Turns out the EP we’ve been waiting on from Denton’s Spooky Folk–a band, which, you’ll recall, is neither spooky nor folk–isn’t an EP at all, but rather a long-player well worth sinking your teeth into. And, through the first few listens, the disc seems quite the treat, a collection of…

Ms. Badu–at least, we think that’s her underneath that Rick James ‘do–stopped on by The Wendy Williams Show yesterday for a performance of “Window Seat,” New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh’s throwback of a lead single. It’s a unique performance, if only because, as Badu herself admitted on…

There was quite the time to be had at the Double Wide on Sunday night for Parade of Flesh’s annual post-South by Southwest bash, the recently branded Bro Fest (nee South by South Flesh), which featured among its 17-band bill SXSW stand-outs The Soft Pack, Those Darlins and Dum Dum…

Gonna go the honesty route here and openly admit that, quite unfortunately, we don’t really know all that much about Denton’s Dear Human–except that the four-piece hates the Insane Clown Posse and people named Steve, apparently, and that it missed its opening slot for HEALTH at NX35, which we were…

At 8 p.m. on Saturday evening, the acoustic non-marching punks in Mount Righteous will celebrate the release of their new, self-titled full-length at Good Records–with a little help from another mountainous outfit, Fort Worth’s Drug Mountain. But don’t expect the same cupcakes-in-the-sky vibe of the band’s debut, 2008’s When The…

Alright, folks, let’s wrap all this South by Southwest coverage up finally–and do so in style, yeah? OK, then! Here are the last few videos we’ve uploaded from our trip down to Austin, starting with the above performance of Frightened Rabbit doing its new single, “Swim Until You Can’t See…

Our pal Preston Jones just posted the above video of The Frontier Brothers’ new single over on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s music blog. And good thing, too, as it’s something of a keeper: “You Should Start A Band,” the lead single off the sometime Austin-, sometime Fort Worth-based outfit’s new…

My still-brand new Mad Rock shoes have gone woefully unused since I moved away from the mountains of Colorado some two years ago now, but, man, if the above trailer for the new climbing doc, Core, doesn’t make me want to bust ’em out and take a trek up to…

Another year, another grueling sprint to South by Southwest’s end–only, this year, well, things seemed a little different than in year’s past. Especially on Saturday night.More so than on any previous night of the festival, Saturday night seemed to finally show some kinks in SXSW’s armor–both on the festival’s part…

What day is it today? Saturday? Let’s see… got here on Wednesday… and that was Day One… so I guess yesterday was Day Three, right? To be honest, I’ve got no clue. Mostly, my head just hurts.But our trek to catch 50 acts we’d never seen before at this year’s…

The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one–and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought some 18 acts across these eyes and ears–probably more, too, but…

For 13 years now, Dillinger Escape Plan has been doing its pretty brutal math-core thing. But the band’s only put out three albums over that time span–not exactly an impressive number, especially for a band that revels in a genre predicated by counting. Alas, the band will up that ante…

Night One of SXSW 2010 saw things kick off on quite the bitchin’ note–and not just because of the big names. They were around, sure–Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Broken Bells and Spoon all shared a stage at Stubb’s (and a massive line to get in, natch)–but there was plenty…

Last time we caught a Danielson show in town, the band got upstaged by a little Grapevine outfit called Mount Righteous–so much so that the writer of that review even got inspired to try out for the band, which, yup, he went ahead and did. Hmmm.Hope that doesn’t happen again…

It’s been far too long since we check in on Grand Prairie’s Vincent Sliva, better known by his Dallas Stars-themed stage handle as mashup DJ, remix artist and electro act LehtMoJoe. Surely, you remember that he put out an album of dance cuts last summer called Spaghetti Western? Maybe? No?Well,…

So that all really happened, huh? The Flaming Lips, HEALTH, The Walkmen and, oh, 200 or so other bands played Denton in one four-day span. All that. Really? Yup. Kinda tough to believe, but somehow, the NX35 brass managed to pull this whole damn thing off. Kinda felt like South…