Christina Aguilera

The Best Shows at SXSW This Year

This year Rocks Off and DC-9 at Night, the music blog at our sister paper Dallas Observer, teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. John Fogerty: Creedence Clearwater Revival survivor John Fogerty gets overlooked as a riff-happy rocker, with most people concen ... More >>

We Tell You Who Will Win Grammys So You Don't Have To Watch Them

SPOILER ALERT​The best thing about the annual Grammy nominations and awards shows is the clamor of anger that rises up when the mere mention of the event even comes up. Immediately people begin calling it a travesty, trotting out all the people who have been snubbed -- Jethro Tull beats Metall ... More >>

Five Curiosities from the Grammy Nominations List

The Grammy nominations were officially presented last night. Not surprisingly, Adele, who is considered a front runner in nearly every category she is nominated in, cleaned up with six nominations for her album 21, but was beaten out by Kanye West who had seven, though curiously not among them a nod ... More >>

From Bad to Worse: Dallas Gives Michael Vick a Key to the City

Dallas honors Michael Vick, for some unfathomable reason​It has not been an easy week for the city of Dallas. It started with a "once in twenty years"-ish, weeklong snow and ice storm during the one week that Dallas could least afford a snow and ice storm. It continued with sheets of said ... More >>

Country Cool

A Gourd goes gospel

Top 10 "Girls Gone Wild" Music Videos

​Saturday night, Girls Gone Wild will be at Scout Bar in Clear Lake looking for the hottest talent the Bay Area has to offer, or something comparable. A camera crew will be out there filming an edition of the video series, looking for "The Hottest Girl In America" at the venerable NASA-area ro ... More >>

Courtney's Revenge

Nobody's Daughter propels Hole into the 21st century.

B.B. King Sure Has a Lot of Friends

Is there anyone who doesn't love B.B. King? If you're talking about the 83-year-old bluesman's fellow musicians, the answer is a resounding "No!" King has probably sat in with with more players (and vice versa) than anybody else save perhaps Willie Nelson, with whom of course King has teamed up co ... More >>

John Royal's Astros Recap. In Song.

Some Kind of Wonderful

Cheyenne James and her "big girl" voice

Quack, Quack

Raquel Serenil on ducks, music and Ronald Reagan

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Feelings, Nothing But Feelings

The New York Times misses the point in its attack on "rockism"

Monster Mash-up

DJs Z-Trip and P deliver one of the first album-length mash-ups

I'm Not Dreaming of a White Christmas

No snow and no Bing for Racket

Dark Riders

The good, the bad and the ugly rock-star performance contracts

Hoochie Hoochie, Ya-Yas, Ta-Tas

Less is more in Fanny LaFaye's Blue Burlesque

Ballads Nuevo

Corridos get updated with drugs and guns

Ransom Notes

Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

Rap Shoah

Two Houston rappers use their Jewish heritage to define their toughness