If, like me, you’ve been an admirer of the album artwork Teenage Cool Kids’ Andrew Savage provided for his band’s excellent new album, Foreign Lands, or for the band’s 7-inch singles “Poison Sermons” and “Speaking in Tongues,” then you’re in for a treat today. Savage has announced that he’s selling…
Ever since Faith No More went platinum with “Epic” way back in 1989, there has always seemed to be a spot in the marketplace for industrial strength metal/funk. Korn certainly took the sound to new heights of popularity and the genre proved financially viable enough for lesser-known bands to carve…
In Nate Jackson’s write-up for tonight’s Rx Bandits/Dredg/Good Old War show at The Granada, Rx Bandit Steve Choi opines that the band’s latest material is a reflection on the late-20s struggle of finding one’s place in this world. That kind of lyrical content may sound like coffee-shop acoustic-guitar material, but…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 14, 2009… Ozzy Osbourne has decided to drop Zakk Wylde from his band. But, he may want to tell Zakk… According to a new study, the percentage of teens who illegally download music has dropped by almost half in the…
Trill Bass headlined Dub Assembly’s three-year anniversary celebration at the Green Elephant on Friday night, with Mundo, Royal Highnuss and Thomas Allen opening.You’ll find plenty more shots from the party in this week’s Night Moves set from Ray and Peter Lek…
Matt & Kim played to a sold-out House of Blues Cambridge Room Saturday night, with the locals in Giggle Party ahead of them. Balloons were thrown, crowds were surfed, and fans of all ages had a good time, from the looks of it.Check out more shots of the show in…
Florida folk-punk act Fake Problems has canceled its Thursday, July 30, performance at Rubber Gloves. The fiery, upbeat quintet had already been playing short-handed for a few days; guitarist Casey Lee’s taken leave of the band to be with his family after his father died suddenly last week when he…
Seems Pitchfork is picking up on something locals already knew: Fergus & Geronimo is on to something pretty cool. Over on that tastemaking site today, the band is offering up a free download of the title track from its new 7″, Harder Than It’s Even Been.Catch the Best New Act…
St. Vincent, whose music gets compared to Andrew Bird’s far too often in reviews (perhaps because both incorporate elements of twee?), will tour with the Bird man this fall, starting on Tuesday, September 29, in Indianapolis.Unfortunately, the tour won’t bring Annie Clark back home through Dallas. But it will take…
Matt & Kim at the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room on Friday, July 10 This New York duo, known for its high-energy performances, kept up to its standard at the Cambridge Room. Glad to see they’ve gained some notoriety in North Texas and moved on from 1919…..
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 13, 2009… Leonard Cohen has asked that musicians stop covering his song “Hallelujah” for a while. Thank you, sir. Michael Jackson’s death could turn into a homicide case. The music world may really be coming to an end: Perez Hilton’s label might…
This weekend is jam-freakin’-packed, huh? Kinda overwhelming, actually. So, let’s just jump right in. Cool? First, the shows we’ve already talked up a bit…Tonight, there’s Eleven Hundred Springs., Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward and Homespun Remedies at the Granada; Deer Tick and Dawes at Hailey’s; The Strange Boys, Coathangers…
Not gonna mince words here, as the above poster pretty much says it all: A whole bunch of Texas’ finest hip-hop acts, including some of Dallas’ most prominent, are currently over at QuickTrip Park in Grand Prairie (home to the AirHogs, woot!) for the Texas Southern Fried Summer Jam ’09…
Aspiring hip-hop producers looking for their big break might find it tomorrow at Las Colinas Studios in Irving (6301 Riverside Drive) in the form of a reality TV hosted by Houston rapper Lil’ Flip that promises, Lord knows why, to be the perfect mixture of The Apprentice and The Real…
J-Live fans must lurk quietly in the corners of obscurity–kinda like Jurassic 5 fans. You otherwise wouldn’t know they existed until there’s a show. Then it’s packed. This week Facebook was suddenly buzzing about the J-Live show tomorrow night at The Lounge on Elm Street. New York and Atlanta have…
Over on the NX35 Web site, there’s good news for anyone who enjoyed Denton’s first, succesful foray into a pre-SXSW festival: The four-day music showcase will return in 2010, running from March 11 through March 14, and again falling right before the annual SXSW festivites in Austin.Well, maybe, it turns…
Yesterday, Billboard ran an item claiming Erykah Badu was int he studio recording follow-up tracks to last year’s highly successful and critically lauded New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War album. Struck us a little odd, though: We thought she’d recorded the album some time ago. Plus, isn’t she in…
Besides fronting the soft-rock ensemble Blue Petal and the poppier Morning Elephant, Russian-born Dallasite Manya Repnikova (see right) also leads a band named after, well, herself. Hard to see (or hear) much difference between Blue Petal and Manya, though, especially since guitarist Pete Anderson (not the famous country producer) is…
Not sure why, but, according to Nico Vega’s MySpace page, the band’s gig at the Cavern tonight is off–along with all of the band’s other Texas dates and a fifth date in Arizona. We’ll let you know if any word comes along…..
Over on Pitchfork today, the debut EP from Alan Palomo’s VEGA project get’s the all-important Pitchfork review, scoring a 6.0 on the site’s 10-point scale, although, to be fair, it’s probably a little more positive than that, ending on a note that pretty much anyone who has heard Palomo’s work…
It’s no secret that I’m unabashedly a big fan of Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job.” Been playing that sucker for weeks now (seriously, ask Jesse Hughey, who has to put up with it), and there’s no signs of my fandom letting up–especially now that this new has popped up on…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert just posted the quite-interesting story of Arlington’s KTS Productions. Who? Just the folks who made the marketing ploy for Cheap Trick’s new album, The Latest, come true, no big deal.How so? Ah, there’s the rub: KTS just may be the last eight-track-tape-makers. And,…
