FULL VIDEO: The Flaming Lips’ Intro Fail… and Save at NX35.

Since we’re actually starting to get sick of talking about it, might as well end our exhaustive NX35 coverage–and do so on a high note with this 15-minute clip from LOUD-quiet-LOUD opening (no, really) from The Flaming Lips’ headlining performance on Saturday night. And, yessir, this here clip comes complete…

Watch: So Many Head-Melting Live Videos From NX35

Perhaps you saw us at this year’s NX35 Conferette in Denton? Well, we were there–in case you didn’t know–and, as you’ll see below, starting with a fairly intense live clip of HEALTH performing “Die Slow” at The Boiler Room on Friday night, we were shooting videos all weekend long, too…

Yesterday at NX35: HEALTH at The Boiler Room

Band: HEALTH Venue: The Boiler Room Time: 11:55 p.m.Some 15 minutes before HEALTH lunched into what would be the most visceral–and, without a doubt, the most visually stimulating performance at NX35 2010 so far–the packed house inside the Boiler Room showed its hand. Whereas the crowd loudly offered up its…

NX35 Is Starting Right About… Now.

Right about… well, right now, actually, the very first event of the second annual NX35 Conferette is underway–a discussion about the DFW art scene and its future. As for me? Well, I’m hitting the road right now to head up to the conferette’s second event this weekend, a panel in…

Four Locals Look To Shine Bright at SXSW

After last year’s crop of 40 area acts playing at South by Southwest and 2008’s total of 39, yes, this year’s number of 28 area acts on the annual music festival and conference’s official bills sure appears something of a letdown. Even when you factor in the kinda locals—area ex-pats…

10 Must-See Acts To Catch at NX35

Surely, by now, you know about NX35’s without-question climax—the free, Saturday night show at the North Texas Fairgrounds featuring The Flaming Lips, Denton’s own Midlake, and Norman, Oklahoma’s Stardeath and White Dwarfs. At last count, though, some 200 or so other bands have also been booked to play Denton’s second…

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Has Always Felt Connected To DFW

In a pretty big reveal—before he really starts riffing on the pressures his band The Flaming Lips feels now that its reputation as music festival heroes has been cemented and the connection he feels to Dallas-Fort Worth thanks to Deep Ellum’s embrace of his band in its early years—Wayne Coyne…

Download: Neon Indian — “Sleep Paralysist”

As promised, DFW’s own Neon Indian released a new single via Mountain Dew’s new Green label Sound entity today, and the song’s available as a free download through the label’s site. The song, called “Sleep Paralysist,” is pretty token Neon Indian, filled with blips, bleeps and a repetitive, synth-based beat…

Watch: Rhett Miller Performs “Caroline” For Paste

pStationTrack=’track_14844_2008′; document.write(”); Hey, look who stopped by Paste Magazine to play “Caroline” from his recent self-titled album for this clip, posted to the mag’s site this morning? Hint: Why, it’s Dallas’ own Rhett Miller! It’s a fun clip, if only because Miller’s telling of the story behind the song is…