Last Friday afternoon, Jesse Hughey and I finally got around to checking out the new Reno’s Bar & Grill and its marquis menu item, Dimebag’s Blacktooth Whiskey Burger, which features a whiskey-soaked patty, onions grilled in Coca-Cola and an entire section of the local music community’s heavy hearts. Well, not…
By now, you should already know the deal with Zound Sounds, Marc Solomon’s music school with multiple locations about the Metroplex where aspiring area youngsters learn from a staff of music teaching locals who are out there actually doing what the kids themselves hope to be doing as well one…
Like Bosque Brown before it, Neon Indian finds itself as the subject of The Guardian’s “New Band of the Day” feature today–although, if you read the copy, it’s kinda tough to determine if Paul Lester’s really all that into the music. More than anything, Lester uses the band as a…
Using a combination of hope, creativity and instrument strings, Abbie Chesney is reaching out to the local music scene for help with a jewelry project she’s calling Eye on the Sparrow Designs. The whole idea started in response to the death of her close friend and musician Carter Albrecht. Chesney,…
In this past week’s edition of the Observer, noted emo nerd and contributor Eric Grubbs talks The Get Up Kids, bemoaning the fact that the last time the band played the Dallas-Fort Worth region, it was relegated to an under card performance during a Dashboard Confessional show. It was a…
We’d heard rumblings out of Erykah Badu camp about a free show at Victory Plaza in October, and, earlier this week, a press release from Red Bull confirmed as much: On Friday, October 16, Badu and The Cannabinoids will perform a free concert alongside Oklahoma’s Shiny Toy Guns as a…
Nothing Play-N-Skillz does these days should really come off as too big a surprise–the two-time Grammy-winning, Dallas-based production duo of Juan and Oscar Salinas have been keeping fans on the edge of their seats for some time now, offering up big news (starting their own label), new tracks (still kinda…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 28, 2009… The Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band will perform on gabfest The View on Wednesday. Anyone else worried she’s going to come between Whoopi and Joy and split the girls up? U2 has yet to make a profit on its 360…
Last year, the annual Dallas EDM festival known as Meltdown celebrated its tenth anniversary by bringing Moby in to headline its event, which was held at the Lizard Lounge. This year, alas, no Moby (although he will be in town on October 4 for a show at the Palladium). But,…
It’s been a minute since we checked in on Roy G. and The Biv, who, surely, are most easily described as the sugar to Alan Palomo’s spice when it comes to Denton-bred electro-dance outfits. Well, today comes a spate of news, actually: First, and perhaps foremost, the duo of Max…
In an interesting Critic’s Pick this week, Cory Graves points out some of the similarities between the recent circumstances of The Secret Machines and …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, who co-headline what should be a great show–especially considering that Ume will be the opening act–at…
Busdriver, Abstract RudeThe CavernSeptember, 25, 2009 Better than: listening to the Micro Machines Man recite spoken word poetry. Long-hailed as one of the world’s premier epicenters of culture and diversity, Los Angeles brought some of its artistic variety to the Cavern this past Friday night. The staccato stage scientist Busdriver…
Taylor Swift at American Airlines Center on Friday, September 25Taylor Swift and an arena of teenage girls and their secretly eager dads (hey, T-Swift is legal!) sang along to her ballads about boys, broken hearts, white horses and all that schmoopy stuff Friday night at the AAC. OK, maybe she…
Asobi Seksu, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, This Old HouseHailey’s Club, DentonSeptember 27, 2009Better than: poetry you can understand. Brooklyn-based and Japanese-inspired indie rock group Asobi Seksu played a few songs for a more-than-silent crowd of sophisticated couples and flannel-wearing men at Hailey’s on Sunday night. But the quiet atmosphere…
The Horrors, Crocodiles, The Burning HotelsGranada TheaterSeptember 25, 2009Better than: the last time The Horrors played the Granada. If fans of The Horrors’ more theatrical, debut album, Strange House, came out of The Granada before the band strutted back on stage to perform its 15-minute encore, those fans might’ve left…
Psychedelic Furs, The Happy MondaysHouse of BluesSeptember 25, 2009Better than: attending the Taylor Swift show at AAC–even though rumor was Kanye was going to show up and take Swift’s microphone away, again… In front of a surprisingly large crowd, two icons of ’80s and ’90s alternative rock flexed their elderly…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 8, 2009… Austin City Limits has released its TV schedule for this season. Unfortunately, we’ll only get to see three of them in between the constant telethons on KERA… The Faces are reuniting for a one-off charity concert. Marilyn Manson has been diagnosed…
Let me apologize in advance if this week’s installment of Good Friday reads a little short: I’ve been having trouble concentrating since lunch, when Jesse Hughey and I stopped by The Grill at Reno’s and indulged in a pair of Dimebag’s Blacktooth Whiskey Burgers. Seriously tasty stuff, folks. Been stuck…
You’ve already read Danny Fulgencio’s review of last night’s Monotonix show. Now check out his impressive slideshow recap. You won’t regret it…
It’s been a week for Dallas hip-hop king (for the moment at least) Dorrough: This week, the Lancaster native learned that the sales on his “Ice Cream Paint Job” single have earned him a gold record. And, perhaps more exciting, he also learned that he’s up for three awards in…
One of my own personal favorite acts from SXSW ’09, Brooklyn’s Asobi Seksu returns to Denton this weekend to perform on a Sunday night bill at Hailey’s with DC9 favorite Matthew and the Arrogant Sea. In this week’s paper, contributor Shae Moseley breaks down the draw of Asobi Seksu (which…
The folks at Spin have been mighty kind to DFW musicians over the past year and a half or so. There was the exclusive streaming of the Toadies’ “No Deliverance” single, for one. Then the love for The Riverboat Gamblers and the single issue that featured Damaged Good$, The Strange…
