The Old 97’s were seemingly all the rage this past summer on NPR after the release of the Blame It On Gravity album, which was released way back in May (wow, seems like years ago, huh?). Not once, but twice, frontman Rhett Miller and/or the 97’s were invited on the…
Street Dogs, who perform tonight at the House of Blues, are as Boston as the Red Sox, clam chowdah and irritating accents. The band was started by former Dropkick Murphys singer Mike McColgan, who left his former Celt-punk band to be a Boston firefighter but eventually decided to return to…
A few more tidbits for those of you following the Salmin Nourallah/Anju Gill Foundation v. Ally David/Bend Studio lawsuits (and judging by the comment section on the previous post, I’d say that’s quite a few of you). First up, the actual case documents: Ally David v. Salim Nourallah Anju Gill…
On Sunday, September 14, Bun B, Mike Jones, David Banner, Pleasure P and a host of other artists take over the Palladium Ballroom for 97.9 the Beat’s Hip Hop for HIV concert. It’s easy to assume that the money collected from ticket proceeds would be donated to HIV and AIDS-related…
Dr. Dog’s taking all this recession talk pretty seriously, huh? (Elizabeth Weinberg) In this week’s paper, Noah W. Bailey made a case for Dr. Dog fandom, claiming that people either love or hate the act. Well, according to Lance Yocum, who, through his Spune Productions entity, booked Dr. Dog to…
Some good news today out of American Werewolf Academy camp: Apparently, the band’s been getting some radio love both domestically and across the pond. The song “Company of Owls,” off the band’s new disc, Triceratops (which Jesse Hughey diligently reviewed in this wee’s paper), has popped up on the playlist…
In this week’s paper, we featured tomorrow night’s Fuck Buttons show at the Granada Theater–because, really, any excuse to get the word “fuck” into the paper…–but, obviously, in doing so, we kinda glossed over the fact that Fuck Buttons was, y’know, opening tomorrow night’s show for fellow U.K. instrumental act…
Dallas has no shortage of great alt-country bands in our little scene, and now you can add Eastwood to that list. The band will play the Barley House tomorrow night in celebration of Eastwood singer Kevin Millihan Minihan’s birthday. There, the band will preview songs from their forthcoming album, Everthing’s…
Well, one thing became quite certain this afternoon (as if recent speculation didn’t already have people assuming as much): You’re not going to see Salim Nourallah playing Bend Studio anytime soon, like he is in the video above. (If, that is, Bend Studio ever gets over its current Fire Marshal…
Turns out I may have spoken too soon in my column this week when I wrote that Sunday night’s Club Dada gig was The Enormous Magic Verb’s last. In the ol’ inbox today comes a note from EMV player Chad Siewert, who writes: “There must be some confusion, the band…
Method Entertainment’s flyer for Saturday’s barbecue at Club Dada gets the nod this week. The coloring and vintage psychedelic fonts are very well done. However, the two cows are what put this one over the top. They look absolutely terrified, as if they can see the barbecue pit and sense…
Will Johnson…singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”? (Brian Harkin) It comes in a piece the site posted last week (huh? we didn’t get the memo!) about Centro-matic’s Will Johnson and his devout baseball fanaticism. And it’s filled with surprise anecdotes like this one: Johnson is a folk artist who…
Death Vessel doesn’t sound a thing like you’d expect it to given the name. So, no, you won’t hear any thrash at this show. (E.B. Duet) Suffering from the Thursday blues? A couple of touring acts are hitting area stages tonight that are definitely worth checking out… Joel Thibodeau fronts…
The New Year…getting all sorts of Internet love. (Allison Smith) The New Year has been getting love all over the world wide interweb this week: We loved the local boys’s new disc, Pitchfork did, too, and now Stereogum is showing them the love. The New Year was spotlighted in the…
Common, N.E.R.D. House of Blues September 10, 2008 Better than: The bar service in the House of Blues’ restaurant last night. (From the Houston show, not last night’s Dallas gig)) You can really liken N.E.R.D.’s show to a rollercoaster ride–the first half of it’s like creeping out of the tunnel…
The band onstage is called Nervous Curtains, and I guess you could say that this is its first gig. In a way, it kinda is. For the past couple of months, the group has performed around the region as the more obviously (and more boringly) named “Sean Kirkpatrick (with full…
Even if you can’t remember explicitly listening to a single Ratatat track, you’ve heard the New York City-based instrumental duo’s music. Aside from boasting a name that—let’s face it—is just fun to say, the duo’s songs have been licensed every which way imaginable: on television shows (CSI, My Gym Partner…
One of these guys plays bass for Black Tie Dynasty, and the other sullied the Jonas Brothers’ good name on Sunday night. If you didn’t catch the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night—and if you did, shouldn’t you be doing your homework right now?—you’ve probably by now at least…
Los Bros. Kadane…and friends…The New Year. (Allison Smith) …and gives the band’s new disc (we reviewed it last week…and we gave you a free mp3…so there) a very respectable 7.5 rating while saying some very nice things, like, “what continues to set them apart is the way they put these…
In this week’s paper (the online version should be up and online in a few minutes), Darryl Smyers reviewed the latest release from Denton’s post-grunge-loving outfit Exit 380, The Life and Death of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Stone. The 12-track affair (which is presented in some unfortunately confusing packaging that…
The North Carolinian Avett Brothers are no stranger to the Granada Theater’s stage–hell, they just played the DOMA-winning venue in April. But, alas, they’re back–and, surely, fans of the alternative country punk trio are rejoicing right about now. And why not? They may be from North Carolina, but alt-country punk…
By now, you may have heard that the folks over at The Edge (KDGE, 102.1-FM) are going to be throwing a second Edgefest in 2008–this one called Edgefest 18, and scheduled to take place on October 25, again at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. The last Edgefest took place back…
