By our estimation, 2010 can be best summed up as the year of beach music. All year long, it seemed, new bands from coastal regions were cropping up with their hazy guitar tones and rich vocal harmonies, all soaked in reverb and packed with more pop hooks than we previously…
Nobunny, Cats in Heat, Video, IdiotsRubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in DentonFebruary 17, 2011Better than: wearing pants. By night, garage rock musician Justin Champlin goes by another persona, transforming, as he has for nearly a decade now, into Nobunny, a man in a bunny mask infamous for live performances filled with…
Just because the scheduled Linkin Park and Prodigy show at the American Airlines Center has been postponed until Wednesday, March 2, doesn’t mean you can’t catch another musical act this evening. As a matter of fact, we have a plethora of worthy options for the discerning music fan…
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It’s been just over a month since Tapes ‘n Tapes released Outside, a hyperactive, hook-driven album that pays homage to ’90s-era college rock, as evidenced by the jangly guitar riffs and laid-back vocals on the album’s first single, “Freak Out.” And though Outside, the band’s third full-length, is a more…
Per the Denton Record-Chronicle, some big news out of Denton yesterday, as the organizers of 35 Conferette got the go-aheads from city council to erect outdoor stages on public property in downtown Denton and to also sell alcohol outside during their four-day festival. As such, there will be no last-minute…
In yet another case of art imitating life, Taylor Momsen seems to be drawing inspiration from the trouble-making character she plays on The CW’s Gossip Girl. In real life, Momsen has displayed quite the wild streak lately. Recent reports have shown her diva-like attitude on the set of the teen…
Even well into the new millennium, the term “Christian Rock” is still a practical oxymoron to some folks. But, for the fans of modern Christian music who don’t see it that way, Texarkana native David Crowder’s name is likely a familiar one.For 15 years, the wild-haired and goateed Crowder and…
On December 31, 2009, when Chris Cornell tweeted that the “Knights of the Soundtable” would “ride again,” fans assumed 2010 would become known as the year of Soundgarden, finding the ’90s grunge legends reforming and regaining their once dominant form. Disappointingly, they were only half right; the rockers did ultimately…
For every good idea that Lady Gaga has, she also has a bad one. Bad enough, even, to make you reconsider how good the original idea was in the first place.This even applies to her image. Hey, I’m all for creating fantastical characters — they’re inseparable with popular music culture,…
You know that awkward feeling you get when a white college bro plays something “funky” on an acoustic guitar, and at first you think they’re joking, but then you start to realize they’re serious about it? That’s how much of Tomorrow’s Ghosts, from Fort Worth’s Luke Wade and No Civilians,…
Named after a villain on the old school version of the television program Hawaii Five-O, this trio of local headbangers have been creating a highly original mixture of psychedelia and metal for the better part of five years. Noche del Chupacabra is Wo Fat’s third effort; and even though it…
Not every band from Denton can be lumped into the dominant neo-folk, alt-country, punk, experimental and jazz/fusion/jam-band camps. Some of them just want to flat-out rock. Paper Robot falls squarely into the latter camp, though Alex Maples, Brent Nichols and Cody Robinson have spent their share of time in moodier…
Checking in under 40 minutes, Datahowler’s full-length debut, Slowdrifter, stands as a rich exploration of a sound that’s distinctively hip-hop at its core, yet simultaneously runs away from many of the formalized conventions of the genre. With a decidedly sci-fi tone dominating the release, Datahowler crafts a soundscape that stands…
The release of a debut effort is normally a momentous event for any band. That’s not the case for Dallas’ Onward We March, though. Just two weeks after pressing up The Golden Vine, the metal band announced that lead singer Logan Acton had decided to leave the band due to…
When England’s Beth Orton met Midlake at the Mojo Magazine Awards last year, the artists got along so well that they discussed working together in the near future. And while that sort of thing happens all the time in music to no end result, Orton and Midlake may actually have…
Miranda Lambert has struck a delicate balance: Together with kindred artists like Jamey Johnson, she’s made country music palatable once again to the sanctimonious scads of big-city, Tea Party-loathing dissenters, infusing the genre with a newfound sense of authenticity missing since the days of her legendary outlaw forefathers. At the…
Among the many gems to be gleaned from Michael Azerrad’s stellar Our Band Could Be Your Life, the chapter that really made the tome required reading was the section that covered the friction-intensive beginnings and inner workings of Dinosaur Jr. Unlike the hardcore champions of the time, the Massachusetts trio…
Plenty of bands these days hail from California and boast a heavily reverb-washed brand of surf goth that could just as easily pass for a Beach Boys b-side as a long-lost Ramones cassette demos. This formula worked quite well for bands like Wavves and Best Coast last year, as they…
For the better part of the past decade, the term “angelic” has been oft-applied in discussing the multi-talented Carrie Rodriguez and her music. To be sure, the molasses-coated twang she imparts is very much the stuff of heavenly creatures. So are her skills with almost any instrument bearing strings, especially…
The question: Do you think artists such as Lady Gaga are doing a disservice to pop music? “I understand why you asked me this,” Robyn responds bluntly. “But at the same time, I’m reluctant to answer. And I’ll tell you the reason why: Girls always get questions about other girls,…
Broken Social Scene is anything but broken. With a roster that casts a wide, if loose, net across the musical landscape of Toronto, band members float into and out of each other’s musical projects like the friends they very genuinely appear to be. A short list of solo and band…
