Yep. And you said so, according to this 72-page study from a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which surveyed radio listeners in six markets, including DFW, only to find that they’re all dissatisfied with what they’re hearing. It’s not that hard, folks. Really, it isn’t. Just play more…
Over the weekend, Teenage Cool Kids’ new full-length LP, Foreign Lands, was made available for pre-order. Like the Denton-based indie rockers’ debut full-length, Queer Salutations, the new record is being released on the indie-label Protagonist Music. But, unlike Queer Salutations, which was released on CD, Foreign Lands will be pressed…
The Happy Bullets brought in a whole bunch of friends to Space on Friday night in its attempt to break a world record/shoot a music video for its new single “Fuck Yeah, I’m In Love With You”. Giggle Party was there; The King Bucks were there, too. And so were…
The North Carolina indie rockers Annuals played the House of Blues Saturday night, along with What Laura Says and Jessica Lea Mayfield.We asked Hal Samples to check out the show and see what sort of visuals he could find. The fruit of his effort: this concert slideshow, for your viewing…
Local rock outfit The Early Republic played the House of Blues’ Pontiac Garage Friday night for its CD release party, where it was joined by Mother’s Anthem, Designing Me and Eimi Hall. Pete’s column this week will get more in-depth about the night, but photographer Matt Nager documented the whole…
Kudos to you, DFW music aficionados! Once again you’ve done an amazing job of capturing this past weekend’s concerts. For those of you who missed out, pull up a chair and get your music on. And, well, me? I’ll take the credit for bringing you this delightful dish of musical…
Ne-Yo, Musiq Soulchild & Jazmine SullivanNokia TheatreFebruary 15, 2009 Better than: The usual endurance test that most multi-act concerts usually are. I’ll admit it. I didn’t know heading into last night’s show that Jazmine Sullivan and Musiq Soulchild were on the bill with Ne-Yo at Grand Prairie’s Nokia Theatre. But…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 16, 2009… Estelle Bennett, member or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group, The Ronnettes, died at 67 in her Englewood, New Jersey, home. There must be something about being in Korn that will drive you to salvation: Reginald…
Gay Prom Bloodbath Mable Peabody’s in DentonFriday, February 13, 2009 Better than: A Priscilla, Queen of the Desert movie marathon Friday the 13th welcomes the truly bizarre, and Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton was waiting open arms during last night’s weirdo extravaganza, promoted as “Gay Prom Bloodbath” and…
OK. First off, sorry if this is coming a little late in the day and if our descriptions of these shows are a little shorter than usual. A couple unanticipated developments (like the SXSW complete schedule announcement, for instance) got us a little derailed this afternoon. But enough handcuffing. Onto…
Every year at SXSW, our parent company, Village Voice Media, hosts a day-party concert filled with enticing national names. This year will be no different, I’m told, although the lineup card for this year’s show hasn’t yet been announced. We’ll let you know as soon as it is. That said,…
Do you like making snap judgments about local bands? You’re in luck. Volume 2 of the One Hundred Second Dash compilation series is available for free download today. To download it, just follow the link to the One Hundred Second Dash blog and click on the animation in the upper…
This afternoon, SXSW unveiled its complete lineup of acts booked to play this year’s festival. It’s a lengthy list, and, honestly, it’s kinda a bitch to troll through, unless you’re looking for something specific. So we did the dirty work for you, hunting down the complete list of DFWd acts…
We’ll be there, documenting the Happy Bullets’ new video shoot for a slideshow you can expect to see here on Monday, I bet…
The Captain’s Dead blog, which, let’s face it, is about as good a source on Centro-matic as any thanks to its incessant fanship of the band, has an awesome bootleg available for yourdownloading pleasure of frontman Will Johnson (pictured above) performing solo at a recent Dan’s Silverleaf gig. In it,…
I’d be lying if I said I totally “got” The Secret Handshake, the widely regarded indie/dance emo-pop project of Dallas’ own Luis Dubuc. One the one hand, I don’t really see what makes him so different from the throngs of other like-minded acts around town, or why he’s gotten so…
Yep, that’s a young pre-97’s Rhett MIller in the video from 1987, posted above–just part one of a two-part Hi-Res Diner interview (part deux is after the jump) Dragon Street Records’ David Dennard posted to Youtube last week. It’s a continuation of this performance, which we showed you last month.In…
In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our door persons…
North Carolina’s The Ox Magnolia posted its new album up as a free download over on the band’s MySpace page on Wednesday. And, I’ll be damned if I haven’t plopped down $14.95, or more, for albums that were no where near as good as the stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful Only Some Place…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 13, 2009… Beginning on Monday, March 2, you can see Bono preening for five straight nights. Yep, U2 will be the lone musical guest on Late Show With David Letterman that whole week long. Fred Durst will once again lead his…
This week’s pick is a bit anticlimactic, I’ll admit. We already ran the poster on Tuesday, in Daniel Rodrigue’s post about the Spitfire Tumbleweeds’ final (or is it???) show. But nothing else really grabbed my attention the way this stark, subtly spooky image did. Plus, it does a good job…
The now-Austin-based (and formerly Dallas-based–frontman Ryan Sambol and his brother, bass player Phillip, are the sons of Bob’s Steak and Chophouse owner Bob Sambol) lo-fi garage rockers The Strange Boysare getting all prepped for the March 24 release of its debut LP, The Strange Boys…And Girls Club. And, as a…
