Spoke with Chris Penn down at Good Records last week. I called wondering if anyone from that fine store was going to be attending the Noise in the Basement Indie Record Store Convention in Baltimore next week. “We’re part of a coalition called AIMS [Alliance of Independent Media Stores] and…
Wow. Busy day today, huh? Anyway, there’s lots going on this weekend. And, actually, we’ve told you about a lot of it already. Tonight, there’s Grandmaster Flash spinning at Ghostbar, the Street Dogs show at House of Blues and the Dr. Dog show at Lola’s in Forth Worth. On Saturday,…
The Old 97’s were seemingly all the rage this past summer on NPR after the release of the Blame It On Gravity album, which was released way back in May (wow, seems like years ago, huh?). Not once, but twice, frontman Rhett Miller and/or the 97’s were invited on the…
Street Dogs, who perform tonight at the House of Blues, are as Boston as the Red Sox, clam chowdah and irritating accents. The band was started by former Dropkick Murphys singer Mike McColgan, who left his former Celt-punk band to be a Boston firefighter but eventually decided to return to…
A few more tidbits for those of you following the Salmin Nourallah/Anju Gill Foundation v. Ally David/Bend Studio lawsuits (and judging by the comment section on the previous post, I’d say that’s quite a few of you). First up, the actual case documents: Ally David v. Salim Nourallah Anju Gill…
On Sunday, September 14, Bun B, Mike Jones, David Banner, Pleasure P and a host of other artists take over the Palladium Ballroom for 97.9 the Beat’s Hip Hop for HIV concert. It’s easy to assume that the money collected from ticket proceeds would be donated to HIV and AIDS-related…
In this week’s paper, we featured tomorrow night’s Fuck Buttons show at the Granada Theater–because, really, any excuse to get the word “fuck” into the paper…–but, obviously, in doing so, we kinda glossed over the fact that Fuck Buttons was, y’know, opening tomorrow night’s show for fellow U.K. instrumental act…
Well, one thing became quite certain this afternoon (as if recent speculation didn’t already have people assuming as much): You’re not going to see Salim Nourallah playing Bend Studio anytime soon, like he is in the video above. (If, that is, Bend Studio ever gets over its current Fire Marshal…
Turns out I may have spoken too soon in my column this week when I wrote that Sunday night’s Club Dada gig was The Enormous Magic Verb’s last. In the ol’ inbox today comes a note from EMV player Chad Siewert, who writes: “There must be some confusion, the band…
Will Johnson…singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”? (Brian Harkin) It comes in a piece the site posted last week (huh? we didn’t get the memo!) about Centro-matic’s Will Johnson and his devout baseball fanaticism. And it’s filled with surprise anecdotes like this one: Johnson is a folk artist who…
Death Vessel doesn’t sound a thing like you’d expect it to given the name. So, no, you won’t hear any thrash at this show. (E.B. Duet) Suffering from the Thursday blues? A couple of touring acts are hitting area stages tonight that are definitely worth checking out… Joel Thibodeau fronts…
The New Year…getting all sorts of Internet love. (Allison Smith) The New Year has been getting love all over the world wide interweb this week: We loved the local boys’s new disc, Pitchfork did, too, and now Stereogum is showing them the love. The New Year was spotlighted in the…
Los Bros. Kadane…and friends…The New Year. (Allison Smith) …and gives the band’s new disc (we reviewed it last week…and we gave you a free mp3…so there) a very respectable 7.5 rating while saying some very nice things, like, “what continues to set them apart is the way they put these…
By now, you may have heard that the folks over at The Edge (KDGE, 102.1-FM) are going to be throwing a second Edgefest in 2008–this one called Edgefest 18, and scheduled to take place on October 25, again at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. The last Edgefest took place back…
The kids in Kick Your Donkey will kick off the Ohlook Theater’s grand opening. Finally, some good news regarding punk-rock venues after a couple of distressing stories. Ohlook Theater in downtown Grapevine will have its grand opening Saturday, with performances by Kick Your Donkey, Straight Pepper Diet, Johnny Knuckles and…
Just finished listening to the new, self-titled EP from local alt-country outfit Somebody’s Darling and think it’s one of the best discs to come across my desk this year. Full of spit and fire, the band is led by Amber Farris, whose powerful set of pipes galvanize the entire group…
..comes courtesy of these guys. Check it out. And you can download the Slider Pines’ entire five song EP for free here. Haven’t listened to the whole thing yet but, so far, it sounds pretty good. [Also: Sorry for the slow blog day. Just not too much going on.] –Pete…
(John Cheng) Dallas’ own Carly Patterson, best remembered as a 2004 Olympic medalist gymnast, is attempting to reinvent herself as a musician, as Richie Whitt explained in 2006. So how has her career come along in the two years since she last talked to the Observer about her ambitions? Her…
The line up is set for the Chattahippie Music Festival, which takes place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from September 18 through September 21. Loads of talent from Texas will be on display, but sadly, most of it comes from our neighbor to the south: The Derailers, Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros,…
And so it goes: Just got word that Erykah Badu and her “Honey” co-director Mr. Roboto (I think some domo arigatos are in order, yes?) took home the Best Direction award at this year’s MTV VMA “Professional Catergories” awards show for their collaboration on the “Honey” video, beating out Panic…
Soon to be seen above Dada’s entrance. Have to say I felt a little out of place at the Carter Albrecht memorial show at Club Dada last night. Don’t get me wrong; it was an affecting, cathartic evening–even for me, someone who just said he felt out of place at…
Nice lineup, but it ain’t happening. At least, not this weekend. Unpaid taxes forced Bar of Soap, Exposition Park’s venerable rock club/laundromat, to shut its doors last weekend, and owner Charlie Gilder is doubtful that he’ll be able to open this weekend either. That’s a tough break for the bar,…
