Music

Brent Frishman of Gutterth Productions created this week’s featured poster, which promotes Daniel Folmer’s Dead End CD release Saturday at J&J’s in Denton. Should be an excellent show, with Dust Congress, Glen Farris and Sabra Laval also on the bill. I like the strapped-down figure, the crumpled background and the…

Quite the bill at The Cavern tonight as Vivian Girls, who Daniel Hopkins caught up with in this week’s paper, stop through town for a gig that also features area favorites True Widow and The Uptown Bums. If there’s a common theme for the show, which kicks off at 10…

Though the Alt Press’ Fall Ball tour lineup reads like a who’s who of tween pop bands (The Academy Is…, Mayday Parade and more) the real draw when the tour makes its Dallas stop will be the return of hometown product Luis Dubuc, aka The Secret Handshake. While Dubuc’s simplistic…

Before last week’s sold out David Bazan show at Dan’s Silverleaf, Chris Flemmons sat at the end of the patio bar smoking a Marlboro Light and sipping on a margarita. He’d just arrived at Dan’s, coming straight from a cocktail party with some city officials. Flemmons was trying to get…

Nothing else sounds like Pinback and, for that alone, the San Diego duo deserves a fucking medal. Its wistfully propulsive weaves of articulate bass, understated guitar, beatbox (or beatbox-inspired) grooves and conversing voices come from a place of both contentment and disquiet, at once transmitting optimism’s comforting glow and the…

It seems only appropriate that the Crowes’ album of new material, After the Freeze…, was recorded live in front of a select group of fans at ex-Band member Levon Helm’s barn/studio in rural Woodstock, New York. That’s because this effort may be the band’s rootsiest effort yet, with several songs…

When it comes to lives shows, it’s hard to beat Sean Tillman. Why? Does he have dynamic singing skills and dance moves? Uh, no, not really—but he tries. And it’s the effort he puts into making his stage persona, Har Mar Superstar, real that makes it great. Surely, somewhere deep…

“Aww, y’all got to shut the fuck up, now!” he said while playing The Red Jacket in 2002. “Shut the fuck up!” He said it with a smile, sure, but he meant it. Every once in a while—especially in Dallas, I imagine—the younger side of Buddy Guy’s audience gets a…

When Vivian Girls rolls into town this week, the band will be fighting an uphill battle. Sure, many bands that gain instant notoriety in the blogosphere come and go quicker than you can type GorillavsBear. But Brooklyn natives Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy and Ali Koehler, who come off respectively as…

Colm O’Ciosoig is back to perform in Dallas for a second time this year, but, this time, earplugs won’t be essential equipment to perhaps preserve your hearing. And you almost certainly won’t feel your clothes fluttering in a sonic wind this time around as his band plays a legendary set-closing…

The Double Wide is many things. Ultimately, that’s the charm of the space. There’s the bar itself, where regulars stop by to hang in the authentically Texas environment with its kitschy, trailer-influenced motif. There’s the patio outside—one of the tops in town—with its ample seating (including old toilets lined up…

With the release of The Sound The Speed The Light, the Boston post-punk heavyweights in Mission of Burma have now released three times as many albums since reuniting in 2002 as in their initial original lifespan of 1979-’83, which yielded the genre classic Vs. Far from cash-ins, though, the albums…

Karl Blau’s Zebra might as well have been called Chameleon. From one song to the next, you’ll hear dry folk, acid jazz, bedroom shoegaze, lo-fi pop and all types of me-against-the-world solo production that falls in line with Blau’s history as a Northwest analog guru. According to Blau, an Anacortes,…

The title track to Dovetail’s Love Is War EP opens the band’s seven-song debut quite well, first teasing listeners with quivering violins, then an undulating piano line. After that? Ah, that’s where Philip Creamer’s voice comes into play, effectively setting the tone for the debut EP from this local outfit,…

Well, it’s 6:27 p.m.–or three hours and 33 minutes before the secret reunion show we mentioned earlier today on Twitter is set to begin–which means we can now break the silence we promised the band and announce that, at 10 o’clock this evening, Slowride will play a reunion show at…

…and for y’all who are still stuck on Youtube, take your link.Austin’s The Rocketboys, once upon a time, were known as Homer Hiccolm & the Rocketboys, and, at that point, they were based out of Abilene. That alone, actually, makes them the best formerly-mispelled-October Sky-referencing band ever to come out…

Last Tuesday, Dallas-raised and L.A.-based soul singer N’dambi saw the release of her debut Stax Records-released album, Pink Elephant. And, to promote her new release,  the one-time Erykah Badu back-up singer and co-writer stopped on by the offices of the new FADER-run soul music-centric site, Suite903, to perform some intimate,…