Chances are, right now, Gini Mascorro is listening to music. Not necessarily by choice, mind you, but, at least in part, out of necessity. That’s because, come Monday morning, Mascorro’s musical tastes—and, to a degree, her personal music collection—will be thrown into the proverbial fire, put out in the open…
As far as sheer design deliciousness goes, this poster is truly above and beyond… Beautifully designed by “the menchildren” Conor and Matt of Magnificent Beard, this poster begs to be framed and hung in any jet-setting rocket-scientist’s den. The extra tall orientation provides the vast expanse that a heavenly cross-section…
It was way back in 2007 when the above video of Taylor Young, he of THe BAcksliders and The O’s, made its way to Youtube, posted as the visual accompaniment to the song “Chrissie Hynde” from Bucks Burnett’s long-in-the-making Rachel Bazooka outfit. Turns out the project, which, at its core,…
Despite his efforts in other, broader outfits like The New Pornographers and Swan Lake, Dan Bejar’s Destroyer project comes in a decidedly more toned-down flavor. Under Destroyer, the name of the game is bare, Dylan-inspired folk-pop. And, as the longest-running of his works, it also may be the most affecting…
The Lounge on Elm Street finally–FINALLY–got back its liquor license this morning, just in time for tomorrow night’s Parade of Flesh-billed Fun Fun Fun warmup HEALTH/Times New Viking show and Saturday’s Sierra Bravo Productions-billed Off With Their Heads/Smalltown punk party. “Oh yeah, it’s been a long time coming,” said co-owner…
I guess I didn’t bring my ‘A’ game to this week’s column in the print edition this week. Not the writing so much–that’s still fantastic, of course. But I did make two factual errors that need correcting.For one, KXT-91.7 FM will not launch at 6 a.m. this coming Monday morning…
Because we can all use a palate cleanser now and then–and, also, because there’s never a wrong time to listen to RTB2–check out the clip above, featuring Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Sandlin performing their song “Whistle” in the still-under-reconstruction Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.And, since we’re on that subject,…
It’s fitting that Russian Circles makes its way to DFW within a week of its fellow Chicago-based, instrumental post-rock brethren Pelican. Also fitting? That the band is coming to town with fellow post-rock outfit Red Sparowes, which features members of Isis, which toured with Pelican the last time that band…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke is recording his first solo album.Apparently Weezer aren’t the only band into weird collabos: Weird Al will sing the Pixies’ “I Bleed”… with the Pixies. Jack White’s Third Man label is going to release a…
So there’s this MTV mini-show called Valemont, which I think is about vampires on college campuses or something? How unlike MTV to cash in on a trend like that…Back on topic: According to a press release that just popped up in our inboxes, DFW’s own The Bright, no strangers to…
Over on NPR.com today, a real treat: The National Public Radio folks have posted a stream of the new Norah Jones track “Light As A Feather” for all to listen in on.It’s a track of note because, for one, Jones didn’t write it; rather, mercurial and prolific alt-country icon Ryan…
Unless someone with some serious video editing skills doctored the crap out of some tape, well, the above clip stands as proof that, on last night episode of FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, two contestants did a little ditty to Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job.” Which stands as…
The almighty Pitchfork reviews the new collaborative record from Jason Molina and Will Johnson today, and, uh, it ain’t so pretty. Writes Pitchfork scribe Stephen M. Deusner:The 14 tracks on Molina and Johnson comprise an especially slow drive through somber countryside, windows up and speed limit carefully maintained. It’s especially…
It takes quite a bit of country/folk chutzpah to take on a song as legendary as Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” but that’s exactly what Mindy Smith, a 37-year-old singer/songwriter from Long Island, did in 2003. Smith’s version of the song appeared on the Parton tribute record Because I’m a Woman.Seems Dolly…
There’s a lot to like about tonight’s show at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth–so much so that the unique location of the show (in the museum itself) falls pretty far down the line. First of all, there’s headliner Alela Diane, of whom Falling James writes in this past…
Bad news for local fans of Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound and the dreamy pop of U.K. electronic outfit Broadcast, as the two bands have canceled their Saturday appearance at Hailey’s in Denton. The cancellation is due to “scheduling/travel problems that are absolutely impossible to change,” states a press…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 4, 2009…Hulk Hogan has revealed that he has a dream to play bass for Metallica or The Rolling Stones. If I were him, you know what I would dream of? Fixing my broken family.Will it ever stop? Now Kings of…
Thanks again to all who stopped by The Libertine last night for the second installment of my monthly local music sermon called The Local Hang.The plan was pretty simple: No repeats from last month. But, oh well, I screwed that up–like embarrassingly early on, too, actually, if you wanna compare…
Looks like Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights spent part of the Halloween weekend up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, playing for the college at Oklahoma State University and, apparently, mini-Superwoman, too, as you’ll see in the above, beautifully shot clip from Zach Gray of OSU’s The Daily O’Collegian. Here, as part…
Washington, D.C.’s Le Loup stops through town tonight, and as Wendy Gilmartin explains in this week’s paper, it should make for a good show:Le Loup offers its translation on the experimental and noisy world of down-at-the-compound rock with much to contribute: three-part harmonies and a keenly developed understanding of finger…
Damaged Good$ performs at Fallout Lounge Thursday, November 5, with Billingham’s Defense System and DJs Schwa and Genova, and you can get in free as long as you bring donations in the form of canned goods. A single food item will get you in, but the more you bring, the…
Fort Worth’s garage-rock combo The Cut*Off is heading back into the studio later this month to work on the band’s third full-length effort. The as-yet-untitled disk is being recorded with Salim Nourallah at Pleasantry Lane Studio and three tracks are already in the can.But it might be a somewhat different…
