As I write this, no one in the world knows where Edward Snowden, leaker of all the secrets he could get his grubby hands on, is located. While the irony of the US government having a total lack of information on this subject cannot be lost on anyone, I would…
Updated update:There’s another video now, with a slightly higher production quality and a lot more apologies. Watch it while you still can… Original Update: The video has been taken down. Here’s a transcript of what you missed… I want to apologize to everybody, for the wrong that I’ve done. I…
I get all sorts of news releases describing gadgets that promise to change a cook’s life forever. I delete most of them after a quick look. Often the device can be easily duplicated with a more common kitchen device most of us already have on hand. Other times the tool…
HBOBy C. Townsend Rizzo It’s not news that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects our right to free speech, press, religion and peaceful assembly. Though reasonable and righteous, it has become a crutch of complacency. Everybody has something to say, but generally, they’re only making a weak…
The Pixies reunited in 2004 for the sake of nostalgia and money. There can’t be much doubt over this. They never hinted at new music (apart from the bizarre one-off soundtrack single “Bam Thwok”) and unashamedly toured Doolittle to within an inch of its life. This morning, entirely apropos of…
For more than three decades fans have been waiting for a Black Sabbath album with the original founder, the Lord of Darkness himself, whose distinctive growl along with Toni Iommi’s pulse-grinding rhythms influenced generations of metal heads to pick up an ax and replicate the metal purity that reverberated from…
Say it ain’t so #JohnnyFootball:twitpic.com/c05zy6— Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB) February 2, 2013 For decades, music has been used to enforce the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. On Saturdays in the fall, Longhorn fans proudly sing, “Give ’em hell, give ’em hell, make ’em eat shit!” while Aggies…
Seeing that Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson hit the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie this evening, we thought it would be a good time to compile a list of the scariest acts in music. Scary can be a relative term. One person’s demented can be another’s delightful, but each of…
Tim Dog: RIP?As long as there have been celebrity deaths, there have been celebrity death sightings. A quick Internet search will turn up allegations of people spotting Elvis Presley in the steamy Memphis heat, or Jim Morrison in a Parisian cafe. There are those who would swear on a stack…
When the fossils of a giant plant-eating reptile were found in South East Asia, paleontologists wanted to give the world’s largest lizard ever discovered a proper name. They just couldn’t decide between Jim Morrison, a rocker with an affinity for lizards, or Hunter S. Thompson, a rock & roll journalist…
What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder…
Last week, on Wednesday, May 29, Steve Knopper of Rolling Stone.com detailed Daft Punk’s domination of the Billboard album chart with the release of their eagerly-awaited Random Access Memories. The article moves into territory deeper than simple retail numbers, though. Knopper even dug into the number of Spotify spins for…
Talk about falling from grace. Tim Lambesis, the 32-year-old lead singer of the Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying, is accused of plotting to kill his estranged wife. He posted a $2 million bail on Friday. Lambesis must wear a GPS monitor and stay away from his estranged wife…
Late last month, indie-loving fans of the globe, and especially here in Texas, finally received a single, but major, piece of news regarding the project that’s surely to be slapped with the ubiquitous “supergroup” label. Overseas, consisting of David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), and former Dallasites Bubba and Matthew Kadane…
Taylor Swift is playing Cowboys Stadium on Saturday. Here are some important facts about Taylor Swift: 1. She made $57 million from May 2011 to May 2012, making her the highest-paid musician under 30 in that time period. 2. Her latest album, Red, has sold over 5 million copies since…
Established musicians composing film scores is nothing new. Some of the best scores of the last 50 some odd years have come from pop stars: Dylan’s score for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Danny Elfman’s whole career and Queen’s legendary Flash Gordon score. With the rise of various indie…
Credit: Timothy NorrisBroadly speaking, if you’re an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex. And chances are, if you’re a Skrillex fan under the age of 30, you’re like, “Who the hell is Danny Tenaglia?” Coachella 2013 exemplified the generation gap in the world…
Seeing that a form of Black Flag is touring right now (and playing Trees on Friday), we thought it a good time to investigate American hardcore punk rock. For all practical purposes, the beginning of hardcore in the states happened in the early 80’s. While many hardcore acts were inspired…
This weekend Kanye West released two new singles off his upcoming album, Yeezus, in the most grandiose possible fashion. On Friday, he announced the video for his newest single, “New Slaves,” would be projected onto 66 buildings across six cities around the world in one night. Crowds gathered by the…
The blasting horns sampled from The Chi-Lites’ “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)” ring out, the sound of a jangling cymbal being taken for a walk sizzles under the infectiously catchy purr of “uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh- oh no no.” The 808 laced drums crack and pop as if…
I don’t think we have really gotten in the weeds about my feelings for Kanye West, but know this about me: My name is Deb and I am a West apologist. He is temperamental and sensitive in ways that feel vintage rock star in today’s cookie cutter world of celebrity…
In September 2000, a few days before Dave Matthews Band played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Coca-Cola Starplex, I got into a car accident turning onto Inwood Road from Walnut Hill. My ’99 Explorer was crunched, and the woman I hit injured her arm. I sat on the…
