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Dream Warriors

Don Dokken and Freddy Krueger straighten some shit out

By Robert Bishop
Feb 13, 2008

As the final notes of Don Dokken's acoustic set echo through the hall, he thanks the crowd and departs the stage. There's no doubt — Dokken's still got it, and he sees headliners Queensryche waiting in the wings to tell him so. Together, riding a high of unplugged euphoria, they...
Angst la Mode

How I became my own personal Jesus

By Robert Bishop
May 18, 2006

After perfecting my time-travel device, the Deus Ex Machina, I was ready to embark on its maiden expedition: a trip 16 years into the past to save my teenage self from the soul-crushing perils of gloomy music. Specifically, that of Depeche Mode. The destination was 1990, my freshman year of...
Avril Lavigne, with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker

Tuesday, August 16, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2025 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

By Robert Bishop
Aug 11, 2005

Britney and Kevin, Tom and Katie, and all other gratingly ubiquitous celebri-couples, please turn your attention to Avril Lavigne and Sum 41 front man Deryck Whibley. Engaged since late June, these lovestruck Canadians aren't making a big deal about being crazy stupid for each other. No paparazzi-ready affectionate outbursts of...
Sevendust and Ima Robot

Saturday, April 17

By Robert Bishop and Nathan Dinsdale
Apr 15, 2004

You know Sevendust. The white guy with blond braids who looks like the stoned offspring of Perry Farrell and Dee Snider. The black dude with the nest of chest-length dreads. The other three guys providing the chugging backdrop to the snarling and soothing vocals, yet tragically neglected by the band's...
Cowboy Mouth

Saturday, February 14

By Robert Bishop
Feb 12, 2004

Having rocked Craig Kilborn's Late Late Show last November and gotten a taste of national television exposure, it seems that Cowboy Mouth has gone junkie and started jonesing for another hit of that sweet, sweet promotional crack. Thus, the roots-influenced singing-drummer quartet (best known for "Jenny Says," from its 1996...

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