The passing years can be unkind to rebels. You survive booze, bad marriages and car crashes, only to have the march of time leave its muddy bootprint on your shining legacy. One day, you’re Marlon Brando in The Wild One, a quintessential leather boy. A few decades later, you’re being…
In 1981, Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after Speak & Spell (he wrote most of the album, which included DM’s first hit, “I Just Can’t Get Enough “) to team with singer Alison Moyet. As Yaz (or Yazoo), they put out two albums that would sweep dance clubs and provide…
On paper, it reads like another dismissible synth-wielding ’80s rehash. Dallas already has plenty of bands like that. There’s a slight variation in this case, as dapper frontman J. Quincy Romine is channeling David Bowie rather than Ian Curtis, and it’s not as if there was a dearth of Bowie…
If you’re unfamiliar with Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment, it’s the Austin-based booking agency whose clients make generous use of the stomp box—a small wooden box with a microphone pickup inside that, when struck with the foot, makes a tremendous racket; release albums with names like Log Bomb, Dirty Old One Man…
He’s about to turn 51, and Peter Murphy, the godfather of goth, still has that maniacal look to him, that flamboyant edge that set him and his band, Bauhaus, apart from the crowd back in the ’80s. Forever remembered for “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (and his appearance in the David Bowie…
Buffalo’s Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, CIWWAF focuses so heavily on pop sheen, hooks and scenester touchstones that it’s often difficult to figure out just what the sum of the parts is. But, for a generation…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Country/Roots Act Eleven Hundred Springs 100 Damned Guns Doug Burr Tejas Brothers The King Bucks Quebe Sisters Band Burr’s up for six other awards; Eleven…
BET’s “Rap City” comes on at 4 in the afternoon in this here time zone, which means that in, oh, about five minutes or so, you can flip on your cable box and see Dallas’ own Play-N-Skillz appearing on the show. (Sorry for the late notice, but we just heard.)…
Models and clothes like this will be on display at The Door tomorrow. (Nice.) Tomorrow night, The Door in Deep Ellum will be filled with skinny, pretty, intricately styled people, and on this occasion it won’t just be emo boys. The Pin Show is a showcase of local fashion talent,…
The Bravo Combo-scored As The Wrench Turns, which, as we told you about last month, is PBS’ first primetime animated series and focuses on the lives of NPR radio personalities Click and Clack from Car Talk, premieres tonight at 7 o’clock on KERA, channel 13. As a reminder, this Brave…
Oops! Not only did I report last month that the U.S. Air Guitar Championship was skipping Dallas, I praised Allah that this assemblage of freaks and geeks weren’t coming to our area. Well, now Shelley Wright of the U.S. Air Guitar Corporation (!) tells me that the regional finals of…
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…at Dada? (Tessa Angus) Looks like Dada’s keeping up on its promise to “create an A-plus venue, a kickass place for live music”–at least on the booking side of things. If you head on over to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Myspace page, you’ll see something of interest…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Label Idol Records Kirtland Records Good Records Gutterth Records TXMF Records An interesting competition, as one seems on here just because of name recognition and…
…so says this here somewhat-NSFW video: And since I clearly wasn’t around when Red Jacket and its Ruby Room were still rocking the shit, hosting secret shows and generally being awesome (or so I’m told), I’ll just let the press release do the talking for me. Check it after the…
We’ve been keeping you up to date on Fat Pimp, the Warner Bros.-signed local hip-hop product who’s been scorching the airwaves of K104 (104.5 KKDA-FM) all summer long with his song “Rack Daddy,” which implores you to dance along with him and, well, “do the Rack Daddy.” Sure, but how?…
With our DOMA ballot online and ripe for your votin’, we figured we’d give you some help: a daily breakdown of each category’s nominees. Best Record Store CD World Recycled Books Strawberry Fields Bill’s Records Good Records The good news: No Best Buys, Walmarts, iTunes or Amazons here, thank God…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. Some are left over from previous music editors, others fell by the wayside because they were trumped week after week by albums that…
‘Cause Tom Petty’s a good boy, loves his mama, loves Jesus, and America, too, he and the rest o’ the Heartbreakers are launching a ticket auction for the front row seats at shows in their upcoming tour (which includes a stop at Superpages.com Center on August 27). And the proceeds…
[Finally, an excuse to post a clip from Boogie Nights…] Earlier this summer we had Boston/Styx. The Journey/Cheap Trick/Heart trio is coming in a few weeks. And squeezed in between is Night Ranger, a band that tortured me so much in the early ’80s that I think the song “Sister…
And, uh, they sure look happy to be there, eh guys? Um… The seven-and-2/3-page piece is basically a primer of the Old 97’s’ history leading up to this point in its career, with Blame It On Gravity, which also happens to be the band’s best-charting release (its currently sitting at…
Just to clarify: Jesse Hughey didn’t hate Cleburne hip-hop artist Scott Johnson’s new disc, Clutch. The last line in his review, “He just needs a ‘delete’ button,” was meant to explain that Johnson should cut down his 25-track effort to its best efforts only in order for this disc to…
Better than fireworks? Maybe. (N. Zinner) Kids, barbecue and fireworks displays kept me at home this Independence Day, but if I hadn’t been such a dedicated homebody, I would have gotten my ass up to Denton and checked out Imaad Wasif at Hailey’s. Wasif is a Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter best known…
