The venerable San Francisco-based trash metal act Exodus has been around for nearly 30 years at this point. And they haven’t all been easy: Over this time, guitarist and founding member Gary Holt has seen the deaths of two former members and, twice, he’s put the band on extended hiatus…
Some people spend their Labor Days grilling by the pool. Others wallow pool cues and eat fire. The Hellzapoppin Sideshow Revue, which features “electrical death defying stunts” and fire eating, stopped by Trees on Friday night–and it was merely one of our photographers Ray and Peter Lek’s stop this Labor…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 7, 2010…T.I. may have to return to prison if he’s found to have violated his parole.Duff McKagan has left the latest incarnation of Jane’s Addiction.Morrissey thinks the Chinese are a sub-species. Wow…
It’s Labor Day weekend, and the parties will be happening all over town. One of the most interesting is the Expo Park Jazz Festival’s “The Many Faces of Jazz.” This two-day jazz festival will happen at Amsterdam Bar on Sunday and Monday and will feature 14 local and national jazz…
Wade Randolph Hampton, aka DJ WISHFM, is seasoned at his craft. The DJ/booker/promoter and now, band manager, has been spinning for 25 years at this point. Never one to slow down, Hampton books for The W’s rooftop club, Ghostbar, serves as that club’s resident DJ, and manages popular local acts…
It hasn’t even been six months since Nervous Curtains released their sophomore album, Out Of Sync With Time, and they’ve already got a new offering for us. Well, OK, it’s sort of new.See, the free album download the band just announced a few hours ago isn’t new material; rather, it’s…
In yet another, suburban location outside of Dallas proper–this time at Plano’s Last Chance Saloon–independent country music, in its myriad forms, reigned supreme. A couple of hundred folks (if not a tad more) crammed themselves into the Last Chance Saloon for Week Seven of the Shiner Rising Star competition last…
What’s that Lassie? Nelly released a new single? You mean Nelly Furtado? No? The other Nelly? Well, crap…
The folks at YouPlusDallas, who you may recall from their incredibly well put-together re-cap of our DOMAXXII Awards Ceremony that we shared back in July, have done it again, this time releasing a clip re-visiting our DOMA Showcase festivities. The Showcase, you may recall, featured some 45 bands playing 10…
Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea is one of just two of the band’s four members that still calls Dallas home. But, beyond that, he’s also probably the straightest shooter of the bunch, never too willing to tout the party line and usually all-too-willing to discuss his band’s efforts with a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 3, 2010…You would think a prison stint and probation would be enough to keep T.I. on the straight and narrow. Think again.No one rocks a party like Jazzy Jeff. But, apparently that wasn’t good enough for him not to get…
On Saturday night at La Grange, local singer-songwriter Ashley Myrick, who performs under the stage name of lalagray, will celebrate the release of her debut solo album Devil’s Nest. And celebration, indeed, is in order: The piano-driven effort, which Myrick says is five years in the making, is a confident…
A big tip of the hat to the very underrated locally based music blog Douchebag Face, which earlier today posted the above clip of School of Seven Bells, who come to Denton for a gig at Hailey’s on October 8, performing an acoustic take of their Disconnect From Desire song…
In this week’s paper, Ben Westhoff chats up Dorrough, or as he calls himself, Mr. D-O-Double-R, in advance of the release of the Lancaster-based rapper’s sophomore effort, Get Big, which hits stores on Tuesday. Seems there are two roads before the 23-year-old born Dorwin Dorrough: Either he can capitalize on…
Trey Johnson released this morning a new music video for his song “Bombs,” the lead single off his new album, Where The East Ends, his second release in the wake of Sorta’s breakup. The video, directed by Michael Carter, is the first of Johnson’s solo career and, like the tone…
Austin’s Balmorhea released its newest full-length, Constellations, back on February 23, and Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, the main songwriters and core duo of band, have strayed little from the desert-rock formula displayed on earlier efforts. And that’s not a criticism in the least; Balmorhea’s previous album All is Wild,…
We’ve been doing lots of talking about this year’s installment of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Festival–and with good reason. It’s looking like everything good about SXSW and Austin City Limits Music Festival combined into one big party in Waterloo Park on November 5, 6 and 7. You get the Austin…
C’mon, this is an easy one. Some hints: It’s a she. She announced it on Twitter last night.She’s got her own line of accessories in the works.Her name rhymes with Schmerykah Schmadu…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 2, 2010…You can say what you want about Kanye’s personality quirks but he’s always trying to push his art to the next level. To that end, the rapper/producer is reportedly shooting a companion film for his new album.When you think…
Not long ago, when a pop musician sold a million albums, it was an indication of great success. Today, though, that figure is practically unattainable. Those who move a million singles are considered serious movers-and-shakers. By that measure, then, Dallas rapper Dorrough is on top of the heap. His buoyantly…
Founded in 1983 by musician/actor/philanthropist Ilia Lagutenko, Russia’s Mumiy Troll actually went on hiatus twice—once while Lagutenko served in the Soviet Army and again as he went to work with a business consulting firm in London and China. But once Lagutenko got the band together for a third time in…
Ask any of the truckers who have run into him along the highways, or any of the musicians who join him in the honky-tonks of Austin and you’ll likely receive confirmation of why Dale Watson has been granted the nickname of “The Real Deal.” Whereas many neo-traditional country acts in…
