Chicks can too rock — and Saturday night’s offering at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios act as proof, with the Denton venue hosting two vigorous bands featuring ferociously rocking females right up front and center in their lineups. Austin’s Ume, no stranger to these parts, opened up the festivities. Georgia’s Kylesa…
It’s coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas’ Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 – 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What’s kind of crazy, though, is that, aside…
Eisley, The Narrative, Christie DuPreeGranada TheaterJune 4, 2011Better than: the band’s Good Records in-store performance a few months back.Two-thirds of the way through Eisley’s 70-minute, Saturday night offering at the Granada Theater, the band, which had already performed a mostly tight, swirling set up to this point, unleashed quite the…
So, this morning, Joe Jonas, after months of threatening to do so, released the lead single off his upcoming full-length album, which is pertinent news to us here in Dallas because, like seemingly every other Disney-backed teen star of the post-millennium, the middle JoBro’s family calls the Dallas area home…
Hope Adele’s break-up songs have helped y’all learn how to cope with loss, because this one might hurt a little bit: After already having canceled five shows (Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland) due to problems with laryngitis, the singer, who is straight destroying the Billboard charts these days,…
Almost two years after the announcement of its inception, a year and a half after its uh, let’s say perplexing launch, a good year after it started openly looking for a program director and, oh, six months or so after the shitstorm that was #kxtfail, it seems that the folks…
The Granada’s pitching a cool concept surrounding their Peter Bjorn & John concert tonight. They’re throwing what they’re calling an “indie crawl,” in which they encourage concert attendees to check out this evening’s “official pre-party” for the PB&J show at Smile Smile’s Patio Sessions performance at ATTPAC (and sponsored by…
Chances are, you probably haven’t heard of R. Stevie Moore. And, yes, that’s something of a disgrace. Since 1968, the dude has recorded over 400 albums worth of material, all in his bedroom, most on cassette and CD-R. For the most part, it’s great, lo-fi stuff, running the gamut from…
Speaking of Maleveller (kind of): Aside from being the cherry atop the clear choice for local bill of the night tonight, the brooding metal quartet’s gig at La Grange tonight comes with a little extra news — namely, the fact that it’s looking like it will be the band’s final…
Two years after the release of her sophomore (and breakout) album, Actor, the Dallas-born guitar heroine Annie Clark, who performs hauntingly gorgeous music under the name of St. Vincent, has just announced that her third full-length album, Strange Mercy, will be released via the 4AD label on September 13. As…
There once was a band called Ishi. In fact, there still is. Just a very different one. The raucous electro-sleaze outfit was dealt a major blow last week when co-vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien left the band. After spending the past year helping Ishi emerge as one of…
Tower Records is a record store chain that once had a shop in Dallas. Last we checked, the old building where it was housed was going to be turned into an appliance store, although nothing of the sort has happened yet. (But, for what it’s worth, Wilonsky swears he saw…
Back in April, a big reveal from fast-rising Dallas-based producer and genuine good dude Symbolyc One: In the wake of blowing the eff up thanks to his production work on Kanye West’s “Power,” he had a couple more gigs lined up with Kanye and a few other artists you may…
Back in early February, you may recall, Police drummer Stewart Copeland came to Dallas to deliver something of a treat: the live debut of his Dallas Symphony Orchestra-commissioned drum concerto, “Gamelan D’Drum.” And boy was it a treat: Our own Darryl Smyers called the performance, all of which was centered…
Among the many clips still posted online from last night’s streaming My Morning Jacket album-release concert in Louisville, Kentucky, is the above clip of the band being being joined on stage, as expected, by one Erykah Badu, which, yes, is something we’ve seen around here before. Once again, the Queen…
It’s time for your weekly local music grab bag, y’all…..
Back in March, The Paper Chase’s mastermind and frontman, John Congleton, gave us the scoop: His old band was all but dead. But a new one, called The Nighty Nite, was coming up to replace it. As for what people could expect: “I don’t think anybody’s going to be super…
Last we heard from two-time Grammy-winning, Dallas-based sibling production duo Play-N-Skillz, they were taking over the world with their David Guetta collaboration, “Where Dem Girls At?” and prepping the release of an upcoming EP called Alter Egos. Turns out they had something else to do first — release a new…
Home by Hovercraft is piano-driven indie-pop outfit that, apparently, was once from Dallas, then moved away to Austin (duh) and then Brooklyn (of course) and is now back with a new EP called Seams to promote. They’re OK, I guess. But this poster? This poster is pretty freaking awesome…
Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were two years…
Last night, within 15 minutes of Your Dallas Mavericks putting the final nail in the coffin of Game Five of the Western Conference Finals and clinching their trip to the NBA Finals, not one, but two, local hip-hop artists had posted new pro-Mavs tracks to Twitter. Technically, B-Hamp (remember him?)…
I’ll be perfectly honest with you guys: I kind of hated the debut full-length from Fergus & Geronimo. Unlearn, in my eyes, was far too jokey, far too hokey and far too wannabe Zappa-esque. Live, it fared better, but, on record, it was like former Dentonites Andrew Savage and Jason…
