Gabriel Hernandez In this week’s paper, you’ll see my countown of the eight biggest Dallas music scene stories of ’08. But one of the more bizarre stories of ’08 didn’t appear on that list: The Rise and Fall of The New Frontiers.The band’s been around town for a few years,…
Your national music news for Friday, January 2, 2009… Prince said he plans on releasing three albums this year. The first will be an electro-pop record tenitively titled MPLSOUND and Lotus Flower. He also said he didn’t vote this year because of his religion. Right, Prince. Right. Jerry Cantrell recently spoke about Alice…
Your daily music news for the first day of 2009… Don’t get your hopes up for a two year Guns N’ Roses tour. It looks like Tommy Stinson was misquoted. Doesn’t it always happen that way? Scientists are mad at Mariah Carey for “misreading” algebra with her album title E=MC2. You would…
The first instrument I ever recall “playing” was a player piano, which, really, is just a piano that requires absolutely no skill to play. Really, no skill, whatsoever: You just pump the foot pedals, and the piano tells the keys which notes to play. As such, at age 3, I…
It’s been a year, hasn’t it? Maybe not the greatest year in DFWd music history—but not certainly a bad one, either. At the very least, this year’s crop was a deep, quality one. So, on that note, here are my picks for the best 20 albums from our region in…
Now that we’ve officially kissed goodbye to 2008 and all, let’s get all cutesy and name the eight biggest area music stories of 2008—the ones we might actually still be talking about a few years from now—and maybe toss in some honorable mentions along the way too. I mean, it’s…
Assuming you’ve been keeping up with this blog, then, yep, you’ve seen me counting down my favorite local record releases of 2008, one record a day, for the past week and a half or so. Well, it all comes to an end right here, right now. Below, a recount of…
The Gourds, Two Tons of Steel, Hosty DuoGranada TheaterDecember 30, 2009 Better than: Spending the night before New Year’s Eve shelling black-eyed peas with my relatives. Mike Alves In its annual pre-New Years Eve concert, The Gourds performed a typically well-played and enthusiastic set of oddball alt-country in front of…
Your daily dose of national music news for the last day of 2008… It seems that all it takes to ruin Kanye West’s vacation is to write something untrue about him. There was talk of him chanting to “improve his singing voice” and he read it…and it ruined his va-cay. Usually it…
Barn sides are the new brick walls. (Trevor Paulhus)Nope, we’re definitely not the only ones digging MATAS’ Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian disc. Just spotted this little bit o’ love today: AWMusic, the Toronto-based blog that gave Forever the Sickest Kids some love in its year-end lists, has…
The title of this post is ripped right from an email that popped up in the inbox yesterday afternoon in the wake of this post–and, lo and behold, yep it’s from Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram, sharing the links to his favorite concerts and albums of the year, as well…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
In reverse order, this handful of releases looked cool and the music matched the cover art. 5. Calexico – Carried to Dust Not only did the uncomplicated illustration style reflect a return to the simple desert themes that are Calexico’s stock and trade, this cover oozes retro cool…
Quite the packed night-before-New Year’s Eve we have tonight, huh? You may have already read my interview with Kevin from The Gourds as they play (along with the great Two Tons of Steel) this evening at The Granada, but the bill at the House of Blues is also quite mighty:…
Club Dada owner Ben Tapia called up DC9 HQ last night with a pretty sweet deal for readers still looking for something to do for New Year’s tomorrow night: There’s all sorts of stuff happening there (free Daddy Jack’s, champagne, etc.) and performances from Cas Haley and Scott McCurry and…
Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008… My life is over. Yes, it’s over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christmas. The most wonderful…
5. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs A cover that seems created to cause migraines. I suppose this shit’s supposed to be a comment on our modern condition or something. If so, spare me…
Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…
Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…
The pop music coverage over at the Dallas Morning News after its most recent round of layoffs and buyouts (which saw longtime critics Mike Daniel take a buyout and Thor Christensen laid off) has been, well, a tad underwhelming of late, to put it mildly. It certainly doesn’t doesn’t help…
This above video of the Dedringers’ show at the Granada on Friday night is pretty much the sole clip on the Youtube this morning of this past weekend’s musical affairs. Other than that, there’s a whole lot of Dallas clips, pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page clips, and, of course, clips…
