Tomorrow night at the Granada Theater, the ever-buzzing Yeasayer will offer up a sure-to-be-well-attended headlining performance in support of its latest release, Odd Blood. The disc, however is a bit of a departure for the band–more poppy than its 2007 debut and breakthrough All Hour Cymbals, that’s for sure–and fans…
Bad Sports, The Fresh & Onlys, King Khan & The Shrines Sons of Hermann Hall April 6th, 2010 Better than: eating mushrooms while already on mushrooms. You wouldn’t have been able to guess it from the bright, punk opening at the start of last night’s Sons of Hermann Hall bill,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 7, 2010…The full Lollapalooza line-up is out and it’s pretty impressive.Looks like Dr. Dre and Kanye West are set to release albums this year. But, if Kanye’s album really is gonna be called Good Ass Job, his title wins hands…
Another month, another Local Hang at The Libertine. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to see you. You all rock. I hope it was a good time. If not, well, at least I know I enjoyed it. So, y’know, there’s that.Anyway, I hope to see you all…
Alright, area Doug Burr fans: The wait is over. On Tuesday, May 4, the treasured area singer-songwriter will release his third full-length album (not counting The Shawl, apparently–his publicists aren’t) and the follow-up do his mind-blowingly affecting folk masterpiece, On Promenade. Called O Ye Devastator, this album, like Burr’s last…
In this week’s paper, you may have seen a preview interview for tonight’s Fresh & Onlys show at Sons of Hermann Hall. However, we’d be remiss to completely disregard the evening’s headlining act, King Khan & The Shrines.And, no, King Khan & The Shrines shouldn’t to be ignored–not that it…
A quick thank you to a source very close with Sarah Jaffe and Kirtland Records for passing along this bit of pertinent information for Jaffe fans: Though its official release is, oh, a little over a month away, and things won’t really start rolling for the full-length debut album, called…
Maybe I’m getting old and lame. Dunno. But here I was just a minute ago, enjoying the new video from Norah Jones, the second such release from her November-released album, The Fall, kinda digging on the down-tempo “Young Blood,” thinking that a lesser talent would’ve turned this into an unnecessarily…
Wow, this past weekend was a busy one. Here’s what we made the Lek Brothers attend: 1) Friday at The Whisky Bar: DJ Merritt & Redeye upstairs playing disco, funky house classics, boogie, and upbeat R&B. 2) Friday at the Cavern, downstairs: Two:Tone crew with Drum N Bass. 3) Saturday…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 6, 2010…Dr. Dre picks the oddest places to announce his new songs…Further proof that actress/dancers don’t need to become “singers.”If God isn’t a fan of auto-tune, he/she/it better hurry up and become one… fast…
From 10 p.m. until close tonight, I’ll be back at my monthly perch at The Libertine, spinning all the local hits for your listening pleasure. It’s the seventh installment of what we’re still somehow calling The Local Hang with Playlister P.And with plenty of new local music on my hands …
April 17 marks the annual celebration of Record Store Day, your chance to give thanks to your local brick-and-mortar, or, as has been the case for the past few years in Dallas, your chance to catch some pretty solid live bands on the store’s dime. And while many area stores…
Perhaps this is a bit presumptuous of me, but we could be on the rebound from the recession that started on 2008. If nothing else, though, we’re a great deal away from the 1992 recession, which, turns out, kinda dogged the DFW live music scene pretty hard.The April 2, 1992…
The Lizard Lounge hosted the Freaks & Fetish party (which is very, very NSFW) and specialized performances of the following: Norway’s Pain Solution, Snake Oil Sideshow, the “vertical acrobatics” of Pantera Blacksmith (crazy-ass poledancer) and Austin’s Lizardman as its host. Pain and pleasure? Alright! See more of Roderick Pullum’s slideshow…
Quite the alt-rock line up tonight at the Prophet Bar–especially for a Monday. Headlining what is sure to be a lengthy evening of music is St. Louis’ Story of the Year. These husky Midwesterners have been churning out anthemic and earnest post-hardcore (under a couple of different names) for the…
If Steel Panther’s awesome hair didn’t make you want to hit up their show, then Tony Romo’s guest-hosting should have (or maybe his performance of “Sweet Child O’ Mine”) on Friday night at the House of Blues. The crowd was packed in tightly, but was it for Steel Panther or…
When the powers of Dallas native Annie Clark (St. Vincent, duh), Beck, and members of Liars and Os Mutantes combine, they form Record Club, which, for the past few weeks, has been slowly leaking out videos of its efforts to cover INXS’ Kick. The most recent video installment finds the…
Right after being slapped with a citation from the Dallas Police Department, Erykah Badu and the police (see Photo 4 in the slideshow for evidence) showed up at Good Records on Saturday to sign copies of her new album, New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. See the rest…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 5, 2010…If you’re constructing a stage in ancient Mayan ruins and it collapses… should you really keep the show scheduled?Peter Hook plans on performing the seminal Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures in it’s entirety on the anniversary of Ian Curtis’…
Given recent goings-on (which, I hope, also helps to explain the tardiness of this posting) the top pick of place for you to be this weekend is pretty obvious: Stop on by Good Records on Saturday at 3:33 p.m., when Erykah Badu stops by the Lower Greenville record store to…
At some point in the next few days, Erykah Badu will be sent a letter from the Dallas Police Department. Inside that piece of mail, she’ll find a ticket charging her for a Class C misdemeanor, which could cost her $500 in fines. “The City Attorney’s Office and the Dallas…
Kenny Lucas aka R.A. Four has been spinning vinyl for a little over a year now, starting only last March. The electro, ambient DJ got his start at Murray Street Coffee Shop, when owner Doug Davis sent out a Tweet looking for a sub-DJ for a Wednesday night. One of…
