Speaking of Kelly Clarkson: Burleson’s own just can’t seem to catch a break. After notoriously getting into a spat with Clive Davis and her record label over her last album, My December, Clarkson is again having it out with her label, claiming that she never really wanted her new single,…

As expected, Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato’s debut disc, Don’t Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs…

Well, this is somewhat shocking. But true! The fine intellectuals over at National Public Radio have deemed the “Let’s Go Crazy” cover from Denton punk ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers as their song of the day. No, really. Color us kind of shocked at this revelation. When the Spin magazine Purplish…

Haven’t yet heard this track from Dallas rapper Trai’D on local hip-hop radio, but it seems as likely as some of the other Dallas hip-hop jams of the summer to make it big, thanks in large part to its catchy–and no doubt female-placating–hook. And, sure, it helps that it’s called…

Area hip-hop product Dorrough–and subject of my column in this week’s print product–is gonna be tough to avoid in the coming weeks as he prepares for his debut album’s August 4 release (moved back a week from last we heard). For one, all this week, the MTV Jams Fab Five…

Over at Pitchfork today, area sun-drenched retro-pop outfit Neon Indian (side project of Vega, your DOMA-winning Best Dance/Electronica Act) has been awarded a Best New Music tag for its song “Deadbeat Summer.”Writes reviewer Richard Armitage, while giving the song a score of 9 out of 10: “Here the project really…

The Waco-born and Booker T. Washington-educated two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has announced the details of his next album, a disc called Emergence, which will see the light of day a month from tomorrow, on August 25.The disc is a little bit of a departure for Hargrove, but…

The above clip is one man’s take–this “one man” in question being Pugs & Kelly producer Eric Marc–on Tuesday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony. Warning: There is puke involved. (To be fair, I never promised it was gonna be a classy party…)But others are still talking DOMA in the…

Clearly, because it’s been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist’s song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but “very special episode” (this…

Seems demos really are all the rage around town this week. The above clip, aside from featuring photos from the great Allison V. Smith, features a brand new demo track from area folk hero Doug Burr, written exclusively for the upcoming independent film, Topeka–which, wouldn’t you know, is written and…

So it really looks like Tim DeLaughter is going to keep up with his streak of posting a new Polyphonic Spree demo on his blog every day–for the foreseeable future, at least–which is pretty incredible, if not a little overwhelming.Anyway, the two latest offerings over at The Fragile Army are…

Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that, go figure, it looks like Foreigner has kinda, sorta, maybe named its upcoming three-disc release, Can’t Slow Down, as a nod to Texas Motor Speedway, where the band played its first NASCAR gig.Either that or the band’s just playing… wait…

Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week’s Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato’s debut, Don’t Forget, debuted at No. 2…

Last week, we shared a slideshow of images caught by Wheeler Sparks at the house party we through threw as a photo shoot for this year’s DOMA print package.And though you can see a bunch of photos Allison V. Smith took at the party for our cover package in today’s…