Pitchfork Offers Up Free Fergus & Geronimo Download

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…

Who Got Next? Dallas, According To This New Reality Show…

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…

NX35 Announces That It’ll Return For 2010. (Maybe.)

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…

Announcing This Year’s Dia De Los Toadies Lineup…

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,…

DOMA XXI: Compilation Disc Details and Tracklisting

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…

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Low Tonight At The Loft

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…

New “Red Dirt” Venue Set To Open On Lower Greenville

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…

PlayRadioPlay! and The Secret Handshake Team Up For Frienemies Tour

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?…

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Sunday’s Plano Summerfest Show

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…

Video: Play-N-Skillz — “Look What’s Happened To Me”

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…

DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 10: Astronautalis

…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…