Pretty kickass Norah Jones news today via Entertainment Weekly: In order to satiate the demands of media outlets in desperate need for extra content, Norah Jones’ new record, The Fall, will have its tracks remixed by the Beastie Boys, Santigold and Beck, among others.So, yeah, the whole thing about this…
Earlier this month, we passed along news of the release date for Centro-matic frontman Will Johnson’s collaboration with Magnolia Electric Co.’s Jason Molina called…wait for it… Molina and Johnson. Well, with under a week remaining until the release of the tandem’s self-titled debut, the band has finally announced a stop…
Two weeks ago, it was Marky Ramone who visited with Richard Hunter on Hunter’s afternoon radio show on KMNY-1360 AM. Today’s it’s punk icon Jello Biafra who graces our area airwaves at 4:30 this afternoon, spewing forth his seemingly endless (but still funny) diatribes against corporate America. Biafra, the former…
One of my favorite local singer/songwriters, Kristy Kruger, just send along an email detailing a cool event happening this coming Monday at Opening Bell Coffee: The Third Annual Dia de Los Muertos Music Festival. Since his death in Iraq, Kristy Kruger has thrown this event in honor of her brother,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 29, 2009…Nick Jonas is launching into a solo career… with side band The Administration.Wunderkind producer Mark Ronson is now designing shoes for Gucci.Lady Gaga is giving away a locks of her hair with her new deluxe album. Well played Gaga,…
…Youtube loyalists may also watch the video here.Last week, we welcomed the friendly five-piece known as Seryn into SPACE Studio’s confines for our weekly DC9 in SPACE taping. And, just as the band had done at Good Records a few weeks before, and even though it’s just a few months…
There are many reasons to dislike Owl City, the electro tweepop project spearheaded by Owatonna, Minnesota’s 23-year-old Adam Young. For one thing? The moniker is horrible. You can name yourself after a town or a continent—say, Boston or Chicago or Europe—but you can’t name yourself after a city with the…
“Our lives are buried in snow,” Alela Diane cries on “White Diamonds,” from her second album, To Be Still. Her rustic folk tunes are often as magical as the natural wonders she evokes, with her lilting vocals and stark acoustic guitar threaded with mystically exotic strains of violin. It certainly…
This is what acid rock means in the late ’00s: An orgiastic decadence in sound, zillions of notes shimmering around all at once, instruments covering the stage, tribal beats and rhythms, and a cultish, “family” vibe à la Animal Collective, High Places, Holy Fuck and Octopus Project. D.C.’s seven-piece Le…
In the beginning, John Flansburgh and John Linnell created They Might Be Giants, which begat a self-titled debut and sophomore triumph, Lincoln. And in the eighth year, the duo said, “Let there be Flood.” And Flood begat “Birdhouse in Your Soul,” which begat “Istanbul (Not Constantinople),” which begat “Particle Man.”…
Surfacing in 2006 as part of the genius Snakes on a Plane marketing barrage, Cobra Starship bandleader Gabe Saporta (formerly of emo outfit Midtown) won the hearts of cult-film buffs and asymmetrically coifed teenyboppers with the flamboyant, deliberately hammy anthem “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane).” Since, the band has…
Every time Mutemath comes through town, the band outdoes its previous performance. Which is probably why its audience continues to grow. The first tours featured a tight, explosive performance. That led to the impromptu acrobatics of drummer Darren King. Then that eventually made way for a stunning light show. It…
For a certain stripe of concert-going, PBR-drinking, Western-style shirt-wearing dude, Those Darlins shouldn’t be a tough sell. Three cute, 20-something gals from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, play bass, guitar and ukulele and share the microphone, singing songs of wild nights and country pride. What’s not to love? “Wild One” has become the…
Last Wednesday night, the double threat of flash flooding on Dallas streets and several competing area shows made for a modest turnout to see Bad Sports and Spooky Folk—two of Denton’s finest exports—play at The Cavern. While Bad Sports will spend Halloween up in Milwaukee playing as the seminal punk…
Being in a band sure is fun. Until, that is, you realize that there are actual costs involved. Like, recording costs, for one. So, maybe the John Lewis Band should be applauded for taking this route with its debut release: Instead of hitting the studio and laying down a substantial…
Those thrilled beyond reason when The Toadies re-formed should be quite satisfied to hear this debut EP from the local duo known as The Phuss. Joshua Fleming and Trey Alfaro take many of their cues directly from The Toadies’ seminal effort, Rubberneck. And that’s not a bad thing, mind you…
As modern music goes, you really can’t get that much more with-the-times than with Neon Indian’s sun-warped, synth-based, dance-pop sound. It’s a style so current, in fact, that critics are still having trouble settling on a genre name for the music that this band and other blog-adored acts like it…
Kurt Weill is one of the more storied names in 20th-century music. Kurt Vile, meanwhile, is a rising name in the contemporary world of punk psychfolk, a lo-fi distortion and reverb-drenched environ that sounds like past stars of Americana and rock being channeled through a late-night and distant AM radio…
Maybe it’s because they’re part Irish. Maybe it’s because the tear-jerking ballads and raucous Celtic-folk rock jigs just inspire audiences to have a few pints of their own. Or maybe it’s frontman Shane MacGowan’s disheveled appearance, horrendous teeth and spotty attendance to his own band’s gigs. Whatever the reason, The…
No DC9 in SPACE filming tonight–and, because of some technical errors on our part, no DC9 in SPACE episode to share before the end of the day today either (although, once it’s ready in a few hours, we’ll have last week’s episode up on the blog for your viewing pleasure)…
For a year-and-a-half now, our clubs editor, Jesse Hughey, has dutifully handled that task of selecting the winners and writing the accompanying blurbs for our Poster of the Week items. (Check the archives–there are some real gems in there.)Starting tomorrow, though, Jesse’s stepping aside from that post. And stepping in…
Last night, while he watched the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards at Eight Lounge, Dorrough also hosted a party to celebrate his birthday. (Speaking of which: Happy 23rd, Mr. D-O-double-R.)And though Dorrrough may have walked winless at the awards, the night wasn’t a complete loss: As you’ll see in the above…
