Must be good to be Pitchfork Media. Reviewing records whenever you want, writing overblown reviews that go over most readers’ heads, applying arbitrary numbers to your reviews (even if they don’t seem to match up well with the actual written words of said reviews), not really reviewing an album at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009… Metallica is now embracing digital music… as long as “digital music” doesn’t mean “illegal downloads”. The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere else on April 28. Trent Reznor may be pulling…
Yep. And you said so, according to this 72-page study from a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which surveyed radio listeners in six markets, including DFW, only to find that they’re all dissatisfied with what they’re hearing. It’s not that hard, folks. Really, it isn’t. Just play more…
Over the weekend, Teenage Cool Kids’ new full-length LP, Foreign Lands, was made available for pre-order. Like the Denton-based indie rockers’ debut full-length, Queer Salutations, the new record is being released on the indie-label Protagonist Music. But, unlike Queer Salutations, which was released on CD, Foreign Lands will be pressed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 16, 2009… Estelle Bennett, member or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group, The Ronnettes, died at 67 in her Englewood, New Jersey, home. There must be something about being in Korn that will drive you to salvation: Reginald…
Every year at SXSW, our parent company, Village Voice Media, hosts a day-party concert filled with enticing national names. This year will be no different, I’m told, although the lineup card for this year’s show hasn’t yet been announced. We’ll let you know as soon as it is. That said,…
Do you like making snap judgments about local bands? You’re in luck. Volume 2 of the One Hundred Second Dash compilation series is available for free download today. To download it, just follow the link to the One Hundred Second Dash blog and click on the animation in the upper…
This afternoon, SXSW unveiled its complete lineup of acts booked to play this year’s festival. It’s a lengthy list, and, honestly, it’s kinda a bitch to troll through, unless you’re looking for something specific. So we did the dirty work for you, hunting down the complete list of DFWd acts…
We’ll be there, documenting the Happy Bullets’ new video shoot for a slideshow you can expect to see here on Monday, I bet…
The Captain’s Dead blog, which, let’s face it, is about as good a source on Centro-matic as any thanks to its incessant fanship of the band, has an awesome bootleg available for yourdownloading pleasure of frontman Will Johnson (pictured above) performing solo at a recent Dan’s Silverleaf gig. In it,…
I’d be lying if I said I totally “got” The Secret Handshake, the widely regarded indie/dance emo-pop project of Dallas’ own Luis Dubuc. One the one hand, I don’t really see what makes him so different from the throngs of other like-minded acts around town, or why he’s gotten so…
North Carolina’s The Ox Magnolia posted its new album up as a free download over on the band’s MySpace page on Wednesday. And, I’ll be damned if I haven’t plopped down $14.95, or more, for albums that were no where near as good as the stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful Only Some Place…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 13, 2009… Beginning on Monday, March 2, you can see Bono preening for five straight nights. Yep, U2 will be the lone musical guest on Late Show With David Letterman that whole week long. Fred Durst will once again lead his…
The now-Austin-based (and formerly Dallas-based–frontman Ryan Sambol and his brother, bass player Phillip, are the sons of Bob’s Steak and Chophouse owner Bob Sambol) lo-fi garage rockers The Strange Boysare getting all prepped for the March 24 release of its debut LP, The Strange Boys…And Girls Club. And, as a…
Buried in an otherwise mundane press release received this afternoon about Ozzy Osbourne’s plans to hit the recording studio this summer to co-produce his tenth studio record comes a bit of bad news for area metal fans hoping that Ozzfest would return to Pizza Hut Park in Frisco in 2009:”Ozzy…
Given the amount of hoopla surrounding the red-hot local production duo of Play-N-Skillz lately–the abundant MTV coverage, the Grammys pre-party, etc.–the brothers Salinas (Juan and Oscar) had plenty of confidence heading into Sunday night’s Grammy Awards–maybe too much, considering how, last week, before the awards show, Juan (aka Play) promised…
Vanessa Peters’ MySpace page used to list her home town as McKinney, but truth be told, the former Austin resident spends as much time in Italy as she does in the states–which probably explains why Peters is touring The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium before her new album is officially released…
Your daily dose of music news for Thursday, February 12, 2009… Been waiting for the day when MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice would team up again and rock your socks off? Well kids, your dream has come true! This Friday, Stanley Burrell and Robbie Van Winkle will play a show together in…
If, by chance, you happen to be in Austin this weekend and you find yourself suddenly homesick for Dallas, well, here;s one way to get your fix: Attend the live-recording of Sarah Jaffe’s performance for Austin PBS affiliate KLRU’s new Austin City Limits web-specific show called ACL Stage Left. Jaffe…
Fans of bombastic area power pop/psychedelic rock act The Orange might have some trouble spotting the band on any area venue’s upcoming show calendars.Mostly because, um, The Orange has been peeled. Which is to say that it’s done with.Well, partially. “As far as The Orange goes,” frontman Scott Tucker wrote…
Love music? Love art? Love love? Then you won’t want to miss the opening of the Love Songs exhibit 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Art Hotel gallery in the Cedars Arts District.More than 40 local artists will display artworks representing their favorite love songs in the exhibit,…
And the first single off Kari Jobe, “I’m Singing”, has already been getting airplay at radio stations locally and around the country. While it’s definitely not something that I’d probably ever, ever put on my mp3 player, well, I’ve heard far worse stuff that’s been cranked out of the Rube Goldberg apparatus that produces…
