Tomorrow, via its MySpace page, Waco-based hip-hop collective Strange Fruit Project, which has about a bajillion impressive collaborations to its name, not the least of which includes Erykah Badu and Little Brother, will release a new, free-to-download EP entitled M.A.S.K. (short for Making Art Sound Kool). Last week via Twitter,…

When Eisley stops in to play The Door on Wednesday night, it will be something of a homecoming for the Tyler-based DuPree family band. “I remember playing The Door way back,” lead Eisley vocalist and keyboardist Stacy DuPree offers over the phone from a tour stop in Maryland. Suddenly, she’s…

Well, it’s Friday the 13th again, folks. Hope you’ve planned ahead and set aside 13 bucks for a “13” tattoo at Oliver Peck’s Elm Street Tattoo. As for your show-going plans. Well, we’ve got your collective procrastinating backs. First, the shows we’ve already hyped.Tonight, for instance, has a ton of…

The Brooklyn-based indie poppers in Bishop Allen stop through Lola’s Sixth in Fort Worth tomorrow night as part of a tour in support of its March-released Grrr…, the band’s third full-length since its Charm School debut in 2003–and, surely, its more ubiquitous. Take, for instance, “The Ancient Commonsense of Things”…

In what might be the best self-deprecating way to describe one’s own music that we’ve heard, Joel Gibbs, frontman and mastermind behind Canada’s The Hidden Cameras, refers to his own band’s output as “gay, church folk music.” Which is pretty awesome, yes, but, sure enough, sorta accurate. The band’s oddball…

Yesterday, you’ll recall, we gave out five pairs of tickets to tomorrow night’s CF Benefit Concert at the Granada Theater featuring Rhett Miller, The O’s and Shibboleth. And those tickets? Well, they went pretty darn fast, actually.So lucky for you then that, as promised, we’ve got three more pairs up…

As should be expected from a nine-time Grammy-winner, Miss Jones gave a fine performance of the first single off her upcoming The Fall last night on The Late Show. Hey, I dunno, you think Letterman’s a fan?…

On Saturday night, Rhett Miller will headline the third annual cystic fibrosis research benefit show at the Granada Theater, which will also feature performances from local favorites The O’s and Shibboleth. In this week’s paper, I caught up with Rhett, who last night ended a tour in the UK opening…

…and for the Youtube inclined, here’s your link.Last week, we welcomed the four young Denton gents in This Old House to Hal Samples’ SPACE Studio for what, turns out, will be the final episode of the DC9 in SPACE series. We’ll still have regular tapings with local bands, mind you–just…

Earlier this year, when Crystal Antlers stopped by Sons of Hermann Hall, Daryl was floored by the band’s dense and psychedelic offerings. Just this weekend at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Jesse was taken aback by the band’s “psychedelic mishmash of rock, pop and pure energy.” So it stands to reason,…

Lots happening this weekend–a surprising amount, actually–so let’s cut all semantics and jump right into the shows that need to be added to your weekend calendar considerations. First, some reminders of the shows we’ve already mentioned in this week’s coverage.Tonight’s especially packed, with the show at The Lounge on Elm…

For a few years now, Denton’s Avery Williamson has been creating music under his Fizzy Dino Pop moniker, mostly existing in a computer-generated emo-core realm, combining eight-bit samples and sounds with angsty, often-screamed vocals for a sound that was certainly mind-boggling but also oddly tempting. In a change of pace,…

In this week’s paper, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs takes a look at the path taken by The Crash That Took Me–one that’s run through past area favorites [DARYL], Black Tie Dynasty and Macavity–to get to where it is today, a seven-piece piece on the brink of releasing its sophomore album.In…

Really can’t say I’m the biggest fan of this rather bland singer-songwriter fare from local performer Tim Miller, but, man, if the above clip ain’t slick. Posted to Youtube a couple months back and uploaded to Vimeo earlier today, the video for “Who I Am,” which is apparently a hidden…

Tomorrow night at the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth, Memphis alt-country favorites Lucero stop on in for a performance as part of its tour in support of the recently released album, 1372 Overton Park. To a degree, the new release is a change of pace from the bar-rock fare the…

Tonight’s show at The Lounge on Elm Street (which now has its liquor license back, by the way) has the potential to be among the best of the year–or so Daniel Rodrigue said in this week’s paper when previewing tonight’s show:In what’s likely to be remembered as one of the…

Chances are, right now, Gini Mascorro is listening to music. Not necessarily by choice, mind you, but, at least in part, out of necessity. That’s because, come Monday morning, Mascorro’s musical tastes—and, to a degree, her personal music collection—will be thrown into the proverbial fire, put out in the open…