To cap off our NX35 coverage, we’re including a slideshow of photos from a handful of shows on Friday and Saturday night. It’s a large set, so to help you navigate through the shots, we’ll break it down band-by-band…GrassfightClint NiosiTrue WidowPossessed By Paul JamesThe Theater FireThe Chameleon Chamber GroupBilly Roy’s…
We’ve got a couple items regarding local music and cinema to share this afternoon. First, local country innovators Whiskey Folk Ramblers, a Dallas Observer favorite, will be featured in The Other Side Of Paradise. According to bassist Jack Daw Russell, the band was filmed for an important country-dancing bar scene…
To those of you who think we only post about the Jonas Brothers on here: Boy, are you misinformed! For instance, we also post items about Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato, who, you might have already noticed, has her new video plastered all over Myspace today under the guise that she’s…
With so many talented local acts, like Fishboy and Shiny Around the Edges, and touring acts, like Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Moth Fight, it’s really difficult not to let the insanity that was Monotonix’s packed-out show at Hailey’s overshadow all the other bands that played NX35 on Sunday…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 17, 2009…Kelly Clarkson is busy fighting off rumors that she’s a lesbian.Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd are going on a joint tour again this summer.M.I.A’s former producer, Diplo, is joining forces with her current producer, Switch, to become Major Lazer…
As promised, our photos from the show, in all the high-contrast, white-striped, goodness that has got to be Polaroid, are up in this slideshow.It was quite the show, too. Monotonix’s three members led the Hailey’s crowd all around the venue, from the stage, to the floor, to the sound booth,…
BANDS: Lydia and PlayRadioPlay! VENUE: Rubber GlovesTIME: 10:30pm After prying myself away from Billy Roy’s One Man Show on the Square, I grabbed a bite to eat. Then off to Rubber Gloves it was. And, actually, the atmosphere inside the venue was stifling. Walking from the bar into the performance…
For anyone out partying on Greenville Avenue early Saturday, it took either incredible stamina–or an afternoon nap–to make it back out to the clubs that night. But the biggest party day of the year finished off with a few big, vaguely Irish parties.Guest DJ J Boogie spun at Zubar, Zephyrs…
Denton was the place to be for live music this weekend, hands down. With the first ever NX35 festival all wrapped up, I wanted to pay it some well-deserved homage with a special edition of Weekend Roundup… Enjoy! Monotonix at Hailey’s, Sunday, Mar. 15This garage rock band played in Denton’s NX35 by way…
Devin the Dude played a smoky set at the Lounge on Elm Street on Friday night, and Gloria Levario was there to get shots for us. Check them out in our slideshow here…
English trip-hop pioneer Tricky stops by the Granada Theater this evening, and, like so many other artists stopping through town this week, he’s doing so en route to SXSW, where he’ll perform later this week. Should be a low-key, but highly enjoyable time.Interested in checking it out? Perfect, ’cause the…
If you managed a band in 1999 and told your clients to forget the major labels and focus on “social networking” while giving away free tracks–you wouldn’t have lasted long enough to even be working today. But at least you could say “I told ya so.” Ten years (and countless…
We’ve got pictures from Rachel Parker of this nearly sold-out show in our slideshow here…
Photos from the show, courtesy Rachel Parker, are up in our slideshow here…
BAND: Moth Fight VENUE: Dan’s Silverleaf TIME: 8:30 p.m. Having caught Austin’s Moth Fight last October at the “Swiss House” in Dallas, I was pretty sure what to expect last night–from the band and the audience. So, watching the group wow an audience of about 50 people was no surprise, nor…
Kelly Knickerbocker BAND: Billy Roy’s One Man BandVENUE: Anywhere he wants really–this time it’s on the SquareTIME: 9 p.m. A glass-encapsulated man playing a barrage of instruments at the corner of Locust and Oak Streets got my attention–and the attention of plenty of others–on the Square last night. He rocked…
BAND: FishboyVENUE: BanterTIME: 9 (or thereabouts)If you didn’t catch Fishboy at its Sunday night NX35 gig, you missed out on on an hour of manic, jangly-stringed, hollow-bodied goodness. Oh, and stirring mid-song conversation: “Settle a bet for me,” singer Eric Michener, aka Fishboy, asked the crowd. “Does ‘panini’ just mean ‘smashed sandwich?'”…
BAND: The Show Is The RainbowVENUE: Hailey’sTIME: 10:30ish Crowds aren’t really drawn to Lincoln, Nebraska, native Darren Keen’s one-man band The Show Is The Rainbow. But once audiences glance over at the pudgy,sweaty Keen gryating/dancing away, they sure have trouble looking away. Or, at least, as much was the case at Hailey’s last night as Keen warmed the…
BAND: MonotonixVENUE: Hailey’sTIME: Midnight Believe the hype.(Slideshow and recap of this sure-to-be muched-talked-about performance coming soon…)…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 16, 2009… The former Dentonites in The Riverboat Gamblers were named in Rolling Stone writer David Fricke’s “Fricke’s Picks” this week. Modest Mouse will soon release the Heath Ledger-directed video for their b-side, “King Rat”. Alan W. Livingston, the man who signed…
Well, for all the folks who were complaining that NX35 featured too many local acts, you can’t really complain about tonight. There’s Monotonix (Tel Aviv, Israel), Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago), Beep Beep (Omaha), Sybris (Chicago), Black Gold (Brooklyn), Sugar & Gold (San Francisco) and The Botticellis (San Francisco)…
A boom box, lamp, L-shaped chair (a hipper version of Martin Crane’s recliner on “Frasier”) and a tall glass of orange juice set the Fine Arts Theater stage for a casual discussion with Harvey Pekar. Known as the confrontational, famed author of the autobiographical comic book series, American Splendor, the…
