Just last night, the great Willie Nelson was in town to perform a gig at the Morton H. Meyerson Center and raise funds for LaunchAbility, a Dallas-based organization that provides services to assist both children and adults with developmental disabilities. Good guy, that Willie, doing some good here in the…
Yesterday, we caught up with Jared Swilley, bass player for Atlanta’s The Black Lips, to talk about the band’s upcoming, sixth studio release, as well as a number of other things, in advance of his band’s performance alongside Vivian Girls tonight at The Loft. And, promised Swilley, yes, you can…
Back in August of 2009, the uptown ultralounge known as Suite closed down its operations — and rather suddenly, you may recall. But the club’s Travis Street location wasn’t vacated for too long: Back in February of this year, the space was up and running once more during Super Bowl…
At least one good thing came out of Dallas garage punk duo Leg Sweeper’s appearance at Good Records’ Record Store Day party a few weekends back — the fact that Parade of Flesh’s John Iskander was able to use the performance for the bulk of the above live performance music…
She’ll take on the big stage at Gexa Energy Pavilion (nee Starplex, a million other names) on August 4, but, last night, the unavoidable pop star known as K-E-Dollar Sign-Ha! stopped by the House of Blues in Dallas last night, playing before a jam-packed crowd for a show that sold…
We tried — really — but to no avail. We weren’t getting into the not-so-secret garage show the Foo Fighters played in Dallas last night. It came as part of the Blackberry-backed promotional tour where the band is playing their fan’s garages in celebration of their new album, Wasting Light,…
Well, that secret Foo Fighters show? We tried like the dickens to find out where it was. No luck. Band’s publicist said she had no idea herself — just that it’s somewhere in Dallas.And, if Twitter is to be believed, we got started kind of late in our inquiries –…
Atlanta’s The Black Lips formed as teenagers, right before the turn of the millennium. Just a year or two later, while still in high school, the punk-influenced, retro-obsessed four-piece started touring. And they’ve never really looked back. Seemingly more comfortable on the road than at home, the band’s pretty much…
Two weeks ago today, the Foo Fighters released their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, a disc that has fans going bonkers and critics continuing to hail the band as one of the great rocks acts of its generation.Deservedly so: Recorded in Foo leader Dave Grohl’s garage — despite the band…
Lots of news coming down the pipeline today on the local music video front, as two longtime area favorites debut new music videos and a third act — once a local, then not a local, and now a local once more — gets a little shine in the form of…
Some news to pass along this morning on the fast-approaching HomeGrown Music and Art Festival front: After including The Riverboat Gamblers in its initial lineup announcement back in March, the band is now officially off the bill, having backed out due to a scheduling conflict. No matter: Local music obsessives…
Sleigh Bells, CSSGranada TheaterApril 22, 2011Better than: sticking around for the headliner, apparently. Perhaps it was to be expected given the circumstances at the Granada Theater on Friday night — Sleigh Bells, who couldn’t be hotter at the moment but only have 35 minutes of material, had to tour with…
It’s already been a heck of a year for Denton’s Seryn. Right around the turn of the calendar year, after numerous delays, the band finally got around to releasing their anticipated debut record, This Is Where We Are. And the sprawling, uplifting affair, the disc proved well worth the wait,…
White space! Crisp imagery! Sharp lettering! Popsicles!…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, it turns out, is a man of his word. At the start of the calendar year, Coyne, in a sit-down with Rolling Stone, said that his band, in part inspired by Kanye West, would be releasing music on a monthly basis in 2011, be it…
Fitz & The TantrumsHouse of Blues’ Cambridge RoomApril 20, 2011Better than: a child throwing a tantrum in a public place. As if the band’s name alone didn’t already imply it, Los Angeles’ buzzing rock ‘n’ soul outfit, Fitz & The Tantrums, still riding high from a successful 2011 South by…
Years from now, when historians look back on the Naughts with abundant curiosity, pondering how, despite numerous advances in technology, the lo-fi aesthetic made such a big comeback, this tour could serve as the main study. It is, after all, an offering up of the sound’s two biggest purveyors—even if,…
Here’s a dirty little secret: The local music rallying cry is the same in every city. “There’s so much talent here!” fans of local bands everywhere whine to the barely listening masses. “If only people would start supporting the scene, then it could grow!” Ugh. Words like that are cloying…
Not gonna lie: The first time I heard Freelance Whales’ “Hannah,” with its quirky electronic flourishes, sentimental lyrics and cutesy vocal delivery, I was fairly certain that it was some new Owl City single. And, ever since, I’ve had trouble deciding if that was a good or bad thing for…
A-Trak, Kid Sister, The Gaslamp KillerTreesApril 19, 2011Better than: a rousing game of DJ Hero. There weren’t any grand entrances at Trees last night. Mostly, there were just transitions.And, in many regards, that was fitting. This show, after all, was curated by a DJ — one of the best, actually…
Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, “totally killer.”Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to “harsh your mellow” and all, but, um, some of us don’t work behind the counter at the local…
Seems the Los Angeles Times wasn’t altogether sure what to make of the performance Dallas’ Own Erykah Badu offered up at Coachella on Saturday; critic Gerrick D. Kennedy, in his review of her set, seemed equally enthralled and annoyed by the neo-soul songstress and current Vibe cover model’s notorious tendencies…
