Poster Of The Week: Aftertraces and More At The Prophet Bar Friday

This week’s featured poster spiffs the Friday Aftertraces show at the Prophet Bar with Legacy Fails, The Room Sounds, Book of Sounds and Kirk Thurmond. Clay Hervey, drummer for Dallas indie/alt-rock band Aftertraces, designed this one. I like how the coloring of the overlapping figures blends together  and into the…

Bonus MP3: Sunrise Cemetary — “Ruiner”

Back in 2006, Nick Nowell fronted a great local metal band called Thorn vs. Side. The band put out a great EP, Arson, before Nowell imploded the band and decided to become a teacher. Over the past three years, Nowell has kept his instrumental chops in order by playing with…

Gig Alert: D.I. At Lakewood Bar and Grill Tonight

Legendary ’80s California punkers D.I. make a rare local appearance this evening at the Lakewood Bar and Grill. Although lead shouter Casey Royer is the lone original member of D.I., the band’s sound hasn’t changed all that much from the froth and snarl approach first introduced on Ancient Artifacts, the…

Last Night: Bowerbirds at Hailey’s Club

Bowerbirds and Megafaun Hailey’s Club August 12, 2009 Better than: Watching a performance on La Blogotheque Some days the life of a touring musician is just a bitch, especially when you are in that stage of your career that you are traveling in a van. Yesterday was one such day…

Mos Def

Ten years after Mos Def’s solo debut, Black on Both Sides, fans might’ve looked at his subsequent uneven catalog and started to wonder if their fondest memories of him in the ’00s would consist mostly of his Chappelle’s Show cameos. But after the 2004’s divisive, rock-heavy The New Danger and…

After All These Years, Slayer Keeps Bringing The Metal Goods

Tom Araya, bassist and vocalist for legendary metal band Slayer, is unapologetic about the controversy that has always surrounded the group—whether it’s charges of devil worship or having sympathies for Nazis or terrorists. “I don’t look at any controversy as negative,” Araya says from Slayer’s tour bus as it heads…

Judas Priest, Whitesnake

Judas Priest started its metal odyssey in the early ’70s, when bands from the industrial-wasteland towns of northern England were just starting to set fire to traditional blues riffs, and its constant output and evolving sound helped it to transcend fickle trends over the years. Whitesnake’s music, however, exists in…

Catch Up On A Slew Of Recent, Interesting Local CD Releases

What with the Dallas Observer Music Awards taking up the bulk of our time here at the offices of late, we’ve been focusing a little too much on the best that area musicians had to offer us last year and, admittedly, not paying enough mind to the releases sent our…

Shiny Around the Edges Heads From Little D to Big D

More than 50 people piled into the cavernous DIY venue known as The Majestic Dwelling of Doom to see Shiny Around the Edges play a passionate, “secret” performance—a show which Michael and Jennifer Seman are calling the band’s last Denton gig for a “long, long while.” “We’re bidding adieu to…

DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 15: Robert Gomez

…and if it’s the YouTube you want, then, by god, it’s YouTube you get.Good luck picking out each of the instruments at work in this week’s video.Along with the pair of guitars he’d play that night, Robert Gomez rolled into SPACE for last Wednesday night’s taping followed by Heather Test,…

Bonus MP3: The Kilroys – “The Ballad of John McCree”

Awhile back, I posted an mp3 from a local act called Three Cities Burning. In that post, I commented that the band’s country/rock sound didn’t suit its post-punk moniker. Well, lo and behold, it seems that’s now been taken care of. In a recent email, drummer Guy Cramer informed me…

Night Moves: Eight Ways To Wear A Bandanna

Using the term “bandanna” loosely — some might just be du-rags, keffiyehs or shirts — but, used to whatever purpose, there were plenty of them out on the dance floor at Suite Basement last Friday night. Big J, Yeah Def and Vega all spun, and our nightlife photo crew was…

Gig Alert: Moving Mountains Tonight at The Prophet Bar

The guys in Moving Mountains prefer the terms “indie rock” and “post rock” instead of “emo” in describing their sound. And why shouldn’t they? Gregory Dunn and Frank Graniero lead Moving Mountains into sonic territory never imagined by most bands of the emo contingent. Hell, the guys in Moving Mountains…

Bonus MP3: Buscar Bronca — “Angels Sing”

We haven’t heard from Aryn Dalton for some time now that Blackbird Harmony went teats up, but that’s not to say the former drummer for BH and The Paper Chase hasn’t been lurking behind the scenes, conjuring up some new noise of his own. Dalton’s project Buscar Bronca, however, is…