In this week’s print edition, Kelly Knickerbocker spoke with Fischerspooner’s Warren Fischer, who helped detail his and bandmate Casey Spooner’s ascent from art school weirdos into pop culture commentators/electro-dance freaks. It’s an interesting story–check it out–and sheds some light into what Fischerspooner hopes to accomplish with its notoriously excessive live…
Like your country music even more traditional than, say, Junior Brown? Well, Billy Joe Shaver’s probably right up your alley. And, hey, lookie here, we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to his Saturday night performance at the Longhorn Saloon, as well!Wanna see the show, which will also…
And so it’s all come full circle for The Polyphonic Spree: A year after its label, TVT Records, went bankrupt, Tim DeLaughter, the band’s frontman and mastermind, has announced that the band has purchased back its rights and is returning to its own Good Records label, where the band launched…
Kenny Chesney already scheduled a make-up date of sorts for his rain-soaked concert at Pizza Hut Park from a couple weeks back. Actually, it’s this Sunday, to be exact. Hope you remembered!But now comes this (which, really, maybe isn’t that much of a surprise, considering Chesney’s got a song called…
Country music traditionalist Junior Brown stops by the Longhorn Saloon in Fort Worth tonight for a set that’ll be opened by local alt-country rabble-rousers 100 Damned Guns (who, it just so happens, have a new disc to promote–catch our review of said disc in next week’s paper, won’t you?).And we’ve…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009… Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it’s not to promote a greatest hit collection…
No doubt your Today in Music News item’s forthcoming. But till then, this bonus video from last night’s so-so 30 Rock season ender, where, as Pete has pointed out a few times, a certain Old 97 made a cameo alongside the likes of Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Michael McDonald, Moby,…
Whenever someone uses the term “happy pill,” I normally think of antidepressants or narcotic painkillers. But the designer of this poster, proud Americain Robert Lee, seems to have taken the term literally. The poster promotes tonight’s Club Dada bill of Les Americains; The Push (featuring Polyphonic Spree guitarist Ryan Fitzgerald);…
Yesterday morning, Erykah Badu and a few friends treated the students of St. Philip’s School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School to quite the music lesson at the House of Blues: While mixing in live performance with powerpoint slideshow and lecture, Badu and Co. schooled the young ‘uns on…
Over on Unfair Park today, Robert’s got some great, unbeatable news: Anvil, the best-reviewed documentary of the year, which tells the story of a real-life band of the same name that never made it (but is still trying, some 25 years later), is coming to Dallas–finally–at the Magnolia Theatre starting…
An interesting item of potential note in this interview with noted UNT alum and North Texas native Don Henley in the Tulsa World today: Seems the Eagle/Boy of Summer/Dirty Laundrist is considering opening up a studio in Dallas. No, really–he says so himself. Might happen this year even. Check it:…
Last night at the Prophet Bar, The Cannabinoids, Bavu Blakes, Pikahsso and many others joined the regular Wednesday night jam session crew of Erykah Badu’s live backing back on stage for a night of freestyling and funked-out jamming to celebrate the birthday of RC Williams, the keyboard player who has…
Curious as to what Rhett Miller’s appearance on 30 Rock will entail? Well, this two-minute preview of tonight’s show should shed some light on what to expect: Basically, Alec Baldwin’s character blackmails every musician he can think of into performing at a benefit concert for his newfound father, far as…
Welcome to the second installment of DC9 in SPACE, this one featuring the great Doug Burr and his longtime performing partner Glen Farris, playing the 2008 DOMA-winning “Slow Southern Home” from Burr’s beautiful On Promenade disc. This DC9 in Space performance was shot last Wednesday night–and, yes, it was indeed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009… Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing…
Initially, Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner began collaborating on performance art pieces as students at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in 1998, after 10 years apart, their artistic endeavors brought them back together. Eager to rekindle the creative flame of their co-ed years, the pair reunited to pitch a…
When Propagandhi announced a Dallas tour date, excitement gave way to puzzlement as people realized that the band, whose songs convey more than a mild distaste for religion, would be playing The Door, a venue most people associate with its teenage Christian rock nights. Only, this week, don’t expect that…
It was going to be great. Jessica Luther (aka JeSICKa MesSICKa) and a team of musician friends from the loose-knit DFW punk scene were a day from receiving the keys to the building at 406 S. Haskell St., between Main and Parry streets. There, they hoped to create an all-are-welcome…
Hey, not to be a dick or anything, but when did everyone around here stop being a dick? When did the DFW music scene lose its sense of entitlement? When did it stop demanding our attention—and start asking kindly for it? When did everyone around here start getting so…so…nice? I…
Even before Oso Closo landed its Tommy gig with the Dallas Theater Center last fall, the band was ready to record a follow up to 2007’s debut album, Rest. “We’ve been sitting on this record for a while,” frontman Adrian Hulet says. “From the start, we knew we had pretty…
Though he may have “officially” moved from Dallas to Austin a few months back, let’s face it: Alan Palomo has never really left the region. Between live performances with his backing band of Jason Faries and Ronald Giehart (both formerly of Denton indie pop outfit Gazelles) and solo DJ sets…
Probably the don’t-miss show of the week as Murray Lightburn and his band The Dears come to Hailey’s in support of the 2007 release, Missiles. While the band’s lineup has shifted over the years and its albums’ credits list many different contributors, Lightburn’s talent has remained at the forefront. Over…
