If you’re in this business long enough, you learn how to spot incipient trouble. Here’s how to tell if your band is/has been… On Drugs Telltale Quote: “Does anyone have something to help wake up/take the edge off/revive the guitarist?” Best Case: Get famous for your excess, then clean up,…
The line of people waiting to get into Cirque, the 18-and-up nightclub at the intersection of Harwood Street and Pacific Avenue, stretches more than a block, three or four people wide at every point. But the line, filled with night crawlers dressed in their going-out best, doesn’t exist for any…
I’m one of the last ones still at the office and I just want to get the hell out of here, so I’m killing two birds with one stone by announcing a giveaway and awarding the Poster of the WeekThat’s not to take anything away from this poster, as the…
The popularity of nerdcore, a subgenre of hip-hop so steeped in irony that you can practically see the air quotes framing the stage, is a phenomenon I’ll never understand. But for those who are into white dudes rapping about video games or whatever, Saturday night at the Double-Wide is practically…
As clubs geared up for the long weekend, last Saturday was a quieter time for some. But our nightlife photo team still found plenty of DJs and dancers having themselves a good pre-holiday time out. Brett Johnson’s Pop Rocks at Zubar, with DJ Love spinning in the front, was the…
“Are 99% of challenging bitches today like sarah jaffe and doug burr techno pointless?” That question, posed by Offensive Glistening in comments to a Pete Freedman blog post about an anonymous comment to a Paste article that named Denton “Best Music Scene,” has no clear answer. But you can check…
In our pulp edition this week, Robert took a look at the strange pull the TV show Dallas has on audiences, especially abroad, on the occasion of the show’s 30th anniversary.The money, the glitz, cowboy fashion–all those had plenty to do with making the show such a big hit (and…
I know the local connection here is barely tangential, but two of the best shows to come through our area this past year were The New York Dolls at The Granada in April and Todd Rundgren at House of Blues in July. Now news comes that Rundgren is producing the…
If you read our Good Friday column, you know there was a lot going on this weekend. However, we were obviously too busy actually seeing it to record and post it. But here’s a sampler platter of what the weekend in the world of Dallas music was like. A yummy…
Most nights, try shouting, “Can I get a hell yeah?!” in a Best Buy and all anyone will give you is a mean staredown from the washing machine aisle.When it happened Thursday night at the store along LBJ Freeway, though, with a whole line of Dimebag Darrell fans waiting to…
Roger McGuinnMcDavid StudioNovember 22, 2008Better than: Watching one of those Time Life infomercials about reliving the ’60s though a 10 CD compilation featuring the likes of Hermann’s Hermits and Ten Years After.Starting promptly at 8:00, Roger McGuinn treated the packed house in Ft. Worth’s McDavid Studio to a musical history…
Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey’sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey’s last night. Seems the “doors open at nine o’clock” line from the club’s website was a…
Yep. Here’s the press release announcing it: Dallas, TX – November 21, 2008: The 2008 Billboard Touring Awards took place last night at the Roosevelt Hotel Ballroom in New York City. House of Blues Dallas came away with the honors in the Top Club category. Other nominees in the category…
It’s a pretty good-looking weekend of shows this time around, folks. Go out and see some bands and stuff, y’know? First, the shows we’ve already mentioned… Tonight, there’s Delta Spirit and Nada Surf at Hailey’s in Denton, Torche, Black Cobra and Clouds at The Lounge, The Black Crowes at the…
Greenville native Ben Kweller’s come out and set a date for his upcoming release, Changing Horses, which we last heard about in August. Anyway, according to Stereogum, which posts a “Progress Report” item today on the status of the album, the disc will be released during the first week of…
Dallas guitarist Chris Manning’s music is mentioned in the December issue of Guitar Player magazine. The mention comes in a section called “The Editor’s Big Eight”, where the mag’s editor picks a song he’s been digging from eight different artists and writes about them. About Manning’s instrumental song “Journey to…
So, as the header here implies, yeah, Paste done gone and uploaded the rest of Dave Sims’ piece onto its site today, name-checking more and more area bands, as promised. Read it here. But, since I’ve brought it up, let me rant, for just a second. To the guy who…
A while back I wrote a fairly glowing review of Somebody’s Darling debut EP, finding bliss in the local band’s fine mix of alt-country and southern soul. And, in that review, I wrote that the music on the EP was so good that a full-length CD was immediately called for…
Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly…
Kii Arens Another impressive show to add to the growing list of jaw-droppers the Door’s been booking to its stage lately: The Eagles of Death Metal. No, seriously. On Friday, December 12. Add that to the list that already includes Ice Cube, Fishbone, King’s X, Plain White T’s, Job for…
Mount Righteous, Cryptacize, and Danielson Granada Theater November 20, 2008 Better than: Watching the Dallas Stars lose yet again. On most occasions, the biggest compliment an opening act receives is “at least their set didn’t last too long.” But for a band like Grapevine’s own Mount Righteous at the Granada…
Caity Colvard “Bling Bling” and “Krunk Ain’t Dead” are two terms I’m not exactly familiar with. However, Wednesday night, the Ghostbar was packed with girls, grillz, and ghetto fabulousness as Lil Jon spun some tracks just, seemingly, because. Lil Jon of “Yeah,” “Snap Yo Fingers” and “Get Low” fame graced…
