There are, it seems, three roads to travel if you’re a hip-hop artist in North Texas trying to make it big and looking to shoot a music video. Got little-to-no budget? You hit up Kangbear. Got enough money to make something that looks good, but a little cheesy? Dr. Teeth…
If you’ve been paying attention, then you’ve long known that Dallas’ own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West’s inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling “Power.” And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track–it’s currently being used in the as-seen-above-and-on-TV advertisement for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 8, 2010…Wyclef did the only thing he could think of after being denied a run for the Haitian presidency: accuse Sean Penn of being a coke head. The son of drum and bass icon, Goldie, has been sent to prison…
Wasn’t necessarily planning on talking about Saturday night’s private Old 97’s show at the Barley House in this space–mostly because the affair, which was held in celebration of frontman Rhett Miller’s 40th birthday yesterday, was a private, invite-only one. But, while searching for something unrelated, I just now stumbled across…
The folks behind Denton’s NX35 Conferette are staying pretty mum in these very early times leading up to the third year of their fest, which, yes, we know for a fact, straight from organizer Chris Flemmons’ mouth in one of the few on-record discussions we’ve been able to procure, will…
The venerable San Francisco-based trash metal act Exodus has been around for nearly 30 years at this point. And they haven’t all been easy: Over this time, guitarist and founding member Gary Holt has seen the deaths of two former members and, twice, he’s put the band on extended hiatus…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 7, 2010…T.I. may have to return to prison if he’s found to have violated his parole.Duff McKagan has left the latest incarnation of Jane’s Addiction.Morrissey thinks the Chinese are a sub-species. Wow…
It hasn’t even been six months since Nervous Curtains released their sophomore album, Out Of Sync With Time, and they’ve already got a new offering for us. Well, OK, it’s sort of new.See, the free album download the band just announced a few hours ago isn’t new material; rather, it’s…
Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea is one of just two of the band’s four members that still calls Dallas home. But, beyond that, he’s also probably the straightest shooter of the bunch, never too willing to tout the party line and usually all-too-willing to discuss his band’s efforts with a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 3, 2010…You would think a prison stint and probation would be enough to keep T.I. on the straight and narrow. Think again.No one rocks a party like Jazzy Jeff. But, apparently that wasn’t good enough for him not to get…
We’ve been doing lots of talking about this year’s installment of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Festival–and with good reason. It’s looking like everything good about SXSW and Austin City Limits Music Festival combined into one big party in Waterloo Park on November 5, 6 and 7. You get the Austin…
C’mon, this is an easy one. Some hints: It’s a she. She announced it on Twitter last night.She’s got her own line of accessories in the works.Her name rhymes with Schmerykah Schmadu…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 2, 2010…You can say what you want about Kanye’s personality quirks but he’s always trying to push his art to the next level. To that end, the rapper/producer is reportedly shooting a companion film for his new album.When you think…
Gawker is reporting today that Paste magazine is about to close shop any minute now, further proving that combining two dying industries, music and journalism, indeed results in a double-negative and not a positive.It’s a sad day for sure, both for music journalism fans and for local music. Paste, let…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010…A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download. The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the…
Turns out Tum Tum’s hardly the only local hip-hop artist making waves this week…..
As new Club Dada owner Josh Florence told us last week, it wouldn’t be long before crews entered the facilities at the Elm Street venue to start work on the many renovations planned to take place in the next few months. And, indeed, as the above photo passed along to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 31, 2010…Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison turn their mutual love of skate boarding into a new band.People are either idiots or they just really love to buy John Lennon memorabilia. Either way, a toilet isn’t worth $15,000.Kanye says he and…
Tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall, Titus Andronicus comes to town supporting The Monitor, its second full-length release, which, it just so happens, also stands as one of the best releases of the year.Visceral, and vehemently angry, the disc is in many ways a middle finger to the trivialities…
Good news today for anyone sitting around, waiting on new material from Centro-matic: This morning, the band announced the release of a new EP called Eyas. Like Dual Hawks, the band’s last album, which came as a double-album, one disc filled Centro-matic material and the other consisting of the band’s…
Stan Ridgway will always be known, for better or worse, as they guy who sings “Mexican Radio.” As the founding member of the legendary new wave act Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway found a musical niche all to himself–some bizarre world where Johnny Cash sang show tunes in the desert. From…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 30, 2010…Scott Weiland was not only humiliated from falling off the stage in Cincinnati, but he also inadvertently revealed the fact that he uses “backing” vocal tracks.Did Drake and Nicki Minaj get married? Their tweets say they did.Reading Festival pulls…
