Poster of the Week has been on hiatus for a bit, but we had to bring it back when we saw this poster for Thurston Moore’s show on Friday. Local artist Scott Spooner says he was inspired by the song “Blood Never Lies,” from Moore’s latest album, Demolished Thoughts: “In…
Why does every band these days with a reverb pedal and penchant for black leather jackets get compared to the Jesus & Mary Chain? Because the brothers Reid paved the way for them with 1985’s Psychocandy, an album that deserves to be played a full volume with the windows open…
Looks like Texas will have to wait a while for St. Vincent to come back, though I would probably stab someone in the eye with a spork to see her and Tune-yards perform their West Coast shows in April. In the meantime, here’s the latest video from 2011’s Strange Mercy,…
With all our Madonna pre- and post-Super Bowl fanaticism in the bag, of course she’s going to announce her world tour. And she’s coming to American Airlines Center on Saturday, October 20, roughly six months after her new album, MDNA, comes out. Tickets go on sale Monday, February 27, at…
King Khan & the Shrines Sons of Hermann Hall Monday, February 6 It’s hard to tell who King Khan is channeling when he gets on stage. James Brown comes to mind first, as does Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. He sings about the important things: Mainly sex, food and rock ‘n’ roll…
If I had to explain Madonna’s Super Bowl performance in one word that isn’t followed by question marks and exclamation points, it would be synergy. She was in a commercial before the event, and her new song, “Give Me All Your Luvin'” was featured afterwards. OK, fine, the Super Bowl…
If you’re like me, you wondered what exactly Shepard Fairey would spin at Saturday’s Dallas Contemporary Phenomenon event. Sadly, Tuvan throat singing and Icelandic death metal were not in the cards. Instead, it was sort of like being at a really fun wedding reception: House of Pain’s “Jump Around,” Young…
If you know the name Ryan Bingham, it might be because he was partially responsible for “The Weary Kind,” from the soundtrack to 2009’s Crazy Heart, which won him an Golden Globe in 2010 and released many tears from eye jail. Bingham and his band the Dead Horses have that…
They Might Be Giants Granada Theater Thursday, February 2 When nerds sell out a show, you know you’re in for it. Scanning the crowd at the Granada last night, I could tell there were quite a few folks paying babysitters until 11 p.m., who were maybe a bit pudgier than…
The new Doc’s Records & Vintage in Fort Worth has been open for a couple months now, but they’ve no doubt been letting all that vinyl smell settle in. Good news for record nerds and fans of that smell: They’ve finally set a date for their grand opening. On February…
This Saturday night at 2826 Arnetic, The Beat Factory takes five hip-hop producers/electronic artists out of the studio and lets them work their magic live. It’s a stacked lineup, featuring Denton’s Juicy the Emissary, Dallas’ Datahowler, Remode and Slago, and Austin’s Boom Baptist, with turntable work by Yeahdef and Danjah…
This week, Nic Hernandez plots the evolution of Dallas hip-hop collective Sore Losers. Eric Grubbs checks in with Denton’s Bad Design about their first show experiences. Plus new albums from Exit 380 and Eleven Hundred Springs, recommended shows from King Khan & the Shrines, Fate Lions, Doomtree and more…
The last time I went to a King Khan & the Shrines show, I was sprayed with at least three different fluids and burned myself with a cigarette on purpose. Don’t you want that life experience? That’s just the voodoo that happens when the R&B big band, led by the…
The O’s just spent a month on an East Coast tour with the Old 97’s, and this marks their triumphant return. Taylor Young and John Pedigo are still riding the good country-folk fumes of last year’s Between the Two, but they’ve got to be working on some new material as…
Forth Worth’s Fate Lions just dropped some hot wax on Plano’s 7-inch-centric Tree Fall Sounds to follow up their 2009 full-length Good Enough For You, and the three songs pick up where they left off. Lead Lion Jason Manriquez has a way with a melody, and “Natural Champion” showcases that,…
Hey, swamp thing. Phoenix Project is now 406 Arts, and they’re throwing an appropriately crusty punk-rock house party. Dallas duo Legsweeper, fresh off their star turn covering Bun B’s “My Block” for 35 Denton, will rattle the windows along with hardcore heads Guiso and Cleric, Austin’s Cabra and hip-hop act…
It came from inside the house. Or rather, from below: The very familiar sounds of someone learning to play bass. And not just that: Learning to play “Iron Man.” Then, 15 minutes later, came another sound from across the hall: Pink Floyd’s “Money” at full blast, as if to negate…
Austin-based photographer/documentarian Otis Ike captured this slice of life before the Super Bowl in Dallas last year, and it’s getting some hits over at Funny or Die. Like most things Ike documents, it’s a fascinating anthropological study of what happens when sports fans collide with Bible thumpers and rappers. Will…
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound has been added to the 35 Denton lineup, as have Purling Hiss, Dinosaur Feathers, Night Beats, Chapter 24, Finn Riggins Aan, Races and Twin Tigers. If you haven’t already seen it, may I direct you to this interview Cox did last fall,…
Fort Worth five-piece Fate Lions just dropped a new three-song 7-inch and and are celebrating with a show at the Kessler on Friday. With that in mind, I asked guitarist Jerko Dabelic and singer/guitarist Jason Manriquez about some of their favorite 45s growing up. Jason Manriquez Barry Manilow “A Nice…
With the excellent addition of SoCal punk supergroup OFF! to the Bro Fest 2012 roster last week comes four more acts, these being of the hazy pop variety: Maps & Atlases, Gauntlet Hair, Hospitality and Netherfriends. The subtract part: The Entrance Band and Cerebral Ballzy have canceled their SXSW plans…
On Wednesday, Pleasant Grove singer-guitarist Bret Egner was involved in a bicycle accident near Red River in Austin, when he swerved to avoid two jaywalking pedestrians and hit the pavement. Sadly, the pedestrians he swerved to avoid didn’t offer help. Egner went into surgery today to repair a shattered collarbone,…
