The Thermals, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The CoathangersGranada TheaterOctober 24, 2010Better than: sitting at home, drumming my fingers and waiting for the World Series to start. Considering that it was a Sunday night, last night’s vibe at the Granada Theater was surprising.Only some 250 people turned out to see Portland’s smart…
Free Energy, Foxy Shazam and HolleradoThe LoftOctober 22, 2010Better than: listening to politicians try to inspire hope with the upcoming elections. Philadelphia-based power-pop group Free Energy has been climbing very fast since their March 2010 debut album Stuck on Nothing, a critical success that’s seen the band scoring a Shawn…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 25, 2010…Think you know all about your favorite (and not so favorite) bands? Do you like to waste time at work? Then check out the “Ultimate Band Name Quiz.”I didn’t realize that people thought the Big Bopper was shot and…
Well, we’ve finally recovered from our Austin City Limits Music Festival hangover–and just in time, too. This weekend’s Festival At The Switchyard in Carrollton is yet another suburban rock fest featuring some local heavy-hitters. On Friday and Saturday, Old 97’s, Polyphonic Spree, Orbans, and Robert Earl Keen will perform, along…
Longtime local music fans should recognize Andy Young’s name. He was the drummer for the Bella Union-signed Lift to Experience, the iconic area shoegaze outfit that came to prominence in the early ’00s during Denton’s space rock era. These days, though, Young’s working on a new, ’70s-leaning psych-pop project called…
Things are gonna get real down and folky tomorrow night at the Kessler Theatre in Oak Cliff, as three fine locals–Bosque Brown, The Fox and The Bird and Kristy Kruger–join in to form a bill also featuring Denver’s Paper Bird.But there’s more than folk at play here: Each of the…
We didn’t make it to Superpages.com Center last night for Maroon 5, OneRepublic and Ry Cuming. Must’ve slipped our minds. But, hey, ace photographer Rachel Parker did! And she took some great shots of the night, too! And we took those photos and re-appropriated them into a slideshow about the…
Portland-based indie-punk trio The Thermals are known for their heavy lyrics, from achieving a new platform of paranoia about Christian fascism with their critically acclaimed The Body, The Blood, The Machine to speaking about life through death with their 2009, John Congleton-produced Now We Can See. It’s been a year…
A couple weeks back, friend of the program Josh Romero was out on the town with some friends, waling out of the Dallas World Aquarium, when a street musician going by the name of Big Horn caught his eye.”I didn’t know the guy at all,” Romero says. “He was just…
If you’re a feeler of the Illinoise, and you felt it at McFarlin Auditorium a couple of nights ago, then you know there’s more to Sufjan then a banjo and some folk songs. As Daniel Hopkins pointed out in his review of the performance, Sufjan’s new album, The Age of…
Yesterday on DC9, Daniel Hopkins caught up with Gareth Campesinos, frontman for the Welsh eight-piece indie pop-punk outfit Los Campesinos!, to talk about the band’s most recent release (Romance Is Boring), the differences between U.S. and U.K. audiences (there are plenty) and what it’s like touring as an eight-piece (not…
Shiner Rising Star Competition FinalsLove & War in Texas, PlanoOctober 21, 2010After 14 weeks of competition between 24 bands that cover the entire, vast realm of country music, the Shiner Rising Star contest ended last night at Plano’s Love & War in Texas. And, many times throughout the evening, it…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 22, 2010…Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker gives us the straight dope on her Tea Party support. U2 are venturing into somewhat new musical waters. The band has enlisted Danger Mouse to make a “club” record. Is this their new Pop…
An unusual, but genuinely talented group of musical acts invade our area this Thursday evening…..
Is it fire? Is it hands? Is it hands caught in a fire? Yes…
Denton four-piece Manned Missiles, as you can see in the above photograph, has long been bubbling up in the Denton house party scene, and, finally, the band’s got some new recorded music to show for it. Recently, the band released a new song called “Cut The Lights,” the most melodic…
No, the Denver-based, Elephant Six-associated Apples in Stereo are not locally based. They’re from Denver. We already said that.But the band does boast a major local connection: Local musician/all-around good dude John Dufilho, frontman for local long-timers The Deathray Davies and I Love Math, is the band’s drummer. And, though…
The members of Los Campesinos, a spastic indie-punk band from Wales, are in the middle of their final US tour of the year. With two full-length records and a handful of EPs under their belts, this fun eight-piece band is quickly gaining fans all over the world.The band is at…
Dave Grohl, Slayer’s Kerry King and Dio’s Simon Wright are among the rock and metal icons that have been confirmed to participate in an upcoming all-star benefit jam at Los Angeles’ the Key Club, held in Arlington native and Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott’s honor. The event, called Dimebash 2010,…
Gorillaz, N.E.R.DVerizon Theatre, Grand PrairieOctober 20, 2010Better than: an evening spent watching the Cartoon Network. Roger CaldwellDamon Albarn, triumphant at last night’s Verizon Theatre show. For a full slideshow from last night, click here.Shame on anyone who expected a cartoonish display from Gorillaz last night. Sure, Damon Albarn and his…
Sufjan StevensMcFarlin AuditoriumOctober 21, 2010Better Than: The times my parents would drag me to McFarlin Auditorium to watch ballet. Sufjan Stevens had his work cut out for him on Wednesday night at SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium: He had the daunting task of convincing everyone in the room–himself included–that he’s more than…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 21, 2010…Gwyneth Paltrow is taking the next logical step in her career: She’s performing at the CMA Awards.A rare White Stripes 7″ fetched a whopping $18,000.Is Beyonce preggers? Looks like we’ll find out soon…..
