The New Frontiers, we hardly knew ye. (Gabriel Hernandez) Sad news was sent out last night when The New Frontiers pulled the ol’ “It’s not you, it’s us!” card and announced that it’d be breaking up after its upcoming string of area shows. When it comes to the local music,…
Well, it wasn’t the liveliest show to ever grace the Granada’s hallowed stage, but James McMurtry recorded a live album Saturday night. The newly launched NoDepression.com billed Saturday’s event as a promo for the new site — one alt-country classic playing for another — though the way it turned out,…
Didn’t see this coming, not after openly speculating that Janet Jackson could cancel… But, turns out, it’s LL Cool J who won’t make tomorrow night’s concert at the AAC. The press release statement is short and sweet: LL Cool J will no longer be performing on the Janet Jackson headlining…
The Death Set, doing its live thing. (Justin Kelly) Hey, check this out: Tonight’s show at The Lounge, which features Baltimore’s The Death Set as its headliner, is f-r-e-e to attend. If, that is, you’re over 21. If not, this sucker’ll cost you 10 bones. But for the over 21…
Look out, Buttholes: The original Surfers are back. (Keri Pickett) Yeah, we’ve talked plenty about this week’s Butthole Surfers show at the Granada in recent days, so no need to rehash it all here in this post. No, this post serves for just one reason: To announce that, thanks to…
Once upon a time, a long time ago — OK, Friday actually, but it feels like it was a long while back — we were waiting for the weekend to begin. Oh, the music we were going to see, the things we were going to do. Well it’s Monday now…
New Kids on the Block American Airlines Center October 19, 2008 Better Than: I remembered them to be. “New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits…” (Brittan Dunham) When I was five years old, my mom took me to see New Kids on the Block, sparking a never-ending…
Thorr Himself in 2006. No need to mention James McMurtry, Modern ‘Til Midnight, The Reverend Horton Heat and Riverboat Gamblers and more at Pegasus Plaza or Anthony Hopkins with the DSO, all of which we covered in the print version of DC-9. Nor need we re-blog about The Ting Tings,…
One of the best purveyors of rootsy punk, Columbus, Ohio’s Two Cow Garage, has just released Speaking in Cursive, the band’s 4th effort. The album hit the streets yesterday, and is the first Two Cow effort not to feature founding member/drummer Dustin Harigle. Before a CD release show in its…
When first encountering Syntax Strange’s juxtaposition of acoustics, boom bap, and unforgiving staccato flow, you just might wonder, “what the hell is that cat talking about?” The understatement of the week would be to say that he rhymes for people who listen to lyrics, not just hear music. Syntax’s rapid-fire…
The Hotel Cafe Tour House Of Blues October 16, 2008 Better Than: Staying at home, watching Grey’s and washing my hair, both of which I love and one of which is soundtracked by several of the Hotel Café girls’ songs–but I’ll leave it up to you to guess which. Ingrid…
The British indie pop duo The Ting Tings provide the soundtrack to Aural Ambush this week. We sprung their single “That’s Not My Name” on some music-lovers outside the Granada and along Greenville Avenue Thursday night. All liked the song’s beat, but there was plenty of disagreement beyond that –…
Fairly often, honest-to-goodness readers–not publicists or booking agents–email us with pleas for coverage on certain shows. Not because they have a vested interest in the act’s success, but because they have a genuine interest in seeing an artist, and they think others should check out the performance, too. On that…
So THIS is the guy who shows up in the comments section to piss on pretty much everything we write. I’m surprised the rapper behind “Stacks” would take such a passionate interest in Pete’s speculation about the Boston Spaceships cancellation, or in my description of a country-folk singer’s voice. But…
Really? Third-best? That seems a bit high, no? (Roger Caldwell) So the Morning News’ main music blog posted this item earlier this week, and I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it ever since. Basically, it says that the top grossing North American concert of the year so far…
Even though I nicknamed Janet Jackson and LL Cool J’s Rock Witchu Tour around the country as The Botox Tour, I still wanted to see firsthand just how good (or bad) this show actually would be when it makes its way to town next Wednesday. But now it looks like…
Gazelles frontman Adam Bertholdi remembers The Beach Boys always being present on his family’s home stereo. He remembers running and dancing around the living room couch with his younger brother, and when his family would take to the road, The Beach Boys’ music would be on in the car too…
As Girl Talk wanders the globe from one soldout dance melee to the next, laptop in hand, it’s hard to believe he was recently just Gregg Gillis, a biomedical engineer in Pittsburgh, who had released two pop-collage mashup albums to a small audience. But when his album Night Ripper exploded…
Seems there are two surefire ways to rile up a member of Weezer. Approach No. 1: Mention the fact that the power-pop and geek rock outfit’s latest self-titled effort, the June-released “red album,” seems different from past Weezer records mainly because it’s not just frontman Rivers Cuomo who tackles the…
The Frontier Brothers are what might have happened if the love children of Randy Newman and Stephen Malkmus were born, as the Brothers claim to have been, in the Betelgeuse planetary system, then raised in Fort Worth and transplanted to Austin. The giddily fun songs on the band’s first full-length…
The half-studio/half-live format of this vigorous EP serves as the perfect jumping-off point for a discussion concerning the dichotomy of the band’s name. Are these guys mad as in angry? Or mad as in loco? Are they a Latin band simply because the six members are all Hispanic? After all,…
Side projects are a risky maneuver. Expectations are evenly split between those who want you to sound exactly like the group you’ve splintered from and those anticipating something wildly different. Most dedicated Grizzly Bear fans know that the band is primarily the brainchild of singer Ed Droste, who cobbled together…
