In this week’s Observer, contributor John Hood just goes off, really, on how much enjoys the above song by Chairlift, which, you’ll surely recall upon hearing, was used liberally earlier this year as part of an iPod Nano campaign. But a sellout this song isn’t, Hood explains: “I can’t recall…
The Cavern’s concert calendar has been a little bit dry of late, but that changes somewhat this weekend with Saturday night’s lineup of Throw Me The Statue, The Brunettes and Nurses rolling through town as part of an impressive touring triple-bill. In this week’s paper, contributor Chris Parker champions the…
Tonight, the rabscallions known ’round town as the Boys Named Sue will stop on by Sons of Hermann Hall–with The King Bucks in tow–to host a CD release party in celebration of the Sues’ latest release, The Hits, Vol. Sue! The new disc, released on Idol Records, is classic Sues–which…
In a press release sent out Thursday night, Bowling for Soup revealed the details of its upcoming album, Sorry For Partyin’. Oh, and it unveiled more details about its crotch-shot of a music video, “My Wena”… Far as the album’s concerned, the pop-punk band’s tenth release will see the light…
We knew a new album was coming in November, but, this week, UNT and Booker T. Washington alum Norah Jones released a few more details pertaining to her upcoming fourth studio record.The album will be released on November 17, and will be called The Fall. And, furthermore, common sense would indicate that…
Looks like Telegraph Canyon’s not the only Fort Worth-based act garnering some serious praise from a respected out-of-town outlet today: This morning, the UK-based daily The Guardian honored Bosque Brown as its “New Band of the Day.” Perhaps the nod comes somewhat in preview of the band’s upcoming gig in…
Yesterday, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas hip-hop production duo Play-N-Skillz announced a deal it has signed with Universal Music Group urban imprint SRC/Universal to launch its own imprint, which will be called G4 Muzik. After the jump, the full press release announcing the deal. But, in short, it’s a pretty sweet one…
Over on its Rock & Roll Daily blog today, Rolling Stone writer J. Edward Keyes gives Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon some serious praise in a feature called Hype Monitor, where the band gets mentioned alongside longtime bubbling-under acts Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears and HEALTH.The band’s songs, Keyes writes,…
Over on his Sportatorium blog this morning, Observer sports columnist Richie Whitt checks in with the head of the Texas Rangers’ in-game entertainment, Chuck Morgan. Uh, why care? Well, ’cause of this: Morgan’s the guy who runs the music at the Ballpark, and he helps the players decide what songs they’re…
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 took a simple enough alt-rock route to moderate success. The latter, meanwhile, delved off…
For a second there at Adair’s Saloon on Friday night, the band onstage recalled another country-rooted local product, one also known for its boozy sound, swaggering stage presence and smart lyrics. Nope, Macon Greyson ain’t the Old 97’s. But, if only for a moment or two this past weekend, the…
Last month, Denton’s Oso Closo entered a Chipotle-sponsored competition in which they were asked to design their favorite burrito, create a film about it, and put it up for voting on Chipotle’s MyChipolte site. Check out the band’s creative submission above. With a win, the band would earn $10,000 and…
Hmmm. Most of the people on the patio outside last night’s Dandy Warhols show at the Granada Theater sure seemed to. But I’m guessing the employee for Southern Comfort–the one asking the above question and, score, handing out free shots–didn’t. Some people–not gonna name names, but it happened–laughed at her…
It was a long weekend for all of us, I guess, this past Labor Day weekend. But it was an especially long one, it appears, for our tandem nightlife photographers, Ray and Peter Lek, who spent four nights out documenting the scenes of Dallas after dark from Thursday through Sunday,…
…and for the Youtube-favoring set, here’s your link.The quite self-deprecating Nicholas Altobelli stopped on by DC9 in SPACE last week and shared with us his worries about creating music, his fears about the direction of Texas music and his love for, of all musicians, Shania Twain (seriously). All in all,…
At the risk of beating you over the head with this information, it seems worth our while to remind you that tonight marks the much-anticipated debut of Alan Palomo’s newest project, Neon Indian, which has garnered praise from outlets far beyond us and the normal local music press.Tonight’s We Shot…
The Dandy WarholsGranada TheaterSeptember 8, 2009 Better than: the recession, for one. If the lights behind The Dandy Warhols on stage weren’t alone enough of a reminder that the slick psych-rock outfit came prepared to offer its fans a show worth the price of admission, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor soon made…
Well, it’s that time of year again, I guess, where (mostly) unknown acts take to the Internet in competition to try and snag the final spot at this year’s ACL Fest in the annual battle known as The Sound and The Jury. By my count, three locals have made it…
We’re not sayin’, Jay-Z. But the Internet sure is…
Somehow stumbled across this edit of the 1986 film Solarbabies, set to a new track from local electro-pop outfit Ishi called “Pastel Lights”–which, for my money, is the best darn thing the band’s released yet. Big thumbs up all around–the track, the video, all of it. Anyway, check it out…
The above streaming cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” comes courtesy of The Dandy Warhols, who, as Darryl Smyers noted in his interview with the band in last week’s print edition, were kinda obligated to cover the song as soon as Michael Jackson passed away. And it’s not all that bad…
Hope you’re not yet sick of the smash summer single “Ice Cream Paint Job” from Dallas’ own Dorrough (that’s him in the above photo). Because, if you were, well, you’re out of luck, friend. In recent weeks, Dorrough’s breakthrough single has seen the man from Lancaster getting all sorts of attention–and…
