Minc Closes For Three-Week Repaving

According to Minc Lounge’s myspace page, the city has forced the club to repave its parking lot. That will shutter the club through April 25, according to the site. Which seems like an awfully long time to shut down for a repaving job. Does it really take three weeks to…

UNT Puts Record Collection On Ebay

Got more than $2,500 to spend on a big, big surprise for yourself? The University of North Texas is selling an unsorted collection of more than 11,900 vinyl records. The only thing the listing fails to describe is just what kind of records these are, though classical and/or jazz would…

Today In Music News: Some Group Releases Chris Brown Diss Track, Kings of Leon Almost Didn’t Release ‘Sex on Fire’, Lily Allen Puts Up With Lohan and Arcade Fire Teams With Pitchfork TV

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 6, 2009…A hip-hop group named Smoke Jumpers has released a Chris Brown diss track. It’s not that surprising–it’s all part of “Hip-Hop 101” on how to raise your profile. I mean, did you ever hear of them before this? Didn’t…

Ugh… The One Night I Don’t Go To Lotus…

Ohmigawd, guys. Ohmigawd.These pictures of Ms. Britney Spears after-partying it up at McKinney Avenue ultralounge Lotus post-her American Airlines Center performance on Tuesday night are just now making their rounds around the web today.And… like, ohmigawd, guys… from the looks of things, it went pretty much exactly like her show…

Faux Fox Frontman George Quartz Offers Up Three Free Solo Tracks

Over on his La Maladie Tropicale blog, charismatic Faux Fox frontman George Quartz has offered up three solo tracks for download: an instrumental track called “Butterscotch”; a simple but catchy dance track called “Pentagram,” and a short, somewhat bittersweet female-sung (don’t know by whom, though) organ-synth jaunt called “Theme From…

Smile Smile Shares In-Studio Video

That’s the duo above, in the studio with producer Dave Castell and drummer Mark Reznicek (drummer for Smile Smile labelmates the Toadies), tweaking a few tunes as they finish the record. Want more? Follow the band on its recording blog…

Spirits Were High At Last Night’s Listening Room Grand Opening…

The most common reaction to The Listening Room’s grand opening last night? Head shaking. Not because people disapproved of the room’s decor or its layout or, really, anything having to do with the room’s re-model at all. Rather, the head shaking seemed more a sentiment of disbelief than anything. Many…

Gig Alert: The Listening Room at Club Dada’s Grand Opening

As I wrote in my column for this week’s paper (in select newsstands now!), Club Dada co-owner Ben Tapia and I talk about some of the upcoming renovations coming to Club Dada. But tonight in the venue’s newly renovated, former green room space, the club is hosting the grand opening…

Download: Three New Tracks From Red Monroe

Yeah, it’s already been mentioned elsewhere, but it’s worth spreading around some more, I think: If you head over to Red Monroe’s website, you can download–for free–three brand-new, very different Red Monroe tracks. And they’re worth checking out: “Eastern PA” features a vocoder (I think), plus some distant choruses for…

Bonus MP3: The King Bucks — “Autumn Leaves”

Last week, Ms. Merritt Martin reviewed the debut disc from the greatest (and only) band currently holding down Adair’s on Monday nights. And, in it, Merritt had this much to say:It’s not quite as gritty as the Bucks’ live show, but, in the end, the band’s debut is at once…

Bosque Brown Gets Its Baby Pitchforked…

Over on Pitchfork this morning, Bosque Brown finds itself getting reviewed and such. The good news? Unlike the band’s friends in the Theater Fire, Mara Lee Miller and Co. didn’t have to wait seven months to get the treatment.The bad? Well… it’s a 4.6. And, uh, it’s not one of…