After a successful launch in May of 2010, the open-air, downtown Dallas-hosted Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will return again in 2011, this time taking place on May 14, and once again at Main Street Garden. And the festival, brought to you by the folks behind Club Dada and City…
There has already been an appalling amount of local musician deaths in the past year, but now we must add to that list one more — the death of former Pimpadelic member Brandon Kord Murphy, who, according to former Pimpadelic manager Scott Beggs, was found dead in a rehearsal space…
In this week’s edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer writer Keven McAlester tells the tale of his adventures in following The Toadies to South Padre Island for a special spring break gig in 1999. Actually, the piece spends just as much time following the band’s roadie,…
Speaking of new albums that are worth their substantial hype, allow us to point you in the direction of another big recent local release: A.Dd+’s When Pigs Fly. That album came out this weekend, with the duo of Slim Gravy and Paris Pershun’s a-couple-years-in-the-making masterpiece finally earning its release at…
Hate to say we told you so — in this case, that this new record from True Widow was going to be a big deal — except, well, that’s not true at all. We kind of revel in telling you so, actually.So, yes, we indeed felt that nice, warm and…
Destroyer, The War on DrugsThe LoftMarch 26, 2011Better than: listening to karaoke Wham!, I guess. The bottom line: I wish I had thought to bring a Kindle to read at The Loft on Saturday night — not unlike the guy helping me hold up the column in the middle of…
This weekend is a pretty big one — if anything because of the True Widow show at Double Wide on Saturday night. That’s right, they’ll be celebrating the release of their sophomore album As High As The Highest Heavens and From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth. Get…
In just four day’s time, Tuesday, March 29, to be exact, local synth-punk act Nervous Curtains will release a new 7-inch single for their song “Wired To Make Waves.” But this morning, on the band’s Twitter page, they direct their followers to a stream of the single, which we have…
Destroyer, the chamber pop group lead by Dan Bejar, also of New Pornographers fame, will being playing at The Loft tomorrow night in promotion of their latest album, Kaputt, which has received much critical acclaim for its wafting, smooth-jazz feel and heavy horn usage. The album is not of the…
Ryan Thomas Becker was a busy man during 35 Conferette, putting on performances with RTB2 and the now-defunct Eaton Lake Tonics, as well as his other project, Ryan Thomas Becker & Last Joke, which features Tony Ferraro of Eaton Lake Tonics, Andy Rogers of Oso Closo, and Grady Don Sandlin…
A few weeks ago, we announced a collaboration between the Flaming Lips and Denton’s own Neon Indian, that would result in a limited supply of 12-inch records — 2,000 to be exact. This week, that record saw its release, and Lips frontman Wayne Coyne decided to hand-deliver the record to…
Some pretty solid pickings on this Thursday evening, thanks to three music shows and an art show from some of the area’s finest rockers…
DJ Sober does it again…
I made it to the concert memorializing the life of Adam Carter at The Bone last night, but other obligations kept me from making the earlier event held at La Grange, where friends and family gathered to share stories, listen to recorded songs, and watch video montages of the 27-year-old…
I didn’t think I’d have to review another Ke$ha track this year. I kinda thought the industry and fans would be done with her by now. When I saw a new track “Blow” on the charts back in February, I didn’t want to hasten the day. Then, it finally hit…
Adam Carter Memorial ConcertThe BoneMarch 23, 2011 It was a somber scene at The Bone last night, a scene tragically all-too-familiar in the local music scene of late. Since August, five members of the local music scene have died — Ace McNeely, The Will Callers’ Bradley Kyle Schroeder and Chase…
Without question, Sextape has more momentum than most acts in Denton. The duo of Marcus Webb and Jennifer Wohlrab has created some pretty organic stirrings with their mere two song releases to date, “Lubricated Intimacy” and “Parsimonia,” and their live performances have only helped their cause. Sometimes compared to Dallas…
A funny thing happened on the way to the South by Southwest’s becoming the insanely corporate-sponsored event that it is today: With major corporation upon major corporation descending upon Austin for the five-day music festival each year (not to mention the interactive and film portions that start earlier in the…
Josh T. Pearson is sitting in a French airport. The former Lift To Experience singer is wearing his signature white T-shirt, black jeans and boots. Standing, his skinny 6-3 frame would earn him the most attention if it weren’t for his long, unkempt brown hair and beard. He says he…
It was supposed to be one of the most hotly anticipated releases in the history of Dallas hip-hop. That was 2010. Turns out the delay in the release of When Pigs Fly from local rap duo A.Dd+ was the most well-calculated move the young group could have executed. Although it…
You know Todd Snider. He’s the inveterate joker cracking wise from the back of the classroom. Or, as he describes himself in his satirical broadside “Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight White American Males,” a tree-hugging, peace-loving, pot-smoking, barefoot, folk-singing hippy. Cut from similar cloth as John Prine and Jimmy…
In contrast with his fellow Colombian superstar Shakira (whose Sale el Sol kept his P.A.R.C.E. out of the top spot on Billboard’s Latin Albums chart last December), Juanes has yet to make a move into English-language pop. But that’s hardly prevented him from rousing arena audiences throughout the United States:…
