Seems Pitchfork is picking up on something locals already knew: Fergus & Geronimo is on to something pretty cool. Over on that tastemaking site today, the band is offering up a free download of the title track from its new 7″, Harder Than It’s Even Been.Catch the Best New Act…
St. Vincent, whose music gets compared to Andrew Bird’s far too often in reviews (perhaps because both incorporate elements of twee?), will tour with the Bird man this fall, starting on Tuesday, September 29, in Indianapolis.Unfortunately, the tour won’t bring Annie Clark back home through Dallas. But it will take…
This weekend is jam-freakin’-packed, huh? Kinda overwhelming, actually. So, let’s just jump right in. Cool? First, the shows we’ve already talked up a bit…Tonight, there’s Eleven Hundred Springs., Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward and Homespun Remedies at the Granada; Deer Tick and Dawes at Hailey’s; The Strange Boys, Coathangers…
Not gonna mince words here, as the above poster pretty much says it all: A whole bunch of Texas’ finest hip-hop acts, including some of Dallas’ most prominent, are currently over at QuickTrip Park in Grand Prairie (home to the AirHogs, woot!) for the Texas Southern Fried Summer Jam ’09…
Aspiring hip-hop producers looking for their big break might find it tomorrow at Las Colinas Studios in Irving (6301 Riverside Drive) in the form of a reality TV hosted by Houston rapper Lil’ Flip that promises, Lord knows why, to be the perfect mixture of The Apprentice and The Real…
Over on the NX35 Web site, there’s good news for anyone who enjoyed Denton’s first, succesful foray into a pre-SXSW festival: The four-day music showcase will return in 2010, running from March 11 through March 14, and again falling right before the annual SXSW festivites in Austin.Well, maybe, it turns…
Yesterday, Billboard ran an item claiming Erykah Badu was int he studio recording follow-up tracks to last year’s highly successful and critically lauded New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War album. Struck us a little odd, though: We thought she’d recorded the album some time ago. Plus, isn’t she in…
Not sure why, but, according to Nico Vega’s MySpace page, the band’s gig at the Cavern tonight is off–along with all of the band’s other Texas dates and a fifth date in Arizona. We’ll let you know if any word comes along…..
Over on Pitchfork today, the debut EP from Alan Palomo’s VEGA project get’s the all-important Pitchfork review, scoring a 6.0 on the site’s 10-point scale, although, to be fair, it’s probably a little more positive than that, ending on a note that pretty much anyone who has heard Palomo’s work…
It’s no secret that I’m unabashedly a big fan of Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job.” Been playing that sucker for weeks now (seriously, ask Jesse Hughey, who has to put up with it), and there’s no signs of my fandom letting up–especially now that this new has popped up on…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert just posted the quite-interesting story of Arlington’s KTS Productions. Who? Just the folks who made the marketing ploy for Cheap Trick’s new album, The Latest, come true, no big deal.How so? Ah, there’s the rub: KTS just may be the last eight-track-tape-makers. And,…
Up at Hailey’s Club in Denton tonight, North Carolina-based Dawes stops by for a gig alongside NBC anchor Brian Williams’ favorite band, Deer Tick. It should be an interesting one, too, as Observer contributor Chris Parker explains in this weeks paper, detailing Deer Tick frontman John Joseph McCauley III’s musical…
It’s been a month–to the day, actually–since Kirtland Records and the Toadies announced the date and location for their second annual Dia de Los Toadies event. Well, today, the full lineup–which is to say: the support for the Toadies on this daylong party in the band’s name–has been announced. And,…
At last year’s 20th Anniversary Dallas Observer Music Awards, we brought back an old tradition from previous DOMAs: a compilation disc featuring tracks from some of the year’s nominees. This year, the compilation’s back once again–and it’s a pretty sweet little compilation, too, if I may so so myself. Check…
People sure do like them some Eleven Hundred Springs; it’s worth noting as we head into this year’s DOMA season that this band pretty much cleaned house last year, on the heels of its fine 2008 release, Country Jam.So we’re quite pleased, then, that the folks at the Granada Theater…
Minnesota’s Low stops by The Loft tonight–and it should be a nice little show, as Richard Gintowt writes in this week’s Observer: “Low…is the anti-crescendo, with most of its compositions putting along at glacial tempos and with cymbal- and floor-tom-heavy percussion. The genius of the Low machine is the emphasis…
On September 1, Danny Balis–he of The King Bucks, Sorta, The Ticket’s The Hardline and whiskey dives across the Metroplex–will release his debut solo record, Too Much Living. And it’s a long time coming: Balis has long been revered as one of the area’s better vocalists, offering up a deep,…
Perhaps yesterday, in our announcement about the DOMA Showcase lineup, you saw a venue name with which you were unfamiliar–one called Bandera?Well, Pegasus News has all the details on the venue’s plans to exclusively open this month as a country/”red dirt” venue amongst the other meat market hotspots along Lower…
Not to keep harping on mall punk all day long, but this is worth pointing out, if only because it’s hilarious: Earlier this week, noted area mall punk rivals PlayRadioPlay and The Secret Handshake announced that they’d be hitting the road together under the banner of “The Frienemies Tour.”Why frienemies?…
On Sunday afternoon, Third String Productions’ run of hosting mall punk shows at the 5,000 capacity Plano Centre will come to an end as the largely suburban-based production company tosses its annual Summerfest show, this one featuring the likes of Forever The Sickest Kids (whose Underdog Alma Mater received the…
The always-entertaining Salinas brothers have a new video making its rounds today, showing off all the places, awards and work that have been keeping the rapper/producer duo busy for the past couple of months. And, yes, in case you were curious, that is a sped-up sample of the theme song…
…and for the more Youtube-inclined, here’s your link.Last week, a real treat for those who’ve been making the weekly trek to SPACE Studio for our DC9 in SPACE tapings: Indie hip-hop and freestyle mindblower, Astronautalis dropped by for, well, what turned out to be quite the paean to all things…
