Over on Unfair Park, Robert’s got the latest word from Clint Barlow on the prospects for Trees’ reopening on Elm Street.Dallas’ City Plan Commission will take a look at his intentions for the club at its meeting on Thursday, and as he gets papers in order, Barlow says things are…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 4, 2009…After six years of marriage Nas and Kelis have decided to call it quits. The couple is splitting up… even though she’s seven months pregnant.Jimmy Buffett is now a business partner with the Miami Dolphins. I just hope Bill…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 1, 2009…Brandon Flowers doesn’t understand why American audiences don’t embrace his band like British audiences. Maybe it’s because the English love the chip on his shoulder more than Americans?.Looks like it might be time for Michael Jackson to lay off…
Method Man wants everyone to know that Wu-Tang Clan has not split up. Wilco have released details of their new album. The album will be called… wait for it… Wilco (The Album) featuring “Wilco (The Song)”. Good to see that Tweedy has a sense of humor. Are you ready for…
Just months ago, Pete Freedman wrote about the reopened Vampire Lounge. Co-owners Jimi Fritz and Matt Story were confident the Harry Hines Boulevard club would succeed, despite thin crowd turnouts for national metal acts and the club’s Halloween Bash. Unfortunately, the club never managed to overcome its problematic location to…
Seeing that Bob Dylan just announced a tour stop in Grand Prairie on August 7, and knowing that the bard’s new effort, Together Through Life, was released yesterday, now seems as good as time as any to check out what other Dylan product has hit the streets recently.Two of my…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Are you tired of your husband or boyfriend always wanting to have sex with you? Well your prayers have been answered: Courtney Love is opening a lingerie store.Pearl Jam aren’t selling out, they’re buying in. The band is allowing…
Late last night/early this morning, the Twittersphere was ablaze with TinyURLs linking to the official 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup, which had suddenly been announced some time around midnight.As expected, the headlining acts are straight out the mid-’90s with Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 28, 2009…Scott Stapp is ready for his second chance to make a first impression as Creed reunites. Too late!DMX is going to be part of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab … er, maybe not.Despite the Oklahoma legislature accusing The Flaming Lips of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 27, 2009…In a move that screams “contractual obligation,” The Killers are prepping a live DVD and covers album for release.Looks like the Today clip of Beyonce singing horribly was “just a goof” made by some dude.The girl who plays the…
For no apparent reason, this month’s Spin magazine–the one with the reunited No Doubt on the cover (see right)–is action-packed with interviews, props and nods to Dallas artists. By my count, there’s six call-outs in total… In the “Songs You Must Hear Now” feature, local hipster-hop duo (and noted DC9…
Bob Dylan and Friends, which friends include Willie Nelson and, umm, John Mellencamp, will play QuikTrip Field, home of the Grand Prairie Airhogs, August 7, according to the tour schedule on Bob Dylan’s web site and the Airhogs web site. Though the poster above fails to point out the time–or…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 24, 2009… Eminem seems to think that hip-hop will be a better place because he’s back. Will it Marshall? Will it really? Did you know that some of the guys in Mastodon love doing mescaline and playing Street Fighter? Universal…
When reached by phone, Bruce Richardson is a little timid. That’s understandable: Richardson doesn’t want to go down as The Man Whose Complaints Shut Down Good Records’ Party. “I’m just a guy who called and said I had noise coming into my house and followed up on it,” he says…
Even though all the pirate news lately has focused on the waters of Somalia, you’ve probably heard by now about The Pirate Bay’s founders, who were found guilty of copyright infringement having assisted in making copyrighted files available for download in a Swedish court last week. Today, though, news came…
For more pictures from the event, check out our slideshow.In a town renowned the world over for its high-class strip clubs, it’s actually kinda surprising that more concerts aren’t held in the always super-friendly confines of Manana Drive’ finest business establishments. Because, really, oh how decadent such shows can be.Tuesday…
As space was pretty tight in the print edition this week, I wasn’t able to fit the entirety of my interviews with VEGA’s Alan Palomo or the Granada Theater’s Mike Schoder into the space for my column this week on the Crystal Castles cancellation at the Granada. Below, find the…
As space was pretty tight in the print edition this week, I wasn’t able to fit the entirety of my interviews with VEGA’s Alan Palomo or the Granada Theater’s Mike Schoder into the space for my column this week on the Crystal Castles cancellation at the Granada. Below, find the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 23, 2009… So, Beyonce’s daddy is all mad because Howard Stern played a clip over the air yesterday that “proved” she couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. But it looks like the recording could be a fraud. Or not…
Hate to do this, folks, as I know I promised that the story would be up today, but I just now got off the phone with Good Records’ Chris Penn, with the Dallas Police Department’s Deputy Chief Vincent Golbeck and with Bruce Richardson, secretary and one of the founding members…
One of the interview topics that didn’t make it to the print version of this week’s My Bloody Valentine feature was the volume of the band’s legendarily loud live shows. Kevin Shields has suffered from tinnitus since 1991, but said falling asleep with headphones on while mixing Loveless–not concert noise…
It’s always a bummer when a promising band decides to call it quits. But, sadly, Denton-based project The Make Believers is doing just that: The band’s promoting its Saturday gig at the Fra House as its last. “Oh, it’s because of the usual reasons,” explains drummer Justin “J.C.” Collins.” You…
