Poster Of The Week: Speak Easy At The Lounge On Elm Street Tonight

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…

Listen: Doug Burr’s New “Topeka” Demo

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…

Gig Alert: Guthrie Kennard Tonight at Cadillac Ranch

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…

The Spree Demo Spree Continues, With No Signs Of Slowing…

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…

Foreigner Loves Texas Motor Speedway, Apparently

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…

Picture Show: DOMAXXI House Party/Photo Shoot Slideshow

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…

Check Out Bowling For Soup’s Large, Prosthetic Penis

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…

Reel Big Fish,The English Beat

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…

Asher Roth Talks Award Shows in Honor Of Our Very Own DOMAs

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…

David Allan Coe, The O’s

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…

The Fray, Jack’s Mannequin, Meese

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

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…

Tool

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…

Son Volt

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…