Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 15, 2009… Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknhold used to be an illegal music downloader. But he thinks it helped him make the music he and other bands are making today, so it’s cool. The New Orleans Voodoo Festival has added touring monsters…
This particular weekend offers an interesting mix of local and national talents, many of which are playing unheralded venues scattered about the Metroplex. The mix of genres represented in our area in the coming days is quite remarkable.First off the shows that were already covered in print or online. Tonight’s…
Believe the hype, folks: Dallas’ own Dorrough’s got the most-played video on BET with the above “Walk That Walk.” Well, if this press release is to be believed, that is–and really, why not? Guy’s on a serious roll, what with “Walk That Walk” being No. 21 on the latest Billboard…
As of Friday at noonish, nothing at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has happened the way I’ve expected it to. Or the way I’ve thought it should’ve gone. Or the way Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought it would either, for that matter.No surprise that there are lines…
Listen up satellite radio fans. Or don’t, maybe. But, either way, be warned: All weekend long, Westlake’s Jonas Brothers will be all up in your radio, broadcasting directly into your home on Sirius XM radio.Earlier today, the Jonases joined up with Sirius Channel 1’s morning show, talking about their record…
Air Guitar Regional ChampionshipJune 11, 2009The LoftBetter than: sitting at home praying it doesn’t rain anymore. Plenty more photos in our slideshow.Though it was brutally long at nearly five hours, last night’s Regional Air Guitar Championship was nonetheless a fascinating sociological experiment. The evening at The Loft started off inauspiciously…
In this week’s print edition, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs wrote about tonight’s Viva Voce/Cut Off Your Hands/Robert Gomez triple-bill at Hailey’s in Denton quite adoringly, particularly lavishing headliners Viva Voce with praise, and having this much to say:Though they started off as a duo, don’t think that Viva Voce is…
View Larger MapAs noted on Unfair Park yesterday, an item came before the City Plan Commission yesterday in which the old Red Blood Club spot was looking for a Specific Use Permit so it could re-open its doors and become a blues bar (which, between you and me, is pretty…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 12, 2009… Prince is apparently refusing to get a double hip replacement because of his religious beliefs. So, instead of having the surgery, he’s “popping pain killers and hoping it will all go away.” I think that’s the same thing my…
Tonight at Dan’s Silverleaf, the brains behind two of the region’s most mind-blowing acts, John Congleton (of The Paper Chase) and Joey Kendall (of Mount Righteous), will join forces on a bill that features each of these intriguing minds performing solo sets.The above poster for the show uses an aesthetic…
Over on his highly entertaining blog at Fresherthan.com, local DJ Fishr Pryce, who himself is promising a new mixtape in the coming days, has posted a link for readers to download the newest mix from local spinner DJ Marvel, who holds a residency over at Henderson Avenue nightclub Glo. The…
Late in March, the Dallas natives (what up, Woodrow Wilson?) and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers in ZZ Top went up to Chicago and taped an episode of VH1’s Storytellers to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary. Later this month, on Saturday, June 27, at 9 p.m., the channel will…
In news that is sure to make the thousands of concert-going Plano teens go bonkers, scene-driving local mall punk act Forever the Sickest Kids has announced that it has started work on its new, sophomore record today.In interviews held over the course of research for this week’s cover story, the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 11, 2009… Unlike everyone else who saw him run into a stage prop at the Tony Awards, Bret Michaels is not happy about what happened–and he feels that the award show and host Neil Patrick Harris didn’t take his injury seriously. Hard…
Peaches’ 2000 debut, Teaches of Peaches, was undoubtedly a high point for its genre. There was something uniting and motivating to be found in Merrill Nisker’s skeletal production, sexual proclamations and daredevil live shows. But through Fatherfucker and Impeach My Bush, Peaches’ repetitive approach—rooted to a single 909 groovebox and…
Though they started off as a duo, don’t think that Viva Voce is just another one of those bands that rock critics get all excited about because there’s apparently all this sexual tension in not having a bass player. Not even close: The husband-and-wife team that leads this four-piece trade…
From his time leading the seminal new wave band the Talking Heads to his mercurial and oftentimes fascinating solo career, David Byrne has always done things his own way. And for the better part of 40 years now, he’s ingrained himself into the fabric of indie and experimental music, creating…
Camera Obscura’s take on pop music is similar to the one proposed by John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity. It’s the idea that pop isn’t some factory-made crap staining up the charts; it’s a canon, mostly built upon ’60s rock and soul, upheld by geeky listeners who believe in the…
It’s been four years since we’ve heard from Fort Worth native Andrew Kenny, former American Analog Set frontman. But Magnolia, the debut LP from his new band the Wooden Birds, has proven to be worth the wait. Tambourines rustle like leaves, or like Kenny’s hushed, raspy voice, which takes on…
It may be a relief to fans of Grandaddy that former frontman Jason Lytle’s solo debut Yours Truly, the Commuter sounds exactly like a Grandaddy album. But it shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, they were a band in name only, and before their swan song, Just Like the Fambly…
In this phase of his career, Elvis Costello seems determined to convince people he can do just about anything—jazz (2003’s North), classical (2004’s Il Sogno), pop duets (2006’s The River in Reverse, recorded with Alan Toussaint) and collaborations with indie-rock darlings (last year’s Momofuku, which featured cameos from Jenny Lewis)…
Put on the second album from New York City’s White Rabbits, and you get pounded with all sorts of funny rhythms: fat and tribal on “Percussion Gun”; slinking and clattering on “Lionesse”; panning and chugging on “Rudie Fails.” This is a band that likes drums, which explains why it’s been…
