Gil Mantera’s Party Dream: Drunk and naked. (Krissi Reeves)Spune Records Xmas Dance Party Featuring: Gil Mantera’s Party Dream Dec. 16, 2007 Hailey’s in Denton Better Than: Putting on your party dress and watching Skinemax …on weed! If you are into M-anty Parades, wild M-antics and excellent synth-pop music, then Gil…
Badfinger circa 1971.Looking for those last minute stocking stuffers for the music lover in your family? We’ve found five stellar ones — one a day this week. We’ll also steer you clear of bad box sets and the like. So, here’s the first item that will bring a smile to…
DeMarcus Wade works it at the Anonymous Runway Exhibit. (Erica Hoff)It was too damn cold this weekend. We know we shouldn’t bitch, it could be colder (or so our moms remind us). On the upside, there were a couple seriously awesome shindigs this weekend. Scope our favorites below. Anonymous Runway…
DeMarcus Ware: Dallas’ Next Top Model? (Erica Hoff)It was lights, cameras, fashion last night during the Anonymous Runway Exhibit held at the Lifestyle Fashion Terminal in Victory Park. However, the those who showed up to strut their stuff were anything but anonymous. Dallas Cowboys players Kevin Burnett, DeMarcus Ware, Bobby…
Arson, Thorn vs. Side’s debut CD, was one of the best local releases of 2006, capturing a band growing beyond easy categorization, dressing up the classic hardcore punk of the Bad Brains with a metallic sheen and even throwing in some pop smarts. So what did guitarist/singer Nick Nowell do…
We suggest checking out all the work at Collision, including that by the lovely Ange Fitzgerald. Hear Clint Scism explain Collision and see a few more of the works. (Ange Fitzgerald)A brisk tutorial into what occurs when “things” collide: In the wondrous world of computing, collision refers to “an instance…
I don’t have kids of my own, but I do like to borrow them from time to time. So when I heard animated songster Gustafer Yellowgold was once again the opener for the Polyphonic Spree’s annual holiday spectacular, I couldn’t resist sitting down with my favorite 5-year-old to watch Gustafer’s…
I came late to the UGK party. I was out of the country for much of their rise from 1992-1995, and then I lived in Nashville, where their legend had not yet spread, until the end of 1997. Even after moving back to Houston, it took me a few years…
“It’s much easier getting around Austin than Los Angeles,” says singer-songwriter Randy Weeks about his recent move to the Hill Country. “It’s just a different way of thinking and living.” Weeks is originally from a small town in Minnesota, but he’s spent most of his life in California, where he…
Music DVDs are typically used as stopgaps between CD releases or to drum up support for some other project (movie cameo, tour, impending jail sentence) an artist is promoting. Most amount to little more than music-video compilations, hastily shot concert films or the latest chapters in continuing sagas about horny…
Sometimes it seems like the best acts in the area these days are turning down the volume on their guitars to make way for more intricate indie-pop instrumentation, or forgoing it altogether for keyboards and laptops. Saturday’s bill at Andy’s should prove there are still possibilities for the old six-string…
Bridges and Blinking Lights straddle that line that divides the area’s roots- and Americana-influenced rockers from the pearl-snap crowd. They’re definitely not country, but you ain’t gonna mistake these guys for Brooklynites. What set them apart from every other boring North Texas country-influenced rock act are Jake Wilganowski’s beautifully clear,…
Though they’ve been off the radar, Iceland’s Sigur Rós are no less majestic in 2007 than when they first broke worldwide a few years ago. They return with this two-EP set Hvarf/Heim and concert/documentary DVD Heima, as essential as anything in their catalog. Hvarf unearths three songs lost in the…
Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a new answer to this timeless rock and roll question: reissue. For the second year in a row, David Byrne has chosen this route, and the…
Wu-Tang Clan’s fifth album, 8 Diagrams, comes at a time of group strife. Raekwon has called Wu ringleader and beatmaker RZA a “hip-hop hippie” and says the beats on the new album are too cerebral. And it’s true: While the minimalist production and movie samples evoke Enter the Wu-Tang (36…
This crowded bill of emo (under various guises) features Long Island’s Edison Glass as its headliner, but it’s Ludo from St. Louis who makes the venture to the underage wasteland of the Door worthwhile. Using layers upon layers of guitar and genuine harmony vocals, Ludo is a throwback to Weezer…
Nearly 30 years ago when he was known as Jerry, Gerard Dirkx led The Telefones, one of Dallas’ first and best bands to fall under the ominous new wave umbrella. Along with brothers Chris and Steve, Gerard helped shape the area music scene of the late 1970s. Songs such as…
We figured you’d rather look at a half-naked Kara Monaco than the dudes in Sounding the Silence.The weather outside is frightful but possibly worth getting into with some of the following shows around town. In fact, I even kept that in mind with shows that can also offer some cozy…
Sadly, Ike Turner was better known as a wife beater and coke head than one of the fathers of rock and roll. Last year, he released Rising with the Blues, a defiant, biographical statement of purpose that offered no excuses or apologies for his mistakes and past indiscretions. His searing…
Cedar Springs isn’t quite the mecca for live music that Deep Ellum and Lower Greenville are, but J.R.’s Bar and Grill is making an attempt to change that just a bit. The strip of gay clubs will probably always be the go-to spot for dance music, drag shows and some…
Gerard Dirkx was a founding member of The Telefones, Dallas first and best new wave band. Formed in 1979, Jerry Dirkx played lead guitar and sang, Chris Dirkx played drums, Steve Dirkx played bass and Will Clay played saxophone and synthesizer. The band’s first single, “The Ballad of Jerry Godzilla,”…
We love when we get the chance to go, “Have you heard that?” Today’s is special, it’s a little reworking of Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” in honor of our boy Tony Romo. Really, you just need to watch it. — Chelsea Ide…
