10 Awesome Indie Music Videos Starring No Humans

Ok! You can officially ignore MTV. Aside from vintage Pizza Hut commercials, YouTube has become the newest, best, most badass way to show off one of two things: your music with lyrics set in scrolling Comic Sans or your music under some cool, never-before-seen animator / puppeteer’s work. Back in…

Speaking Of That galleryCat-Mount Righteous Mashup…

galleryCat : Road to Mount Righteous from HZ&DB on Vimeo….as we were this morning, Wilonsky just sent us a link to this video of the two disparate acts preparing for their live mash-up. As fun and spontaneous as they made the performance look, this behind-the-scenes video shows how it actually…

Video: Nervous Curtains — “All Yesterday’s Parties”

Nervous Curtains “All Yesterday’s Parties” from Liberal Media/Charlie Tango on Vimeo.Sean Kirkpatrick just sent an amazing music video for one of the best tracks off Nervous Curtains’ Out of Sync With Time, which we wrote about in a March feature. Not only does it feature one of Dallas’ best bands…

LehtMoJoe Mashes Up Mount Righteous and galleryCat

One of the most memorable moments of the Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony had to be the live mashup where galleryCat rhymed over the marching-band indie-pop act Mount Righteous playing behind them. Alas, DOMAXXII may be behind us, but you can relive the memory thanks to “Children” “Childhood,” a new…

Here We Go Magic, Beach Fossils

It’s hard to find out what Brooklyn-based Luke Temple has on his iPod, but judging from the tracks we’ve heard from Here We Go Magic’s recently released CD Pigeons (especially the lead single, the catchy “Collector”), he’s been listening to a lot of psychedelic-era Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones, or…

Dylan Sneed

In August 2008, singer/songwriter Dylan Sneed played his last show as a resident of Dallas. Not really living anywhere since, Sneed has crisscrossed the country playing with just about anyone in just about any venue. During this jaunt, Sneed has written a bevy of songs, some of which have found…

Saintkarla

Musically, Saintkarla are spirited, enterprising, and all over the map—hence, presumably, the hummingbird used as this album’s cover art. Theirs, indeed, is a melting pot brand of rock. And while that doesn’t work for everyone, if you’ve the attention span, there’s a lot to draw from Elephant in the Room…

Hormones

“Erratic” is a good word to describe Hormones’ newly released EP, Look Out Below. The interesting thing about the record, however, is in the way the songs bounce from one style to another yet remain cohesive. The result is a melting pot of influences—all of which are rooted in some…

Aerosmith, Blue October

Reality television has been the catalyst for the so-called resurgence of many over-the-hill, past-their-prime acts in recent years. Over the last year or so, legendary Massachusetts band Aerosmith decided to channel the spirit of the Sunday night VH1 lineup and make a little noise for themselves—Vanilla Ice and Flava Flav…

Aural Ambush: SMU Shows Some Love For Moon Taxi

This week we ventured north to the SMU campus to see how students felt about Moon Taxi, the rockin’ quintet from Nashville. All of the participants seemed to have musical preferences more associated with mainstream trends, i.e. pop, rock, and rap. Regardless, approximately 66-percent of our ambushees (all those named…