Bonus MP3: Shiny Around The Edges — “Socially Awkward”

Yesterday, the folks in Shiny Around The Edges passed along a Neon Indian cover to help promote DOMAXXII. Today, they pass along bigger news: Before the band hits the road with Dust Congress in August, it will spend a four-day run in Texas opening up for Phosphorescent on that band’s…

Download: A New Track From Ariel Pink with Added Pizzazz

Last week we ran a story about a local jazz family Dennis, Aaron, and Stefan Gonzalez and their recent work with L.A.-based freak-folk artist, Ariel Pink. The collaboration resulted in a 12″ EP titled Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz, which was just released last weekend on the brilliantly named record…

This Week In Dallas Music History: Dialing Up The Future of Music Thanks To The “Daunting Internet”

This week’s pick offers some interesting hindsight at once-emerging technology–like online “forums” where people discuss things like rock music, and new tools like “e-mail”–back when journalists still had to provide definitions and clarifications for things like “electronic mail.”Taken from the July 7, 1994, issue of the Observer, one Robert Wilonsky…

Night Moves: Lollipops and Dub Step

Friday, July 9, was Dub Assembly’s four-year anniversary at the Green Elephant and featured special guest performances Hatcha from the UK, as well as Mundo, Royal Highnuss, Jimmy B and more. On Saturday, July 10, Sons of Hermann Hall featured another rendition of Lollipop Shoppe, with its go-go dancing with…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, July 12, 2010

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.Giving Tree Band…

Listomania: 10 Bands That Suck Outdoors

Let’s start this off right: We’re absolutely not saying these bands suck. We’re saying they suck in the heat and humidity of an overpacked, porta-potty using festival. And, with ACL approaching fast and other festivals that people like coming up real soon, there’s a lot of choices in that butt-sweat-soaked…

Picture Show: Lightning Bolt, Indian Jewelry, Best Fwends at Trees

Parade of Flesh presented Lightning Bolt, Indian Jewelry, and Best Fwends Sunday at Trees–and they’re still reverberating in the walls after a deafening rock performance filled with smoke, sweat and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shirts. See more of the night’s thumping show, and crowd madness in Kevin Todora’s slideshow…

Over The Weekend: Mini KISS at Jaguars Gold Club

Mini KissJuly 9, 2010Jaguars Gold ClubBetter than: watching a Dr Pepper commercial on loop. In this TV-placement-is-a-necessity-to-survive era, many a band has established itself by getting its songs placed into television commercials. In that sense, Mini KISS, which has earned a small modicrum of fame from its Dr Pepper commercial…

Picture Show: Old 97’s at Taste of Dallas

Taste of Dallas ran from Friday through Sunday at Fair Park, featuring the best of the best of Dallas food–including some manhole cover-sized discs of chicken fried steak–and a Gilley’s stage of music. The acts included Le Cure, the Quebe Sisters Band and, pictured above, the Old 97’s. It was…

Over The Weekend: The Hold Steady, The Whigs at the Granada Theater

The Hold Steady, The WhigsJuly 10th, 2010Granada TheaterBetter than: sitting at home and watching that episode of Lost where Hugo mentions The Hold Steady. There were a few understandable question marks going into The Hold Steady’s show on Saturday night. Would they be able to deliver a great show now…

Good Friday: Brent Best, Telegraph Canyon, Greg Schroeder, Bob Log III, Brave Combo, The Hold Steady, The Whigs, True Widow, Dove Hunter, The O’s, Rodeo Ruby Love, Mini Kiss, Second Saturdays and Others!

American writer Larry Brown was born and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. His works caught the eye of Alejandro Escovedo, who often played back-up for Brown during his public readings. Brown passed away in 2004, but Brent Best, Chris Welch, and Isaac Hoskins will celebrate his birthday and his memory…

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 17: DJ Left/Right

From spinning at a 7th grade dance to numerous shows around town and now a deal with Swedish label Sound Of Habib, Dallas DJ and producer Left/Right’s passion for electronic music has carried him far in the last decade.”I also am serious about creating original music and steady, charting releases…