Rock ‘n’ roll is not what it used to be. But don’t tell that to Fort Worth’s Quaker City Night Hawks, whose debut album, ¡Torquila Torquila!, is clearly from another time—a time when there was nothing better than a drive down a dusty road with a cigarette in your mouth,…
Lyle Lovett emerged in the mid-’80s when, for a passing moment, Nashville invested as much in talent as looks. Lovett’s first eight singles broke country’s Top 25, and he scored six straight gold records from the late ’80s to late ’90s. He’s more than a quarter-century removed from the College…
The first word on the new Old 97’s disc? “And.” Fitting. The disc, as expected, is a continuation of the band’s The Grand Theatre series, the second and last planned volume from the batch of songs the band began working on in April 2010 at Sons of Hermann Hall, back…
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of R. Stevie Moore. Despite his legendary status in the indie underground, you more than likely don’t own a single one of the 400 albums he’s recorded over the past 35 years, mostly from his own home. But his lack of mainstream notoriety…
Two years after charmingly bursting onto the scene with their fellow Dallas Family Band cohorts, it seems Fox & The Bird is finally ready to release their debut album. “I guess we’re the last of the main Dallas Family Band groups to release an album,” says Dan Bowman, one-fifth of…
Back in October, Sore Losers was on top of the world. The duo of Vincent Brown and Brandon Blue had capably established themselves as a local force to be reckoned with, a post-Boogie duo worth hyping, a creative source of inventive “New Dallas” hip-hop, a shining example of both what…
When we heard that a fire in Exposition Park had damaged the building that houses Jimmy’s Guitar Repair and Rob’s Chop Shop, we expected the worst. DFW has seen several historic buildings damaged or destroyed by fire in the past few years, including last year’s fire that destroyed an entire…
Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They’re good lookin’. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don’t like ’em and I’ll tell you why: Because they don’t care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of the…
Portland’s Priory only recently issued its debut effort, but main songwriters Brandon Johnson and Kyle Dieker have been collaborating for several years. It just took getting a couple of other band members in place for the band to finally hit the studio with its plethora of material. It explains a…
Wild Flag is something of a web phenomenon, gaining loads of notoriety before ever releasing any music. It helps, of course, that front-lady Carrie Brownstein and Wild Flag bandmate Janet Weiss were members of the legendary rock trio Sleater-Kinney. But now, with their new act, they’re taking a different approach,…
Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year’s best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton’s Own Seryn’s album, This Is Where We Are. The…
Confession time, y’all: I’ve been watching The Voice on NBC all season long. Kind of loving it, too. And why not? It’s like the perfect blend of American Idol and Made. (Speaking of Made: I highly recommend trying to catch a re-run of Play-N-Skillz’s recently aired episode of that show,…
Look, there’s a reason why we run our Poster of the Week contest: The poster artists around here are awesome. Really. Go back and look over our Poster of the Week archives. Those submissions are great. Really. And not just because we say so, either. Let me explains.On July 19,…
Can’t really pin down a specific reason for this, but there sure have been a lot of local music video releases in the past few weeks. Good ones, too, and featuring bands that run the entire local gamut. There’s a new Centro-matic one — this one for “Iso-Residue” — upping…
Arizona’s Authority Zero has been making music for going on 20 years — but not without some roadblocks. Various battles with record companies and management types have resulted in lineup changes that would have permanently crippled most bands. Somehow, though, singer Jason DeVore has kept some form of Authority Zero…
When Lakers forward Ron Artest announced last week that he is legally changing his name to Metta World Peace, the Internet exploded with bafflement and criticism. Obviously, this is coming from sports fans. We in the music world are accustomed to odd stage names. Dallas’ own Erykah Badu was born…
Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who’re currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let’s see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, Rhett Miller, Ronnie Dawson, and, as of 2009, The O’s. Probably forgetting some others. Anyway,…
These days, Paul Slavens is best known for his radio show on KXT-91.7 FM. But, back in 1997, people were still missing the hell out of his popular local act Ten Hands, a band he fronted from 1986 to 1995.In this week’s edition of This Week In Dallas Music History,…
Deep Ellum is about to get yet another addition to its growing list of restaurants and music venues. The Free Man, which will open as a Cajun style cafe in the space formerly occupied by Sol’s Taco Lounge, will serve as both a restaurant and a venue.The Free Man’s owner,…
One of the better bars in Dallas to feature live music came to a sudden close last night. Well-located in Oak Cliff, just between the Oak Lawn and Kessler Park neighborhoods, Jack’s Back Yard, a re-purposed complex of buildings that formerly housed an auto repair center on West Commerce, Jack’s…
New Kids on The Block, Backstreet Boys and Jordin SparksAmerican Airlines CenterJune 26, 2011Better than: leg warmers, boom boxes, and slow dancing in the gym. Last night at the American Airlines Center, NKOTBSB proved that boy bands are still hanging tough — especially with their powers combined.Yes, the lyrics are…
Ramblin’ Jack ElliottPoor David’s PubJune 25, 2011Better than: a good 90 percent of artists over 65 still out there performing. People make fun of The Rolling Stones because they’re still trying to rock out at almost 70 years of age. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 10 years their senior.But the 79-year-old…
