After announcing last week the addition of another 135 bands to its bill, you’d think the folks up at Denton’s 35 Conferette might need a breather — or, I dunno, maybe some time to focus on the actual logistics of the fest, since this year’s lineup, if memory serves, is…
Quite the to-do yesterday evening on ye olde Twitter, as some advantageous Wilco fan started blasting out the news they’d seen on the band’s web site announcing a handful of southeast shows from the band in early May — a handful that includes a Saturday, May 7, stop in Denton…
After three years of existing under the name of Superpages.com Center, the Live Nation-owned and -operated concert amphitheater located in Fair Park announced today a new corporate sponsor for its facilities — and with it, yet another name in a long line of names.Since opening in 1988 as the Coca-Cola…
Y’know, the East Asian-American group Far East Movement had a pretty good hit last year in “Like A G6.” It was probably the only electronic-sounding pop song of last year that I wouldn’t be ashamed to mix. In fact, the track was so good, I can even overlook their making…
From the outside, Green Noise Records, nestled behind a brick facade along a row of similar storefronts in a tiny little neighborhood off the beaten path in Portland, Oregon, hardly looks like a punk rock mecca. Owned by Ken Cheppaikode since he moved here from Seattle in January 2005, Green…
Ross Edman, aka Datahowler, is a designer and musician by trade. But for the last few weeks, he’s also been a salesman—pitching friends, family and the curious denizens of the Internet via a video about his upcoming space-themed record, Slowdrifter, in the hopes of raising the funds necessary to master…
To hear Menkena’s people tell it, the Dallas band’s debut album, With You I’ll Travel, is the next great shoegaze masterpiece, full of all the shimmering layers of tinny guitars, nearly indistinguishable vocals and spacey loops you’d expect from the category. That’s not exactly what you get with Menkena’s album…
Much like in film, there’s something to be said for a band that can convey its message in a short period of time. And, thanks in no small part to the immediacy of the interwebs, we currently find ourselves in the middle of a musical shift. Gone is the pretense…
Often, a band forms only to quickly release an album that may not be the best reflection of who they truly are, musically. For Denton’s The Heelers, the route of exhaustively performing and then hitting the studio down the road was the proverbial road less traveled. And, indeed, their chosen…
Andrew Delaney’s music bears a certain and substantial believability. Sure, the rusty squeezebox, the wheezing harmonica and the sparse, lost-hope echo he washes his electric picking in deserves some credit. But so does his acoustic country strum, which, while straight-ahead almost to a fault, works well because it so smartly…
She’s only 22 years old, but jazz singer Nadia Washington is already more accomplished than most Dallas musicians. Her early established love for performing earned her spot at Booker T. Washington High School, where she scored the Bill Cosby Presidential Scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston…
It’s hard to appreciate Stevie Ray Vaughan’s talent when you’re in the act of lunging to change the station the second you hear the opening lick to “Little Sister” or one of his other overplayed radio hits. It’s even harder if you happen into a bar whose featured entertainment is…
Just months after blowing through Dallas this fall and leaving scattered trash cans and various debris in their wake, Monotonix return to the region again this week to give music fans a loud, sweaty and raw experience that they’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere. After their wild performance conduct was…
In spite of having been around for five years—a lifetime for some indie bands—Tokyo Police Club have managed to sustain a devoted fan base with their jangly garage-rock style. But, though they will headline this performance at the Granada Theater in support of last summer’s super-catchy Champ release, Tokyo Police…
In one of the more inspired pairings seen around the region in some time, two musical acts that feature avant-garde approaches will share the stage at one of the more intimate venues Dallas boasts. Opening the evening is Deerhoof, which has evolved their sound from wild noise rock contrasted with…
While setting up on the floor at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios on Saturday night, Denton’s New Science Projects began to attract a pretty substantial crowd. With people lined up on all sides of them—some even standing on chairs—frontman and songwriter Dale Jones began belting out half-screamed words in his guttural,…
Quite a diverse collection of musical options available in the area this Wednesday evening. Choose wisely…
Yesterday morning, on the way in to work, I flipped the dial, as usual, to KKXT-91.7 FM, otherwise known around town as KXT, the just-over-a-year-old music-only NPR affiliate. What happened next was deeply unsettling: I was mentally transported back to Glen Lake Methodist Camp, circa 1996 — transported to a…
PM Lounge, one of the only venues in Dallas of late with the motivation, knowledge and budget to routinely bring big-name electronic artists from around the US and abroad into town, will be hosting DJ Tim Sweeney for this week’s installment of its no-cover Le Magnifique Thursdays.[Update: This show has…
If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between an Irish pub and an English pub, well, The Cavern will soon be able to set you straight, thanks to the face-lift it’s currently undergoing — a renovation that will, in the very near future, find the long-running Lower Greenville establishment start…
Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended — no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Beau Wagener might be best known around town as the bassist for Macavity and, more recently, as one of…
Chris Cornell hasn’t fallen off the map like most of his ’90s grunge-rock counterparts — he’s actually done the opposite. His impressive work with Audioslave and recent Soundgarden reunion tours have kept him in the public eye. Hell, even his dud of an album, Scream, couldn’t slow him down. But…
