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May 9, 2012
Air Review's Douglas Hale: "Salt-n-Pepa's 'Let's Talk About Sex' Was The First Cassette I Remember Owning."
Local quintet Air Review has a pretty busy summer ahead, including a stop on KXT's Summer Cut June 1. Frontman Douglas Hale recently shared some of his musical firsts, including his first cassette, video, and when he heard his band on the radio. What was the first music-related item you bought? Who ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Cedars Open Studios Exposed the Day-to-day of Local Artists
On Saturday, as a part of the 9th annual Cedars Open Studios, more than 60 artists provided the opportunity to share a little insight into their own creativity by opening up their studios to the public. Complete with food, music, and of course, wine, most studios were at capacity with the steady flo ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Live, From Reunion Arena, It's R.E.M. on MTV
Over on Unfair Park a little while ago I said my piece about R.E.M.'s unexpected farewell, conveyed via the band's website, and directed your attention to the band's 1986 stopover at the Fair Park Band Shell -- a must-have on this or any other day. I also reminded Pete about the '95 show at Reunion ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011
The Ten Best Music Videos Banned by MTV
MTV has gotten some flack for censorship over the course of its 30 years on the air. The station, in addition to helping proliferate the music video concept, is equally known, it seems, for bleeping words, playing only censored versions of certain videos, relegating racy videos to late-night pla ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Five Music Shows We Wish MTV Still Aired
At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments
As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.And, for sure, MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, eve ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Early Look: Play-N-Skillz-Coached Episode of MTV's Made Set To Air Tomorrow Afternoon
Steve VisneauPlay-N-SkillzJuan and Oscar Salinas, the Grammy-winning production duo and brothers behind the Play-N-Skillz moniker, have a lot going on these days: a lawsuit against Lil Wayne; a recently released mixtape and single (with Bun B) to promote; a new mixtape on the way; a celebratory M ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Picture Show: Play-N-Skillz Start Auditions For Their In-Development MTV Reality Show
Roderick PullumPlay-N-Skillz have reason to be smiling these days. Oscar and Juan Salinas, better known as Dallas' Own two-time Grammy-winning superproducers Play-N-Skillz, hosted a pair of MTV producers in their Deep Ellum studios on Friday evening as a group of eager young Latinas lined up for ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Dallas' Play-N-Skillz Are Getting An MTV Reality Show--And Want You Be On It, Maybe!
Steve VisneauP-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-play-N-Skillz!I was lucky enough to spend some QT with Dallas hip-hop super-producers (not to mention two-time Grammy winners) Play-N-Skillz last week on the set of Tum Tum's new music video for his Salinas brothers-produced track "Smoke Something" off his excellent n ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Neon Indian's Gravy Train Keeps Rolling, Now With Moby and MTV's Stamps of Approval.
Neon Indian's Alan Palomo. And, before you ask: Yes, those are his real eyes.The red-hot promo train just keeps rolling for the North Texas-bred Neon Indian, whose next stop back here at home will take place on Tuesday, October 5, at the Granada Theater.On Friday, the band (Alan Palomo, Ronnie Gi ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Today In Music News: UMG Pulls Videos, Mellencamp Gets Awesome Opener And Bieber Gets Pwned
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2010...Like the rest of the major labels, Universal Music Group continues to act like a bunch of bitchy little girls as they pulled all their videos from MTV's web sites. But, considering MTV rarely airs music videos, it may not ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
The O's To Have Three Songs On Tonight's Season Premiere of 16 and Pregnant
Steven VisneauThe O's putt from the rough....or so this here press release we just received from Idol Records' Erv Karwelis says. We'd watch and see for ourselves but we generally try to avoid shows like 16 and Pregnant, which seem to imply the impending apocalypse and/or inspire things like teen ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Tonight on MTV, the Trip Thorugh Dallas That Helped Change Artist Sam Fuller's Life
The Buried Life - MTV ShowsTonight MTV's The Buried Life -- a show about four Canadians, I believe, crossing things off their to-do list -- takes a detour to Dallas, where the lads meet up with artist Sam Fuller, who, at the time, was living on the streets while bouncing in and out of the Austin Str ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Dem Southernfolkz's "The Message" Earns MTV Jams' Approval
Congratulations to the soulful area hip-hoppers in Dem Southernfolkz, who this morning saw their video for "The Message" get MTV's approval for rotation on its MTV Jams channel. It's the band's first video to earn airplay on one of the cable station's many subsidiary channels--but, if the band has ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
The Bright Pop Up On MTV's Mini-Show Valemont. But, Wait, There's More?
So there's this MTV mini-show called Valemont, which I think is about vampires on college campuses or something? How unlike MTV to cash in on a trend like that...Back on topic: According to a press release that just popped up in our inboxes, DFW's own The Bright, no strangers to being placed on MTV ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
The Secret Handshake Does It All For You (and The Real World, too).
Clearly, because it's been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist's song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but "very special episode" (this week, we learned ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Today In Music News: MTV Confirms Stunt, Up-And-Comers Go On Tour, Elektra Records Re-Opens Its Doors
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 3, 2009... A writer for the MTV Movie Awards has confirmed that the Bruno ass-in-Eminem's-face stunt was staged. Noooooo! MTV would never script any show they produce! Two of hip-hop's biggest up-and-comers are joining forces on a joi ... More >>
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June 2, 2009
Green River Ordinance Runs To The Hills...Again.
Green River OrdinanceSomeone at MTV sure must like Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, 'cause, on Sunday night, the fellas in the band saw not one, but a whopping two songs played on the season finale of the channel's not-quite-reality show, The Hills: "Out of My Hands," which got some early ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
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 >>
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February 24, 2009
It's "Dallas Week" Over At MTV.com...
Looks like the fruits of MTV's labor from a few weeks back, when the network followed D-Town production wunderkinds Play-N-Skillz around town for a party at plush and a dance instruction deal at Big T Bazaar are gonna be unraveling over on MTV.com all week--if the above promo, which features non-Da ... More >>
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February 24, 2009
Update: MTV2 Air Times For "Dallas Week"...
Just heard from Play-N-Skillz's publicist, Gina Torres, who checks in to let us know when we can catch "Dallas Week" formally--and not on the Internet, but on actual television, woot woot.Seems the clip, which features Play-N-Skillz "chaperoning" MTV throughout town, will air three times this week o ... More >>
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February 3, 2009
MTV Offers Up A Recap Of The Silver Jews' Final Show
Speaking of MTV, the strictly music (and definitely not reality TV-based) cable network chimes in today with a recap of last night's Silver Jews concert--purportedly Dallas native David Berman's final show.Makes sense, as we've all seen how much love MTV has given artists like the Silver Jews prior ... More >>
Music
January 1, 2009
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?
Blogs
December 17, 2008
MTV Names New Amerykah The 9th Best Disc Of '08`
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 of t ... More >>
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December 16, 2008
MTV Brings Us The Year In JoBromances
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 T ... More >>
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December 16, 2008
MTV, Now Officially the Worst Network in the History of Television
In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier "and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into a bridge support and caught on fire," reported yesterd ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
The Bright Were Totally Featured On Last Week's Episode Of The Hills
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2008
College Newspaper Gaga Over Unsigned Artist Damian Giglio
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2008
Touring Team Robespierre's 'Crib'
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2008
Pot, Kettle. Kettle, Pot.
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2007
Rocket Summer Debuts on TRL
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2007
Midlake Joins the Cult of MTV
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
Calendar
February 15, 2007
Dear Xtina
Uh-huh. True story: Dallas pop act The Bright's song "Cemetery Street" aired approximately 17 minutes into last week's episode of MTV's faux-reality show The Hills, or so the glorious press release that just popped up in my inbox promises.The placement puts the uber-radio-friendly locals in the est ... More >>
News
December 7, 2006
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Look out, evil Madison Avenue, these Jesus warriors have a battle plan for you
Music
February 9, 2006
Odds & Ends
A local band gets its big break on MTV. Excuse us while we yawn.
Music
December 8, 2005
System of a Down
Hypnotize (Sony)
Music
October 27, 2005
Settling Score
This month, Dallas gets its shot at MTV stardom, and man, does it suck
Culture
August 4, 2005
Capsule Reviews
Our critics survey the local art scene
Music
June 30, 2005
Spanking New
The Spree set off fireworks, Corn Mo might be a giant and more
Music
September 9, 2004
Guster
Thursday, September 9
Music
September 2, 2004
The Queers
Friday, September 3
Music
June 10, 2004
Slipknot
Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) (Roadrunner Records)
Music
May 20, 2004
The M's with The Chemistry Set
May 21
Culture
December 11, 2003
A Fan's Notes
Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best CD Store (Used)
CD World
Music
September 5, 2002
Golden
Apollo Stars (National)
Music
February 7, 2002
Gimme Some Mo
Corn Mo makes an appearance on Total Request Live
Music
December 7, 2000
100 Bullets
MTV and Rolling Stone pick the 100 greatest pop songs ever, "from The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys." We demand a recount.
Film
July 1, 1999
The money shot
Jagged and flashy, Lola pulls off a stylistic extravaganza
Music
August 7, 1997
Out There
Jagged and flashy, Lola pulls off a stylistic extravaganza
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