(Check out our final ACL wrap-up slideshow on Monday for photos of this and other acts from ACL) The crowds may not have been all that familiar with the catalog of Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup comprising of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, others), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone…
Three times, Raphael Saadiq asked the audiences fawning before him, “Do you love me tonight?” Three times, the response was a resounding, enthusiastic, unwavering yes. “I sure hope you mean that,” he quipped, flashing a smile. But how could the crowds not? Backed by an impeccably tight band and flanked by a…
Like a black hole located at the far west end of Zilker Park, it seemed that just about everything at ACL was being drawn to Phoenix’s set yesterday in the four o’clock hour. Unruly crowds tussled about the outer realms of the masses that extended some 300 yards out from…
First things first: Pangs of regret fill our hearts this morning at DC9–which, consider that today is Saturday, sounds about par for course. But, alas, today we have reason beyond our undiagnosed manic depression: Specifically, we missed the above seemingly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch one Eddie Vedder jumping on stage…
The ACL festival may be going on right now down in Austin town, but North Texas music lovers aren’t going to let some silly little no-compete clause ruin the weekend.First, let’s review the shows we’ve already mentioned. Tonight, Telegraph Canyon releases The Tide and the Current at Lola’s in Fort…
Sorry if this post comes off as a little, I dunno, off. As I write this in the ACL press tent, Daniel Johnston’s giving an on-air interview to my right, School of Seven Bells is giving a web chat interview to my left, and Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights are…
The feel-good hip-hop popularized by groups such as A Tribe Called Quest gets a prominent nod, sure, but so too does a smattering of dub influence, funk samples and even soulful singing (Sly himself belts out a few lines on “Until You Get Home”). As a result, the final product stands as…
OK, Dallas: If in the last three months you hadn’t yet found time to drive to Denton to catch one of VIDEO’s sets, and you aren’t planning to see them in Austin tonight, then tomorrow night will be your first chance to catch the band considerably closer to home. As…
Mississippi’s Colour Revolt is no stranger to shows in the DFW region having stopped through a couple of times in just the past year alone, if memory serves. But, each time they return, it seems the anticipation and excitement only increases. If the above video of the angsty indie rock…
All week long, Pitchfork has been counting down its list of the 200 top albums of the ’00s–just the latest series in its ongoing, highly entertaining set of features about the decade in music. And though three area artists popped up in the site’s countdown of its top 500 songs of the…
I guess now is the time where rubber hits road for upstart Denton-based record label Play Pinball! Records because, on Saturday night, as Cleburne’s Fungi Girls’ debut album, Seafaring Pyramids, officially hits the streets, it will instantly become the label’s first release.Early birds looking to catch the worm can get…
Fresh off the band’s ACL performance this afternoon and follow-up after-party performance at Stubb’s tomorrow night, trip-hop duo Thievery Corporation will be stopping by Dallas for a Sunday night date at the House of Blues. That Dallas stop is part of the act’s (RED)-sponsored tour, aimed to help spread awareness…
In this week’s paper, Eric Grubbs comments on Saturday night’s Strung Out show at the Granada Theater, even going so far as to tell you all what you can expect from the show. But I guess that just starts to happen once you’ve reached two decades of performance, huh? Anyway,…
Lest we go more than a week without recognizing polk-rock outfit Brave Combo as one of the true gems of the region, let’s use this bit of news as a quick reminder: Yesterday, the L.A. Times’ music blog ran an item on the forthcoming Christmas album being released by one…
Pretty sure I’m in Austin right now–seems it at least; there’s a whole bunch of young people running around acting like there’s something going on. I dunno, this is a pretty early wake-up call for me. But I digress: I’ll be here all weekend long, along with Observer Web editor…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2009… How sad: The Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been canceled. I hear someone tried to tell ‘Ye the tour was canceled, but was interrupted by Taylor Swift. Flava Flav is shopping a series where he goes back to high…
Two-man rock groups generally fall into one of two types of rock: blues and hard-rock. Then there is Maryland’s Wye Oak, a duo that is far from the blazing guitar work of Jack White and Dan Auerbach. The band deftly blends elements of folk, country and indie-rock into a style unique to…
After the breakthrough success of 2007’s Visiter by San Francisco psychedelic folk group The Dodos, frontman Meric Long stated that, for his next album, he “wanted to make a rock record.” And what better way for the acoustic-based duo to accomplish this feat than to become a trio? Although the…
Going on 20 years together as a band, Strung Out has been able to make its metallic pop-punk work wonders. Already claiming seven full-lengths, two non-LP collections, one live album and two EPs, the band is promoting its latest release, Agents of the Underground, with its current string of tours…
If you don’t remember The Arctic Monkeys’ 2007 sophomore album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, you’re not alone. Despite the fact that the band’s previous album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, held the honor of being the fastest-selling debut ever in the U.K. (it ultimately went quadruple platinum),…
Expressions like “post-hardcore” and “math rock” are guaranteed headache producers, and the Seattle-based combo These Arms Are Snakes certainly lives up to whatever connotations go along with such terms. Terse, tense and relatively complex, the sound Brian Cook and his cohort create can be both impressive and irritating. There’s no…
Kings of Leon, the fabled Tennessee band made up of three brothers (Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill) and their cousin Matthew, has enjoyed the kind of slow rise to stardom that very few rock ‘n’ roll acts enjoy today. While the quartet has played to arena-sized audiences in Europe for…
