Despite having a terrible name, Moondoggies’ brand of Americana and alt-country is surprisingly good — so good that, last month, the Seattle quartet’s song “What Took So Long” was featured as NPR’s song of the day. While drawing some comparisons to Fleet Foxes, their four-part harmonies actually land them closer…
Music producers, DJs and electronic music purists, Rodrigo Diaz and Oleg Belogorsky have been tag-teaming the local electronic/dance music scene for a few years now with multiple DJ gigs and their own radio show. And while the pair states they enjoy their artistic freedom and, with it, the ability to…
Seattle’s Moondoggies have been around for a few years now, plying their craft in the Northwest roots scene with their timeless folk songs and calming harmonies. But, on the strength of their 2010 sophomore release for Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art, Tidelands, the band’s been starting to break out on…
In this week’s paper, Doug Davis gets pretty gaga over Austin’s Ume, whose spastic, churning blend of punk and thrash has been earning the band all sorts of accolades of late, thanks in no small part to the contributions of magnetic frontwoman and bona fide guitar heroine Lauren Langner Larson,…
In this week’s paper, Eric Grubbs puts back on his emo — nay, post-hardcore — cap, to talk the reunited Get Up Kids, who will be coming through town this weekend for a gig at The Loft on Sunday night with River City Extension and Steel Train. Writes Grubbs:The Kansas…
Big things happening today in the world of 35 Conferette — bigger news, even, than the fact that the-festival-formerly-known-as-North-by-35 now has an actual website to call its own (!). Bigger, too, than the really awesome web teaser/advertisement that the fest’s organizers have created to promote the fest and its performers,…
Excuse us if we’ve spent too much time covering Menkena in these past few weeks, sharing music videos with you, and giving you free songs off their debut record and all. It’s just that, you see, we’ve been sitting on With You I’ll Travel, the full-length debut from the so-called…
At this point, Austin’s Bob Schneider is far more than the guy who dated Sandra Bullock, the guy who fronted the raunchy Scabs, or the guy who seems to play Dallas every other month. His 2009 album, Lovely Creatures, his first release for Dallas’ Kirtland Records was perhaps his most…
On Tuesday, Wayne Coyne posted a tweet indicating that a collaboration between his band The Flaming Lips and the similarly I-35-sprung Neon Indian was in the works — even going so far as to post to the social networking site a link to a 46-second clip of himself playing a…
Ozzy Osbourne, SlashAmerican Airlines CenterJanuary 20, 2011Better than: a stirring competition of Rock Band. The greatest trick the Prince of Darkness ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And, make no mistake, that’s just what The Osbournes did. The four-season MTV reality series that focused on Ozzy Osbourne,…
Pretty busy Thursday evening we have here, highlighted by the Price of Darkness himself, and a pair of punk rock quadruple-bills…
Denton’s Dale Jones, when performing under his New Science Projects moniker, is a somewhat frightening and confusing character, one that dons face paint and refuses to play on stages and runs right up to his audience members only to scream into their face.So it’s pretty fitting, then, that the poster…
Back in August, when Luis Dubuc, the man behind The Secret Handshake, released Night & Day, his ode to Motown pop and his departure from his mall-adored earlier electro-pop, the 25-year-old admitted to us that he was doing so with some trepidation. Rightfully so: These songs were vastly different from…
A little over a week ago now, we passed along the early-announced list of performers scheduled to play the 2011 version of Parade of Flesh’s now-annual post-South by Southwest bash, Bro Fest, which this year will take place at Club Dada on Sunday, March 20. And, hell, that lineup looked…
Soviet frontman John Spies knows that his band’s music might sound a little familiar. But there’s reason for that, the 21-year-old explains: The band got its started when he and his drummer, the 20-year-old Andrew Weir, plugged in their equipment and began “copying Japandroids songs and fucking them up.”That was…
This past weekend, Datahowler, the chilled-out identity of Frisco’s Ross Edman, made his live debut at Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party — and our Daniel Rodrigue came away quite impressed with what he saw from this young performer. Can’t say that this much is too surprising — we’ve…
Man, just seeing the name Avril Lavigne on the charts again takes me back to my teenage years. Back then, I loathed her singles “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” for their obvious pretense toward skater punks. Seems little has changed…
Turns out the Christmas Day opening of Bucks Burnett’s Eight-Track Museum at 2630 E. Commerce St. in Deep Ellum was just a soft one. The grand opening, we now know, will take place on another holiday — Valentine’s Day, which, in case you’ve somehow forgotten, takes place on Monday, February…
For two people known for their involvement in helping to shape the Denton rock music community, starting a hip-hop project could be seen as a bit unusual. But because of influences that expand beyond the rock sphere, Ashley Cromeens of Record Hop and Craig Welch of Brutal Juice nonetheless started…
Daniel Hall wakes up. Bleary-eyed and cloudy-minded from last night’s whiskey, he sits up in his bed and rubs his eyes. When he finally gets his bearings, he is met with an unfortunate reality as he looks around his room. It’s filled with recording equipment—microphones, computers, speakers and cables are…
So much for the Southern California sun. The rain has been pouring for days, clogging the freeways and prompting tornado warnings. But here at Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino’s home in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood, it’s warm. She sits on a couch and pets her now-famous Garfield doppelganger, Snacks,…
Guitar shredding used to a males-only club. But Lauren Langner Larson, the blonde pixie guitarist and vocalist of the Austin alt-rock trio Ume (pronounced ooo-may) is working hard to change that. And while she’s joined by equally gifted female artists these days (Marnie Stern and Orianthi come to mind) in…
