It’s tough to not pay Hoyotoho much mind. For starters, there’s the new Dallas band’s flashy live show—which, last Thursday night at 1111 Studios in the Design District, saw Hoyotoho offering up a “videopera” to an arty crowd typically not in attendance at rock shows around the region. And there’s…
Norah Jones, Sarah JaffeFair Park Music HallMay 4, 2010Better than: trying to out at the Women’s Museum across the park. Playing up her hometown appeal–and, well, her sex appeal, too, looking quite adorable, dressed in a short, tight, black and red dress–Dallas native Norah Jones stood on the Fair Park…
A huge, huge, huge thank you to everyone who came out to The Local Hang last night at The Libertine. Biggest crowd we’ve seen yet. Lots of area musicians fans and industry types. Also: Random drinkers who didn’t seem to mind having their turf infringed upon. A special thanks to…
In this week’s paper, I catch up with deservedly revered area Americana singer Doug Burr and talk to him about how both life and circumstance are forcing him to think about his career differently heading into the release of his fourth full-length album. The new disc, O Ye Devastator, which…
Yesterday, Stereogum launched a new bit called Exposure, where musicians interview other musicians–like a hipster, music-focused Interview magazine (redundant?) except that it’s on video and online. For the debut episode, the Dallas-bred Alan Palomo of Neon Indian gets tapped to interview one Peter Gabriel. Does a pretty good job, too,…
Yesterday, Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance released the above music video for “On Your Own,” the second single off the band’s major label debut, Out Of My Hands. It’s a gorgeous video, I’ll give them that. But, man, if the song doesn’t sound like Third Eye Blind or some other…
Kind of big news this week surrounding Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson. Seems the inaugural American Idol champ has been working on a new record, and, uh-oh, a song from the record has leaked. Late last week, the sultry–or, well, sultry for Clarkson–song started making its way around the ‘net.Clarkson was…
It’s the first Monday of the month, which means, yup, I’ll be at The Libertine tonight from 10 till close, “spinning” all the local jams for your listening and drinking pleasure. Come hang. Check the Facebook events page for details. And feel free toss any song requests herein the comments…
Earlier today, you saw Nick Rallo’s take on Saturday’s Spune 2k10 Finals event at Hailey’s Club in Denton–or the “Anti-Edgefest” as he justifiably calls it. Now, take a peek at Danny Fulgencio’s photos from the event. If nothing else, they’re very pretty…
Edgefest 2010Pizza Hut Park in FriscoMay 1, 2010Better than: watching the Kentucky Derby, although probably not if you were doing so from Churchill Downs’ infield–because that’s a party, folks. Believe it or not, there was music at Pizza Hut Park on Saturday. Actually, there was a whole bunch of it,…
Tonight in the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room, local indie-pop duo Smile Smile will headline an all-local bill that also features Dovetail and Pale Horse. Expect the headliners to be in a celebratory mood at this show–and for good reason: Today is band member Ryan Hamilton’s birthday. But what’s really…
Earlier this week, the Fort Worth location of Russell Hobbs’ The Door franchise announced a name change to The Bandwagon. Well, sort of. As Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram learned earlier this week when he broke the news, it’s more of a half name-change. Just as is the…
Earlier this week, SMU alum Astronautalis and longtime DC9 fave DJ Fishr Pryce joined forces to release a new, pay-what-you-want mixtape called DANCEHALLFLOORSOUND!!! I’d try to explain it, but over on the mix’s download site, Astronautalis describes for us what the tape is:A mixed tape (in the contemporary sense of…
Fine. It’s Christian rap. Whatever. But here’s the thing about the 10-piece hip-hop supergroup known as DeepSpace5: They’re pretty damn legit, having moved over 100,000 discs since its first release in 1998, and having shared the stage with the likes of KRS-One, Atmosphere and MF Doom. Check the above video,…
When outsider troubadour Mark Growden rolled through the region back in January, Jesse Hughey previewed the show–quite excitedly, I might add. Wrote Hughey:Mark Growden creates the kind of rich, evocative, cabaret-noir-Americana that thousands of Tom Waits imitators would give their porkpie hats to be able to write. Continue reading…Or, in…
When we caught up with former Secret Machines- and UFOFU-er Benjamin Curtis at Austin City Limits this past fall, the current School of Seven Bells member gave us some insight into the sophomore release his band was working on at the time:”It’s a bigger sound,” he said. “It’s also a…
Tonight, at 1111 Studio (1111 Dragon Street), Hoyotoho will release its debut album, Brutal Beauty, an album we hipped you to a few weeks back now. Anyway, as the above clip shows, the event’s being promoted as a “videopera,” whatever that is. Looks pretty interesting, though. It all starts at…
People keep commenting on our post about Edgefest 20 from early last month, saying that a) I apparently didn’t give the Deftones, Neon Trees and the Crash Kings enough credit, and b) that Phoenix sucks. Not to start a flame war with anonymous commenters or anything, but here’s my response:…
As French folk singer Yann Tiersen and his band run through a sound check a few hours before headlining the Granada Theater last Thursday night, Doug Burr, one of Tiersen’s two local openers, sits out in the theater, Tiersen’s band’s tweaks and spurts of play loudly reverberating throughout the room…
Since 1992, KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge has been throwing its annual (and sometimes more often than that) Edgefest extravaganzas around town, bringing together massive bills like, well, radio stations should. Unfortunately, recent galas have been somewhat underwhelming, pairing one somewhat decent headliner with the dregs of modern rock radio (See:…
…and for ye relics of the YouTubes, here’s your link…Alright, everyone: No more jokes or discussions about Spooky Folk’s name–especially now that the band’s explained its origins in the clip above, the 15th installment of our DC9 Live at El Sibil series. We tend to agree: It’s original idea–an accidental…
In case you haven’t heard what we’ve been saying, oh, all year now: It’s high time you listened to Analog Rebellion, the new project from Aledo’s 20-year-old wunderkind Daniel Hunter (formerly known as PlayRadioPlay!). This week, after having released both his Analog Rebellion debut (Ancient Electrons) and an old B-sides…
