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Roger Caldwell sent dozens of excellent photos from Saturday's Ozzfest. It was tough to narrow it down to a manageable number, but we've finally picked out a few of our favorites for this slideshow.

Music editor Pete Freedman has been out of town, so the duty of covering the show fell to me. I don't want to steal my own thunder by recapping the show before Thursday's issue hits the stands, so I'll just say that it exceeded my dismally low expectations. In fact, I had a really good time. Judging by these pictures, I wasn't the only one. --Jesse Hughey

The Granada Theater marquis tells it like it is. (Hal Samples)

OK, folks, let's put a bow on this sucker. if you wanna see even more photos of our DOMA showcase and awards show, go here, where Hal Samples has gone ahead and uploaded like a million bajillion photos from the events.

And, if you're one of the people who has been pestering us about the backdropped photos Hal took at his booth at the Granada during the ceremony, well, they start on page 17 of the 27 (!) page-long thumbnail gallery. --Pete Freedman

Wasn't able to make it to Sons on Saturday night to see Apples in Stereo play the homey Deep Ellum venue.

(Total sidenote: It's a nice venue, but I don't get why everyone's always so up in arms over-the-top crazy about the place. Are people just really big Marty McFly fans around here or something? 'Cause this is all I can think about whenever I see a show there. Am I alone on this?)

Heard good things about the show, though. Saw 'em, too, courtesy of freelance photographer Nathaniel Ng, who kindly passed along a couple pics from the show (including the one above, and the fother five after the jump). Check 'em out. --Pete Freedman

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Bridges and Blinking Lights' Jake Wilganowski. (Hal Samples)

So, yeah, Saturday night was a grand time, folks. Good music, good people, good everything, really. Hell, there was even something of a flash-mob pillow fight at one point.

Revel in the debauchery with our two slideshow recaps of the night--one in color, and one in black and white--from Hal Samples and crew.

Enjoy. --Pete Freedman

Hal Samples snapped some shots of Mount Righteous for us...

You had plenty o' options to choose from this past weekend, but it seems like a good deal of you--as seen in this slideshow from Hal Samples--chose Mount Righteous' performance at Space for your entertainment needs. Click the link, and maybe you'll see yourself amongst the smiling masses. --Pete Freedman

Slow Roosevelt. From about nine years ago? (Denny Doran)

Jeff Liles has had his hand in the Dallas music scene for the better part of 20 years now, and we can thank the fairly impressive catalog he's amassed over at his History of Dallas Music Myspace page for this slideshow.

It's a collection of photographs taken by local photographer Denny Doran 'bout 10 years back (give or take) in the Deep Ellum scene. And, man will it make you jealous that those times are long gone. You'll see pictures of Brutal Juice, Funland, The Rev., and a few others, too (not to mention the hilarious Slow Roosevelt picture seen above.)

And here's the most impressive part: According to Liles, these are from film used a decade back that only just now got developed. So, they ain't been seen before, folks. Uh...so, get to it, huh?

(Thanks Jeff and Denny.) --Pete Freedman