Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called “The Zoo”. A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles’ White Album called “Revolution #9”,…

NX35 Announces Festival Performance, Speaker Schedule

Over at NX35.com, which is, fittingly, the home page for the inaugural Denton debut of the former North by 35 South by Southwest day party–but on a much larger scale–the festival’s organizers have released the performance and speaker schedules for its four-day jaunt around the Denton Square. Nothing scheduled for…

Tum Tum and DJ Drop Offer Up The Definition Of A ZillaNaire

It’s been a little over a year now since Dallas rapper Tum Tum released Eat or Get Ate, the breakout album that saw the man who also calls himself Tumzilla (or sometimes just Zilla) score a moderate national hit with the song “Caprice Muzik”, and though we still haven’t seen…

Download: Two New, Improved Tracks From THe BAcksliders

I’ll be honest. I was somewhat underwhelemed by THe BAcksliders’ 2008 release, You’re Welcome. It was weird, I thought. Here’s this raucous, straight up rock ‘n’ roll band–one that’s pretty darn great live, and here’s this disc that just shimmers in crisp, clean, shiny production. Something didn’t really jive.But today,…

Katy Perry Reschedules House of Blues Show

Per a House of Blues press release: Katy Perry’s Dallas performance has been moved back from March 21 to May 11. Tickets purchased to the original date will be honored at the new one. Per an EMI press release that showed up seconds later: The entirety of Perry’s 50-city world…

Alejandro Escovedo Looks to the Past to Regale his Future

“It’s like comparing the different women you’ve fallen in love with,” muses journeyman singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo. “Some end up well, some not so well, you know?” But Escovedo isn’t talking about romance, per se—rather, he’s ruminating over the bands he’s played in, a theme that recurs throughout his latest album,…

Dr. Dooom vs. Dr. Octagon Friday, March 6, at The Loft

Kool Keith is known by many names:  Black Elvis, Ultra, Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom.  What he’s not known for is being your average MC. Thirteen years ago, when the hot thing in hip-hop was flaunting your cars, money and jewelry, Keith, with the help of legendary underground producer and…

Cut Copy, Matt & Kim, Knightlife

Cut Copy successfully mashes together its musical influences of disco, Motown, shoegaze and trance, while adding some melody and decent lyrics. And, as such, its second full-length release, last year’s In Ghost Colours, ended up on lots of “best albums of the year” lists. More impressive, though, is that the…

Lily Allen

With her crackling samples and toothy snark, Lily Allen arrived in the middle of this decade as the antidote to Britney’s self-aggrandizement. She was the Gawker.com to Spears’ People. Now, with the saucy 2000s winding down, its signature decadence and celebrity lust are growing quainter with each property foreclosure. Attitudes…

Wavves

All hail the shitty recording. Nearly everything counterculture has been pillaged and repackaged, but the shitty recording remains a floodwall against wider mainstream acceptance. With the new crop of in-the-red punkers, from Vivian Girls to Times New Viking and now Wavves, a harsher, more contemporary take on lo-fi has advanced…

Mark Olson & Gary Louris

Minnesota’s Jayhawks—co-led by singer-songwriters/guitarists Gary Louris and Mark Olson—were one of the finest bands to come out of the No Depression movement, carried aloft by the duo’s trademark rough-hewn high harmonies. So when Olson flew the coop in 1995 (mostly to collaborate with then-wife Victoria Williams), Louris soldiered on as…