Neon Indian–big online, and perhaps soon to be big in Cork–kicked off a world tour last night at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton (or had you already read about that?).Mattie Stafford was there in the cozy, low-lit confines as Alan Palomo and crew got their sound just right before…
Over on his Sportatorium blog this morning, Observer sports columnist Richie Whitt checks in with the head of the Texas Rangers’ in-game entertainment, Chuck Morgan. Uh, why care? Well, ’cause of this: Morgan’s the guy who runs the music at the Ballpark, and he helps the players decide what songs they’re…
Alan Palomo of Neon Indian.Neon Indian, Kashioboy, Vulgar FashionRubber Gloves Rehearsal StudiosSeptember 9, 2009 Better than: the hype? Keep reading. So, the big question: Did Neon Indian live up to all the hype? Or, maybe better yet: Could Neon Indian live up to all the hype? Well, from the perspective of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 10, 2009… Finally, I can check out liner notes and “inside-the-sleeve” album art on my iTunes player. Unfortunately, you still can’t roll joints on them. Now some of my family members will finally realize who Jack White is: The Raconteurs…
For a second there at Adair’s Saloon on Friday night, the band onstage recalled another country-rooted local product, one also known for its boozy sound, swaggering stage presence and smart lyrics. Nope, Macon Greyson ain’t the Old 97’s. But, if only for a moment or two this past weekend, the…
Country-rock Hunk No. 1, Rodney Atkins, wants y’all ladies to know about a few of his favorite things: bird dogs, honky-tonks, blackjack, pickup trucks, spark plugs, beer pong, throwin’ darts and extra innings. Hunk No. 2, Eric Church, digs smallmouth bass, Faulkner, NASCAR, Red Man (the tobacky, not the rapper),…
These days, there are few better ways for a band to achieve instant recognition than by having a song featured on a TV commercial. And when said song happens to be hyping a product as ubiquitous as the iPod, well, that recognition is pretty much bound to be bountiful. So…
Future civilizations will look back and marvel at the phenomenon we call “The Beatles”—but not so much for the music as for the number of ways their tunes have been repackaged and resold to an ever-hungry audience. With The Beatles: Rock Band, out earlier this week, Harmonix Music Systems has…
Until very recently, nearly every mention of 21-year-old Paul North, who musically goes by the moniker Sunnybrook, noted that he’s the younger brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North. It’s a fact that, according to Paul, doesn’t bother him “at all.” But the references linking the two brothers’ musical projects…
You never know what you’re going to get at a Zanzibar Snails show. There are only a few constants—or what passes for constants in such an improvisational act—in the form of Michael Chamy’s oscillator and shortwave noise-making and Nevada Hill’s treated guitar outbursts. Otherwise, a cast of musical and visual-art…
If someone were to throw TMTS frontman Scott Reitherman an Oscar, it would be for best supporting actor. He and his band sound like a rom-com female lead’s best friend—sweet, funny, endearing and completely non-threatening. It begins with Reitherman’s willowy tenor, which is nearly as airy and mannered as Stuart…
The seemingly endless wait for the debut full-length from local alt-country combo Somebody’s Darling is finally over. Having won the Shiner Rising Star contest last year, Amber Farris and the rest of Somebody’s Darling have put in some long hours preparing the band’s debut for public consumption. Produced by Dan…
It’s been eight years since the break-up of At the Drive-In, the influential post-hardcore El Paso outfit that, post-dissolution, saw its members split off into the separate factions of Sparta and The Mars Volta. The former took a simple enough alt-rock route to moderate success. The latter, meanwhile, delved off…
A recent poll of influential hip-hop writers determined that Jay-Z’s 2001 work The Blueprint is the best rap album of the decade. The only other thing that most of this set could agree on? That his follow-up, The Blueprint: The Gift & The Curse, blew. Unfortunately, Jay’s latest installment, The…
Though Denver’s Apples in Stereo was largely responsible for the revival of Beach Boys-style psychedelic pop, buzz dwindled after the band’s late-’90s heyday. You’d be forgiven for thinking that they, like fellow Elephant 6 founders Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel, called it a day. (They did, in fact,…
Hendrick doesn’t sound like it’s setting out to change the world on its latest full-length, Exhale, nor does the band even indicate that it’s necessarily trying to do anything of the sort. Rather, this sophomore release seems to be more about simpler conveyance: moving listeners emotionally. What Hendrick does especially…
Last month, Denton’s Oso Closo entered a Chipotle-sponsored competition in which they were asked to design their favorite burrito, create a film about it, and put it up for voting on Chipotle’s MyChipolte site. Check out the band’s creative submission above. With a win, the band would earn $10,000 and…
Hmmm. Most of the people on the patio outside last night’s Dandy Warhols show at the Granada Theater sure seemed to. But I’m guessing the employee for Southern Comfort–the one asking the above question and, score, handing out free shots–didn’t. Some people–not gonna name names, but it happened–laughed at her…
It was a long weekend for all of us, I guess, this past Labor Day weekend. But it was an especially long one, it appears, for our tandem nightlife photographers, Ray and Peter Lek, who spent four nights out documenting the scenes of Dallas after dark from Thursday through Sunday,…
As Pete wrote in his preview of the show, there’s plenty about Cross Canadian Ragweed’s four-year run of Red Dirt Roundups that’ll confound you if you ponder it too hard. But as unlikely as The Wallflowers’ appearance was alongside Robert Earl Keen, Lucero, Jonathan Tyler and a handful of other…
…and for the Youtube-favoring set, here’s your link.The quite self-deprecating Nicholas Altobelli stopped on by DC9 in SPACE last week and shared with us his worries about creating music, his fears about the direction of Texas music and his love for, of all musicians, Shania Twain (seriously). All in all,…
At the risk of beating you over the head with this information, it seems worth our while to remind you that tonight marks the much-anticipated debut of Alan Palomo’s newest project, Neon Indian, which has garnered praise from outlets far beyond us and the normal local music press.Tonight’s We Shot…
