Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 14, 2010…You know recording sessions are going bad when you have your psychiatrist call your producer and tell him to back off. In from “bad to worse” news–the new version of Sublime is set to record a new album. Frat…
Speaking of mash-ups, it seems Datahowler (formerly Objektiv One), though now a chillwave artist, hasn’t given up on the mash-up front where he originally made his name and caught our attention. Earlier this month, the man born Ross Edman debuted two new mash-ups (one pitting Kanye West against Stars; another…
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…
We’re just gonna keep bashing you over the head this week with more information and more reasons to attend Saturday’s 10-hour, 46-band DOMA Showcase in Deep Ellum (example: buy your $10 all-access wristbands here), but, for now, a quick dalliance from that vendetta so we can bring some information on…
Not to rely too heavily on the folks at Pitchfork this morning, but they just keep breaking stories with local ties today. And this latest one is a pretty exciting one, too: Neon Indian has announced its touring plans for the rest of the summer and into the fall–and, included…
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…
Ola Podrida is a pretty weird name for a band–unless you grew up near the old theater of the same name in East Dallas as did singer David Wingo. Wingo split town to move to New York a few years ago, but he and the band will be back at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 13, 2010…Despite being locked up, Weezy is dropping an EP this September. I guess it’s a good thing to have tons of material recorded and stocked away in case of the occasional prison sentence…The Hard L.A. electronic music festival has…
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…
So far, this DOMAXXII season, Ishi, which is up for four awards this year (Best Group, Best New Act, Best Song and Best Electronica/Dance Act) has received a whole lot of love, standing on on the receiving edge of not one, but two covers of its irresistible “Pastel Lights” track…
Hailing out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the duo of Michael Kuhn and Chris Diehm have been making their interesting brand of mathy post-hardcore under the name of 1994! for the better part of two years. Their second full-length release, FCKYRHED, just came out and Kuhn was kind enough to provide the…
Shiny Around The Edges has a lot going on these days. Aside from following Air Review’s lead and making the above video, in which they rearrange the melody and general mood of fellow Dallas Observer Music Award nominee Neon Indian’s “I Should Have Taken Acid With You,” the Best Experimental/Avant…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 12, 2010…Reggae singer Sugar Minott has died.Looks like all us guys can cross Carrie Underwood off our lists… she got hitched.Usher shows Weezy ain’t got nothin’ on his work ethic as he sets the release for his second album in…
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…
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…
