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 going outside of its normal realm of comfort lines: Idol Records is announcing the addition of a new sub-label to its family: It boasts no new signees--yet--but its called Exploding Pla
This week's winner was designed by The Crash That Took Me singer (and newly appointed Exploding Plastic Records head honcho) Dylan Silvers. Along with Silvers' post-DARYL band, the lineup for Friday's Christmas Toy Drive at Sons of Hermann Hall lineup features local
favorites Centro-matic, Radiant and Little Black Dress along with DJ
Cee Pee. As he did with the artwork for Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes, Silvers created this poster with marker and watercolor. Hopefully the poster's bright abstract s
Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label head Dylan Silvers (of The Crash That Took Me) had hinted to us on the down-low a few weeks back: The label's first signing is Toby Pipes' (of Deep Blue Something) and Nolan Thies' (who collaborated with Pip
This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.
Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat
