Tomorrow Night, The Door Will Look Fabulous

Models and clothes like this will be on display at The Door tomorrow. (Nice.) Tomorrow night, The Door in Deep Ellum will be filled with skinny, pretty, intricately styled people, and on this occasion it won’t just be emo boys. The Pin Show is a showcase of local fashion talent,…

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club To Perform At Club Dada? Looks Like It.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…at Dada? (Tessa Angus) Looks like Dada’s keeping up on its promise to “create an A-plus venue, a kickass place for live music”–at least on the booking side of things. If you head on over to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Myspace page, you’ll see something of interest…

DOMA XX: Best Label Nominees

With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Label Idol Records Kirtland Records Good Records Gutterth Records TXMF Records An interesting competition, as one seems on here just because of name recognition and…

How To: Do The Rackdaddy

We’ve been keeping you up to date on Fat Pimp, the Warner Bros.-signed local hip-hop product who’s been scorching the airwaves of K104 (104.5 KKDA-FM) all summer long with his song “Rack Daddy,” which implores you to dance along with him and, well, “do the Rack Daddy.” Sure, but how?…

DOMA XX: Best Record Store Nominees

With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Record Store CD World Recycled Books Strawberry Fields Bill’s Records Good Records The good news: No Best Buys, Walmarts, iTunes or Amazons here, thank God…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, July 8, 2008

We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. Some are left over from previous music editors, others fell by the wayside because they were trumped week after week by albums that…

Old 97’s Grace The Cover Of Texas Music Quarterly

And, uh, they sure look happy to be there, eh guys? Um… The seven-and-2/3-page piece is basically a primer of the Old 97’s’ history leading up to this point in its career, with Blame It On Gravity, which also happens to be the band’s best-charting release (its currently sitting at…

Bonus MP3: Scott Johnson — “King Kong Heart”

Just to clarify: Jesse Hughey didn’t hate Cleburne hip-hop artist Scott Johnson’s new disc, Clutch. The last line in his review, “He just needs a ‘delete’ button,” was meant to explain that Johnson should cut down his 25-track effort to its best efforts only in order for this disc to…

Weekend Roundup: Vans Warped Tour, Much?

Well, if we’re talking about the music scene last weekend then we’re talking about the Vans Warped Tour. So, instead of trying to scrounge up a bunch of cover bands and also-rans, we here at Weekend Roundup thought we’d give you a taste of what was going on over at…

Poster of the Week: Kaboom!

We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians work together,…

DOMA XX: Best Cover/Tribute Act Nominees

With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Cover/Tribute Act – Hard Night’s Day – The King Bucks – Holy Diver – Black and Blue – Boys Named Sue Like the Best Song…

Chart News: Lovato, Simpson Rock Billboard‘s Hot 100

Interesting stuff, if only as an eyebrow-raiser, since I’m fairly certain that no one who reads this blog is actually interested in listening to these songs, but it should be noted that Dallas’ own Jessica Simpson and Demi Lovato are respectively sitting at Nos. 65 and 9 on this week’s…

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Warped Tour Passes

So maybe this is coming a little bit late in the game since the Warped Tour events over at Superpages.com Center are already well underway, but it’s gonna be going on all day anyway, so whatever: We’ve got two pairs of passes to the shindig to give away. Email me…

Ghost In The Machine

I don’t think I’m pretty enough to hang at Ghostbar. Not with the likes of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Nor, I assume, the guy this event’s press release calls “the Brad Pitt of Mexico.” And I’m certainly not in Biz Markie’s league…uh, wait. Really? Biz can get in? Well, OK…