Idol Rich: The Final Four Get Foxxy and Pair Up

Jamie Foxx. He’s an Oscar winner and has sold his fair amount of R&B records. He’s also been a mentor on American Idol before. Last season, he got all up in people’s grills. And he did it again this one. Foxx Face! This time, though, he gave out T-shirts with big…

Mick Taylor’s May 19 Show At The Granada Canceled Due To Illness

With the recent reissue of Exile on Main Street, my favorite effort from the Rolling Stones, my personal interest in catching guitarist Mick Taylor next Wednesday at the Granada Theater was pretty high. Taylor was in the Stones from 1969 to 1974–considered by many to be the band’s greatest phase…

Gutterth Records Puts Entire Catalog Online For Free Streaming

There’s a relatively short list of record labels in town, and Gutterth Records might be the shrewdest: Yesterday, the home to Daniel Folmer, The Timeline Post, Ryan Thomas Becker and others, made every release it’s ever put out up as a free stream over at the newly created Gutterthrecords.com–21 releases…

Gig Alert: Fuel Plays Trees Tonight

Rarely does a band come with such a convoluted history as ’90s hard rock act Fuel. The band was hugely successful in the late ’90s, eventually earning double platinum status for its 2000 album Something Like Human. But after that apex, the band’s fortunes slipped significantly.Lead singer Brett Scallions got…

Listomania: Five Failed Musician-Celebrity Collaborations

Last month, She & Him’s Volume Two hit stores, featuring the “unlikely dynamic duo” of actress Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Since then, many celebrities have become jealous to achieve this same intellectual-indie success. Last year, Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn made a little CD called Break Up, that rose…

Last Night: Insane Clown Posse and Coolio at Palladium Ballroom

Insane Clown Posse, CoolioPalladium BallroomMay 10, 2010Better than: being shot at by NBA All-star Dirk Nowitzki with a BB gun in an open field. You can watch as many YouTube clips and Saturday Night Live parodies as you like, but there is really nothing that can prepare you for what…

This Week In Dallas Music History: Erykah Badu Gets Her Due.

Not sure how much of the usual here’s-why-this-is-an-important-read info that you’ll need to find this piece interesting–you know, what with all the national press that Erykah Badu’s received as of late. In case you live under a very large rock, Badu ended April by filing a not guilty plea with…

Download: DJ Tommy Boy’s Texas Love Triangle Mix for Vice.

Funny how fast the Internet can move. Earlier today, a mix featuring a bevy of Dallas-based acts (and, OK, some Houstonites and Austinites, too) started making its way around the Internet. Created by Dallas’ own DJ Tommy Boy, the mix was commissioned by the folks at Vice Magazine, which apparently…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, May 10, 2010

We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Peter Wolf CrierInter-Be…

Paste Calls Jaffe “The Best Of What’s Next.”

We’ve been doing a lot of talking about Denton’s, Sarah Jaffe these past few weeks–and with good reason. Her new album, Suburban Nature is already on our short list of best local albums for the year. And, after touring with Midlake and getting scooped up by Norah Jones for a…

Night Moves: Three Dance Parties and The Crystal Method

These dance parties may not be for your Mother (are Mother’s Day references over?), but it made for another busy weekend for our favorite night club dudes, the Lek Brothers. On Friday night, at the new Viper Lounge in Deep Ellum, JV & Ernie PM spun house music to an…

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 10: DJ Red Eye

DJ Red Eye has been DJing professionally for 20 years and was exposed to the art of spinning at an early age. “My uncle was a big disco DJ in Austin back in the day,” he says. “His record collection always fascinated me as a kid. I’ve always leaned toward…

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets to See Eluvium, Sleep Whale and Benouit Pioulard at The Loft on Sunday.

Eluvium combines minimalist electronic, piano and shoegaze music. Among mastermind Matthew Cooper’s connections to the area is a remix of “So Long Lonesome” by Explosions In The Sky. Cooper’s latest album Similies, which was released on Temporary Residence, includes more traditional songwriting and vocals.Sleep Whale, meanwhile, is a Denton institution…