Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like Michael Jackson’s estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac’s. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs–new and old–were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most logical replacement for the Beastie…
Dallas psych-rockers The Shapes, featuring Lollipop Shopper Patricia Rodriguez on bass and vocals, have finally started playing live shows again after a two-year hiatus, and will bring their ’60s-loving jangle-rock to The Cavern Saturday night. This poster for the show, which also features DJ Mark Ridlen and the live debut…
Tonight, Denton’s 818 House has booked what promises to be a spectacular evening–one which will take audiences from a local opener to an Italian touring act. (First: Yes, 818 House is the same DIY venue with a similar numerical prefix that participated in this year’s Phat Camp and House by…
If nothing else, Atmosphere’s 2008 release, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, was the best named album of the year. But also, as the title implies, the album, and, in particular, the above song, “You,” was a paean to all things working class and troubled, and,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… If a tree falls in the woods, who cares? Case in point: Paula Abdul has left American Idol. Tommy Lee said he’s still “baffled” why anyone watched his notorious sex tape with Pam Anderson Hint: Because it showed…
The irony of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp touring minor-league ballparks is as rich as their combined estates; it’s not like these Hall of Famers are headed for the farm anytime soon. With 2009’s Together Through Life, Dylan continues his post-prime hitting streak, smacking the blues into every corner, crushing vowels like…
After label troubles nearly derailed the promising careers of Clipse, the Virginia-based hip-hop duo is set to make a bit of a comeback: Til the Casket Drops, the group’s first album since brothers Malice and Pusha T parted ways with the super-producers The Neptunes, is set to release in September…
Is there a more beloved duo in hip-hop than Meth and Red? Known for sharp and hilarious contributions to albums like their 1999 collaboration Blackout!, they’ve also appeared in deodorant commercials, the stoner cult classic How High and even a short-lived Fox show Meth & Red (tagline: “Putting the urban…
The official release date for Fishboy’s NOM EP may not be until August 18, but all nine of the EP’s songs are already streaming on the band’s Muxtape page, and previews and reviews of the disc are already popping up all over the Internet. What’s interesting, though, is that, in…
If an instrument requires a plug for operation, you’re likely to never hear it played on a Bowerbirds recording. Indeed, the music of Bowerbirds keeps with the lifestyle that founding members (and couple) Phil Moore and Beth Tacular (great name, right?) have chosen for themselves, living off the power grid…
It’s been just another day at the office for 26-year-old Richard Escobedo. But even though the work’s done at his day job as the in-house photographer for the Plano-based remote control car company Traxxas, his day as a whole? It’s just beginning, because, after a quick stop at an Uptown…
Perhaps the most hilarious send-up of modern blues takes place in the 2001 film adaptation of Ghost World. Steve Buscemi’s character gets upset that a personal hero of his, a little-known old bluesman, had been resigned to an opening role at a sports bar/blues club—though a woman he meets assures…
Looks like Aboca’s isn’t the only suburban pizza and pasta joint to host all-ages rock shows. At 8 p.m. tonight, everyone’s favorite punk-rock acoustic marching band will play a free set at ZuRoma Sicilian Kitchen, located at 2140 Hall-Johnson Road in Grapevine. That band, Mount Righteous, has shared good news…
They may be young, but the music that Caleb Jones (19, drums and vocals), Robert Hudson (19, guitar) and A.J. Durham (17, bass). make together as Robert Jones hardly sounds immature. If anything, it sounds wise well beyond its years, blending elements of psychedelic, stoner and indie rock into an…
This week, Touch Tongues (the area band formerly known as Street Hassle) uploaded a handful of new songs to its MySpace page. And, by new songs, I mean like recorded-this-Sunday new. Over the weekend, the band got an eight-track, crammed themselves into a mini-storage shed and started laying down the…
Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic ’80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had its…
Like with yesterday’s announcement that, upon the completion of production details, more tickets were being released to the upcoming U2 show at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, today comes news that–again, upon the completion of “production details,” whatever those are–more tickets are being released to Paul McCartney’s Wednesday, August 19, gig…
Lest there was ever any doubt, in this Internet-driven modern music age, that tastemakers pretty much just blatantly steal finds from other tastemakers and that it’s all one big circle, basically, check the case of Denton’s Paul North, aka Sunnybrook. The little brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North, Sunnybrook’s…
Ida Maria, GlasvegasThe LoftAugust 4, 2009 Better than: taking a group of foreign exchange students to the mall. It took 20 minutes for it to happen, but, finally, here it was: some palpable, legitimate energy about the room at The Loft during Glasvegas’ set. It was all coming together–the band’s performance, its fairly impressive light show, the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 5, 2009… Looks like we have another supergroup to contend with (and it’s not Damnocracy.) Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones have joined to form Them Crooked Vultures. Looks like Snoop Dogg has a new label mate–The Pope! I…
Get ready to have another “Psychobilly Freakout,” folks: Laughin’ & Cryin’, the Reverend Horton Heat’s first non-holiday album since 2004’s Revival, is due out Tuesday, September 1. Actually, the album isn’t so much a psychobilly freakout as it is a countrified detour from the punk-tinged rockabilly that the Rev has…
A couple weeks back (the same night as our DOMA showcase in Dallas), Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios hosted a show featuring DOMA nominees Matthew and the Arrogant Sea and Sarah Jaffe. But, as I scanned the listing for the show, I saw that it was a release show of sorts–only,…
