Dr. Dog, Here We Go MagicSouth Side Music HallNovember 13, 2010Better than: hanging out with a bunch of college students anywhere else. On Thursday, Dr. Dog brought quite the diverse crowd to the South Side Music Hall. They had the token indie rock fans, loads of SMU undergrads, and an…
It’s never really ever crossed my mind, but I would think that being a child actor isn’t always that bad. I mean, not everyone who is a child actor turns out so bad. Look at Mindy Cohn! Sure, you have to give up a lot of your childhood and miss…
It’s another hopping musical Thursday evening around town with a show for just about everyone…
Sometimes color can overwhelm. Other times, it’s just so pretty…
New York based emo-rock act Bayside have been around for a while–since the year 2000 to be exact. But that doesn’t mean their new music has lost any of the angst of their earlier records. Its members are just taking a different approach from many of the bands in the…
Looks like the Old 97’s aren’t the only locally connected act to get some late-night television love from NBC lately. Last week, the even-later Last Call with Carson Daly featured former Dallasite and Secret Machine Ben Curtis and his bandmate Alejandra Deheza for a show-ending musical segment, in which cameras…
It seems, much as we try, no one can avoid Katy Perry. Hell, she’s pretty much everywhere these days, between awards shows, popping up (or not at all, turn out) on Sesame Street. She even lashed out at Microsoft over their closed-source softw… no, actually, her fans just wanted free…
Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Ken Bethea and Philip Peeples popped up on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to perform “Champaign, Illinois” from their just-released The Grand Theatre, Volume One — not because it’s the single, but because, says their Twitter feed, Leno requested the track. Hey, now!And,…
Joanna NewsomGranada TheaterNovember 10, 2010 Better than: listening to Joanna Newsom’s recorded songs. I think it’s fair to say that very few people would accidentally find themselves at a Joanna Newsom concert. With her unique voice, epic song structures, and unusual instrumentation, she is not a casual musical choice. Last…
Three years after making waves with its debut 2007 EP, Golden, New York’s Bear Hands has finally gone ahead and released a proper full-length album called Burning Bush Supper Club. And the four-piece’s new album is an interesting one, too, delving into funk, dream pop and relatively straightforward rock ‘n’…
Dallas’ Power Trip was the sole regional participant at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, so we asked frontman Riley Gale to document the band’s experience at the festival, to help give our readers some insight into what things are really like behind the scenes at a concert…
Liam Gallagher’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye isn’t going for the same Beatles-aping sound of his past work. It’s going for something different–the same indie garage rock thing everyone else is doing these days…
We may be stuck in a hopelessly mundane future—no jetpacks, no laser guns and no sex robots, in neither a post-apocalyptic wasteland dystopia nor a beautiful utopia—but Kliks & Politiks sounds like the future as promised by sci-fi movies. Over stuttering, thumping beats and throbbing bass float ray-gun zaps, ethereal…
Five albums in, Todd Gautreau’s Crushed Stars still makes the kind of textured, soothing, chill-out rock that perfectly suits gray drizzly days or droopy-eyed late nights. The deliberate mid-tempo lullabies are just as calming as ever, with the same whispery delivery that made a moderate radio hit earlier this year…
As The Will Callers’ Jake Murphy adjusted to a bit of bracing, life-altering news, he was already making up his mind about his group’s immediate future. He didn’t have any choice but to make a decision in quick order—the band was set to play a show just a few days…
At 70, renowned country and rock icon Levon Helm can still kick some serious ass. Forever known for his drumming and vocal skills demonstrated in The Band, Helm’s career has surprisingly surged in recent years. His 2007 comeback album, Dirt Farmer, earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album…
Put Morrissey on a yacht in the middle of the ocean on a beautiful day and he’d probably sill find some reason to be sad about it. But Mission To The Sea’s debut album Tranquilo, which meets the above criteria almost perfectly, is a lighter, only slightly melancholic effort. That…
It’s difficult to think of another indie-pop record in the past 20 years as influential and surrounded by romantic lore as Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 masterpiece, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Frontman Jeff Mangum, then part of Athens, Georgia’s legendary Elephant Six collective, spun timeless tales of love, longing…
When you leave your humble abode to attend NX35 in Denton this March, you’ll actually arrive at 35 Conferette. The Denton-based festival made the name change official this week with the launch of a new website. And they’re already selling bracelets for the 2011 run. The name change has been…
Andy Warhol and The Dandy Warhols share more than just a similar name: Both artists have a history of having their art used in advertising. From The O.C. to Good Will Hunting to Mythbusters, this Portland-based post-punk outfit uses their signature sound to make a name for themselves on the…
At once vaudevillian and also contemporarily raw, New York’s Felice Brothers have been perhaps the key cog in the recent surge of indie roots rock. Their varied sound, featuring horns, ragtime piano and fiddle (among other distinctive noisemakers), lends the group a sincere diversity that even folk-intensive indie acts, such…
Elton John has been a superstar for decades. His latest collaborator, Leon Russell, on the other hand, has been something of an obscurity for most of his 40-something-year career, which started as a session musician and featured one semi-hit album, 1972’s Carney, and a few other charting records before his…
