Plexus Loom (Khurk) Sounds like local lo-fi gothic combo Plexus Gloom are breaking in a new bass player and thinking about a southbound move. Leader Jason Clyde Reed says the band has become disenchanted with the local scene: “After moving to Spain for three years where we performed regularly to…
Al Jorgensen looking more scary than he did last night.Ministry April 17, 2008 Palladium Ballroom Better Than: Getting your teeth pulled while watching a building being demolished, just barely. According to leader Al Jorgensen, this will be the last time Ministry comes to Dallas. Ever. That’s why he’s calling it…
Area music fans are gonna be force-fed a whole lot of the pretty awesome Austin-based psych rock quartet Lions over the next month-and-a-half. The band’s playing twice throughout the region on Saturday–first at the Good Records birthday party, and then later that night at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton for that…
On April 19, 1897, a great airship reportedly crashed and exploded in Aurora, TX, destroying a windmill. Among the strange debris, townspeople reportedly found the body of the ship’s pilot. Though it was badly disfigured, they determined that it was an extraterrestrial–and then buried it in the town’s cemetery. Because…
Bruce Springsteen doing his thing at the AAC. (Melanie Gomez) We had a few glitches Monday morning, and so we didn’t have our Bruce Springsteen photos to compliment Pete’s review. Well, now, we finally have the photos of The Boss (and the E Street Band) for your viewing pleasure. Better…
We’re sure you’re pretty amped up about Saturday’s Good Records party. We know we are. But we’re also pretty stoked about the event happening the next day: The inaugural Mokah Music Summit and Showcase (M2S2). Originally the two events were both scheduled for Saturday. But after some discussion, the Mokah…
The 31st annual Dallas International Guitar Festival kicks off tomorrow and runs through Sunday. And, lookie here, we’ve got two pairs of day-passes (individual cost: $40) to the Dallas Market Hall event to give away. The first two people to email me with “Guitar Festival Tickets” in the subject line…
The retro new wavers in Dallas’ Mahteo are undergoing several changes. Founding member Rene Espinosa recently filled us in: “We are getting a new guy who will dedicate himself to vocals and we are even changing the name of the band.” Rene, who formed the band with his brother, Raul,…
When legendary punk forebears The New York Dolls reunited in 2004 with three surviving original members (including singer David Johansen), expectations were certainly not high. After all, it had been nearly 30 years since the band splintered apart, and deceased lead guitarist (and legendary junkie) Johnny Thunders was always thought…
Whether or not they actually know it, every guitarist who has ever used distortion and feedback, or who has augmented an extended solo with showy tricks like playing a guitar behind their head or with their teeth, or bent a note nearly to the string’s breaking point, is aping the…
There is no weak spot on this amazing, nearly all-local, all-day lineup that the Good folks have assembled. The show belatedly marks the store’s eighth birthday and also falls on “Record Store Day,” a national celebration of independent record stores. At first glance, the lineup’s order seems inexplicable: Why would…
We usually talk about music in this space. Well, as I understand it, James Dante Kings was a talented percussionist. I can’t say that I know this for certain; I’ve never heard Kings play. But I do know that the 17-year-old high school senior was supposed to start studying at…
Isaak Hoskins was on his way to Austin to try his hand at a songwriting career when he stopped in Denton to take a job and make some cash. Half a decade later, he still hasn’t made it to the Live Music Capital—but his musical ambitions are, if anything, more…
Hard to believe that 2008 is already four months old. It seems that only yesterday we were counting the days till our New Year’s Day hangover would subside. As we take stock of some of the past three months’ hits (Jack Johnson catches his biggest wave), misses (maybe it’s time…
The end was sadly inevitable. After nearly three decades of bashing any Bush who has happened to be president and helping create an entirely new genre of music along the way, Al Jourgensen has decided to end Ministry. With such landmark recordings to his band’s name as The Land of…
Bob Schneider isn’t completely awake at the moment. It shows too. As he drives through Seattle, the Austin-based singer-songwriter can’t help but yawn and stammer. One of the many “perils” of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle: After-show parties seem to make pre-lunch interviews a near impossibility. And yet, somehow, here…
Pop-punk and an errant exclamation point are nothing but distant memories on Panic at the Disco’s second album. The Las Vegas quartet makes a bold—and brilliant—stab at baroque pop on Pretty. Odd, as if somebody had switched the band’s Fall Out Boy CD collection with copies of Sgt. Pepper and…
We don’t only want Man Man to bring the drama—we expect them to. On 2004’s The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face and 2006’s Six Demon Bag, wickedly charismatic lead singer Honus Honus ranted and railed like his sweater was on fire, and the band bashed and clanged…
Pikahsso, Picnic and Tahiti have pretty much become synonymous with Dallas hip-hop in recent years. The contagious fun of their debut album, 2006’s Tres Monos in Love deserves its share of credit. So does PPT’s constant performing and knack for self-promotion. But something happened between that first release and the…
The influences of the Blackheart Society’s Oh!! Oh!! are clear from first listen. It’s Brit rock meets classic rock, and for a few standout tracks, the mix works very well. The raucous “Don’t Say You Love” and “I Want You” are especially reminiscent of The Rakes’ best work with their…
Fans of Pavement have been clearly divided on their opinions of lead singer Stephen Malkmus’ post-Pavement material. Half accept their hero following his muse. The other half hopes in vain for another Wowee Zowee or Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Malkmus’ fourth solo record, Real Emotional Trash, won’t do anything to…
The Subchronicles Crew (Mark Zizzo) It’s been a while since local hip-hop heads actually had to decide between two shows going down at the same time. But tomorrow is one of those nights. As part of their whirlwind local Denglish CD release tour, PPT will perform with Chomsky vet Glen…
