Chris PhelpsAfter an eight-year run at Warner Bros., Tyler’s Eisley will now call Equal Vision Records home.Today, after a two-year battle with Warner Bros. Records, Eisley, the Tyler-based, indie rock family band, is moving forward with plans to release their long-awaited third record. And, for the first time in their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 4, 2010…It turns out the split of Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish may have been caused by Tish doin’ the deed with Bret Michaels. Maybe she just wanted a guy who had a career, ya know?Damon Albarn just…
Some two months after the initial announcement that City Tavern owner Josh Florence and a crew of investors had signed a lease on Club Dada and hoped to have the venue open near Halloween, the venue’s opening has been delayed due to what Florence calls “red tape” and misinformation received…
The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts–from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as “the next Nirvana” to then following his girlfriend to New York where he’d end up…
Just a few days ago, the formerly Dallas-based and currently Brooklyn-dwelling Fieros (nee The Valentines) debuted the above music video for the song “One Woman,” from the band’s finally released debut full-length, which comes courtesy of the Japanese label, This Time Records. The video, as you can see, stars one…
For astute music fans in the North Texas region, the name Monotonix has become quite familiar. In the last couple of years, the Israeli garage-punk trio has made a few stops here, including a 2009 NX35 slot that got the ball rolling pretty hard on their Metroplex buzz. Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
Long hailed as one of the untouchable patriarchs in the storied past of hip-hop royalty, producer, DJ, and vinyl archivist DJ Shadow has been responsible for some of the most innovative music that the genre has seen over the course of his nearly 20-year career. These days, having not released…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 3, 2010…Finally Kanye admits that he’s basically a child. But, a child that has an awesome sense of fashion.Weezy released a letter preceding his release from prison stating he was never “scared, worried, nor bothered” by his prison sentence. But,…
Well, at least one local will be participating at South by Southwest in the coming spring.In anticipation of its 25-year anniversary, SXSW has just just released its earliest performer announcement in history, and, alongside acts like A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Designer Drugs, El Guincho, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, Small…
Looks like Lower Greenville is about to get a new live music venue–at least on Monday nights. The Libertine has just announced plans to host free concerts from local acts every Monday night. The night will be called “The Hang Up.” Huh. Wonder where they got that idea… Anyway, the…
Not too long ago, we passed along word of Norah Jones’ next release, a compilation of collaborations she’s taken part in over the course of her career called …Featuring. Among the songs included on the disc? A cut from Jones’ near-anonymous slowcore and punk side-project, El Madmo.In the above clip,…
We’d been suspecting this for a while now, but, according to a press release sent out by Kemado Records this morning, now it’s official: The New York City-based label home to The Sword and Saviour, and formerly to acts like The Soft Pack, Dungen, Marissa Nadler and Langhorne Slim, has…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 2, 2010…Sure, Kim Kardashian is hot, but, being hot doesn’t mean you’re a singer, right?You know you’ve made it when Cracker Barrel is distributing your new album! Since her acting career didn’t quite take off the way she had hoped,…
On Friday morning, Vibe posted a length piece on Erykah Badu well worth the time if you have it–because, as part of the magazine’s online “Full Clip” series, it’s mostly just Badu on Badu, with the Dallas R&B star explaining her motivations, headspaces and conflicts with each and every album…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 1, 2010…Students at the University of South Carolina will look to get an easy “A” in the Spring semester as the school offers the course “Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame.”Ben Gibbard doesn’t really care if you like the…
London’s Johnny Flynn released his debut album, A Larum, in 2008 when he was just 24-years-old — although you’d never guess it. Though credited as a release from Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, that disc saw Flynn at the far and away front-and-center, his flair for traditional British folk…
If your mixed-up tween has a sudden interest in baseball, don’t get your hopes up. More than likely, they haven’t decided to jump on the Texas Rangers bandwagon like the rest of us. Rather, they, like the rest of the free world under the age of 15, are probably more…
It’s been widely reported already that Burleson’s Own Kelly Clarkson, who is currently toiling away on her fifth studio effort, will be singing the national anthem tomorrow night in Arlington as the Texas Rangers host the San Francisco Giants for Game Three in the World Series. And, hey, that’s interesting…
When Page Hamilton formed Helmet back in 1989, he just wanted to make music that both punks and metal heads could enjoy. Sure enough, Helmet did find a way to combine punk’s DIY spirit with the technical roar of metal, and the band was rewarded when its sophomore effort, Meantime,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 29, 2010…If you still haven’t found that perfect costume for Halloween, might I suggest a meat dress inspired by Lady Gaga? It’s only $100,000.Garth Brooks has decided to headline a timely benefit concert for Nashville flood victims.The Pixies want you…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 28, 2010…Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife has filed for divorce from his wife. I guess that leaves him more time to be Miley’s creepy dad.Who knew Rivers Cuomo was such a Toni Braxton fan? Tired of looking in the…
Back in June, back when Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly still lived in Denton and hadn’t yet made their move to Brooklyn, we passed along the news that the duo, who together perform as Fergus & Geronimo, had been signed to the newly created Sub Pop imprint label, Hardly Art…
