In case it isn’t already, go ahead and circle Thursday, July 7, in bright red ink on your nearest calendar. That, of course, is the night when Centro-matic will return to North Texas as part of their summer tour in promotion of their new album release, Candidate Waltz, for a…
Like The New York Times and Paste magazine before them, it looks like the folks at Southern Living magazine have gone and discovered Denton — or, as they and everyone else says when first writing about the college town, “maybe the next Austin!”Ugh.At least the folks at Southern Living had…
Speaking of fond memories of the Homegrown Festival,we’d now like to point your direction in a very nice clip our friends over at You+Dallas produced during the Homegrown Festival in Main Street Garden Park a few weekends ago. In the clip, which you can watch after the jump, you’ll see…
This weekend, when Ishi performs its as-scheduled set at the Double Wide on Sunday night, fans will no doubt notice something missing: Earlier this week vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien announced that they’re no longer in the massively popular area band, instead choosing to forge forward with their…
Last we checked in with the booking goings-on for the fourth annual Dia de Los Toadies festival, there were only three bands attached to the thing: The Sword, Ume and, of course, the Toadies themselves.Now, almost three months later, the fourth annual late August festival in New Braunfels (get your…
Down in Blanco this weekend, a rare treat: The New Bohemians — and, yes, with Edie Brickell — performed a gig, this one coming as part of a benefit concert held to help raise funds for the Blanco High School Band. And, lucky us, Friend of DC9 Mike Brooks was…
The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun and True WidowThe Loft May 21, 2011 Sure, Saturday night’s particularly droney triple-bill of The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun and True Widow may have taken place inside The Loft. But it hardly felt that way, instead feeling more like a spur-of-the-moment field party.Credit (or blame)…
There’s a definite aesthetic at play with Austin-based psych rockers The Black Angels — a droney, swirling sheen present in almost everything the band does. It’s very much intentional: Vocalist Alex Maas doesn’t like to say that his band is in the music industry so much as he likes to…
All week, over on Unfair Park, Robert’s been posting with way too much enthusiasm about Flula Borg, the German musician behind the bizarre, above-posted pro-Dirk Nowitzki jam, “His Name Is Dirk.” He even internationally dialed the musician and got some choice on-record quotes like this one about his inspiration for…
Surely, you already know this: Tonight at the Jack Daniel’s Saloon in the Gilley’s complex on South Lamar, we’re hosting the second installment of our free, monthly Locals Only! showcase of area bands. And tonight’s offering is pretty awesome, featuring two of our favorite up-and-coming area performers, Analog Rebellion and…
Yesterday, we shared with you the first part of our exclusive Q&A with Wayne Coyne, in which the Flaming Lips frontman discussed the future of the music industry, the importance of timely releases and how he came to discover Dallas’ A&R Records. Today, we bring you the second half of…
Halfway through our talk with KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge radio host Josh Venable, he excuses himself from the conversation.”Hold on for one second, I’ve got to do a break real fast,” he says, before pausing to clear his throat as the last notes of Jane’s Addiction’s “Jane Says” play in…
It’s a Thursday night in late March, a little more than a year removed from the Flaming Lips’ memorable free performance—complete with multiple power outages—at the 2010 35 Conferette in Denton. Frontman Wayne Coyne stands swallowed among a mass of fans in the aisles of Good Records on Lower Greenville,…
It’s a Saturday morning—one of those almost painfully beautiful ones—and Stan Getz is stuck inside a warehouse on Riverfront Boulevard. There are worse fates. Getz knows this firsthand. Just a few years back, the machines at A&R Records, the vinyl record press Getz owns and operates with the help of…
Maybe it’s just because this year’s offering didn’t come on as sweltering an afternoon as last year’s inaugural affair did—and, in turn, instead of staring down at my sweat-soaked shirt, I was glancing around at the visual splendor of downtown Dallas—but, man, Saturday’s second annual Homegrown Music and Art Festival…
In this week’s paper, something of a special treat: an exclusive interview with Wayne Coyne, frontman for noted Oklahoma’s psych-pop heroes The Flaming Lips. Coyne, as you may know, has been spending a whole lot of time in Dallas lately. And not just for his fairly standard trips to the…
So. The end of the world: It may or may not becoming this weekend. We’re still not really sure.This much we’re quite certain about, though: Nice timing on Cocky Americans’ part, releasing today the music video for their end-of-the-world-themed song, “2012.” Woo! Just in time for the apocalypse! It’s the…
Truly one of the seminal bands in Dallas history, The Nervebreakers’ heyday came way back in 1977 when the band got the chance to open up for a Dallas date with Ramones. Then, in 1978, they did the same for the Sex Pistols — and even got a mention in…
Three dudes who were once local but aren’t any longer — Will Johnson (Austin), Josh T. Pearson (Paris) and Robert Gomez (Seattle) — are up to some cool things of late. One just released a new EP. Another gets some lingering post-SXSW exposure. And the third needs your help in…
Astronautalis may actually call Jacksonville, Florida, his home base, but, as he told the crowds before during his Homegrown Festival performance on Saturday, he’s always considered Dallas a home, too. And, hey, we’re proud to call him our own, as well — especially after he dropped an insane seven and…
Last week, you may recall, we passed along word that our friends over at Gorilla Vs. Bear are going all legit and everything and throwing an honest-to-goodness music festival at the Granada Theater on Saturday, July 23. We knew, at the time, that Tim DeLaughter’s new band, Preteen Zenith, would…
We had some fun yesterday trying to guess the bill for the 2011 Austin City Limits Musical Festival — and, hey, we were right about Kanye West, if nothing else. Early this morning, the folks behind the festival announced for full lineup for their end-of-summer offering. And, as expected, the…
