Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…at Dada? (Tessa Angus) Looks like Dada’s keeping up on its promise to “create an A-plus venue, a kickass place for live music”–at least on the booking side of things. If you head on over to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Myspace page, you’ll see something of interest…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Label Idol Records Kirtland Records Good Records Gutterth Records TXMF Records An interesting competition, as one seems on here just because of name recognition and…
…so says this here somewhat-NSFW video: And since I clearly wasn’t around when Red Jacket and its Ruby Room were still rocking the shit, hosting secret shows and generally being awesome (or so I’m told), I’ll just let the press release do the talking for me. Check it after the…
We’ve been keeping you up to date on Fat Pimp, the Warner Bros.-signed local hip-hop product who’s been scorching the airwaves of K104 (104.5 KKDA-FM) all summer long with his song “Rack Daddy,” which implores you to dance along with him and, well, “do the Rack Daddy.” Sure, but how?…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Record Store CD World Recycled Books Strawberry Fields Bill’s Records Good Records The good news: No Best Buys, Walmarts, iTunes or Amazons here, thank God…
‘Cause Tom Petty’s a good boy, loves his mama, loves Jesus, and America, too, he and the rest o’ the Heartbreakers are launching a ticket auction for the front row seats at shows in their upcoming tour (which includes a stop at Superpages.com Center on August 27). And the proceeds…
[Finally, an excuse to post a clip from Boogie Nights…] Earlier this summer we had Boston/Styx. The Journey/Cheap Trick/Heart trio is coming in a few weeks. And squeezed in between is Night Ranger, a band that tortured me so much in the early ’80s that I think the song “Sister…
And, uh, they sure look happy to be there, eh guys? Um… The seven-and-2/3-page piece is basically a primer of the Old 97’s’ history leading up to this point in its career, with Blame It On Gravity, which also happens to be the band’s best-charting release (its currently sitting at…
Better than fireworks? Maybe. (N. Zinner) Kids, barbecue and fireworks displays kept me at home this Independence Day, but if I hadn’t been such a dedicated homebody, I would have gotten my ass up to Denton and checked out Imaad Wasif at Hailey’s. Wasif is a Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter best known…
We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians work together,…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Cover/Tribute Act – Hard Night’s Day – The King Bucks – Holy Diver – Black and Blue – Boys Named Sue Like the Best Song…
Interesting stuff, if only as an eyebrow-raiser, since I’m fairly certain that no one who reads this blog is actually interested in listening to these songs, but it should be noted that Dallas’ own Jessica Simpson and Demi Lovato are respectively sitting at Nos. 65 and 9 on this week’s…
Local experimental/neo-classical ensemble Quintet for the End of Time has just come out of the studio with a bevy of Zappa-esque compositions nearly ready for public consumption. “Our new material should be mixed next week,” says Kevin Hanlon, leader of the group. The 55-year-old SMU music professor is excited about…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Song – “Slow Southern Home” by Doug Burr – “Julianne” by The Crash That Took Me – “Parking Lot Nights” by Ghosthustler – “Maths” by…
The opening–and perhaps crowning–jewel on Burr’s Best Album-nominated On Promenade, “Slow Southern Home” is all about setting the scene for Burr’s storytelling. And, yeah, it works. To the point where you think you’re sitting on your front porch when you listen. Check it out after the jump. –Pete Freedman…
No other song on The Crash That Took Me’s Best Album-nominated disc, Orchestrated Kaleidescopes, better exemplifies the sound of this collective of music scene vets than “Julianne.” That sound? Big. Beautiful, too. Check it out after the jump. –Pete Freedman…
Ghosthustler’s “Parking Lot Nights” is the song that launched a thousand blog posts and, in turn, morphed this little, now-disbanded Denton-based trio into something of an overnight sensation. So there’s that. This, too: The video for “Parking Lot Nights” isn’t just good–it’s great. Listen to the song after the jump…
Like fellow Best Song nominees Doug Burr and The Crash That Took Me, Record Hop’s also up for a win in this year’s Best Album category, thanks to the success of its self-titled release. “Maths,” the second song on the disc, is a nice example of the loud, frenzied and…
Dove Hunter’s debut release, The Southern Unknown, wasn’t released in time for our nominees to hear it and give it Best Album consideration. But “The Sparrow Spooked The Crow,” one of the album’s songs, is well-known around these parts anyway, thanks to its constant presence on the band’s Myspace page…
Just came across an interesting Myspace bulletin from The Fieros (formerly The Valentines), who recently left town for the bright lights of New York City. First, the band mentions that it’ll be heading out on a California swing later this month to showcase its tunes and shop them around a…
Doug Burr (Brian Harkin) In this week’s paper, Dave Sims uses his North of the Dial column to discuss the recording process for Doug Burr’s upcoming psalms-inspired effort. And on this past Saturday night at AllGood Cafe, Burr (and friends) went ahead and performed the results from those sessions. But…
Denton noisemakers Zanzibar Snails got quite a nice write-up in The Wire, a U.K. magazine specializing in avant garde music. In his review of their Krakkatowiak 3” CD on Mayyrh, Byron Coley called the band “one of the region’s more interesting units” (heh) and compared its sound to The Dead…
