Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 20, 2010…Hipsters unite in indie magnificence! The Coachella line-up for this year has been released and it’s way awesomer than last year.Was Wayne Coyne captured by Google Streetview? You decide…Awesome quiz: Megadeth Song or Lifetime Movie?…
Just got news that a couple more Fair to Midland benefit shows have been added to the two that were already announced in the wake of the band’s pretty gnarly crash out in the Arizona desert. The new shows include a second night in Dallas at the Curtain Club (on…
Looks like the often out-of-control Giggle Party has started to to throw a little more organization onto its plate: Today, the band debuted its new song “Big Bang” on its new site, partytodeath.com. It’s all part of a plan the group is calling the “Party to Death Project,” in which,…
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago when Lucero and Telegraph Canyon were added to the bill, the lineup for the MusInk Tattoo & Music Festival April 9 through 11 looked like it would stick with the roots-, folk- and country-influenced rock favored in these parts. But today’s announcement…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 19, 2010…The Killers are going on an indefinite hiatus. I wonder what 80’s group they borrowed that idea from?Brits heavy metal fans are being urged to adopt the genre as their religion for the upcoming census. A Los Angeles man…
Sorry if you missed last night’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth native T Bone Burnett walked with the Hollywood Foreign Press’…
There’s a nice little write-up in this morning’s Denton Record-Chronicle about last week’s NX35 volunteer get-together at Dan’s Silverleaf. But, if we’re being completely honest, it’s not so much the article as it is the accompanying sidebar that’s got our attention. Why’s that? Ah: The piece includes a list of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 18, 2010…Carl Barat has confirmed that The Libertines will reunite next year… provided Pete Doherty isn’t in jail or dead.Apparently Susan Boyle either can’t handle her new found fame or she was always loony.These are 10 of the greatest albums…
That above clip right there just so happens to be the latest video from area mall punk kings Forever The Sickest Kids, featuring the song “What Do You Want From Me?” from the band’s recently released EP, The Weekend: Friday, part of the three-pronged EP attack the band will be…
This past weekend, at a benefit concert held in Orlando each year to fight suicide, addiction and self-cutting, Grapevine’s own Bryce Avary (aka The Rocket Summer) performed a cover of “Stand By Me” alongside the likes of Mat Kearney and members of Underoath, Anberlin and Copeland. Check it out in…
The new Texas Music magazine popped up in the snail mail yesterday, and in a joint celebration of both the end of the ’00s and start of the mag’s 10th year in existence, the magazine, like many others before it, went ahead and listed its favorite albums and artists of…
When you’ve released over 200 records over the span of a 60-year career, what’s one more? Well, plenty if you’re Willie Nelson. Today brings news that the Red Headed Stranger will release a new album in just a couple of months on April 13. And not just any record, either…
A couple days ago, we hipped you to the new, free-to-download compilation offered up by Sarcramento-based, Lefse Records offshoot Waaga Records, and its heavy focus on Denton. No surprise here, really, but yesterday, the comp scored a nice little nod from Pitchfork, and the write-up helped offer a little insight…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 15, 2010… Would you kill to get your old job back? Apparently Incubus’ old DJ would, even after 11 years. R&B heavyweight Teddy Pendergrass has passed away.Looks like the next LCD Soundsystem album may be it’s last… maybe?…
El Che, the forthcoming LP by Kanye co-writer Rhymefest, features four songs with beats by Strange Fruit Project producer/MC S1 (Symbolyc One), two of which Fest leaked today on Ruby Hornet to build momentum for the official release. Both leaked songs also feature Phonte of Little Brother, who S1 says…
Well, we told you this was coming yesterday, but here it is: This morning, Fair to Midland has released the video footage it captured in the aftermath of its blown tire and wreck in the Arizona desert, all set to a new song called “Loophole in Limbo.” It makes for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 14, 2010…Heidi Montag’s new album is better than Thriller. Right, and chicken pox are worse than herpes.First Rob Zombie, then Fred Durst. Now Omar Rodriguez-Lopez his directorial debut. LaDainian Tomlinson is trying his best to keep up with Dallas Cowboys…
The details behind it, at this point, are pretty vague but, after spreading like wildfire throughout the Internet this afternoon, it’s been confirmed: Fast-rising indie garage rock hero Jay Reatard was found dead at 3:30 a.m. today in his Memphis home. Long-troubled, the musician’s recent Dallas stops were plagued with…
Fair to Midland’s bus may not have rolled nine times as has been previously reported elsewhere–but it did roll one-and-a-quarter times on Saturday afternoon, eventually landing on its side, after a tire on the band’s trailer blew out when the band was driving from Los Angeles to Phoenix for a…
Don’t burn your entire stash on 4/20, because just two days later George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will touch down at House of Blues in Dallas.Bandleader Clinton, as if you needed an introduction, is a true legend of funk. His original group The Parliaments, the subsequent Funkadelic and various combinations…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 13, 2010…Slash claims to have turned down a “seven or eight figure” pay day to reunite with Guns N Roses…to work with Scott Weiland?G-Unit’s Lloyd Banks was released from a Canadian jail after allegedly assaulting and robbing a concert promoter. …
Pardon us for following the progress of Sacramento-based record label Waaga Records so closely–but, hey, they started it by first signing the DC9-approved FUR and then inking Florene, all based on the recommendations of the Sleep Whale fellas. Anyway, the early returns on that front seem to be pretty good:…
