It happened so quickly. First, the sudden drop in my stomach. Then getting worried about the time. Then the frantic fumbling through my pocket, trying to find my cell phone. Then seeing the time—right around 11 o’clock. Aw, crap! I grabbed two singles out of my wallet, rushed up to…
To end the day today, I give you the above image, a hand-drawn flowchart given to the music editor at our sister paper in St. Louis (ye good ole RFT) after she openly asked (and I’m paraphrasing) “So why, again, do so many people still give a shit about the…
Life will imitate art imitating life on Nov 12 at Nokia Theatre. Me? I’d prefer it better if, say, this game toured: Quick, grab the umbrella! –Pete Freedman…
Wasn’t able to make it to Sons on Saturday night to see Apples in Stereo play the homey Deep Ellum venue. (Total sidenote: It’s a nice venue, but I don’t get why everyone’s always so up in arms over-the-top crazy about the place. Are people just really big Marty McFly…
(Annie Ray) Well, speak of the devil. Just a week after we wrote about former SMU student Astronautalis in our DOMA feature, the Best Rap/Hip Hop winner announced some juicy details about his upcoming album. Even better, he posted a track you can stream from his MySpace page. And while…
Thanks to the guys at Gutterth, who apparently filmed the whole Best Instrumentalists set at last week’s DOMA Ceremony, you can now relive that pretty awesome showcase of talent–at no cost! Also, thanks to the folks at the Granada, you can also catch individual song performances from the most of…
John Freeman, the mastermind behind The Dooms U.K., Telethon, Sloppyworld and too many other contributions to Dallas’ music and art history to list, is bidding adieu to the Big D at the end of August. His Dutch Treats, however, will say goodbye to the city about a month before then…
We’ve had plenty of Play-N-Skillz talk around this blog and in the paper lately. So, you should be familiar with the half-Venezuelan, half-Argentinean sibling duo behind the burgeoning South Irving hip-hop production team by now. And, if you want to further familiarize yourself with their work, check out this new…
Our favorite local Pixies-influenced garage rock band, The Cut*Off, are coming home after a few tour stops along the east coast opening up for Old 97’s. “The crowd response was great,” says guitarist Jayson Hamilton, which is kind of surprising considering that the bands are so stylistically dissimilar. Good to…
Like sands through the hourglass, these are the Dallas music-related videos uploaded to Youtube this weekend… The U.S. Air Guitar Championship regional finals for Dallas were held at the House of Blues’ restaurant on Saturday night. Here’s Johnny Van Fretmaster’s attempt to win the Dallas event. Oh, and the jackass…
Apples in Stereo hits Sons on Saturday. (Josh Kessler) We already told you about some shows going down this weekend, like The Romantics, Dave Koz, Mastodon (part of tonight’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival at Starplex) and Journey. I know, I know, you deserve better. Here are a few other options:…
A quick Google image search tells me this is what a mastodon looks like: Docile enough, yes? Won’t melt your face like this Mastodon? Well, crappy segue aside, here’s the deal about the latter: The Atlanta-based torche-carriers of the metal scene are going to be blowing up some amps at…
Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters House of Blues July 24, 2008 Better than: Watching Hearts Afire on DVD. What do you think of when you see the term actor/musician? Do you think of someone who is great at both, like Zooey Deschanel? Or do you think of someone who’s…
Better than: A parade with two grand marshals, or a wolf pack with two alpha dogs. Dan Boeckner. (Mikal Beth Hughey) Wolf Parade’s live show emphasized the equal importance shared by the band’s two creative minds, switching between Spencer Krug’s oddball synth-driven melodrama and Dan Boeckner’s more accessible guitar rock…
Raunch-rap pioneer Luther “Luke” Campbell of 2 Live Crew, and also the subject of a new reality show on VH1 called Luke’s Parental Advisory, was in town last weekend to marry Kristin Thompson, a 27-year-old native of DeSoto. Thompson holds a law degree, works for LEG as general counsel and…
This week’s Poster of the Week is another nice one from Parade of Flesh, this one for tonight’s HEALTH/Sydney Confirm/Stag Film/Pet Hospital show at Club Dada. Austin artist Tim Doyle designed this one and has 100 silk-screened prints for sale. Check out more of Doyle’s posters and comic book art…
Not to belabor the point, but this Demi Lovato girl from Colleyville sure is blowing up pretty big… Case in point: The infallible barometer of all things underground and credible–MTV News, of course–ran this feature (video embedded to the right) on the former Observer cover girl yesterday, asking if she…
Most every male who went through puberty in the early ’80s had fantasies involving Dale Bozzio, lead singer for Missing Persons. With her flare for see-through plastic dresses and sexually charged vocals (complete with perfectly placed high-pitched squeals), Bozzio’s erotic chutzpah more than made up for what she lacked in…
For better and worse, saxophonist Dave Koz has always suffered from a physical and musical resemblance to David Sanborn. While both men ply their craft within the dreaded smooth jazz/adult contemporary genre, it would be erroneous to label what Koz does as simply background music. Although definitely smooth, Koz’s way…
Much to-do has been made of late over the fact that Journey found its current lead singer after seeing his spot-on covers of legendary Journey crooner Steve Perry on YouTube. And, yes, while that’s all fine and good—Arnel Pineda does sound a lot like Perry—it should be noted that the…
Montreal indie-rock quintet Wolf Parade—relentlessly championed by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock—made a huge splash in 2005 with their exhilarating debut full-length, Apologies to the Queen Mary. Three years later, they’re back with a follow-up, At Mount Zoomer. Over the phone, Wolf Parade drummer Arlen Thompson gives us his take…
Wanna start a heavy metal band? OK, then you should probably name it after a prehistoric beast. Most are large, bloodthirsty monsters that trampled about wherever they pleased, running free in a humanless world, feasting and shitting, paying little heed to anything until a few big rocks fell from the…
