Smile Smile’s Jencey Hirunrusme made the best of the way-too-hot weather at the AT&T Performing Arts Center patio during yesterday evening’s DC9-sponsored free show, as the sun beat down on the keyboardist/vocalist and the rest of her indie-pop outfit.”I’m getting a suntan,” she joked to the crowd watchig her band’s…
Countless musicians have been derided for appealing to the masses. But—here’s where things get tricky—good pop music isn’t especially easy to write. Unless you’re Peter, Bjorn & John. And now, after spending a few years trying to get away from the pop sound that made them famous, the Swedish pop…
Motley Crue aren’t at the top of the hair-metal heap because they play dirty, sleazy rock ‘n’ roll. They’re there because they live dirty, sleazy rock ‘n’ roll. Although their days of snorting elephant tranquilizers are (hopefully) behind them, the Crüe continue to produce material that focuses on themes of…
Jennie Kelley has been a member of the choir in Dallas’ super-happy Polyphonic Spree collective since its Beginning Stages…, but, these days, music is taking a backseat to another passion of hers. After spending the past few years touring with the Spree, Kelley decided to quit her day job in…
How far would you go for $5 million? For the thousands of singing hopefuls who crowded the Dallas Convention Center to audition for Simon Cowell’s new show X Factor this week, it seems that the answer is a resounding “Uh, pretty damn far, actually.” These people waited spent two whole…
It’s not that hard to be a member of The Polyphonic Spree. With 26 or so members in the band at any given time, about one in every 46,069 Dallasites can stake that claim. Hey, it takes a lot to write and produce the world’s happiest music. And, clearly, being…
Seems like these days, hirsute hipsters are everywhere. At 35 Conferette, even, street vendors sold T-shirts sporting the phrase “Keep Denton Beard” beneath a photo that pretty much exactly resembles Good Records manager Chris Penn.We posted a gallery of beards after that event, but why stop there? The DFW music…
You know the look: Checkered sneakers, skinny pants, that forlorn gaze through a cascade of floppy bangs. Emo kids are easy to spot. Or are they? Can you tell that a band is emo by the way they look? In this week’s paper, we talked to My Chemical Romance guitarist…
The world was saddened today to learn of the death of legendary professional wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Many of us remember Savage as one of the bastions of the golden age of professional wrestling. But we bet you don’t remember his short-lived career as a recording artist: Macho Man…
It’s finals week. We know you’re burnt out. You’re most likely to respond to anything anyone says to you with unintelligible grunts. Your brain is full. So: How to keep motivated while cramming for that communications exam that you had the whole semester to study for, but didn’t started getting…
There are a lot of different things one could say about of Montreal — like, say, for starters, that the band isn’t from Montreal at all, but from Athenes, Georgia. Furthermore, trying to pin a genre on them is a challenge; they’ve flip-flopped between a multitude of different sounds over…
Ah, music festivals. You just know that summer is truly here when musicians begin crawling out of their usual habitat of dark clubs and windowless bars, and emerge into the sunlight to spend an afternoon playing live music in the great outdoors. The Homegrown Music and Art Festival, held at…
