Music

Wednesday, November 29, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Saturday, November 25, at Gypsy Tea Room

Wednesday, November 29, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Tuesday, November 28, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal
Studios, Denton

Friday, November 24, Granada Theater

I’m assuming you’ve heard of a band out of Oklahoma City called Hinder; the group has, after all, been pulling in the press lately, as well as making its mark on VH1 and MTV, for better or for worse. Hinder consists of five groomed, good-looking guys, who, with their bulbous…

When asked about having an e-mail address, Amy Muncy, a 32-year-old employee at CD Source, one of the area’s best and most unusual music shops, shakes her head. “Look, I work at a CD store. I can’t afford a computer.” Muncy, a slightly gothic, caffeine-addicted fan of Buckethead and Cannibal…

According to legend (and by “legend” we mean “Wikipedia”), the original model for the hootenanny was a result of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie’s inability to pay their bills. The folk-legends-to-be invited all their musically inclined friends and Greenwich Village neighbors to attend an open jam session that doubled as…

There was once a glorious golden age. An age of spandex-clad heroes wielding axes, banging gongs and waging wars amidst wisps of fog and blinding lights. That golden age was called the 1980s, the war was called “Hair Metal” and two of the leading armies were Ratt and Skid Row…

A devout Christian who writes defiantly leftist songs, Bruce Cockburn is both a phenomenal guitarist and an acclaimed lyricist. Cockburn has been Canada’s best purveyor of world-beat folk for more than four decades. His most recognized songs are “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979) and “If I Had a Rocket…

Lady Sovereign is either rap music’s salvation or another commercially crafted nail in hip-hop’s coffin. We suppose she could be both. Are the beats funky, fresh and/or fly? Yes, thanks to Basement Jaxx’s expert production, the S-O-V has been armed with an arsenal of bass-heavy UK garage grime and funky…

From the gurgling synthesizer riffs a la “Baba O’Riley” that open this disc to the mini-opera (Wire & Glass) that ends it, Endless Wire intimates that it’s a classic, if not landmark, Who album. And going up against the formidable challenge of nearly a quarter-century of expectations since the group’s…

Fans of Radiant’s heady tease of an EP, 2003’s The Sound of Splitting Atoms, have waited a long time for this…but well, so has the band. Long enough they’re releasing the album on their own. We Hope You Win is a venture that serves up their accessible but intelligent pop-rock…

If “Reason Is Treason” as Kasabian claimed on their breakthrough self-titled debut, then the overproduction and megalomania of Empire is treachery of the highest decree. Like the majority of sophomore efforts from 2004 buzz bands (see: Franz Ferdinand, The Killers), the latest from this band of Brits trades in the…

After all these years, X still marks the spot. The seminal California punk band recently blazed trails nationwide on the “As the World Burns” tour with a reunited Henry Rollins Band, celebrating the re-mastered release of Los Angeles, as well as a reunion show filmed in the City of Angels…

While certainly overrated in rock ‘n’ roll, instrumental virtuosity gains a bit more credence in bluegrass and folk circles. San Francisco’s Stairwell Sisters features five women who attack an assortment of string instruments with a veracity that rivals some of rock’s most venerated fret-burners. Feet All Over the Floor, the…

The Lions’ search for the Blizzard of Ozz on their debut album, Volume One, is a psychedelic trip through dive bars and crack houses where only the almighty riff survives. The Austin-based foursome recorded the seven-song sphinx at The Den, earning their namesake as Kings of the Jungle. “Metal Heavy…

Two of the hit men responsible for Seattle’s renowned Murder City Devils will suffer an awkward reunion at the Tea Room. Drummer Coady Willis is now responsible for one-half of Big Business’ ear-shattering enterprise and one-fourth of the Melvins’ monolithic drone metal, while bassist Derek Fudesco went on to form…

Before sky, sun and moon, there were the Melvins. These primal Northwest lumberjacks have been laying out their eccentric, riffy slabs since the dawn of man (actually since debut Gluey Porch Treatments, circa 1987). Unfazed by trends, wars or Seattle suicides, the now-frosty-fro’d King Buzzo and Dale Crover have simply…

For Jim James, the lumberjack-bearded singer and guitarist for My Morning Jacket, everything sounds better coated in a thick layer of reverb. The familiar echo of his resonating vocals wraps around the listener, creating an ethereal warmth like Southern Comfort to the soul. It goes down even smoother live, for…

A few weeks ago, I attended a “salon”-type public gathering at the Nasher Sculpture Center, hosted by The Dallas Morning News and paneled by the DMN’s “Mr. Dallas” and the managing partner of Suite, Matthew Giese. The idea behind this little get-together was to discuss Dallas nightlife. Basically, the entire…

W.W.J.J.D.—What Would Joan Jett Do? The question at hand appears on the T-shirt of a young guitarist for the all-female punk rock group the Applicators during yet another late-night, sweat-filled practice session in a small storage center in South Austin. For her, and countless others around the world, Joan Jett…