Stumbled across a couple sites this afternoon that name drop Fight Bite’s Emerald Eyes as one of the year’s tops–including this blog from Stark Magazine which drops the disc in at the No. 43 slot on its year-end Top 50. And, in other good news, Jeff Louis and Leanne Macomber’s…
Ah, the joys of year-end lists: Reading up on your own personal favorite records of the year, seeing where they rank on others’ lists, finding out what others’ thoughts on those discs are…Well, OK, sometimes it’s not that easy.Today, a blog called Secretly Belgian checks in to name Centro-matic/South San…
Chat Room Pub barkeep Ben Rogers (on the left in the inserted picture, with owner Brad Hensarling) just updated the schedule for the bar and occasional music venue. Booked so far for 2009 are headliners History at Our Disposal, Musee Mecanique, Mount Righteous, “Danny Doyle” (I’d guess that means Daniel…
Considering that I’ve only seen eight of the 25 artists mentioned in MTV’s year-end best albums list (Kanye West, Lil Wayne, No Age, Death Cab, Vampire Weekend, Panic At The Disco, MGMT, Coldplay) actually have their viddeos played on MTV or sister network VH1, you’ve gotta imagine that, for 17…
We’ve been privy to the Lil’ Wayne concert for a while now, but only recently did I start hearing radio drops for it that announce who else would be sharing the stage with him: Keyshia Cole (OK), T-Pain (I can see that), and Gym Class Heroes (WTF)? Not taking anything…
Former Tripping Daisy member, Secret Machine and Dallasite Ben Curtis and his new bandmates in School of Seven Bells are at the receiving end of some fine love today from the folks at Stereogum, who are featuring SVIIB in the debut of a new video performance feature called Decomposed, in…
More proof that Brave Combo’s nothing to polk fun at (sorry): The band has been nominated for an “Annie” award, which claims to be the highest honor in animation, for the use of its “William Tell Overture” take as the theme for the PBS animated series As The Wrench Turns. In…
More proof that Centro-matic/South San Gabriel’s Dual Hawks is, truly, among the year’s best releases (as has already been implied elsewhere): The influential I Am Fuel, You Are Friends blog has included the disc in its write-up on the site’s favorite albums of the year. Sayeth IAF,YAF: “This album was…
MTV News this morning has a delightful little feature looking back on the year that was 2008–in Jonas Brothers romances. Seems Westlake’s own abstinence-pledging JoBros have had themselves quite the year in love, having been seen about town with tween music starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, among…
Still looking for that perfect gift for the music lover in your family? Well, the holiday season is traditionally a time when compilations, box sets and reissues flood the marketplace–and this year is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the surprising high quality of this year’s re-issue crop. Here…
A funny little thread over on Unfair Park this morning, surrounding the fact that the Cowboys are letting the fans choose the final song to even be played at Texas Stadium through an online poll. The screen shot above shows the mind-blowing options up for the prestigious honor, although, thankfully,…
On Saturday night, while Ian Bangs was working at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios during The Boom Boom Box, Sarah Jaffe and Astronautalis show, someone broke into the local MC/DJ’s apartment and stole his MacBook–a laptop, by the way, that Bangs is still making payments on…
MTV News’ hip-hop department has announced today it’s picks for the top 28 commercially release hip-hop singles of the year (which, I guess, means no remixes are eligible), and lookie there, right at No. 19, yep, that’s Lil Wayne’s “Got Money (feat. T-Pain)”, as produced by area hotshots Play-N-Skillz. We’ve…
Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that’s the closest you’ll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar’s Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any…
Laugh all you want at the sheer audacity of the D-Town Boogie movement, Alibaster K. Abthernabther. But the train’s already rolling–and picking up steam, too. Today comes even more proof of that fact: Them GSpot Boyz, the fellas responsible for the monster local smash dance-hit “Stanky Legg” (as seen above–with…
Rockstar Energy Drink has just announced that its fifth annual Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour will come through Dallas on Monday, March 23, at the Palladium Ballroom. The event will include (among other acts): Thursday, Bring Me The Horizon, Four Year Strong, Pierce the Veil and Cancer Bats. Hmmmmmmmmm. That…
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There’s another name to add to the list of local artists nominated for Grammys. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya is up for his work on Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago. The recording features Harth-Bedoya conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with soloist Wu Man (whose…
I’d heard a couple rumblings about some of the following items earlier in the week but, now, straight from Idol Records’ Erv Karwelis’ mouth, we can confirm them all…Idol has signed area post-punkers Here Holy Spain–a band a whole lot more aggressive than most of Idol’s mainstream-leaning acts.Along those same…
Maybe you remember a few weeks back when both Robert and I practically begged that you take the time to watch KERA’s South Dallas Pop documentary about the 1970 South Dallas Pop Festival?Well, did you watch it? I did. Thought it was kinda cool, too; learned a lot about the…
Seeing as how I spent the day yesterday apparently dressed as a fisherman from Maine, I’m hardly one to talk about fashion. But Diddy has taught us all well about the appropriateness of wearing white after Labor Day, so this bit of bad news shouldn’t come as a total shocker:…
It was only officially released in late October, but one album that I’ve found myself returning to a couple times in these waning months of 2008 is School of Seven Bell’s Alpinism.The ethereal electronic rock act School of Seven Bells–or SVIIB, as the kids apparently abbreviate the act–you’ll remember, is…
