Florene’s upcoming full-length on Waaga Records won’t be released until April 27, which seems like a long time to wait for Homemade Extacy, but maybe I wouldn’t know. Anyway, thankfully, none of us will have to wait until the end of April to hear more new material from the Denton-based…
Dawes, Corey Chisel & Jason BoeselThe CavernMarch 4th, 2010 Slightly better than: waiting to battle the crowds at SXSW to see these media darlings. When it was first announced that the strong triple-bill of Dawes, Cory Chisel and Jason Boesel (with Dawes backing him) would be taking place at The…
Yet another local booking company gives a reason not to shell out $750 for a music festival badge. Local booking maestro Parade of Flesh and Hot Springs, Arkansas’s Ballistic Missile have teamed up to create a free day party in Austin Saturday, March 20, in the midst of SXSW festivities…
D. Anson Brody beats the living shit out of his guitar. It’s not out of anger, nor is it simply histrionics. It’s just his style, and it’s genuine. Sure, lots of guys play “slap”, but Brody goes much further, and lets percussion come out of his insides with the same…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 5, 2010…You gotta love it when a rocker shoots down rumors he’s gotten sober.James Murphy tells LCD Soundsystem fans it’s not you, it’s us… maybe.Who has an ego bigger than Kanye? Billy Corgan…
To end the day, how about a couple of treats from Brandon Curtis, Josh Garza and Phil Karnats, the three Dallas ex-pats living in New York who, together, make up The Secret Machines? Turns out, in late January, in lieu of any planes to release an album anytime soon, the…
The above clip comes courtesy of the folks at Immaculate Infatuation, a restaurant review site run by two guys whose day jobs are in the music industry. And, on a recent trip to Brooklyn, the hosting duo met up with Dallas’ own Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, which was…
After the jump, check a couple scans from both XXL and The Source, the two leading hip-hop magazines around these days. In this month’s issues, both magazines featured Q&A’s with Lancaster’s own Mr. Ice Cream Paint Job himself, Dorrough. The Source’s Q&A is more of a standard session in which…
We’ve raved about Bryce Isbell’s FUR project in this space before, so you’re no doubt already familiar with the Denton-based artist’s enthralling brand electro-trance by now. True, the disc is probably being incorrectly perceived by many in the outside media as just another chillwave project because of Isbell’s collaborations with…
Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Don Sandlin, combined, play in some 47 bands throughout the Metroplex, I think–and, in many cases, the two play in those acts together. But none of those outfits–and I don’t mean to hurt any feelings here, honest–even comes close to the heroics on display when…
Los Angeles’ Dawes has been quite the fast-rising entity in the past few months, since the band released its debut full-length, North Hills, back in October. And though the disc and band might be new, the sound isn’t, explains Rick Mason in this week’s Observer:Taylor Goldsmith’s contemplations of eternity may…
As promised, Erykah Badu popped on by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to perform “Window Seat,” the lead single off New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh with The Roots (including the song’s co-writer, Questlove, and co-producer, James Poyser) and members of her usual touring band (among…
Portugal. The Man, Port O’BrienCambridge RoomMarch 3, 2010 Better than: any Wednesday evening of music I’ve had in a long time There was definitely something in the air last night at the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room. And yes, it was something other than the pot smoke.Walking up to the…
The lineup for the 2010 Vans Warped Tour was announced a little while back, and, silly us, we forgot to tell you that four bands with area ties are on the bill that’ll visit the Superpages.com Center on Saturday, July 3: The Rocket Summer, Artist Vs. Poet (who released its…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 4, 2010…EMI and DangerMouse have come to terms on the release of Dark Night of The Soul.Band of Horses announce the release of it’s first album. Wait, what?!KISS had to cut short it’s London show because of breathing problems caused…
Taylor Goldsmith’s contemplations of eternity may be a bit precocious for someone in his early 20s, but, then again, he and his similarly youthful bandmates in Dawes suggest they have old souls on their debut album, North Hills. Or at least souls whose vintage musical tastes place them specifically in…
Nervous Curtains wasn’t supposed to be a band at all. Sean Kirkpatrick had all the band he could handle as keyboardist for The Paper Chase. No, he just wanted accompaniment for a few live shows in support of his 2007 debut solo album Turn On the Interference, on which his…
Andy Hull’s driven. The Manchester Orchestra frontman isn’t satisfied just having a musical career—he wants greatness. Not the chart-topping ubiquity of Jonas Brothers, Black Eyed Peas or Lady Gaga, but the kind of critical and crossover success enjoyed by Nirvana and The Flaming Lips, two admitted touchstones. It’s a high…
Sound Tribe Sector 9 just can’t shake its perceived “jam band” associations, and all the dreaded hair, patchouli, hemp clothing and smelly baggage that comes with it. It’s a serious problem too: Discerning electronic music audiences have largely ignored the computer-enhanced post-rock ensemble. Techno snobs are missing a group whose…
Blues drummer/songwriter Doyle Bramhall has seemingly always had an affinity for great Texas blues guitarists. Considering his childhood garage jam sessions with Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons, his high school band the Chessmen (who got to open for Hendrix on the Dallas stop of his ’69 tour, and which featured…
It wasn’t that long ago that John Mayer was just the funny, guitar-playing cocksman that every college girl loved and a lot of boyfriends pretended to hate. But if you think his very misguided attempt at humor in a recent Playboy interview—one that included some questionable racial humor—could derail Mayer’s…
When you think of a person who lives without running water in the low rolling hills of Virginia’s Piedmont region, you likely won’t make a quick or easy association between such a Spartan existence and anything remotely resembling “punk.” But, for nearly 20 years, Tim Barry has displayed punk ethos…
