MTV Brings Us The Year In JoBromances

MTV News this morning has a delightful little feature looking back on the year that was 2008–in Jonas Brothers romances. Seems Westlake’s own abstinence-pledging JoBros have had themselves quite the year in love, having been seen about town with tween music starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, among…

More Gift Ideas: ‘Tis the Season for Reissues

Still looking for that perfect gift for the music lover in your family? Well, the holiday season is traditionally a time when compilations, box sets and reissues flood the marketplace–and this year is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the surprising high quality of this year’s re-issue crop. Here…

Spin Doctoring: Help A Denton DJ Replace His Stolen Laptop

On Saturday night, while Ian Bangs was working at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios during The Boom Boom Box, Sarah Jaffe and Astronautalis show, someone broke into the local MC/DJ’s apartment and stole his MacBook–a laptop, by the way, that Bangs is still making payments on…

More Love For Play-N-Skillz’s Efforts On Lil Wayne’s Disc

MTV News’ hip-hop department has announced today it’s picks for the top 28 commercially release hip-hop singles of the year (which, I guess, means no remixes are eligible), and lookie there, right at No. 19, yep, that’s Lil Wayne’s “Got Money (feat. T-Pain)”, as produced by area hotshots Play-N-Skillz. We’ve…

Oh, And Tonight’s Ice Cube Show? Canceled.

  Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that’s the closest you’ll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar’s Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any…

Last Night: Eagles Of Death Metal At The Door

Eagles of Death Metal, Klopek, Austin Brown Sounds, The Improv The Door Dallas December 12, 2008   Better Than: Just the plain old Eagles.   Cory Graves     Variety was the unifying theme of last night’s seemingly random assortment of warm-up acts for the Eagles of Death Metal show…

Good Friday: Rockett Queen, The O’s, Blackheart Society, Miser, Menkena, Odis, Calhoun, Dan Dyer, The King Bucks, Chris Masterson of Son Volt, Here in Arms, Sunward, Fight Bite, Nicholas Altobelli

It’s a big big BIG couple nights and days of shows all around the DFWd region this weekend. So, no point in pussyfootin’ around. Let’s jump right in. First, the show’s we’ve already dropped on ya…On Friday night, there’s the Eagles of Death Metal show (sans Josh Homme, remember) at…

More Holiday Gift Ideas: Music-Related Books

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The Old 97’s Wish You A “Holly Jolly Christmas”

A little blast-from-the-past treat this mornin’: Eleven mighty years ago, way back in 1997, local label Big Iron released a now-out-of-print little Christmas gem called Honky-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. And included on that release, this gem: Old 97’s — “Holly Jolly Christmas”.Suh-weet. Why? Well, I’ll leave that up…