While most music journalists of the world were off in Austin, distracted by day parties offering free booze, news broke on Friday that Beck had enlisted the aid of Liars, Os Mutantes and Dallas native Annie Clark/St. Vincent to participate in his ever-revolving Record Company lineup, known for covering seminal…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 22, 2010…Either Liam Gallagher doesn’t know a lot of people or he’s just an idiot.Animal Collective might be done with… but, probably not…
We admit that we’ve been a little NX35 and SXSW-focused of late. And, for that we don’t apologize. We do, however, apologize for letting a few big announcements skip past our bullhorn over the past few days. Seems like the perfect time to do a news round-up, huh? OK!We already…
Jonathan Tyler has been doing more than just putting on swaggering, Pete Freedman-approved Southern rock sets while in Austin for SXSW. Apparently, he’s been making moves, too, as Tyler just tweeted some exciting news for lovers of Texas classic rock past and present. ” News… We will be touring with…
Saturday night’s book-release party for Josh Alan Friedman’s Black Cracker is an opportunity to catch Josh Alan’s atomic-acoustic blues stylings, another chance to catch the gothic-caberet singer-songwriter Mark Growden and a performance by reformed skinhead slam poet Jason Carney at The Kessler Theater. Plus, the whole shebang is free. And…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 19, 2010…Because it’s always more impressive to show off a massive CD collection than a MP3 collection: Universal is lowering the price of CD’s to $10 or less.Jack White feels the need to take up for Meg White’s drumming “skills.” …
News of Alex Chilton’s death came as a horrible shock to Andy Hummel, Chilton’s friend and former Big Star bassist profiled in the Dallas Observer after the release of the Rhino box set Keep An Eye On The Sky.Hummel and Big Star’s Jody Stephens were scheduled to speak and perform…
You’ve read–and watched, as the above video shows–how much we love Telegraph Canyon for the last year or so. But, let’s face it, we haven’t been alone; Rolling Stone even threw a little attention the band’s way. And, earlier this week, AOL’s Spinner is shined a spotlight on the Fort…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 18, 2010…Natalie Maines has decided to stop consoling her husband about his failing show and come out of hiding to rejoin The Dixie Chicks on their first tour in four years.If you met Boy George what would ask him to…
Chicago and Jersey-based hip-hop duo Kidz in the Hall has been earning all kinds of shine of late, much thanks to its just-dropped third release, Land of Make Believe, and the above lead single, “Jukebox,” which features a little help from MC Lyte even. Nice video too, actually.And, en route…
Although Brian Warren got his band’s name from a song by Mission of Burma, the surging punk-metal of Weatherbox has little in common with those legendary noise rockers from Boston. Hailing from San Diego, Weatherbox is basically Warren and whatever collection of side players he chooses to work with. And,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 17, 2010…Did Lady Gaga collapse on stage from exhaustion or a zany costume overdose? You decide!If you believe the director of The Whites Stripes documentary, the Stripes will be back sooner rather than later. If the Gorillaz were going to…
About a month ago, we all stumbled across a clip of Dallas native St. Vincent (nee Annie Clark, duh) and one David Byrne performing together at The Allen Room in New York City. At that show, the two performed a song called “Breathing”–which, turns out, was just the tease of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 16, 2010…Liam Gallagher would like to work with Jay-Z if the “tune is right” and it’s not too far out of his “comfort zone.” How can a tune-less yell be out of anyone’s comfort zone?You can check out She &…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 15, 2010…How can ABBA not reunite for it’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction? That’s like one of your parents not coming to your graduation ceremony even though they’ve split up.Seems like Metallica just can’t keep control of their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 12, 2010…If Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody gets his dislocated jaw fixed after singing with it for eight years… will his songs sound less sincere?So the Gorillaz touring band will include alumnus of The Clash? Not bad…Sad ’cause Conan O’Brien is…
If there’s one man on the planet poised to make 8-track collecting cool, it’s Bucks Burnett. Not that collecting cartridges wasn’t “cool” before–I mean, you can’t even buy a new player for them at your neighborhood indie record store. How snobby-cool is that? And, it’s not like Burnett hasn’t been…
Fans of Austin’s great alt-country act Reckless Kelly may remember my story that appeared in the print edition last month–y’know the one where I mentioned the band’s CD release party which was set to take place at the House of Blues on February 11?Well, the damn blizzard of 2010 canceled…
Local rock band EpiTas has called it a day. Here’s the dope from an email the band sent me last night:Times are changing and EpiTas founding members George Miadis and Bill Mantza have decided to go different directions. Each individual will pursue personal projects. Although EpiTas has ceased to be,…
In this week’s print edition of the Observer, you’ll see some of the fruits that came from a conversation I shared with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne a little over a week ago as part of a preview for the NX35 Conferette, the four-day, mostly walkable music festival that kicks…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 11, 2010…Rolling Stone has Midlake as a “breaking band?” Really? Um, you’re at least an album too late.Icons Sunny Day Real Estate are set to record it’s first new album in 15 years with it’s original line-up.Looks like DMX’s religious…
As promised, DFW’s own Neon Indian released a new single via Mountain Dew’s new Green label Sound entity today, and the song’s available as a free download through the label’s site. The song, called “Sleep Paralysist,” is pretty token Neon Indian, filled with blips, bleeps and a repetitive, synth-based beat…
