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In his spare time, when he’s not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel girlfriends, habitual drug abuser Pete Doherty makes music. But he really hasn’t recorded anything worth listening to since the Libertines completed their second album three years ago—right around the time Doherty’s life fell into the…

The paradigm of the willowy, sensitive artist remains both endlessly false and eternally true. That’s why Nick Drake can sell Volkswagens and cut to the essence of human loneliness with the very same tune. He so successfully taps into fragile psyches and souls that Fruit Tree—a 28-year-old boxed set that…

Stevie Wonder’s first U.S. tour this millennium is bound to disappoint. That’s because the R&B legend has enjoyed so many hits and has so much beloved material, it’s impossible to fit it all into a single evening. Nevertheless, those left wishing Wonder had dusted off classics such as “Knocks Me…

University of Texas sophomore quarterback Colt McCoy (12) looks to pass the ball downfield in the first half. (Aaron M. Sprecher)Like you, the DC-9 crew spent the holiday weekend in a fairly traditional manner — turkey with the family, shopping with the masses (though, we didn’t pull that 4 a.m…

Once again, the weather is spotty in Tarrant County for the weekend. Best guess: Icy roads are preventing funny from rolling into town. Stay warm and dry with comedy goodness in Addison and Dallas. Friday I didn’t know Robert Hawkins was local because he’s too damned successful to hang around…

Wanda KingBlues fans have a chance to help those railroaded by the justice system this Saturday at the Innocence Project of Texas’s DNA Blues Ball, a concert to raise funds for crucial DNA testing related to Innocence Project cases. DNA tests can cost $2,000 to $5,000, says Innocence Project President…

It’s Thanksgiving, folks, and during the tryptophan hangover, there’s something we all need to do. No, we don’t need to reflect again on the Pilgrims gettin’ their maize on or how to enslave an otherwise free-spirited and lesser-clothed people. Instead, we need to give proper thanks for some musical releases…

Flip to the entry for Sweden in the encyclopedia and the description sounds almost utopian: phenomenal public schools, impossibly low crime rates and a universal health care system that could silence Michael Moore. At first listen, the music of Peter Björn and John, the country’s freshly minted indie-rock poster boys,…

No one likes to piss off a rock god, but oral histories thrill most when they’re packed with gossipy first-person accounts. The author of The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting, Jim Walsh, wrote about the Minneapolis scene for years and has such depth of feeling for band leader Paul…

Tori Amos is now on tour supporting American Doll Posse, her best CD in years. It’s the piano-playing singer-songwriter’s 10th studio album—if you count the record she made with Y Kant Tori Read, a cringe-inducing hair-rock band she formed in Los Angeles at the end of the ’80s. On American…

The first lyric on Jimmy Eat World’s album Chase This Light is a very self-assured—if not presumptuous—one-word imperative: “Stay.” But an enormous wall of distorted guitars then sucker punches the listener, just before a raucous burst of power drill-buzzing guitars bolts one to the chair. (In other words, vocalist/songwriter Jim…

American Gangster is considerably better than 2006’s lackluster Kingdom Come, if only because it returns Jay-Z to his criminal comfort zone. However, it still falls short of his finest material. The disc feels more like the sort of Hollywood production that inspired it—a star vehicle assembled by skilled craftsmen—than the…

This latest effort by Mexico’s supreme “rock en español” group will grow on you, but that’s not necessarily a ringing endorsement. Café Tacuba made their name by fusing Latin American rhythms with American pop-punk sensibilities, but los tacubos have ditched their Mexican heritage in favor of shiny, shimmering music. While…

Now hailing from Austin (always the hippest and most malodorous Texas locale), the Frontier Brothers started out in Fort Worth, where they first concocted their danceable and harmonious indie pop. Inspired by David Bowie, ELO, Wilco and Ben Folds, as unlikely (and unattractive) a collection of artists as one is…

Led by brothers Milind (Mel) and Neil Parekh, Love Minus Zero is another band that is just sort of local. Mel’s daytime job is in Dallas, and Neil resides in Houston, while bassist Akaash Sharma and drummer Evan Spaulding hail from Austin. The quartet met while attending UT more than…

For the sake of hard-hitting journalism, last night I put my wits and pride to the test on my first game show. Well, make that “game show.” And while dreams of winning the ultimate prize of $500 battled against my moral dilemma of ethically accepting the cash, I really just…