Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 22, 2010…Weezy continues to try and earn his street cred by copping to a plea deal stemming from a 2008 drug bust in Arizona. Good thing he wasn’t an illegal immigrant… no telling what they would’ve done to him.The best…
Sad news for those (including me) who were looking forward to catching The Go-Go’s at their Granada Theater show on July 26: Seems guitarist Jane Wiedlin took an awful fall that will require surgery. Here’s the word straight from the band’s website:It is with great regret that the Go-Go’s announce…
Since last summer, Live Nation’s been ramping up their summer ticket sales by offering a promotion known as “No Service Fee June.” A brief reminder: For the entire month of June, Live Nation is kind enough to remove the ridiculous service fees from the already steep ticket prices for their…
As currently stands, there’s shows booked out until October 7 at Fort Worth’s long-running Ridglea Theater–but that all could change real soon. Our friends at the FW Weekly report this morning that, in the near future, the venue could be sold off–and turned into a bank. Turns out that’s one…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 21, 2010…Snoop Dogg has been booted from the line-up at a free festival in the Netherlands. You would think one place that would be cool with Snoop would be that country.If there is one thing the Raveonettes know how to…
Surely, you’ve noticed the pledge drive efforts going on over at KKXT-91.7 FM of late, yeah? Us too.Annoying? Mostly. Necessary? Most definitely, given the station’s public radio domain.But it’s not all bad: Anyone and everyone who pledged to the station this week–and anyone and everyone who does so up until…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 18, 2010…Sometimes the only person who can out-crazy Courtney Love is Courtney Love.The cops where called when they saw 16 year-old Justin Bieber drinking in a bar… only it was a chick in her mid-twenties. Ouch.P-Funk guitarist Garry Shider has…
Earlier this week, Denton rock duo, RTB2, announced that their first full-length album, The Both of It, is now available for free download online. The album, recorded live in April of 2007 by Justin Collins at Satisfactory West, sold roughly 500 copies. So why, then, would RTB2 want to hand…
You may or may not remember all the way back to last March, when NX35 music festival single-handedly overtook DC9 for about a week. One of the top headliners, The Walkmen, who played a stunning set at Hailey’s Club, were one of the many reasons that the festival was such…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 17, 2010…The Dr. Dre/Jay-Z “collabo” has leaked to the interwebs. From the sounds of it Dre has been listening to a lot of Paul van Dyk lately.Is Drake really “riot worthy?” Apparently some people think so…Thurston Moore is working with…
This morning, the folks over at Pitchfork posted scribe Larry Fitzmaurice’s take on Homemade Extacy, the debut full-length from Denton-based, Waaga-signed Florene, onto its page. And, uh, well, Fitzmaurice isn’t a fan. He gives the disc a 5.4 out of 10. Writes the reviewer: Despite the small bits of potential…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 16, 2010…Miley Cyrus and her tiny teeth say she’s not trying to look like a slut with her slutty looking stage outfits. I guess some things come naturally to us and we really don’t have to try, right?Cambridge researchers want…
Wreckless Eric (aka Eric Golden Goulden) is best known as one of the initial new wave acts that came out of England back in 1977. Along with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, Eric helped expose the world to the greatness that was Stiff Records. Eric’s first single, “Whole Wide World,”…
In hometown-boy-done-good news, we just received a press release announcing School Of Seven Bells Fall headlining tour in support of their forthcoming album, Disconnect From Desire, which drops on July 13. Ben Curtis (formerly of local bands Captain Audio and Secret Machines) and identical twins Ally and Claudia Deheza will…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 15, 2010…It takes all kinds to make the hip-hop world go round: nerds, hustlers, gansters… but, does it really have room for a heart-broken crybaby?Country legend/breakfast sausage magnate Jimmy Dean dead at 81.What’s the deal with European fans trying to…
Last we heard, QueFest was a festival happening in Rowlett on July 4 weekend, featuring performances from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the reunited-for-this-one-show Black Tie Dynasty. That much hasn’t changed, but turns out the festival, which will take place at Elgin B. Robertson Park on Lake Ray Hubbard…
About two months ago, we told you about Responsible Johnny frontman Rob Michaud’s plans to release a Deep Ellum compilation called Wish You Were Here…Love, Deep Ellum. When the local punk singer informed us of his whole-hearted effort to revitalize the music scene in Deep Ellum, we said “kudos”–and basically…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 14, 2010…Hopefully Weezer’s World Cup anthem will help boost the US team. But maybe they should just rely on good play.Sometimes you gotta get 70,000 people to serenade a girl with “Happy Birthday,” ya know?Sometimes all it takes to end…
The past year or so has seen a tremendous upswing in the quality and skill in the Dallas area underground hip-hop scene. But one of the brightest gems in that group, Sore Losers, is now taking its show on the road. The duo plans to move to Los Angeles next…
Bad news, fans of things that are fun: Giggle Party is bailing on Dallas-Fort Worth for the greener pastures of San Francisco. Right after this weekend, in fact. Turns out bassist Jason Reichl is headed that way for real-life, not-at-all-music-related career reasons–and GP keyboardist Kat Michie (aka Mrs. Jason Reichl)…
In many ways, the Toadies’ announcement about the impending re-release and in-process re-recording of its “lost” 1997 album, Feeler, yesterday afternoon wasn’t very surprising. Hell, we guessed as much back in January. We also postulated that there’d be another disc from the Toadies in 2010 as well–this one comprised of…
MOJO, the UK-based, self-proclaimed “world’s best music magazine,” announced yesterday the musicians who took home the top prizes in their 2010 Honors List (finalists were announced back in early May). And look at this: Denton’s own Midlake took home “Best Live Act” honor.The Honors List, which can be found in…
