The Relatives Ben E. Keith World Stage Saturday, March 3 The headline of Wilonsky’s opening night post sort of summed it up: The Margaret Hunt Hill bridge to-do, for many, was about back-patting and drinking and essentially celebrating an unfinished project that’s cost the city seven years and close to…
Next Saturday, March 10, in Denton, Paschall Bar will host an awards ceremony for the 2012 Beard Pageant, featuring some of the most epic beards around. The event, put on by Sonny Bynum, benefits the community outreach program Serve Denton, an organization that coordinates efforts to help the needy in…
Lots of big shows are happening this weekend — several on the Good Records stage — including Stillwater, Oklahoma’s, Other Lives. The band, who will be joined by Dallas violinist Daniel Hart, is making a quick stop at Good Records just before they open for Radiohead on Monday. The biggest…
Back in 2010, I was privileged to be a regular judge for that year’s edition of the Shiner Rising Star contest. The band that won the very first round I helped judge, Saille Branch and the Big Benders, went on to convincingly win their second round match-up and almost took…
As we mentioned in our preview this week, Summer of Glaciers, the solo project of Angelus bassist Ryan Wasterlain, just released an EP on Denton’s Gutterth Records called Small Spaces. Check out the video clip for the unreleased track “The Use of Mirrors,” so you can get a taste of…
While Roky Erickson and the Black Angels get proper credit for being ambassadors of Austin psych past and present, let us consider the Boxing Lesson. Mixing swirling, soaring guitars with synth instead of bass, the trio is looking to expand minds beyond the boundaries of what other psych rock bands…
Megadeth,Volbeat and Lacuna Coil The Palladium Ballroom Thursday, March 1 Not better than: Seeing Motörhead on this bill. So, if a ticket for a hot co-headlining tour with two legendary metal acts costs $50, wouldn’t it make sense for the price to be lowered if one of those bands couldn’t…
Grimes Good Records Thursday, March 1 Was it just me or did Grimes seem a a little nervous to be playing at 4 p.m.? There was a hesitancy to the daylight set, as well as vocal and sound issues, which could have added to the feel. And she could apparently…
Ah yes, 35 Denton is coming at us fast and furious, so keep an eye out for our preview and 173+ rules for surviving the upcoming “fest season” in next week’s issue. However, there’s another festival called SXSW that a lot of people seem to be excited about. Bruce Springsteen’s…
Before we get into this week’s edition of Covering Tracks, a quick aside. Are you familiar with digital panhandling? Seems begging for money under the cloak of art and charity is socially acceptable these days. With a financial goal, a well-crafted mission statement and a Kickstarter account, you too can…
After leaving Megadeth in 2002 and bringing a lawsuit against Dave Mustaine in 2004, very few people thought original bassist Dave Ellefson would ever appear with the band again. Yet, behind the scenes, over a period of six years, Mustaine and Ellefson were both rediscovering Christianity and having conversations about…
I reconnected with The Relatives, who are playing in West Dallas this Saturday, only the second time the gospel group has performed in Dallas since reforming in 2009. Henry Rollins wrote a column about Texas, in which he shouts out to Roky Erickson, Houston police and Dallas’ own True Widow…
The No Walls Ministry sits on the back side of a long strip mall in South Dallas, the hum of the overpass competing with the streetlight buzz peppering the massive gray parking lot. No Walls’ windows are decorated with signs that read “Jesus Paid It All” and “God Loves You.”…
I am on my way to Texas for a show. I do a lot of shows in Texas and have done so since 1981. Whenever I am there, many memories of previous shows and visits come back to me. It is one hell of a place. Back in the early…
Gutterth Records just keeps turning out the jams. Six-song EP Small Spaces from Summer of Glaciers, the project of Angelus bassist Ryan Wasterlain, is the Denton label’s latest genre-bender. Living in San Francisco no doubt influenced Wasterlain’s softly pulsating electronic and psych tones, created via guitar, drum machine and computer…
The cover of Crushed Stars’ new record, In the Bright Rain, shows a faded photograph through a water-soaked lens. The silhouette of a couple walking hand-in-hand leads to a brighter sky ahead, indicating the storm has passed. It’s a good first impression of the record without actually hearing it. Longtime…
Although Megadeth and Motörhead have toured together in the past, it’s always an inspired pairing. On the one hand, you get the more structured metallic roar of Dave Mustaine and Megadeth. On the other, you get the balls-to-the-wall grind of Lemmy Kilmister and Motörhead. Personally, I prefer the latter, but…
The term “poet” really doesn’t do justice in describing the work of Saul Williams. The NYC writer, musician and actor expounds depending on mood, which is why every album he’s released since 2000 sounds a bit different. Volcanic Sunlight, his most recent, is a bit dancier than his 2007 crossover,…
At the end of last year, I took back misgivings I had about Drake since his studio debut, Thank Me Later, dropped in 2010. One reason I changed my mind “aboat” the Canadian rapper was the title track from 2011’s sophomore album, Take Care. The single, “Take Care,” samples Jamie…
Leslie Hall knits together the perfect combination of pop music, comedy and visual art through her multimedia project Leslie and the Ly’s. On stage, the Iowa native resembles a hybrid of Canadian pop star Peaches and sketch comedy duo Tim & Eric, dressed in her signature blonde bouffant, oversized glasses…
On “Circumambient,” a track from 23-year-old Claire Boucher’s latest album, Visions, she sings, “Oh baby I can’t say/ That everything is OK/ Cause I have problems/ And I don’t know how to solve them.” The Montreal musician’s third full-length and first for 4AD navigates body and mind in order to…
Looks like the team of producer/rapper Brain Gang Blue and filmmaker Jeff Adair has struck gold again with today’s debut of the video for “Overnight Overdose,” the lead track from his recently released Numb EP. The video, an examination of the dark side of the party life, comes to us…
