If emo kids didn’t have it tough enough, this past week a report surfaced from Andrew Hogan, education director of the Optometrists Association of Tasmania, saying, “If a young emo chap has a fringe covering one eye all the time, that eye won’t see a lot of detail. And if…
What are you doing this weekend? You don’t know yet? Well, what are you doing tonight around 8 p.m.? I strongly advise you to tune into Indie-Verse for the Ladies Room, which is me, Mixmaster editor Jamie Laughlin and The Overserved columnist Deb Doing Dallas telling you what to do…
35 Denton can’t stop festing. Now they’re throwing an end-of-summer party, September 1 at North Texas Fairgrounds, called The Hot Wet Mess. I’m assuming that means there will be water-related activities in addition to bands, not drunken bouts of crying. Or slime. You can buy presale tickets here. Lineup will…
LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known onstage as Donna Summer, passed away today in Florida, after a lengthy battle with cancer. The singer paired with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder for one of her biggest hits, “Love To Love You Baby,” known for its effusively climatic finale, and was lumped into the disco…
The third annual Homegrown Fest is fast approaching on May 26, and we’ve got some tickets we want to throw your way. Here’s the question: Homegrown performer Hayes Carll has covered a song by which universally divisive singer? Hit us here and we’ll give away two pairs of tickets by…
Does it take balls to title your album Balls? Elizabeth Cook has them. The Florida-bred country singer-songwriter’s 2007 Rodney Crowell-produced album even has a song titled “Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman,” just so you know where she’s coming from. 2010’s Welder got a little more personal, but…
Pour some out for Denton’s revered venue, which is now almost old enough to drive, even though it started smoking and drinking when it was, like, seven. Slobberbone, Chris Flemmons, Dove Hunter, Pinkish Black, Year of the Bear, Occult Detective Club, Akkolyte, Bad Design, Code Talkers and Banos y Banos…
I’m sure even Yann Tiersen is tired of being known as “that guy who did the soundtrack to Amelie.” Beyond that film, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist has a vast catalog that stretches back to the mid-’90s, and his ear for intricately wound sounds permeates his latest album, Skyline, which…
Todd Barry isn’t a musician by trade, but he’s alive at a time when music and comedy have become increasingly compatible, and the line between music and stand-up venues has been erased. Parade of Flesh has started the trend locally, bringing Barry to the historic Deep Ellum venue, followed by…
As I strolled down Pacific around lunch time today, I found myself in a strange state of aural disorientation. See, I was waiting for trio Yells At Eels to show up at the West End DART station, which is where I heard they might be starting their “guerrilla” concert series,…
Austin guitarist David DiDonato started playing at 7pm on Sunday night, at Red 7, and beat the Guinness record for longest guitar solo last night. The record previously stood at 24 hours and 18 minutes, but even after he broke it, DiDonato, formerly of punk band J Church, kept playing,…
I spent a lot of time watching the “Okay Cupid” video from Florida rapper Kitty Pryde last night, and wondering if she was serious or if this video was an elaborate set meant to recreate the teenage experience. Maybe it’s because I’m older and I don’t know when kids are…
If you have yet to see Urgh! A Music War, you’re in for a treat, as Texas Theatre has obtained a rare 35mm copy, and will be screening it on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26, with live performances from Peopleodian, George Quartz and Marriage Material. If you have…
Madisons took home the honors, but here are a few more shots of our Rock the Park finals on Saturday…
Hard to believe it’s been a month since our eight Rock the Park finalists were announced. This past Saturday, top three finalists the Breakfast Machine, Madisons and Catamaran battled it out at the Shops at Park Lane, and Austin country-folk group Madisons were victorious.They will go on to the opening…
The fine folks over at Indie-Verse had a severe lapse in judgment and offered myself, Mixmaster editor Jamie Laughlin and The Overserved columnist Deb Doing Dallas a weekly radio show, which will air on Friday evenings. It’s called The Ladies Room, and we will serve as your guide to the…
Wednesday, May 16, starting at 11 a.m., Yells At Eels are going rogue. The Dallas free jazz clan will be doing four or five quick, flash-mob style performances around Downtown, culminating in a noon concert at City Hall, where they’ll perform pieces from their new 7-inch, Wind Streaks in Syrtis…
Have you been to Patio Sessions at AT&T Performing Arts Center yet? Best get thee there before the weather goes from pleasant to “blow dryer on full blast immediately in your face when you walk out the door.” The event is free and you can bring booze. It’s the simple…
Her feud with Ashton Kutcher aside, Longview’s own Miranda Lambert has had no problem getting her share of the spotlight — that happens when your first two albums are called Kerosene and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Last year saw the country singer release her fourth album, Four the Record, as well as…
Fort Worth guitarist Darrin Kobetich released his latest opus, The Longest Winter, earlier this year. It’s a wild 27-song mix of Middle Eastern, blues and ambient reveries, as Kobetich seamlessly transitions between guitar, banjo, mandolin, djembe, dobro and more. They’re not so much traditional “songs” as experiments in style and…
Though 2009’s Balf Quarry was the last proper album Connecticut duo Magik Markers put out, you can’t necessarily quantify the group by their recorded output. They’ve released many albums, 7-inches and CD-Rs in the last decade, but live is where you want to hear their harsh free-wave jams. Witnessing singer/guitarist…
If you currently have a pulse, there’s something in Grupo Fantasma’s Latin funk oeuvre that will move you. The Austin big band has backed Prince, won a Grammy for 2010’s El Existential, and singer/multi-instrumentalist Adrian Quesada still manages to find time for side projects such as Brownout, Ocote Soul Sounds…
