Say what you want about South by Southwest: that’s it’s overrated, that it’s over-inflated, that it’s already jumped the shark… None of those statements are necessarily false, but there still remain a few absolute truths about the annual Austin music festival. Like the fact that it still has some clout…
Just sayin’. — Pete Freedman…
St. Vincent spills the beans. Everyone’s favorite Polyphonic Spree member-turned-Sufjanite, St. Vincent’s Annie Clark,was interviewed at length by the Pitchfork folks for a Q&A the site posted on Tuesday. The piece won’t change your life, although there are some interesting tidbits thrown in there, like: – Clark learned guitar while…
These guys trap reindeer? I would never, ever attempt to trap a Blitzen or any of his reindeer friends, but I would want to spread the word that tomorrow at 3 p.m., Good Records is hosting a free in-store with Blitzen Trapper. So you may want to tell the in-coming…
Does Record Hop look concerned? (Tony Wann) With South by Southwest right around the corner, area bands heading to Austin for the festival are scrambling to finalize their preparations. And at least one local act, Denton’s Record Hop, still has a fairly major unknown surrounding its impending trip southward: Will…
Our lists are frighteningly similar. And I don’t know how I feel about it. John Norris, meanwhile, seems giddy about her choices. I don’t know how I feel about that either. I definitely know, however, that this a perfect example of why MTV News has become a huge waste of…
Eddie’s under the weather. Looks like the guitar god has fallen a bit ill. Per the press release we just got from Live Nation, the reason for all the Van Halen cancellations is a suspicious mystery medical ailment of Eddie’s: “According to Eddie Van Halen’s physician, he is undergoing a…
Neeki Bey rocks the vote. With musical accompaniment from country-folk singer Annie Benjamin and CityChurch of Dallas music minister Neeki Bey, local playwright David Marquis will perform his new monologue, “The Purple Finger,” about the importance of hands-on democracy, at 7:30 tonight at CityGallery. (The term “purple finger” refers to…
Can’t we all just get along? In case you haven’t been over to Unfair Park yet today, Wilonsky spilled the beans on the fact that tonight’s Van Halen show has gone the way of the two before it on this tour, just as we’d feared. Everyone’s got the story by…
Airline’s got two shows this weekend (Jason Upshaw) It’s Friday already? Really? That’s a pleasant surprise. Guess it’s time to plan the weekend, then… Here are our top choices for must-see music shows around the Metroplex this weekend. As always, check our music listings and print version for more options…
60 or so bands played the Melodica Festival this weekend, and it would have been literally impossible to catch each and every performance during the three-night fest. Still, we ran ourselves ragged trying. The result: About 12 acts caught in full, another handful of performances seen mostly in full, and…
Looks like, once upon a time in 1977, someone hoped to make a concert film out of a Genesis concert that, apparently was filmed here in Dallas. Now someone’s taken the liberty of posting the unreleased footage of the film, apparently called Seconds Out, onto YouTube. And we, in turn,…
Hey, CBS 11? 1999 called. It wants it’s rave party scare story back. — Pete Freedman…
You’ve really got to hand it to NBA referee Bob Delaney. Guy’s got balls. In the ’70s, just a year and a half into his stint as a young state trooper in New Jersey, Delaney took up a special assignment to infiltrate the mob. The most shocking thing he did,…
Oh, nostalgia. A good decade or so after both NOFX and No Use for a Name’s heyday, the Fat Wreck Records label mates are still ticking, still touring and still making mall punk music with lewd, punny song titles. Just last year, NOFX released a new live CD, They’ve Actually…
Warning: Parts of the following interview were lost in translation. Blame any number of determining factors—wavering cell signals, a weak intercontinental phone connection, thick French-accented English and an interviewer who doesn’t speak a lick of French. Just don’t blame Gaspard Augé. Augé, who is half of the critically acclaimed French…
At its best, this past weekend’s Melodica Festival was inspiring and, well, surprisingly engrossing. At its worst, it was inaccessible, self-indulgent and pretty boring. Now, in the days following the event, the most appropriate summary of this three-day Exposition Park/Deep Ellum affair lies somewhere in the middle of that spectrum,…
The Redwalls (Patti Farfan) The Chicago-based band The Redwalls is currently touring the country in support of its self-titled album, which was release last October. With a sound that evokes British bands past and present and a look that does the same, The Redwalls are another in a long line…
Badu and Co. on stage…as seen from a crappy camera phone. (Pete Freedman) Erykah Badu and friends… February 26, 2008 House of Blues, Dallas Better Than: Staying home, watching American Idol and really pulling for that kid with the dreads. It took a bit for Erykah Badu to hit the…
It’s Dave Chappelle…bitch! Quia’s gonna be checking in first thing tomorrow morning with a review of tonight’s Erykah badu show at the House of Blues, but before she does, we’ve got to mention something else of note: In addition to a slew of big names we already knew Erykah was…
No? OK then… If you’re not going to tonight’s House of Blues show, you’ll want to watch VH-1 Soul tonight at 8 to catch Ms. Badu’s Storytellers performance. After a write-up about tonight’s show for tomorrow’s blog, we promise we’ll stop might consider backing off Erykah for a bit. –…
Erykah Badu at Bill’s Records. (Hal Samples) The crowd was somewhere between antsy and bored in anticipation of Erykah Badu’s arrival at Bill’s Records last night. Then again, the crowd probably felt a bit out of place–it’d be tough to say for certain that any of the people in the…
