On January 21, 500 record company employees were fired, told to gather up their personal belongings, turn in their company credit cards and security keys, shut down their computers, and be out of their offices by 5 p.m. More than 280 staffers were let go at Geffen and A&M Records,…
thursday january 28 The only positive thing to come out of a good band breaking up is that, occasionally, its members go on to form bands that are even better or at least as good. Legendary Crystal Chandelier and Centro-matic sprang out of Funland, UFOFU and Comet gave way to…
George Reagan has been a musician for almost half his life, starting in 1985, when he was a 16-year-old Lewisville High School student playing with ex-Fever in the Funkhouse singer-guitarist Nick Brisco and former Tripping Daisy drummer Bryan Wakeland in a band called Aspirin Damage. He’s been in bands ever…
Chris Lewellyn is one of the last true believers–one of the few people around who still sees Deep Ellum as a community, still thinks in terms of us instead of me, still believes in a scene. You’ve probably never heard of him, because as much as he loves music, the…
thursday january 21 The Lean Theater’s latest production, Kevin Kling’s Lloyd’s Prayer, is your typical boy-meets-girl story, except for one thing: The girl (Bobbi) was raised by raccoons, and the boy (Lloyd) is an ex-con who takes her on the tent-revival circuit to swindle money from the true believers. Hmmm,…
Info: Night & Day January 14 – 20, 1999 By Zac Crain thursday january 14 There’s no better indicator of a trend’s death than when Hollywood gets its grubby little hands involved. By the time the latest craze finally makes its way onto the studio heads’ cultural radar, it has…
Nobody beats the Wiz Add On! Ghetto Fame-Us Load Zone Central Recordings The first voice you hear on Add On!, Ghetto Fame-Us’ debut album, is that of KNON-FM DJ EZ Eddie D, the mellower than yellow host of the area’s only underground hip-hop show, Knowledge Dropped, Lessons Taught. His presence…
Tucked away on the ground floor of a three-story shopping complex on the corner of Greenville and Mockingbird, CD World is the kind of record store you can’t leave empty-handed even if you want to. There’s always buried treasure to be found hiding in the racks, like an undiscovered Rolling…
It makes perfect sense to form a Beatles or Rolling Stones tribute band. After all, everyone already likes those bands and knows all the songs, or at least enough to fill an hour-long set at Club Dada. Plus, the Fab Four have been broken up for almost three decades, and…
It’s funny how none of the press materials accompanying the flurry of local activity surrounding Elvis Presley’s 64th birthday celebration on Friday mention The King’s untimely passing a while back. It could be wishful thinking or complete denial, but more likely, no one wants to upset all of the true…
thursday january 7 Keenen Ivory Wayans’ publicist and agent can spin this however they want, but the fact is, his three-night stand at the Improv in Addison is a sign that the actor-comedian-talk show host’s career is on a downward spiral that will most likely end with a recurring role…
Quiet, disturb My ears are ringing but my heart’s ok Captain Audio Last Beat Records The five-song demo tape Captain Audio was hawking at its live shows last year was as good as almost every other local release of 1998, splitting the difference between art and rock with more pop…
thursday december 31 There are hundreds of ways to spend New Year’s Eve. Trust us: We compiled the New Year’s Eve Guide that appears later in this paper. But for our money, there is no better place to spend the last night of 1998 than at Bar of Soap. The…
The process is nothing if not scientific: At the end of every year, we contact each contributor to our music section and ask him/her to submit a roster of the 10 most overrated, mediocre, or generally offensive records released that annum. In order. These individual tallies are then painstakingly transcribed…
thursday december 24 Depending on your situation, Christmas Eve is either the happiest night of the year or the most depressing, and for some people, it’s both. Sure, you get to be around all of your family, but hey, you also get to be around all of your family. But…
thursday december 17 It never feels like Christmas in Texas. The closest we’ll get to a winter wonderland is by turning on the air conditioner and spraying snow all over our windows; white Christmases just don’t happen here. Since we’re desperate, we’ll settle for a wet Christmas, especially since driving…
Back in the day, when a band split up, it stayed that way. Now, the phrase “last show ever” only means it’s the last show until the next one, and you can be sure there will be a next one. Two years ago, the Denton ska band The Grown-Ups went…
Redrumm Recordz’s Pikahsso never misses an opportunity to plug his label’s upcoming release schedule, steering every query back to the future. If you were to ask the 28-year-old rapper what day it is, he’d probably tell you Kabaal has an album coming out in a few weeks, followed by full-lengths…
thursday december 10 If you asked most kids who was born on December 25–in theory at least–most would say Santa Claus. Christmas long ago stopped being solely a religious holiday. Actually, it isn’t even really about Santa Claus anymore either. It’s all about the gifts, baby. If you think we’re…
Robert Brooks has been a devoted Dixie Chicks fan for six years, from the time he and his wife first saw them perform at an American Airlines company picnic at Sandy Lake Amusement Park. Since then, he has followed the band like a debt collector, doggedly tracking the Dixie Chicks’…
Wu-Tang for now Bobby Digital in Stereo The RZA Gee Street/V2 Tical 2000: Judgement Day Method Man Def Jam The Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), still stands as the best hip-hop album of the ’90s, an album so perfect, even its creators have yet to figure…
After almost eight years, four albums, and 646 shows, Jawbox broke up like so many bands do, quietly and abruptly. The members of Jawbox never had a chance to say goodbye. There wasn’t a swan-song single or farewell tour, not even a final, triumphant gig in its hometown of Washington,…
