We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. East…
Hunky’s Hamburgers (Bishop Arts location)321 N. Bishop Ave.214-941-3322Dude Factor: 7, or “30th birthday” on a scale of 1 (65th birthday) to 10 (21st birthday)The hamburger is a staple of the dude diet. This wonderfully versatile sandwich can range from a simple 99-cent meat, bun and ketchup value-menu offering to double-digit-priced…
Do you like making snap judgments about local bands? You’re in luck. Volume 2 of the One Hundred Second Dash compilation series is available for free download today. To download it, just follow the link to the One Hundred Second Dash blog and click on the animation in the upper…
This week’s pick is a bit anticlimactic, I’ll admit. We already ran the poster on Tuesday, in Daniel Rodrigue’s post about the Spitfire Tumbleweeds’ final (or is it???) show. But nothing else really grabbed my attention the way this stark, subtly spooky image did. Plus, it does a good job…
Let’s address the confusion that the title, “Culinary Masters Dinner featuring Julia Child,” may cause. No, the reanimated corpse of Julia Child will not be the guest chef, nor will her remains be served–unless “Lamb Shank” is an obscure nickname of the late cooking show host. Rather, she’s the first…
Greg Giraldo has a lousy 2-7 record on Lewis Black’s Comedy Central mock trial series, Root of All Evil. For most of the show’s advocates, the win/loss record is beside the point. But for a former attorney with degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, every loss must remind…
The most exciting moment on The Moon comes near the end of the title song, just two tracks into the disc. The drums drop out as the dreamy, tremolo- and reverb-drenched electric guitar fades away just as the strumming on an acoustic becomes insistently louder. Then the drums gently start…
Last fall, Dem Southernfolkz’s The Message came seemingly out of nowhere like a refreshing breeze, doing for the ears what that first breath of clean air does for the lungs after a long night in a smoky club. The heartfelt, positive rhymes over a blend of gospel, blues and rock…
Love music? Love art? Love love? Then you won’t want to miss the opening of the Love Songs exhibit 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Art Hotel gallery in the Cedars Arts District.More than 40 local artists will display artworks representing their favorite love songs in the exhibit,…
Beginning next week, improvisational/experimental musicians from around the world will be descending upon Texas and Louisiana for the multi-city No Idea Festival. The bulk of the action is taking place in San Antonio and Austin, but the festival includes one night in Cowtown, at Lola’s Saloon. Percussion pioneer Tatsuya Nakatani,…
Feeling nostalgic for the good ol’ days of the Denton music scene, before the New York Times and Paste recognized the greatness of the Little D? The Emily Fowler branch of the Denton Public Library is displaying a collection of photos and memorabilia spanning 30 years of rock, alt-rock, indie-rock…
This poster is so awesomely ridiculous I just had to share it. The “Lone Star Bar” mentioned on the flyer is actually Lone Star Country Club in Coppell, which books an odd combination of punk-rock bands for kids and country acts and singer-songwriters for those punks’ golf-loving parents. The design…
I was quite impressed with The Me-Thinks’ Make Mine A Double EP, as you can read in this week’s birdcage-liner version of DC9. One of the songs I mention is “Permanent Krokus,” which I think really captures the band’s ability to write catchy, rockin’ riffs as well as its refusal…
I’ve long been a fan of San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing, but had yet to try many of the offerings we would be served at Oceanaire’s recent beer dinner, a multi-course, $55 a head feast paired to different Anchor products. So we–the Lady Hophead and myself–were practically giddy with anticipation as…
The last time a Dallas Observer writer criticized a jam band, the online story drew nearly 800 comments attacking him with sufficient hatred to prove the peaceful persona of the stereotypical noodle-dancer a patchouli-scented facade. More recently, one of my Night & Day blurbs provoked a barrage of similarly angry…
According to Alexander La Riviere, proprietor of Faber’s Cyclery and a bicycle accident investigator, this country’s technological and social evolution parallels that of the bicycle, as these “land flyers” gave man the sensation of flight and liberation that led him to build an airplane and yearn for political freedom. His…
The Me-Thinks nip any potential gripes in the bud by beating the would-be critic to the punch: The two CDs enclosed in this package from “Fort Worth’s Shittiest Band” (the band’s words, not ours) are titled “Worse” and “Worser.” Sure, the songs are dumb and simple, but they’re tight, witty…
According to legend, he’s been a pimp, a dealer, a junkie and a convict who started out as an R&B session guitarist, but switched to the piano after a gunshot mangled the ring finger of his fret hand. Much of that is probably even true. But what is indisputable is…
Play-N-Skillz, Big Tuck, Slim Thug, Pitbull, Paul Wall, Too $hort, morePlushWednesday, February 4, 2009Better than: Parking a filthy, body-damaged Scion Xb in a metered spot and walking two blocks to avoid using the valet service, all the while contemplating how out of place you are anywhere near a red carpet…
Jack’s Backyard and Chill Grill2303 Pittman St.214-741-3131Dude factor: 7 (Jack Black) on a scale of 1 (Jack Osbourne) to 10 (Jack London). I’ve been meaning to get a drink or two at Jack’s Backyard since it opened on Halloween, but never thought of it as a Dude Food destination until…
Play-N-Skillz will be showing MTV around town this week as the network films for an upcoming special, My Block: Dallas, and you’ve got two chances to rub elbows with the Dallas rapper/producer stars.Tonight, the brothers are celebrating their Grammy nominations (for their production work on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III)…
So you already know about tonight’s shows, which include Tapes ‘n Tapes at Dada and Nervous Curtains and Dust Congress opening for Daniel Folmer’s CD release at 7 p.m. at Good Records. And Saturday night, Los Campesinos and Titus Andronicus play at Club Dada, Somebody’s Darling celebrates a CD release…
