On Saturday night at City Tavern, singer-songwriter Madison King will celebrate the release of her pretty highly anticipated debut full-length, Darlin, Here’s to You, which counts among its backing performers such area mainstays as Ryan Thomas Becker, as well as members of The King Bucks, Homespun Remedies and Here in…
The above video, released today, confirms the latest addition to the ever-impressive 2011 bill for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, which, by moving out of Waterloo Park and into Auditorium Shores, stands to be the fest’s biggest offering yet. Who’s the latest add? Why, the mighty Slayer, of course. Or…
The last time we formally checked in with Air Review was back in April, when the band, in the wake of a similar announcement from Good Records Recordings, passed along the word that they too would be (for the most part) dropping the album concept from their release plans moving…
Back in late June, you may recall, we shared with you an interview with actor Michael Rapaport, who has made his directorial debut with Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, his ode to the influential hip-hop group and an interesting look into the surprisingly chaotic…
Well this is cool: Today, Neon Indian and Astronautalis — two locally affiliated acts (not to mention Homegrown Fest ’11 performers) whose impending releases we’ve long been watching — have both gone and released songs off their upcoming albums as free download today. Neon Indian, whose cover art and September…
No, we weren’t exactly floored back in June when the news came down that the Granada Theater had booked ’80s new wavers The Fixx to play their annual anniversary party celebrating Mike Schoder’s ownership and management of the restored venue. Turns out, though, any sentiment at all was for naught:…
Jessica Lea Mayfield, Ferraby Lionheart and The Naptime ShakeDadaJuly 26, 2011Better than: the movie Lionheart. Jessica Lea Mayfield’s career has something a storybook feel to it, given that she was essentially raised on a tour bus (she started performing with her family’s One Way Rider band as an 8-year-old), started…
Our pal Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke the news yesterday: After eight years of operation under the Jazz by the Boulevard banner, the annual jazz-centric, Fort Worth-based fall music festival now has a new name. The festival, which will still carry a heavy jazz bent, will now…
Ronald La Tour very clearly remembers the first time he met Wiz Khalifa. It was a few years back at this point, when Khalifa was just starting to make a name for himself, releasing mixtapes at an impressive clip and earning endless praise for each. After some fruitful back-and-forth communications…
We’re kind of pot-committed to writing about Sarah Jaffe’s upcoming The Way Sound Leaves a Room EP at this point: We broke the news that it was eventually coming and that it would be called The Way Sound Leaves a Room; we told you that it would see Jaffe experimenting…
Fair to Midland are a difficult act to explain. For starters, there’s the music, an unholy blend of influences that touch on everything from metal to prog rock to, in some rare instances, pop. Then there’s frontman Darroh Sudderth’s mind-blowing vocals; the guy’s a hero, nonchalantly flipping from shrieking to…
Chris Cantalini is generally a pretty unassuming presence. But he’s a little jumpier today, a little restless, and for good reason. He’s got a lot on his mind. Thirty-three years old, Cantalini just upgraded from renting a place near White Rock Lake to paying the mortgage on one in Plano,…
Mission of Burma’s original go-’round was incredibly short; there exists only an EP and a full-length to show for the band’s four-year run from 1979 to 1983, plus a 1985-release of live recordings from their farewell tour two years prior. But, much like the icons in the Pixies (also Boston-bred)…
It’s been about a month since we wrote off Colleyville’s Own Demi Lovato, saying that she’d been officially overtaken as Disney’s top starlet by her BFF, Grand Prairie’s Own Selena Gomez. Last week, though, Lovato struck back. Well, not really. But she did release the music video for her new…
BRAG ALERT: Maybe five people were able to catch True Widow, Dunes, The House Harkonnen and Fair to Midland all on Tuesday night, and I was one of them. It made for an awesome day, let me tell ya. Better yet, let me link ya: True Widow and Dunes played…
Listen: There are lots of great poster designers in the region. The reason we’ve been able to do this whole “Poster of the Week” thing for so long at this point stands as proof of as much. But can we just go ahead and build a shrine for Magnificent Beard…
We’re big fans of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest here at DC9 HQ — and not just because the name of the festival reminds of our or favorite 1964 beach-pop jam. Fact is, the festival’s a heck of a take, a capable competitor for Austin music festival supremacy, offering the…
Last time we spoke with This Will Destroy You — back in May, as the band was preparing the release of its newest full-length, Tunnel Blanket — the cinematic post-rock band admitted to us its very clear aspirations. After having helped score the film Where Soldiers Come From, the band…
Fair to Midland, The House HarkonnenCurtain ClubJuly 12, 2011Better than: your average Curtain Club show. Lest anyone was concerned that Deep Ellum has softened in recent years, that it has turned its back on its hard rock- and metal-intensive past or that the neighborhood’s heavier genres had fallen by the…
Good times last night in Lakewood, as Dallas rockers True Widow, fresh off their tour of the West Coast, were joined by their sorta labelmates in Dunes (Dunes’ Mexican Summer label is an imprint on Kemado Records, to which True Widow is signed) for an early evening garage show. Actually,…
We knew that Nicki Minaj was involved in an altercation on Monday night at the Hotel Palomar in Dallas. We just didn’t really know the specifics of what went down with the buzzing rapper and Britney Spears tour opener. This afternoon, however, we do; The Dallas Police Department has made…
Back in early June, we passed along the word that Dallas native Annie Clark, known to most by her stage name of St. Vincent, had set a September 13 release date for her highly anticipated third LP, the locally recorded, John Congleton-produced Strange Mercy. Today comes more news in regards…
