The pop music coverage over at the Dallas Morning News after its most recent round of layoffs and buyouts (which saw longtime critics Mike Daniel take a buyout and Thor Christensen laid off) has been, well, a tad underwhelming of late, to put it mildly. It certainly doesn't doesn't help that copy now comes solely from music editor Dawn Burkes (who may or may not be on maternity leave at the moment--not sure), critic Mario Tarradell, some freelancers, and, yep, a little help from Star-Telegram-er
As Mike Daniel told you in this week's print edition, Heartless Bastards are in town this weekend for two shows around the way, the first of which comes tonight at Fort Worth's Longhorn Saloon, where the newly Austin-based band will be joined on the bill by DC9 favorite Dove Hunter and The Boom Boom Box. Wanna see the show? For free? You're in luck; Spune's hooking us up with a pair of passes to tonight's gig, which can be yours, assuming you're the first person to email me with the phrase
