Les Americains singer/guitarist Robert Lee designed this flyer to promote his band’s show with Tapes ‘n Tapes and Wild Light tomorrow night at Club Dada, a show we have already mentioned here and, not quite as enthusiastically, here. The poster is pretty simple — the band names, club name written…
We see how it is. The Glenlivet reps come by the office to offer tastings of the company’s 18 to 25 year-old Scotch and what do we who don’t have our own offices get? Perhaps a dram of whisky? Just a taste? A drop, even? No, we get the can…
Like any traveling group of musicians, Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene has one thing in common with an army: It travels on its stomach. Excluding mega-stars who travel with personal chefs or have contract riders guaranteeing catered meals, most bands tend to rely on convenience stores and restaurants for…
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. Wild…
This week’s Poster of the Week, or POW as the kids aren’t calling it, is for Friday’s Double-Wide show featuring the grimy sleaze-rock of Stag Film, the gritty garage rock of Bastardos De Sancho and straight-forward rawk from Fort Worth’s Shittiest Band. Once again, not a unanimous choice. Calendar editor…
Good pies and strong beer. –Poor Robin’s Almanack, 1695 (but don’t leave out good beef and strong beer, good fish and strong beer, good cheese and strong beer, good … well, you get the picture.)Maybe I’m just projecting, but it seems that beer is getting a bit more respect these…
Another Denton-reppin’ experimental band got some love from overseas. This time it’s Florene, which caught the ear of No Pain In Pop, a London record label and music blog. The duo’s “Room 5” was yesterday’s featured download track. NPIP’s Tom King described the group’s music as “soothing and balming, melting…
I was quite disappointed to learn that Three Blonde Moms is a touring comedy featuring a trio of mothers gabbing about their daily lives. Sadly, ’90s one-hit wonder 4 Non Blondes didn’t update the band name after dropping a member, having kids and bleaching their way to the gentlemen’s preference…
Back in November, world leaders met at the White House to discuss the economic crisis…over $500 bottles of Cabernet. Given the subject matter, Carlo Rossi would have been more appropriate–or better yet, beer. Fine ale can stand up to any wine and for a hell of a lot less. Need…
Comedian Tony Rock falls into a category that can be a blessing and a curse: younger brothers of Saturday Night Live alumni. On one hand, you’ve got Jim Belushi, whose career has lasted far longer than that of his brother John, and who made K-9, the second-best police-dog action-comedy of…
Every few years, some old-timey crafting skill catches on with trendy young people. Cool kids wore macrame hemp jewelry when I was in school (though this was as much an unsubtle way to let people know you smoked weed as it was fashion statement). Later, knitting needles and a bag…
For a debut EP, Caterpillars’ five-song set of electronic-tinged pop rock is remarkably polished and consistent—to a fault. Still, the Dallas band’s lush arrangements of dramatically soaring pop are impressively full, particularly for a trio and such a new band. Singer/guitarist/programmer Chris Robinson (no, not that Chris Robinson) clearly knows…
At the moment, Dallas rock band Caterpillars is on the road, headed for its first out-of-state gig at FUBAR in Saint Louis tomorrow night, followed by dates in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. You can catch them at the Lakewood Bar and Grill in Dallas February 10. Meanwhile, in tomorrow’s print…
“I don’t know what you’ve been told, but George Bush is out of control,” raps Anonymous at the beginning of “Get Up.” The track combines the Pleasant Grove rapper’s rhymes about the troubles plaguing the Bush-plagued country with inspiration and hope, all over a Lehtmo Joe LehtMoJoe-produced military marching beat…
Tillman’s Roadhouse324 W. Seventh St.214-942-0988Dude factor: 9, or “James Dalton,” on a scale of 1 (Brad Wesley) to 10 (Wade Garrett).Sometimes it can’t be avoided. Occasionally, dudes have to go upscale. But if you’re going to eat someplace that actually uses cloth napkins, you might as well pick one that…
Photos by Benjamin Lewis Some people consider it uncouth to begin drinking before 5 p.m. Thankfully, you won’t run into any of those spoilsports at the “Blind Salamander Day” tour and tasting at Rahr & Sons brewery tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. I took my first tour of…
Erich Scholz of Tomorrowpeople designed this week’s featured poster to plug tonight’s Club Dada show with his band, Shibboleth and The Swim. Obviously, it’s a very minimal design, but nonetheless striking. Sometimes simplicity is simply boring, but that’s not the case here. By the way, Scholz’s Mexico-themed poster for Saturday…
The Strange Boys got a little bit of love from Rolling Stone this week, though the small blurb mentions only Austin, neglecting to point out the band’s Dallas origins. Writes Austin Scaggs in Smoking Section: “They are four kids from Texas who will blow you away with their Sixties garage-rock-revival…
The description for Almost, Maine probably loses 95 percent of the Y-chromosome set at “romantic comedy,” but when the press material includes boasts like “delightful,” “utterly endearing,” “whimsical” and “the perfect date play,” it’s clearly aimed squarely at females. I’ve endured more than my share of rom-com theatrical productions and…
New Year’s Eve is normally one of my favorite holidays, but this year it felt more like an opening act than a celebration unto itself. After all, in 20 days, the entire country would be wiping its slate clean of the Worst Administration Ever–a monumental new beginning that makes replacing…
Funny that Yo! Majesty’s Futuristically Speaking…Never Be Afraid didn’t make Christianity Today or Patrol’s 2008 best faith-based albums lists. After all, “Never Be Afraid,” from the Florida electro-crunk rap duo, offers a frank presentation of the Christian gospel, bemoaning worldly evils and celebrating the salvation offered by the Holy Ghost…
In tomorrow’s print supplement to DC9, Quia Querisma gives an enthusiastic recommendation of Dallas battle rapper Info-Red’s Kaleidescope, praising his verbal versatility and the album’s “mid-’90s East Coast Feel (a very good thing).” You can get a taste for the album by checking out a couple of its tracks on…
