Music

YouTube, we link.When Dust Congress frontman Nick Foreman lost hockey — the thing that drew him to Denton in the first place — he found music. And only after staring down his troubles performing solo did he find his bandmates — first Jeff Barnard and Ryan Williams, then James Kerr and Taylor…

Kings Of Leon couldn’t quite sell out the American Airlines Center last time they came through town, so the band is aiming a tad lower this year, scheduling its 2010 Dallas tour stop for the intimate-by-comparison Superpages.com Center.The band performs Thursday, September 23, with doors opening at 6 p.m. and…

“Drugs In My Body” – Thieves Like UsI first staggered upon Thieves Like Us a few years back while carelessly clicking in and out of the blogospherem, and my first exposure to the electro trio was via its video for “Drugs in My Body.” Since then, the band has produced…

So, this was the week that American Idol transitioned away from the gender-defined 3-day broadcast schedule, or what I like to call “over saturation.” The Top 12 also moved from the in-the-round set-up and performed on the “new” stage–which is basically just the stage you saw last year with all…

In case our Q&A with The Low Anthem’s Jeff Prystowsky from back when his overwhelmingly affecting folk band rolled through town for a gig at the Granada back in October, maybe the adorable and gorgeous above fan-made video will convince you the band’s worth checking out. Yeah? Good, ’cause the…

One of the ten bands taking part in tonight’s Rite of Spring Fling concert at Hailey’s, Portland’s Quasi may also well be the elder statesman of the crowded bill. And the band certainly sounds like it. Since 1993, the ex-husband-and-wife team of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss has been parlaying…

While some of us were shivering with ecstasy and coming down from the NX35 high, some fine folks were at Surfer Blood with Turbo Fruits at the Granada on Monday, including photographer Mattie Stafford. Check out her slideshow from the night…

Since we’re actually starting to get sick of talking about it, might as well end our exhaustive NX35 coverage–and do so on a high note with this 15-minute clip from LOUD-quiet-LOUD opening (no, really) from The Flaming Lips’ headlining performance on Saturday night. And, yessir, this here clip comes complete…

Perhaps you saw us at this year’s NX35 Conferette in Denton? Well, we were there–in case you didn’t know–and, as you’ll see below, starting with a fairly intense live clip of HEALTH performing “Die Slow” at The Boiler Room on Friday night, we were shooting videos all weekend long, too…

Danny Fulgencio wraps up our NX35-a-thon with enough photos of the weekend’s efforts in Denton to make a pretty decent wallpaper for your house. Also, we got some video to embed into your head in a few. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, check out the rest of…

Quite the eclectic and electric bill tonight at The Lounge on Elm Street. It’s always a good thing to get all these acts heading to SXSW, huh?Headlining is Brooklyn’s all female, pop/punk trio Vivian Girls, a youthful group of gals that has been around since 2007 and released Everything Goes…

A beneath-ground show–or “underground” show–is a common experience at Fallout Lounge. An example: This weekend’s final monthly gathering of DJ Genova, Schwa & Killtron’s Hot Flash! party–as captured by our very own Lek Brothers–was so very beneath ground. Dress code was classified as “crunk.” Also, if you’re feeling saucy, the…

In this week’s paper, Noah W. Bailey, who’s been sold on Mayer Hawthorne and his retro-Moown cool for some time now, does his best to sell you on Hawthorne, too, in advance of tonight’s performance from the man at The Loft. Writes Bailey:Hawthorne turned out one of the best soul…

So: This weekend marks the release of the rock ‘n’ roll biopic on The Runaways–called The Runaways, natch–which tells the story of the noted ’70s punk rock jailbait act that offered up “Cherry Bomb” to the masses (what’s up, Dazed and Confused, soundtrack?) and introduced the word to frontwoman Cherie…

Another night, another slew of solid lineups all around the heart of downtown Denton for Sunday’s final night of the four-day North by 35 Music Conferette. And, early in the evening after the previous night’s blow-out Flaming Lips’ show (and a slew of other excellent performances over the previous three…