Listen: Drake — “9 AM in Dallas”

Last night, budding rap superstar (and former handicapped Degrassi High student) Drake took to the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas for the latest stop on his current tour.  Must’ve been quite the inspiring show, too, because, this morning, a new freestyle from the Young Money member started circulating around the Internet…

Midlake’s Gear Gets Stolen In Columbus, Ohio

After their performance last night at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, Midlake pulled their two vans into a Fairfield Inn parking lot. There, a hotel security guard assured the band that he would keep an eye on the vans overnight. But when the band woke up…

Dustin Cavazos Hand Delivers Debut Album Door To Door

If you pre-ordered Oak Cliff-based indie/hip-hop artist Dustin Cavazos’ debut album, I Think In The Shower, I Dream On My Bike, then chances are, you heard a knock on your door yesterday. Instead of using the traditional means of album distribution–y’know, putting a stamp on a package and letting the…

Mick Taylor’s May 19 Show At The Granada Canceled Due To Illness

With the recent reissue of Exile on Main Street, my favorite effort from the Rolling Stones, my personal interest in catching guitarist Mick Taylor next Wednesday at the Granada Theater was pretty high. Taylor was in the Stones from 1969 to 1974–considered by many to be the band’s greatest phase…

Gutterth Records Puts Entire Catalog Online For Free Streaming

There’s a relatively short list of record labels in town, and Gutterth Records might be the shrewdest: Yesterday, the home to Daniel Folmer, The Timeline Post, Ryan Thomas Becker and others, made every release it’s ever put out up as a free stream over at the newly created Gutterthrecords.com–21 releases…

Paste Calls Jaffe “The Best Of What’s Next.”

We’ve been doing a lot of talking about Denton’s, Sarah Jaffe these past few weeks–and with good reason. Her new album, Suburban Nature is already on our short list of best local albums for the year. And, after touring with Midlake and getting scooped up by Norah Jones for a…

Neon Indian: The Next Big Tween Sensation?

Yesterday afternoon, lead JoBro Joe Jonas, like his Colleyville-bred girlfriend before him, gave Neon Indian an official Twitter endorsement, calling the band “a good listen.”Unsurprisingly, Hipster Runoff sister site The Alt Report is all over the news, asking the important questions, like “Will the Jonas Brothers write a chillwave album…