Charlotte Kemp Muhl hasn’t always been a musician. She’s pretty new to it, in fact. For most of her career she’s modeled, appearing on the cover of Harper’s, and worked for Tommy Hilfiger, D&G, Maybelline and others. Until recently, the extent of her musical endeavors has been strumming a guitar…
Girl Talk Saturday, January 15, 2011 The Palladium BallroomBetter than: Listening to a bunch of actual girl talk. Whether you can dance or not, you know you want to. You just need a good excuse and, in some cases, a little lubrication. Saturday night Girl Talk provided the excuse. An…
Royal Bangs, Goldilocks and The Rock and Land Animals Hailey’s January 14, 2011 Better Than: The Falcons performance against the Packers on Saturday. A small but dedicated crowd fought the cold wind and drizzle Friday night to hear Knoxville’s Royal Bangs play at Hailey’s Club in Denton. While the weather…
It’s looking like a good weekend of shows, starting with Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party on Saturday night. It’ll feature performances from Hoyotoho, Damaged Good$, galleryCat, and Datahowler, and includes a Champagne toast at midnight.But that’s not the only big show happening this weekend. Here’s a sampling of…
For over 10 years, the Dallas country act Eleven Hundred Springs has been married to the road. Touring all over the country, playing their highly danceable country music has taken its toll on the band, who move back and forth from being country stars to being family men. Tonight’s show…
As we’ve already mentioned today, one of the world’s most prolific and creative rappers, Kool Keith, will bring his hip hop inventions, Horrorcore and Pornocore, to The Loft tonight. Some might remember him as Dr. Octagon, his moniker in the ’90s — since when, he has released 20 studio records…
Not sure yet if y’all are sick of hearing about local bands getting the Daytrotter treatment — which is to say, locals getting invited to the Horseshack recording studios in Illinois to lay down some live takes, which the folks at Daytrotter then turn around and give to the public…
Tonight, groundbreaking experimental rapper Kool Keith will be gracing The Loft with his presence. And we’re hella stoked. Not only is the rapper one of our favorites, but his skill set is undeniable and his advancements in the “horrorcore” and “porncore” genres are fairly irrefutable. Plus. he’s just plain fascinating…
After a handful of early teases, the folks down at Austins’ South by Southwest Music and Media Conference went ahead and released the whole big batch of names — although, let’s be honest, there will probably still be some changes (not to mention names we just missed) — of performers…
Now this is just weird: The above video is just one of many, many clips that Jay Herrod of Colorado has posted to YouTube, obsessing over Disney starlet and Grand Prairie’s Own Selena Gomez.Welcome to the downside of celebrity, Selena! Seems somewhat reminiscent of the very creepy documentary I Think…
We’ve got a nice and busy Thursday evening of shows for you this time around. Looks like Friday got here a little early…..
No, that’s not an image of outer space. Rather, it’s a distorted image of two eyes, staring you down, daring and enticing you to check out this Saturday night show…
Dallas-raised and SMU-educated country star Jack Ingram is still a relatively new name on the national stage for fans that live outside of the Lone Star State. But, for those of us who have lived around these parts for years and have scribbled all sorts of illegible items on the…
I’m not going to say that this is going to be the last post we’re going to do on Frankie 45 — because, to be honest, I highly doubt that much to be the case. There are too many other memorials in the works — a tribute album is currently…
Next week will finally see the full-length debut of Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly’s Fergus & Geronimo project. Released via newly established Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art, the disc is called Unlearn –and, it’s safe to say from early listens, that the title is an appropriate one.The Denton products who’ve…
After a quiet 2010 consisting of an appearance in a Glee episode dedicated to her, Britney Spears is wasting no time getting back in the spotlight in 2011. And her first release/leak of this year is a jambalaya of dated electronic sounds hidden behind a chipmunk/Cajun Britney Spears.The song’s called…
The tendency, as calendars start moving past their expiration dates, is to wrap up the year in music with an interminable parade of year’s best lists—beginning, oh, around September. That, then, is followed by speculation, prediction and a whole slew of wild guesses about what the upcoming year in music…
When you hear that a child of a Beatle is coming to town, do you really need another reason to go to a show? Especially when the Beatle-child in question is the offspring of arguably the most beloved of all of the Beatles? From the standpoint of celebrity, it’s surprising…
When asked about being omitted from Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the top 100 guitarists of all time, legendary axeman Joe Satriani offers his own blunt assessment of the magazine’s omission: “Everyone knows that Rolling Stone is shit,” Satriani says from a tour stop in Canada. “That list was made…
Thursdays at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton just got a little more chaste. DISCIPLINE, a new DJ weekly hosted by Shane English, Kate Depetris, Andrew Haas, Kathryn Falvo and Jonah Lange, is an all-vinyl night that features only the toughest underground ’80s music and serves as a sort of…
Is Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, providing a new litmus test for how a performer or band confirms their place in popular music? Based on the reaction from Fort Worth’s own Toadies last November, who were excited to hear their hit “Possum Kingdom” sampled on Gillis’ latest album, the answer…
Royal Bangs frontman Ryan Schaefer once expressed his bewilderment that any artist would want to plant themselves in the middle of an already well-defined genre and regurgitate music that’s already been made. It’s not a novel observation, but it’s definitely emblematic of the Knoxville combo’s difficult-to-pigeonhole sound. Their two albums—2008’s…
