Josh Tillman, the man behind Father John Misty, a moniker he says is completely arbitrary, seems set on confounding his audience. Judging by the reaction he’s getting, his plan is working. Tillman is in Los Angeles, packing up after the previous night’s show and getting ready to hit the road…
We’ve reached the halftime portion of 2012, where everyone’s scrambling to tally their faves from the past six months. Instead of looking back, we thought it’d be more productive to address what you should be listening to in the future. Here are a few DFW songs to check out, as…
I was alerted to this story by our friends at Houston Press, since I’m apparently not on the Cracker Barrel press list, and maybe this is old news, but the South’s most ubiquitous chain restaurant is selling music. I know Cracker Barrel is the butt of a lot of jokes,…
Urgh! A Music War exists as one of those concert films that could never be replicated today. Filmed in London and Los Angeles in 1980 and released in 1982, it was bankrolled by Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart and founder of I.R.S. Records, and thus includes opening and…
Black Joe Lewis, Hayes Carll, Ben Kweller, Eisley, Centro-matic, Octopus Project, Robert Ellis, Mystery Skulls, Bright Light Social Hour, Ume, Mohicans, Girl in a Coma, Low Dark Hills, the Bird Dogs and Madisons hit downtown and represent Austin, Houston and Dallas. See this week’s music feature for more with organizer…
The other day a press release landed in my inbox announcing the Dallas appearance of Montreal trio Plants and Animals, who are touring in support of their new album, The End of That. It turns out this is the trio’s third full-length release, and they’ve opened for bands like The…
Since it is fest season, Allen’s getting in on the act with its first blues festival, and the lineup is packing some serious heat. The Robert Cray Band is a must-see for fans of Southern blues, as is Texas saint Jimmie Vaughan. Funk-soul powerhouse Robert Randolph & the Family Band,…
With lyricist and frontman Andrew Savage now in New York City, focusing his musical efforts on Fergus & Geronimo and Parquet Courts, Teenage Cool Kids return to Denton for what is being billed as the band’s “last Denton show.” For the unfamiliar, the act recorded two of the best local…
Josh Tillman, the man behind Father John Misty, a moniker he says is completely arbitrary, seems set on confounding his audience. Judging by the reaction he’s getting, his plan is working. Tillman is in Los Angeles, packing up after the previous night’s show and getting ready to hit the road…
A simple piece of downtown real estate caused City Tavern owner and Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence to have an epiphany back in January 2010, when he was trying to think of a way to get local bands in front of a bigger audience. “As soon as I saw Main…
In my ten years of working in radio, I had many conversations with people who were unceremoniously let go. Formats flip, contracts aren’t renewed, or a big company gobbles up a small company and puts the long-timers out to pasture. Not really any different from layoffs in most fields, but…
I feel like Oprah! We can’t stop giving stuff away! Today, we have two pairs of tickets to this weekend’s screening of Urgh! A Music War at Texas Theatre. Friday night, after the film, stuck around and see Peopleodian, Nervous Curtains and After Hours With George Quartz. Nervous Curtains just…
Justin BieberMonday, October 29, at American Airlines Center, $52.71-$103.90Though he’s one of the most disliked artists in the world, I predict this show will sell out quicker than it takes load the video for “Baby.” Of course, Dallas has a special place in Biebs’ heart. His girlfriend Selena Gomez is…
If you’ve tried to Google something today, you’ll notice the logo has been transformed to celebrate Robert Moog’s 78th birthday, which allows you interact with his most famous creation. He’s the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, and to say he was influential is undercutting the fact that he essentially steered…
“My aunt once told me the cure to writer’s block is to put yourself in an incredibly precarious situation and then write about it,” says Denton singer-songwriter Daniel Folmer at J&Js. “Then, people ask me if I put myself in those precarious situations on purpose just to give me something…
With or without the controversy surrounding his song “She Left Me for Jesus,” Hayes Carll would still be considered one of our state’s greatest songwriters. Over the course of a decade, Carll has released four superb country/rock albums, each one better and more successful than the last. Speaking while driving…
If you regularly go to LaGrange, Single Wide or Double Wide, you’ve seen a member of the quintet Dead Flowers. Earlier in the year, frontman Corey Howe was the opening act for The Revival Tour’s stop at Trees, playing alongside Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan, Alkaline Trio’s Dan Andriano, and…
The first of three planned holiday weekend concerts on Lake Lewisville goes down this Sunday, May 27, with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Wayne Hancock, Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance, Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos and The O’s. The concept of Float: You’ll be able to swim,…
We’ve got some video footage up from our March 17 parade, which featured headliner Ryan Bingham, lots of people wearing “Green Man” suits and only 16 arrests for public intoxication, which seems low. Check out the video and see if you can find yourself in the drunken sea of humanity…
In honor of the recent 20th anniversary reissue of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, two music writers sat around a kitchen table and talked about it. One is clearly older than the other one. Eric Grubbs: When that record came out in 1992, what do you remember, aside from grunge…
The Austin City Limits Music Festival line-up was announced at midnight, and I’m kind of miffed that RHCP are billed above Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Beyond that, you’ve got the usual ACL formula: the top tier of tried and true go-to festival acts (no surprise seeing the Black Keys…
The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in…
