Watch: Menkena — “Rocketships”

We’re only days away from Menkena’s highly anticipated debut album, With You I’ll Travel, which will earn its release on Tuesday, January 18. Lead Singer Jimmy Menkena, whose name the band bears, built quite a buzz for himself in 2010, playing impeccable, loud shoegaze all over town. His band’s sound…

Watch: Michaelmatician — “Monitors Off”

Michaelmatician maybe one of the most mysterious artists in Dallas. And he’s pretty interesting, too: Instead of going by songs and albums, the electronic perfromer releases material as “sound units.” And, instead of talking to the public, he has an intermediary known as Jeremy Shingles, who researches Michaelmatician like science…

Watch: You Plus Dallas Looks Back on Dallas Music in 2010

There’s no doubt about it, for the Dallas music community, 2010 was strong to quite strong. Newer acts like Ishi, Air Review, Spooky Folk and many others made waves, while long-time acts like Sarah Jaffe and Doug Burr broke out with quite a bit of national attention.You Plus Dallas, the…

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Join 35 Conferette Bill

That headline kind of says it all — and, gotta say, we’re pretty stoked to see our favorite Jesus & Mary Chain apers getting tacked on to this thing, which, we’ll once again remind you, will be taking place in Denton on March 10 – 13.After the jump, the full…

The Problem With… Jamie Foxx’s “Fall For Your Type”

After getting an Academy Award for Ray in 2004 and showing off his classically trained voice, I’d say Terrell’s own Jamie Foxx had a pretty great decade. But there’s always been one thing that makes me think twice about heaping praise on Jamie. That’s the single “Blame It.” With Auto-Tune…

Novaak

Local music tends to roll one of two directions: It either shoots for the moon and adopts a universal, accessible sound (to varying degrees of artistic success), or it turns inward to play only for the local community (to varying degrees of artistic merit). Denton’s Novaak takes the former route…

Chameleon Chamber Group

It was a quiet affair when the Chameleon Chamber Group took to the cavernous loft called SPACE to record Live In Space, a live recording of classical treasures. Only one of the six songs from this EP was written within the last century—an adaptation of The Polyphonic Spree’s “Ensure Your…

Hello Lover

In a land where 6-foot-11 mustachioed bald men are sexy, Hello Lover frontman Rob Dunlap is king. The very visible lead singer of the self-proclaimed sex-rock act demands your attention with his sheer being. But as imposing as he may be, he and the rest of the members of the…

No Age, Total Abuse, Rene Hell

No Age’s third LP, Everything in Between, is a big, beautiful racket. Drummer Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall create crashing, expansive layers of sound that make No Age sound like a quintet instead of a duo, with the help of loads of screeching reverb. The music is propulsive—even urgent—but…

Remembering Frankie 45.

Sometimes you can just tell. You see when someone has something special inside them, when they’re meant for bigger, better things. I always felt that way about Frank Campagna Jr., better known around town as Frankie 45 or, more simply, as Frankie. He just exuded that special something—in all walks…