Some news to pass along this morning on the fast-approaching HomeGrown Music and Art Festival front: After including The Riverboat Gamblers in its initial lineup announcement back in March, the band is now officially off the bill, having backed out due to a scheduling conflict. No matter: Local music obsessives…
There wasn’t a more offensive punk band in the early ’80s than The Meatmen. Even in a market cluttered by hardcore bands popping up in droves in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the Lansing, Michigan, band, led by Tesco Vee (a third grade teacher born Robert Vermeulen), distinguished itself with…
For about 10 years now, Arkansas native Joe Purdy has steadily released album after album of solid — and at times, spectacular — folk music. Most recently, though, with his two 2010 releases, 4th of July and This American, Purdy has adopted inventive ways to get his music heard.Case in…
As we reported yesterday, Wayne Coyne made a last-minute appearance at Good Records at 2 p.m. to hand deliver a few copies of The Flaming Lips’ newest release — four songs on USB drives located on the inside of a life-sized human Gummy Skull. Very, very strange stuff, indeed. It…
It seems like it was only yesterday that Demi Lovato burst out of Colleyville and onto the national scene — or, to be more precise, the Disney scene. But it wasn’t yesterday: It was three years ago that Demi Lovato entered the forever-rotating Disney star machine to become primped, prodded…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, it turns out, is a man of his word. At the start of the calendar year, Coyne, in a sit-down with Rolling Stone, said that his band, in part inspired by Kanye West, would be releasing music on a monthly basis in 2011, be it…
Dallas’ Lisa Loeb is known for a few things — talking “so” all the time, only hearing what she wants to, thinking that she can leave and later realizing that she was wrong, thinking that what she feels is simple — but, most of all, she’s probably known for her…
For over a decade now, Alain Macklovitch has been a prominent name in the DJ world. But winning the Disco Mix Club’s Wold DJ Championship in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy was just the start of what was to come from the guy who performs under the name of A-Trak…
Since posting our call for interns a few weeks back (and, before you ask, yes, we’re still accepting applications), more than a few members of the DC9 faithful have reached out, noting that, though they are not a college student qualified to be our intern this summer, they too would…
Nothing says “American” like the electric guitar. For decades, the sculpted lines, illustrious finishes and unique tones of these instruments have inspired a variety of musical styles that have defined our culture around the world. Ultimately, nothing else truly epitomizes what it means to be “cool” like a sunburst Gibson…
It’s a good time of the year to be a sports fan. The NBA playoffs are under way, the baseball season has begun, and — yes! — the final season of Friday Night Lights is back on NBC.And, would you know it, two of those things showcased some local music…
Tomorrow, as you now doubt are well aware by now, is the fourth annual official Record Store Day, in which we all get together and celebrate the brick-and-mortar shops that have managed to survive through the economy and the Internet stealing all of the action.But, really, just how bad are…
Brand names popping up in hip-hop is hardly a new trend — see, for instance, “Pass The Courvoisier” or countless other tracks. And songs in hip-hop about shoes — and, specifically, Nike shoes — isn’t new, either.So maybe it’s not exactly a surprise that Dallas rapper Dorrough has jumped in…
Good news and bad news, True Widow fans. First, the bad news: A family matter is taking bass playing Nicole Estill out of town this weekend, thus forcing the band off of the bill for tomorrow’s Record Store Day and 11th anniversary celebration at Good Records. They’ve been replaced on…
Lanky and perhaps too good-looking for his own good, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn was both blessed and cursed by having a successful debut album. Back in 2001, when he released Musicforthemorningafter, Yorn became an instant success story. Here was this charismatic and handsome guy, who wrote music that sounded as if…
Three years have passed since British Sea Power toured the states in support of their 2008 release, Do You Like Rock Music? That’s longer than the life of a lot of bands. The time away wasn’t for naught, though: The band regrouped and worked on the follow-up to the best…
After the jump, the Avett Brothers’ Scott Avett explains that, due to the impending birth of his second child, he and the rest of the band will be canceling their swing through Texas this weekend — meaning that Dallas, along with Austin and Houston, will get no Avett show this…
Not sure when it started being specifically “KXT 91.7’s annual summer concert series,” as the National Public Radio-backed music-centric station KKXT-91.7 is so proudly calling it today on its website, but, hey, here we are, heading into another summer, and, as has been the case for a few years now,…
Back in early March, you may recall, we pointed your attention toward this oh-so-incredible acoustic performance by the Toadies of their song “Tyler,” filmed and recorded on location at last year’s Dia de Los Toadies festival. Greatness. Meanwhile, in another world, LCD Soundsystem performed its last show ever about a…
Last week, the Morning News’ Rangers beat writer/columnist Evan Grant shared the music being used at the start of this baseball season by most of your Texas Rangers players — either at-bat music or welcome-to-the-mound stuff, naturally.The best news that wasn’t? Grant reported that catcher Mike Napoli was using “Teach…
Right around the turn of the calendar year, Billboard reached out to 17 bands across the country — bands that had little to no prior contact with the trade magazine, no less — and asked them to compete for a chance to perform at this year’s Billboard Music Awards in…
The last couple of years have followed an interesting path for British singer-songwriter Bobby Long. Both geographically and musically. After learning cello and guitar by the time he was 18, when he started writing his own songs, the young and dashing Long began to set his sights on open mic…
