Yesterday, when the music blog Party Ends posted a very flattering item about local electro dance rocker outfit Faux Fox, it also posted the track “Class Ring onto its site for download. (You can grab it here. And I really recommend that you do.) But, more interestingly, it became the…
Is Greater Good performing for…the greater good? (Matt Cooper) According to the band’s Myspace site, local retro rockers Greater Good (whose new CD, Shake Till I Let You Go, was reviewed in this past week’s paper) supposedly played an event today that’s associated with the Democratic Convention currently taking place…
A few weeks ago, I reported that local singer/songwriter Dylan Sneed was leaving Dallas for the greener pastures of Hartsville, South Carolina. Well, the time is nigh upon us, as Sneed’s last local performance is this Saturday at the newest location of Opening Bell Coffee (300 N. Akard St.). It’s…
Ally David (not pictured here) would have to bend over backwards to hold concerts at her yoga studio. (Julian Andrews) Despite reassurances to the contrary, the likelihood of live music at Bend Studio in the future looks pretty doubtful. All upcoming shows have been moved a couple miles south to…
Shannon Lee will never play in your indie band. (Shawn Northcutt) No one will ever mistake us here at DC9 as classical music savants, but, hey, sometimes we too like a little culture in our music. Sometimes. Like, for instance, right now: We just caught wind of 15-year-old Canadian-born Dallasite…
The best in the catalog? I’d say so. Stumbled across a blog called Pop Headwound this morning, specifically ’cause of this post about the author’s eight favorite alt-country records of the ’90s (which he wrote in response to this zine’s post about the best albums of each year of the…
Dallas’ own Play-N-Skillz, who now have their own Wikipedia page (um….jealous?), are in the news again thanks to Lil Wayne’s “Got Money”, which, you might recall, the South Irving brothers produced. Seems Miami rapper Pitbull told MTV News that the song “Got Money” was originally his. And, in turn, the…
Look out, Buttholes: The original Surfers are back. (Keri Pickett) We’d heard that the Granada was in talks to book this show, but some Friends of Unfair Park, oddly enough, are the ones who confirmed to us that it was gonna happen–and they did so in an irreverent item about…
You may have already seen this in the comment section of this post, but a helpful set of eyes points out that, on Friday, the Fight Bite love just kept going strong–this time thanks to a plug from the USA Today blog Pop Candy. The author of the post writes:…
You might have heard there was a little somethin’ goin’ on this past weekend by the name of Projekt Revolution. Here’s “One Step Closer” from Linkin Park. Just an observation; somebody paid some big bucks for those lights. We like, we like…
Erykah Badu stole the show on Saturday. Everyone’s talking about Erykah Badu’s surprise appearance and performance with My Morning Jacket on Saturday night at the Palladium… Stereogum writes: “I really thought that the Bonnaroo cover of this one would be MMJ’s best one forevermore. But you win, Dallas.” Meanwhile, Chris…
My Morning Jacket Palladium Ballroom Saturday, August 23, 2008 Better Than: Any show where MMJ just covers “Tyrone.” The big news, is, at this point, old news, really. Yes, Erykah Badu performed with My Morning Jacket last night. Yes, it looked like this. Yes, it was a once-in-a-lifetime-type deal. And,…
Toadies, Riverboat Gamblers, The Crash That Took Me, Dead Twins Palladium Ballroom Friday, August 22, 2008 Better Than: Wasting another evening blissfully hoping for another Pixies reunion tour. Odds are the Toadies performance at the Palladium on Friday night won’t go down as The Night Vaden Todd Lewis Shed The…
Dunno how many of you who aren’t at the Palladium right now care about this, but Erykah Badu just performed with My Morning Jacket…pretty effin’ cool stuff. Read about it in our Last Night review in, oh, a few hours soon. (My home computer’s been on the fritz. I’ll have…
“Who would win in a fight? Lemmy or God. Trick question: Lemmy is God.” And there’ll be lots of T-shirts out tonight proving as much. Kinda an interesting weekend this time around: Big on the big names and kinda light on the smaller end of things. Here are the ones…
Best friends forever…still! Yeah, about yesterday’s item about Jermaine Dupri’s getting the axe from Def Jam… And how it might hurt Sachse resident Dondria Nicole’s bid for the big time… Uh, backsies!. Says business blog Business Sheet: “As it turns out, rumors of Dupri’s departure are also ‘completely untrue’ according…
You love boobs, even if you won’t admit it in any audible fashion. It’s OK–so do hip-hop philanthropists Justin Griffith a.k.a. G.O.A.T. (Grades Of Absolute Truth) and Vincent “Young Heartbreak” Tucker. The duo teamed up to present Save the Boobs: Hip-Hop Helps Heal Breast Cancer Benefit Show, to support the…
In case you were on the fence about whether or not to get tested for HIV, perhaps an appearance by T.I. will help you make your decision. The multi-platinum ATL rapper and King of the South will be at the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Clinic, 2922-B Martin Luther King…
The Cool Kids, Flosstradamus, Ricky Blaze, The Party The Granada Theater August 21, 2008 Better Than: Your car catching on fire on 75 in the middle of rush hour. Apparently the people of Dallas got the memo there was a free show at the Granada last night because they came…
How long before Dallas is a thing of Jaffe’s past? (Allison V. Smith) And so it begins, I guess. A few weeks back, when we told you about Sarah Jaffe’s incredible new EP, and, specifically, about the stunning title track “Even Born Again”, we warned you this might happen. Well,…
Not only does this show promise an interestingly varied lineup (Yells at Eels, Silk Stocking and Darktown Strutters), but an installation of artwork from Denton Artists’ Resource Collaborative as well. I don’t know whether the chimney sweep straddling two smokestacks was intended to be an illustration of “social separation” (the…
So, speaking of Sons of Hermann Hall: Tomorrow night at the much-beloved Deep Ellum venue, audiences can take in two of the best (and most beautifully understated) pop-rock acts the city has to offer as Salim Nourallah & The Noise and I Love Math will be sharing the bill (alongside…
