Music

Best bets, bitches! Modern Til Midnight with St. Vincent, Peter & the Wolf, Sleeping States, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and Mom 6 p.m. tonight, Oct. 19. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St.). $15. Hmm…need we tell you about St. Vincent, our native daughter who is currently…

Fort Worth’s Oh, Sleeper is ready to release its Solid State debut When I Am God all weekend. CD release parties are scheduled tonight in Fort Worth (at The Door), Saturday in Wichita Falls and Sunday in Waco. We’re hitting up tonight’s show. To get in the mood for the…

The members of Boys Like Girls live at home in the suburbs with their parents and write vague, emotionally charged songs sugarcoated with precision pop hooks. Add Martin Johnson’s wavering, pained voice, a requisite ambiguous name, and producer Matt Squire (Panic! At the Disco), and the band fits emo to,…

The Sulphur Springs/Denton-based quintet Fair to Midland holds the platypus-rare distinction of sounding like pretty much no one else in rock music today. Consider a track such as the newly released single, “Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes,” from the band’s debut album, Fables From a Mayfly, released this past…

It’s a damn good thing the Deathray Davies rock the way they do; otherwise, they would be eclipsed by their own side project, and we’d have to say the phrase “Sparklepussy Barbie” all the time. As in, “Hey, didja see Sparklepussy Barbie last night?” and, “Bye, Mom! I’m off to…

As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew I’d like Gogol Bordello from the moment I heard about the group. The act’s pulsing Mediterranean sound and sljivovica-drenched stage presence have found eager listeners from around the globe. Gogol centers around frontman Eugene Hütz,…

I wasn’t planning on writing anything on Annie Lennox’s concert that took place last Sunday at McFarland Auditorium. I figured I’d just keep it my dirty little secret; something known only to me and the gay guy who went with me. I dunno—even though for the most part I find…

Earlimart makes the kind of music that keeps you company when you’re feeling the most alone. That doesn’t mean the group’s latest LP, Mentor Tormentor, sounds lonely. Rather, it makes you feel better in the by-yourself times. It does such a good job, however, you want everyone you know to…

The music on 2006’s Everything All the Time, Band of Horses’ breakthrough CD, could serve as the soundtrack for the originality versus inspiration debate. There was nothing novel about the disc, with most ditties overtly recalling assorted expressionistic, guitar-driven predecessors. Yet the tunes were so passionately performed that they frequently…

More than two decades into the Melvins’ career—Kurt Cobain, a close friend of drummer Dale Crover, acted as sometime roadie and even once tried out for the bass slot—one looming question still abounds about the Seattle group: What are they? Punk? Grunge? Alternative? Metal? Avant-garde? Or some unholy, sludgy mishmash…

The track “Halloween” on Matt Pond PA’s last album, Several Arrows Later, could have been the apt pinnacle for this band that has often been called “autumnal.” In the anthem-like refrain, Pond laments, “Pardon the intrusion. Could we leave before it gets bad? I might smash up all the windows…

Thanks in part to the benevolent gaze of previous tourmates My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog’s status as Philadelphia’s lo-fi-loving motley crew has been rising steadily in recent years. Last month’s well-received release of We All Belong just might extract the group from the underground for good. Grander production techniques and…

“Hentai Lacerator create the type of hardcore Slimer would create if Slimer could do such a thing. It’s not thrash, it’s not grindcore and it’s not noisecore. But it’s definitely all three.” After reading this sentence on Cincinnati threesome’s Web site, we realized we couldn’t do a better job of…

I caught MC Router a while back at Club Dada for a much-hyped “nerdcore” show, which I had been anticipating with sweaty pits and baited breath, only to be disappointed. It wasn’t Router herself; it was the company she keeps. Fort Worth’s Router, who was recently profiled in the Fort…

What’s your favorite two-piece act? The White Stripes? Death From Above 1979? Donny and Marie? After this show, it might be the Portland duo Helio Sequence: singer/guitarist/harmonica player Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel. On the pair’s 2004 album, Love and Distance, main man Summers revealed he’d gotten over his…

They say the Lord works in mysterious ways, and he sure chose an interesting prophet in Billy Joe Shaver, who once famously sang he grew up “pickin’ cotton, raisin’ hell and balin’ hay.” Shaver’s religious philosophy can perhaps best be summed up in the lyric “If you don’t love Jesus,…

Thanks to the Diplo-inspired popularity of “favela booty beats” among U.S. audiences, there’s a certain expectation of unhinged rhythmic fire and verbal violence when it comes to Brazilian hip-hop, especially the type emerging from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. This multifaceted compilation from the upstart, “socially conscious” Verge label…

Boy/Girl 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Good Records (1808 Greenville Ave.). Free. L.A.’s aptly named duo Boy/Girl hate comparisons to the White Stripes, and it’s understandable why: Aside from the gender breakdown of the band, the similarities are few. Sure, the girl (Lisa Cusack) plays drums while the boy (Eric…