DJ INDO, born Ricky Roe, grew up with music as an integral part of his life, and it was his love for music, alongside inspiration from his father and brother, that led him to DJ. When he first got started, nearly four years ago, DJ INDO explored a wide variety…
It shouldn’t come as too much of a shock that DFW has an ever-growing, ever-awesome, music scene; we’ve sort of been shouting that for a while now. From Denton to Arlington, it seems to be a region of Texas supersaturated with talented musicians, dedicated fans, and supportive venues. But why…
Only a month later, we’re finally wrapping up the joy and wonder that was DOMAXXII. We all had a blast this year–with several fun new additions like the award ceremony’s on-stage mash-ups and the first-ever, incredibly hot, outdoor stage, presented by Bud Light. Our friends at Expat Films went toe-to-toe…
Oh, joy! Everyone’s favorite California girl’s got another track on the charts…
Just got word from Todd Gautreau, the lone man behind the ethereal act known as Crushed Stars, that he’ll be finishing up a new album this coming weekend. The album, Gautreau hopes, will be release in mid-November.The album, tentatively titled Convalescing in Braille, is Gautreau’s fifth under the Crushed Stars…
The city of Dallas has never been a very vocal champion of electronic dance music. Apart from the infamous “club kids” and the days when MDMA was sold at bars in Dallas, the city hasn’t ever really been known for its electronic music culture–not in any important or globally relevant…
Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple of acts that trekked…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, August 13, 2010…Carlos D quit Interpol because he hated playing bass. Bad choice of instrument to hate for a band’s bass player.Are Kanye West and Bon Iver collaborating?Apparently Arcade Fire show us why you can still make it as an indie…
We’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: You don’t need a re-appropriated image to make a show poster that sings…
Somewhat like the Norah Jones of England, jazz-influenced pop singer Corinne Bailey Rae broke into American fairly strongly in 2006, going platinum on 2006, largely on the back of her self-titled album’s ubiquitous single, “Put Your Records On.” In many ways, that song, a pleasant ditty about the emotional release…
As anticipated, City Tavern will remember fallen sound engineer Ryan “Ace” McNeely with a memorial concert set to take place on Saturday night at the downtown establishment, starting at 9 o’clock.McNeely died Tuesday afternoon after spending much of Monday in an Austin hospital on life support, suffering from injuries sustained…
A few months ago, we did a lot of talking about Doug Burr. He’d just released his newest record, O Ye Devastator, which is possibly the best of his already shining discography. So it was a little surprising to see an email this morning announcing Doug Burr’s album release at…
Built to Spill, Finn Riggins, Telegraph CanyonGranada TheaterAugust 11, 2010Better than: your nephew’s second birthday. Last night’s showcase at the Granada Theater, which featured performances from Boise’s Built to Spill and Finn Riggins, as well as DFW’s own Telegraph Canyon, served as a celebration for the theater’s sixth anniversary of…
Last night, the Granada Theater celebrated its sixth anniversary–which, if nothing else, explained the balloons and streamers laid throughout the venue as Built to Spill, Finn Riggins and Telegraph Canyon performed to a crowded house. It was a good time, too (be sure to read our upcoming review of the…
Cyndi LauperHouse of BluesAugust 11, 2010Better than: staying home and watching American Idol: Blues Edition. Looking spry and awkwardly fashionable, pop icon Cyndi Lauper hit the stage last night at House of Blues looking to educate her fans about the value of the blues.”I’ve been wanting to make this new…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 12, 2010…Apparently MTV has forgiven Kanye West. The rapper/producer/twitterer will perform at this years VMA’s.So, now parody songs are violate copyright infringement? The former rap star known as Nelly has gotten a part-time job as a radio DJ…
Polarized, the new record from Dead Twins, comes off as a collection of songs from a group of guys who know exactly who they are—hungry veterans. The band’s members have been immersed in the Dallas rock community for a long time now, playing in notable bands Mermaid Purse and The…
Beauxregard is clearly band that looks to the past for musical inspiration. But figuring out just what era is informing the band’s music is where things get tricky. By comparison, their excellent 2008 EP, When Balloons Were Sleeves, was a relatively straightforward ’80s New Wave synthpop homage, despite the operatic…
Three years ago, Sachse resident Dondria Nicole was a YouTube sensation, pulling in hundreds of thousands of views for the R&B covers she sang, recorded on her computer and posted to the Internet. Two years ago, then 19 years old, she was primed to be the Next Big Thing, plucked…
Drinking beer in the afternoon, playing low-stakes poker with good friends, tubing on the Guadalupe—Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos have the innate ability to provide the perfect soundtrack to all these activities. Theirs is great music to be played while you’re doing pretty much anything other than listening—because…
During Something Corporate’s original time as a band—roughly the years between 1998 and 2004—they never received their proper due. The piano-driven group didn’t quite fit in with prevailing trends (although they were on then-pop-punk mecca Drive-Thru Records and toured with bands in the genre) and vocalist/ivory-tickler Andrew McMahon’s lyrics were…
These are the questions of our time: Should Pete Rose be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Who, in fact, did let the dogs out? Was the Gilded Age really gilded—or even a real age, for that matter? What’s the true definition of folk music? A.A. Bondy might not…
