Music

Back at the beginning of the month, we shared with you all the very impressive lineup for the fifth incarnation of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, which is set to take place on November 6, 7 and 8 in Waterloo Park, down in that pretentious city about three and a…

This weekend marks the third annual (and biggest yet) Dia De Los Toadies Festival.Each year the location of the festival changes, so The Toadies and nine other Texas bands will take over Whitewater On The Horseshoe in New Braunfels tonight, and all day tomorrow. This year’s most exciting new addition?…

Since DJs are frequently juggling projects, picking up new nights, creating new mixes, and, well, always trying to stay on top of the game, we thought that, before moving forward to our next batch of local DJs, it’d be fun to re-cap the first lot and see what some of…

In this week’s paper, Darryl Smyers talks Athens’ Dead Confederate, explaining why Sunday night’s show at The Loft is a must-see in his book:Known for their hybrid mix of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens’ Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of Wrecking Ball, the band’s 2008 debut…

On any other night, Meat Loaf’s show at the House of Blues would’ve been your go-to happening for thinly veiled onstage innuendo. Meat’s idea of subtlety has been free-falling from his early sex-as-fiery-explosion and baseball metaphors to the epic line off his latest album that’s also spawned the next great…

There are only 600 seats available at tomorrow night’s Granada Theater show with Chris Knight and Somebody’s Darling. And, we just heard from the folks over at the the theater that this all-seated affair is close to a sell-out. No real surprise there. Knight’s a big player in Texas despite…

Tonight, City Tavern hosts yet another night of music that reminds anyone who may need a refresher that, yes, good live music can be found in Downtown–even if none of the acts on the bill are from the eastern side of the Metroplex.While Telegraph Canyon’s Chris Johnson has rightfully vaulted…

What do you know, folks. Lil’ Wayne, Young Money’s Pikachu, is back on the charts with a fresh, new track. And he brought Drake, his Canadian trainee, with him…

With the recent and sad passing of Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel, two-thirds of the Big Star, it’s only proper to showcase a relatively new outfit that was heavily influenced by the legendary power pop band.Enter The Dashing Suns, a chipper little quartet out of Oakland that just happens to…

It’s been a big couple of weeks here for music-related Internet memes. First, two weeks ago, there was that whole slowing a Justin Bieber song down 800 percent to make it sound like a 30-minute, and pretty damn amazing, Sigur Ros song. And then there was the sheer glee we…

Hey, remember those awesome shirts with wolves on them you used to buy from those pamphlets they’d hand out in elementary school? Of course you do. They are, after all, the new hipster chic. And, actually, they make for a pretty cool poster, too…

So, actor Bryan Cranston, in the wake of Malcolm in the Middle’s demise, went on to critical acclaim with his new, meth-obsessed series Breaking Bad. But what of the actor that played the titular character of that old show? Ah: Well, like Jenny Lewis before him, it seems Frankie Muniz…

Leg Sweeper’s Taylor Stolly and Justin “Boots” Gomez never meant to become a Dallas band. The former Houston-based act came to Dallas on a roundabout mission to make their way to becoming an Austin band. Their reasons for stopping? To visit the Dallas-raised Stolly’s family, to find some work to…

Soft Environmental Collapse isn’t exactly a new project. Actually, if you wanna get down to brass tax, the band from brother John and JJ Mudd has been around longer than Ishi, the other project the two brothers play around town in. For obvious reasons, though–namely, Ishi spiraling out of control…