A couple weeks ago, Jesse Hughey reviewed the debut release from Fort Worth’s supergroup of sorts, Epic Ruins, quite positively, while salivating at the idea of the album getting the vinyl treatment. As the above poster implies, Hughey gets his wish on Saturday night at Lola’s Saloon in Fort Worth…
The Denton-hosted, pre-South by Southwest festival formerly known as NX35 went and released another round of performers slated to play its festivities in March today — and, as with the last round of additions, it features a couple of interesting names.Among today’s several adds: Ohio-based singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield; acclaimed…
Speaking of Norah Jones, the Dallas-raised critical darling, who just released an album compiling her favorite collaborations from over the course of her still-young career, has a new collaboration in the works…..
Last night, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2010 Grammy Awards, as they tend to do around this time of year. The winners won’t be announced until the live awards show, which will air on CBS on Sunday, February 13, 2011. But, thanks…
Here is the sad thing: Last night, I did not wear my pair of 1981 Justin cowboy boots to the Winspear Opera House. This is largely due to the fact that I have literally worn the soles through as a result of wearing them practically every day for the last…
Although to an American ear the name “Tame Impala” may sound like some sort of ironic hip-hop group, it actually refers to a species of antelope. Which is a lot more fitting for a western Australian psychedelic rock quartet who, in 2008, topped the Australian Independent Record Labels chart with…
The Black Eyed Peas, already on our bad side this week, released a new album called The Beginning on Tuesday. And you know what that means: more sloppy rhymes, more circa-2008 digital voice abuse and more poorly re-appropriated hooks from yesteryear. Oh, joy…
Justin Townes Earle is making quite a name for himself. Sure, he has a couple of pretty famous names already — his father is Steve Earle, and his middle name comes courtesy of Townes Van Zandt. But the younger Earle has been making headlines all on his own the past…
The customer isn’t always right. Jack White has taken to message boards to defend his company against, well, his own fans…
This mid-’90s tale isn’t unusual: Young, buzzed-about band gains the attention of several major record labels. After a bidding war that includes Madonna herself, the band selects a home. Using the marketing machinery of its new label, the band plays the prime stages of everything from European festivals to late-night…
You know what’s funny about prime-time pop pageant American Idol? (Nope, not ex-panelist Ellen DeGeneres.) It’s that the biggest star to shoot out of that black hole was a loser named Jennifer Hudson. Of course, there’s an argument to be made for Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson. And if you’re…
Justin Townes Earle is one tough sonuvabitch. He’s lived homeless on the streets of Nashville, been addicted to crack and heroin, and hung out with “killers and prostitutes.” And all before he turned 20. How could he not be tough? Considering he is the son of Steve Earle—and the namesake…
Billy Corgan and some incarnation of Smashing Pumpkins have been part of each turn of the pop-music tide, good or bad, for a solid generation. The group’s founder, mastermind and sole remaining original member has now been playing under the Pumpkins moniker for more than 20 years, releasing eight albums…
Norway’s Dimmu Borgir is named after a volcano in Iceland, and everything about the symphonic metal band is predictably epic. Hell, the band’s name literally translates to “Dark Fortress,” and the main trio of (I kid you not) Shagrath, Silenoz and Galder has been going at it for nearly two…
The rumors started swirling back in September. Then, on Thanksgiving Day during the Fox broadcast of the Cowboys-Saints game, the NFL confirmed it: Just as had been speculated, the Black Eyed Peas had indeed been selected by the league to provide the entertainment during the halftime spectacular at the Cowboys…
A bit of a slow hump day evening, but at least one legendary band is playing our region tonight…
[Over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today we take an in-depth look at song No. 23 on the list — and, please, feel free to click after the jump…
It’s kind of tough to wrap your head around the fact that, next year, legendary bluesman Robert Johnson would have turned 100 years old. Given the gravitas that surrounds his mystique, you’d think he’d be older, no? Sure enough, though: May 8, 1911 was his birthday. And, to celebrate that…
Speaking of Erykah Badu, it seems the Queen finally has some local musicians to keep her company down in Austin next year when she performs at the annual cluster-you-know-what that is South by Southwest. After having releasing an early early list last month of scheduled performers, which included Badu, the…
It’s officially December, which means 2010 is almost over, which means it’s time for the overzealous music critics of the world to rush out their year-end best music lists, even though, hey, the year isn’t over and there are still albums coming out and, y’know, there’s still a good 30…
Few bands are as synonymous with indie rock as Sebadoh, whose original members, including the prolific Lou Barlow, reunited in 2007 and have since been touring in support of some early record reissues. They’ve got more on the way in 2011, too, which is why we can expect them to…
Of all the Internet jokes on all the sites around the world, typography and font puns really, truly have to be some of the geekiest. And that’s why when we came across Buzzfeed’s list of font and typography puns — specifically this attached “I shot the serif” brilliance — we…
