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…
The BooksThe Modern Art Museum of Ft. WorthApril 6, 20011Better than: taking a musicology class at the University of North Texas Augmented by a third, and sometimes a fourth member, the duo known as The Books thrilled a packed and energetic audience for 90 minutes last night at the Modern…
At every opportunity, Kelly Upshaw and his backing band of Denton’s finest mercenaries in The Hope Trust—a lineup that includes Bosque Brown’s Jeremy Buller, RTB2’s Grady Don Sandlin and Andy Odom of Doug Burr’s pre-solo outfit, The Lonelies—seem to go out of their way to dispel the notion that they’re…
Houston transplant Greg Schroeder has never wanted for talented backing players: His last release, Songs for a Bluebird, featured supporting performances from members of Hayes Carll’s band; his new full-length, Schroeder, features most of Dallas’ revered King Bucks, among other talented performers. And it’s not hard to see how Schroeder…
Way back in 2007, Denton’s The Demigs released Yardling, a howling and thunderous debut that channeled Chris Demiglio’s Pixies fascination into 13 well-executed alt-rock gems. Critics faulted Demiglio for sounding too much like Frank Black, and, to be sure, songs such as “Solvents” and “Summer Spiders” would certainly feel at…
W.A. Fite is the pseudonym for Dustin Blocker, best known about town as the frontman for the local rock outfit Exit 380. But that, more than anything, is just a point of reference. Because, on this, his debut solo effort, Blocker plays all the instruments and takes the music in…
The easiest comparison: The Black Keys. Almost obnoxiously so. Really: The undiscerning listener wouldn’t be blamed for mistaking each and every song on this album as a deep cut or B-side from Brothers, that duo’s hugely successful 2010 release. Surely, there are worse fates. Endless commercial appeal and festival circuit…
Ride With Me, the self-produced new album from McKinney’s Zane Williams, a prodigal Texan who returned after writing Jason Michael Carroll’s hit song “Hurry Home” on Nashville’s music row, is a neo-traditional prize, pleasingly rife with the PBR-scented tones of fiddle and pedal steel. Along with those hardwood-tested sounds, Williams…
Given the restless impulses of Band of Horses principal singer and songwriter Ben Bridwell, it’s no wonder that any cease-and-desist letters the My Morning Jacket legal team may have sent were returned to sender. Giving up on Seattle, where he formed the band, Bridwell recently retreated to the land of…
Raised in the Catskills of Upstate New York, the Felice Brothers grew up in the shadow of Woodstock, spiritually as well as geographically. Their boisterous Americana bears the deep imprint of classic ’60s roots acts The Band, CSN and Neil Young, while Ian Felice’s raspy drawl invokes Bob Dylan. Just…
Some bands carefully craft themselves on image, plunking out generic tunes while trying to maintain their artistic appearance. But this isn’t the case with Los Angeles-based psychedelic outfit Warpaint, whose debut full-length, 2010’s The Fool, packs a serious punch. It didn’t take long after that album’s release for the band…
Sune Rose Wagner, the singer and guitarist who makes up half of Denmark’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll export, The Raveonettes, is stuck in a hotel in Copenhagen. He moved to New York seven years ago, and he normally enjoys his visits back home, where he and his bandmate Sharin Foo…
According to George Clinton, the chief architect of funk, the definition of the style is “to do the best you can in life, and after that, funk it.” Considering his reputation, though, it’s a little ironic that Clinton’s first band was a doo-wop-style group modeled after Frankie Lymon and the…
It was a familiar springtime scene in Deep Ellum last weekend, with Main Street blocked off and big stages erected at either end of the Deep Ellum Arts Fest. But the acts booked to play these stages weren’t run-of-the-mill talents. They were honest-to-goodness ones, including local favorites The Marfalites, Whiskey…
It’s a weird and wonderful variety of shows happening in our area this evening. Fans of classic reggae and neo-classical avant-garde will be especially pleased…..
There was no doubting that it would happen eventually, but late last month, it finally did: Kanye West’s brilliant 2010 release, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, went platinum.And, OK, while that’s maybe not a huge deal for West, whose entire catalog has already gone platinum multiple times over at this…
On Thursday, April 21, we here at DC9 will be launching something that we’re pretty darn excited about — a new, monthly concert series with our favorite local bands, fittingly called DC9 at Night’s Locals Only. Working in tandem with the folks at the Gilley’s complex (Palladium Ballroom, South Side…
Do you “dig music?” Do you believe that “one great rock show can change the world?” Do you like web sites?Fine coincidence this is, then, because we’re currently accepting applications for summer internships! And maybe we’ll even hire you!Hey, we said maybe.Some requirements: You need to be enrolled in college;…
