Our ears were burning, so we went ahead and checked out what our counterparts at the Observer’s sister paper in Houston, the Press, was up to on its music blog lately. And, sure enough, it’s all Dallas all the time down in H-Town these days.(OK, not really, but two posts…
Hey, skater dude–pissed off about having to go back to school next week? Work out that anger in the mosh pit Saturday at Alliance Skate Park (1002 Lonestar Pkwy. in Grand Prairie). Left Hand Salute, Television City, The Hollow Empire and Silver Fox will rock the suburbs starting at 8…
Quia already offered her take on last night’s Mos Def show at the House of Blues–and she stuck it out to the very end, unlike a good portion of the crowd.For another look at the show, though, we’ve got Mattie Stafford–who was right up front with her camera for Mos…
Rob Viktum, long one of our favorite area hip-hop producers, has a new project coming out next week–a collaboration with Don Will, one-third of the very much buzzing Brooklyn-based Tanya Morgan, for an EP called Aight, New Drink.And it features Viktum’s soulful beats very much in the environment in which…
Mos Def and Jay Electronica House of BluesAugust 18, 2009Better than: Beating the line to the show’s after party. Some artists perform for the audience. Others perform for themselves. And others? They’re still finding their footing as performers at all. Make no mistake: Last night’s show at the House of…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 19, 2009…The tracklist for Rock Band: Beatles has been revealed. However, one song not on that list will be in the game Care to guess which? Denton-born funk recluse Sly Stone is allegedly living off of social security benefits and…
Straight from the dead tree edition, courtesy Observer contributor Nate Patrin…Ten years after Mos Def’s solo debut, Black on Both Sides, fans might’ve looked at his subsequent uneven catalog and started to wonder if their fondest memories of him in the ’00s would consist mostly of his Chappelle’s Show cameos…
Halloween’s a good two months away–almost two-and-a-half months off, actually–but, since area booking agents never seem to sleep, we’re already seeing some pretty impressive lineups get tossed together for the holiday.Among them? A hipster’s delight at the Granada, for one, featuring two Austin-based GorillaVsBear favorites, White Denim and, if we’re…
This past weekend was a big one for Fort Worth’s The Burning Hotels. On Friday, Vanessa Hudgens-driven battle of the bands flick, Bandslam, in which The Burning Hotels’ members make an appearance as, well, themselves, debuted in theaters. And though the film did quite poorly at the box office–pulling in…
John Iskander, grand marshal of Parade of Flesh, is offering passes good for all of his upcoming shows through the end of the year–an especially good deal when you factor in the extras. For $80 each, ten music lovers will receive passes good for the 15 shows he has listed…
Formed in Tucson, Arizona, but now residing in Austin, the band Harlem makes its way to our area quite often, delivering a unique brand of noise that takes inspiration from the fuzziest bands of the late ’60s. Often erroneously compared to Nirvana and the Pixies, Harlem’s clatter is much less…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 18, 2009…Bob Dylan was picked up by police in New Jersey while looking at a house that was for sale. I know he’s old now but, geez, the officer couldn’t tell it was Dylan?Tommy Lee will step out from behind…
Surely, you recall back in April when we passed along news that the old Club Envy space could be re-opened at some point as 2826 (which, yes, as olds will recall, was the original name of the venue in that space).Well, as Robert alluded to earlier today on Unfair Park, that…
In case we haven’t beaten you over the head with this enough in recent weeks, let us remind you once again: The new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and The Current? It’s real good. And, hey, it comes out tomorrow. so, y’know, there’s that.And while we already gave you a…
People still can’t get enough of Neon Indian, the sun-drenched VEGA side-project that has still yet to make its live performance debut (that comes on Sunday, September 13, at the Monolith Festival in Morrison, Colorado), including the folks at Pitchfork, who not only approve of the band’s early singles from…
The folks at Rockstar not only make the third- or maybe fourth-best energy drink on the market. They also bring you touring rock festivals like the annual Mayhem Fest, which stopped by Superpages.com Center on Saturday night, featuring the likes of Marilyn Manson, Slayer and others.Unsurprisingly, our resident metalhead photographer,…
If Trees was the place to be on Friday night, Saturday was owned by the Granada Theater as it played host to Los Campesinos! and a hyped-up undercard of Girls and The Smith Westerns.From the looks of our photo pal Gloria Levario’s slideshow of the night, it appears as if…
Know what sucks about planning vacations in advance? You’re screwed as far as events that get planned for the week you’re gone after your flight and all that’s been booked. Hence my regrettably missing out on a weekend full of sold-out shows at the newly re-opened Trees in Deep Ellum.Alas,…
Jenni and the Hi Lifers at Sons of Hermann Hall’s SonsStock on Saturday, August 15. This video is 40 seconds of stage and two minutes of a tour of Sons. Kinda makes you feel like you were there in all that tie-dye majesty. And, uh, Jenni: Singing folk music does…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like the injuries sustained by Steven Tyler after falling off a stage in Sturgis weren’t so minor after all: The classic rock legends in Aerosmith have canceled the remainder of their summer tour. Marilyn Manson is throwing idle threats…
OK everybody. Show me some grace here, because this Good Friday you’re reading marks the first time Mr. Pete Freedman has trusted your mostly-friendly neighborhood Denton correspondent to offer up the show-going options for the weekend. There’s loads of release shows this weekend, but before that: First, I kinda regret…
“All good things must come to an end…” or so says the title of a bulletin just posted on the Annex House’s MySpace page. We held back Good Friday a bit to bring you this breaking news. We haven’t heard back from anyone at the house yet, but the message…
