The Recording Academy and T-Mobile present Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Granada Theater Better Than: Trolling around on facebook all night long, waiting for your friends to finish up their turn in a game of Scrabulous. Last night was the second time I’d attended a Kid…
Jordan Barrick When Dallas playwright Lacey Lalene Lynch asked Jordan Barrick to provide music for her show Reason for Referral, the acoustic singer-songwriter was eager to help. Reading the script for her play, which is about three college theater students dealing with the apparent link between their creativity and mental…
…oh, oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore. If anyone knows Maria Elena Holly, the widow of Buddy who happens to live in the Turtle Creek area, they might wanna pass along this exceptional find: Eric Clapton covering the Lubbock legend’s immortal songs “Maybe Baby” and “Peggy Sue,” both of which…
Real Texas. Real music. Word just came down that we have three pairs of three-day passes to the Real. Texas. Festival. to give away on this here blog. If you want to spend your weekend watching Chris Cagle, Stoney LaRue and Dallas’ own The Killdares, shoot me an email with…
You’ll see my full-length review of Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s debut disc, You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into, in this week’s paper. Short story: I really enjoyed the electro-dance outfit’s entire album, but I really, really dug the cheesier, ballad-like efforts. This track, which the the…
The Recording Academy–you know, the folks behind the Grammy Awards–are throwing a big bash at the Granada tonight in conjunction with some T-Mobile Sidekick promotion. The show will feature normally big-time draws Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson, either of whom could probably sell out the theater. Only this show is…
White Light Fever. Mickey Branton, bassist for local psychedelic rock act White Light Fever, tells us the band has completed their second effort and is preparing for an onslaught of summer performances. Count All Your Father’s Wealth is set for release in late June and the band members have been…
Caleb Shreve is something of a local; he lives in Lone Oak which is way the hell out east on I-30, past Greenville and some big lake. Anyway, his classmates at good ol’ Lone Oak High think he’s something of a talent–they’ve honored him with the coveted “Most Talented Musician”…
Lauren Conrad of The Hills fame. …or, at least, their song “Woah Oh (Me Vs. Everyone)” was. The Dallas-based group’s song, like, totally came on and rocked the soundtrack to the show when LC, Lo and Audrina were getting ready to go out to their new favorite Thursday night hotspot,…
The Shackeltons are a a five-piece indie rock act from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They’ve got an interesting sound; I read somewhere (I forget where) that their sound is somewhere between Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the Talking Heads. Sounds like a big range, but it fits — to the tune, I…
Third String Productions, the folks who brought the emo-fest South By So What?! to Plano last month, have another huge day of music lined up for next weekend. The New Noise Music Festival looks a lot more promising than South By So What, as there is considerably more diversity in…
So we’re a little behind on this–by, like, a whole year. But we just came across this video, in which Big Al Dupree schools us on Deep Ellum in its heyday(s). According to the description, the vid was created 16 years ago–well before the entire hullabaloo going on now (but…
OK, so I’m not a struggling musician–but I’ve heard the story many times about how hard it is to make some bank in the local arena. Some places take this much of a cut; other places say they’ll only take that much of a cut–but end up paying shit. And…
Experimental act Negativland will perform what Mark Hosler, one of the group’s founding members, admits is a fairly out-there, challenging show tomorrow night. That not too surprising to those familiar with Negativland’s history. For years the band has made headlines for things only tangential to their musical output: copyright infringements,…
B&BL will be skating all over town. Hey! Stop moping around about Cat Power, jackass. Chan Marshall’s cancellation is actually a blessing in disguise, folks…you were gonna be spread out super thin if you tried to catch her show in addition to the other three huge, must-see events happening in…
It’s distasteful to rip musical acts donating their time to perform for a worthy cause. So we’ll just say that this Sunday night, Naked Mom on the Lawn, GOAT, Imaginary Friends, Daddy Dub and Bill’s Clinton will light up the Torch Lounge, 5361 Sears at Greenville Avenue, and DFW NORML…
Bad news, Cat Power fans. Chan Marshall’s hurt her vocal chords and, as a result, Saturday night’s gig at the Palladium Ballroom’s been canceled. We’ll keep our ears open for details on a possible reschedule. –Pete Freedman…
Plexus Loom (Khurk) Sounds like local lo-fi gothic combo Plexus Gloom are breaking in a new bass player and thinking about a southbound move. Leader Jason Clyde Reed says the band has become disenchanted with the local scene: “After moving to Spain for three years where we performed regularly to…
Area music fans are gonna be force-fed a whole lot of the pretty awesome Austin-based psych rock quartet Lions over the next month-and-a-half. The band’s playing twice throughout the region on Saturday–first at the Good Records birthday party, and then later that night at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton for that…
On April 19, 1897, a great airship reportedly crashed and exploded in Aurora, TX, destroying a windmill. Among the strange debris, townspeople reportedly found the body of the ship’s pilot. Though it was badly disfigured, they determined that it was an extraterrestrial–and then buried it in the town’s cemetery. Because…
We’re sure you’re pretty amped up about Saturday’s Good Records party. We know we are. But we’re also pretty stoked about the event happening the next day: The inaugural Mokah Music Summit and Showcase (M2S2). Originally the two events were both scheduled for Saturday. But after some discussion, the Mokah…
The 31st annual Dallas International Guitar Festival kicks off tomorrow and runs through Sunday. And, lookie here, we’ve got two pairs of day-passes (individual cost: $40) to the Dallas Market Hall event to give away. The first two people to email me with “Guitar Festival Tickets” in the subject line…
