Music

Plush’s basement hosted Big J, the old Plush basement regular, for a night of ’80s and ’90s dance tunes, and our nightlife team was there before dropping by Lear Street where the where the “Alice In Whomperland” party took over a South Dallas warehouse. You can check out shots from…

The Crash That Took Me at Art Conspiracy 5 on Saturday, December 12:A pretty high quality, well-edited video here featuring the emcee stylings of Paul Slavens, the auctioneering prowess of Happy Bullet/cycling advocate/Oak Cliff activist Jason Roberts, the art of Art Conspiracy 5 and the stage presence of The Crash…

It’s been a year of surprises in Latin music. Reggaetón continues fading, albeit slowly, and the industry’s mainstays aren’t garnering the attention they used to. Case in point: Don Omar’s summer release iDon (no relation to your phone), which remained quiet after its first single, “Virtual Diva.” Some big names…

While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, “state of the game” examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I’ve certainly written a few.) We worry because we care, of course. But at some point, like a…

The fifth annual Art Conspiracy drew locals Telegraph Canyon, RTB2, The Crash That Took Me and The Boom Boom Box to the stage in an Oak Cliff warehouse Saturday night, while the just-completed work of 150 Dallas artists was sold for charity in a run of live auctions.Held in a…

The Boxmasters are a country band–one that, yes, happens to be fronted by one Billy Bob Thornton. And, though the former Mr. Angelina Jolie may not want you to consider his acting when considering his band’s music, well, it’s pretty tough not to, all things considered. Surprisingly enough, though, the…

[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 19 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…

[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 20 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…

Plenty going on this weekend, not the least of which includes Art Conspiracy 5 tomorrow, featuring performances from Telegraph Canyon, RTB2, The Crash That Took Me and The Boom Boom Box. Unfortunately, we don’t have much time this afternoon to expound on too many of this weekend’s doings. So let’s…

[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 21 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…

“Well, I was passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town, something caught my eye and stop and turned around / I stepped inside and then I spied in the middle of it all, was a beat up old guitar hanging on the wall / ‘What do…

We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favorite release…

The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the 1970s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation. Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs all dabbled in the sound. Even Michael Jackson was said to be working…

In this week’s paper, Annie Zaleski extols the virtues of the Toronto-based Rural Alberta Advantage, comparing the three-piece to everyone from Yo La Tengo to The Mountain Goats and Arcade Fire to Neutral Milk Hotel. Heady company indeed. Continues my esteemed colleague from St. Louis:As might be expected from their…

In yesterday’s item about Sarah Jaffe’s signing to Kirtland Records we also mentioned that one of Kirtland’s management clients, Eleven Hundred Springs, has a new record coming out on February 2. Well, yesterday night, the area country favorites released the above behind-the-scenes Youtube clip, set to the title track from…

“We’re Bill Burroughs meets Jerry Lee Lewis at the funeral of Robert Johnson on the Millennium Falcon piloted by Joe Strummer and Neil Young,” says The Gourds’ Kevin “Shinyribs” Russell in an interview with William Michael Smith in this week’s issue of the print product. He goes on to describe…

Talk about apropos. This week’s selection is not only for Gutterth Production’s release show for its Compilation Two sampler disc, but it also heralds another collection of local fine art of the printed variety.Created by Nick Weber (typography) and Michael Little and Taylor McClure (illustration), all of the Denton-based design…

[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 22 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…