Clearly, because it’s been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist’s song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but “very special episode” (this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009… Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. “Eruption” just can’t play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds…y’know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you…
Vigilante Music Group has assembled an intriguing lineup for tonight’s Speakeasy at The Lounge On Elm Street. Dallas’ Original Soul is a rapper for grownups, with thoughtful, positive rhymes over beats that seem equally influenced by chilled-out soul, smooth jazz and organic hip-hop; anyone who digs Dem Southernfolkz oughtta check…
Seems demos really are all the rage around town this week. The above clip, aside from featuring photos from the great Allison V. Smith, features a brand new demo track from area folk hero Doug Burr, written exclusively for the upcoming independent film, Topeka–which, wouldn’t you know, is written and…
Unbeknownst to me, semi-local singer/songwriter Guthrie Kennard has set up a sort of residency at the Los Colinas nightspot Cadillac Ranch. If I’d been paying better attention, I would have already hustled my ass up John Carpenter Freeway and caught Kennard’s fine examples of Americana much earlier than this tonight.Relatively…
So it really looks like Tim DeLaughter is going to keep up with his streak of posting a new Polyphonic Spree demo on his blog every day–for the foreseeable future, at least–which is pretty incredible, if not a little overwhelming.Anyway, the two latest offerings over at The Fragile Army are…
Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that, go figure, it looks like Foreigner has kinda, sorta, maybe named its upcoming three-disc release, Can’t Slow Down, as a nod to Texas Motor Speedway, where the band played its first NASCAR gig.Either that or the band’s just playing… wait…
Just got the August issue of Spin — the one with Harpo Marx Jeff Tweedy on the cover — and figured, well, sure, there’s gotta be at least one Dallas band amongst “The 100 Greatest Bands You’ve (Probably) Never Heard.” And, sure enough, there they are — the Buck Pets,…
Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week’s Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato’s debut, Don’t Forget, debuted at No. 2…
Last week, we shared a slideshow of images caught by Wheeler Sparks at the house party we through threw as a photo shoot for this year’s DOMA print package.And though you can see a bunch of photos Allison V. Smith took at the party for our cover package in today’s…
I’d say that congratulations are certainly in order for Denton’s Bowling for Soup this week. Why? Well, quite a few reasons actually. For one, the band’s tenth studio release, Sorry For Partyin’, is getting prepped for release on Jive Records. And, secondly, the band’s already debuted the first single from…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 23, 2009… Conor Oberst is allegedly retiring his Bright Eyes moniker. I would like to suggest a new name: George Taylor. Sufjan Stevens is set to release a CD/DVD set for his movie The BQE. No word yet on a set of…
Besides being most identified as the poster boys for the mid-’90s ska explosion, the members of smart-alecky outfit Reel Big Fish are somewhat infamous for their goofy covers of ’80s hits. Frontman/guitarist Aaron Barrett and crew have quite the hard-on for performing send-up songs at gigs or on albums, in…
Following Asher Roth on Twitter is arguably the easiest way to sneak a voyeuristic peek into what it’s like to be hottest national act that Dallas’ urban radio stations won’t play. The national media loves him, though—and so do his 88,000-plus followers on Twitter—yet Dallas’ urban airwaves have yet to…
Deprived of caffeine and pastries by a seemingly endless series of interviews, Jason Molina is, at the moment, even more edgy (but no less talkative) than usual. From a hotel room in Indiana, the singer-songwriter best known for his work with Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. speaks (prolifically) about…
So get this: Dorrough’s car? Doesn’t have an ice cream paint job. Go figure. It’s not the most earth-shattering secret ever revealed, no. But, still, it’s kinda funny to see Dorrough rolling around town in a car that isn’t decked out in the style described in his smash summer hit…
Stifle yourself, Steve Earle. Lower that middle finger, Hank III. Take another hit from that spliff, Willie Nelson. And then all of you step aside. When it comes to insurgency, you guys pale compared to that cantankerous country crooner David Allan Coe. Banished to reform school at age 9, he…
Far as we know, a starmaker/Svengali didn’t have anything to do with the formation of Hey Monday. But the Florida group’s members seem to have been as carefully cast for their roles as the telegenic types who made up two of the state’s prepackaged ’90s-era exports, ‘N Sync and the…
If the sun’s shining, it’s a perfect occasion to break out Jack’s Mannequin’s two albums, 2005’s Everything in Transit and last year’s The Glass Passenger. Ebullient piano, sugary pop harmonies and bright California rock barely conceal each album’s melancholic undercurrent, from Transit’s odes to heartbreak to Passenger’s triumphs over mortality…
Cage famously claimed Eminem ripped off his style, has his own 8 Mile in the dream pipeline (with longtime fan Shia LaBeouf hoping to play him), and a new album that you could call his anti-Relapse-with Cage’s entertainingly frank autobiography contrasting with Eminem’s increasingly desperate agit-poop. But the more telling…
It’s probably not a coincidence that there’s nothing new to say about Tool. After all, it’s been a while since the band had anything new to add to the world. (Well, presuming they ever had anything new to add to the world.) Whether it’s their cookie-cutter riffs, their interchangeable drum…
Jay Farrar’s Summerteeth sucked. When the Son Volt frontman—once a member of Uncle Tupelo with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy—tried to branch out from Americana with 2007’s The Search (which featured electric piano, backward loops, a horn section and electric bouzouki) it didn’t go nearly as well as when his former bandmate…
