Forever the Sickest Kids

Rolex is Not Amused by Dallas Pop-Punk Singer's Counterfeit Watch Business

Their bio on Jam Base chalks it up to a "magical combination of talent, perseverance and opportunity," but, whatever their secret, Forever the Sickest Kids has enjoyed a remarkably long run in the music business. The Dallas-based pop-punk band managed to land a major-label record deal months after i ... More >>

Balls Be Droppin'

Super Rad Records' Paul Ford: "I Recorded a Song in the Back of a Station Wagon Once"

Paul Ford spent some time playing in a couple local bands, including The London Scar. In 1997, at only 16 years old, he and a colleague formed Yuppiefest, which brought local talent to the 'burbs of Lewisville, including Bowling For Soup, The Latchkey Kids, Darlington and more. Ford claims they dona ... More >>

Nine of This Week's Most Notable Show Announcements: Swans, Crushed Stars and More

Swans, Xiu XiuSunday, September 16, at Trees, $20In 1997, post-punk act Swans went on hiatus and didn't return until 2010, when they released My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. A successful tour followed. Seems the band has settled back in nicely, as they're set to release The Seer in Aug ... More >>

Vocal Coach Linda Septien Is In the Business of Making Stars

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people behind the scenes. In 1984, Linda Septien was performing opera in Italy. Inspired, she flew to Nashville to do her own recordings. "You suck," the producer told her. "You have no feeling at all." She put the brakes on and decided ... More >>

Giveaway: One Pair of VIP Tickets to the Fourth Annual Unsilent Night Music Festival

The mall punk scene is still going strong here in Dallas, and Saturday, December 10, marks the fourth annual Unsilent Night Music Festival, put on by ZH Entertainment and Third String Productions. Anyone who has been to any of these mall punk shows in recent years knows  that they are not small ... More >>

Music Video Monday: New Clips From The O's, The Wooden Birds and Forever The Sickest Kids

Back in February, just as revered area folk-rock duo The O's were gearing up to release Between The Two, their much-anticipated second release, Taylor Young and John Pedigo released a music video for their album's lead single, "We'll Go Walking." The clip, we were told at the time, was to be just t ... More >>

Video Explosion: Centro-matic, Selena Gomez, Virgin Wolves and Four Others Release Clips

One small step for local music. One giant leap for local music videos.​Can't really pin down a specific reason for this, but there sure have been a lot of local music video releases in the past few weeks. Good ones, too, and featuring bands that run the entire local gamut. There's a new Centro-mat ... More >>

News and Notes: Seryn Gets More Paste Love, Will Johnson Gets NPR'd and Much, Much More

Stand up and take a bow, Seryn.​Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year's best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton's Own Seryn's album, This Is Where We Are. The baroque ... More >>

Dallas Native Ryan Cabrera Is Back, Promises Press Release Promoting Ryan Cabrera

Ry-guy​ Ryan Cabrera is a dude who was born in the Dallas area who used to date Ashlee Simpson and got signed to her father Joe Simpson's management company and made something of a blip on the national pop culture radar in 2004, when his song "On The Way Down" started blowing up Total Request Live ... More >>

Governor Rick Perry Plays Swords With Forever The Sickest Kids?

Governor Rick Perry with Forever The Sickest Kids' Jonathan Cook and Austin Bello.​I guess Rick Perry isn't just pro-gun; turns out he's also pro-sword. Or so we can glean from the above photo, which also indicates that he might be pro-mall-punk, too. Yes, that's Jonathan Cook and Austin Bello of ... More >>

Forever The Sickest Kids

Forever The Sickest Kids (Universal Motown)

Q&A: Forever The Sickest Kids' Jonathan Cook Talks About Finally Having The Time To Make The Record His Band Wanted With Its Latest.

​A funny thing happened last week when Dallas pop-punk outfit Forever The Sickest Kids released their self-titled, second full-length album -- namely, that the response to the album was huge, with sales figures placing the band's album in the iTunes top 10 sales chart almost immediately. Even more ... More >>

Eisley and Forever The Sickest Kids Both Release New Albums Today -- And One Of Them Has Already Cracked iTunes' Top 10...

​ If only from a commercial standpoint, today figures to be one of the bigger local release dates of the years, thanks to new albums from Eisley and Forever the Sickest Kids, both of which have formally released new LPs today. And, well, that much you should already know, as we've been following t ... More >>

Forever The Sickest Kids Release Album Teaser For New, Self-Titled Album

...now with one less Kid!​Seems some changes are in store for local mall punk heroes Forever The Sickest Kids, who have a new, self-titled record coming out on March 1, their third for Universal Motown and their second full-length in total. Mainly, like other some other, notable mall-punkers befor ... More >>

More Super Bowl Weekend Shows Pop Up As Kid Rock, Jason Derulo, Others Announce Gigs

​Seems Maroon 5 isn't the only act coming to town during Super Bowl weekend, as the Big Game comes to North Texas on February 6. Unfortunately, though, as of now, they still appear as if they're the only ones throwing a free show for all to attend. A few more Super Bowl weekend concerts were annou ... More >>

Good Friday: Black Friday Edition

Eisley​If you've already picked up a copy of this weeks Dallas Observer, you might have noticed our music feature on Tyler band Eisley, who will be in town at The Loft on Saturday night with Ives The Band, and Christie DuPree. The story sheds light on the ups and downs that the band has experience ... More >>

Even In The Face Of All These Suburban Efforts To Go Indie, Mall Punk Rages On...

​Once upon a time--a whole 14 months ago--if you were in the suburbs and listening to music, chances were you were listening to mall punk.These days, though, that's a little different, thanks to the efforts of the folks in Frisco, Carrollton and Grand Prairie.But lest you thought that spelled the ... More >>

Picture Show: Bamboozle Road Show at Six Flags

Rachel ParkerYou know your remember Hanson.​Headliners Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Forever the Sickest Kids and Good Charlotte played Six Flags in Arlington as part of a five-city tour in the Summer heat on Saturday.Was that it? Nope. Girls swarmed, threw signed bras on stage, and Hanson played ... More >>

Good Friday: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

​Every year around this time, Brutal Juice dusts off the old instruments and reunites for a weekend of area shows. This weekend, They, along with a re-charged Baboon, will be playing at Dan's Silverleaf on Friday, and on Saturday they'll be at Trees.But even without a Brutal Juice reunion, there's ... More >>

The Bamboozle Roadshow

Saturday, May 29, at Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington

In The Backyard, At The Mall

Listen: Forever The Sickest Kids Cover "Crazy Train" For Punk Goes Classic Rock.

​Today marks the release of Punk Goes Classic Rock, the ninth installment of Fearless Records' Punk Goes... cover songs series since its inception with 2000's Punk Goes Metal. Back then, it wasn't too shabby a concept; the original disc that boasted names like Strung Out, The Ataris, New Found Glo ... More >>

Watch: Forever The Sickest Kids -- "She Likes (Bittersweet Love)"

So, uh, this above music video came out today. I pretty much don't understand a single thing about it--or how in the world Pat Summerall got involved. But, hey, I guess I'm not Forever the Sickest Kids' target demo.

Good Friday: Shapes Stars Make, The Slack, Forever The Sickest Kids, The Slow Burners, Bobby Fisha, Telegraph Canyon, Nicholas Altobelli, Daniel Folmer, Coot Out, RTB2 and This Old House

We do what we like, and we like what we do.​Many apologies for the slow blog day today--hell the slow blog week, really. Things have been especially hectic this week, for reasons I won't bore you with. On the promising front, though, the weekend is here--and when the work-week kicks back up on Mon ... More >>

Check Forever The Sickest Kids' Apple-Approved "What Do You Want From Me?"

That above clip right there just so happens to be the latest video from area mall punk kings Forever The Sickest Kids, featuring the song "What Do You Want From Me?" from the band's recently released EP, The Weekend: Friday, part of the three-pronged EP attack the band will be unleashing over the c ... More >>

Watch: Disco Curtis's New Video for "Ashley"

The local mall punk scene? Not in danger of dying, folks. Not any time soon, at least. Look no further than Dallas' own Disco Curtis for the proof. The band just released the above video for its song "Ashley," and, for a brief moment on Saturday afternoon, it was the most-watched video on MySpace, b ... More >>

Picture Show: Texas High School Rock Off at the House of Blues

Danny FulgencioIn the crowd at the House of Blues during Fly Away Hero's set Friday night.​Hundreds of hormonal teens and adoring parents rocked out to eleven local high school bands at the first annual Texas High School Rock Off at the House of Blues on Friday night.With industry professionals (l ... More >>

Tracklist: The Local Hang With Playlister P, Vol. 4

This comes up when you google "local hang." Go figure.​Kind of a crazy night last night at The Libertine for the fourth go 'round of the once-a-month local music love-fest we're still calling The Local Hang with Playlister P. It featured the biggest crowd we've seen to date, for one. And it was a ... More >>

Picture Show: Looking Back On The Best Concert Photos of 2009

Dylan Hollingsworth​ Our intrepid web editor, Patrick Michels, has gone ahead and done us all a solid, putting together this slideshow of the best concert photos we took way back in the year 2009. From St. Vincent (see above) to Forever the Sickest Kids and everything in between, the 60-picture se ... More >>

Today's Sign of The Apocalypse: In Case You Missed It, Forever The Sickest Kids Performed at Halftime During the Lions-Packers Thanksgiving Day Game. Watch it.

OK, so it's less a Forever The Sickest Kids performance and more of a performance from just frontman Jonathan Cook, as the rest of the Dallas-based pop-punk sextet goofs off behind him alongside a few other guests. But, true enough, as promised, there FTSK was taking part in the Motown-themed halft ... More >>

The Rocket Summer Preps New EP, Announces Full-Length For Early 2010

Bryce Avary​Grapvine's own The Rocket Summer--or pretty much the person we all have to thank for the success that all the mall-punk acts of the region have been having in recdent years--dropped some big news earlier this week, announcing two new records set for release in the near future. Later th ... More >>

Forever The Sickest Kids Starts Recording Its Sophomore Release Today...

In news that is sure to make the thousands of concert-going Plano teens go bonkers, scene-driving local mall punk act Forever the Sickest Kids has announced that it has started work on its new, sophomore record today.In interviews held over the course of research for this week's cover story, the ba ... More >>

Suburban tweeners rock out to mall punk, DFW's hottest musical export. No, really.

Forever The Sickest Kids Collaborate With Selena Gomez... For A Remix? (Uh-Huh.)

Since Disney teen star Selena Gomez is apparently all about promoting local produce (seen her Borden milk commercials yet?), I guess we can return the favor and mention this: The Grand Prairie native has joined forces with her fellow Dallas suburbanites in Forever the Sickest Kids to record a remix ... More >>

"Hmmm. Then It's Not Just A Clever Name...?"

Weird news out of Forever the Sickest Kids camp this week, as the band has been forced to cancel a string of shows because... um, well, this is a little awkward... ok, let's just say it... because guitarist Marc Stewart caught the swine flu. Stop laughing, guys, this is serious. Not some unfortunat ... More >>

Green River Ordinance To Flow Down The Hills Tonight

Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram has word today that Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance will see its song "Outside" air on tonight's episode of MTV's The Hills. And, actually, that makes perfect sense, wouldn't you know?This placement further continues the region's serious pwnage of the drama ... More >>

Distant Gig Alerts: Air Guitar Tournament and Vans Warped Tour Lineup

Dallas' own Forever the Sickest Kids are headlining this year's Warped Tour.Oh my, what a summer it's going to be. Last year, Pete and I got ferociously booed at US Air Guitar Regional Tournament at the House of Blues because we didn't buy into some of the acts' hype. Oh well. Even so, I must admit ... More >>

Q&A: Third String Productions' Mike Ziemer Talks South By So What, Not Killing Deep Ellum

On Saturday at the Plano Centre, Mike Ziemer's Third String Productions will throw its annual South by So What!? event--a deal that's become something of a tradition. But it's not the only show Ziemer puts on every year. At just 23 years of age, he's booked thousands of bands on hundreds of shows--m ... More >>

The Biggest Stories in North Texas Music, Circa 2008

In a year that saw Ozzy, the Jonases and The New York Times storm through North Texas, which area music stories will go down as the most important of 2008?

Matthew and The Arrogant Sea Gets Some More Love...

Barn sides are the new brick walls. (Trevor Paulhus)Nope, we're definitely not the only ones digging MATAS' Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian disc. Just spotted this little bit o' love today: AWMusic, the Toronto-based blog that gave Forever the Sickest Kids some love in its year-end li ... More >>

Picture Show: Unsilent Night 2 at the Plano Centre

Photographer Caity Colvard braved the Plano Centre yesterday for some quality time at the second Unsilent Night Festival, headlined by Forever the Sickest Kids and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and attended by a whole lot of actual kids, too.Shots of local acts Red Car Wire and Sky Eats Airplane (and pl ... More >>

Junior Circuit

There exists a world much like our own where emo pop-punk acts reign supreme over the Dallas music scene

Vans Warped Tour Sets Dallas Line-up. First Impression? Lackluster!

The Door's 10-year Anniversary Show

Friday, May 30, at The Door

Over The Weekend: Forever The Sickest Kids and Saturday Night Skate Jam

Post-Memorial Day Video Hangover

Free Forever The Sickest Kids CD Release Show Tickets

Bits: New Gazelles Songs, SPIN Digs Smile Smile and Shorelines End

Video: Boys like both Girls and Forever the Sickest Kids