Music

Four albums in (five, if you’re an eBay-stalking obsessive), Slipknot is having an identity crisis. Frontman Corey Taylor’s side project, Stone Sour, has allowed him to unmask his sensitive singer-songwriter side, and that’s well-represented here on “Snuff” and “Dead Memories”—the former a half-acoustic ballad, the latter a slab of post-grunge…

Sky Eats Airplane hopes it’s not out of sight, out of mind. It’s been so long since the Fort Worth quintet played a local show, the band’s starting to fear that its area fans may have forgotten them. Sure, it’s been a busy year—between recording their recently released self-titled second…

The band onstage is called Nervous Curtains, and I guess you could say that this is its first gig. In a way, it kinda is. For the past couple of months, the group has performed around the region as the more obviously (and more boringly) named “Sean Kirkpatrick (with full…

Sweat beginning to stain his white shirt, Scott Beck stands on the 2600 block of Elm Street, near the Good-Latimer Expressway intersection, looking at one of the many boarded-up buildings that populate Deep Ellum. Most recently, the two-story structure served as a warehouse for the Arrangement, which packed up its…

One of these guys plays bass for Black Tie Dynasty, and the other sullied the Jonas Brothers’ good name on Sunday night. If you didn’t catch the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night—and if you did, shouldn’t you be doing your homework right now?—you’ve probably by now at least…

In this week’s paper (the online version should be up and online in a few minutes), Darryl Smyers reviewed the latest release from Denton’s post-grunge-loving outfit Exit 380, The Life and Death of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Stone. The 12-track affair (which is presented in some unfortunately confusing packaging that…

The North Carolinian Avett Brothers are no stranger to the Granada Theater’s stage–hell, they just played the DOMA-winning venue in April. But, alas, they’re back–and, surely, fans of the alternative country punk trio are rejoicing right about now. And why not? They may be from North Carolina, but alt-country punk…

Not many videos kicking around the Internet this morning–or, rather, not of the shows that took place around the region this weekend. Still, there are a few… Kate Voegele, for instance, was at the Loft with Josh Hoge last night. Sadly, no vids of her performing yet, nut, here’s Hoge…

C’mon, y’all: Help a bouncer out. Please. For Beard. Weekend’s here. Stuff’s happening. You should go. Enough pleasantries. The show’s we already told you about… All weekend long, you can catch the Beach Boys show at the Meyerson Center. Tonight, there’s Mudhoney at the Granada, the Wye Oak/Brickfight/Nouns Group show…

Maybe you remember this post from a week and a half ago. The one about the craptastic song someone wrote for Jenny the Elephant (which, by the way, is now up for free download if you follow that link). Yeah, that one. Anyway, we had two reactions when we first…

On the track, “Aint No Love,” Jay-Z spits, “I thought I told you characters, I’m not a rapper,” and much of the same can be said when it comes to Rage Almighty. The Boston native came of age in the Big D and considers himself more of a poet than…

Earlier this year, Baltimore based indie folk duo Wye Oak” target=”_blank”>Wye Oak released its debut release, If Children on Merge Records. Since its release, the Wye Oak twosome has garnered critical acclaim for both the record and their impressive live show…and they’ll be bringing the latter (and likely the former,…

SMU music professor Kevin Hanlon, leader of the progressive rock outfit Quintet for the End of Time (which we’ve written about before), has returned from Italy where he and his band played several festivals. “People [in Italy] are genuinely excited about music and accepting of variety,” says Hanlon. “I had…