Fruit Bats, Death VesselThe LoftSeptember 1, 2009 Better than: Staying at home watching the Rangers sweep a double-header from the Blue Jays. With temperatures hanging blissfully in the upper 70s, the deck of The Loft was certainly a nice place to spend a Tuesday evening. The view was amazing,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 2, 2009… Supergroup Them Crooked Vultures has announced a small US tour and an ACL Festival appearance. Catch ’em while you can… Portishead’s mastermind, Geoff Barrows, is set to release an album with side project Beak>. Hey Geoff, howzabout you work on…
In this week’s dead tree version of DC9, Darryl Smyers checked in with Fruit Bats leader Eric Johnson about a number of things, but mostly about how his own band differs from the other bands he plays in, a list that includes Vetiver and The Shins. And Johnson’s thoughts on…
In fact, they filed the suit against the drug company that produces the stop-smoking drug Chantix yesterday, it turns out. Robert’s got all the details over on Unfair Park, including a quick discussion with Carter’s father, Ken, on why he waited two years to file the lawsuit.Just a warning before…
A week from today, the Beatles catalog will see a digitally remastered release, and to celebrate, starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Good Records will be throwing a party, complete with a “megamix” screening of Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Help, Hard Day’s Night, and Anthology, a Rock Band: Beatles…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Breathe Carolina…
Really can’t say I know too much about the Southern Entertainment Awards–well, not much other than that the site hasn’t updated its main page since 2007. But the site has updated its voting page more recently–today, in fact, since this marks the start of the voting process in its sixth…
According to this press release, Dallas-based company PlayApp is looking to replace the current process of publishing music in compact disc and mp3 form with doing so via individual program applications–y’know, as in, “There’s an app for that.” The idea? As opposed to even mp3s, the music applications the company…
More headaches for Kelly Clarkson today, as fans of the original American Idol are pretty pissed that the Burleson native canceled her Minnesota State Fair performance just two hours prior to her scheduled performance time, leaving fans who’d paid to enter the fair just to see her show feeling pretty…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 1, 2009… British police are going to re-examine the death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones. In the ultimate attempt to recover from a floundering career, Michael Bolton has been writing songs for his new album with Lady Gaga. Publicity stunt…
At 9 p.m. tonight, downtown Dallas will get a much-needed kick in the ass, as the San Francisco-based drone rockers in Sleepy Sun perform on a bill with True Widow at the City Tavern. In this week’s paper, contributor Paige Richmond offered up her take on the headliners:Everything you want…
Less than a month after spending his day in the Internet sun, earning adoring raves from the likes of Gorilla Vs. Bear and Pitchfork, it’s been announced that the Denton-based project Sunnybrook has been signed to the Lefse Records label–which, for those of you playing at home, is indeed the…
Yep, that’s right: As of today, Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson has an iPhone app. Far as I can tell, it’s basically like Rock Band, but without the pretty integral “band” part; you sing into a mic and the application judges your rhythm and pitch. It’s just like Idol, only not…
Back in March, when PlayRadioPlay!, aka Aledo’s own Daniel Hunter, posted some new demos to his MySpace page shortly after telling Absolute Punk readers that his sound was in for a major change in the future, we went on record saying that we were pretty stoked to see what else…
Telegraph Canyon, Matthew Gray Delves Into the Humanity Pools…, Seryn and other Denton acts welcomed the students back to Denton Saturday night, at Spune’s Back To School Ice Cream Social.The party, though its bring-your-own ice cream and toppings strategy enjoyed limited success, had pool and big-screen Nintendo games to offer…
After the jump, the complete, just-released lineup of acts playing the Chevrolet Main Stage at this year’s Texas State Fair. Without looking, though, I’m guessing you probably have an idea of what’s in store.So, on that note, let’s just knock the highlights out of the way right now: Miranda Lambert…
Dia de los Toadies at Rough Creek Ranch in Glen Rose Saturday, August 29The Toadies playing “Possum Kingdom” at Possum Kingdom is almost too much for my brain to handle, so it’s probably best the second annual Dia de los Toadies headed away from that lake for this year’s fest…
The second annual Dia De Los Toadies Festival took over Rough Creek Ranch in Glen Rose on Saturday (here’s our show review) with Bowling For Soup, Ben Kweller, the Toadies and more rocking out in the country.Photographer Caity Colvard walked among the crowd to get shots of the bands and…
Looks like I’m about a month late on posting the video for the latest Kelly Clarkson single, “Already Gone,” but you’ll have to pardon my missing its initial release. There was a pretty big controversy over the song–and not the video–right ’round the time that the above formal-attire clip saw…
Dia de Los ToadiesRough Creek Ranch, Glen RoseAugust 29, 2009Better than: planting your ass at a sports bar in the asphalt jungle. Rough Creek Ranch is a scenic patch of olive Texas prarie centered around a modest swimmin’ hole. To the north, a shallow creek babbles in. To the South?…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 31, 2009… “The People’s DJ,” DJ AM, was found dead in a New York apartment on Friday. He led a troubled life, battling food and drug addictions, but it’s sad to see his life end so early. Noel Gallagher said…
Even in yesterday’s beast of a Good Friday post, I somehow still managed to miss two more shows worth putting on your radar. First up: Maybe you’re a fan of The Real World: Cancun? Or maybe you just like that one song by LMFAO? The one that goes “I’m in Miami, bitch!”…
