Music

Some good news today out of American Werewolf Academy camp: Apparently, the band’s been getting some radio love both domestically and across the pond. The song “Company of Owls,” off the band’s new disc, Triceratops (which Jesse Hughey diligently reviewed in this wee’s paper), has popped up on the playlist…

Dallas has no shortage of great alt-country bands in our little scene, and now you can add Eastwood to that list. The band will play the Barley House tomorrow night in celebration of Eastwood singer Kevin Millihan Minihan’s birthday. There, the band will preview songs from their forthcoming album, Everthing’s…

Method Entertainment’s flyer for Saturday’s barbecue at Club Dada gets the nod this week. The coloring and vintage psychedelic fonts are very well done. However, the two cows are what put this one over the top. They look absolutely terrified, as if they can see the barbecue pit and sense…

Benjamin Power, half of the U.K. experimental duo Fuck Buttons, doesn’t really seem concerned by the fact that his band’s name could cause consternation among radio programmers—and, surely, others both inside and outside of the music industry. “I suppose some people are put off by the name,” Power says, speaking…

In an odd coincidence, both The Eagles and The Eagles of Death Metal are playing Dallas this week. Which is as good an opportunity as any to compare the hard rockers with the classic rock geezers who inspired their name. On the basis of how each band sounds, EODM would…

It’s not every day that you get the chance to witness a live performance by someone who literally invented a new instrument and was one of a handful of people responsible for an entire genre of music—especially a genre that has had the immeasurably monumental cultural impact of hip-hop. Kool…

The music of Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog is most often compared to classic rock touchstones like The Band and The Beatles, and for good reason—the band shares not only the timeless aesthetic and rich vocal harmonies of Lennon and McCartney or Robertson and Helm, but also the musical longing for simpler…

When DJ Paul, Juicy J and crew made their first big tour run through Dallas nearly a decade ago, they played to a relatively small but raucous crowd in a gritty Deep Ellum club, a scene fitting of their hardcore roots, violent beats and dark lyrics. Since then, though, Three…

When describing These Are Powers’ sound, it’s impossible not to throw out terms like noisy, raw or atonal. But, whatever you do, don’t call the band’s powerful racket post-punk or No Wave. By dubbing their own sound “ghost-punk,” the members of this noise-rock outfit beat critics to the punch. And—thoughts…

Even if you can’t remember explicitly listening to a single Ratatat track, you’ve heard the New York City-based instrumental duo’s music. Aside from boasting a name that—let’s face it—is just fun to say, the duo’s songs have been licensed every which way imaginable: on television shows (CSI, My Gym Partner…

“We make music because of d. boon, mike watt, george hurley, and ed crawford,” read the credits on Deep Snapper’s latest CD, as if The Minutemen (and fIREHOSE) influence wasn’t obvious enough from the music. Like their heroes, the skilled musicians of Deep Snapper are adept at creating complex but…

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Stone is Exit 380’s fourth full-length effort, and it’s by far the Denton band’s most intricate and innovative piece of work. Seems frontman and main songwriter Dustin Blocker wanted to move past the band’s obvious debt to Stone Temple Pilots, so the young man decided to…

For bands that last long enough to make three albums, the third is often a major turning point. American Werewolf Academy is no exception. For starters, there are the personnel changes; singer Aaron Thedford and drummer Tony Harper remain, but Jake Barnhart has replaced Noah Prikryl on bass, and former…

Rappers and producers who appear on The Game’s third album, LAX, include…everybody. There’s Kanye West, Scott Storch, Travis Barker, Keisha Cole and Ne-Yo, for starters, and Game says he recorded more than 220 tracks for the CD. But with the exception of two admittedly lights-out bangers, “My Life” and “Dope…

Four albums in (five, if you’re an eBay-stalking obsessive), Slipknot is having an identity crisis. Frontman Corey Taylor’s side project, Stone Sour, has allowed him to unmask his sensitive singer-songwriter side, and that’s well-represented here on “Snuff” and “Dead Memories”—the former a half-acoustic ballad, the latter a slab of post-grunge…