Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, December 2, 2009…John Mellencamp’s son has started a Facebook group to get his dad to stop smoking. See, technology does bring families together!Does your GPS not have enough street cred? If so, Snoop Dogg is here to help you out. Trent…
Not that our friends over at the ridiculously popular, highly influential Dallas-based music blog Gorilla Vs. Bear exactly need our help in drawing attention to their site, but today certainly merits a visit over to their confines today, as the site has released its year-end list of top albums. No…
Seems Aledo’s own Daniel Hunter just can’t let go of his PlayRadioPlay! moniker–or maybe it’s that his fans won’t let him? Either way, last week, via a blog post to his MySpace page, Hunter announced that in January, alongside with the release of his debut album (Ancient Electrons) under his…
Ran into George Quartz not too long ago and came away from our brief conversation knowing two things: 1) Faux Fox, Quartz’ beloved, grimy, electro-dance outfit is pretty much completely done, and 2) He’s really getting into the work he’s doing in his new outfit called Personal Victories with George…
Speaking of movie trailers, check the above one for Crazy Heart, which will earn its release on Wednesday, December 16. The movie, which stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell, features Bridges in the starring role as Bad Blake, a down-and-out country singer looking for a new…
Pop on over to DallasBoogie.net, or visit this YouTube link, and you’ll see the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Dallas Don’t Dance, We Boogie, which focuses on the local hip-hop movement, the D-Town Boogie, and the love and hate it inspires amongst rap fans both local and otherwise. It’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 1, 2009…Yea! She & Him is coming out with a new album! It’s nice when an actress who wants to sing actually has some talent.You know what popular music has been missing lately? Barry Gibb. Thank you, Gorillaz.The Strokes will…
Since the shitstorm that was the entire month of July for Club Dada–a month so brutal, in fact, that the lights in the revered Deep Ellum venue went dark and haven’t been turned back on since–I’ve been working on-again and off-again about a story about the venue’s demise. And that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 30, 2009…It’s amazing how established artists sell 200,000 units in their first week on the charts and contest winners move twice that.Beth Ditto should understand there is such a thing as too much information.Ian Anderson said his band Jethro Tull…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 27, 2009…Looks like Fall Out Boy’s band members are finding plenty to keep themselves busy during their hiatus. Guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have started metal band Damned Things.The big metal voice in a tiny body, Ronnie James…
Paul Levatino just sent word that Dallas hip-hop goddess Erykah Badu will make a special appearance Saturday at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco.”I love this show,” Badu said via press release, “especially because it uses 808 drums sounds to teach kids the alphabet and numbers…
Start stocking up on Guinness now, because it’s going to be pretty hard to find come March. Flogging Molly and the band’s fans will probably put a pretty good dent in the supply when the L.A. Celtic-influenced punk band comes to the House of Blues Tuesday, February 9. The city’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 25, 2009…Looks like The Strokes are heading back into the studio. According to it’s creepy bass player anyway.Apparently Pete Doherty’s heart stopped while he was hospitalized last month… it’s amazing what the body will do when subjected to every drug…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 24, 2009…Adam Lambert is a bit miffed that his lip-lock with his male keyboardist and head shoving of a male back-up dancer into his crotch was edited out of the west coast feed of last night’s American Music Awards. Good…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 23, 2009…A tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus’ tour group overturned as it headed to Richmond on Friday.Interpol is said to head back to its sonic roots on its new album. Thank you, God.Gibson Guitars has been accused of smuggling…
Not sure how we missed this when it was published back in October, but allow us to point you in the direction of a pretty fascinating blog post by the FADER–one which explores the backstory behind the moderate local D-Town Boogie track “Mr. Hit Dat Hoe.”Among the fun facts to…
A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that the City of Sherman has at least a little musical history–well more than I was aware, at least–as the hometown of Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame saxophone player Buddy Tate and country music icon Buck Owens.But, the Owens-hosted Hee Haw and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 20, 2009…It doesn’t take The Dead Weather long to make records. The band just released its first album and it’s already ready to release a new one. It didn’t take Jay Reatard’s former band to find gainful employ… they have…
It was a couple weeks back now that KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge announced the lineup for the 2009 version of its annual How The Edge Stole Christmas show. And, uh, you’ll have to pardon us for missing the announcement when it first came to pass. For pretty obvious reasons. More…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 19, 2009…Either Weezy is a big fan of Gossip Girl or he will collaborate with anyone: He dropped some rhymes on Leighton Meester’s album. Pete Wentz tells Kerrang! magazine Fall Out Boy is going to take an indefinite break. So…
Because it’s OK to kill three birds with one stone…Check the above video, posted to Stereogum this morning, of St. Vincent performing her song “The Party” in Basel, Switzerland, with a little help from her European tourmate, Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear. It’s an impressive take–for a few reasons, not…
Canadian indie rock band Moneen has sometimes been tagged as an emo outfit–but such a descriptor hasn’t necessarily rankled the five guys who make up the band. Founding member Kenny Bridges says he’s more worried about Moneen actually making it to the venue and not losing any more members. He…
