Sure, there was plenty of speculation about Black Flag reuniting. A previous reunion ten years ago was disastrous and forgettable. Seemed like the band was best left as a myth and plenty of fans were fine with that. Especially since there’s no way longest-tenured singer Henry Rollins will ever play…
Thirty-six-year-old Mary Jo Woods of Pryor, Oklahoma, was run over by a driver while lying in a field on the campgrounds of Rocklahoma early Friday morning. Woods suffered serious injuries to her abdomen and leg. Life flight was called in to airlift Woods to a Tulsa hospital, where she’s in…
This weekend the erstwhile comedy team of Cleaver and Falcon will travel north on 35 till they arrive outside of Tulsa for the three-day festival that is Rocklahoma. While preparing for their time spent in a tent and seeing Guns N’ Roses, KoRn, Bush, Alice in Chains and Cheap Trick,…
On a recent allergen-filled spring day in Austin, Black Angels lead singer Alex Maas chuckled as he struggled through a sinus infection before this Saturday’s show at Granada Theater. Speaking over the phone, Maas tried his best to give an answer as to whether the organ was more psychedelic than…
In this week’s feature, Kelly Dearmore tells the story of Home By Hovercraft, a band inspired by The Polyphonic Spree and its members’ own theater backgrounds. That tells you a lot about what kind of sound they’re headed for; they do it well. You can listen to “Zoo Lion” below…
Glen Reynolds certainly has a lot of momentum behind him these days. He recently released his second solo album, Breakbeat Ice Beneath Me, but this time, he’s using the moniker of Grey. While the album is a departure from the Weezer-meets-XTC vibe of his earlier material, it certainly represents where…
Hello again, all! So, what you may not know is that each week I try to decide which picture of which band should go at the top of this weekly blog post. This week I settled on Guns N’ Roses, since their fans span several generations; even though the tickets…
Home By Hovercraft aren’t afraid of going for the big finish. Led by husband-and-wife combo Seth (lead vocals, tuba) and Shawn Magill (piano, vocals, xylophone), the band also comprises Abbey Magill (percussion), Max Hartman (drums) and Johnny Sequenzia (mandolin, banjolin, harmonica). They rightfully draw comparisons to The National and even…
The Baptist Generals’ long-awaited Jackleg Devotional To The Heart is here. You can buy it on a number of media including colorful vinyl. Mine’s translucent pink — not sure if that’s how they all are or not. Either way, we strongly advise you to track it down. It’s really good…
You know, this seldom happens, but I can say without a doubt that I have every single one of these artists in my iPod. Maybe I’ll make it into a playlist. This’d be a good playlist, right? Either way, here are your top show announcements this week, and if you’re…
Some of the founding members of longtime local rap stalwart Poor Vida Productions, have teamed up with Media 13 for a major project: This summer, they’ll screen the feature-length documentary We From Dallas. The film will tell an oral history of the Dallas hip-hop scene through a series of comprehensive,…
1. When you’re the rebellious band all the kids listen to so they can annoy their parents, forty years on after those kids grow up you’re going to be playing family-friendly sets to them and their kids. And so it was with Blue Oyster Cult, still remarkably retaining two (almost)…
Way back in 1965, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and some hippie poet named Jim Morrison formed The Doors. The Doors would go on to become one of the most popular and iconic bands of the 60’s. Mazarek’s keyboard playing was a large part of what distinguished The Doors in the first…
There was no better place to be Saturday night than on a hill in Fort Worth, watching the dust whip behind The Walkmen while the sun set over the skyline. Panther Island Pavilion, the crook in the Trinity River north of the city, is new and raw. Right now the…
A three-day fest like Wildflower – the biggest party Richardson throws — isn’t the full on marathon something like Bonnaroo is, but you’ve still got to pace yourself. With that in mind I decided to take it easy and catch just a set or two on Friday in an effort…
Rigor Mortis, Gammacide, Devilfist and Demonseed are all the musical ingredients the supergroup Texas Metal Alliance needed to create Warbeast, a legendary Texas thrash metal super supergroup. Adding just a dash of “no bullshit metal onslaught” by local acts Protest and The Black Moriah, Warbeast sent fans into a mosh-filled…
On Wednesday night, 16 tornadoes devastated much of Cleburne and Granbury, south of Fort Worth, leaving six people dead and millions of dollars worth of damage to the two normally sleepy towns. As Wednesday night rolled into Thursday morning, it took but only a few text messages between a couple…
A few months ago, Christopher Telles, who works with the TNT series Dallas announced plans for a scripted TV show called Goodrecords: The Series. There are big ambitions for the show, which would use the shop on Greenville as a central setting…
Were you hoping for some time travel this afternoon? Well, aren’t you in luck. Dallas booty shaker and party maker DJ Sober is on tour right now gracing the East Coast with his presence and those smooth fades. Sober assures me we won’t lose him to those New York cool…
Under a circular blue awning in Lewisville lies a fairly unmarked store with generic white letters reading, “DFW Vintage Toys.” The change of worlds stepping inside is jarring — it’s like walking back 30 years and into your childhood. The mastermind behind DFW Vintage Toys, Jayden Frost, is serious about…
Is there such a thing as the end of festival season here? I don’t know. What I do know is that there are a couple more this weekend — Fort Worth Music Festival features twang on Friday and fuzzy guitar bliss on Saturday. And Wildflower remains the most fun I…
KoolQuise’s new EP, Small Time Lo$er (The Dream Theory), is definitively his. No overabundance of guest spots, no swagger-jacking flow or a grandiose gamble on riding a trends coattails. At times self-deprecating and at others stream-of-conscious confessional, it wasn’t until songwriting was complete did the lyricist realize he had written…
