Good Friday: Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party, Yells At Eels, Eleven Hundred Springs, The Derailers, Kool Keith, Royal Bangs, Girl Talk, True Widow & More!

It’s looking like a good weekend of shows, starting with Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party on Saturday night. It’ll feature performances from Hoyotoho, Damaged Good$, galleryCat, and Datahowler, and includes a Champagne toast at midnight.But that’s not the only big show happening this weekend. Here’s a sampling of…

Listomania: The Five Best and Five Worst Alter Egos in Music

Tonight, groundbreaking experimental rapper Kool Keith will be gracing The Loft with his presence. And we’re hella stoked. Not only is the rapper one of our favorites, but his skill set is undeniable and his advancements in the “horrorcore” and “porncore” genres are fairly irrefutable. Plus. he’s just plain fascinating…

Watch: Fergus & Geronimo — “Walls Made of Grass”

Next week will finally see the full-length debut of Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly’s Fergus & Geronimo project. Released via newly established Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art, the disc is called Unlearn –and, it’s safe to say from early listens, that the title is an appropriate one.The Denton products who’ve…

The Problem With… Britney Spears’ “Hold It Against Me”

After a quiet 2010 consisting of an appearance in a Glee episode dedicated to her, Britney Spears is wasting no time getting back in the spotlight in 2011. And her first release/leak of this year is a jambalaya of dated electronic sounds hidden behind a chipmunk/Cajun Britney Spears.The song’s called…

Which Musicians Will Die in 2011?

The tendency, as calendars start moving past their expiration dates, is to wrap up the year in music with an interminable parade of year’s best lists—beginning, oh, around September. That, then, is followed by speculation, prediction and a whole slew of wild guesses about what the upcoming year in music…

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

When you hear that a child of a Beatle is coming to town, do you really need another reason to go to a show? Especially when the Beatle-child in question is the offspring of arguably the most beloved of all of the Beatles? From the standpoint of celebrity, it’s surprising…

Joe Satriani

When asked about being omitted from Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the top 100 guitarists of all time, legendary axeman Joe Satriani offers his own blunt assessment of the magazine’s omission: “Everyone knows that Rolling Stone is shit,” Satriani says from a tour stop in Canada. “That list was made…

Discipline Sets Own DJ Night Rules.

Thursdays at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton just got a little more chaste. DISCIPLINE, a new DJ weekly hosted by Shane English, Kate Depetris, Andrew Haas, Kathryn Falvo and Jonah Lange, is an all-vinyl night that features only the toughest underground ’80s music and serves as a sort of…

You Haven’t Made It Until You’ve Been Mashed Up by Girl Talk.

Is Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, providing a new litmus test for how a performer or band confirms their place in popular music? Based on the reaction from Fort Worth’s own Toadies last November, who were excited to hear their hit “Possum Kingdom” sampled on Gillis’ latest album, the answer…

Royal Bangs Ready A New Explosion.

Royal Bangs frontman Ryan Schaefer once expressed his bewilderment that any artist would want to plant themselves in the middle of an already well-defined genre and regurgitate music that’s already been made. It’s not a novel observation, but it’s definitely emblematic of the Knoxville combo’s difficult-to-pigeonhole sound. Their two albums—2008’s…

Javelin

It’s not clear where Javelin belongs. The Brooklyn duo’s part of the indietronic underground but hardly fits within any of the established rubrics, instead carving out a space of their own with an exceptionally effective mishmash of stylistic elements. While their self-released 2008 collection of demos, Jamz n Jemz, moved…