Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009… All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business! Too bad he didn’t take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official state song…
We alluded to this a few weeks back, but today comes confirmation of the lineup set to play our parent company’s free-to-attend day party on Friday, March 20, at La Zona Rosa during this year’s SXSW–a fairly impressive bill in my unobjective opinion, featuring at least two acts (guess!) who…
A real treat today, courtesy Paul Slavens, Doug Burr and the fine folks at KERA. Slavens, the longtime area musician and KERA radio host has launched a brand new podcast hosted on KERA’s web site called “Track By Track” in which he interviews area musicians about their albums, one song…
St. Vincent was in San Francisco this past weekend to perform as part of the NoisePop festival and, as this Stereogum post entails, Annie Clark debuted two of the new songs off her upcoming Actor album at her Friday night show. Above, check out a video one crowd member shot…
With their own enormous faces staring down from the wall behind them, John Pedigo and Taylor Young of the O’s helped celebrate the latest mural in Frank Campagna’s Deep Ellum music series Saturday night, with a quick set in the Deep Sushi parking lot on Elm Street. As Pete warned…
Up at Dan’s Silverleaf, Bosque Brown kept the room warm late into Sunday night, headlining a bill that included indie rockers Fight Bite and Hospital Ships.Matt Nager covered the show for us, and you can check out his shots from the show in our slideshow here…
Damaged Good$ played the Cavern Friday night, and Trak and Coool brought the show right down into the dancing crowd.Keep an eye out for Pete’s column on the show and the group in this upcoming week’s paper. But, in the meantime, our photographer Matt Nager was also at The Cavern…
You know how we do! In case you missed out, want to relive your experience or are interested in broadening your musical horizons, here’s a quick recap of last weekend’s Dallas-area shows. Don’t forget to take your camera out next weekend–I’d love to include your videos in next week’s roundup!Dommin…
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders stoppd through town on Friday night for a gig at the House of Blues, and somewhere in the crowd–or, from the looks of it, everywhere in the crowd–Observer photographer Drew Williams was in attendance, documenting the event for a slideshow, which you can check right…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 2, 2009… Proof that dudes who wear eyeliner and don’t go out during the day can be, like, totally awesome: The Cure are NME’s newest recipients of the “Godlike Genius” Award. Surprise! W. Axl Rose hates Slash and blames everyone…
Welcome to another weekly installment of Good Friday. A couple big shows happening this weekend–some we’ve talked about already, some we haven’t. First, as always, the one’s we have mentioned before…Tonight in Denton, catch the Starlight Mints show at Hailey’s. In Fort Worth, you should be heading to the Longhorn…
Missed out on the Heartless Bastards tix we gave away earlier? Or maybe tonight just didn’t work for you? No worries, mon freir: Spune’s also hooking us up with a pair of tickets to give you to Saturday night’s Heatless Bastards show–this one at Hailey’s and with Denton favorites Record…
A couple o’ Okie indie pop acts– Starlight Mints and Recorder–are making the drive down to Denton tonight for a show at Hailey’s where they’ll be met by Denton Radiohead devotees Grassfight. The obvious draw here: Starlight Mints, whose debut release, 2000’s The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of, thrust…
As Mike Daniel told you in this week’s print edition, Heartless Bastards are in town this weekend for two shows around the way, the first of which comes tonight at Fort Worth’s Longhorn Saloon, where the newly Austin-based band will be joined on the bill by DC9 favorite Dove Hunter and…
Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we’ve been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It’s what we do; we’re obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thing…
Tomorrow night’s Waving Hands event at Rubber Gloves in Denton promises to be one of the weekend’s best shows, combining dreamy ambient, mostly instrumental music from Sleep Whale (formerly Mom), Hotel, Hotel, Sunnybrook and My Empty Phantom with an art exhibition featuring the work of Michael Little, Drew Elam, Elijah…
Alright, so, “Dallas Week” just keeps on keeping on over on MTV.com and, since, as I wrote before, I don’t have MTVu in my cable package, well, I have no clue if these are running anywhere but online.The thing about these clips that get me is that they’re just so…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 27, 2009…People are starting to stand up in defense of Chris Brown’s actions–like Kanye West and Bow Wow. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is still backing Rihanna.In Orem, Utah, tonight, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will share a stage for…
This week’s poster promoting Hardin Sweaty And The Ready To Go Saturday at The Liquid Lounge was sent to us by Connor Hill along with a note explaining that it was “made by the powerful sasquatches at magnificent beard.” At that site you’ll find a few other nice posters as…
…and here’s another clip of Too $hort and Bun B talking about our fine city.In other news, Play-N-Skillz has announced that it will now be hosting a weekly radio show on K104 (KKDA-FM 104.5) every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Quite creatively, the Salinas brothers are calling their…
Seems my favorite garage/punk/alt-country band from Cowtown, The Cut*Off, is keeping busy with a plethora (love using that word) of activities. First off, the band hits Lakewood Bar and Grill this weekend on a bill with The Slack and Salim Nourallah. Then the Cut*Off will be on Channel 4’s Good…
Even though vocalist Robert Lowe is now the full time lead vocalist for legendary Swedish Metalheads Candlemass, his local quartet, Solitude Aeturnus, has a new CD coming out next month. Hour of Despair, a live effort that was issued on DVD last year, hits the streets in Europe on March…
