So. Puppet culture in Dallas? Way bigger than I ever realized — or bigger, at least, than I realized before posting yesterday’s item about Will Schutze’s Mr. Bonetangles marionette. Let’s just suffice to say that there are a lot of puppeteers in Dallas. And, no, I’m not going to post…

After announcing last week the addition of another 135 bands to its bill, you’d think the folks up at Denton’s 35 Conferette might need a breather — or, I dunno, maybe some time to focus on the actual logistics of the fest, since this year’s lineup, if memory serves, is…

From the outside, Green Noise Records, nestled behind a brick facade along a row of similar storefronts in a tiny little neighborhood off the beaten path in Portland, Oregon, hardly looks like a punk rock mecca. Owned by Ken Cheppaikode since he moved here from Seattle in January 2005, Green…

We’ve mentioned the guys (and gal) of Bravo, Max! here in this space before — a couple of times, actually — as the band has grown from just a fledgling group trying to score gigs around town to a one that, just recently, headed all the way out to California…

By day, Will Schutze is an aspiring actor. As such, these days, the East Dallas native calls Los Angeles home — because, hey, that’s where the work is. But, when work is slow, what then for the would-be leading men of that city? Besides barista and table-waiting work, of course.That’s…

If there’s one standout thing I recall about seeing Ozzy Osbourne at the American Airlines Center last week, it’s just how many young ‘uns and full-on families filled the venue’s seats that night. Pretty charming stuff, I thought, even if a few folks in the comments section for our review…

A while back — can’t remember when, and a quick Google search ain’t revealing where — I remember reading a quote from Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea, who coaches youth football in the region, talking about his bandmate Rhett Miller, discussing how he was a surprisingly talented athlete, and saying…

There aren’t too many secrets behind the successes of either Best Coast or Wavves, who join forces to take over the Granada Theater in what’s sure to be a busy night at the Greenville Avenue venue. Both mine a warm, lo-fi aesthetic in their slacker, California chic offerings, with the…

Seattle’s Moondoggies have been around for a few years now, plying their craft in the Northwest roots scene with their timeless folk songs and calming harmonies. But, on the strength of their 2010 sophomore release for Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art, Tidelands, the band’s been starting to break out on…

In this week’s paper, Doug Davis gets pretty gaga over Austin’s Ume, whose spastic, churning blend of punk and thrash has been earning the band all sorts of accolades of late, thanks in no small part to the contributions of magnetic frontwoman and bona fide guitar heroine Lauren Langner Larson,…

In this week’s paper, Eric Grubbs puts back on his emo — nay, post-hardcore — cap, to talk the reunited Get Up Kids, who will be coming through town this weekend for a gig at The Loft on Sunday night with River City Extension and Steel Train. Writes Grubbs:The Kansas…

Big things happening today in the world of 35 Conferette — bigger news, even, than the fact that the-festival-formerly-known-as-North-by-35 now has an actual website to call its own (!). Bigger, too, than the really awesome web teaser/advertisement that the fest’s organizers have created to promote the fest and its performers,…

Excuse us if we’ve spent too much time covering Menkena in these past few weeks, sharing music videos with you, and giving you free songs off their debut record and all. It’s just that, you see, we’ve been sitting on With You I’ll Travel, the full-length debut from the so-called…

Denton’s Dale Jones, when performing under his New Science Projects moniker, is a somewhat frightening and confusing character, one that dons face paint and refuses to play on stages and runs right up to his audience members only to scream into their face.So it’s pretty fitting, then, that the poster…

Back in August, when Luis Dubuc, the man behind The Secret Handshake, released Night & Day, his ode to Motown pop and his departure from his mall-adored earlier electro-pop, the 25-year-old admitted to us that he was doing so with some trepidation. Rightfully so: These songs were vastly different from…