If there’s anything your momma taught you, it shoulda been to not wander the streets at night alone. SXSW is the exception. You have to see what’s going on out there: There’s human statues and men on stiltz and pin-juggling. And some disturbingly good tacos. More after the jump. But…
People. People! Don’t worry. We have you covered. Video was taken. Documentation of good music is now available. Aquarium Drunkard’s sponsored shin-dig was a disturbingly good lineup with Warpaint, Futurebirds, Roadside Graves, Henry Clay People, and, above, the Love Language. More shook the walls at Lamberts. And wolfed some damn…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 19, 2010…Because it’s always more impressive to show off a massive CD collection than a MP3 collection: Universal is lowering the price of CD’s to $10 or less.Jack White feels the need to take up for Meg White’s drumming “skills.” …
So, yes, you’re right, this week’s selection is for a gig that happened last night. So be it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t submitted until just a couple of days ago, but I simply couldn’t ignore it because it’s frankly one of the best posters I’ve seen submitted to our weekly fandango.Besides,…
Local metal band Maleveller released its debut EP in January, yet frontman Brian Smith (who bartends at the Lounge on Elm Street) just informed me that the band is already going back into the studio to record a debut, full-length. To celebrate (and to promote Maleveller’s show tonight at the…
Although certainly not one of the bigger names involved in this year’s SXSW festivities, Rocko Dorsey (playing tonight at Andy’s Basement Bar & Grill in Denton) is still an enjoyable national act stopping in our area on the way to Austin. Hailing from Upstate NY, the band is called Rocko…
Tim Urban was the second of the American Idol contestants to end up in the dreaded “Bottom Three” on the painfully long voting results show. It looked like Casey James might end up there too, but then it came down to him and Panhandle Texan Lacey Brown to fill the…
Night One of SXSW 2010 saw things kick off on quite the bitchin’ note–and not just because of the big names. They were around, sure–Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells and Spoon all shared a stage at Stubb’s (and a massive line to get in, natch)–but there was plenty…
News of Alex Chilton’s death came as a horrible shock to Andy Hummel, Chilton’s friend and former Big Star bassist profiled in the Dallas Observer after the release of the Rhino box set Keep An Eye On The Sky.Hummel and Big Star’s Jody Stephens were scheduled to speak and perform…
Ray Davies, The 88The Palladium BallroomMarch 17, 2010Better than: Being the oldest person in the crowd, which I seemed to be at NX35. What a fickle position to be Raymond Douglas Davies. To be simultaneously a rock-and-roll oldies generation entertainer and a darling to the indie-pop set. In his nearly…
What do the Bowerbirds, Blair, J Rocc, and Those Darlin’s have in common? We got sick video of all of them performing at SXSW. Bowerbirds at SXSW…
Last time we caught a Danielson show in town, the band got upstaged by a little Grapevine outfit called Mount Righteous–so much so that the writer of that review even got inspired to try out for the band, which, yup, he went ahead and did. Hmmm.Hope that doesn’t happen again…
Sure SXSW may be the best music festival in the Milky Way–but if you’re not there, how do you know what it looks like out in the streets? You can imagine the venues–blue lights, smoke, and beer–but what about the rest of Austin? What does Sixth Street look like? Well,…
Caity Colvard caught Abe Vigoda (not the wrinkled co-star of The Godfather, but the band) partying with the Vivian Girls at the Lounge on Elm on Tuesday night as both band geared up for a trip to SXSW. See more from the picture show right here…
You’ve read–and watched, as the above video shows–how much we love Telegraph Canyon for the last year or so. But, let’s face it, we haven’t been alone; Rolling Stone even threw a little attention the band’s way. And, earlier this week, AOL’s Spinner is shined a spotlight on the Fort…
It’s been far too long since we check in on Grand Prairie’s Vincent Sliva, better known by his Dallas Stars-themed stage handle as mashup DJ, remix artist and electro act LehtMoJoe. Surely, you remember that he put out an album of dance cuts last summer called Spaghetti Western? Maybe? No?Well,…
On Monday, ex-Ghosthustler Noah Jackson’s newest musical project LOVELIFE popped up on Hipster Runoff’s The Alt Report. Read the full post here for a fine dose of humor, because in typical HRO fashion the site posed a barrage of rather genius questions like the puzzler: “Is LOVELIFE a new genre…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 18, 2010…Natalie Maines has decided to stop consoling her husband about his failing show and come out of hiding to rejoin The Dixie Chicks on their first tour in four years.If you met Boy George what would ask him to…
Seventeen touring bands will play an all-day, two-stage festival Sunday at the Double Wide on a ticket that comes out to less than a buck per band. For a second year in a row, Dallas one-man booking outfit Parade of Flesh has assembled one of the highlights of the annual…
Ohio’s Two Cow Garage can occasionally sound a hell of a lot like Dallas’ own alt-country legends in Slobberbone. Problem is, Micah Schnabel, leader of Two Cow Garage, doesn’t see the alt-country tag as necessarily a good thing. “These days, I’d just as soon see us known as just a…
Ludacris has made a career out of walking a line between offensive and infectious. And, with 10 years now under his belt, the charmingly crass MC continues to make songs that are just barely substantive enough for the critics and just catchy enough for radio. He’s got it down to…
For 14 years now, KHYI-95.3 FM The Range has hosted a yearly celebration known as the Texas Music Revolution. And, this year, as has been the case for the last 12 years, the party will be held at the legendary Southfork Ranch. Perhaps the most revolutionary aspect to the independently…
