Eli Young Band Cracks Billboard Hot Country Top 10 11

According to a press release from the Eli Young Band, the Denton country group’s single “Always The Love Songs” has made it to #10 #11 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with an increase of 1.7 million impressions for a total of 28 million country radio impressions. That’s an increase…

Got St. Vincent’s Actor? OK. But Do You Have Its Two Bonus Tracks?

If there’s one thing not to adore about St. Vincent’s just-released sophomore release, Actor, it’s that the album includes two bonus track in addition to its listed 11 songs. Only, they’re not available on the CD.Instead, the songs “Bicycle” and “Oh My God” are exclusive bonus mp3s that come with…

Dallas Police Again Shut Down An Area Record Store Celebration

Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records’ annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and…

Rhett Miller, VEGA Get Tracked On Pitchfork

Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com’s “Track Reviews” feature. Not a bad precedent, I’d say. So how’d it go? Well, let’s break it down…Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from “No Reasons”–a song we’ve already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily–from VEGA’s…

The Polyphonic Spree Are Back With Good Records, New Material

And so it’s all come full circle for The Polyphonic Spree: A year after its label, TVT Records, went bankrupt, Tim DeLaughter, the band’s frontman and mastermind, has announced that the band has purchased back its rights and is returning to its own Good Records label, where the band launched…

If She Thinks Your Tractor’s Sexy, Wait Till She Sees This!

Kenny Chesney already scheduled a make-up date of sorts for his rain-soaked concert at Pizza Hut Park from a couple weeks back. Actually, it’s this Sunday, to be exact. Hope you remembered!But now comes this (which, really, maybe isn’t that much of a surprise, considering Chesney’s got a song called…

Anvil‘s Coming To Dallas. So Is Anvil.

Over on Unfair Park today, Robert’s got some great, unbeatable news: Anvil, the best-reviewed documentary of the year, which tells the story of a real-life band of the same name that never made it (but is still trying, some 25 years later), is coming to Dallas–finally–at the Magnolia Theatre starting…

Don Henley’s Eying Studio Spaces In Dallas

An interesting item of potential note in this interview with noted UNT alum and North Texas native Don Henley in the Tulsa World today: Seems the Eagle/Boy of Summer/Dirty Laundrist is considering opening up a studio in Dallas. No, really–he says so himself. Might happen this year even. Check it:…

Jimmy Fallon Does The Stanky Legg On National TV. No, Really.

The GS Boyz and their still-huge “Stanky Legg” song got some major love on last night’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon not only talked about the song before delving into a segment called the “Late Night Dance Challenge,” but also ended the segment by doing the…