Sean Kirkpatrick tickling away. (Kris Youmans) So, it’s kind of a slow blog day, and this is kinda old news, but what the hell… We’re always down for a little Sean Kirkpatrick around these parts. And on that note, we present this: a free four-track EP download of Kirkpatrick covering…
Earlier this year, when the first song Fight Bite ever recorded—the lush, heartbreakingly beautiful ballad “Swissex Lover”—ended up on influential blogger Chris Cantalini’s Dallas-based Gorilla vs. Bear blog, the Denton/Dallas-based duo didn’t think much of it. Even a couple weeks later, when the ambient electronic duo, which is arguably the…
It’s difficult to consider this album from The Boom Boom Box as the five-piece’s debut—although, well, it is just that. Still, this self-titled, self-released, Stuart Sikes-produced disc doesn’t really sound like a band still trying to figure out what it’s doing, and the members of the band—Ean Parsons (of Pinkston),…
They’re the men in the box. Ugly Mus-tard, the unnecessarily hyphenated industrial-metalheads who were featured in the Dallas Observer back in 1995 and earned the “Best Industrial/Dance” Dallas Observer Music Award in ’96, is back. To put it mildly, their sound has not aged well. Their minor radio hit “High”…
While it might be the most obviously named rock and roll sextet in history, Detroit’s Electric Six is still quite capable of making out-of-the-ordinary music. The band’s mix of garage, disco, punk, new wave and metal might indeed be a bit too multi-faceted for some folks, but the devil may…
Despite being in his 70s, country music legend Merle Haggard has always seemed to make his way to Dallas a couple of times a year. And hopefully that trend will continue after Haggard recovers from lung surgery at his home in Bakersfield, California. A recent biopsy revealed that Haggard had…
There’s two shows as part of this year’s ordeal, and a pretty blatant difference between them. Show No.1 (Or: How The Dude Rock Stole Christmas) Thursday, December 4, at House of Blues Blue October, Hoobastank, Deep Ella Show No. 2 (Or: How The Edge Went A Little More Indie) Friday,…
Kinda got a hip-hop vibe going today on DC9, so what the hell: We’ve got an extra pair of tickets to see Matisyahu play the Palladium Ballroom on Thursday night, and this seems as good a time as any to unleash them on you all. First person to email me…
With little more than talent and a MySpace page, Pleasant Grove rapper Anonymous has managed to build enough buzz to catch the attention of Parade of Flesh and snag a couple headlining gigs at The Lounge on Elm Street, including a pre-Inauguration party January 17, 2008 2009. Why all the…
A couple big hip-hop shows are rolling through town in the coming days. Chronologically, the big ones you need to know about: Method Man and Redman stopping through on Sunday night at the House of Blues; Digable Planets performing on Tuesday night at the Granada; MURS playing Hailey’s in Denton…
They wheeled David “Honeyboy” Edwards, 93, to the edge of the stage. People in the shadows helped him to stand, and he crossed into the spotlight, taking slow deliberate steps, carefully placing each foot until he reached the plain wooden chair placed in the stage’s center. The crowd, full of…
Calexico, The Acorn November 8, 2008 Granada Theater Better than: Eating some peyote, playing with a couple of rattlesnakes and doing other desert-related leisure pursuits. More photos are up in our slideshow here. After spending most of a beautiful fall afternoon cutting down trees in my backyard, what better respite…
Deerhoof, Experimental Dental School, Flying, Hawnay Troof Granada Theater Novermber 7, 2008 Better Than: Being accused of hitting on a 14-year-old by his mother. Seriously, this happened. I had heard that Deerhoof had a lot of underage fans (this might explain the 8 o’clock show start time). But there were…
…and, really, the best news of all is that we’ve pretty much written about them all already. (Makes writing this little entry MUCH easier.) There’s a couple more shows worth mentioning, as always, but first, a reminder of what’s to come… Tonight, there’s the Deerhoof-headlined gig at the Granada, the…
OK. Last batch of tickets to give away. On Sunday night, the Legendary Pink Dots stop in to play at the Granada Theater> And if this review of the band’s Wednesday night show from our sister paper down in Houston is any indication, it should be a fun time. The…
What with Deerhoof, Calexico, Trail of Dead, Parts and Labor, Atmosphere and Diplo all coming to Dallas this weekend, it’s a good weekend of music for the Big D all the way through Sunday. There’s still plenty going on in the Little D too, though, like Saturday’s show at Hailey’s…
Noah Bailey had the significant pleasure of speaking with Calexico’s Joey Burns for this week’s paper–and he got some good stuff out of him, too. Especially, I think, toward the end of the piece, when the topic of the track “Victor Jara’s Hands” is brought up. At the very least,…
Believe me, there’s a reason why I’m posting the above trailer for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist here–and it’s not just for kicks. I’m doing it for Bishop Allen, a fun little indie pop rock act whose “Middle Management” song pops up on the soundtrack for the film and is…
The clip above? That’s the video for “Offend Maggie”, the first single off Bay Area-based indie art rock act Deerhoof’s last month-released disc of the same name. Pretty cool, right? Eh, no big deal–just more of the same goodness from a band that straddles the sublime and the ridiculous with…
Consider the Trail of Dead and Municipal Waste giveaways from this afternoon an appetizer: At random points throughout the day tomorrow, we’ll be dolling out a total of 26 individual tickets (13 pairs) to five various shows happening around the region this weekend. And, as always, we’ll be giving them…
Yet another PotW win for Parade of Flesh, and the second win for L.A.’s Von Dada, who earned Poster of the Week status the first week of October for the three-skull, three-show Lounge On Elm Street poster. Obviously, the graveyard setting is a rather literal representation of the headlining Austin…
Thrash act Municipal Waste, whose straight-ahead, in-your-face sound comes straight outta Richmond, Virginia, hits the stage at Lola’s Saloon in Fort Worth tonight–an interesting choice of venue, for sure, given the band’s penchant for wild-ass shows and the venue’s penchant for yelling at bands (cough–Dark Meat–cough) that make a mess…
