As we all know from Pamela and Tommy Lee’s infamous home video (come on — you’ve seen it), the former Motley Crue drummer’s massive whanger can drive a boat, or at least steer it. Of course, said member can’t drive and/or steer a boat too well, as the aforementioned vessel…
I am not, strictly speaking, the kind of person who would use the term “back dat azz up” in common parlance, restricted from its usage by an utter lack of pigment and a bordering-on-backwoods upbringing. I am white, ohsoverywhite, though I’ve been known to regularly pepper my speech with various…
Builder Spring Sprang Sprung (Good Earth Records) About halfway into Builder’s debut disc, the fact that it wasn’t intended for a traditional rock-and-roll audience is pretty much inescapable, not unlike the sound of “Jesus Knocking” on his front door that Mike Crawford, former frontman for The Spin, describes toward the…
Almost every day and night of this year’s South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Pimpadelic taunted the bands milling around Sixth Street. While everyone else was playing gigs to people perfecting their disinterested stares, trying to get anyone with a badge and a corporate credit card to listen, Pimpadelic…
You can go home again, but chances are you’ll get lost, turned around, embarrassed that such simple directions can result in an hour-long marathon of wrong choices and missed streets and an overbearing amount of cursing. You can go home again, but home, more often than not, will not be…
At least one good thing emerged out of South By Southwest’s drunken haze: The Adventure Club/Dallas Observer Charity Bowling Tournament. We haven’t decided on a clever name yet for the whole affair, picked a charity, or even solidified teams as of yet, but this much is certain: We’ll be getting…
In director Jem Cohen’s films, especially earlier efforts such as 1987’s This Is a History of New York and 1992’s Drink Deep, he manages to tell a story without letting on exactly what story he’s telling. Meaning: He’s definitely saying something, but it’s up to the viewer to decipher what…
The Reverend Horton Heat Spend a Night in the Box Time Bomb Recordings The Reverend Horton Heat has been going downhill for so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what made the band worthwhile in the first place. And, obviously, they don’t remember either, or else they might have hit…
From the outside, it appears as if Carl Finch and Brave Combo couldn’t have planned it any better. Only a few weeks after the group’s last album, 1999’s Polkasonic, was named Best Polka Album at the Grammy Awards, Brave Combo will have a new disc in stores, The Process, on…
Green means stop? On February 25, shortly after Amelia Abreu’s story about the Green Means Go! collective (“Good to Go!,” February 10), the group’s performance space in Denton was closed indefinitely by the city fire marshal for numerous code violations, including inadequate parking facilities and doors that opened the wrong…
The Mr. T Experience The following is an excerpt from the October 1999 issue of The T-Team, a monthly newsletter written, published, and distributed by Lawrence Tero, better known to friends and fans as Mr. T. Tero began the newsletter in 1983 when he was starring as B.A. Baracus in…
Captain Audio LUXURY or whether it is better to be loved than feared (Last Beat Records) You get the feeling, after listening to LUXURY or whether it is better to be loved than feared a few times, that Captain Audio is trying to figure out where to go next. That’s…
George Neal moved to Denton in 1991, leaving behind Midwestern State University and Wichita Falls to attend the University of North Texas and immerse himself in the area’s rapidly expanding music community. Since then, he’s been Denton music’s biggest cheerleader, a familiar face at almost every show in town, whether…
Scene, heard Dallas expatriates Transona Five will be back in the area for a few days later this month to finish mixing their forthcoming album with Matts Pence and Barnhart at The Echo Lab (the studio formerly known as 70Hurtz and Transcontinental Recording Company). The band, which moved to Boston…
We won’t be hypocritical and claim that we’ve ever been big fans of the North Texas New Music Festival, but we’ll admit the organization has made several steps in the right direction in the past year. The latest is, perhaps, the best yet, though nothing can really top getting rid…
After a string of nominations and near-misses, Brave Combo finally won a long-deserved Grammy at the 42nd annual installment of the Grammy Awards, which happened February 23 in Los Angeles. The group won in the Best Polka Album category for last year’s Polkasonic, following previous nominations in 1996 for Polkas…
Chris Cornell SEATTLE — Former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell’s larynx was replaced today in an operation doctors described as the first of its kind. Cornell was forced to undergo the emergency surgery after a routine examination late last week determined that, after years of abuse, his larynx had virtually disappeared,…
The The has never really been a band, just an outlet for singer-guitarist Matt Johnson and his songs, his tales of dogs of lust and sweet birds of truth. Since the band formed in 1979, it’s been Johnson and whatever lineup he happened to be playing with at the time…
It happened around the time the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul had their verses removed from the final version of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario,” the last song on the group’s 1991 breakthrough The Low End Theory. A three-way partnership was erased with the push of a button: Until…
Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (Epic Records) It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that Noel Gallagher had originally intended Standing on the Shoulder of Giants to be his solo debut, the disc that proved once and for all he was the one with all of the talent while…
Scene, heard Despite recent rumors to the contrary, it doesn’t appear the Old 97’s will be leaving Elektra Records anytime soon, though the recent merger of Time-Warner (Elektra’s parent company) and America Online will no doubt result in the door hitting more than a few bands’ asses on the way…
All too often, musicians are defined solely by their music, the lyrics they write, the records they make. A single frame becomes the entire film, a lifetime of personality quirks, habits, likes, and dislikes summed up by an hour of words and music — a few albums’ worth, if they’re…
