Dallas’ Lisa Loeb is known for a few things — talking “so” all the time, only hearing what she wants to, thinking that she can leave and later realizing that she was wrong, thinking that what she feels is simple — but, most of all, she’s probably known for her…
For over a decade now, Alain Macklovitch has been a prominent name in the DJ world. But winning the Disco Mix Club’s Wold DJ Championship in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy was just the start of what was to come from the guy who performs under the name of A-Trak…
Since posting our call for interns a few weeks back (and, before you ask, yes, we’re still accepting applications), more than a few members of the DC9 faithful have reached out, noting that, though they are not a college student qualified to be our intern this summer, they too would…
By the time 10 o’clock struck along Lowest Greenville on Saturday morning, the line of people waiting to get into Good Records stretched well past the confines of the store’s parking lot — and the music planned to take place over the course of the day within the store hadn’t…
It’s Monday, which means (as you’d know if you were paying attention last week), it’s time to give out another pair of tickets to the upcoming second annual Homegrown Music and Art Festival, whose lineup is oh-so-choice this year. And, sure enough, that means there’s another viral video to share,…
It’s a good time of the year to be a sports fan. The NBA playoffs are under way, the baseball season has begun, and — yes! — the final season of Friday Night Lights is back on NBC.And, would you know it, two of those things showcased some local music…
Tomorrow, as you now doubt are well aware by now, is the fourth annual official Record Store Day, in which we all get together and celebrate the brick-and-mortar shops that have managed to survive through the economy and the Internet stealing all of the action.But, really, just how bad are…
Brand names popping up in hip-hop is hardly a new trend — see, for instance, “Pass The Courvoisier” or countless other tracks. And songs in hip-hop about shoes — and, specifically, Nike shoes — isn’t new, either.So maybe it’s not exactly a surprise that Dallas rapper Dorrough has jumped in…
Good news and bad news, True Widow fans. First, the bad news: A family matter is taking bass playing Nicole Estill out of town this weekend, thus forcing the band off of the bill for tomorrow’s Record Store Day and 11th anniversary celebration at Good Records. They’ve been replaced on…
Titus Andronicus’ phenomenal 2010 release, The Monitor, is a fairly dense album — not necessarily because of its visceral combination of punk aesthetic with indie rock instrumentation, but because of its subject matter, which centers around the Civil War. So it’s quite fitting then, that the Andrew Findley of Asheville,…
Record Store Day — you know, the day when everyone puts down their laptops, logs off of Amazon or iTunes (or, uh, MediaFire), and heads off to support their local brick-and-mortar record store — is fast approaching. Just two days off now, even. In this week’s paper, Daniel Hopkins purveys…
It seems like Soviet has been around longer, but the band first appeared on the scene only in January. Boy, did they ever make a splash upon arrival: With the release of their Forever Today EP, the lo-fi, garage-punk outfit, then a three-piece, filled the void left by the hiatus…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is an interesting character made only more interesting by the fact that he drives around town in an SUV wrapped with images of the downtown skyline and himself. And that’s saying nothing of his cornrows and bowties. Dude’s ballin’. Which is why it’s kind…
After the jump, the Avett Brothers’ Scott Avett explains that, due to the impending birth of his second child, he and the rest of the band will be canceling their swing through Texas this weekend — meaning that Dallas, along with Austin and Houston, will get no Avett show this…
Austin’s David Ramirez, who Paste magazine once called “the best damn songwriter you don’t know yet,” if his website is to be believed, is no stranger to Dallas. Seems like the dude, who once upon a time attended Dallas Baptist University, is here every other month (at least) playing various…
Ryan Cabrera is a dude who was born in the Dallas area who used to date Ashlee Simpson and got signed to her father Joe Simpson’s management company and made something of a blip on the national pop culture radar in 2004, when his song “On The Way Down” started…
Not sure when it started being specifically “KXT 91.7’s annual summer concert series,” as the National Public Radio-backed music-centric station KKXT-91.7 is so proudly calling it today on its website, but, hey, here we are, heading into another summer, and, as has been the case for a few years now,…
Back in early March, you may recall, we pointed your attention toward this oh-so-incredible acoustic performance by the Toadies of their song “Tyler,” filmed and recorded on location at last year’s Dia de Los Toadies festival. Greatness. Meanwhile, in another world, LCD Soundsystem performed its last show ever about a…
The Raveonettes, TamarynGranada TheaterApril 11, 2011Better than: quoting the raven nevermore. After a hazy, ethereal opening set from the San Francisco-by-way-of-New York-based, Mexican Summer-signed Tamaryn, who provided a fine example of how to best use the Granada’s projection screens, what with their performance fully engulfed in encapsulating visuals, the stage…
Last week, the Morning News’ Rangers beat writer/columnist Evan Grant shared the music being used at the start of this baseball season by most of your Texas Rangers players — either at-bat music or welcome-to-the-mound stuff, naturally.The best news that wasn’t? Grant reported that catcher Mike Napoli was using “Teach…
In this week’s paper, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes, and discovered that the male half of the Danish duo is, like, totally bummed about not being as close to his partner-in-crime Sharin Foo as he used to be. Sad face.Fortunately, there’s a silver lining…
If there’s a good thing that’s come out of the recent spate of local musician deaths — and, yes, this is a stretch, practically inherently — it’s the positivity that’s come out of Deep Ellum and the music community as a whole, as these groups have joined together to share…
