To end today’s blog day, a few treats to pass along your way, courtesy of a trio of local artists already over all this Thanksgiving business. Yep, three acts, all from vastly different facets of the local music scene have already moved on, releasing Christmas songs for your listening pleasure…
Tonight’s official release party for denton Deluxe Volume 5 (featuring Peopleodian, Kashioboy and Slack Beat) kicks off the first in a series of ongoing showcases put together by denton Deluxe’s Chad Withers. Check out this week’s North of the Dial for more on the compilation as well as for more…
I’m not quite as undersold on Norah Jones’ The Fall as, say, Wilonsky is. But, hey, to each their own, I guess. I can, however, say that the first two leaks from Miss Jones’ forthcoming Chasing Pirates Remix EP aren’t wowing me. Shame, too, as there’s some big names involved…
For two albums now, the artist formerly known as Smog and (Smog) has gone by his birth name, Bill Callahan, and despite of some early concern from his fans, the past few years have really only seen Callahan’s fanbase grow. It helps, of course, that 2007’s Woke on a Whaleheart…
Another month, another new track from Damaged Good$–which, sure enough, you can expect to be a regular occurrence as part of Theodore Beard and Coool Bully’s on-going promotion for their upcoming Spread Love, Not Germs disc. The song’s something of a banger–and, better yet, showcases a bit more of the…
Denton’s own Grammy-winning, Simpsons-appearing, Bob Dylan-inspiring, nuclear polka-creating Brave Combo will brave the elements 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, December 12, for an outdoor poolside performance at the Belmont Hotel. But the real star of the Belmont and Smoke Family Christmas Bash will appear an hour earlier, when Santa…
Tonight’s already got a pretty full plate of musical offerings with Megadeath at The Palladium, Metric at Gilley’s and The Whigs at the Loft. Hell, one could attend all of those without walking 100 yards. But for those who’s tastes are more traditional, bluesman Tommy Castro makes a stop at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, December 2, 2009…John Mellencamp’s son has started a Facebook group to get his dad to stop smoking. See, technology does bring families together!Does your GPS not have enough street cred? If so, Snoop Dogg is here to help you out. Trent…
Not that our friends over at the ridiculously popular, highly influential Dallas-based music blog Gorilla Vs. Bear exactly need our help in drawing attention to their site, but today certainly merits a visit over to their confines today, as the site has released its year-end list of top albums. No…
Seems Aledo’s own Daniel Hunter just can’t let go of his PlayRadioPlay! moniker–or maybe it’s that his fans won’t let him? Either way, last week, via a blog post to his MySpace page, Hunter announced that in January, alongside with the release of his debut album (Ancient Electrons) under his…
Ran into George Quartz not too long ago and came away from our brief conversation knowing two things: 1) Faux Fox, Quartz’ beloved, grimy, electro-dance outfit is pretty much completely done, and 2) He’s really getting into the work he’s doing in his new outfit called Personal Victories with George…
Speaking of movie trailers, check the above one for Crazy Heart, which will earn its release on Wednesday, December 16. The movie, which stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell, features Bridges in the starring role as Bad Blake, a down-and-out country singer looking for a new…
Pop on over to DallasBoogie.net, or visit this YouTube link, and you’ll see the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Dallas Don’t Dance, We Boogie, which focuses on the local hip-hop movement, the D-Town Boogie, and the love and hate it inspires amongst rap fans both local and otherwise. It’s…
Local DJs Jason Mundo, Mark J and Chrisko helped Dallas shake off a lazy Thanksgiving with a night of U.K. garage hip hop at The Green Elephant Saturday night, dipping back into the UKG heyday of, oh, about six years ago.Check out more shots from Ray and Peter Lek in…
As you no doubt read in the current print supplement to DC9, Ryan Thomas Becker–who plays with The Slow Burners, Eaton Lake Tonics, and the Rymandas, and who is the RTB of RTB2–stays plenty busy with his bands, yet somehow finds time for solo efforts as well. Becker’s latest solo…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 1, 2009…Yea! She & Him is coming out with a new album! It’s nice when an actress who wants to sing actually has some talent.You know what popular music has been missing lately? Barry Gibb. Thank you, Gorillaz.The Strokes will…
…and, to end the day today, how about a random treat from our friend DJ Fishr Pryce, just for kicks?A few weeks back, Fishr, who currently DJs every Friday and Saturday night at Kenichi, told me about a quick edit he’d done to a song everyone ’round these parts is…
OK, so it’s less a Forever The Sickest Kids performance and more of a performance from just frontman Jonathan Cook, as the rest of the Dallas-based pop-punk sextet goofs off behind him alongside a few other guests. But, true enough, as promised, there FTSK was taking part in the Motown-themed…
Area graphic designer/hip-hop producer Objektiv One’s always up to something. Or so he makes it seem on his always-entertaining, damn pretty self-titled blog, where he pontificates on all things music- and visual-related. And, earlier this month on his blog, Objektiv One (real name: Ross Edman), released a short, free, three-track…
Need a multi-cultural experience to start your post Thanksgiving week off right? Check out Cafe Tacuba tonight at House of Blues.Hailing from Naucalpan, Mexico, CafeTabuca is a feisty quartet that mixes Latin hip-hop with alternative rock in a way guaranteed to get your feet to moving no matter how much…
Since the shitstorm that was the entire month of July for Club Dada–a month so brutal, in fact, that the lights in the revered Deep Ellum venue went dark and haven’t been turned back on since–I’ve been working on-again and off-again about a story about the venue’s demise. And that…
Erykah Badu with Yo Gabba Gabba Live! at Dr Pepper Arena on Saturday, November 28Erykah Badu, mother of three, did a dancey-dance with the Yo Gabba Gabba! gang at the Dr Pepper Arena over the weekend. I don’t have kids, so I’m out of the loop. But Wikipedia tells me…
