Cool Womb, Featherface, Pageantry Monday, November 19, at Hailey’s Club, $3 A new experimental duo, Cool Womb, which features members of Spooky Folk and Peopleodian, play a quick set. Opening the night is Houston’s psych group Featherface and Denton pop trio Pageantry…
Lights All Night’s a-coming, and this year’s event, which moves to Fair Park, will feature artists like Calvin Harris and Diplo. While the dancing will surely know no bounds, it’s hardly the intimate experience of witnessing some of these folks work their magic in a club. Here is where Rio…
Grant Lee Buffalo was one of those ’90s bands that seemed to be perpetually flirting with the big time. Each of their four releases was heralded by the critics, but mainstream success was always just out of reach. The enigmatic Grant-Lee Phillips decided to end the band in 1998 and…
In 1996, the concept of the Rock Lottery was quietly born via former Good/Bad Art Collective music coordinator Chris Weber. Twenty-five pre-selected musicians would meet at The Argo in Denton, a music venue in the Fry Street area, which has long since closed down. Five area drummers would take turns…
The Sea and Cake, Matthew Friedberger, The Cush Trees Thursday, November 15 Full disclosure: The Sea and Cake are one of my favorite bands, for reasons I can’t fully explain. I have most of their albums, as well as the solo albums of guitarist and singer Sam Prekop, and I…
This weekend sees the end of Hollywood’s four-year license to print money, as the final Twilight film, Breaking Dawn Part 2, hits theaters. Keeping pace with their standard process, they made it a point to release a heavily market-researched soundtrack to coincide with each film. Below are some highlights and…
The folky, harmonic pop of NYC trio the Spring Standards has been in production since 2008, and is now available their inventively inventively packaged double EP, Yellow/Gold, released this past May. James Cleare, James Smith and Heather Robb are swinging through Denton tonight, and we had a moment to speak…
Rock Lottery 11 Saturday, November 17, at Dan’s Silverleaf, $12/$20 The Rock Lottery concept first came from Good/Bad Art Collective’s Benefit and Music Programming Coordinator Chris Weber, and has a simple yet creative premise. Twenty-five hand-picked musicians are organized into five bands through a lottery-based selection, then released to practice…
Whether it’s the mind-blowing progressive rock of Yes or the slicker pop stylings of Asia, guitarist Steve Howe has always been a team player. At 65, he’s been bending strings with the best of them for the better part of four decades. And although he became a legendary guitarist with…
Original post, 8:50am: News came early this morning via LaGrange’s Facebook page that the Deep Ellum club will be closing, and all scheduled shows, including tonight’s David Ramirez show, will be moved: It’s a sad day! After a long 3 year journey, we are closing our Deep Ellum doors. We…
Deftones, Scars on Broadway Palladium Ballroom Wednesday, November 14 California’s Deftones have become one of America’s great rock exports. Band leader Chino Moreno and the rest of the seasoned crew returned from a triumphant set of dates in South America just in time to land in Texas, celebrate the release…
Since the release of their highly-praised second album, Denton’s Dreaming, experimental trio Shiny Around the Edges have been working on their third full-length, The Night Is a Disco, which takes the band’s bass-heavy sound in a new direction. Two of the three brains behind the outfit are husband and wife…
Austin’s The Young hit Bryan Street Tavern on Saturday night with Young Prisms and Midnite Society, touring behind Matador Records debut Dub Egg. Frontman Hans Zimmerman gave a nice little rundown of some of his musical firsts, including south Texas metal shows, how he got into Matador Records, and whether…
Chicago’s electro-jazz group The Sea and Cake have been around, in many forms, since the mid-’90s. The band just released its airy 10th LP, Runner, a companion album to its 2011 release, The Moonlight Butterfly. The album’s single, “Harps,” focuses more on the band’s tendency to gravitate toward ambient, electronic…
Check out our Q&A with SATE’s Jenny and Michael Seman this week, as they talk about the new sound of their latest album, The Night Is a Disco. Eccotone and Forever Home open up the night at Macaroni Island, the deliciously named new house-show venue in Denton…
The Rock Lottery concept first came from Good/Bad Art Collective’s Benefit and Music Programming Coordinator Chris Weber, and has a simple yet creative premise. Twenty-five hand-picked musicians are organized into five bands through a lottery-based selection, then released to practice at different locations for exactly 12 hours before returning to…
We’ve lost track of how many times Houston marijuana connoisseur Devin the Dude has gotten us high this year. As Thanksgiving approaches, he’s playing a special holiday show, and there will no doubt be special guests helping us get blunted. Fellow H-Towner Le$ jumps on as well, and Yeahdef provides…
We just witnessed the glory of Ms. Lauryn Hill a few weeks ago, and now another ’90s R&B counterpart resurfaces. For those of us who took Mary J. Blige’s 1994 album My Life as scripture, 2011’s My Life II … The Journey Continues (Act 1) kept Blige in the loop,…
Best Album Best Solo Act Best Female Vocalist The Body Wins, Sarah Jaffe Sarah Jaffe continues to be on the lips of North Texas music lovers in 2012, with her second LP, The Body Wins, revealing a tougher, darker side to longtime fans, and certainly gaining some new ones in…
Just went back and listened to the Sea and Cake’s 1995 album The Biz, and it’s sort of impressive how intricate their sound already was just three albums in. The guitar interplay between Sam Prekop and Archer Prewitt remains their foundation, however the music has changed over the past 20…
Morrissey Monday, February 18, at Palladium Ballroom, $39.50 We were really looking forward to road-tripping to Wichita Falls to see Moz at the end of the month, but since some of his U.S. tour dates were postponed, we’ll just have to throw roses at him in Dallas. Tickets go on…
Cold Specks, Doug Burr Dan’s Silverleaf Tuesday, November 13 It was a fascinating mix of old, weird folk last night, as Dan’s Silverleaf hosted Cold Specks with opener Doug Burr. And while both acts feature deeply spiritual music, they come from two somewhat different perspectives. Burr is deeply ingrained in…
