Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 5, 2009… Lux Interior, lead singer for the seminal psychobilly band The Cramps, has died at age 60. Without The Cramps there probably wouldn’t be a Reverend Horton Heat, folks. Probably. Time to turn your amps up to 11. Yep,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 4, 2009…Oy vey! Q-Tip has signed on as the co-star in an independent movie about a young man from a Hasidic community who is caught importing and trafficking ecstasy into the States. Obviously, Tip won’t be the Hasidic character; he’ll…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 3, 2009… First Guitar Hero gave us the ability to shred with our musical heroes. Now the makers of Guitar Hero will let unknown DJs move from their bedroom to the living room via DJ Hero. Yep, now you too…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 2, 2009…The line-up for the 2009 Coachella Music and Arts Festival was announced late last week, and Paul McCartney is headlining on Friday night. Wait, really?The Boss may have scored with a great Super Bowl halftime show. But fans of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 30, 2009… Run-DMC will be the topic of a new biopic from the writer of Notorious. Let’s just hope the acting and storytelling are a little better… Can’t get enough of Dee Snider’s cult classic Strangeland? Well, kids, you’re in luck: A sequel’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 29, 2009… Lynyrd Skynyrd’s keyboardist, Billy Powell, died at his Florida home at the age of 56. It looks like the Joaquin Phoenix “rap career” could possibly be a hoax after all. I really hope it is because, well, he sucks…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 28, 2009… Scarlett Johansson remains dead set on adding “singer” to her resume: She has now covered Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye” for the soundtrack for He’s Just Not That Into You. You know the movie your girlfriend is going to drag you…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 27, 2009… The rights to a stage version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller 1=28102″>have been purchased by Broadway producer James Nederlander. The show, once it actually gets produced, will included songs from Jacko’s Thriller and Off The Wall albums. No word…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 26, 2009…Wu-Tang mastermind RZA and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadijan are working to finish up a collaboration on a new album. The group, called, Achozen, will not, according to Odadijan, be a Nu-Metal band…Kanye West has denied the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 23, 2009…Hey, did you like the Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake song “Dick In A Box” (see above)? It was pretty funny, right? Well, Samberg and his comedy writing partners are coming out with an album now…I guess Kanye West…
Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, January 22, 2009… Even the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday couldn’t keep Beyonce from goin’ all diva on the Secret Service’s ass. It seems the building her hubby Jay-Z was rehearsing in for his inauguration concert was part of a five…
With a sound that ranges from indie-pop to Brit-pop (with beautiful soaring melodies thrown in between), Radiant* is one of those local bands that makes you wonder just how much talent it really takes for a Dallas band to blow up on a national level. A few years ago, this…
Your daily dose of national hip-hop news for Wednesday, January 21, 2009… Hip-hop beefs are nothing new–they’ve been around for years. But it seems that 50 Cent has now taken to creating controversies as his promotional tool. He still seems to think that Kanye West is his adversary for some reason,…
Your daily dose of music news for Tuesday, January 20, 2009… Apparently the Notorious B.I.G. biopic wasn’t the hit it was built up to be. Beat in the box office by a movie about a bumbling mall cop? Really? U2 is streaming its first single, “Get on Your Boots,” from the forthcoming album…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 19, 2008…We knew he might be retiring from acting to become a musician, but, in what could be the world’s most elaborate hoax, Joaquin Phoenix may now be looking to become a rapper. The whole thing is being filmed by…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 16, 2009… In an unprecedented move, LA’s Indie 103.1 has decided to broadcast online instead continuing as a terrestrial station and playing crap they don’t want to play. Makes you yearn for the days, when we in Dallas actually had a “cutting…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 15, 2009… Run-DMC (the Kings of Rock!), Metallica and Jeff Beck are the newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wonder who’s going to DJ for Run-DMC since Jam Master Jay has passed? I pray to god…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 14, 2009… It looks like another legendary band could be getting back together–if a promoter can cough up enough dough. Yep, this time it could be indie legends Pavement who could be on the reunion trail. I like to see they…
A streaming version of the new single from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson, “My Life Would Suck Without You”, is beginning to hit the web, and, yep, that’s it right atop this post. So far, the term “catchy-as-hell” has been applied to the song, and well, it’s not a wrong assessment…..
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 13, 2009…Current +44 member and former Blink-182 member, Mark Hoppus, speaks about the possibility of a Blink reunion. Yay! More songs based on dick and fart jokes!Amy Winehouse’s soon-to-be ex-husband has filed divorce papers. It seems the constant drug use…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 12, 2009…When Lil’ Wayne was sporting a guitar on SNL a few months back, it left a lot of people (me) wondering, “Why?” Well, now we (I) know. It seems Weezy is intent on releasing a full-on rock album.In “Yeah,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009… If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should’ve joined the high school A.V. Club when I…
