After having spent two weeks laid up in an Arizona hospital, heavily sedated and suffering from severe pneumonia, Lance Yocom’s family received some incredibly positive news today regarding the Spune Productions owner and North Texas music scene mainstay’s condition. This morning, after doctors removed from Yocom the IV drip he’s…
Considering that this upcoming September 11th will serve as the ten-year anniversary of the day the Twin Towers fell, the fact The Atlantic is using its September issue to look back on 9/11 isn’t all that surprising. The fact that the highly regarded publication asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller…
The announcement yesterday from 46-year-old Connecticut-based sculptor Daniel Edwards — that he’d created a (mostly) nude sculpture of teenage music superstars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, and that it would soon be put on public display in an adult store right here in Dallas — might have been a surprising…
Digitalism, Jackbeats and DestructoGranada TheaterAugust 9, 2011Better than: waking up to this morning’s alarm clock. At some point in the 10 o’clock hour last night at the Granada Theater, Destructo, who not only served as the opening touring act on this bill but also as one of the entire so-called…
Mike Snider is sick of area musicians dying. Worse, he’s sick of seeing how the whole community comes together in the wake of a death — not because there’s anything wrong with that, he’s quick to say, but because he doesn’t understand why we can’t show up in the same…
Not sure whether this is creepy, amazing or both, but, alas, a “famed” sculptor named Daniel Edwards — responsible for such past classics as a nude Paris Hilton playing with her dog and a nude Britney Spears giving birth on her hands and knees — has gone and created a…
I just spent way too much time scouring the Internet for a clip of the classic 1999 Saturday Night Live send-up of Behind The Music where Chris Kattan, playing John Oates, riffs on the fact that, yes, it was very much his idea to add in the handclap parts to…
Much has been made — by us, even — about The Burning Hotels’ new sound of late, and how far a cry it is from the band’s poppy (and highly enjoyable) post-punk origins. Indeed, their new New Wave-oriented output is an obvious change for the outfit. But Chance Morgan and…
It’s finally here: Watch The Throne, the much-anticipated, album-long collaboration between hip-hop luminaries and best friends forever Jay-Z and Kanye West, earned its iTunes release today after having been revealed to a handful of people during a listening party at the American Museum of Natural History in New York over…
While vacationing in Arizona a couple weeks back, Spune Productions owner Lance Yocom checked himself into a Flagstaff hospital with flu-like systems and a fever of over 100 degrees. Problem is, doctors have had difficulty determining what, exactly, was the specific cause of his condition.Since early last week, he’s remained…
Sundress, Dove Hunter, Chris CatalenaDouble WideAugust 4, 2011Better than: Vice’s Dos and Don’ts To be clear: Last night’s show at The Double Wide, despite boasting The Black Angels’ name in bold print, wasn’t a Black Angels show. It was a show “curated” by The Black Angels, the fine print for…
Sometimes, the best ideas are the simplest ones. Aaron Eiland, clearly, knows this well…
Over on Unfair Park, Robert’s been geeking out, and rightfully so, about The Relatives, the Rev. Gean West’s 1960s West Dallas funk and gospel outfit that really, truly, shoulda been contenders but, alas, never were — not until recently, really, when, of all places, Austin (bastards!) started claiming the act…
Over on Pitchfork — just now — Preteen Zenith is sharing a stream of a new song. And, yes, finally, it’s a new song, not one of those largely confusing teases they’d been sharing, which combined a number of tracks into megamixes of sorts. Called “Breathe,” the song’s a rather…
Friend of the Program Mike Brooks was out and about in Deep Ellum on Friday night, toting his trusty camera along as he bounced around from venue to venue, snapping up shots of all things visually interesting and arresting. In particular, he found himself holed up at Trees for a…
Alan Palomo is nothing if not creative. The mastermind behind Neon Indian (and VEGA and Ghosthustler before it) always seems up to something to push boundaries, be it in Neon Indian’s helping blaze the chillwave genre trail or in the visual aspect of its live shows and music videos.Today, Palomo’s…
Not too much more to report on the Kings of Rip Off Leon front today; we already know that the band has canceled all remaining dates on their U.S. tour and that the rest of the band may or may not be encouraging lead singer Caleb Followill to enter rehab…
If there was a silver lining to the fact that Kings of Leon had to cut their Friday night set at Gexa Energy Pavilion short because lead singer Caleb Followill was “overheated” (right…), it was this: The band’s promised rescheduled performance set for September 21 was setting itself up to…
Since the names of some of Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011’s performers started leaking in mid-July, we’ve been sharing with you the info, a good chunk of which has been fairly exciting — like Odd Future and M83 and, of course, the almighty Slayer, just to name a few of…
For the past few weeks, the Family Band-ers in Dallas’ Fox & The Bird have been on the road, taking part in their largest tour to date, all of which is meant to promote Floating Feather, the band’s long-awaited debut release, which formally comes tonight with a celebratory performance at…
Just a little more than two months after the announcement that vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien were leaving the adored area electronic act Ishi to start a project of their own, the twosome is ready to unveil their new sound.Called Zhora, the group’s sound picks up at a…
Fortune Field’s a pretty new band on the scene, one that combines some rootsy elements with a little bit of a rock influence — and well enough, we’d say, where you should pretty much immediately elevate these dudes to “Local Band to Watch” status in your little black book. Because,…
