Oh, sweet 7-inch slabs of vinyl. Brings back such nice memories of misspent youth, days forking over allowance money to the mail-order gods who delivered heaven in the form of singles from Minor Threat, Government Issue or Black Flag. Vinyl and punk rock go together like mohawks and hairspray. Seems…
Skewed pop with art/rock sensibilities seems to be the norm these days with folks like Islands and French Kicks making decent money finding new ways to recycle those Talking Heads riffs. But Cincinnati’s Pomegranates ups the originality and fey ante considerably on Everybody, Come Outside!, the band’s lovable sophomore effort…
It takes quite a bit of country/folk chutzpah to take on a song as legendary as Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” but that’s exactly what Mindy Smith, a 37-year-old singer/songwriter from Long Island, did in 2003. Smith’s version of the song appeared on the Parton tribute record Because I’m a Woman.Seems Dolly…
Fort Worth’s garage-rock combo The Cut*Off is heading back into the studio later this month to work on the band’s third full-length effort. The as-yet-untitled disk is being recorded with Salim Nourallah at Pleasantry Lane Studio and three tracks are already in the can.But it might be a somewhat different…
Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much–especially since it was my birthday. About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. And even though drummer Teresa…
Two weeks ago, it was Marky Ramone who visited with Richard Hunter on Hunter’s afternoon radio show on KMNY-1360 AM. Today’s it’s punk icon Jello Biafra who graces our area airwaves at 4:30 this afternoon, spewing forth his seemingly endless (but still funny) diatribes against corporate America. Biafra, the former…
One of my favorite local singer/songwriters, Kristy Kruger, just send along an email detailing a cool event happening this coming Monday at Opening Bell Coffee: The Third Annual Dia de Los Muertos Music Festival. Since his death in Iraq, Kristy Kruger has thrown this event in honor of her brother,…
Those thrilled beyond reason when The Toadies re-formed should be quite satisfied to hear this debut EP from the local duo known as The Phuss. Joshua Fleming and Trey Alfaro take many of their cues directly from The Toadies’ seminal effort, Rubberneck. And that’s not a bad thing, mind you…
Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, the three members of The Low Anthem are all Ivy League-educated, classically trained musicians whose band is receiving a healthy critical and commercial buzz. The band’s sophomore release, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, has drawn praise for its highbrow take on folk and blues. And…
Despite the cold and wet weather, the fine folks at The Prophet Bar are offering up a crowded and fairly consistent line-up of moppy rockers to hopefully not add to your rainy day blues.On tonight’s bill are Straylight Run, Dangerous Summer, Mansions, Brian Bonz and David Melillo. Former Taking Back…
Former Squeeze frontman Glen Tilbrook makes a rather rare local appearance this evening at the Prophet Bar. And even though the choice of venue is kind of odd, getting to hear Tilbrook sing those new wave/pop confections from his Squeeze days will still be intriguing. Of course, such Squeeze standards…
Marky Ramone, the only living member of the longest-running Ramones line-up (which lasted for 15 years) is going to be chatting about all things punk rock this afternoon with Richard (Big Dick) Hunter on 1360 AM.Besides touring with his new band, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, he’s currently hosting Marky Ramone’s Punk…
Those without plans for this Wednesday evening might want to think about heading to Denton to catch the Seattle-based The Blakes at Hailey’s. For one, there’s not too many acts channeling influences like The Who and The Kinks these days, and, two, The Blakes mix in enough of The Stooges…
For all the losers like me who are not going to the Death Star in Arlington to catch U2 and Muse tonight (or, for that matter, either the Alice Cooper show at the Palladium or the Maxwell/Common show at the AAC), there are a few out-of-town artists who dare show…
The guys in Denton’s Shaolin Death Squad have been together the better part of a decade, wearing those funny masks and dispensing their own brand of melodic, progressive metal and offbeat, Asian philosophy.Sure, it’s a mini Gwar rip-off–and also cheesy as hell–but I’d rather a metal band flash a little…
Back in 1996, when the members of the Old 97’s were still residing in Dallas and the group was still considered alt-country, the band’s sophomore effort, Wreck Your Life, began the band’s popular ascension. Now, Bloodshot Records is reissuing the album with tons of cool bonus material. Titled Wreck Your…
Sad news comes today from a spokesperson for Poor David’s Pub: Seems that folk/singer-songwriter Scott Shipley has had a heart attack and his show scheduled for tonight has been canceled. The 45-year-old Shipley tours regularly, but hasn’t played our area for some time.The rep at Poor David’s didn’t have any…
This time around, White’s cohorts in crime include Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes). Now, I know it seems like White forms a supergroup just about every weekend, but this newest creation…
Expressions like “post-hardcore” and “math rock” are guaranteed headache producers, and the Seattle-based combo These Arms Are Snakes certainly lives up to whatever connotations go along with such terms. Terse, tense and relatively complex, the sound Brian Cook and his cohort create can be both impressive and irritating. There’s no…
Although Stephen Kellogg can be a bit overly earnest for his own good, he and his band, The Sixers, are quite capable of creating a version of heartland rock that would make John Mellencamp proud. Although most of band members hail from Northampton, Massachusetts, the sound they produce is of…
Lorin Ashton, the lone member of the freeform electronic project known as Bassnectar, describes his music as “omni-tempo maximalism.” But before you scream WTF and dismiss Ashton as a self-obsessed loon, you might want to check out his impressive way with buzzes and beeps. Bassnectar’s electronics are a wash of…
The award-winning Canadian quartet Billy Talent has been around (under one moniker or another) since 1993. In all that time, though, the band has only managed to release three proper albums, making one wonder just how hard is it to make a punk rock record. There is no denying the…
