Music

Today, Pitchfork reports that Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles was pretty unhappy after learning Kurt Vile’s song, “Baby’s Arms,” was used in a Bank Of America commercial. He ranted about it on his Twitter account, tweeting things about Vile like “I thought you were, like, the best dude in music!”While…

There are two really good reasons why this poster, designed by Stephen Speir and Hillary White for Joe Lally’s Parade Of Flesh-promoted November 6, performance at Bryan Street Tavern, topped the list of poster submissions this week. Fugazi, the band Lally played bass in, is awesome, and so is our…

Yes. Fun Fun Fun Fest is this weekend in Austin, and judging by the eclectic-as-ever line-up, the name continues to become even more appropriate with each passing year. Celebrating its sixth birthday, the bash will take place on Auditorium Shores, which marks a step into more of a big-time, destination…

We’re just on the cusp of a time change. Oh, you know what that means. You know. It means: it’ll get darker soon, the clouds will hang gray and low in the sky, and it’ll be bone cold. Unless it’s not cold because Texas is like an overcooked pizza. Anyway,…

Few records conjure up such specific imagery as Denton act The Angelus do on their long-awaited debut album, On A Dark & Barren Land. Listening to it, you could swear that lead singer Emil Rapstine has lived his life alone on a desolate, rural landscape in the l800s. Doom-ridden songs…

The Smoker’s Club Tour comes to Dallas this month, featuring two of the most popular names in underground hip-hop. New Orleans weed-rapper Curren$y has built a large following over the past few years for his mellowed-out rhymes and spacey instrumentals, releasing a string of solid albums and mixtapes at a…

There is never a convenient time to get cancer. It doesn’t matter what age you are or where you are in life; no one wants this roadblock. And, worse, when it comes to lymphoma, it can happen to anyone, regardless of his or her health. But when Michael Palmer, guitarist…

Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings is the solo project of one Dylan Baldi, who is 19 and dropped out of college to focus on writing scrambling, buzzing, lo-fi pop-punk tunes, many of which were composed and recorded in his parents’ basement. Baldi’s full-length debut hyperactively clashes sugary melodies with blasting, spazzing guitars…

There’s so much great music coming out of Mali these days, but it’s the nomadic Saharan collective Tinariwen who conjure the most inexorably compelling spells. The music of these Tuareg warriors (several of them fought as rebel soldiers) came to wide attention with their 2009 album Imidiwan: Companions and an…

Jason Isbell has finally established himself as something more than a former Drive-By Trucker. With the release of his third studio album Here We Rest on April 12, he and his band the 400 Unit have moved on — right into their old territory. Last fall, Isbell brought a twang-rock…

Few Dentonites — perhaps even few regulars of Andy’s Bar — have ever walked through the door located just slightly to the right of the entrance of the long-running rock club on the Square. In its tenure as the Ernest Room, the spot above Andy’s was used only sparingly as…

Indie-rock fans may be used to seeing a cellist sharing a stage with the drums and guitar by now, but they’re definitely not used to seeing one who looks like Alexandra Lawn of Ra Ra Riot. In the field of sex-symbol cellists, Lawn has no equal. Understandably, the subject makes…

Hindsight now tells me that my first night out in Dallas was nothing exceptional. It was just another night on Lowest Greenville Avenue in early 2008 — a good time for that part of town, no doubt. It was late January, and I’d just arrived in Dallas from Colorado Springs…

I hear Pete’s gone; wonder if I can be music editor aga … excuse me, I’ve just been told: No, no way. Ah. Anyway. Doesn’t mean I can’t post this playlist that’s been sitting on my desktop for way too long: a complete-ish collection of covers performed by St. Vincent,…

Metal has long been a canvas for the otherworldly. When the paper version of DC9 spoke to The Sword’s lead man, J.D. Cronise, back in February, his answer to why metal is such fertile soil for the magical and mystical was rather matter of fact. “The music itself is just…

In addition to yesterday’s “Local Edge” sponsored show with The Burning Hotels, Mon Julien, Air Review and Menkena, the Granada Theater has some impressive shows to announce this week.First off, The Old 97’s, who have had an impressive resurgence this year after releasing the brilliant The Grand Theatre, are bringing…