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Arkansas Bo is looking for work: “If you’ve got any leads,” he says, “let me know.” The rapper, whose real name is Marlon Jennings, hails from the tiny Arkansas burg of Stuttgart, the “rice and duck capital of the world,” he says with a laugh. He moved to Dallas in…

The latest project from Fort Worth’s Katsuk, Skeleton Key, is an unusually ambitious EP that funnels a diverse collection of sounds through an acoustic filter, effectively purifying each of the offering’s seven songs. The earnest lyrics that frontman and band namesake Daniel Katsuk delivers, with an often-times Oberst-style warble, strive…

This week’s theme was Billboard Number Ones. A valid theme for American Idol if there ever was one. Props to Lee Dewyze for kicking out the Box Tops jam “The Letter” even though, sadly, no one mentioned the recently late lead singer of said group, Alex Chilton. Not saying DeWyze…

The line that connects dots as seemingly disparate as Nico, The Eagles and Spiccoli makes its way to Grand Prairie this summer as singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne makes a North Texas stop on his world tour with collaborator David Lindley. Browne and Lindley perform…

Bonjay — “Gimmee Gimmee”I was fortunate enough to catch these guys, completely at random, this past week at SXSW–and they impressed the heck out of me with their high-energy performance, and an eclectic, beat-heavy, R&B-tinged sound. Bonjay, which calls Toronto home, released an EP last year called GIMMEE GIMMEE. Here…

Gonna go the honesty route here and openly admit that, quite unfortunately, we don’t really know all that much about Denton’s Dear Human–except that the four-piece hates the Insane Clown Posse and people named Steve, apparently, and that it missed its opening slot for HEALTH at NX35, which we were…

At 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, the acoustic non-marching punks in Mount Righteous will celebrate the release of their new, self-titled full-length at Good Records–with a little help from another mountainous outfit, Fort Worth’s Drug Mountain. But don’t expect the same cupcakes-in-the-sky vibe of the band’s debut, 2008’s When The…

Alright, folks, let’s wrap all this South by Southwest coverage up finally–and do so in style, yeah? OK, then! Here are the last few videos we’ve uploaded from our trip down to Austin, starting with the above performance of Frightened Rabbit doing its new single, “Swim Until You Can’t See…

Our pal Preston Jones just posted the above video of The Frontier Brothers’ new single over on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s music blog. And good thing, too, as it’s something of a keeper: “You Should Start A Band,” the lead single off the sometime Austin-, sometime Fort Worth-based outfit’s new…

My still-brand new Mad Rock shoes have gone woefully unused since I moved away from the mountains of Colorado some two years ago now, but, man, if the above trailer for the new climbing doc, Core, doesn’t make me want to bust ’em out and take a trek up to…

Killola is a Los Angeles-based garage-pop quartet that reminds me a lot of the ’80s new wave band The Motels (who were also from Los Angeles, go figure)–and it’s not just because both bands have semi-hot female singers. Besides appearing in such TV shows as The King of Queens and…

Here, we present the DJ and electronica side of SXSW. Y’know: DJ Craze, Reid Speed, Redeye, Kill The Noise, The Broken Teeth crew showcase, Harmonious Discord showcase, Bird Peterson, Le Castlevania, Major Lazer–all those rumpshaker-makers. The Lek Brothers, before freezing their butts off, caught ’em all. See the rest of…

It was cold. SXSW had just happened. But BROFEST went on at the Double Wide on Sunday night, and it was damn good. Gloria Levario was there to capture the 17-band, two-stage phenomenon that included The Soft Pack, Dum Dum Girls, Those Darlins, and some sort of butchered lamb costume…

We’ve recently gotten our hands on the first single from the forthcoming A.Dd+ album, When Pigs Fly, a catchy little jam titled “Howdy Do.” From the opening bars of the track, it’s quite clear that these boys are dealing with some serious ammunition, armed with the production of local super-producer…

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians are an institution in the Dallas rock scene, its signature folk/jam having settled in well among the Dallas alt-rock explosion of the ’80s. And today, even: The band’s singles “What I Am” and “Circle” are still in rotation in soft-rock FM stations across the country.The…

Australia’s dynamic duo of Kate Cooper and Damon Cox–better known as An Horse–appears to have survived SXSW 2010. And they’ll be making an appearance tonight in Denton in the wake of that festival. It’s worth checking out, too: The duo’s salty take on indie pop has gathered them all sorts…