Passion PitPalladium BallroomJune 21, 2010Better than: seeing Elmo in concert. It was startling, actually–even to the band on stage. “This is one of the biggest audiences we’re playing to on this tour,” Passion Pit, see concert photos in our slideshow frontman Michael Angelakos announced to his adoring crowd somewhere in…
In this past week’s paper, as part of our Homegrown review explosion, Mark Schectman gave the debut EP from former Deadman and Telegraph Canyon chanteuse Sherilyn Segrest a healthy couple of spins to come up with this take on the disc called Through The Night: “This EP takes the listener…
As currently stands, there’s shows booked out until October 7 at Fort Worth’s long-running Ridglea Theater–but that all could change real soon. Our friends at the FW Weekly report this morning that, in the near future, the venue could be sold off–and turned into a bank. Turns out that’s one…
So, the first Dallas foray for the Electric Daisy Carnival was kinda crazy on Saturday night–to the tune of 18,000 attendees, actually, according to one on-site police officer I spoke with at Fair Park on Saturday night. In this week’s paper, I’ll get more into my thoughts on the event–and,…
Tomorrow night at The Door in Dallas, amongst a bill of rather run-of-the-mill mall-punk acts, there exists quite the treat: The Secret Handshake, which as you know, is essentially just Dallas’ own Luis Dubuc, will solely be performing songs from his upcoming disc, Night and Day, a Motown-inspired affair, which…
Surely, you’ve noticed the pledge drive efforts going on over at KKXT-91.7 FM of late, yeah? Us too.Annoying? Mostly. Necessary? Most definitely, given the station’s public radio domain.But it’s not all bad: Anyone and everyone who pledged to the station this week–and anyone and everyone who does so up until…
Yesterday, Play-N-Skillz’s G4 Muzik label released the music video for Inertia’s “Beddy Crocka,” which features a verse from Fort Worth’s Tum Tum and a sample of Play-N-Skillz collaborator Lil Wayne. You may remember the song–the Brothers Salinas were kind enough to pass the song along our way as a free…
Ladies and gentlemen, your poster of the week. And I’ll tell ya why after the jump…
In this week’s paper, Mark Schectman reviews When We Were Wild, the long-time-coming-but-well-worth-the-wait full-length debut from Fort Worth’s The Orbans. And Schectman makes no bones in shouting out the disc’s merits:[It’s the Orbans’] blending of styles that truly makes When We Were Wild such an impressive release. Singer/songwriter Peter Black…
There’s little doubting the pop sensibilities of Dallas native Luis Dubuc and his electro-pop project The Secret Handshake. Already a longtime Alternative Press darling, Dubuc’s most recent, third full-length release, 2009’s My Name Up In Lights, showed the artist proving himself even more adept at penning catchy little pop ditties…
It’s been 25 years since Shallow Reign’s first show, 23 years since the release of their debut self-titled LP and 19 years since the band, which at their apex counted themselves among the heaviest hitters of the 1980s Deep Ellum heyday, called it quits. The band members just stopped talking…
In theory, Clark Vogeler joined the Toadies at just the right time. It was 1996 when he got his invite—only a month after the breakup of his former, locally adored band, Funland. “It was a pretty perfect situation,” the guitarist says over the phone from his home in Los Angeles…
Before White America appropriated “bling bling,” “fo’ shizzle” and, yes, even “Superman that ho,” from Black America and placed those terms into its own lexicon, it did so with Blackstreet’s Dr. Dre-supported “No Diggity”–and not just with the title of the track, but also with the term from which it…
…OK, one guy in Waco. But, still. “Effective marketing in action,” indeed…
We’ve made it abundantly clear in the past: Fizzy Dino Pop? Right up our alley. But with Yuria Hashimoto, the Denton-based Avery Williamson’s co-conspirator in the band, stuck in Japan until August, the act’s progress on its upcoming, full-length debut for Waaga Records has been stalled. “[We] really can’t finish…
If you listened to the phenomenal Texas Love Triangle Mix created by Oak Cliff’s own DJ Tommy Boy for Vice UK when it was released back in May, you were no doubt captivated by the mix’s lead song, a cover of Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” offered up by one George Quartz…
This morning, the folks over at Pitchfork posted scribe Larry Fitzmaurice’s take on Homemade Extacy, the debut full-length from Denton-based, Waaga-signed Florene, onto its page. And, uh, well, Fitzmaurice isn’t a fan. He gives the disc a 5.4 out of 10. Writes the reviewer: Despite the small bits of potential…
Erykah Badu, B.o.B., Janelle MonaeVerizon Theatre in Grand PrairieJune 15, 2010Better than: standing 20 feet tall. For a good five minutes at the start of Erykah Badu’s two-hours-and-20-minute visual and aural onslaught at Grand Prairie’s Verizon Theatre last night, there was darkness. Her backing band–consisting of two drummers, a keyboardist,…
Between his work in Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh and even on his own recent solo efforts, yeah, Lou Barlow’s had something of a storied career–and as you can tell from the above cut from his 2009 effort, Goodnight Unknown, a varied one, too. So, yes, tomorrow night’s performance from Barlow…
Eleven days ago today, our month was made with the announcement that the Pixies (DC9’s favorite band ever, so you know) are coming to Grand Prairie’s Verizon Theatre on September 19 to their seminal album, Doolittle, in full. Today, tickets for that show go on sale–at the top of the…
Listen: I’m not gonna waste your time or mine explaining the greatness that is Erykah Badu. For one, if you’re reading this, you presumably live in Dallas and already should know about the Queen and all that she brings to the table. If not, well, you can read this blurb…
It’s somewhat surprising that Philadelphia’s Good Old War’s self-titled, second album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Heatseeker chart this week–but not entirely. The band’s rootsy, folk-inspired singalongs are highly enjoyable–and their 2008 debut, Only Way To Be Alone, which featured the above, phenomenal cut, “Coney Island,” was probably…
