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BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE A teenager in Texas got busted for carving his name into his girlfriend's head -- this after he allegedly beat her to a pulp. The alleged scumbag is 19-year-old Jackub Hildreth, who was arrested and booked in San Antonio this weekend for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon ... having allegedly attacked his 22-year-old girlfriend on Thursday at an apartment complex in the area. The alleged victim spoke with KSAT about the incident ... telling the outlet she thought she was going to die in the moment. According to the arrest affidavit, she reportedly told cops Hildreth held her by the neck and punched her 10 times after an argument escalated. After that, she claims he used a knife to etch his name across her forehead ... and then fled the scene. We won't name the woman, but it appears Hildreth has her name tattooed across his own face ... plus other scribblings. Kinda David McCall-esque, if you've seen "Fear." BTW, the guy has a lengthy rap sheet … [Read more...] about Texas Teen Arrested for Carving Name Into Girlfriend’s Forehead

There’s a common misconception that Willie Nelson is a country artist. To see him live is to realize country is only a fraction of his musical repertoire, which encompasses almost every form of American music. At a Willie show, country shares equal ground with improvisational jazz, jam band rock, standards and a generous helping of the blues. So the fact that he decided to record a full-on blues album, Milk Cow Blues (due Sept. 19 on Island Records), is less surprising than the fact that it’s taken him so long to get around to it. “I always wanted to do a blues album,” Nelson explains on his bus half an hour after his performance at the Newport Folk Festival. “But I knew how important it was to do it right and to have the right musicians in there and to have really good authentic blues players.” Living outside of Austin, Tex., Nelson had little trouble rounding up capable blues hounds. “There’s the greatest blues musicians in the world … [Read more...] about Willie Nelson Gets the Blues

The desk man at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Holiday Inn shook his head when I asked for Willie Nelson. “Got no Willie Nelsons today.” He turned away officiously and resumed cleaning his fingernails with a Holiday Inn matchbook. He was about as encouraging as my cab driver had been: “You goin’ to see Willie Nelson? Man, he was a no-show last week. They had ta haul that Wet Willie in; he play instead. You see Willie Nelson, you tell him for me, ‘Man, you die fast in this town.’ “ I went back to the Holiday Inn desk man: “See here, I was really looking for the party of Fast Eddie and the Electric Japs.” “Well, goddamnit, why dincha say so.” He started thumbing through registration forms: “Lemme see, Mr. Eddie ain’t here yet, but Mr. Snake is, Mr. Poodie is, Mr. Beast is . . . “ “Okay, gimme Snake’s room number.” Poodie, who is Willie’s road manager, and Beast, his cook and … [Read more...] about Willie Nelson: Holy Man of the Honky Tonks

It would go down in history as rock & roll’s Tour From Hell: the Winter Dance Party of 1959 that took place exactly 50 winters ago in February. As their heat-deprived yellow converted Baptist-school tour bus went slipping and sliding in subarctic temperatures along the ice-laced highways of the Upper Midwest, a dozen shivering young musicians inside whiled away the hours huddling under blankets, catnapping, cardplaying, storytelling and making music together on acoustic guitars. Among the riders were the 22-year-old Buddy Holly, one of the radiant lights of 1950s rock & roll, from Lubbock, Texas; the 17-year-old Ritchie Valens, a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, from California’s San Fernando Valley; the 19-year-old Dion DiMucci (better known as Dion) and the Belmonts — soon to rise to the top of the charts with “A Teenager in Love” — from the Bronx; and the 28-year-old group elder, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, a … [Read more...] about The Last Days of Buddy Holly

Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell (born Darrell Abbott) was shot dead at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, last night. Soon after the band began playing, a gunman charged the stage and began firing at the band and into the crowd. Three others were killed before a police officer fatally shot the gunman. Abbott, 38, was formerly a member of Texas thrash metal giants Pantera. The shooter — identified as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, Ohio — dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey, jumped onstage at about 10 p.m., just as Damageplan were beginning their first song. Gale then shot Abbott in the chest five or six times at close range and then turned his gun on the crowd of hundreds. Among those killed were fan Nathan Bray, 23, and Erin Halk, 29, who was either a fan or band employee — the third victim and two wounded, currently at Riverside Methodist Hospital, have not yet been named. District patrol officer James D. Niggemeyer, 31, responded within … [Read more...] about Dimebag Darrell Killed