So, this is a real song. Kind of a jam, too? I’m trying to get The Naptime Shake to cover it–and to add another verse if when Nolan brings the Rangers World Series glory in these coming days. Maybe this public plea will sway their minds? Hope so.Anyway: Claw! Antlers!…
Back in June, back when Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly still lived in Denton and hadn’t yet made their move to Brooklyn, we passed along the news that the duo, who together perform as Fergus & Geronimo, had been signed to the newly created Sub Pop imprint label, Hardly Art…
Eight years removed from its breakout album, Austin’s …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is still riding high off the success of its 2002 release, Source Tags & Codes, the disc that thrust the band into indie rock superstardom, thanks to near-universal praise and acclaim. The…
As a fellow Syracuse University alum with some connections to the band, I may be a little biased in the matter, but, listen, there’s a lot to like about the SU-spawned Ra Ra Riot, whose endearing chamber pop thrust the band out of the college basement circuit and into the…
The biggest show announcement we’ve had in a while–no, not you, Aaron Neville–is the Wu-Tang Clan’s just-announced show at the Granada Theater on Friday, December 10. Although billed as an all-original line-up, there is a certain issue with one Old Dirty Bastard, who passed away in 2004. But according to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, October 27, 2010…Girl Talk is planning a new album that features Rick Ross. Let’s hope the record isn’t called “Dell Laptop Music.”Asher Roth has decided to get political… about making weed legal in California.Bluegrass lends their own voice covering the Grateful…
A couple of nice triple-bills, plus some hardcore country, makes for a pleasant Tuesday evening of music, no?…
We’ve shared more than a few Analog Rebellion tracks with DC9 readers over the course of the past year. Can’t help it, really. Dude just keeps putting out tracks that make our black, Pixies-loving hearts jump–and at a startling pace, too. Even though the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay! has…
Will Smith progeny Willow Smith joined teen heartthrob Justin Bieber on stage the other night so the two could dance–you guessed it–the Dallas-spawned Dougie together. And, just like that, the D-Town Boogie movement has officially jumped the shark. But, hey, that’s good news for me, because that’s what my column…
Booker T. Washington High School’s own Norah Jones stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to perform “Chasing Pirates” from last year’s The Fall with The Roots and to promote her upcoming release, …Featuring, which serves as a collection of collaborations she’s offered up over the course of…
Sigur Ros singer Jonsi is known for his solemn and somber stage demeanor, but the setlist for his solo show last night at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie offers a peak behind the curtain. It features a series of inside jokes aimed at his backing band and crew, and it’s…
The New York-based, Berkeley-formed We Are Scientists have been around for a decade at this point, although, really, their big break didn’t come until 2005 when the band released With Love and Squalor, which included its biggest hit to date in “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt.” The consummate “big in…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Gemma Ray (London,…
JonsiVerizon Theatre, Grand PrairieOctober 25, 2010Better than: The last show I saw at Verizon Theatre–Brian Wilson. I don’t even think his keyboard was plugged in. Jonsi’s performance on Monday night at Verizon Theatre was like watching a man go free. No longer held up by the trappings of Sigur Ros,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, October 26, 2010…The Scissor Sisters had to cancel part of it’s European tour because they don’t have enough money to pay for it.Slayer’s Kerry King joined Megadeth on stage for the first time since he was a part of the band…
If you like Iceland, Auto-Tune or Japanese screamo, boy, you’re in luck tonight!…
In this edition of This Week in Dallas Music History, former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain talks with longtime Dallas musician Wanz Dover about his Melodica Festival in 1999. The festival, which was heavy on Texas space-rock, started in Dallas. And, at this point, Dover was planning to put…
Kind of a crazy scene on Friday night in Carrollton. Even in the face of rain and the Texas Rangers clinching a trip to the World Series, a very respectable couple hundred folks turned up in Carrollton Square for the inaugural Festival at the Switchyard to watch a killer double-headlining…
Good news out of Old 97’s camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart,…
To the Trekkies and Harry Pottererers who skipped all this weekend’s claw fever for the Star Trek Fan Days at the Plano Center: We’ve brewed up some memorabilia for you to get autographed in the future.If you didn’t know already, William Shatner was one of three big Guests of Honor…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, GrassfightTreesOctober 24, 2010Better than: hanging onto what was left of my hearing. “Spread your love like a fever.” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club pretty much summed up their entire two hour and 15-minute-long set with those words. They were good. Great, even. Hell, they were amazing at times…
This was a nerd’s weekend: Between Rangers fans and blood-spattered zombies photos (I think there was some stormtroopers in there too?), our photographers Ray & Peter Lek and Roderick Pullum caught a wide spectrum of fandoms from the weekend’s events.Somewhere around the Trinity River, DJ Brett Johnson from Dallas was…
