M.A.N.D.Y. spun German techno at Excuses Friday night as the dance floor filled up with partiers wearing furry animal faces and light-up octopi on their heads. Saturday night, our nightlife crew caught up with Austin’s Irresponsible Voltron and Dallas and Brooklyn-based Broken Teeth for some drum and bass and Dubstep…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, December 9, 2009…So Lenny Kravitz says he won’t replace Steven Tyler in Aerosmith because he’s “a family friend.” I thought it was because they didn’t have three albums worth of material about Lisa Bonet…Avid music lover, blogger and funny-ass motherlover Aziz…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 24 on the list–and click after the jump for a free…
Kind of crazy to think that five years have passed since Nathan Gale charged the stage, gunned down four people and killed Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott during a Columbus, Ohio, performance of Dime’s new band, Damageplan.To commemorate the anniversary, Revolver will release a special memorial tribute to Pantera and…
Many, many, many thanks to all those who showed at The Libertine last night for the third installment of my little first-Monday-of-every-month residency there called The Local Hang with Playlister P. It was quite the grand ol’ time. And a successful one, too–mostly because it featured the biggest turnout so…
After the jump, a press release well worth your time if you’re in high school and you’re in a band. But before we get to that, let’s just give you the quick rundown on what’s happening: On January 8, Live Nation, in cooperation with TV network Fuse, will host a…
The Allen Event Center opened just last month–and, no offense to Reba McEntire, who (just as she had at Cowboys Stadium) opened the joint, or to Charlie Daniels, who’ll play there with his band on December 19–but we haven’t exactly felt all that compelled to go to the new venue…
Once upon a time, Less Than Jake was a ska band–horns, the whole deal. Then something happened; the band went pop-punk. And while 2006’s In with the Out Crowd wasn’t a terrible record by any means, by that point it was clear that this was a band that had evolved…
As if making year-end lists wasn’t hard enough already, Thursday will herald the release of the second Gutterth Productions compilation, featuring 34 tracks from 34 Gutterth-affiliated acts. It’s an excellent showcase of the quality music the Denton label and promotion company champions. But Compilation Two is also, with the partial…
Yesterday, Grapevine’s own Bryce Avary (aka The Rocket Summer) released the new video for the lead single and title track from his recently released You Gotta Believe EP–which, you might recall, has already spent some time atop the iTunes Alternative charts in it’s just-over-a-month-long shelf life.Here, The Rocket Summer again…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 8, 2009…Billboard has named Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” as the one-hit-wonder song of the decade. It’s stuck in your head now isn’t it?Cat Power is back to writing her ol’ sad songs. The Washington Post: idiots or just not rap…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next 25 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 25 on the list–and click after the jump for a free download…
Much ink has been spilled on this blog to relate the significance of Saturday night’s Theatre Gallery reunion show at the Prophet Bar. With Shallow Reign, Decadent Dub Team, The Bat Mastersons, Graceland and more, it was a celebration of Deep Ellum’s heyday in bygone decades, with the artists who…
Saturday night’s Gifts and Garters show at Excuses featured vintage and locally made crafts for wrapping at home, and a handful of burlesque performers who helped with the unwrapping onstage. Hosted by Through the Looking Glass and Bewitching Burlesque, the show included performances from Perle Noire, the Austin-based Jigglewatts, Honey…
Folks who like their Americana earnest and earthy should think about heading down to Poor David’s Pub tonight to catch a crowded bill of country singer-songwriters.Headlining this acoustic evening is Wade Bowen. Born and raised in Waco (although we shouldn’t hold that against him), Bowen now resides in the much…
KISS at American Airlines Center on Sunday, December 6:KISS: The only guys I know who wear more makeup than I do. Maybe except for Jared Leto. Oooh, burn!…
Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big WizGranada TheaterSaturday, December 5, 2009 Better than: studying for an essay exam. Easily one of the most eccentric and talented wordsmiths in the world of hip-hop, Aesop Rock has been giving underground heads some of the most dense and textured rap to unravel for…
Spune Productions, with a little help from DC9 At Night, helped drum up some holiday cheer in Denton at Hailey’s Club Saturday night. A Spune Christmas featured Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Glen Farris, Seryn, and plenty more.We’ve got more shots from the show up in this photo set from Mattie…
With Ocelot and Proper Villains cooped up and spinning in the DJ booth Friday night, the crowd at Glow at the Lizard Lounge showed off their best sweater-tugs, glowstringing and other less conventional moves on the dance floor below.You can check out more of the scene in this Monday morning…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 7, 2009…Members of Weezer were injured in an accident after its bus skid on ice across several lanes of traffic.Looks like Fleet Foxes is moving into a different, “less upbeat” direction on it’s new album.It looks like there are shows…
Well, the weekend’s here, thank the Lord. And, as always, we’re here to present you with your concert-attending plans. First, as always, the shows we’ve already hyped…Tonight, Bill Callahan stops by the Granada Theater, Colourmusic pops on in to The Cavern and The Edge Steals Christmas out at the Nokia…
The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that’s by design — the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the early ’80s, the dark fortress was reinvented as a squatter’s…
