This weekend The Party will be a tad different. This time out the dance party will feature a four turntable setup. We’re not sure it’ll be all that different, but since it’s free for the 21 and older set, It wouldn’t hurt to find out. As usual, Nature, Sober and…
Whiskey Folk Ramblers’ lead vocalist Tyler Rougeux.Midnight Drifter, the debut album from Fort Worth’s Whiskey Folk Ramblers, will be available for the first time at their CD release party Saturday at Lola’s in their home city. While they won’t be selling copies until then, you can get a taste of…
OK, I’ll just come out and say it: Last weekend kicked some serious ass. Between Good Records’ eighth birthday/National Record Store Day celebration on Saturday and the Mokah Music Summit & Showcase (M2S2) on Sunday, anyone with a little up-and-at-’em in their step could’ve caught 30 or so of the…
If you want to get roots rocker Steve Earle’s attention, just mention W. Then sit back and wait for the fireworks. “Bush has left us a bankrupt country,” says Earle, adamantly. “And it’s going to take us a long time to recover from his mistakes.” Out on the second leg…
After their respective graduations from exemplary institutions of higher learning, Yeasayer founders (and high school friends at the Park School in Baltimore) Anand Wilder and Chris Keating reunited in New York City—Brooklyn, to be exact, the same borough where previous musical Park School alums Josh Dibb (aka Deakin), David Portner…
With Daft Punk, Justice, Chromeo and a host of other electro-dance outfits rising to mainstream prominence in recent years, there’s obvious reason to fear an upcoming logjam in the genre. Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s debut record, You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into, hardly signifies that end,…
Clinic, the Liverpool quartet that’s released four albums since its feted 2000 debut, Internal Wrangler, are peculiarly frustrating. They never falter, never radically alter their blueprint, and parsing the hair’s-breadth differences between their records can seem unrewarding. The band’s strengths—a clenched, eerie nervousness always an inch from collapse, a fondness…
Led by Kim Pendleton, former singer for Vibrolux (who actually cut a decent album for Polygram in 2001), the typographically challenged BAcksliders wish to pay homage to all the right retro new wave standard-bearers: folks like Elvis Costello, Blondie and The Cars. But, in actuality, the cheeky pop-rock found on…
At his recent album release party, local MC Versatile opened his short performance with an energetic freestyle. The rhymes came fast and furious, and the effort clearly took a lot out of Versatile, who was out of breath by the time he ended the spectacle a few minutes later. It…
Louisiana-based troubadour Marc Broussard has soul in his genes. The son of acclaimed guitarist Ted Broussard (of the Boogie Kings), Marc has seen his fortunes rise consistently ever since his first solo release in 2001. Broussard, previously involved with the Christian act Y, doesn’t hide the influence spirituality has in…
This weekend, Pizza Hut Park in Frisco will host Edgefest 17, an all-day, three-stage concert featuring some of the biggest names in alt-rock. If you like the bands that KDGE-102.1 FM plays ad nauseam, you’ll absolutely love this lineup. Your only problem will be convincing your parents to shell out…
Strawberry Fields is more than just some small record store near the westernmost edge of Denton; it’s part head shop, part anarchist bookstore, part outtake from High Fidelity too. The storefront is a splashy blue, green and red, and the DVD and CD selections are pure film-buff and rock-geek fare,…
James Dante Kings was 17 years old. The Austin American-Statesman reports today that James Dante Kings’ family is offering a $4,000 reward for “leads to the arrest and conviction of the motorist who failed to stop” after striking Kings on I-35 in Austin at around 2 a.m. on Friday, March…
If you find yourself in Ft. Worth this weekend and–somehow–in need of some really bad ’80s-inspired hard rock music, you’ll find your fix at Rock Star Sports Bar, where Austin rock quintet Broken Teeth will perform on Saturday. Broken Teeth’s sound is everything you’d expect from an act booked to…
….then you might want to head over to Kidd Kraddick’s studios in Irving. Here’s why: Kraddick, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning (heard locally on 106.1 KISS-FM), thinks he’s found a gem in a a young unsigned artist he found named Freddy Wexler. Kraddick…
The members of White Arms of Athena, a progressive metal act from Mesquite, are checking out studios in order to complete their debut recording. “The full-length will be called Astrodrama and it shouldn’t take longer than a month or two to complete,” says guitarist Colin McDonnell. The band just played…
Seekers of Knowledge, take heed. Sixty Second Ape Magazine presents The Return of Knowledge tomorrow night at the Liquid Lounge in Deep Ellum. From 2001 to 2005, Knowledge was a regular hip-hop showcase run by the Nice People collective. After taking a break to focus on recording and starting up…
Only a handful of people have so far watched this Youtube clip of the Women’s Chorus of Dallas performing “Istanbul (Not Contsantinople)”: Let’s fix that; this is a damn fine performance. Well done, ladies. –Pete Freedman…
The Recording Academy and T-Mobile present Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Granada Theater Better Than: Trolling around on facebook all night long, waiting for your friends to finish up their turn in a game of Scrabulous. Last night was the second time I’d attended a Kid…
Dallas always has been and always will be a Van Halen kind of town—or maybe four out of 10 Texxas Jams back in the 1970s and ’80s don’t mean much to you. I saw two of them; couldn’t make the 1988 “Monster of Rock” adios. Something to do with Dokken…
El Gato and Bridges and Blinking Lights are an excellent pairing—and all the reason you need to show up to this event. Both have released fantastic albums within the past few months; Bridges’ Standing on the Same Stick made this publication’s 2007 Top Ten, and El Gato’s Surrender! is certainly…
I won’t name names, but after listening to an album by a certain “alt-bluegrass” combo, a mini-epiphany alighted: Why listen to a half-assed, smug-hipster version of bluegrass when the real thing— Ralph Stanley, Gibson Brothers, even Alison Krauss—is available? Listening to the Avett Brothers posed a similar argument until a…
