Last week, the Morning News’ Rangers beat writer/columnist Evan Grant shared the music being used at the start of this baseball season by most of your Texas Rangers players — either at-bat music or welcome-to-the-mound stuff, naturally.The best news that wasn’t? Grant reported that catcher Mike Napoli was using “Teach…
In this week’s paper, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes, and discovered that the male half of the Danish duo is, like, totally bummed about not being as close to his partner-in-crime Sharin Foo as he used to be. Sad face.Fortunately, there’s a silver lining…
If there’s a good thing that’s come out of the recent spate of local musician deaths — and, yes, this is a stretch, practically inherently — it’s the positivity that’s come out of Deep Ellum and the music community as a whole, as these groups have joined together to share…
Colin Quinn made a great point on Conan last week. I’m paraphrasing, but it went something like this: For all this talk of stopping bullying and cyber-bullying, America sure is willfully beating up a lot on Rebecca Black.The counter-argument, of course? That poor little Black is the one laughing, and…
Perhaps you recall the folks behind the Homegrown Festival’s attempts at viral video promotion for their inaugural deal last year? Well, no surprise, they’re at it again this year, as you can see in the clip above, which stars festival co-hosts Grant Jones of the festival-performing Grant Jones & The…
It turns out that Tripping Daisy getting dropped from Island Records was the best thing that ever happened to Good Records Recordings. It’s hard to know, though, if Tim DeLaughter knew that back in 1999, when the brand new indie label was launched and Tripping Daisy was on the cusp…
There are lots of shows happening this weekend — and most of them are pretty good, too. But perhaps the most notable happens all day on Saturday, when Sons of Hermann Hall will officially celebrate their 100-year anniversary. Festivities will include performances from Frohsinn Band, Shoot Low Sheriff, and The…
The ChURcH has been Dallas’ go-to spot for all sounds dark for nearly two decades now. And while the DJs, musicians and various performers who call the twice-weekly event at the Lizard Lounge home prefer to keep the sounds of the night decidedly sinister, the overall vibe is simply one…
Right around the turn of the calendar year, Billboard reached out to 17 bands across the country — bands that had little to no prior contact with the trade magazine, no less — and asked them to compete for a chance to perform at this year’s Billboard Music Awards in…
The last couple of years have followed an interesting path for British singer-songwriter Bobby Long. Both geographically and musically. After learning cello and guitar by the time he was 18, when he started writing his own songs, the young and dashing Long began to set his sights on open mic…
Americana singer-songwriter Lori McKenna has come a long way since she began singing at open mics all around Boston back in the ’90s. A really long way: For her 2005 effort, Fireflies, Faith Hill even covered four of McKenna’s songs, including the title track. Since then, McKenna has toured with…
At the risk of giving too much attention to a song aimed at bringing me down, I feel compelled to speak on the matter of “Pete Freedman’s A Bitch” once more this morning, simply due to the fact that one enterprising area musician took the time to take me up…
In 2008, Los Angeles noise pop quartet Warpaint released their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse, an effort that earned the band massive amounts of attention — enough so that the band was asked to open for several high-profile acts, including Akron/Family and the nationally sold-out tour from The xx. Now, after…
This, I believe, is what you call karma: Earlier this week, photographer Mike Brooks of CommieBike.com was perusing our site and came across a promotion from our marketing department that was offering up a free pair of tickets to legendary guitarist Jeff Beck’s performance on Monday night with the Imelda…
Band of Horses, MidlakeVerizon Theatre in Grand PrairieApril 7, 2011Better than: seeing a band of actual horses, which the group of people behind me seemed to think was the funniest joke possibly ever. With certain performers, it’s all about the voice. And so it was last night at the Verizon…
A busy Thursday evening is highlighted by one of the best bands of the decade and a legendary master of psychedelic funk…
Looks like some actual professional design firms want in on the Poster of the Week game here at DC9. Well, O&H Brand Design, welcome to the party. We’re happy to have you…
It’s been a long, funky road for George Clinton, who has been playing with Parliament-Funkadelic and it’s offshoots since the late 1960s. Luckily, though, time hasn’t slowed him down: The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legend of funk is stopping by Dallas with his band tonight tonight to…
Surely, you know John Pegido and Chad Stockslager, each of whom stands alone as quite the player in the local music scene, the former for his work in The O’s and Boys Named Sue, the latter for his work in The King Bucks and The Drams. But perhaps you’re still…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s new, ambitious project, Masters of Film Music, aims to showcase some of the most talented film scorers in Hollywood, and, as part of its offerings in the series, the DSO has been inviting these composers to come to Dallas and have a collection of their film…
During South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin a few weeks ago, I ran into Josh T. Pearson’s manager Peter Sasala at one of Pearson’s many performances. We spoke briefly about all the rave reviews that Pearson’s new album Last Of The Country Gentlemen had received, including one we recently…
The last time we saw the Black Eyed Peas, they were offering up the sensory violation that composed their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show a couple of months ago. Their massive lights so bounced off the snow, I could see it from Denton.Yet another example of the Peas…
