Soviet frontman John Spies knows that his band’s music might sound a little familiar. But there’s reason for that, the 21-year-old explains: The band got its started when he and his drummer, the 20-year-old Andrew Weir, plugged in their equipment and began “copying Japandroids songs and fucking them up.”That was…

This past weekend, Datahowler, the chilled-out identity of Frisco’s Ross Edman, made his live debut at Club Dada’s New Year’s Eve Do-Over Party — and our Daniel Rodrigue came away quite impressed with what he saw from this young performer. Can’t say that this much is too surprising — we’ve…

Tom Gabel, frontman for Jacksonville, Florida, punk four-piece Against Me!, has never been scared to speak his mind. He made that much very clear when his band’s fans cried foul upon the release of 2007’s New Wave. Upset that this, the band’s fourth release, was coming out on major subsidiary…

We’ve spent a good chunk of space here in the past few weeks talking about People on Vacation, the new collaborative project from Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton and Bowling for Soup’s Jaret Reddick — probably too much space, considering that the band has yet even to make its live performance…

Local poster art, when done well, is pretty impressive. There’s reason, after all, behind our decision to call out our favorite show poster in the space every week. Been doing it for years at this point. Over that time, sure, we’ve developed some favorites. At the top of that list?…

Late yesterday afternoon, our colleagues at the Village Voice up in New York City released the annual beast that is the Pazz & Jop poll, which, in short, accumulates the year-end lists of hundreds of critics from around the country and compiles them into a database that helps determine a…

The new disc from local folk favorites The O’s wasn’t originally supposed to earn its release until February. And, OK, that still remains the case as far as hard copies of John Pedigo and Taylor Young’s sophomore album, Between The Two, are concerned — their local album release show will…

Not sure yet if y’all are sick of hearing about local bands getting the Daytrotter treatment — which is to say, locals getting invited to the Horseshack recording studios in Illinois to lay down some live takes, which the folks at Daytrotter then turn around and give to the public…

After a handful of early teases, the folks down at Austins’ South by Southwest Music and Media Conference went ahead and released the whole big batch of names — although, let’s be honest, there will probably still be some changes (not to mention names we just missed) — of performers…

Now this is just weird: The above video is just one of many, many clips that Jay Herrod of Colorado has posted to YouTube, obsessing over Disney starlet and Grand Prairie’s Own Selena Gomez.Welcome to the downside of celebrity, Selena! Seems somewhat reminiscent of the very creepy documentary I Think…

No, that’s not an image of outer space. Rather, it’s a distorted image of two eyes, staring you down, daring and enticing you to check out this Saturday night show…

I’m not going to say that this is going to be the last post we’re going to do on Frankie 45 — because, to be honest, I highly doubt that much to be the case. There are too many other memorials in the works — a tribute album is currently…

Next week will finally see the full-length debut of Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly’s Fergus & Geronimo project. Released via newly established Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art, the disc is called Unlearn –and, it’s safe to say from early listens, that the title is an appropriate one.The Denton products who’ve…

We’ve mentioned People on Vacation briefly in this space before, and now that the super-ish group of Bowling for Soup’s Jaret Reddick and Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton is gearing up for its first tour, it seems high time we mentioned them again.For the most part, the band’s a pretty unknown…

A few more more acts of note have been added today to the bill of the 35 Conferette, which will overtake and, quite possibly, overwhelm Denton from March 10 through the 13. And at least one of them has some local ties: John Grant, formerly of the Denver-based punk outfit…

The folks who showed up at the Kessler Theater on Friday night to see The Gourds and The Naptime Shake perform got a nice little gift when, out of the blue, Johnny Rodriguez stopped by the venue, seemingly on a whim, and ended up performing his hit “That’s The Way…