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Parade of Flesh Adds Jeff The Brotherhood, Fang Island, Horse The Band and Alpha & Omega To Already-Impressive Bro Fest 2011 Bill

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 20, 2011

A little over a week ago now, we passed along the early-announced list of performers scheduled to play the 2011 version of Parade of Flesh’s now-annual post-South by Southwest bash, Bro Fest, which this year will take place at Club Dada on Sunday, March 20. And, hell, that lineup looked…

Bucks Burnett’s Eight-Track Museum To Hold Grand Opening on Valentine’s Day With Some Help From The Tom Tom Club and The O’s.

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 20, 2011

Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett’s Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday — Valentine’s Day, which, in case you’ve somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February…

Q&A: Formerly Dallas-Based Electro Artist Maceo Plex Tells Us Why He Moved To Spain, And How The Euro Scene Compares To Ours.

By Rodrigo DiazJanuary 18, 2011

Eric Estornel, best known as Maetrik, is a formerly Dallas- and now Valencia, Spain-based producer who left the US for the northern Spanish beach city in 2009. After years of the same very legitimate complaints that many Dallas techno producers had about not being understood or appreciated in their own…

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Q&A: Joe Satriani Can’t Talk About His Case Against Coldplay. But He’ll Glady Talk Being Left Off Rolling Stone‘s List of Top 100 Guitarists…

By Darryl SmyersJanuary 18, 2011

Joe Satriani is considered by many to be one of the best guitar players in the world. Although excluded from Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 guitar players of all time, Satriani has taught such legendary string benders as Steve Vai and Mettalica’s Kirk Hammett. And, besides doing the…

Good Records Recordings Plans Fairly Major Philosophical Change For 2011

By Daniel HopkinsJanuary 18, 2011

Yesterday, we spoke with Daniel Huffman, the man behind New Fumes, who landed himself an opening slot for The Flaming Lips and Neon Indian during the Jack Daniel’s Kick-off Party at Palladium Ballroom on Thursday, February 3. While perusing the New Fumes blog, though, we stumbled across a curious statement…

Q&A: Before Her Denton Show, Charlotte Kemp Muhl Talks Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Film Influences and Sean Lennon

By Andy OdomJanuary 17, 2011

Charlotte Kemp Muhl hasn’t always been a musician. She’s pretty new to it, in fact. For most of her career she’s modeled, appearing on the cover of Harper’s, and worked for Tommy Hilfiger, D&G, Maybelline and others. Until recently, the extent of her musical endeavors has been strumming a guitar…

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Q&A: In Advance Of His Saturday Night Benefit Show, Jack Ingram Talks Texas Country, Writing Hits and The Importance of Arts in Schools

By Kelly DearmoreJanuary 13, 2011

Dallas-raised and SMU-educated country star Jack Ingram is still a relatively new name on the national stage for fans that live outside of the Lone Star State. But, for those of us who have lived around these parts for years and have scribbled all sorts of illegible items on the…

Drowning Pool React To Their Song “Bodies” Being Linked To The Arizona Shooting Tragedy

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 12, 2011

The mainstream media has a long history of placing the blame on music when it comes to finding motives behind maniacal acts of violence. So why should this past weekend’s massacre in Tuscon, Arizona, be any different?It isn’t, turns out: On Monday, the Washington Post ran a piece raising questions…

Want To Be KXT’s Music Director? Because They’re Hiring, If You’re Sick of Hearing The Songs Already Played On Classic Rock Stations.

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 11, 2011

Just a little more than a year after its head-scratching launch, KKXT-91.7 FM KXT, the music-centric offshoot of local National Public Radio affiliate KERA-90.1 FM, remains something of a beguiling beast.In theory, it’s great. In practice, it sometimes is, too. Just having a station that will play local music, and…

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Parade of Flesh Announces Beefed-Up Initial Lineup For Annual Post-SXSW Bro Fest Bash

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 11, 2011

Speaking of festivals that aim to squeeze a little North Texas shine out of SXSW’s excess, Parade of Flesh has announced today another round of acts booked to play his annual post-SXSW bash, Bro Fest, which will take place this year on Sunday March, 20, on both the indoor and…

Watch: The September Tornadoes Land A Direct Hit And Total Bonedome’s Parked Band Van

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 10, 2011

The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip’s day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse’s parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8,…

Club Dada Sets New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party To Make Up For Grand Opening Snafu

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 10, 2011

Lost in all the shuffle surrounding last week’s memorial event hosted at Club Dada was the fact that the Thursday night show at the venue also served as the venue’s grand opening.Dada, you might recall, was originally supposed to open on New Year’s Eve, with a celebration featuring Smile Smile,…

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Q&A + Giveaway: No Age Drummer and Lead Vocalist Dean Spunt Talks Never Fitting In, Earning Rave Reviews and Tossing Out Takes

By Daniel RodrigueJanuary 10, 2011

How the hell does a DIY, eff-it-all-if-it’s-not-art duo birthed out of Los Angeles’ famed DIY-venue The Smell come to grips with the pressure of following up a critically successful debut album on Sup Pop? Well, according to lead vocalist and drummer Dean Spunt, if the band’s No Age, then it…

Deep Ellum’s Starting to Get Covered With Memorial Frankie 45 Graffiti…

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 6, 2011

The above image shows but one of many Frankie 45 tags that have popped up around Deep Ellum over the past few days. I imagine the next few days will see a few more show up — probably even tonight, as the Frankie 45 memorial concert goes down at Club…

Three Months After Its Lead Singer Quit, Cadillac Sky Goes On “Indefinite Hiatus.”

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 5, 2011

No Depression broke the news yesterday: The formerly Fort Worth-based Cadillac Sky, which in recent years had become something of a critical darling thanks to its blend of acoustic-based indie rock and bluegrass, has announced that it will go on “indefinite hiatus.”This news comes less than three months after the…

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DSO Sets To Debut Stewart Copeland’s New Percussion Concerto in Early February

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 5, 2011

Well, Super Bowl weekend is just getting busier and busier — although, in this case, a recently announced, very cool event just seems to be the beneficiary of convenient scheduling. Starting on Thursday, February 3, and running through Saturday, February 5, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will be performing a new…

Three Area Acts Pop Up On A Year-End List Of The Weirdest Band Names of 2010

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 5, 2011

North Texas isn’t lacking for bands with somewhat out-there names. Some that immediately come to mind? Sextape, Dikes of Holland, Man Factory, Shaolin Death Squad, Fatty Lumpkin and Sky Eats Airplane, just to name a few. Surely there are others.Regardless, finally, the region is getting some recognition for its talent…

Crushed Stars’ Convalescing in Braille Continues Garnering National Kudos

By Darryl SmyersJanuary 5, 2011

Local dream pop act Crushed Stars, the brainchild of Todd Gautreau and whomever he decides to work with at a given time, has tacked on some more national press recognition to go with his already impressive clippings of late. Seems the online version of Blurt has taken quite the shine…

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T Bone Burnett To Be Honored By The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy In Ramp-Up To 2011 Grammy Awards

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 4, 2011

The Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy swears it’s kind of a big deal, having created a “best practices guideline” and leading various charges, etc., since forming 10 years ago. OK, whatever. Doesn’t really matter.Because, if nothing else, what it’s doing in the ramp-up to this year’s Grammy…

Details, Band Lineup Set For Thursday Night’s Frankie 45 Memorial Concert at Club Dada

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 4, 2011

In the days since the news of Frank Campagna Jr.’s death broke on Saturday, the outpouring of support in the community has been fairly overwhelming. Saturday night’s gathering at Kettle Art was an especially inspiring scene, as the crowd, which numbered in the hundreds, spilled out of Frankie 45’s father’s…

Red Animal War Confirms New Material On The Way. But, First, Expect Saboteur To Release Its Own Long-Awaited Full-Length.

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 4, 2011

Well, this might not be as big as the news that Prince is coming to town for Super Bowl XLV, but, for some people, it sure will be: After alluding to as much on stage at his band’s New Year’s Eve performance at the Curtain Club, Red Animal War frontman…

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Centro-matic Releases New Music Video, Announces New Album Coming in April 2011

By Pete FreedmanJanuary 3, 2011

Lots of news out of Centro-matic camp this weekend, as the adored Denton-sprung rock outfit, which headlined thus year’s New Year’s Eve festivities at the Kessler Theater, has announced plans for a new album, called Candidate Waltz, to be released in April. Meanwhile, that’s the art for the upcoming release…

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