Club Dada owner Ben Tapia called up DC9 HQ last night with a pretty sweet deal for readers still looking for something to do for New Year’s tomorrow night: There’s all sorts of stuff happening there (free Daddy Jack’s, champagne, etc.) and performances from Cas Haley and Scott McCurry and…
Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008… My life is over. Yes, it’s over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christmas. The most wonderful…
5. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs A cover that seems created to cause migraines. I suppose this shit’s supposed to be a comment on our modern condition or something. If so, spare me…
Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…
Photographer Caity Colvard braved the Plano Centre yesterday for some quality time at the second Unsilent Night Festival, headlined by Forever the Sickest Kids and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and attended by a whole lot of actual kids, too.Shots of local acts Red Car Wire and Sky Eats Airplane (and…
Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…
Once the little ones were tucked into their dreams of St. Nicholas (or parked in front of their new Wiis and Xboxes), the rest of Dallas made it out on the town over the long weekend.We’ve got a pair of Night Moves slideshows here this morning, first from Green Elephant…
The pop music coverage over at the Dallas Morning News after its most recent round of layoffs and buyouts (which saw longtime critics Mike Daniel take a buyout and Thor Christensen laid off) has been, well, a tad underwhelming of late, to put it mildly. It certainly doesn’t doesn’t help…
This above video of the Dedringers’ show at the Granada on Friday night is pretty much the sole clip on the Youtube this morning of this past weekend’s musical affairs. Other than that, there’s a whole lot of Dallas clips, pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page clips, and, of course, clips…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 29, 2008…DJ AM got into the Christmas spirit a little early this year. On Christmas Eve, he not only sued Goodyear, Learjet and the charter company he used for the flight that crashed and left him and drummer Travis Barker…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
Kinda a slow weekend coming up around the D this time around. Maybe everyone’s just gearing up for Amateur Night New Year’s Eve? Dunno.I do know that we only hipped you to two weekend shows this week in print, though: Todd Snider’s two-night stay at the Granada Theater tonight and…
You don’t need a half-wit music critic to tell you it’s been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern…
And now it’s time for the “I love you like a fat kid loves cake” memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
Editor’s Note: Over the next 10 days, I’ll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums…
It’s no wonder that Denton got that nod from Paste Magazine for Best Music Scene of 2008 because, at the risk of making this column sound like a broken record, this space is going to yet again be devoted to another relatively new Denton venue that’s starting to book great…
OK, hotshot. Think you know your music? Think you followed the national headlines fairly diligently these past 12 months? Think you know the difference between your twee pop and tweeny bop? Well, hold on right there—and prove that you do, indeed, know your stuff. Take our quiz on the most…
The story behind Dallas native Edmondson’s first recording is something of a do-it-yourself legend. At age 21, Edmondson says he “looked on the back of a lot of records” to find a producer. It was ballsy: He saw where the hits were coming from, recorded seven or eight songs of…
