Robert Gomez Covers The Theater Fire, Kelly Clarkson Covers Everyone Else.

Stumbled across the above clip recently, which features one Robert Gomez offering up his take on The Theater Fire’s hilariously named “The Testicle Song” and giving the most beautifully arranged song we’ve ever heard about genitalia an even more subtle, almost dainty undertone. We highly recommend you check it out–and…

Tracklist: The Local Hang With Playlister P, Vol. 1

Thanks to all the area musicians, DJs, local music fans, and, well, everyone else who stopped on in The Libertine last night to check out the little experiment we’re calling The Local Hang with Playlister P. It was a night not without flaws–I’ll admit that it took me a while…

Pitchfork Does A Little Dallas On Its Top 200 Albums Countdown

All week long, Pitchfork has been counting down its list of the 200 top albums of the ’00s–just the latest series in its ongoing, highly entertaining set of features about the decade in music. And though three area artists popped up in the site’s countdown of its top 500 songs of the…

Bonus MP3: Fungi Girls — “Dream of Oz”

I guess now is the time where rubber hits road for upstart Denton-based record label Play Pinball! Records because, on Saturday night, as Cleburne’s Fungi Girls’ debut album, Seafaring Pyramids, officially hits the streets, it will instantly become the label’s first release.Early birds looking to catch the worm can get…

Brave Combo Influences Bob Dylan, Answers Your Questions

Lest we go more than a week without recognizing polk-rock outfit Brave Combo as one of the true gems of the region, let’s use this bit of news as a quick reminder: Yesterday, the L.A. Times’ music blog ran an item on the forthcoming Christmas album being released by one…

Best of Dallas: Defining the Dallas Club Sound with DJ Drop

If YouTube is more your flavor, check out the video here.DJ Drop, the nightlife luminary who helped popularize the D-Town Boogie way back, oh, a year ago, is the subject of Pete’s sidebar in this year’s Best of Dallas Scenes section, and in the video above, you’ll hear him talk…

Eleven Hundred Springs’ New Record Due Out In February

Buried in this week’s newsletter from Kirtland Records comes this bit of exciting news for fans of the long-haired, tattooed, hippie freaks in Eleven Hundred Springs: In February, the boys will be releasing a new album called This Crazy Life. Regional country fans will no doubt remember the band’s last…

Last Time I Ate A Dimebag, It Wasn’t Nearly This Tasty.

Last Friday afternoon, Jesse Hughey and I finally got around to checking out the new Reno’s Bar & Grill and its marquis menu item, Dimebag’s Blacktooth Whiskey Burger, which features a whiskey-soaked patty, onions grilled in Coca-Cola and an entire section of the local music community’s heavy hearts. Well, not…

Get Two Zounds Sounds Compilations, Help A Good Cause

By now, you should already know the deal with Zound Sounds, Marc Solomon’s music school with multiple locations about the Metroplex where aspiring area youngsters learn from a staff of music teaching locals who are out there actually doing what the kids themselves hope to be doing as well one…

The Guardian Digs on Neon Indian, Kinda.

Like Bosque Brown before it, Neon Indian finds itself as the subject of The Guardian’s “New Band of the Day” feature today–although, if you read the copy, it’s kinda tough to determine if Paul Lester’s really all that into the music. More than anything, Lester uses the band as a…