We alluded to this a few weeks back, but today comes confirmation of the lineup set to play our parent company’s free-to-attend day party on Friday, March 20, at La Zona Rosa during this year’s SXSW–a fairly impressive bill in my unobjective opinion, featuring at least two acts (guess!) who…
A real treat today, courtesy Paul Slavens, Doug Burr and the fine folks at KERA. Slavens, the longtime area musician and KERA radio host has launched a brand new podcast hosted on KERA’s web site called “Track By Track” in which he interviews area musicians about their albums, one song…
St. Vincent was in San Francisco this past weekend to perform as part of the NoisePop festival and, as this Stereogum post entails, Annie Clark debuted two of the new songs off her upcoming Actor album at her Friday night show. Above, check out a video one crowd member shot…
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders stoppd through town on Friday night for a gig at the House of Blues, and somewhere in the crowd–or, from the looks of it, everywhere in the crowd–Observer photographer Drew Williams was in attendance, documenting the event for a slideshow, which you can check right…
Welcome to another weekly installment of Good Friday. A couple big shows happening this weekend–some we’ve talked about already, some we haven’t. First, as always, the one’s we have mentioned before…Tonight in Denton, catch the Starlight Mints show at Hailey’s. In Fort Worth, you should be heading to the Longhorn…
Missed out on the Heartless Bastards tix we gave away earlier? Or maybe tonight just didn’t work for you? No worries, mon freir: Spune’s also hooking us up with a pair of tickets to give you to Saturday night’s Heatless Bastards show–this one at Hailey’s and with Denton favorites Record…
A couple o’ Okie indie pop acts– Starlight Mints and Recorder–are making the drive down to Denton tonight for a show at Hailey’s where they’ll be met by Denton Radiohead devotees Grassfight. The obvious draw here: Starlight Mints, whose debut release, 2000’s The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of, thrust…
As Mike Daniel told you in this week’s print edition, Heartless Bastards are in town this weekend for two shows around the way, the first of which comes tonight at Fort Worth’s Longhorn Saloon, where the newly Austin-based band will be joined on the bill by DC9 favorite Dove Hunter and…
Alright, so, “Dallas Week” just keeps on keeping on over on MTV.com and, since, as I wrote before, I don’t have MTVu in my cable package, well, I have no clue if these are running anywhere but online.The thing about these clips that get me is that they’re just so…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 27, 2009…People are starting to stand up in defense of Chris Brown’s actions–like Kanye West and Bow Wow. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is still backing Rihanna.In Orem, Utah, tonight, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will share a stage for…
…and here’s another clip of Too $hort and Bun B talking about our fine city.In other news, Play-N-Skillz has announced that it will now be hosting a weekly radio show on K104 (KKDA-FM 104.5) every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Quite creatively, the Salinas brothers are calling their…
Just caught up with Joel North of Sleep Whale, which, at this point is still probably best known as the ambient instrumental Denton act fromerly known as Mom, to talk about his band’s name change. What it boil’s down to, North says, is simply a matter of clarification for North…
Yep. You read that right. This weekend, Frank Campagna will unveil the next mural in his Deep Ellum music series–which includes the likes of Rhett Miller, The Reverend Horton Heat, Lisa Loeb and others. Right next to Deep Sushi, alongside images of Erykah Badu and Ronnie Dawson, will be the…
…and as the above video in MTV’s series of “Dallas Week” clips shows, they’re both recording with Play-N-Skillz, who’re currently working with Bun B on the final UGK album. But, aside from that, the video’s kinda short (pun definitely intended) on Dallas ties. The accompanying story, however, explains why Houston’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 26, 2009… Apparently DMX has decided not to follow the Lord. It seems he’d rather assault a police officer while he’s up in that system. He’s possibly looking at another eight years. After a very long hiatus, No Doubt is back on…
All it takes is a little perspective, really. A little added backstory. In the story of Abboud Greig, the 74-year-old Fort Worth landlord killed early last month during an attempted robbery, a little perspective goes a very long way. See, there’s quite more to Greig’s case than his death—stuff that…
The biggest obstacle facing Out of My Hands, the sophomore release and major-label debut from Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance, is that it’s impossible to listen to the album without immediately being reminded of the glut of similar-sounding alternative acts from the late ’90s: Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, Goo…
The Kül’s influences aren’t exactly hidden within this, the band’s debut release. No, the four-piece’s sound is an obvious blend of rock and funk gods Jimi Hendrix and Sly & the Family Stone. But despite these well-traveled routes, the band’s sound manages to come off as surprisingly fresh. Much credit,…
Today in Stockholm, Sweden-based bit torrent site The Pirate Bay entered the eighth day of its trial against International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which is accusing the site of possible copyright infringement, given its role as a host for torrent swapping. And it’s a fairly landmark trial in terms…
AllGood Cafe’s Mike Snider checks in this week with a pretty imperssive upcoming get at Sons of Hermann Hall–at least for alt-country devotees.On Friday, April 19 17, at Sons, Gary Louris and Mark Olson, both of the seminal alt-country act The Jayhawks, will perform together again for what should be…
Yep. You tell ’em Sway…
Yep, it’s true. The Grammy-winning Dallas native (who also has some punk leanings, remember) makes a guest appearance on Incredibad, the debut album from Andy Samberg and Crew’s The Lonely Island. Jones joins the comedians, who are best known for “Jizz In My Pants” and T-Pain collaboration “I’m On A…
