William FitzsimmonsThe LoftApril 22, 2011Better than: having to stuff used ear plugs in my ears. On Friday night, at The Loft, William Fitzsimmons brought the quiet.Interesting, too, since throughout the entire 90-minute set performed by the Pennsylvania-raised Fitzsimmons performed there seemed to be a tonal tug of war in the…
We’ve already had a busy week of shows, but that doesn’t mean the weekend’s shows will be spare. There’s actually quite a few nice choices this weekend. Let’s start by re-capping the oneswe’ve been mentioning all week.Tonight, Those Darlins will bring their newly established rock sound to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal…
We’re already started on a big weekend, folks. Earth Day and Good Friday are both happening now. Plus, Sunday is Easter. Oh, and Passover ends next Tuesday. Which brings us to this post. In the original passover story, Jewish families would sacrifice a lamb to have their house passed over…
There wasn’t a more offensive punk band in the early ’80s than The Meatmen. Even in a market cluttered by hardcore bands popping up in droves in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the Lansing, Michigan, band, led by Tesco Vee (a third grade teacher born Robert Vermeulen), distinguished itself with…
It’s already been a heck of a year for Denton’s Seryn. Right around the turn of the calendar year, after numerous delays, the band finally got around to releasing their anticipated debut record, This Is Where We Are. And the sprawling, uplifting affair, the disc proved well worth the wait,…
For about 10 years now, Arkansas native Joe Purdy has steadily released album after album of solid — and at times, spectacular — folk music. Most recently, though, with his two 2010 releases, 4th of July and This American, Purdy has adopted inventive ways to get his music heard.Case in…
As we reported yesterday, Wayne Coyne made a last-minute appearance at Good Records at 2 p.m. to hand deliver a few copies of The Flaming Lips’ newest release — four songs on USB drives located on the inside of a life-sized human Gummy Skull. Very, very strange stuff, indeed. It…
If Lady Gaga’s nude butt didn’t illuminate the tone of “Born This Way,” then the surrealist image of her face and arms fused with a hellish-motorcycle will brighten it to near-sun levels. This image, which MTV has called “surreal,” came shortly before the “gaga saga” of 2011–wherein Weird Al Yankovic…
In this week’s paper, Pete wrote of a dirty secret about local music: the rallying cry (“If only people would start supporting the scene, it could grow!”) is the same in every city.But the Dallas-Fort Worth-Denton music scene has some hulking support. In honor of that, DC9 at Night has…
Tonight’s not quite as busy as last night, but there’s a good selection of diverse musical acts this evening as well — including the launch of our own free concert series…
White space! Crisp imagery! Sharp lettering! Popsicles!…
It seems like it was only yesterday that Demi Lovato burst out of Colleyville and onto the national scene — or, to be more precise, the Disney scene. But it wasn’t yesterday: It was three years ago that Demi Lovato entered the forever-rotating Disney star machine to become primped, prodded…
Ricky Martin will be performing at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie tomorrow night. And, yes, that kind of has our mouths watering. No, not because we have a thing for the recently outed Latin singer, but because, gluttons that we are, our stomachs have always growled when we hear his…
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, it turns out, is a man of his word. At the start of the calendar year, Coyne, in a sit-down with Rolling Stone, said that his band, in part inspired by Kanye West, would be releasing music on a monthly basis in 2011, be it…
Last week, a new Lady Gaga track called “Judas” premiered. And, with it, she released a new, tacky cover image for her upcoming album (see it after the jump).This week, Lady also pulled a “faux ga” of sorts with Weird Al. The story goes like this: Gaga’s manager snubbed his…
Fitz & The TantrumsHouse of Blues’ Cambridge RoomApril 20, 2011Better than: a child throwing a tantrum in a public place. As if the band’s name alone didn’t already imply it, Los Angeles’ buzzing rock ‘n’ soul outfit, Fitz & The Tantrums, still riding high from a successful 2011 South by…
Cut Copy, Foals, Holy Ghost! and The Naked & FamousGranada TheaterApril 20, 2011Better than: going to see Foals and Cut Copy headline separate shows. Last night was a serious two-for-the-price-of-one experience. Blue lights hovered over the stage, as the crowd anxiously awaited Cut Copy’s arrival at the Granada Theater last…
Titus Andronicus, Soviet, Fight AmpClub DadaApril 20, 2011Better than: missing any of the number of shows that were going on last night. The name Titus Andronicus, taken from a Shakespearean tragedy, implies the anger, frustration, and a desire for the kind of vindication that the band’s musical material struggles with…
Back in February, when Dallas rapper Big Chief announced that he’d signed a recording contract with Cash Money Records, home to rap superstars Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj among others, it came as something of a surprise. Not because Chief was some sort of no-name, though. Anyone who’s paid…
Though her brand of melancholy is more akin to Jenny Lewis than St. Vincent, local singer-songwriter Jessie Frye is likely to draw more comparisons to the latter, thanks to her decision to enlist John Congleton as the engineer and co-producer for her latest EP, Fireworks Child. That’s mostly a shame…
Here’s a dirty little secret: The local music rallying cry is the same in every city. “There’s so much talent here!” fans of local bands everywhere whine to the barely listening masses. “If only people would start supporting the scene, then it could grow!” Ugh. Words like that are cloying…
Years from now, when historians look back on the Naughts with abundant curiosity, pondering how, despite numerous advances in technology, the lo-fi aesthetic made such a big comeback, this tour could serve as the main study. It is, after all, an offering up of the sound’s two biggest purveyors—even if,…
