I often wonder how youth culture thinks up slang for something they like. For example, I wonder how the phrase “out of sight” came along. If something is out of your sight, how do you know it’s good? I also wonder where this New York musician in business-casual dress and…
Fresh off the release of their fifth studio album, Coldplay have announced a massive world tour that will make a stop at American Airlines Center on Friday, June 22. The album in question, Mylo Xyloto — the band’s most unabashed pop effort to date — went platinum in only two…
Taylor McClure of Pan-Ector designed this poster for Gutterth Production’s bi-annual Dead Week Print Show, which goes down tomorrow night. Datahowler, Botany, Summer of Glaciers and Juve perform at Rubber Gloves, while the print portion of the show is on display at Meme Gallery, with work from the Printmakers Association…
Last Night: My Morning Jacket, Delta Spirit Verizon Theatre December 7, 2011 Better than: Watching My Morning Jacket on Palladia’s Storytellers while your neighbor’s dog barks nonstop. My Morning Jacket has been praised as one of the best live bands currently working. Ask anybody who was at the Verizon Theatre…
Wicked Ways, the new album from Justin Moore-led Dallas rock vets Max Cady, is a solid album. There’s not much anyone will likely find objectionable, but there’s not much to make one who isn’t already into Max Cady get more excited about the current incarnation of the band. Perhaps blame…
The Dallas-Fort Worth area always seems to have an inexhaustible supply of country and alt-country singer/songwriters. Some, like the vastly overrated Pat Green, find their niche hamming it up with the frat-boy crowd and singing about every cliché in the book. Others, like Dallas’ Brandin Reed, stick with sincerity and…
In the end, it’s nearly always about the money. Just ask David Yow, singer for Austin’s legendary ’80s noise rockers Scratch Acid. “We got back together to play this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Festival in Britain,” Yow says from his home in Los Angeles. “They pay ridiculous money, so…
Over the summer, writer and Girls to the Front author Sara Marcus reviewed Ellen Willis’ collection Out of the Vinyl Deeps for the L.A. Review of Books. The first five paragraphs of her review gave me goosebumps when I read it and have stuck with me since. She talks of…
If you can overlook the “slap bass” tag on Zechs Marquise’s Bandcamp page, you’ll probably find something redeeming in the El Paso group’s cloud. Getting Paid (Sargent House), the second and latest album from the Rodriguez-Lopez clan (Mars Volta frontman Omar’s younger brothers make up 3/5 of the band), is…
Don’t let Bettysoo’s size fool you — her voice can fill a room. Music has always been part of the Texas singer/guitarist’s life, but she didn’t see it as a vocation. That changed after teaching proved fraught with petty politics. (Turns out high school is high school even for teachers.)…
“I was into more the lifestyle of a wild visionary than actually learning the craft of it,” explains Ray Wylie Hubbard. “I didn’t do that until my 40s.” The Okie songwriter got a huge break when Jerry Jeff Walker turned “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother” into the 1973 hit,…
German duo Digitalism is slyly making its way into the American electro scene with appearances at both Coachella and the HARD tour earlier this year. Like the offspring of Daft Punk, they balance upbeat techno jams with more mellow fare, comfortable at both ends of the robotic spectrum. Add some…
Much has been made of Denton’s fall from musical grace. Among the musicians, DJs and promoters who are still trying is Clint Butler. With his Thursday weekly at Simone Lounge alongside Usual Suspect (Anthony Robackouski), Butler, who plays as Ruby Rhod, is one of the few DJs in Denton who…
Like peanut butter and chocolate, Jonathan Byrd presents an appealing blend of flavors, combining the hill music of his native North Carolina with the narrative style and sway of old-school Texas country. A reformed rocker, Byrd has been writing songs since he was a kid, but only awakened to Americana…
Sometimes, introductions simply aren’t necessary. That may be due to the enormity of the subject’s status as a legend, or perhaps it can be credited to the fact that the artist doesn’t need anyone to handle the talking for him. Both scenarios apply to the one and only Charlie Daniels…
When he’s not playing with the North Texas-bred Golden Boys or paying tribute to country curio Gary Stewart, garage rock bon vivant John Wesley Coleman III is being rendered as a video game character. One that basically shoots a gun and jumps around in a scuzzy 8-bit gutter. Sounds about…
It’s been a year of reinvention for Eisley, the family band based in Tyler, TX. As we’ve written about extensively over the course of the year, the band left Warner Brothers Records to sign with Equal Vision Records late in 2010. And, earlier this year, they released a solid come…
The Fallen Stars are an Americana outfit out of Orange County, California that features the talents of husband and wife team Bobbo and Tracy Byrnes. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, the pair decided to head to warmer climes in 2000. The Byrnes decided to expand from a duo and soon various…
Canadian four-piece Yukon Blonde hits the Double Wide tonight, and nestle up to the cavernous harmonies of Fleet Foxes and early My Morning Jacket. You’ll hear plenty from the band’s 2011 EP, Fire/Water, as well as their self-titled debut. In advance, we talked with drummer Graham Jones about his first…
As we approach the end of the year like a car full of people not wearing seat belts unknowingly drives toward a brick wall, it’s time to start thinking of year-end top-ten album lists. A shoe-in for ours is M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. So, you can imagine our excitement when…
It’s rare to see a 20-year-old musician rock sold-out shows, but Dallasite Jay Fresh is different. The professional skateboarder-turned-rapper took the spotlight at a young age with kickflips and ollies and has chosen to stay there, albeit with a different skill. As a musician, Jay Fresh’s resume is limited, yet…
Few bands have risen from the stale, beer-stained stages of America’s dingiest dives only to entertain majestic crowds at some of the world’s largest festivals more naturally than My Morning Jacket. Formed in Louisville in 1998, the Jim James-fronted group has undergone a series of personnel changes that have accompanied…
