Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 14, 2010…Taking Back Sunday has gotten the ol’ gang back together.There really isn’t anything as great as the former member of a band performing an entire classic album by his old band is there? Wait…Lemmy sets the record straight: He…
A week ago today, for whatever reason, T-Pain was in Dallas and, better yet, at XTC Cabaret for a little fun (one assumes). The details of what happened next, however, are a little fishy. Doesn’t really sound like fun, though…
What has drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott of Arlington’s canon metal band Pantera been up to of late? Setting up for a stampede, turns out: His metal supergroup, Hellyeah, announced last week some new tour dates. Oh, and there’s this: The band is also finishing up recording Stampede, the followup to…
Bad news, everyone. Can’t believe we missed this when it went down last month, really. Turns out the GS Boyz have broken up. No doubt, you remember them. The purveyors of the much-lauded “Stanky Legg”? Yes, them. And maybe you remember their minor follow-up hit, “The Boody Dew,” too? No?…
So, we’ve been keeping tabs on the “Lilith Fair Is Back!” announcements for a while, thinking it was kind of a big deal with a long list of pretty interesting artists and a somewhat surprising North Texas bent. Plus, we knew it was coming to Dallas at some point this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 13, 2010…Ice-T suggest a new dietary plan for Amiee Mann.Supergrass: RIP.Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty of shooting a man in the face…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 12, 2010…Spike Jonze is reportedly working on a short film with Arcade Fire.Godspeed You! Black Emperor will reunite and curate the UK All Tomorrow’s Parties.A very young and very blond Andrew W.K. got himself slapped with a juvenile restraining order…
Congratulations are in order (I guess) for Dallas Cowboy linemen Marc Colombo, Cory Proctor and Leonard Davis. When not working in the so-called trenches, those three make up three-fourths of area metal outfit Free Reign (guitarist Justin Chapman’s just some dude, really). And, last night, the group kind of earned…
After the recent announcement that the Old 97’s will soon be recording new material for an upcoming album, now comes word that a country-rocking contemporary of that act will also be releasing some long-awaited, new material. Thanks to the blog NineBullets.net, our attention is directed towards a post on Slobberbone’s…
Fort Worth’s The Cut*Off has some bad news, folks. In short? Come May 1, it’ll be no more. Writes the band in a note to DC9 HQ:”After many years of playing around town, touring, and recording, we have decided to make May 1st at The Moon the last show of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 9, 2010…Punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren is dead.Corin Tucker is going solo… You know, now that she’s not in a band and all.It’s pretty bad when Suge Knight sues you for being too dangerous…
Just a little over a week after fellow Dallasite Erykah Badu went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wowed the crowds with a beautiful rendition of “Window Seat,” another act from town will appear on show’s same stage. Only, this time, it will be the act’s first-ever national TV gig. Yep,…
Speaking of Sons of Hermann Hall, it looks like you’ve now got one more reason to be pissed at yourself if you missed King Khan & The Shrines’ show at that venue on Tuesday night, which, quite easily, actually, stands as one of best shows we’ve seen in 2010.In the…
Rhett Miller, if nothing else, should be commended for being quite the active reader. Dude does his homework, that’s all I’m saying. First time he and I ever spoke, just a few weeks into my gig here at the Dallas Observer, just how curious an information-seeker he was caught me…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 8, 2010…How is it that Drake has his own headlining arena tour and all he has to his name is a mixtape and cameos?M.I.A. basically thinks Lady Gaga a fraud.Weezy: Suicide Preventionist…
Twenty-three years after The Sound of Deep Ellum was released by Island Records as a sort of snapshot of the burgeoning scene happening just east of downtown Dallas at the time and just as one of the bands featured on that disc (The Buck Pets) prepares for a Saturday night…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 7, 2010…The full Lollapalooza line-up is out and it’s pretty impressive.Looks like Dr. Dre and Kanye West are set to release albums this year. But, if Kanye’s album really is gonna be called Good Ass Job, his title wins hands…
Another month, another Local Hang at The Libertine. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to see you. You all rock. I hope it was a good time. If not, well, at least I know I enjoyed it. So, y’know, there’s that.Anyway, I hope to see you all…
A quick thank you to a source very close with Sarah Jaffe and Kirtland Records for passing along this bit of pertinent information for Jaffe fans: Though its official release is, oh, a little over a month away, and things won’t really start rolling for the full-length debut album, called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 6, 2010…Dr. Dre picks the oddest places to announce his new songs…Further proof that actress/dancers don’t need to become “singers.”If God isn’t a fan of auto-tune, he/she/it better hurry up and become one… fast…
From 10 p.m. until close tonight, I’ll be back at my monthly perch at The Libertine, spinning all the local hits for your listening pleasure. It’s the seventh installment of what we’re still somehow calling The Local Hang with Playlister P.And with plenty of new local music on my hands …
April 17 marks the annual celebration of Record Store Day, your chance to give thanks to your local brick-and-mortar, or, as has been the case for the past few years in Dallas, your chance to catch some pretty solid live bands on the store’s dime. And while many area stores…
