Music

Featuring some big names both old and new, it’s just another crazy busy musical Thursday evening…..

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Original Texas punk rocker Alejandro Escovedo has built a good living for himself and an even better following (these days, at least) with his blend of punk and alt-country. The highly influential Texas-born star has mellowed out a bit since his days in the California punk scene, but he’s still…

Sadly, Analog Rebellion has canceled his appearance tonight at The Loft due to the passing of his grandfather. And though we were looking forward to seeing him perform at this show, this night’s still sure to be a great one, with The Appleseed Cast headlining the affair and The Rocketboys…

You remember Album Tacos, right? Of course you do–it was the Internet meme where photoshoppers inserted glorious tacos (in forms abstract and literal) into album covers. What the hell would you do in life without these genius memes? Anyway, we thought we’d throw–thanks to our resident art dude Alexander Flores–another…

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​A few weeks back, we passed along word of a new St. Vincent-sampling track from Kid Cudi. The song, called “Maniac,” which also features rapper Cage, samples Dallas native Annie Clark’s “The Strangers” (off her 2009 release, Actor) and is set to be included on Cudi’s new album, Man On…

A few years ago I went to see Grandaddy at the Majestic in Downtown Dallas. Midlake’s drummer McKenzie Smith was there, too. He turned to me at one point in the set and said, quite sincerely, “This is probably my favorite band of all time!”Seems things have come full circle…

In the middle of a field somewhere in Denton lies a barn. The barn sits on an acre of land—some of which is occupied by a house (the address of which owners would prefer remain undisclosed), a backyard and all the other regular fixtures of a home—including functioning power outlets…

Looking for 2010’s Merriweather Post Pavilion? The Barcelona synth-pop quartet Delorean produce the kind of modern, rapturous electronic music that’s sure to merit a bit of “Spanish Animal Collective” chatter. The band’s ravishing third record, Subiza, is a marvelously textured collection of the echoing diced vocals, easy beats and loping…

Magic Kids belong to the legion of young artists sucking inspiration from ’60s pop—Phil Spector’s horn-and string-laden symphonies, two-minute Brill Building paeans and the Beach Boys’ harmonies. The band’s full-length debut from earlier this year, Memphis, takes its name from the band’s hometown, following up on a pair of buzzworthy…

Embodying the implicitly dangerous recreation expressed by their name, power trio High on Fire deliver savage chronic metal thunder with pecs-flexing panache blending portentous chug and pyrotechnic flash. Singer/guitarist Matt Pike growls with feral ferocity like Lemmy’s long-lost twin over fluid fever-blister leads chasing locomotive rhythms on the rails of…

There is a group of musician elite, whose members stand out as totally different, clearly following a muse that is unseen and unheard by others. They make music on their own terms, challenging the listener in ways that can dazzle and sometimes bewilder. And they challenge themselves, too, refusing to…

Let’s get to the heart of the matter up front: Is Deerhunter a band, or just another tool for the prolific songsmith Bradford Cox? “The band dynamic is really strong,” says Moses Archuleta, drummer and Cox’s co-founder in Atlanta’s indie darlings, Deerhunter. “We feel really strongly about the four of…

Lady Antebellum’s collision of country with pop and rock ‘n’ roll is one of the most exciting examples of country music’s continued strive toward the mainstream. Sample the crowds swarming to see Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Emmylou Harris and the Dixie Chicks and try to discern any narrow…