Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 7, 2009… Eminem stars in a video pick-me-up for his beloved Detroit. Kanye West has his own Nike shoe: Air Yeezy I shit you not, that is what they are called. It’s the first time a major musical artist has…
Nothing like the announcement of a slow news day to jumpstart the late afternoon news items, I guess. For instance? This fun bit o’ news for Simon McDonald, owner of The Libertine, the best damn bar in town…With the bar’s weekly Monday night “Local Yokel” event (where DJ Deez spins…
Got more than $2,500 to spend on a big, big surprise for yourself? The University of North Texas is selling an unsorted collection of more than 11,900 vinyl records. The only thing the listing fails to describe is just what kind of records these are, though classical and/or jazz would…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 6, 2009…A hip-hop group named Smoke Jumpers has released a Chris Brown diss track. It’s not that surprising–it’s all part of “Hip-Hop 101” on how to raise your profile. I mean, did you ever hear of them before this? Didn’t…
Don’t look now, but there’s yet one more new live music venue set to open up in Deep Ellum come summertime. At 2826 Elm Street, right down the road from the still-relatively new The Lounge on Elm Street at the intersection of Elm and Malcolm X, the former home to…
THe BAcksliders will release Thank You, the follow-up to last year’s You’re Welcome, as part of a five-band bill Saturday, May 16, at House of Blues. Joining Kim Pendleton and Co. on the all-local bill are Somebody’s Darling, Escort Service, The Moncho Poncho and Cocky Americans. Tickets are $10 apiece,…
Ohmigawd, guys. Ohmigawd.These pictures of Ms. Britney Spears after-partying it up at McKinney Avenue ultralounge Lotus post-her American Airlines Center performance on Tuesday night are just now making their rounds around the web today.And… like, ohmigawd, guys… from the looks of things, it went pretty much exactly like her show…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009… The Killers are getting sick and tired… of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would’ve left The Who for The Beach…
The Denton-based, modern country up-and-comers in the Eli Young Band, which performed at the House of Blues just last Friday (see Caity Colvard’s slideshow of that concert right here), are scheduled to perform as the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live this evening. So set your DVRs, I guess. Because,…
Over on his La Maladie Tropicale blog, charismatic Faux Fox frontman George Quartz has offered up three solo tracks for download: an instrumental track called “Butterscotch”; a simple but catchy dance track called “Pentagram,” and a short, somewhat bittersweet female-sung (don’t know by whom, though) organ-synth jaunt called “Theme From…
That’s the duo above, in the studio with producer Dave Castell and drummer Mark Reznicek (drummer for Smile Smile labelmates the Toadies), tweaking a few tunes as they finish the record. Want more? Follow the band on its recording blog…
The most common reaction to The Listening Room’s grand opening last night? Head shaking. Not because people disapproved of the room’s decor or its layout or, really, anything having to do with the room’s re-model at all. Rather, the head shaking seemed more a sentiment of disbelief than anything. Many…
As the above poster shows, looks like the Lakewood Theater (and not the Lakewood Bar & Grill, as previously reported) is proving a viable option…..
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 2, 2009… You thought that Phish and Widespread Panic had hardcore fans? Well, Natalie Cole’s fans want to give her a kidney Comedian Steve Martin will make his debut at The Grand Ole Opry Yeppers, he’s been a longtime banjo…
As I wrote in my column for this week’s paper (in select newsstands now!), Club Dada co-owner Ben Tapia and I talk about some of the upcoming renovations coming to Club Dada. But tonight in the venue’s newly renovated, former green room space, the club is hosting the grand opening…
Yeah, it’s already been mentioned elsewhere, but it’s worth spreading around some more, I think: If you head over to Red Monroe’s website, you can download–for free–three brand-new, very different Red Monroe tracks. And they’re worth checking out: “Eastern PA” features a vocoder (I think), plus some distant choruses for…
Updated. Follow jump for additional info. Tom Hendricks announced today that he is opening his record company to any indie musician who wants to be on a label. “Do you need a record company? Well you are welcome to be a part of MUSEA, my 16 year old zine’s record…
Last week, Ms. Merritt Martin reviewed the debut disc from the greatest (and only) band currently holding down Adair’s on Monday nights. And, in it, Merritt had this much to say:It’s not quite as gritty as the Bucks’ live show, but, in the end, the band’s debut is at once…
Over on Pitchfork this morning, Bosque Brown finds itself getting reviewed and such. The good news? Unlike the band’s friends in the Theater Fire, Mara Lee Miller and Co. didn’t have to wait seven months to get the treatment.The bad? Well… it’s a 4.6. And, uh, it’s not one of…
I’m a big fan of Record Store Day. No, seriously. I’ve said so in print. And, last year, for the annual, national, uh, “holiday” (which the store also uses as its birthday bash), Good Records offered up a phenomenal, all-ages, all-day lineup for area music fans. Even better? It was…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 1, 2009…Director Spike Jonze and Kanye West are reportedly filming a 10- to 15-minute mini-movie featuring Ye’s song “See You In My Nightmares.”Outkast’s Andre 3000 was detained for speeding in suburban Atlanta. He was only going 109 mph in a…
Erv Karwelis sure must like what he’s seen from The O’s, John Pedigo and Taylor Young’s bluegrass duo, which signed with Karwelis’ Idol Records label back in October. Why’s that? Well, ’cause today comes word that Karwelis has signed another Pedigo project to Idol: Boys Named Sue. The band, which…
