Music

Excuse us if we’ve spent too much time covering Menkena in these past few weeks, sharing music videos with you, and giving you free songs off their debut record and all. It’s just that, you see, we’ve been sitting on With You I’ll Travel, the full-length debut from the so-called…

Pretty busy Thursday evening we have here, highlighted by the Price of Darkness himself, and a pair of punk rock quadruple-bills…

Denton’s Dale Jones, when performing under his New Science Projects moniker, is a somewhat frightening and confusing character, one that dons face paint and refuses to play on stages and runs right up to his audience members only to scream into their face.So it’s pretty fitting, then, that the poster…

Back in August, when Luis Dubuc, the man behind The Secret Handshake, released Night & Day, his ode to Motown pop and his departure from his mall-adored earlier electro-pop, the 25-year-old admitted to us that he was doing so with some trepidation. Rightfully so: These songs were vastly different from…

Soviet frontman John Spies knows that his band’s music might sound a little familiar. But there’s reason for that, the 21-year-old explains: The band got its started when he and his drummer, the 20-year-old Andrew Weir, plugged in their equipment and began “copying Japandroids songs and fucking them up.”That was…

This past weekend, Datahowler, the chilled-out identity of Frisco’s Ross Edman, made his live debut at Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party — and our Daniel Rodrigue came away quite impressed with what he saw from this young performer. Can’t say that this much is too surprising — we’ve…

Man, just seeing the name Avril Lavigne on the charts again takes me back to my teenage years. Back then, I loathed her singles “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” for their obvious pretense toward skater punks. Seems little has changed…

For two people known for their involvement in helping to shape the Denton rock music community, starting a hip-hop project could be seen as a bit unusual. But because of influences that expand beyond the rock sphere, Ashley Cromeens of Record Hop and Craig Welch of Brutal Juice nonetheless started…

Daniel Hall wakes up. Bleary-eyed and cloudy-minded from last night’s whiskey, he sits up in his bed and rubs his eyes. When he finally gets his bearings, he is met with an unfortunate reality as he looks around his room. It’s filled with recording equipment—microphones, computers, speakers and cables are…

So much for the Southern California sun. The rain has been pouring for days, clogging the freeways and prompting tornado warnings. But here at Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino’s home in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood, it’s warm. She sits on a couch and pets her now-famous Garfield doppelganger, Snacks,…

Guitar shredding used to a males-only club. But Lauren Langner Larson, the blonde pixie guitarist and vocalist of the Austin alt-rock trio Ume (pronounced ooo-may) is working hard to change that. And while she’s joined by equally gifted female artists these days (Marnie Stern and Orianthi come to mind) in…

Twenty-five years into an already remarkable career, rock ‘n’ roll’s most recognizable guitarist finally got around to releasing a proper solo album this past year. The album—which was originally going to be called Slash and Friends before the and Friends part was ultimately dropped—sees the famously coiffed shredder not only…

For a primer on the power of golden-age hip-hop, meet Chicago’s Cool Kids, Exhibit A. The signifiers are everywhere you listen. There’s the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” Starter cap, lovingly described in the opening bars of “Black Mags.” There’s a song simply titled “88,” which pays similar homage to Guess…

Even though it will be on a Sunday night, The Loft will very likely be at full capacity. After all, emo icons The Get Up Kids are coming back to town. The Kansas City five-piece packed the Granada last fall on their reunion tour, and now they have a new…

Tom Gabel, frontman for Jacksonville, Florida, punk four-piece Against Me!, has never been scared to speak his mind. He made that much very clear when his band’s fans cried foul upon the release of 2007’s New Wave. Upset that this, the band’s fourth release, was coming out on major subsidiary…

It’s only natural to envy those who seem to excel at anything they attempt. Whether it’s in work, in sports, an ollie axel stall 270 flip out, whatever—these people win at life with little to no effort. They seem to live outside the limits of normal folk. Malcolm Gladwell even…

A couple touring acts pop into town to spruce up an otherwise slow Wednesday evening — well, aside from perhaps the city’s most happening weekly event…