Show Announcements: Summer Series, Wildflower Festival

We are standing on the brink of the summer season, and with the unbearable heat comes the obligatory summer outdoor live music series. The heat is inevitable, but the Belmont Hotel and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are offering a few ways to make it a little more tolerable.The Belmont…

Idol Rich: Blue-Eyed Prime Time with Sinatra and Harry Connick, Jr.

​The Idol competitors were challenged this week with the task of reinterpreting the classics of Frank Sinatra. Ol’ Blue Eyes’ daughters were even in the audience (no pressure, singers) and presented Sinatra fan Simon Cowell with a monogrammed FAS hankie. Awesomely cool. Made me really wish his shirt wasn’t unbuttoned…

Last Night: Norah Jones and Sarah Jaffe at Fair Park Music Hall

Norah Jones, Sarah JaffeFair Park Music HallMay 4, 2010Better than: trying to out at the Women’s Museum across the park. Playing up her hometown appeal–and, well, her sex appeal, too, looking quite adorable,  dressed in a short, tight, black and red dress–Dallas native Norah Jones stood on the Fair Park…

Last Night: The Deftones’ “Secret” CD Release Performance at Trees

The DeftonesTreesMay 4, 2010Better than:  ..any abbreviated, afternoon mini-set at a festival concert, for damn sure. The Deftones took to Trees last night for an eleventh-hour-announced, quickly-sold-out concert, and delivered a boastful, deafening, 21-song set to an expanse of shoulder-to-shoulder bodies.They were pressed against every wall, and lined along every…

Tracklist: The Local Hang with Playlister P, Vol. 8

A huge, huge, huge thank you to everyone who came out to The Local Hang last night at The Libertine. Biggest crowd we’ve seen yet. Lots of area musicians fans and industry types. Also: Random drinkers who didn’t seem to mind having their turf infringed upon. A special thanks to…

Bonus MP3: Doug Burr — “A Black Wave Is Comin'”

In this week’s paper, I catch up with deservedly revered area Americana singer Doug Burr and talk to him about how both life and circumstance are forcing him to think about his career differently heading into the release of his fourth full-length album. The new disc, O Ye Devastator, which…

Watch: Green River Ordinance — “On Your Own”

Yesterday, Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance released the above music video for “On Your Own,” the second single off the band’s major label debut, Out Of My Hands. It’s a gorgeous video, I’ll give them that. But, man, if the song doesn’t sound like Third Eye Blind or some other…

Night Moves: Rusko and DJ Cocoe

It was a busy weekend with Edgefest and Dr. Dog. But that doesn’t mean there was a lack of thunderous, heavy dubstep. Sub Soldiers’ own DJ Rusko vibrated the columns at Trees late Friday night, sampling some tracks from his upcoming Mad Decent release, O.M.G.! Meanwhile, on Saturday, Zubar featured…

Picture Show: Spune 2k10 Finals at Hailey’s Club

Earlier today, you saw Nick Rallo’s take on Saturday’s Spune 2k10 Finals event at Hailey’s Club in Denton–or the “Anti-Edgefest” as he justifiably calls it. Now, take a peek at Danny Fulgencio’s photos from the event. If nothing else, they’re very pretty…