Jennifer and Michael Seman, the consummate Denton couple, both in life and creativity, have finally forced their emotionally compelling mélange of rock, jazz and guttural noise to find a home on a full-length album. After CD-Rs, 7-inches and other snippet releases—as well as live shows that hypnotize audiences with both…
It’s no fluke that Ra Ra Riot went from playing gigs around Syracuse University’s campus to headlining a national tour in less than a year’s time. The five-piece indie-rock band is an absolute joy to see live. Lead vocalist Wes Miles possesses a melancholy croon that drips with sincerity. And…
King Khan’s twisted rock ‘n’ roll ride has landed him in a damn fine place. From his stint in trash rockers Spaceshits to the dual lineup of King Khan & BBQ Show to his current leading-man role with The Shrines, there’s been a helluva lot of howlin’, struttin’, and shirtless,…
The Airborne Toxic Event’s sound isn’t necessarily easy to pin down: Hints of punkabilly, punk and keyboard-laden alt-rock are littered throughout the band’s self-titled, full-length debut. But don’t let the fact the band has a keyboard player fool you into thinking that it’s as saccharine as Coldplay. While some of…
Collaborative musical collectives seem to be a way of life in certain regions of the world. The Canadian scenes of Montreal and Toronto come to mind—so too does Scandinavia. Musicians quite frequently move among bands within the communities of Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, contributing broad influences of rock, traditional…
Last year, after years of producing obscure scores for television shows, films, commercials and video games from the guarded confines of a modest Los Angeles locale, the legendary art rockers/New Wavers in Devo awoke from quite the slumber. For the first time since 1990, the band offered a studio release…
Poor Bishop Allen. The band was Vampire Weekend before Vampire Weekend was Vampire Weekend. But though both acts possess the same musical chops, the same intellectualized wordplay and the same ear for white people-pleasing ditties, Bishop Allen never caught fire (or received a subsequent backlash) like its fellow New York-based,…
Well, it’s mid-March, so it must be time again for South by Southwest, that annual rite of spring, and all that it entails—barbecues, beer, badges, buzz bands and, ah yes, big-ass blisters on your feet from standing around all day watching music and hightailing it from one part of downtown…
Robert Wilonksy just directed my attention to this little blog entry by former Dallas Morning News music critic and current Austin American-Statesman scribe, Michael Corcoran, on Dallas’ own Floyd Dakil, who, despite retiring from music in 1984, will be heading down to Austin for a SXSW performance sponsored by the…
Last night, it was the blues with Pop Carter. So tonight I thought I’d recommend some jazz. And I’m not talking about some lame ass “jazz lite” a la Kenny G. I’m talking about the soulful, funky kind of jazz. The mind-bending, shape-shifting kind of jazz. The stuff that flows…
Keegan McInroe is the leader of local southern rock outfit Catfish Whiskey. But he’s also a budding solo artist: McInroe’s debut solo effort, Mozelle, hits the streets this week. Here’s a quick preview of said album in the form of “The Yank.”Bonus MP3: Very Dylanesque if you ask me; and…
Gutterth Productions just put up its second podcast, this time turning its focus to the NX35 festival–perhaps you’ve heard of it? Along with songs from Gutterth-affiliated bands performing at the festival (New Science Projects, Sleep Whale, Record Hop, The Heartstring Stranglers, RTB2, Shiny Around The Edges, The Timeline Post, Doug…
Uh-oh.According to this state-run transportation site, all northbound traffic on I-35E between 9 p.m. on Thursday and 6 a.m. on Friday will be diverted off the highway, as construction workers will be working through the night to make repairs to the Corinth St. bridge. So what’s this mean? Well, if…
On Saturday at the Plano Centre, Mike Ziemer’s Third String Productions will throw its annual South by So What!? event–a deal that’s become something of a tradition. But it’s not the only show Ziemer puts on every year. At just 23 years of age, he’s booked thousands of bands on…
We’ve been doing this every day this week, now, so you should know the drill…If you wanna see The O’s, The Drams, Eleven Hundred Springs and Old 97’s this Saturday at our St. Patrick’s Day Parade After-party for free, well, you’ve come to the right place. First two people to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 11, 2009… Looks like you won’t be able to use a fake name to get 12 CD’s for the price of one anymore: The mail-in BMG Music Service is done. Washed up rapper-turned-reality star, Coolio, was charged with possession of crack…
As far as blissed-out free shows go in Denton, tonight’s Gutterth Productions event featuring Florene, Power Animal, Lite Brite and Sunnybrook will be hard to beat. The show’s gonna be in the Old Dirty Basement at J&J’s Pizza, and the event, dubbed Rivers/Tides, is scheduled to start at either 8…
Earlier this afternoon at Gorilla vs. Bear, Chris Cantalini posted the above video of Bosque Brown frontwoman Mara Lee Miller and her sister/pianist Gina Milligan performing the song “Phone Call” off of her just-released album, Baby. It was shot by Spiral Diner executive chef James M. Johnston in the home…
Some blues you can use: Tonight at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, the 88-year-old Pops Carter will bust out his hardcore blues, funk and soul sound to teach the young folk a thing or two.Don’t know Carter? You should; he’s been living in Denton since 1969. His musical beginnings came out…
Saturday night at the House of Blues saw 10 of Texas’ finest coming together to perform at the two HOB stages. And it only cost $10 to get into the joint. Quite the steal, really. And, yeah, we hyped the C3- and Spune-produced event pretty hard last week. But it…
Those crazy Lek brothers were out and about yet again this past weekend, taking in some of the craziest happenings in Exposition Park on Friday night. At Fallout Lounge, the lens caught people rocking out to Junky Van, and at minc, the Lek’s spotted the crowd getting down to Dean…
Here’s a little show announcement you won’t see elsewhere (not even in our show announcement post from earlier today): Philadelphia’s always buzzing experimental gypsy rock act, Man Man, is coming to The Lounge on April 24, just a day before the band heads to Oklahoma for the Norman Music Festival…
