In this week’s North of the Dial about The Wax Museums, we reported that the band would be temporarily shrugging off its 10-month-long hiatus to play group’s only show of 2009 at The Lion’s Den in Denton this Saturday night–and, more importantly, that it should make for quite the exciting…

Tonight at J&J’s Pizza in Denton, Bad Sports will celebrate the release of its debut full-length–a few days in advance, even. Though the self-titled album won’t technically be released by Douchemaster Records until next Tuesday, the label made sure the band got its box of LPs in time for tonight’s…

Peopleodian’s recent performance at Denton DIY venue The Gazebo was far from flawless—blame the guitar amp the band was playing through—but the flaws that did exist weren’t enough to stop the crowd from filling the cold night air with peals of applause after every song. The Denton-based act started as…

In what’s likely to be remembered as one of the best Dallas shows of ’09, Los Angeles’ Health and Ohio’s Times New Viking will share a bill in town before heading off to Austin for Fun Fun Fun Fest. And, for each of these acts, 2009 has already been a…

Last Wednesday night, the double threat of flash flooding on Dallas streets and several competing area shows made for a modest turnout to see Bad Sports and Spooky Folk—two of Denton’s finest exports—play at The Cavern. While Bad Sports will spend Halloween up in Milwaukee playing as the seminal punk…

Jenn Gooch’s distinctive warbled vocals alternate from plaintive to punchy, from breathy to brash, and, when paired with the wispy finger pluck of her tenor banjo, she sounds every bit like a woman who would claim the possum as her spirit animal (which she does). While Gooch’s folksy, roots-music sound…

Before last week’s sold out David Bazan show at Dan’s Silverleaf, Chris Flemmons sat at the end of the patio bar smoking a Marlboro Light and sipping on a margarita. He’d just arrived at Dan’s, coming straight from a cocktail party with some city officials. Flemmons was trying to get…

Some Telegraph Canyon fans were visibly puzzled as they trickled into Good Records for the band’s recent album release show in Dallas. Some strange, other band was setting up its gear and instruments on the store’s green stage. No, this wasn’t Telegraph Canyon promoting its brilliant The Tide and The…

It’s not exactly a secret that David Bazan’s closet contains some skeletons of the Bible-toting variety. Bazan, the son of a Pentecostal music minister, has sown seeds of doubt into his frank, parable-like songs for the last decade. Since Pedro the Lion dissolved in 2005, Bazan’s solo material has taken…

In January, the first time I stumbled across Nathan Allen of Seryn , he was playing his guitar while walking on Fry Street. At the time, Allen said he was working on some solo-acoustic material. Well, as mentioned in this week’s North of the Dial, after adding several more members…

OK, Dallas: If in the last three months you hadn’t yet found time to drive to Denton to catch one of VIDEO’s sets, and you aren’t planning to see them in Austin tonight, then tomorrow night will be your first chance to catch the band considerably closer to home. As…

It honestly doesn’t feel like it’s been more than a year since the music editor of my hometown alt-weekly asked me to “think over” whether or not I wanted to take over the column covering the Denton music scene. I mean, someone in my shoes, who’s been reading the music…

If you’ve already inked your fingers on our paper edition this week, then you know a lot more about The Uptown Bums than that the band’s opening for Monotonix tonight at Rubber Gloves. But, ’cause I interviewed every member of the band individually for the piece, loads of material for…

In recent months, The Uptown Bums went from churning out catchy, yet sloppy garage pop to producing a more confident, streamlined brand of, well, technically speaking, kitchen punk. And the band’s performances, as well as recent recordings, are better for the change. Once The Uptown Bums wrapped up its tour…

This week, Manned Missiles will start its third attempt at recording the band’s debut EP—that is, if everything goes according to plan. But founding member and frontman Benjamin Rodriguez says that even the band’s forming last year wasn’t according to plan. “I wasn’t really thinking about being in a band,”…

Until very recently, nearly every mention of 21-year-old Paul North, who musically goes by the moniker Sunnybrook, noted that he’s the younger brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North. It’s a fact that, according to Paul, doesn’t bother him “at all.” But the references linking the two brothers’ musical projects…

Last Monday morning, SuperMusicman42 uploaded a video of a performance by The Bizarro Kids to YouTube titled: “Nick Jonas SIDE PROJECT BIZARRO KIDS SPECIAL GUEST NICK JONAS!” According to SuperMusicman42 the video, which was tagged with “Jonas Brothers” and “Nick Jonas,” was of a show that had taken place the…

Honestly? I don’t know too much about San Antonio-based rock outfit Buttercup . Well, other than the fact that the band spent last fall here in Dallas while Salim Nourallah produced its new full-length release The Weather Here, and that the group managed to nab a pretty sweet Web (and…

Unless you’ve been on vacation over the last week, you’ve probably already heard some of the buzz surrounding a certain upcoming live debut by a certain ex-Ghosthustler member’s newest project. But, some worthwhile buzz that you may not yet have heard is that tonight’s Back to Cooool show at Hailey’s…