Our Doomed Tie to the Thriving Local DIY Scene

Sloppyworld’s announcement came first. We’d written about the Exposition Park DIY venue twice in print: first in January, profiling it as a promising new local venue, and then again in February, this time because of its involvement with the Melodica Festival. About a month later, Sloppyworld owner and operator John…

Blame It On Barbecue Sauce…Or The Ribs

“Spice-alicious?” Um, no. The Old 97’s are no longer–how you say?–“spice-alicious.” After more of the Hammond vs. Old 97’s Great Album Discussion of 2008, we decided that, when it comes to the band many of us around here grew up loving, we do, in fact, agree with the sentiment of…

Bonus MP3: Murry Hammond — “Lost At Sea”

If you have eyes, you’ll notice something about the page in which we interview Rhett Miller about the new Old 97’s record, Blame It On Gravity in this week’s paper. Like, specifically, how we included a sidebar review of Murry Hammond’s I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On…

Bonus MP3: Lil Wil — “My Dougie (Radio Mix)”

Spoke with Dallas’s own hip-hop sensation Lil Wil last week about his upcoming album for a story that’ll come out in our print edition in a few weeks (right before his Asylum Records-released debut Dolla$, TX drops on June 3). So, yeah, look forward to that. Wil’s an interesting guy;…

Art Conspirators Seek Cause

Sarah Jaffe performed at last year’s Art Conspiracy (Chris Phelps). If past Art Conspiracies are any indication, we can rest assured that the 2008 version of the arts and music charity event will be one of the best of the year in Dallas. The biggest unknown right now (aside from…

Video: Simple Plan at Palladium

In my daily YouTube trolling I discovered a zillion (OK, it was more like 12) videos one person posted from the May 12 Simple Plan show at the Palladium. Who knew Simple Plan fans were so hardcore about their love? Well, get a taste of YouTube user CatyMc was all…

Green Day…er, no…Foxboro Hot Tubs to play The Loft

The new Green Day album. Sorta. It’s not up on The Loft’s Web site or its Myspace yet, but Billboard reports that, just eight days from today, Green Day’s alter ego act, Foxboro Hot Tubs, who made some radio waves before it was confirmed that the two acts were one…

Confirmed: 2008 Ozzfest To Be One-Day Fest In Dallas

Metallica makes its Ozzfest debut this year, too. The rumors started a while back, but now it’s been confirmed, with all the details worked out: Ozzfest 2008 will be a one-day music festival held in Dallas (not a two-day, two-city fest as was originally believed). It’ll take place in Frisco…

Videos: Raconteurs at House of Blues

We didn’t make it out to see the Raconteurs earlier this month. We hit up the Kanye West show instead. So, we were pretty pleased when we came across a few videos from the House of Blues show — especially the one featuring the cover of ZZ Top’s “Cheap Sunglasses.”…

Bits: PlayRadioPlay!, Black Tie Dynasty, Faux Fox

Black Tie Dynasty will love you forever if you make this your MySpace image.We’ve got locals on TV, grubbing for MySpace attention and offering up new music. Dive in. Those who watched One Tree Hill may have done a double take when you heard “Elephants As Big As Whales” by…

Big Tuck Heading To Waco Sunday To Dip In Da Lac

Though he claims not to be as materialistic as most mainstream rappers, South Dallas rapper Big Tuck manages to rap about Escalades and rims on a few tracks. So he should feel right at home checking out the lowriders, custom cars and models when he isn’t performing and signing autographs…

Tonight! On The CW! Lisa Loeb! Gossip Girl! O! M! F! G!

Just got word that The CW network, The O.C.-wannabe Gossip Girl and Dallas’ own Lisa Loeb–or a trifecta clubs editor Jesse Hughey calls “The Holy Trinity of ‘Who Cares?'”–are set to join forces tonight on your television sets during the 7 o’clock hour. Loeb’s guest-starring role on the show takes…

The New York Times Is On To Denton.

Hey, now! The travel section of yesterday’s New York Times has sweet little profile of the little d in it, and it gets all “Is Denton the Next Austin?” while namedropping a bunch of local acts and even including a media player with songs from Midlake, Sarah Jaffe, The Baptist…