Music

Well, it finally came to pass: Just before noon today, the folks at Denton’s upcoming four-day music festival the 35 Conferette (formerly the NX35 Conferette) posted the full schedule of events for their deal — or, well, at least the night-time goings-on for its third year of existence.No word at…

It’s good to see that the love of my life, Rihanna, is still on the charts. At the tail end of last year, she showed up in a tame duet with Drake in “What’s My Name” then ended the year appearing in the impressive Kanye track “All Of the Lights.”…

The current lull of activity in the Denton music scene isn’t exactly a secret. But, still, some groups are using this time to their advantage, writing and recording and waiting for the proper time to strike. Denton’s Pocket Change should be mentioned among these acts, having managed to maintain some…

The first thing you hear on the Electro-Magnetics’ lastest album is former New Bohemian Kenny Withrow’s guttural, lurching surf guitar, tuned so loose you’d think the strings were hanging off like a necklace. And that striking visual only serves to elicit more sensory response; you can almost smell the stale…

On an improbably sunny midwinter day, amid green pastures and meandering cows, two unassuming musicians are waging a revolution against the established order of the recording industry. Here, inside a dim shed formerly used as a dog kennel, Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn are recording their next album as Pomplamoose—a…

During the first, unrefined point of some artists’ musical careers, they begin as a pale imitation of another more experienced musician, fiddling around with sounds with which they are familiar, instead of focusing on innovation or art. Unfortunately this is the case for Dallas’ Tiger Darrow, a skilled and promising…

Although currently a sophomore studying radio, television and film at the University of Texas, singer-songwriter Hudson Moore still calls Fort Worth his home. And Moore’s relatively slick brand of rocking pop-country is certainly better suited to the more traditional redneck values associated with Cowtown than the stoned, Americana vibe coming…

It happened at last: Dallas hip-hop finally started realizing its potential. Kinda went down exactly how we expected it to, too, right in the shadow of Super Bowl XLV coming to Arlington earlier this month. No worries if you missed it—it happened quickly, and in the shadow of about a…

Ignore that this band’s name has the word twilight in it. The moody, seductive sound Civil Twilight crafts has a romance all its own—one that blissfully has nothing to do with vampires. Steven McKellar’s willowy tenor dips and flutters against moody backdrops, recalling Thom Yorke. But despite Civil Twilight’s penchant…

When you first discover “Queen of Rockabilly” Wanda Jackson, you’ll spend about a month in awe of her sinful growl. Easily one of the most underrated female instruments in rock and country, Jackson’s voice can sound shredded by the daggers of love one moment and absolutely man-ravaging the next. Early…

There’s little doubting the impact that the Elephant 6 Collective has had over the indie-rock landscape of the past 20 years. A quick scan of affiliated acts provides all the jaw-dropping proof you could need: The Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, Elf Power and…

This past September, the effusively adored (and often reviled) Linkin Park released A Thousand Suns, a sprawling studio experiment that challenged the band’s oft-constrained standards as well as those of the pop-rock world at large. The seeds of change were planted a few years ago, when Linkin Park first enlisted…

Diana Ross was the first modern pop diva, a benchmark of haughty elegance that laid the path for Whitney, Mariah and Christina. Her front-and-center attitude could be trying; she constantly overshadowed fellow Supremes Flo Ballard and Mary Wilson and demanded top billing in the trio’s final years. Still, you couldn’t…

We really wanted to ignore the fact that indie-rock femme guitar virtuoso Marnie Stern is kind of a babe. We think her face-melting matters more than her heart-melting attributes, and worry that mentioning her half-smiling, half-winking glow might undermine years of tireless struggle. Her looks are beside the point, right?…

Thirteen years ago, Lucero were just four drunk punks with a Southern-rock edge who hailed from Memphis, Tennessee. In 2010, Lucero, well, still comprise four drunk punks with a rock ‘n’ roll edge. But now they’re on a major label. And the band’s last album, 1372 Overton Park, features renowned…

Besides Hayes Carll continuing his North Texas tour of clubs (tonight’s stop is at The Aardvark in Cowtown), there are a couple of other interesting musical options also going on tonight…

Here’s what we know about local hip-hop duo The Mohicans at this point. First and foremost, they frickin’ love the movie The Last of the Mohicans — so much so that their upcoming release is named Uncas, in reference to the Mohican chief whose role is so prominent in the…

Since the Grammys, the general population has been mostly dumbfounded that Arcade Fire could win in the category of Best Album. All over the web, the question resounds: “Who is Arcade Fire?” You’d think that a band that’s sold as many albums as they have would sort of be a…