Lest there was ever any doubt, in this Internet-driven modern music age, that tastemakers pretty much just blatantly steal finds from other tastemakers and that it’s all one big circle, basically, check the case of Denton’s Paul North, aka Sunnybrook. The little brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North, Sunnybrook’s…
Ida Maria, GlasvegasThe LoftAugust 4, 2009 Better than: taking a group of foreign exchange students to the mall. It took 20 minutes for it to happen, but, finally, here it was: some palpable, legitimate energy about the room at The Loft during Glasvegas’ set. It was all coming together–the band’s performance, its fairly impressive light show, the…
One show that I’ve personally had circled on my calendar for some time now is tonight’s gig at the Loft with Ida Maria (see above) and Glasvegas. Why? Well, partially because Ida Maria’s Fortress ’round My Heart is one of the best releases of ’09 so far, but also because…
…and real soon, too. See, now that the complicated production details have been completed on the band’s upcoming, October 12 show with Muse at Arlington’s Cowboys Stadium, the promoters are releasing more tickets, at all price levels, for sale to the public, starting in, oh, 50 minutes or so, at…
Remember all that drama back in late January/early February when Broken Social Scene had to cancel its House of Blues gig because band founder Kevin Drew fell ill? Dallas fans took to Broken Social Scene’s web site to spit some hate at the band for canceling, and, in turn, the…
Remember a few weeks back when the All-American Rejects stopped by the House of Blues for a free, MySpace-sponsored show? Maybe? Yeah? Well, either way, the high-def footage shot for MySpace is making the rounds this morning, and that includes the above clip of the band performing its song “Dirty…
For a while there, it appeared as if this morning could be something of a judgment day for Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater. Today, after all, was the day that the venue was set to face foreclosure, after the loan that the owners had received from a Dallas lender last year…
It was about a month ago now that we eagerly first passed along the news of Danny Balis’ upcoming solo debut, Too Much Living, which is set for a Tuesday, September 1, release.Today, though, Balis passes along his disc’s first single, “Tethered,” for DC9 readers as a free download. And,…
In this past week’s print edition, Observer contributor Chris Parker chatted up rebel rocker Michael Franti, talking about his new reggae infused sound in Spearhead in anticipation of his show tomorrow night at Grand Prairie’s Nokia Theatre alongside Counting Crows and Augustana.Well, turns out Franti won’t be making the gig,…
Yet one more thing to add to the list of things that Dorrough has now done that his fellow rappers in the DFW scene haven’t: Right there in the Sunday edition of the paper, Dorrough’s debut album, Dorrough Music, received the review treatment from the New York Times. And while…
The weekend’s finally here, boo-yah, and it’s a deceptively crowded one music-wise, actually. You should already know about the weekend shows we’ve already discussed here and in the print edition, but, in case you forgot, well, let’s recap. Well, now that I think of it, pretty much every show we’ve…
She waltzed into the room’s back entrance, quickly set a trail to the checkout counter and excitedly showed the few employees crowded around her the customizations she’d made to the mini-Munny she’d purchased after stumbling upon the new Mockingbird Station store on Wednesday afternoon–a quick drawing on the doll’s face…
Subdued singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons may be Grey’s Anatomy-approved (take that however you wish), but he’s also phenomenally bearded. Denton-worthy stuff, for sure. So maybe its weird then that Denton’s the only point of our little Metroplex triangle being ignored by Fitzsimmons on his stop through the region this evening; according…
I don’t really have too much to say about long-running country music duo Montgomery Gentry–other than that there was a time back in 2003 when the band was almost unavoidable on CMT, thanks in no small part to the above video. Don’t really watch too much CMT anymore, though, so…
So there’s this three-day music festival of sorts happening next month in Forth Worth called, fittingly, the Fort Worth MusicFest. And it’s the fest’s third annual go-’round. And it helps raise money for college scholarships for area kids. And it takes place August 21-23, costing $15 per general admission ticket…
Tonight’s the big night for Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva, aka LehtMoJoe, where he’ll host his free, debut CD release party over at the Granada with some help from his friends Mount Righteous, and Anonymous????, DJ Select and Free Agent.In addition to marking the release of Leht’s Spaghetti Western album,…
KKDA 104.5-FM afternoon drive-time jock DJ A Bay Bay is a pretty big deal–and not just locally, but, y’know, nationally. The former Shreveport DJ is, after all, the namesake behind the Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris’ 2007 massive 2007 single “A Bay Bay”. So, there’s that.Since moving to the Dallas airwaves…
This week marks the release of former Sorta frontman Trey Johnson’s debut solo release, Mount Pelée, a disc that finds Johnson and his familiar, classic, soothing voice heading in a somewhat different direction. How so? Well, the disc kinda sounds like it’s a blend of Sorta and the eccentric, toungue-in-cheek…
Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva knows there’s a good chance you have no clue who he is. And he’s perfectly OK with that. Because, for one, super-producer Mark Ronson—the man behind Amy Winehouse’s powerhouse 2006 release Back to Black, among many other U.K. hits in recent memory—knows his work. Digs…
…and for the relics still stuck on Youtube, here’s your link.On its upcoming album, The Tide and The Current (set for an August 18 release), Telegraph Canyon pushes itself far beyond the “promising” tag it had dutifully earned with its 2006 full-length, All The Good News. Indeed, the new disc,…
Yesterday, a new Neon Indian remix of The Silent League’s “Here’s a Star” started popping up across the great taste-making sites of these United States, further pushing the buzzworthiness of Alan Palomo’s most recent project. And, par for course with most of the music of this realm, the buzz on…
Tonight’s House of Blues show boasts a sweet little bill, featuring two of the hottest emcees of the moment, with Asher Roth, whose “I Love College” was almost unavoidable for a minute there, and Kid Cudi, whose “Day N Nite” rose in pretty much the same, if somewhat of less…
