Yep. An international songwriting competition quite cleverly named the International Songwriting Competition, in fact. Anyway, as the header implies, six locals made the cut to get a “finalist” nod from the ISC. Who? For what songs? In what categories? And, just for good measure, where are these people from? Funny…
Over on Pitchfork today, you can read an interview the site has posted with Dallas native Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), whose upcoming disc we’re quite excited about ’round here. And, actually, it’s quite the lovefest of a piece: Interviewer Ryan Dombel calls Clark a “disturbingly gifted new talent” without…
Surely, I can’t be the only one who’s heard the latest Boogie song to take over local radio airwaves: T-Willz’ “Nature Walk”. In fact, I know I can’t be. Because, like I said, it’s all over the radio.But, man, c’mon, I can’t be the only one shaking his head, right?…
Rockwall’s Jason Castro, of American Idol fame, releases his debut single today. And, sure enough, that’s the song, “Love Uncompromised” in the video above, performed by Castro and friend during an Idol wrap-up show on the TV Guide channel. Rumor has it he could be performing this track on tonight’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009… All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business! Too bad he didn’t take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official state song…
A real treat today, courtesy Paul Slavens, Doug Burr and the fine folks at KERA. Slavens, the longtime area musician and KERA radio host has launched a brand new podcast hosted on KERA’s web site called “Track By Track” in which he interviews area musicians about their albums, one song…
St. Vincent was in San Francisco this past weekend to perform as part of the NoisePop festival and, as this Stereogum post entails, Annie Clark debuted two of the new songs off her upcoming Actor album at her Friday night show. Above, check out a video one crowd member shot…
With their own enormous faces staring down from the wall behind them, John Pedigo and Taylor Young of the O’s helped celebrate the latest mural in Frank Campagna’s Deep Ellum music series Saturday night, with a quick set in the Deep Sushi parking lot on Elm Street. As Pete warned…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 2, 2009… Proof that dudes who wear eyeliner and don’t go out during the day can be, like, totally awesome: The Cure are NME’s newest recipients of the “Godlike Genius” Award. Surprise! W. Axl Rose hates Slash and blames everyone…
Alright, so, “Dallas Week” just keeps on keeping on over on MTV.com and, since, as I wrote before, I don’t have MTVu in my cable package, well, I have no clue if these are running anywhere but online.The thing about these clips that get me is that they’re just so…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 27, 2009…People are starting to stand up in defense of Chris Brown’s actions–like Kanye West and Bow Wow. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is still backing Rihanna.In Orem, Utah, tonight, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will share a stage for…
…and here’s another clip of Too $hort and Bun B talking about our fine city.In other news, Play-N-Skillz has announced that it will now be hosting a weekly radio show on K104 (KKDA-FM 104.5) every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Quite creatively, the Salinas brothers are calling their…
Seems my favorite garage/punk/alt-country band from Cowtown, The Cut*Off, is keeping busy with a plethora (love using that word) of activities. First off, the band hits Lakewood Bar and Grill this weekend on a bill with The Slack and Salim Nourallah. Then the Cut*Off will be on Channel 4’s Good…
Even though vocalist Robert Lowe is now the full time lead vocalist for legendary Swedish Metalheads Candlemass, his local quartet, Solitude Aeturnus, has a new CD coming out next month. Hour of Despair, a live effort that was issued on DVD last year, hits the streets in Europe on March…
Just caught up with Joel North of Sleep Whale, which, at this point is still probably best known as the ambient instrumental Denton act fromerly known as Mom, to talk about his band’s name change. What it boil’s down to, North says, is simply a matter of clarification for North…
Yep. You read that right. This weekend, Frank Campagna will unveil the next mural in his Deep Ellum music series–which includes the likes of Rhett Miller, The Reverend Horton Heat, Lisa Loeb and others. Right next to Deep Sushi, alongside images of Erykah Badu and Ronnie Dawson, will be the…
…and as the above video in MTV’s series of “Dallas Week” clips shows, they’re both recording with Play-N-Skillz, who’re currently working with Bun B on the final UGK album. But, aside from that, the video’s kinda short (pun definitely intended) on Dallas ties. The accompanying story, however, explains why Houston’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 26, 2009… Apparently DMX has decided not to follow the Lord. It seems he’d rather assault a police officer while he’s up in that system. He’s possibly looking at another eight years. After a very long hiatus, No Doubt is back on…
Today in Stockholm, Sweden-based bit torrent site The Pirate Bay entered the eighth day of its trial against International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which is accusing the site of possible copyright infringement, given its role as a host for torrent swapping. And it’s a fairly landmark trial in terms…
Yep, it’s true. The Grammy-winning Dallas native (who also has some punk leanings, remember) makes a guest appearance on Incredibad, the debut album from Andy Samberg and Crew’s The Lonely Island. Jones joins the comedians, who are best known for “Jizz In My Pants” and T-Pain collaboration “I’m On A…
I did. And it was essentially a four-minute reading of this piece we linked to yesterday.So if you missed it–and I won’t blame you if you did, seeing as how the times we were given were Eastern Time Zone and not Central Time Zone times–you can rest assured, knowing that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 25, 2009… I guess Bono has forgotten he’s in U2. Because, suddenly, he says he’s afraid that Coldplay, The Killers and Kings of Leon are making better music than he is. Eminem’s potentially landmark lawsuit against Universal Music Group is going to trial. Em…
