Music

The end of the workweek is solidly in view as we cruise into Thursday. And lots of interesting national and local acts are parlaying their collective talent all over the area tonight…..

Rotten fish skeletons? Really?…

In this week’s paper, I got to realize a dream of mine, interviewing a member of my personal favorite band, the Pixies. It was a pretty decent interview, too, with drummer David Lovering sharing his thoughts on the band’s ongoing reunion–which, at this point, has lasted just as long as…

Yeah, Dungen just sounds like a brutal death metal band or something–and then you add in the fact that they’re from Sweden, and it’s all like, Holy crap, this is gonna melt my face, broseph! Alas, poor soul, you’re just a meathead. Turns out Dungen isn’t really all that scary…

Chances are, you’ll recognize a familiar voice in the above clip of Miami Horror’s “Holidays.” No? C’mon, it’s easy. Yup: That’s DFW’s own Alan Palomo, of Neon Indian and VEGA fame, sure enough, collaborating with the Aussie-based Miami Horror for the above nu-disco jam. Unfortunately, it’s not looking like we…

The big show this Saturday at Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park might be the weirdest bill we’ve seen in a while. You’ve got American Idol buttrocker Daughtry, opening for Texas-Country cheeseball Pat Green, opening for, well, KISS. Oh, and somewhere else along the line, Dronwning Pool and The Academy Is… are…

Well, folks, as promised, here it is, the first video from Sarah Jaffe, featuring her song “Clementine,” off her full-length debut, Suburban Nature. Directed by Jon Todd Collins, whose work you might remember from recent videos from Doug Burr and The Orbans, the video debuted during Jaffe’s performance at the…

No more Cotton Eyed Joe! Please!​You know the drill: A pitcher walks three batters in a row, and the coach comes steaming out of the dugout. Whoever’s in the stadium’s audio control box gets their cue, lunges for button, clicks it, and the entire stadium fills with “Na Na Hey…

Many have discussed the so-called demise of alt-country, and, sure, as a general entity, it isn’t exactly cutting-edge fresh. Fact is, though, alt-country—hard to define as it is—is still being offered in exemplary ways by a growing number of artists. It’s far from deceased. Ronnie Fauss’ latest work serves as…

Two minutes into “Queen of Sonoma,” the lead-off track on Shiny Around The Edges’ Denton’s Dreaming, frontman Michael Seman sings, “I know where to put the knife in.” It’s fitting: He and his bandmates, Kerm Rivas and wife, Jennifer Seman, spend the next eight tracks riding between beauty and dissonance…

With just 100 cassette tape copies available at $5 apiece, Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things are selling Iced Aged as a sort of fund-raiser to get the band’s own Pour Le Corps tape and vinyl label up and running. But while the album is primarily a stepping-stone to release…

Miami Horror’s music sounds vaguely familiar because it should; the brainchild of Benjamin Plant, the Melbourne, Australia-based act’s music is unabashedly backwards-looking, gleefully employing elements of ’80s dance tracks and not-so-deep late-’70s disco cuts. It’s a nice ploy, albeit one that many a modern dance act uses. Miami Horror manages…

Let’s get the silly stuff out of the way first: Kristian Mattson (a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth) isn’t really all that tall. But his majestic songs are indeed colossal, even if they are performed solely by a man and his battered guitar. Mattson’s music is striking in its simplicity,…

If the Beach Boys and Nirvana knocked up the Pipettes, the resulting lovechild would be Harlem. Bubblegum-tainted choruses, irreverent charm and a frenetic pace drive their first album for Matador Records, Hippies. (The Austin trio self-released the 2008 EP, Free Drugs.) There’s also a gritty insouciance and psych leaning that…

Expect plenty of backups onto the Dallas North Tollway as KISS headlines a massive concert at Pizza Hut Park on Saturday: Even though the iconic glam rock act hasn’t featured original members Ace Frehley or Peter Criss in their lineup for a number of years, fans will still show up…

At this point, the most startling thing about the Pixies’ reunion isn’t so much that it happened. The iconic alternative band and its fans have now had seven years to come to grips with that much. What’s most surprising about the band’s reunion, these days at least, is that it’s…

Love him or hate him, Billy Corgan, founder and sole remaining original member of the legendary alt-rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, just keeps going and going. By my count, Corgan has broken up his own band at least three times, and each time has proclaimed that he would never return…

Levi Weaver just left me a Facebook message, a text and a voicemail. He just got off the phone with a councilman in Fort Worth. Apparently, there had been some he-said-he-said that left the air between the two awfully muddy, and Levi had called to clear that air. Now, he…