Well, despite a slow turnout early on in the evening, Saturday’s Spune 2K10 Winter Dance Party featuring Neon Indian, Ishi, and a slew of others turned out to be exactly the massive soirée that many predicted it would be. If you weren’t there, well, then you missed out on a…
Just came across the above video for Mount Righteous’ song “Suburban Homesick Blues,” which–let’s see here, wasn’t on 2008’s When the Music Starts or on 2009’s Open Your Mouth EP, so…–certainly appears to be a brand new track, presumably from the band’s upcoming full-length, due out here in the next…
Surely, by now, you’ve tackled the Herculean task of reading my “sprawling profile” of Midlake in this week’s dead tree version of DC9, yeah? Good. Then you’ll no doubt remember this part of the piece, in which the band shares its meticulous–and, OK, somewhat curious–approach to promotion:Midlake, although game to…
Some pretty exciting news out of our New York flagship this early afternoon, as our sister paper up there, the Village Voice, has gone ahead and announced the lineup for this year’s Village Voice Media day-party at South by Southwest. And it’s a looker, too, featuring some classic indie and…
Yo La Tengo, Times New VikingGranada TheaterJanuary 30, 2010Much better than: staying home watching the Mavericks lose to the Blazers. A sold-out crowd got out of the cold weather and into the warm confines of The Granada Theater Saturday night to catch the iconic indie rock band Yo La Tengo…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 1, 2010…Keith Richards has allegedly given up his long love affair with the bottle. Notice he didn’t say he gave up snorting relatives ashes.Looks like Chilean Metallica fans have taken a page from GNR fans…My Morning Jacket get even more…
There’s too much going on this weekend. Seriously. So let’s just jump right in. First, the shows we’ve already talked up…Tonight’s pretty damn packed: Mark Growden plays Lola’s Stockyards in Fort Worth (just as he did last night, too); The Sword will melt faces at Rubber Gloves in Denton; Dem…
Remember back in October, when we were all like, “Hey, what the what is Jason Lee (of Mallrats and My Name is Earl) fame doing in Denton?” and then we realized that, oh, he was just in town helping out his pals in Midlake, shooting a video or something? Maybe?…
The headline pretty much says it all here, so no need to harp too much on this latest bit of news from the NX35, which was recently referred to as “SXSW’s baby cousin” by the folks at Pitchfork. You know Telegraph Canyon and the fast-rising Final Club already. Indian Jewelry…
Full disclosure here folks: Murray Street Coffee Shop is my favorite coffee place in town. Has been since I moved to town almost two years ago now. Great coffee, excellent sandwiches, good people–the whole lot, really. Which explains why I spend a lot of time there. And, in that time…
Erykah Badu fans looking forward to the Freaq’s upcoming follow-up to her 2008 smash New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War would do well to turn their Internet dials to ErykahBadu.com starting in, oh, about 10 minutes or so (or, more specifically, at 3:33 p.m.), as, at that exact moment,…
I know one guy who’s very excited to see The Residents next week. In fact, so stoked is Darryl Smyers to see the legendary band of eyeball-disguise-wearing anonymous experimental rockers that he wrote a Critic’s Pick preview story for this week’s paper as well as a “Mark Your Calendars” item…
The New York Times this morning has the details on a new lawsuit filed by the Sly Stone against his longtime manager, which claims that the Denton-born funk legend is owed some $20 to $30 million in royalties and “unspecified financial damages,” whatever those are.The former manager’s lawyer doesn’t seem…
By now, you should already be well aware of the big Saturday night shindig up in Denton, Spune’s 2k10 Winter Dance Party at Hailey’s which will feature Neon Indian, Ishi, Phantastes (aka Lars Larsen), Vulgar Fashion, Florene, Survive, Peopleodian and Monastary. After all, it’s already won our oh-so-coveted weekly Poster…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 29, 2010…Jessica Simpson did the super-classy thing anyone would do when in a business meeting… she farted.Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg while performing in Florida. At least nothing happened to the microphone he’s seems to enjoy placing in…
It’s that time of the week again. Time to sift through poster submissions from all over DFW and make a choice based not on musical merit of the bands, venue preference, production company, but solely on the design and aesthetic distinction (let’s not forget this folks). You can see past…
Darrel W. Herbert doesn’t necessarily expect you to remember his name: In a recent email press release announcing his new band, the subject line simply read “Former Toadies Guitarist Forms New Band,” nevermind Herbert’s time spent in Tomorrowpeople or his recent three-year stint as a recording engineer for legendary New…
All too often, DJs and the like put out impressive mixtapes and remixes but fail on the live side of things. Not so with area producer/graphic designer Objektiv One, whose impressive recent mashup releases have been running through our heads like crazy of late. Case in point: The above clip…
Update at 3:53 p.m.: Bad news, folks. As AllGood owner Mike Snider explains in the comments, the gig’s been canceled because of the weather.It may sound like a barbecue delicacy, but, turns out, Shinyribs is actually the side project of The Gourds frontman Kevin Russell. Seems Russell’s giant stockpile of…
Memo to The Raven Charter: If you wanna make a dark, sci-fi-tastic music video, the above clip for The Sword’s “Maiden, Mother & Crone” is a good place to start your research. Sure, the task is far easier when you’re one of the new saviors of an entire genre like…
Longtime Erykah Badu boo Jay Electronica (who, between you and me, may actually have been the mastermind behind The Cannabinoids if one ‘noid’s aside from a couple months back holds any truth) has pretty much been owning the hip-hop blogs of the Internet-o-sphere lately, thanks in no small part to…
For a whopping quarter of a century now, Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo has existed comfortably at or near the top of the indie rock heap, showcasing an ever-changing aesthetic that, at various times in the band’s career, has seen the band touching on various psych-, garage-rock and shoegaze styles. In…
