Over The Weekend: The Walkmen at Granada Theater

The Walkmen, The Head and The Heart, SerynSaturday, March 5, 2011Granada TheaterBetter than: sitting at home listening to great vintage records. Looking at the members of The Walkmen during their performance at Granada Theater on Saturday night, they hardly looked like a rock ‘n’ roll band. Far from it, actually…

Over The Weekend: Trashcan Sinatras at The Loft

The Trashcan Sinatras, Salim NourallahThe LoftMarch 4, 2011 Better than: looking for closeout deals at the Borders in Uptown and Highland Park. There are shows where you completely forget about the pains of the day, like the rising price of gas, job woes, or the risk of getting the flu…

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 36: DJ NVS

DJ NVS got his start spinning records 15 years ago. “I have always been around music, and had a few friends that were already DJing,” he says. “One day, I said to myself, ‘Hey, I can do that!'” So, he did. And now the California native has made a name…

Idol Rich: Goodbye, Tim Halperin.

The wee small RySea stunned us all last night by announcing that 40 million votes had been entered for the 10 audience-selected spots in the American Idol finals. That’s what we refer to in the industry as a pant-load, people. And, during the unnecessary two hours of last night’s show,…

Listomania: 11 Songs That Remind Us Of Charlie Sheen’s Winning Ways.

It doesn’t seem to matter what’s going on in Libya, Egypt or even Washington D.C.; somehow, a pretty mediocre actor’s personal life has been managing to lead every newscast and dominate discussion on every talk radio show throughout the past week. In some ways, though, the media’s Charlie Sheen obsession…

Bonus MP3: The Famine — “The New Hell”

In this week’s paper, I take a close look at the new release from Arlington death metal quartet The Famine, called The Architects of Guilt, an album that, as early looks and listens revealed, is as technically proficient as it is brutal. In other words? It’s kind of what you’d…

Watch: Shiny Around The Edges — “Socially Awkward”

This past summer, when Denton art-rock outfit Shiny Around The Edges released their most recent effort Denton’s Dreaming, we shared with you all a free download of their song “Socially Awkward,” from which the album culls its title. And we bring all this up again now because, this week, the…

Last Night: Linkin Park at the American Airlines Center

Linkin Park, Circa Survive and Paper TonguesMarch 2, 2011American Airlines Center Better than: an SMU frat party. From across the state and even across state lines, more than 12,000 fans amassed inside the AAC last night to witness the spectacle that is Linkin Park. And nowhere else could one witness…

The Second-Longest Running Hip-Hop Radio Show in America, DJ EZ Eddie D’s “Knowledge Dropped, Lessons Taught” on KNON, Loses An Hour of Runtime Due To Lack of Pledge Support

Dallas hasn’t always been synonymous with underground hip-hop, but, as the culture of area hip-hop has grown, DJ EZ Eddie D, born Eddie Murphy, has been there to witness it all.Since 1987, the KNON-89.3 FM “The Voice of the People” radio personality has served as the host of the station’s…

True Widow Settles In and Gets Louder

After touring and recording with Slowride for a handful of years, the last thing on Dan Phillips’ mind was forming another band. While living in Boston and attending a furniture-making school and contemplating his future, he did what he normally does to pass the time: sit on his couch and…

The Famine

Arlington death metal quartet The Famine can certainly talk the talk: Early last year, as the band set up to start recording its new, sophomore album, its members released a statement announcing a move toward a heavier sound, one that would “set a standard for metal that will stand the…

Trashcan Sinatras, Salim Nourallah

Prolific Scottish pop band Trashcan Sinatras’ first big single in the States, 1991’s “Obscurity Knocks,” was prophetically also their last. During the 20 years that followed, the group released four studio albums, a few novelty records and more than a handful of EPs. But none made the stateside splash of…