I’ve long held the belief that Fred and Toody Cole are music’s most inspiring couple. In previous band Dead Moon, their music never really veered from its pure punk base, and existed across more than a dozen albums. Pierced Arrows aren’t much different, save for a new drummer, and continue…
Local station KKXT-FM 91.7 is dipping its collective toes in the fest pool, and gathers The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Fitz & the Tantrums, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Smile Smile, Air Review, Telegraph Canyon, Quiet Corral, Walk Off The Earth and more for one big cannonball into said pool…
As the seated half of the King Khan & BBQ Show, guitarist Mark Sultan (“BBQ”) provided the rhythmic gut for the duo’s food- and sex-propelled rock and roll. Solo, not much has changed aesthetically. His latest studio albums, Whatever I Want and Whenever I Want, as well as a limited…
Los Angeles musician Chelsea Wolfe came to my attention via the track “Wasteland” from her 2011 album Apokalypsis. There was something so desolate and graphic in the song’s absence of melody or form. Wolfe’s voice sounded far away, underwater, maybe. Or perhaps she’s the exterminating angel with death from above…
After the passing of Lee Jackson in March, the outpouring of emotion from friends and colleagues – in Texas and beyond – was sort of astounding. Those who had never met him felt a kinship; those who did felt the weight of that loss in the creative community. Jackson wrote…
Two former 35 Denton acts have been re-filtered back to town for September 1’s Hot Wet Mess: Big Freedia and Reggie Watts. In you’re familiar, you’ll probably agree these are good picks for an end-of-summer pool party. If you’re unfamiliar, just check out Freedia’s late-night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel…
When I finally set foot in Main Street Garden Park on Saturday afternoon, I knew what Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence was talking about. The strip of downtown green is beautiful, well-designed and forces interaction, like any good, walkable park should. Looking up at the old Grand Hotel, which shadowed…
No word yet if the two were related, but Houston Press posted this video of the dubstep DJ lighting up a sound guy after his Tuesday show at Stereo Live, because he thought his sound was sub-par. After Tweeting up a storm and referring to Houston and/or Stereo Live as…
Brooke Humphries is a busy woman. As we stand just outside the entrance of It’ll Do Club on Elm Street, she fields questions from Red Bull reps and contractors: “You have two minutes of my time,” she says to one of them. “You have one minute of my time,” she…
We’ve reached the halftime portion of 2012, where everyone’s scrambling to tally their faves from the past six months. Instead of looking back, we thought it’d be more productive to address what you should be listening to in the future. Here are a few DFW songs to check out, as…
I was alerted to this story by our friends at Houston Press, since I’m apparently not on the Cracker Barrel press list, and maybe this is old news, but the South’s most ubiquitous chain restaurant is selling music. I know Cracker Barrel is the butt of a lot of jokes,…
A simple piece of downtown real estate caused City Tavern owner and Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence to have an epiphany back in January 2010, when he was trying to think of a way to get local bands in front of a bigger audience. “As soon as I saw Main…
Since it is fest season, Allen’s getting in on the act with its first blues festival, and the lineup is packing some serious heat. The Robert Cray Band is a must-see for fans of Southern blues, as is Texas saint Jimmie Vaughan. Funk-soul powerhouse Robert Randolph & the Family Band,…
Black Joe Lewis, Hayes Carll, Ben Kweller, Eisley, Centro-matic, Octopus Project, Robert Ellis, Mystery Skulls, Bright Light Social Hour, Ume, Mohicans, Girl in a Coma, Low Dark Hills, the Bird Dogs and Madisons hit downtown and represent Austin, Houston and Dallas. See this week’s music feature for more with organizer…
Urgh! A Music War exists as one of those concert films that could never be replicated today. Filmed in London and Los Angeles in 1980 and released in 1982, it was bankrolled by Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart and founder of I.R.S. Records, and thus includes opening and…
I feel like Oprah! We can’t stop giving stuff away! Today, we have two pairs of tickets to this weekend’s screening of Urgh! A Music War at Texas Theatre. Friday night, after the film, stuck around and see Peopleodian, Nervous Curtains and After Hours With George Quartz. Nervous Curtains just…
If you’ve tried to Google something today, you’ll notice the logo has been transformed to celebrate Robert Moog’s 78th birthday, which allows you interact with his most famous creation. He’s the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, and to say he was influential is undercutting the fact that he essentially steered…
The first of three planned holiday weekend concerts on Lake Lewisville goes down this Sunday, May 27, with Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Wayne Hancock, Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance, Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos and The O’s. The concept of Float: You’ll be able to swim,…
We’ve got some video footage up from our March 17 parade, which featured headliner Ryan Bingham, lots of people wearing “Green Man” suits and only 16 arrests for public intoxication, which seems low. Check out the video and see if you can find yourself in the drunken sea of humanity…
The Austin City Limits Music Festival line-up was announced at midnight, and I’m kind of miffed that RHCP are billed above Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Beyond that, you’ve got the usual ACL formula: the top tier of tried and true go-to festival acts (no surprise seeing the Black Keys…
On Saturday night, while we were all out shortening our lifespan in one form or another, the Granada quietly slipped the lineup for this summer’s July 28 gig onto Instagram, which really is the most stylish way to leak music news: Glass Candy, Chromatics, Taken By Trees, Twin Sister, Laurel…
Back at the end of April, before the Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves, I asked Peopleodian’s James Washington about Forever Home, his new project with Bad Design’s John Gillespie: [It’s] Peopleodian’s idiot twin, a miserable and mangled mockery of the Peopleodian aesthetic. Gone are the drums, the guitar,…
