Paul Levatino just sent word that Dallas hip-hop goddess Erykah Badu will make a special appearance Saturday at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco.”I love this show,” Badu said via press release, “especially because it uses 808 drums sounds to teach kids the alphabet and numbers…
Start stocking up on Guinness now, because it’s going to be pretty hard to find come March. Flogging Molly and the band’s fans will probably put a pretty good dent in the supply when the L.A. Celtic-influenced punk band comes to the House of Blues Tuesday, February 9. The city’s…
Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock christened the Wyly Theatre’s concert stage Tuesday night (they’re the first non-Shakespearean act to play the new theater, at least), wrapping up the Flatlanders’ latest tour with Ryan Bingham and a slate of other friends helping out. “Dallas,” of course, was the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 25, 2009…Looks like The Strokes are heading back into the studio. According to it’s creepy bass player anyway.Apparently Pete Doherty’s heart stopped while he was hospitalized last month… it’s amazing what the body will do when subjected to every drug…
Fun Fun Fun festival-goers have hardly finished washing the mud out of their clothes and already another Austin music event has announced its lineup. From Brooklyin’s Aa to Buenos Aires’ Zona Tango, the list of showcase bands 2010 South By Southwest Music Festival, set for March 17 through 21, is…
1. The Granada Theater’s early (or just plain thought out) starting times Opening band at 9:00, headliner just after 10:00. What’s not perfect about that? I get all these excuses from other club owners about alcohol sales and whatnot, but every time I exit the Granada at just past midnight,…
Sure, it’s the day before the day before Thanksgiving and most folks are either packing up for a trip or thawing out the big bird, but there are still some musical happenings worth looking out for. Case in point is old school soul/R&B singer Raphael Saadiq who makes a stop…
Neko CaseGranada TheaterNovember 23, 2009Better Than: Sitting at home playing with your dogs. It wasn’t hard to see that it was Neko Case’s show last night at the Granada. With the singer’s penchant for songs filled with animals and nature, the tree-adorned banners that hung on the side of the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 24, 2009…Adam Lambert is a bit miffed that his lip-lock with his male keyboardist and head shoving of a male back-up dancer into his crotch was edited out of the west coast feed of last night’s American Music Awards. Good…
Lots of clubs are taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, but Club Flow isn’t one of them. First, the club will be the host of “A ColorFull, FunFull, ThankFull Thanksgiving Eve” party and North Texas Food Bank canned food drive Wednesday from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Definition DJs, Enforcer DJs,…
If you’re into club music, Meltdown was the place to be in Dallas last weekend, with a Saturday night lineup at the Palladium that included David Guetta, Kid Sister, A-Trak and more.As Pete wrote in this week’s Observer, it’s been a good year for a mixed bag of electronic acts…
Those looking for something other than the NPR approved alt-country of Neko Case can make their way to Deep Ellum this evening and catch a pretty cool bill of alternative rock. Headlining the evening is Jonny Craig, a Canadian who’s become something of a renaissance man of the Emo genre…
Ft. Worth native Collin Herring’s newest album, Ocho, may well be the singer/songwriter’s best effort. And that’s saying a lot considering Herring’s past couple of releases, The Other Side of Kindness and Past Life Crashing, were stellar in their own right. If you caught my review of Herring’s newest effort…
Mary Anne Hobbs, The Green Elephant, Friday, November 20It’s Monday afternoon, friends. Get out your glow sticks! BBC 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who spun at The Green Elephant Friday night, has led the life you wish you had the balls to live: she ran off to London with a…
Rocking out as a duo since 1987, Chicago’s Local H has been alternative since before alt-rock became a pejorative term. The band’s “Bound For The Floor” from As Good As Dead was practically inescapable on KDGE back in 1996, and can still be heard every now and then on the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 23, 2009…A tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus’ tour group overturned as it headed to Richmond on Friday.Interpol is said to head back to its sonic roots on its new album. Thank you, God.Gibson Guitars has been accused of smuggling…
Alright: Another weekend! No sense in beating around the bush. Let’s just jump right in and check out the show-going options on the DFW plate for the next couple of days. First, as always, the shows we’ve already plenty hyped up.Tonight at The Green Elephant, various hip-hop and DJ acts…
It was back in early September when we first posted the above unofficial video for Dallas-based electronic outfit Ishi’s “Pastel Lights,” set to the ’80s not-quite-classic movie Solarbabies, and called the song “the best darn thing the band’s released yet.” And I still wholeheartedly stand by that claim–which explains my…
Not sure how we missed this when it was published back in October, but allow us to point you in the direction of a pretty fascinating blog post by the FADER–one which explores the backstory behind the moderate local D-Town Boogie track “Mr. Hit Dat Hoe.”Among the fun facts to…
We’ve spent plenty of time in recent weeks sharing our excitement for the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!’s new disc under the Analog Rebellion moniker. And, every time we hear a new leak from Aledo native Daniel Hunter’s new upcoming disc, Ancient Electrons, our anticipation of the album’s release only…
You’d think that, in most instances, after scoring a major, nationwide hit with a song called “Ice Cream Paint Job,” a rapper might consider avoiding the subject of frozen treats for a little while.But oh how presumptuous of you that would be…This past week, Dorrough’s collaborator, the FADER-approved Fat B,…
A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that the City of Sherman has at least a little musical history–well more than I was aware, at least–as the hometown of Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame saxophone player Buddy Tate and country music icon Buck Owens.But, the Owens-hosted Hee Haw and…
