Wednesday is the tape release show for this new split, which features a few tracks by the now-defunct Star Commander and Denton’s New Science Projects. SC’s members went on to form Hate Your Friends and Square Business, so there’s some heavy circle of life ish going down at this show…
Lower Dens Dada Sunday, June 24 Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom, Jana Hunter’s 2005 debut, felt of another era, sharp and striking yet spare, Hunter’s voice the spiritual guide behind her acoustic guitar. It also felt like a skeleton that needed some flesh hung on it, as did her follow-up…
A friend recently lent me his DVD of Freddie King live in Dallas, 1973, and I was blown away. I knew King’s name, but had never actively ventured into his catalog. I came across this bit today. Absolutely astounding. Now I want everything…
Thanks to everyone who came out to any part of last night’s DC9 at Night Crawl. We had so much fun, we might just do it again next month. Here are a few shots from the Bermuda Triangle of drunkenness: Single Wide, the Granada and Beauty Bar. Read our review…
Groove Loves Melody and the Green Bandana Group have teamed up for Neon Sessions, a new summer event that will focus on emerging electronic artists from Dallas and beyond. Organizer Vince De Jesus says they’re following the lead of Exploded Drawing, an Austin monthly that gathered beatmakers and visual artists…
I was just talking to someone the other day about what a great song “Summertime” is, and then yesterday it was announced that Jessica Jordan, a member of Polyphonic Spree, had covered the song as the first single for her new solo project, My Name Is Moses. What up, serendipity…
There are no surprises on ZZ Top’s new Rick Rubin-produced EP, Texicali. It sounds exactly like a ZZ Top album. That’s not oversimplifying: After 40 years as a band, they’ve created their own brand and absorbed a die-hard fanbase. I’ll probably get run out of Texas for saying the EP…
Texas’ own Jana Hunter gave us goosebumps with her 2005 solo debut, Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom, but it wasn’t until she moved to Baltimore a few years later and formed Lower Dens that she seemed more comfortable in front of the mic and behind an electric guitar. Nootropics, the…
Houston’s Linus Pauling Quartet recently showed up on Lee Jackson in Space, the tribute album for late Texas music writer Lee Jackson, but the quintet arrives in Dallas on the heels of their first album in five years, Bag of Hammers. Their herb-assisted psych excursions have long been the foundation…
You’ve got to love a band with a song titled “Are Those Fucking Beers Ice Cold Yet?” Indiana trio Waxeater’s 2010 LP, Sleeper, was a sloppy, screaming backhand of punk and hardcore, and established that three chords played loud and fast never quite goes out of style, and neither does…
Drew Gaines snapped some fantastic shots from last night’s 75th anniversary celebration of Robert Johnson’s 508 Park recording sessions. Here are a few of our favorites…
If you don’t know, now you know. Tomorrow night is our DC9 at Night Crawl, which starts at Single Wide around 6:30 p.m., then stops at the Granada for El-P and Killer Mike, who both just released excellent new albums. Then it ends at Beauty Bar for DJ Sober’s Big…
If you’ve been following the saga of 508 Park Avenue, the building where famed bluesman Robert Johnson recorded between June 19 and 20 in 1937, you’ll remember it was pulled back from the edge of demolition, a few ideas for its renovation were tossed around, and its future finally sits…
With the oppressive heat of summer bearing down on us, our thoughts no doubt lead down some darker corridors, as we try to occupy idle hands and restless brains. Here are a few new local releases that lean on the heavy/experimental side, which you should cop posthaste. Bludded Head, Bludded…
Neeks, Night Game Cult El Sibil Saturday, June 16 Often, when there are six people on stage at a hip-hop show, you’re in trouble. You get some limp attempts at verses, some blunted flow, too many stoned rappers bumping into each other. Neeks, who performed at Oak Cliff art space…
We mentioned earlier this week that DC9 at Night and the Granada have teamed up to bring you the DC9 at Night Crawl next Thursday, June 21. That means we’re starting at Single Wide for a pre-party, then heading to the Granada for the show, then after the party there’s…
Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and David Bryne (Talking Heads) will premiere their collaborative effort, Love This Giant, on September 11, via 4AD. The album comes after the duo began recording and writing together in 2010, and the live show will apparently feature eight brass players, a keyboardist and a drummer,…
House music fans will be converging upon the grand reopening of this historic east Elm venue not only because renowned DJ Miguel Migs and singer Lisa Shaw will be performing, but also because it’s one of Brooke Humphries’ new clubs. The local entrepreneur, who also owns Barcadia and Beauty Bar,…
As the dramatic tension of the Erykah Badu-Wayne Coyne Twitter “feud” escalated last week, I started thinking about the question of collaboration and consent. I spoke with Coyne on Wednesday, May 30 — the day he allegedly tweeted nude photos from the set of the video for “The First Time…
House music fans will be converging upon the grand reopening of this historic east Elm venue not only because renowned DJ Miguel Migs and singer Lisa Shaw will be performing, but also because it’s one of Brooke Humphries’ new clubs. The local entrepreneur, who also owns Barcadia and Beauty Bar,…
Look at those “do-ers” over at the Texas Theatre: They landed a page in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago, and now they’re putting on their first-ever film festival. You can check out the screening schedule at oakclifffilmfestival.com, which includes a Saturday night music video competition at…
Is everyone so excited for the new season of Dallas? Oh, you are actually excited? Then you should join our friends at Mixmaster tonight at the Angelika for a screening of the first episode of the new show. We even made you a drinking schedule! So, to get you nice…
