Music

So, you’ll have to wait a bit for our updates on last night’s gigs from The Remolon (an electronica act from Buenos Aires), Florence and the Machine (a songstress from the UK), Wild Lights (indie rockers from New Hampshire), MGMT (psych rockers with dance fever from Brooklyn), Drug Rug (low-fi…

Disappointed that you didn’t make it to see Motorhead on Thursday afternoon? Can’t blame you. But make yourself feel a little better by at yesterday’s show. Turning the speakers all the way up is required. — Chelsea Ide…

Woman asking for directions: “You know, that one fuckin’ venue all the way down there?” A couple guys waiting outside Stubb’s: “Those windows are already broken. You should break the other two.” “Well, I’m tall enough. I’ve got enough scars on my hands, though.” “You can’t have too many. Bare…

Lemmy. Enough said. (Mark C. Austin) Motorhead. Fucking Motorhead. The hard rock* Brits with the gravelly-voiced bassist Lemmy Kilmister for a frontman took to Stubb’s Thursday afternoon and annihilated every song with the same vigor they surely had in the late ’70s. Lemmy even joked, “Sorry, that one’s from 1976.”…

Proof that Vampire Weekend could be worth it. (Pete Freedman) Thanks to some helpful commenters and some sleuthing on our own, we found out about Vampire Weekend’s two unofficial showcases this weekend. One was today at about 5 p.m., hosted by National Public Radio at The Parish. Only, uh, one…

The Old 97’s at Club de Ville on Thursday. (Pete Freedman) Day Two was a pretty warm one in Austin–made warmer with hordes of people crammed into venues to check out the day-time parties. For Austinites and hangers-on, it’s the lack of badge-holding preferential treatment that makes the day parties…

Record Hop at Wednesday’s showcase. (Melanie Gomez) As promised yesterday, we’ve got images from the NX35 showcase at SXSW — a.k.a. The Denton Stage. Click through to see your favorite locals having a hell of a time in Austin. Included: Record Hop, Sarah Jaffe, the Baptist Generals, Dan from Dan’s…

Grand Ole Party having a ball (Pete Freedman) Saw plenty of stuff on night one in Austin… here’s a quick rundown, in an SXSW feature we’ll call “What It Was Like”… Band: Hey Willpower, a two-piece dance duo from San Francisco Where: Ms. Bea’s (unofficial party) What It Was Like:…

No lie. Metal dude in hippie wear. (Chelsea Ide) Last night I experienced something for the first time. I’m still in shock. I saw a metalhead — we’re talking long haired, guitar wielding metalhead — in a tie-dyed T-shirt. On stage, no less. And, oddly, I kind of dug it…

Once upon a time, Evan Dando was the fresh-faced savior of indie-rock. And boy, oh, boy did the girls find the Lemonheads front man dreamy. That whole idea would’ve been utterly sickening—no boy bands in indie rock, please—had the fellas not embraced his act’s tunes, too, nodding along at the…

The last time Gogol Bordello performed at the Granada, the band filled a clothes dryer with a tour’s worth of dirty laundry and turned it on, blasting the funky exhaust into the audience. The gesture was completely unnecessary: Gogol’s wild live show can work even a theater full of freshly…

If you don’t remember Trey Songz from his 2005 debut album, I Gotta Make It and you somehow missed last fall’s follow-up, Trey Day, you’re missing out on one of the acts making up the new wave of R&B elite. Songz, 23 years old, is young, but he seems to…

Well this looks fun. Just two weeks after blowing people’s minds with computer-based beats, whiny vocals and contagious energy at their Melodica Festival performance, the three young men of Sydney Confirm are back on stage performing, this time at Club Dada and in a billing that looks ripe for dancing…

Whether you want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or catch some South by Southwest acts coming through the region (or do a little of both), festivals are a good option this week. And you don’t even have to make a trip down I-35 (the “I” stands for “Immobile”) to Austin…

Ira Kaplan, leader of the indie rock institution Yo La Tengo, isn’t afraid to mix things up. Just look at his band’s upcoming venue booking: Yo La Tengo’s Dallas gig this week will be an all-acoustic effort housed within the Dallas Museum of Art. That’s a far cry from the…

With all four original members of legendary punk/roots band X back together and touring, it’s almost like the band is going through a mid-life resurgence. And even after 30 years, John Doe, singer, guitarist and founding member, thinks the band still has something positive to contribute. “The bottom line is…

Popular thinking goes that Stephen Malkmus recorded his best work when he was fronting indie-rock heroes Pavement. But just listen to “The Hook,” from Malkmus’ 2001 self-titled solo debut, and you’ll hear the deadpan singer’s tour de force—a tuneful ditty about rowdy Turkish pirates who have little use for wooden…

Del the Funky Homosapien is an outer-space hip-hop trailblazer, helping to pioneer a weird-for-its-own-sake rap style by focusing on absurdist rhymes and sci-fi storytelling. A cousin of Ice Cube’s and a one-time member of the Da Lench Mob, the Bay Area-based Del reached a creative peak with 2000’s Deltron 3030…

If the Transmissionary Six were from Texas, everyone would rip them for sounding like Knife in the Water or any number of the state’s many soporific, country-influenced slow-core acts. Fortunately for them, they hail from Seattle, where I imagine their gentle, slightly twangy snail’s-pace melodies pair nicely with a heroin…

Columbus, Ohio’s Times New Viking takes a cue from fellow Ohioans Guided by Voices, recording fuzzy indie-rock under a thick gauze of guitar noise. There’s little to no production on the feedback-soaked Rip It Off, which includes zero bass or bottom end to balance out the meter-tipping squall. It’s an…

This Russell Hobbs guy—the one who runs The Door and The Prophet Bar down in Deep Ellum along with a handful of other The Door entities around the region, the one who had a hand in bringing forth the Deep Ellum golden days of the ’80s and ’90s—he sure is…