“Did you hear about that guy on the news?” “Oh, yeah. But what do you expect when you have a gas-huffing problem? One day you’re going to absentmindedly light a cigarette and explode.” “You sure are. You got a light?” Strange things happen when you go out on a Monday…

The passing of four calendar years since the release of their debut EP has not been lost on The Boom Boom Box. While you’ve been wistfully staring at your hourglass, wondering when they’d release a full-length, they’ve been doing, ya know, life stuff. “In the four years since the EP,…

A metal show in Sons of Hermann’s old bowling alley on a Monday night? Sounds like some spirits are gonna be rattled loose, especially with headliners Thou in tow. The Louisiana group’s output stays on the blackened to charred side of doom metal, and offers some great song titles (“Fucking…

When we talk about feminist icons in music, why is it country legend Loretta Lynn rarely makes the list? The singer from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, has shouldered five decades of ups and downs and still gets on stage in a goddamn taffeta gown to belt her heart out. The Winspear…

Another door-kicker of a night at Queen City Hall. Fungi Girls may have the distinct honor of being Cleburne’s best band. So good, in fact, Chicago’s HoZac Records put out the young trio’s sophomore LP, Some Easy Magic, last summer. It mines some of the same pop depths of forefathers…

This teaser for the upcoming documentary How To Be Lo-Fi With Friends appeared yesterday. It tracks the making of Analog Rebellion’s upcoming album, Full Frontal, and is a collaborative effort between the band and Yes Go Productions, the same folks who put on El Sibil’s semi-regular parties. Yes Go director/producer…

And by so many we mean 111, including a wealth of locals. It’s sort of a dream lineup: A.Dd+, Old Snack, Legsweeper, the Angelus, the Blurries, Video. Must … stock up on … 5-Hour Energy. Wait, never mind. I learned my lesson two SXSWs ago. That shit is nasty. Check…

While in Dallas this weekend for a performance at the Texas Theatre, Neil Hamburger also filmed a little PSA, in which he details what might happen to you if you text or talk during a film in his typically grating manner. I feel like Hamburger would be an effective usher…

Hey! Did you get to see our Wu-Tang infographic this week? Who knew Wu-Tang Clan and math went hand in hand? Of course, after the show tonight at House of Blues, there’s the requisite afterparty (math-terparty?). This poster says RZA will be there. This being Dallas, who knows who the…

Polyphonic Spree hit the road for the first time in four years, starting next month in Tulsa and ending February 16 at Sons of Hermann Hall. New Fumes opens those dates. That’s just “Phase One.” There’s also a new song debuted in the video. So that probably means a new…

As it goes with many reunions these days, the news of At the Drive-in’s reformation neatly coincided with the release of the Coachella lineup on Monday. And yes, people are excited. “One Armed Scissor” doesn’t sound especially dated these days, and The Mars Volta’s 26-minute solo weed jam revue was…

Check out this week’s issue for a feature on The Black Dotz, but multitasker that he is, Dallas DJ/producer/musician Wanz Dover has another project to talk about as well. Blixaboy is Dover’s long-running techno/electronic moniker, and he celebrates the release of a new EP, Intro to Futro, on Saturday at…

What other musical family is so entwined in each other’s output that both their grindcore and jazz projects can realistically be reviewed in the same space? For Resurrection and Life, trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and his sons Aaron (contrabass) and Stefan (drums) once again collaborated with legendary New Orleans drummer Alvin…

If you’ve ever seen Mean Girls, you may have caught a reference to Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but the South African vocal group is much more than a punchline. They’ve been around in one form or another since the early ’60s, influencing Paul Simon, with whom they collaborated on Graceland, standing…

When he’s not railing against the odiousness of Axe Body Spray or espousing the gastrointestinal dangers of Taco Bell on Twitter, America’s Funny Man Neil Hamburger is actually performing live in clubs. He returns to the Texas Theatre, site of his 2010 New Year’s Eve blowout, to crack wise (and…

Austin fiddler Carrie Rodriguez gets around with collaborators, and always manages to make it seem like more than just a fling. She made half a dozen albums with “Wild Thing” scribe Chip Taylor and a 2010 EP with Romantica frontman Ben Kyle. “Steal Your Love,” from 2010’s solo LP Love…

Billed as a night of “horror scores and terror synths,” DJs Gabriel Mendoza and Gavin Guthrie will be on hand to screw and chop (or hack and slash) the soundtrack to your nightmares. You can probably expect a lot of John Carpenter fare, a little Dario Argento and maybe some…

Do a Google search for “Wu-Tang Clan members” and you’ll get all sorts of infographics to help sort out the NYC hip-hop group’s 10 personalities, as well as their lesser-known members (Noodleneck, Dr. Bloodclot). As the years wear on, those members have gone on to do solo projects or star…

Mind Spiders excellent sophomore album, Meltdown, comes out February 21 on Dirtnap Records and already promises to be one of 2012’s best local releases. Mark Ryan knows his way around a pop song, as “Wait For Us” and much of Meltdown proves, but he also isn’t afraid to experiment. The…

It’s a windfall for local festivals today. 35 Denton’s latest announcement brings L.A.’s leather jacket-clad Dum Dum Girls (who get teased in the video below, soundtracked by Denton’s own Dim Locator), as well as drone specialists OM, The Hood Internet, Oberhofer, El Ten Eleven, Class Actress, Woodsman, Bleached, The Romany…