After half an hour of sitting in the van after our show at El Cid, most of the band was fast asleep, leaving Kendall and me to the driving and navigation as we left Los Angeles for Denver. With the aid of some sleep-preventing pharmaceuticals, we took turns driving all…
Yes, I’m pumped about The Dark Knight. But that ain’t why I’m posting a picture of the late, great Heath Ledger as The Joker. No sirree. I’m doing it because we just got two pairs of tickets to give away to tonight’s Steve Miller Band and Joe Cocker show at…
Brothers & Sisters were down a few family members last night. (Aubrey Edwards) So, earlier today, you saw my review of last night’s show at the Granada, which was a fairly good time in my book. It was a big, fun, Austin-imported night. Now, a bonus… Actually, make that two…
In 2003, three 16-year-old kids channeled their love of old-school punk icons like The Ramones into an authentic reverence for classic ’60s pop. And, thus, Spector 45 was born. Now, the band’s members are finally hitting drinking age and they’re celebrating at Club Dada on Saturday night. Lead by Frankie…
The Black Angels, Brothers & Sisters, True Widow Granada Theater May 29, 2008 Better than: Getting stoned and watching the Discovery Channel back at your apartment. Download: Mr. Hal Samples snapped himself a bunch o’ shots of The Black Angels last night. Check ’em here. The blue back-lighting certainly didn’t…
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,…
In this week’s DC9 paper supplement, you’ll see that I wrote about the new album from Zanzibar Snails, a Denton noise experiment headed by Michael Chamy and Nevada Hill. (Despite how it appears in the paper, Zanzibar Snails is the band name and Brown Dwarf is the album name. Sorry,…
Dads of the Metroplex tired of receiving yet another pair of slippers that they won’t wear (or just another crappy card) for Father’s Day: This weekend at Delaney Vineyards in Grapevine, there’s an event suited for the adventurous Indiana Jones persona lurking in almost every proud papa. “A Texas Style…
The Austin-based Paul Green School of Rock, which served as the inspiration for the 2003 hit comedy School of Rock, will open the doors to its first Dallas area branch in June. The school, with its mission statement of “saving rock ‘n’ roll one kid at a time,” has already…
Only a paltry 22 viewers have taken in the delight that is this Youtube clip, which features Freddie King (Rolling Stone’s 25th greatest guitarist of all-time, mind you) performing in Dallas on January 20, 1973, just three years before he passed of a heart attack and ensuing complications in 1976…
When morning came in L.A., we began to get out of bed to find the house littered with the remnants of the night’s party. Stepping over bodies, beer cans and strewn instruments, a few members of the band gathered their stuff and headed up to Malibu where Lee has family…
His shoulders are slumped, his eyelids are heavy, and his gait is deliberate. Lil Wil, dressed in all black, looks a tired man. To his credit, the unassuming 21-year-old Dallas native, born Wil Martin, has been staying busy, working round the clock to promote his major label debut, Dolla$, TX,…
In a recent interview Jonathan Cook—frontman for the locally sprung, Universal Motown-backed emo-pop-punk act Forever the Sickest Kids—spoke what most would consider near blasphemy: “Dallas is the new Nashville,” he said. But when it comes to the cadre of emo-pop-punk acts like his that have major label deals (or might…
With only The Cavern’s tiny space to book in Dallas proper, Spune Productions ends up sending a large number of its more-attractive shows to the other points on the regional triangle. Case in point: Local H and Lions’ shared bill at Lola’s Saloon in Fort Worth. But unlike so many…
The I Love Math CD release party held at The Barley House last night was more like a CD get-together–which was perfectly OK. Nice, even. It was a relaxed, somewhat drunken affair as people kibbutzed over the sounds of the band’s yesterday-released disc, Getting To The Point Is Beside It…
Someone with the Nylon Summer Music Tour just posted this pretty funny, if wholly unnecessary, Youtube clip of the guys in Be Your Own Pet and The Virgins screwing around with a surplus of drumsticks while back stage here in Dallas for their House of Blues performance about a week…
You might’ve heard that A-Kon 19, which claims itself to be the oldest continually running Anime convention in North America, is going down at the Sheraton Dallas (formerly the Adam’s Mark) this weekend. You might’ve even heard the nerd-tastic news that the convention’s going for a doozie of a Guinness…
This week’s featured Soundcheck artist on the hip-hop-centric XXL Magazine’s Web site is Austin-based–er, rather, Garland-based emcee Bavu Blakes. Aside from the hometown nod, though, “Smiley Faces,” the song streamed alongside the Soundcheck blurb (which you can also download from Blakes’ Myspace page), has a couple of other local ties…
Carl Finch hollers into to the microphone at the 800 people in the Knights of Columbus Hall: “Everybody come out on the floor for the ‘Chicken Dance’!” The Saturday-night crowd challenged the hall’s capacity–just, it seems, to see Finch and the rest of Denton’s Brave Combo. There had already been…
So I return from the Memorial Day holiday to find a surprising announcement in my mailbox: Yaz has reunited for the first time in 25 years and is coming to the Lakewood Theater. Yeah, that Yaz (or Yazoo in the UK). Like, Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke (also of Depeche…
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…
The city of South Pasadena has passed an ordinance that prohibits smoking cigarettes in any public place–including sidewalks, street corners and parking lots. Mount Righteous, aghast, became aware of this reality as we pulled into the town late Thursday night. This was after we left Long Beach and went to…
