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Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Best Coast, The Octopus Project, Brad Paisley and More

Best Coast Tuesday, May 28, at Granada Theater, $24 L.A.'s surf-pop duo Best Coast blew up on everyone's radar in 2010 when they were one of the most blog-worthy bands around after releasing their debut LP Crazy for You. Then, last year they had an equally as powerful follow-up with The Only Place, ... More >>

Calexico Found Truth in A New Orleans Church

These are among the key factors that caused Tucson-based Calexico chose New Orleans to write and record Algiers, their most recent full-length album: Cancer. Cuba. Children. A Cowsill. A church. And a book--with Calexico's guitarist/singer/songwriter Joey Burns, there is often a book. "We needed t ... More >>

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Starting Next Month, SMU Will Offer a Master's Degree in Sustainability and Development

I-BEAM DESIGN​That structure you see at left is called a Pallet House, made out of ... aw, you cheated. Anyway: It was initially built in Prince Charles' Royal Gardens as part of a sustainability confab, and on Friday it'll find its way to the SMU campus, perhaps as future housing for head-coachin ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Arcade Fire and Okkervil River at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Arcade Fire, Okkervil RiverGexa Energy PavilionApril 30, 2011Better than: any other show you've seen in 2011.All photos by Sara KerensArcade Fire's Win Butler. For more photos, check out the slideshow.​More than five years have passed since Arcade Fire last played Dallas -- something of which the ... More >>

Rob Allyn Used to Run Local Politics. Now He's Making Movies in Indonesia.

Rob Allyn​Longtime observers of the local political landscape probably hear the name Rob Allyn and think of the Trinity River Corridor Project (Schutze insists it was Allyn who came up with those solar-powered water taxis), myriad mayoral campaigns, those Dubya ads attacking John McCain's environm ... More >>

New School of Seven Bells Song Included On Benefit Album For Recovery in Japan

​Musicians releasing songs to benefit those in need is not a new phenomenon -- look no further than 1985's "We Are the World" charity single, by the supergroup USA for Africa, featuring Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and strangely enough, Dan Aykroyd. And let's not forget the awesomely awful Haiti rem ... More >>

What Makes Iguana Meat Worth Smuggling?

www.jagendorf.comTastes just like...yeah, you guessed it.​The attempted iguana meat caper that unfolded yesterday at the Laredo border posed a pressing question for food enthusiasts: Just what did those confiscated iguana tamales taste like? U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized 58 pounds of ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Thrift Store Cowboys at Lochrann's, Trey Johnson at The Kessler, Haiti Benefit Concert at The Lyceum and Empress Hotel at Lola's

Pretty busy musical Thursday evening we have here, highlighted by three shows at venues that all begin with the letter "L." What are the odds?

Arbitrarily Grading The Year That Was: A Look Back At The Major Music Happenings of 2010.

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

North Texas Food Bank's Text Donation Program Falters

​Mobile giving, which was touted in the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this year as a high-tech way of invigorating philanthropy, hasn't panned out for the North Texas Food Bank. The hunger relief organization rolled out its text-to-give program this month, and has thus far collected on ... More >>

Coffee, Art or Haiti

Today In Music News: Gorillaz Come To Dallas, Rihanna Will Sink Your Battleship And 'Clef May Run For Office

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 28, 2010...Gorillaz have announced their North American tour date, and guess what? They have a Dallas date.Rihanna is going to star in the movie Battleship... based on the board game.So, Wyclef Jean may run for president of Haiti?

Show Announcements: Iron Maiden, Chicago, Doobie Brothers And Sting Coming To Dallas

Proof that Sting sucks.​Summer, that season when old farts get back in the tour bus to milk a few more million bucks out of nostalgic fans, is just around the corner, as evidenced by three big Superpages.com Center concert announcements this week. First, Iron Maiden will open its The Final Frontie ... More >>

Show Announcements: Alicia Keys and Ray Davies Plan Local Stops, And Bon Jovi Adds Second Dallas Date

We had bikini pics of Ray Davies and Bon Jovi too, but trust us, you didn't want to see them. ​Alicia Keys will be performing with Shakira and Usher at the NBA All-Star Game on Valentine's Day, but that won't be her only North Texas stop this year. On Friday, April 2, the songstress will perform a ... More >>

Someone Dipped Their St. Vincent in My Neil Young (and Dolly Parton and The National)

​Ya know, before Pete came along, I was doing a fine job of writing about St. Vincent all by my lonesome. So, don't tell, but a Friend of Unfair Park sends along these MP3s featuring Annie Clark and Bon Iver performing at Saturday night's Haiti benefit concert at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsb ... More >>

St. Vincent Gives The National the Once-Over at Haiti Relief Show in Brooklyn

Pardon my interloping, but I've asked Pete for his permission to post over here as a friend just forwarded along this trio of tracks from a Haiti benefit in Brooklyn over the weekend. DC9 favorite and Lake Highlands grad Annie Clark, or St. Vincent, performed with the likes of Bon Iver, and while th ... More >>

Colts, Saints to Super Bowl XLIV: My Top 10 Observations

​10. Pierre Garcon > Roy Williams. Cool that he and his AFC Championship Game-record 11 catches are from Haiti. But what's with the cocky little tail under the C in his last name? 9. Any old French garson > Roy Williams. 8. Is it just me, or does CBS analyst Phil Simms start every sente ... More >>

Picture Show: "Heartbeats for Haiti" Benefit at the Prophet Bar

Spike JohnsonA.J. Houston at the mic at the Prophet Bar Sunday night​ On a weekend stacked with Haiti benefit shows around the country, the Prophet Bar played host to a local fund-raising effort, the "Heartbeats for Haiti" show with Brave Combo, Spoonfed Tribe, and a grab bag of world music acts f ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.22.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Been meaning to get to this, but The Ticket is so dominant in Metroplex sports talk radio that at this point it's like digging up Barbaro for another kick to the ribs. In December 1310 AM The Tick ... More >>

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 >>

Comfort in Time of Grief for Local Haitians

Kimberly ThorpeChristelle Joseph, born in Haiti and now living in Irving, hasn't been able to reach her family in Haiti since last week's earthquake​Haitians living in the Dallas area came together last night to grieve for a country wrecked by last week's earthquakes (and this week's aftershocks) ... More >>

Haiti Benefit Concerts Scheduled In Austin And Dallas, And Paste 'Songs For Haiti' Downloads Include Fort Worth Band

Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are among the artists available for download once you donate to Paste Magazine's Songs For Haiti.​Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy char ... More >>

More Fair to Midland Benefit Shows Scheduled

Living in a van down by the desert?​Just got news that a couple more Fair to Midland benefit shows have been added to the two that were already announced in the wake of the band's pretty gnarly crash out in the Arizona desert. The new shows include a second night in Dallas at the Curtain Club (on ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.15.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Haven't gotten a chance to ask him about it yet, but did I miss something or is Babe Laufenberg leaving CBS 11? Maybe he was buying CBS 11. Did I get that wrong? UPDATE: Says Laufenberg in a text ... More >>

Dallas-Haiti Project Offers Chance to Help

​In order to help Haiti, you don't have to just sling cash out into the great unknown. Several groups in Dallas have long-standing involvement in relief efforts there -- among them Dallas-Haiti Project, which has been around for eight years. It began with nine women connected with St. Michael and ... More >>

You Think the Recession Blows? Well, Sure. But Try Living On One Dollar a Day.

"Andrea," who received $1,500 from the Chiapas Project to become a farmer in Mexico, where she support four generations of family​Sure, our economy's grim, but consider this: In Haiti, 80 percent of the population lives under the poverty line and two-thirds lack formal jobs. Altering such circumst ... More >>

Says Mayor Leppert, Dallas is Now "One of the Premier Places for Football and Soccer"

Megan Feldman​At an afternoon press conference at the Cotton Bowl, where city officials gathered to officially announce next month's double-header soccer game at the 77-year-old stadium, Mayor Tom Leppert emphatically dismissed a reporter's suggestion that it may be tough for the recently rehabbed ... More >>

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