Rob Viktum, long one of our favorite area hip-hop producers, has a new project coming out next week–a collaboration with Don Will, one-third of the very much buzzing Brooklyn-based Tanya Morgan, for an EP called Aight, New Drink.And it features Viktum’s soulful beats very much in the environment in which…

Straight from the dead tree edition, courtesy Observer contributor Nate Patrin…Ten years after Mos Def’s solo debut, Black on Both Sides, fans might’ve looked at his subsequent uneven catalog and started to wonder if their fondest memories of him in the ’00s would consist mostly of his Chappelle’s Show cameos…

Halloween’s a good two months away–almost two-and-a-half months off, actually–but, since area booking agents never seem to sleep, we’re already seeing some pretty impressive lineups get tossed together for the holiday.Among them? A hipster’s delight at the Granada, for one, featuring two Austin-based GorillaVsBear favorites, White Denim and, if we’re…

This past weekend was a big one for Fort Worth’s The Burning Hotels. On Friday, Vanessa Hudgens-driven battle of the bands flick, Bandslam, in which The Burning Hotels’ members make an appearance as, well, themselves, debuted in theaters. And though the film did quite poorly at the box office–pulling in…

The folks at Rockstar not only make the third- or maybe fourth-best energy drink on the market. They also bring you touring rock festivals like the annual Mayhem Fest, which stopped by Superpages.com Center on Saturday night, featuring the likes of Marilyn Manson, Slayer and others.Unsurprisingly, our resident metalhead photographer,…

If Trees was the place to be on Friday night, Saturday was owned by the Granada Theater as it played host to Los Campesinos! and a hyped-up undercard of Girls and The Smith Westerns.From the looks of our photo pal Gloria Levario’s slideshow of the night, it appears as if…

Know what sucks about planning vacations in advance? You’re screwed as far as events that get planned for the week you’re gone after your flight and all that’s been booked. Hence my regrettably missing out on a weekend full of sold-out shows at the newly re-opened Trees in Deep Ellum.Alas,…

It was just another informal meeting for the people behind the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project, or DEEP, as it’s called. Which is to say a bunch of residents and business owners gathered at Frank Campagna’s Kettle Art gallery last Thursday evening to sling back a few drinks and talk (gossip)…

In this week’s column space, I geeked out about some of the projects that very-busy local producer Picnic is about to drop in the upcoming weeks and months. And for good reason, too: Guy’s just got a lot going on, between working with Kid Cudi, The Cannabinoids (who’ll be touring…

If nothing else, Atmosphere’s 2008 release, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, was the best named album of the year. But also, as the title implies, the album, and, in particular, the above song, “You,” was a paean to all things working class and troubled, and,…

It’s been just another day at the office for 26-year-old Richard Escobedo. But even though the work’s done at his day job as the in-house photographer for the Plano-based remote control car company Traxxas, his day as a whole? It’s just beginning, because, after a quick stop at an Uptown…

They may be young, but the music that Caleb Jones (19, drums and vocals), Robert Hudson (19, guitar) and A.J. Durham (17, bass). make together as Robert Jones hardly sounds immature. If anything, it sounds wise well beyond its years, blending elements of psychedelic, stoner and indie rock into an…