What: From the Physical to the Digital PanelWhere: Dan’s SilverleafTime: 3 p.m.In his keynote, Steve Albini mulled the ephemeral nature of digital media files over physical. It is on this point that the 3 p.m. panel at Dan’s Silverleaf elaborated. The panel featured May Megan Carpenter (associate professor of Law…
When folks get asked what music they like, the most annoying and trite answer is “anything but rap and country.” I get the feeling that they say this because the pop music outlets provide bad examples of both.This week, I’m taking a look at the latest bad example of country…
Behind that pop-star-looking face on a few of BT’s album covers is the mind of a musical engineer. Maryland’s Bryan Wayne Transeu started writing music at an early age and got a shot at Berklee School of Music at 15. He arrived on the trance scene a bit late for…
DJ A1 (born Arnold Velasco) has eight years of fond memories from spinning and mixing records at Mick’s Bar, one the four establishments on the Lower Greenville block that burned down on March 2. In particular, he counts the nights at the location between 2001 and 2002–when he and a…
The Starck Club embodied the myths of club debauchery in 1980s Dallas. The fact that a 1986 raid on the club propelled it to national notoriety as an ecstasy hub probably helps.The club closed its doors in the Summer of 1989. I guess the eccentric European architecture from the guy…
Readers complained last week that my critique of “We Are the World 25” came too late. Well then explain this to me, readers of the musical vanguard: How is the music industry still finding Black Eyed Peas hits to play from an album released last summer, as it did with…
Gilbert Garcia covered a busy week for the Toadies in the March 5, 1992 edition of the Observer, in an article detailing the band’s upcoming trip to the finals of an MTV-hosted battle of the bands. Aimed to help get unknown bands get some national attention, the contest, called the…
Along with inauguration of the Great North American Winter Gloat Fest 2010–32 medals last count–came the video for charity single “We are the World 25” for Haiti. Aw, charity. WHo doesn’t love it?Except, why does it seems so cheesy and self-aggrandizing? First of all, because its a remake: This is…
Jucifer, Vaste Burai, One Wolf, STEW! Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, DentonFebruary 22, 2010 Better Than: Turning on the TV only to realize they’re not airing Big Bang Theory this week. Seventeen years on, husband-wife pair Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood show no sign of letting up, and Monday night saw…
Before Chuck Norris became a meme joke among bored nerds and college students, he roundhouse-kicked Texas criminals while serving as the titular character in Walker, Texas Ranger. And that show served up at least one memorable moment for the DFW music scene in 1996: Walker, Texas Ranger’s final Season 3…
Welcome to the first in a blog post series called “The Problem With…” where we’ll immerse ourselves in pop music, tackle a noteworthy piece of the racket, and tell you why it sucks. So. Ke$ha’s kind of a catchy musician. And she wants me to tag along to some party?…
Fair to Midland Wreck Benefit with House Harkonnen, Serosia, Bronze Whaler and Moving Atlas Curtain Club February 14, 2009Better Than: watching this year’s very underwhelming Olympic opening ceremonies. (Great job, Canada!) When asked what was on Fair to Midland’s mind the moment its van tumbled through the Arizona desert back…
