Vanilla IceTreesSeptember 19, 2009Better than: Cool As Ice, the movie. (It was called that right? Right.) Well, he sure took his time in getting out on stage. In fact, it wasn’t until almost 1 a.m. when, mercifully, Vanilla Ice finally showed his face to the too-large-to-be-believed crowd at Trees on…
Motorhead, Reverend Horton HeatPalladium BallroomSeptember 19, 2009Better than: playing poker with friends, just waiting on an ace of spades. Not to harp on the obvious here, but for a 63-year-old man, that Lemmy fella sure can rock.And, for well over an hour on Saturday night, the crowd at the Palladium…
You’ve read the review. Now check out photographer Gloria Levario’s slideshow set from Wednesday night’s performance right here…..
Tonight, Trees offers a pretty nice break from the early booking tendencies over at the storied, recently re-opened venue, as an all-local bill of Hoyotoho (performing DJ sets throughout the night), They Were Stars, The Orbans and Hendrick all come together on Elm Street to partake in a show celebrating…
Some interesting Will Johnson news pouring in this week, as the Centro-matic frontman’s keeping himself quite busy these days. Just a couple nights ago, in fact, a little birdie told me that Johnson, always the busy touring musician, is the newest addition to the Monsters of Folk lineup, joining in…
Yesterday, the folks at You and Yours Productions–the same people who’ve brought you the two latest videos from The Burning Hotels–released the above footage of Telegraph Canyon performing at Bass Hall, opening for the Old 97’s, from a few weeks back. It was a special night–and the clip, which boasts…
When we first met Dustin Cavazos, he was one half of the surprisingly interesting screamo-hop outfit Scuba Team Go, combining his creative beats with an even more inventive combination of styles. These days, though, the skate-hopper’s been focusing on his solo material, still creating his own immediately recognizable beats and…
Pitchfork today embedded the above video of Dallas native Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, performing a house show for the Paris-based La Blogotheque alongside her tourmate Andrew Bird earlier this year. There are five songs in the clip above–three from Bird to start the set, and two from Clark to…
Yesterday, the folks at The Fader posted the above clip to Youtube, showing the young gents and newly added lady in Neon Indian performing at the bar at Barcadia for a new video feature the magazine is calling “At The Bar With Southern Comfort.” Consider this performance a far cry…
Not gonna bore you with too many details here–we’ve already seen plenty of other special ticket price offers from Live Nation all summer long–but, anyway, here’s the latest one: For a one-time purchase price of $49.99, Live Nation is giving area music fans the opportunity to purchase a “Club Passport”…
Gotta hand it to VH1, I think. This fall season, MTV’s sister network is bringing back two of its music-centric staples from years past, and in turn, seriously upping the cable channels’ music coverage ante back to somewhat respectable (but still largely unacceptable) standards. Whereas Behind The Music has already…
The Mars VoltaPalladium BallroomSeptember 16, 2009Better than: Watching The Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time on cable. There was no opener at the Palladium last night. And, at the onset, there appeared no need. El Paso’s The Mars Volta launched into its set before an adoring, crowded room…
There were bigger names at the Monolith Festival last weekend—the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Of Montreal, Phoenix, Girl Talk, The Mars Volta—but deep within Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, in an indoor performance space with a limited audience capacity, Alan Palomo, Jason Faires and Leanne Macomber, who together perform as…
…and for the Youtube freaks, your link’s right here.Last week, two artists stopped by our weekly DC9 in SPACE taping in celebration of our 20th episode of the weekly installment. First up? The always cheerful Johnny Lloyd Rollins, who excitedly spoke about his upcoming record with the small crowd of…
In last week’s paper, I spoke at length with Macon Greyson about the band’s new record because, well, it’s good, and free, and worth your grabbing. But I also did so, in part at least, to preview the band’s show at the Green Elephant tonight with Springfield, Missouri’s Ha Ha…
Tomorrow night, the Granada Theater showcases what’s likely to be one of the best all-rock, all-local affairs of the year, as it hosts Dove Hunter, True Widow, The Boom Boom Box and Tre Orsi, all on the same bill. And here’s some more good news: I know for a fact…
In this week’s paper, I talked briefly about tonight’s Mars Volta show at the Palladium Ballroom…It’s been eight years since the break-up of At the Drive-In, the influential post-hardcore El Paso outfit that, post-dissolution, saw its members split off into the separate factions of Sparta and The Mars Volta.The former…
It might be on a smaller scale, but amidst all this to-do about The Burning Hotels’ appearance in the Vanessa Hudgens-fueled talkie Bandslam, let’s not forget: Another Fort Worth act got to the silver screen first. Last year’s AFI Dallas event saw two screenings of the film The Other Side…
It’s been almost a year-and-a-half, if you believe it, since Mount Righteous first (quite adorably) burst onto the local scene, immediately charming area music fans with its clever, punk-ish, acoustic, marching band-ish and ever-cheerful sound. Of course, that was just the live show, though. ‘Cause, you’ll surely recall, we dug…
Regular Unfair Park readers will already be hip to this news: In a press release sent out early this morning, KERA announced both the name (KKXT) and start-date (Monday, November 9) for the new all-music public radio station it’ll be broadcasting on 91.7 FM. But, more than that, the press release announced…
For that, I apologize. Bottom of my heart. Got caught in a whirlwind of flight issues yesterday while trying to come back from my trip to Colorado for a) a friend’s wedding, and b) Neon Indian’s performance at the Monolith Festival. You can read about the latter in this week’s…
Not the busiest weekend of shows around town this time around–which I’m OK with as I’m off to Colorado to visit friends and check out Neon Indian’s debut at Monolith on Sunday (and you thought we were done with them for the time being… ha!). But there are some cool…
