DALLAS — It's a long, long way from Mali to the Metroplex -- and not just in terms of miles. Read more

AUSTIN — Much of Friday's first day of Fun Fun Fun Fest felt like an over-sized backyard barbecue. Over here, a half pipe skateboard ramp was set up. Over there, a few vintage Caminos parked to be used as ... well, whatever, a meeting place. A handful of food trucks -- if it's even possible, it seems as t... Read more

Even the savviest music-industry observer couldn't have predicted the monster year Miranda Lambert has had. Read more

DALLAS — The Austin-based quartet Explosions in the Sky were supposed to play under the stars a few weeks back at Annette Strauss Square in Dallas' downtown arts district but Mother Nature, in a fit of rain and wind, had other plans. Read more

Grand Prairie — Paul Simon wasted no time addressing the elephant in the room. Read more

Grand Prairie — Getting the ol' gang back together and hitting the road on a reunion tour can be a dicey proposition. Read more

Perhaps rock stardom is not all it's cracked up to be. Read more

Another Saturday night in downtown Funkytown, and I was looking for some tunes and to catch the end of the Rangers game. It was a tough call – at 8.0 we had The Villain Vanguard, and over at The Flying Saucer we had Velvet Love Box. I contemplated just sitting down in the middle of&nb... Read more

Dallas — Thick beams of light pierced the warm, womb-like darkness of the Kessler Theater as the opening notes of St. Vincent's unsettling Surgeon swirled, coalesced and cohered. Read more

Throughout director Cameron Crowe's admirably stuffed Pearl Jam Twenty, pain is a recurring motif. Read more

The torrent of local music releases continues unabated, even as the end of the year begins to float into sight. Read more

Grand Prairie — The Who, as it was in its blood-and-thunder glory days, exists now only in memory. Read more

Dallas — When talking about k.d. lang, the superlatives tend to run dry before long. Read more

On Saturday night in Funkytown, revolution was in the air – refusing to be washed out by even the unexpected and torrential downpour. Read more

Friday night was the Fort Worth Music Festival, and it seemed like there was an “after party” at every joint in town that had a PA.  For me, the only game in town was The Wherehouse, where Jeff Dazey’s new project, Gunga Galunga, was perfor... Read more

FORT WORTH -- The split was subtle but noticeable. Read more

It's the last Saturday of the month -- time again to bring on The Good Show Live Music Series concert at Lola's in Fort Worth, sponsored by KTCU's The Good Show and DFW.com. Tony Diaz and Tom Urquha... Read more

It's September in Funkytown, and while the weather is cooling off, the Where House, an unexpectedly popular nonbar venue in an industrial building right on the tracks, is heating up. Read more

DALLAS — Unless you're a fan of techno, the whole Deadmau5 thing probably has scurried right by you. Read more

"Best, finest surgeon/Come cut me open," croons Annie Clark, not long into her third album as St. Vincent. Read more

For the past couple of years, Tom Urquhart and Tony Diaz of KTCU/88.7's The Good Show have been an integral part of the Mambo's webcast. The show, which features local musical acts, is broadcast live over the Internet from Mambo's Cantina on Houston Street and is hoste... Read more

Dallas — The tears began flowing midway through Bon Iver's set Monday night. Read more

Dallas — "I'm a 28-year-old self-made millionaire," said Lil Wayne, by way of introduction Saturday night. (He also allowed, jokingly, that he was "an a------.") Read more

Normally, it's a hard choice to make as to which show to go to on a given weekend. Funkytown is chock-full of good places to hear great music, and you just can't go to all of them. But last weekend, there was only one place that a local music freak like myself would want to be. We're talking the ... Read more

It was the last Saturday of the month. That means it was time for The Good Show Live Music Series concert at Lola's in Fort Worth, sponsored by KTCU's The Good Show and DFW.com. No need to debate my... Read more

With all the venues located along West Seventh Street in Fort Worth, why would anyone go to a cigar shop like Pop's Safari for live music? Read more

We may have gotten a slight break from the heat, but you could barely tell walking in Sundance Square on Saturday night. Between the crowds no doubt wanting to take advantage of the relatively cooler temperatures, and the unforgiving humidity, well, some of us went running right back indoors. Read more

The mystery surrounding most actors-turned-musicians' albums -- can they really sing? -- has already been dissipated for Jeff Bridges. After all, the 61-year-old thespian bagged an Oscar for his portrayal of washed-up country singer "Bad" Blake in 2009's Crazy Heart, a... Read more

I'd been hearing about this band, this unholy mixture of hip-hop and hillbilly music, for a long time now. Last Saturday night, the stars finally aligned properly, and I found myself over on Seventh Street at The Wild Rooster to hear Fish Fry Bingo. Read more

I did something with Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne I haven’t done with any rap album in a long, long time. Read more