Mool at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room
  10/14/2011 By Mikayla Moyer
  Star Slinger, Mux MoolHouse of Blues' Cambridge RoomOctober 13, 2011Better than: yesterday's Rangers game.?Perhaps you've heard of Star Slinger by now. His smooth, sexy and sample-heavy...

• Music: Show Preview

  Star Slinger, Mux Mool, Shigeto
  10/13/2011 By Pete Freedman
  Eventually, mash-up artists grow up. They tire of seeking out familiar samples, chopping them up and laying other singers' and rappers' vocals on top of them. There are other reasons, too,...

• Music: Columns

  Fake Problems Find Some Real Solutions
  10/06/2011 By Chris Parker
  The difference between a good band and a great one is in the evolution. Given enough time, any band can write a decent debut fueled only by youthful ambition, piss and vinegar. A good band...

• DC9 At Night: Dallas Observer Music Awards

  Erykah Badu, RTB2, A.Dd+ and Burning Hotels to Perform With The Cannabinoids at the (Free) 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony
  09/26/2011 By Pete Freedman
  Sure, you already know all about the Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase on Saturday, October 15, at venues and stages all throughout Deep Ellum. Some big names lined up for that sucker,...

• Music: Columns

  Erasure Adds A Little Techno to Their Pop Blend
  09/22/2011 By Catherine Downes
  Erasure are a force of positive energy and creativity, not to mention arguably '80s and '90s pop royalty. Kaleidoscopic live performances, flamboyant costumes and elevating pop hits have...

• Music: Show Preview

  Atmosphere
  09/22/2011 By Ryan Wasoba
  It was once common to hear the name Atmosphere and the descriptor "emo rap" in the same breath. This would read as a derogatory write-off now, but 10 years ago the tag was a clumsy attempt...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Q&A: Erasure Synthmaster Vince Clarke Talks Collaboration with Frankmusik On New Album
  09/22/2011 By Catherine Downes
  A video clip from Erasure's 1992 performance at the Apollo in Manchester, UK Andy Bell and Vince Clarke have been writing pop songs together as Erasure since 1985, and they remain, to this...

• DC9 At Night: Show Reviews

  Over The Weekend: TV on the Radio & Broken Social Scene at the House of Blues
  09/19/2011 By Doug Davis
  TV on the Radio & Broken Social Scene House of Blues September 16, 2011 Better than: having a ticket with a "rain or shine" guarantee from the box office, only to have it cancelled at...

• Music: Columns

  Foster the People is Living Out a Fairy Tale
  09/15/2011 By Maddie Grussendorf
  Mark Foster is living a modern-day fairy tale — albeit one with a twist, where the glass slipper has fallen out of fashion only to be surpassed by a pair of pumped up kicks and where...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) at House of Blues
  09/08/2011 By Nic Hernandez
  Black Star, Playdough, Topic House of Blues September 7, 2011 Better than: being blown away by a firearm. Although each has enjoyed a remarkable solo career as one of the most important...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: DMX at the House of Blues
  08/31/2011 By Pete Freedman
  DMX, Charlene Renee, IcebergHouse of BluesAugust 31, 2011Better than: another stint in jail, among other things.?Earlier this year, DMX wrapped up an eight-month stint in prison for...

• Music: Show Preview

  Patrick Stump
  08/25/2011 By Paul Rogers
  While unashamedly fame-friendly bassist Pete Wentz hogged the headlines, it was Patrick Stump's savvy songwriting and supple, soulful vocals that propelled Fall Out Boy clear of their emo...

• Music: Show Preview

  Summer Slaughter Fest
  08/18/2011 By Joe Williams
  Dubbed "The Most Extreme Tour of the Year," the fifth annual Summer Slaughter Fest ends its 27-date run with a final stop in Dallas this week. How merciful. Michigan death-metal band The...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Ghostface and Vicious Cycle at House of Blues
  08/15/2011 By Jesse Hughey
  Rock The Bells Tour with Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Ghostface and Vicious Cycle Sunday, August 14 House of Blues Better than: an unrequited longing for Golden Age hip-hop.Sunday night was an...

• Music: Show Preview

  Rock The Bells tour with Raekwon, Ghostface and Mobb Deep
  08/11/2011 By Rebecca Haithcoat
  It ain't hard to tell that the "Queensbridge murderers" came to prominence in the same hardcore hip-hop era that also saw the rise of the Notorious B.I.G.: The verses offered up by Mobb...

• City of Ate: Events

  Dallas Observer Tweet Up Party: Tonight At House of Blues, Featuring 50 Cent Beers
  08/11/2011 By Catherine Downes
  Forget your usual Thursday night happy hour and come hang out with the Observer at the House of Blues (2200 N. Lamar). Last month's Tweet Up party was so packed that a line formed around the...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Jonny McBee of The Browning Believes In Aliens, Zombies and The Dallas Metal Scene
  08/08/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Although the band's name suggests cooking instructions, The Browning is actually a talented progressive metal outfit hailing (at least half the time) from Dallas. Led by one Jonny McBee,...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Tally Hall's Rob Cantor Estimates That His Band's Cult Following Counts 200 Billion Fans
  08/04/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Michigan's Tally Hall has been together for over a decade, yet has only released two proper, full-length efforts. That's because, like many bands, Tally Hall has been plagued by the major...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Ryan Turner On Hank Williams, Kenny Chesney and The Problem With Modern Country
  08/03/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Opinionated, but still down-to-earth, Austin's Ryan Turner is the epitome of an old-school country singer. He prefers Merle Haggard to Kenny Chesney any day, and believes most popular...

• Music: Show Preview

  Chingo Bling
  07/28/2011 By Allison Wagoner
  Chingo Bling, also known as "The Versace Mariachi" or "El Real Tex Mex," is one of Houston's most prominent representatives of the Southern Latino hip-hop community, a character that's about...

• The Mixmaster: Q&A

  Dita Von Teese Brings Tassels, Talent and More
  07/27/2011 By Conner Howell
  She's pretty much the pinnacle of burlesque, and ever since she started back in 1992, Dita Von Teese has embodied the glitz and glamour of striptease on an international level. Outfitted...

• Music: Columns

  Christina Perri's Literal Overnight Success Story
  07/21/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
  This past spring, just before her debut album, Lovestrong, was released, freshly minted pop star Christina Perri revealed on her Facebook account how she would choose to deal with the people...

• DC9 At Night: Local Music 'Mericans

  Brian Fiegelman Runs Sound For The O's on the Road, and House Of Blues at Home
  07/19/2011 By Alan Ayo
  Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but the people who make the scene...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Picture Show: Hayes Carll at House of Blues
  07/18/2011 By Nick Rallo
  Last time we ran into singer Hayes Carll, he put on a special little two-stepping show at the Double Wide in the midst of a small-club tour throughout Texas. On Saturday at House of Blues,...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Colour Revolt and The New Regime at the House of Blues
  07/06/2011 By Eric Grubbs
  Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Colour Revolt, The New Regime House of Blues July 5th, 2011 Better than: having your first colonoscopy.?One of the biggest complaints about venues that can...

• Music: Columns

  Taking Back Sunday Takes Back Their Original Lineup
  06/30/2011 By Chris Parker
  Taking Back Sunday's current tour represents a sort of homecoming for the emo-punk icons. After going gold with their 2002 debut, Tell All Your Friends, the band almost immediately imploded....

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Authority Zero's Jason DeVore: "It's About Staying Alive and Just Surviving."
  06/28/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Arizona's Authority Zero has been making music for going on 20 years -- but not without some roadblocks. Various battles with record companies and management types have resulted in lineup...

• Music: Columns

  Matt & Kim Skip Along the Sidewalks.
  06/09/2011 By Chris Parker
  Dance-punk duo Matt & Kim might as well be re-dubbed Hubba Bubba. Their music's as bubbly, buoyant and carefree as bubble gum, sponsoring a sunny joyful experience like a summer pool party....

• DC9 At Night: Show Reviews

  Over The Weekend: My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive, The Architects at House of Blues
  05/23/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  My Chemical Romance, Circa Survive and The ArchitectsThe House of BluesMay 21, 2011(Just Barely) Better Than: Staying home and watching the Mavericks beat the Thunder.?New Jersey's alt-rock...

• Music: Columns

  My Chemical Romance Shed Their Emo Roots
  05/19/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  Call My Chemical Romance anything you like. Talented. Petulant. Even sell-outs. Just don't call them emo. "All emo means, to me, is being emotionally disturbed and having really bad hair,"...

• DC9 At Night: My First Show

  The Mumbles' Darin Robinson Had The Flu, But He Still Paid Good Money to See The Who
  05/17/2011 By Eric Grubbs
  Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.Even though they play...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Over The Weekend: The Decemberists at the House of Blues
  05/02/2011 By Jason Manriquez
  The Decemberists, Other LivesHouse of BluesApril 29, 2011 Better than: sitting in your bedroom, reading Melville, and wondering what it might be like to love someone as much as you love the...

• Music: Columns

  The Decemberists Enjoy Stardom On Their Own Terms.
  04/28/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
  On an otherwise normal evening at Colin Meloy's house, the Decemberists were working through tunes for their new album, The King is Dead. But one thing was different about this night: The...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Other Lives Believes in Albums, Not Bands.
  04/28/2011 By Kelly Dearmore
  It'd be easy to pigeonhole Oklahoma music as solely focused on red dirt country (see: Cross Canadian Ragweed) or dust-bowl folk (see: Woody Guthrie) were it not for the contributions made by...

• DC9 At Night: Photography

  Picture Show: Ke$ha Played House of Blues Last Night, We Took Some Photos, Blah Blah Blah.
  04/27/2011 By Pete Freedman
  She'll take on the big stage at Gexa Energy Pavilion (nee Starplex, a million other names) on August 4, but, last night, the unavoidable pop star known as K-E-Dollar Sign-Ha! stopped by the...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Fitz & The Tantrums at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room
  04/21/2011 By Pete Freedman
  Fitz & The TantrumsHouse of Blues' Cambridge RoomApril 20, 2011Better than: a child throwing a tantrum in a public place.?As if the band's name alone didn't already imply it, Los...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Last Night: Chris Cornell at House of Blues
  04/04/2011 By Cory Graves
  Chris CornellHouse of BluesApril 3, 2011Better than: open mic night at any given local bar, although not by much.?Let's get something out of the way right up front: I'm a pretty huge Chris...

• Music: Columns

  Chris Cornell Has One Weakness, Turns Out.
  03/31/2011 By Cory Graves
  During his time fronting Soundgarden, Chris Cornell helped to pioneer the grunge sound of the early '90s that brought national attention to the Seattle scene. As a member of Audioslave, he...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Extended Q&A: Chris Cornell On Performing Solo Acoustic Shows, Collaborating With Slash and Why He Doesn't Really Look At The Internet
  03/30/2011 By Cory Graves
  Chris Cornell is, no doubt, most well-known for fronting heavy rock outfits Soundgarden and Audioslave in the '90s and '00s, respectively. But when he performs at House of Blues this...

• Music: Columns

  There's More to Arlo Guthrie Than Protest Songs
  03/24/2011 By Darryl Smyers
  For a singer-songwriter often associated with protest songs such as "Alice's Restaurant" and "Coming into Los Angeles," Arlo Guthrie comes across as anything but a protester over the...

• Music: Columns

  Alejandro Escovedo's Music Hides His Age.
  03/03/2011 By Roy Kasten
  Alejandro Escovedo sounds happy. And he should be: After nearly succumbing to Hepatitis C in 2003, the Austinite is touring steadily, writing songs with friends such as Chuck Prophet,...

• DC9 At Night: Last Night

  Over The Weekend: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights at the House of Blues
  02/21/2011 By Pete Freedman
  Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsHouse of BluesFebruary 18, 2011Better than: watching Almost Famous yet one more time.? Sometimes, tour pairings...

• DC9 At Night: Show Reviews

  Over The Weekend: The Pretty Recklesss at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room
  02/21/2011 By Mark Schectman
  The Pretty RecklessFebruary 19, 2011House of Blues' Cambridge RoomBetter than: my Chuck Bass impression.It was easy to anticipate what the crowd at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room was...

• DC9 At Night: Show Reviews

  Over The Weekend: Broken Social Scene at the House of Blues
  02/21/2011 By Doug Davis
  Broken Social SceneHouse of BluesFebruary 19, 2011Better than: on a night of so many choices, that's hard to say...?This weekend provided music lovers in Dallas with an overload of great...

• Music: Columns

  Broken Social Scene Isn't Broken at All
  02/17/2011 By Doug Davis
  Broken Social Scene is anything but broken. With a roster that casts a wide, if loose, net across the musical landscape of Toronto, band members float into and out of each other's musical...

• DC9 At Night: Interviews

  Q&A: Taylor Momsen Talks The Pretty Reckless, Her Gossip Girl Fans' Perceptions of Her and Why Courtney Love Comparisons Are Lazy
  02/17/2011 By Mark Schectman
  In yet another case of art imitating life, Taylor Momsen seems to be drawing inspiration from the trouble-making character she plays on The CW's Gossip Girl. In real life, Momsen has...

• Music: Show Preview

  Reverend Horton Heat, Split Lip Rayfield
  02/10/2011 By Chris Gray
  Ah, the early '90s—a time when a Nudie suit-clad rockabilly cat out of Deep Ellum could get signed to Sub Pop with songs about steak and marijuana. If it's hard to believe it's been...

• Music: Columns

  Flogging Molly Is Changing. And, Not.
  02/03/2011 By Cory Graves
  Getting typecast as "that St. Patrick's Day band" could be a terrifying prospect. But whereas some respond to such designation by playing down certain hackneyed elements of their culture as...

• DC9 At Night: My First Show

  My First Show: Beau Wagener Tells Us About Seeing Weird Al in '87 In Advance of His Debut With People on Vacation This Weekend
  01/26/2011 By Eric Grubbs
  Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be.Beau Wagener might be...

• Music: Show Preview

  Old 97's, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, The O's
  12/30/2010 By Pete Freedman
  The Old 97's closed out 2009 in fairly spectacular fashion, performing for four straight nights at Sons of Hermann Hall in Deep Ellum and recording those sessions for release at a later...

• Music: Show Preview

  Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved, Blood Red Throne, Dawn of Ashes
  12/02/2010 By Darryl Smyers
  Norway's Dimmu Borgir is named after a volcano in Iceland, and everything about the symphonic metal band is predictably epic. Hell, the band's name literally translates to "Dark Fortress,"...

• Music: Columns

  The Daylights Are Making Up For Lost Time.
  11/25/2010 By Daniel Hopkins
  Ran Jackson sounds chipper and happy, despite the fact that he's not sure exactly where he is. His band, The Daylights, has been touring rigorously in support of their new self-titled,...

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  Bob Schneider
  11/25/2010 By Mike Seely
  Insanely intelligent, talented and good-looking (he used to bang Sandra Bullock), the 44-year-old Bob Schneider can and does play virtually every style of music. Really: If you put Mick...

• Music: Columns

  Social Distortion Ages Gracefully
  11/18/2010 By Kelly Dearmore
  Punk rock, perhaps more than any other musical style in recent times, has evolved into a multi-pronged and tough-to-define assault. What began as a vehicle for the principles of incendiary,...

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  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Lonely Forest
  11/18/2010 By Lance Lester
  Despite having a band name that's as awkward as it is long, Springfield, Missouri's Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's blend of melodic indie rock and hopeful, catchy songwriting has...

• Music: Columns

  Wiz Khalifa Gets Higher and Higher
  10/28/2010 By Kyle Eustice
  Wiz Khalifa wants a $100,000. For a single performance. That may sound like a tall order, but it's not out of the question in the near future for Khalifa. The 23-year-old burgeoning rap...

• Music: Reviews/Previews

  Bone Thugs- N-Harmony
  10/21/2010 By Chris Parker
  Reaching the top isn't nearly as hard as staying there. The Bone Thugs crew can attest to that. The quintet's blend of gangsta rigor and R&B smoothness revolutionized the rap landscape when...

• Music: Columns

  Blitzen Tapper's Easygoing Ways Are Working Out Well
  10/14/2010 By Darryl Smyers
  Talking to Eric Earley, leader and founding member of Portland's Blitzen Trapper, can be something of a disheartening experience. Earley's not an unfriendly guy at all—quite the...

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  Matt & Kim, Fang Island
  10/07/2010 By Ian Traas
  For a scrappy DIY pop duo, Matt and Kim have enjoyed some pretty substantial success. Partially thanks to inescapable breakout hit "Daylight" (and partially thanks to a whole lot of web...

• Music: Columns

  The National Can't Write Happy Songs
  10/07/2010 By Merrit Martin
  Fights happen—in relationships of family, politics, love and, well, the inner workings of a band. And it's no big secret that Cincinnati/Brooklyn's The National comprises two sets of...

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  Local Natives
  09/30/2010 By Rick Mason
  Gorilla Manor, the ambitious debut album from the Los Angeles quintet Local Natives, is in one sense a pastiche of prevailing indie-pop elements, each song characterized by complex...

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  Drive-By Truckers, Henry Clay People
  09/23/2010 By Kelly Dearmore
  Generally speaking, whiskey-swilling, dark-alley-dealing Southern rock doesn't fit the typical musical storyteller definition. Unless one is discussing the Drive-By Truckers, that...

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  The Tallest Man on Earth
  09/16/2010 By Erik Thompson
  Let's get the silly stuff out of the way first: Kristian Mattson (a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth) isn't really all that tall. But his majestic songs are indeed colossal, even if they are...

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  Crystal Castles, Mr. Kitty
  09/09/2010 By Catherine Downes
  Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have been making music together as Crystal Castles for five years now, and their eponymous debut album hit the indie music scene hard. The band had sampled tracks...

• Music: Feature

  Meat Loaf Dicks Around On His Latest
  08/26/2010 By Pete Freedman
  You hear it, but you can hardly believe it. "C'mon," you think to yourself. "There's no way he just sang that." But, alas, there it is, just 50 seconds into the ninth track on Meat Loaf's...

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  Something Corporate
  08/12/2010 By Annie Zaleski
  During Something Corporate's original time as a band—roughly the years between 1998 and 2004—they never received their proper due. The piano-driven group didn't quite fit in...

• Music: Columns

  B.o.B. Finally Figures It Out
  08/05/2010 By Sean Fennessey
  The recent hip-hop trend of paradigm-shifting MCs continues with the big-top arrival of B.o.B, whose The Adventures of Bobby Ray debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in April. There...

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  Crowded House, Lawrence Arabia
  08/05/2010 By Merritt Martin
  Crowded House have been rushing about playing and promoting Intriguer, their follow-up to 2007's Time on Earth. And rightfully so, because, well, Time may have been printed with the Crowded...

• Music: Columns

  On Whether To Bother With The New Hole
  07/01/2010 By Camille Dodero
  Listening to the new Hole record, Nobody's Daughter, it's impossible not to be distracted by the circular chorus of "Samantha," the slow-burning rager co-written by Billy Corgan that...

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  Mumford & Sons, The Middle East
  06/10/2010 By Kelly Dearmore
  A plucky banjo and weary vocals does not a bluegrass or folk band make. And, sure, the predominantly string-based sound of English quartet Mumford & Sons makes it somewhat easy for the...

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  MGMT, Tame Impala
  06/03/2010 By Dan Weiss
  MGMT's Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden willed themselves to fame with "Time to Pretend," the biggest movie-trailer indie crossover hit since "Paper Planes." Now they want us to know...

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  Ben Folds
  05/06/2010 By Sara Brickner
  Ben Folds' comic approach to songwriting may have won him the adoration of college fans, but his most formidable skill is a Midas touch with people and musical subgenres that, until he has...

• Music: Columns

  B.o.B.'s Album Isn't As Adventurous As He'd Like
  04/22/2010 By Ben Westhoff
  Rapper B.o.B.'s song "Nothin' On You," is a massive hit, the kind that sells a million copies and sits at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Well, at press time, anyway; by the time you read...

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  Vampire Weekend, Abe Vigoda
  04/08/2010 By Chris Parker
  When it burst on the scene two years ago with its self-titled, Afro-centric, indie-pop debut, Vampire Weekend was the subject of such overheated blogger buzz and hipster adoration that it...

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  Julian Casablancas
  04/08/2010 By E. Thompson
  Part of Julian Casablancas' reputation as The Strokes' frontman has always been his bratty nonchalance. So it's something of a surprise, then, to discover that his solo album, Phrazes for...

• Music: Columns

  Ted Leo Turns His Frown Upside Down
  03/25/2010 By Chris Parker
  Idealism doesn't age as well as cynicism. Perhaps that's why punk's earnest socio-politic evolved into the ironic distance of indie rock. It may also be why there are so few artists like...

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  BT, Glint
  03/11/2010 By Shahryar Rizvi
  Behind that pop-star-looking face on a few of BT's album covers is the mind of a musical engineer. Maryland's Bryan Wayne Transeu started writing music at an early age and got a shot at...

• Music: Columns

  STS9's Not The Jam Band You Think It Is
  03/04/2010 By Tomas Palermo
  Sound Tribe Sector 9 just can't shake its perceived "jam band" associations, and all the dreaded hair, patchouli, hemp clothing and smelly baggage that comes with it. It's a serious problem...

• Music: Columns

  Portugal. The Man Goes Pop
  02/25/2010 By Darryl Smyers
  Zachary Carothers, bassist for the experimental rock band Portugal. The Man, knows that his band has a new album coming out soon. And he's very excited about the record. He's just not...

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  Gov't Mule
  02/18/2010 By Rick Mason
  Guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes is a busy man, juggling roles in the Allman Brothers, the Dead and Gov't Mule, which he leads and founded with late Allman bassist Allen Woody. Like the...

• Music: Columns

  Reckless Kelly Tries Someone Else's Songs For A Change.
  02/11/2010 By Darryl Smyers
  Austin-based country-rock band Reckless Kelly has been around for more than a decade and, in that time, Willy Braun and his band have made major inroads on both the alternative and...

• Music: Columns

  Bowerbirds Fly Higher With Their Latest
  02/04/2010 By Chris Parker
  Bowerbirds emerged in 2006 as a back-to-basics act in more than one way: The band's debut LP, Hymns for a Dark Horse, surveyed a stark loping acoustic sound, enriched by pretty harmonies and...

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  Flogging Molly, Frank Turner, The Architects
  02/04/2010 By Chris Parker
  While The Pogues may have minted the style, no one has done as much to popularize Celtic-punk as Flogging Molly—and the band's energetic playing of traditional Irish instrumentation...

• Music: Columns

  For Exene Cervenka, X No Longer Marks The Spot
  01/28/2010 By Darryl Smyers
  For someone with a history of depression, Exene Cervenka sounds positively bubbly. And why shouldn't she? Currently on tour supporting her terrific new solo effort, Somewhere Gone, the...

• Music: Columns

  Girls' Pop Music Goals Are Hardly Modest
  01/28/2010 By Chris Parker
  One of the wonders of modern music is how there are always emerging new artists capable of using the familiar building blocks of chords, melodies and instrumentation to re-imagine old tropes...

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  Sondre Lerche, JBM
  01/28/2010 By Catherine Downes
  Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche has already taken home a Grammy in his native country, and thanks to his growing appeal among a high-brow, NPR-listening crowd, it seems like it's...

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  The Anvil Experience, Mitra
  01/21/2010 By Jesse Hughey
  One of the most inspiring rock documentaries ever, 2009's Anvil! The Story of Anvil told the sweet tale of singer/guitarist Steve "Lips" Kudlow, drummer Robb Reiner and the band they refused...

• Music: Feature

  Nick Jonas and The Aging Of The Area Disney Crop
  01/14/2010 By Pete Freedman
  You could see it in his eyes. Nick Jonas, the youngest of the chart-topping trio of Disney-backed siblings who call Westlake home, had just wrapped up the January 2 live performance debut of...

• Music: Columns

  Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Goodie Mob
  01/14/2010 By Shea Serrano
  Founded in the mid-'90s, Goodie Mob is one of Southern hip-hop's most revered acts. The Atlanta foursome, led by rotund crooner Cee-Lo Green in his pre-Gnarls Barkley days, was so uniquely...

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  The Wailers Band
  01/07/2010 By Ernest Barteldes
  Note to reggae fans: There are currently two bands touring as The Wailers. The first is The Wailers Band, which was formed by Bob Marley as his backing band after the first group of the same...

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  Dethklok, Mastodon, High on Fire
  11/05/2009 By Richard Gintowt
  Depending which metalhead you ask, metal is either being saved or being strychnined by Dethklok, the cartoon band at the center of the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse. On the one hand, the...

• Music: Columns

  Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs
  10/29/2009 By Ben Westhoff
  There are many reasons to dislike Owl City, the electro tweepop project spearheaded by Owatonna, Minnesota's 23-year-old Adam Young. For one thing? The moniker is horrible. You can name...

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  Mos Def
  08/13/2009 By Nate Patrin
  Ten years after Mos Def's solo debut, Black on Both Sides, fans might've looked at his subsequent uneven catalog and started to wonder if their fondest memories of him in the '00s would...

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  Method Man vs. Redman: Tale of The Tape
  08/06/2009 By Ben Westhoff
  Is there a more beloved duo in hip-hop than Meth and Red? Known for sharp and hilarious contributions to albums like their 1999 collaboration Blackout!, they've also appeared in deodorant...

• Music: Feature

  Blues News
  05/10/2007 By Jonanna Widner
  So, the House of Blues opened this past week, kicking off with Erykah Badu's solo set, followed by the debut of her seat-of-their-pants soul collective the Cannabinoids (no review available...

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  Odds & Ends
  06/08/2006 By Sam Machkovech
  Got the Blues: Before our weeks of hiatus at AAT HQ (SARS scare, but we're cool now), we'd heard rumors about the House of Blues opening one of its national mid-level concert franchises in...