Just came across the above video for Mount Righteous’ song “Suburban Homesick Blues,” which–let’s see here, wasn’t on 2008’s When the Music Starts or on 2009’s Open Your Mouth EP, so…–certainly appears to be a brand new track, presumably from the band’s upcoming full-length, due out here in the next…
Surely, by now, you’ve tackled the Herculean task of reading my “sprawling profile” of Midlake in this week’s dead tree version of DC9, yeah? Good. Then you’ll no doubt remember this part of the piece, in which the band shares its meticulous–and, OK, somewhat curious–approach to promotion:Midlake, although game to…
Some pretty exciting news out of our New York flagship this early afternoon, as our sister paper up there, the Village Voice, has gone ahead and announced the lineup for this year’s Village Voice Media day-party at South by Southwest. And it’s a looker, too, featuring some classic indie and…
There’s too much going on this weekend. Seriously. So let’s just jump right in. First, the shows we’ve already talked up…Tonight’s pretty damn packed: Mark Growden plays Lola’s Stockyards in Fort Worth (just as he did last night, too); The Sword will melt faces at Rubber Gloves in Denton; Dem…
Remember back in October, when we were all like, “Hey, what the what is Jason Lee (of Mallrats and My Name is Earl) fame doing in Denton?” and then we realized that, oh, he was just in town helping out his pals in Midlake, shooting a video or something? Maybe?…
The headline pretty much says it all here, so no need to harp too much on this latest bit of news from the NX35, which was recently referred to as “SXSW’s baby cousin” by the folks at Pitchfork. You know Telegraph Canyon and the fast-rising Final Club already. Indian Jewelry…
Full disclosure here folks: Murray Street Coffee Shop is my favorite coffee place in town. Has been since I moved to town almost two years ago now. Great coffee, excellent sandwiches, good people–the whole lot, really. Which explains why I spend a lot of time there. And, in that time…
Erykah Badu fans looking forward to the Freaq’s upcoming follow-up to her 2008 smash New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War would do well to turn their Internet dials to ErykahBadu.com starting in, oh, about 10 minutes or so (or, more specifically, at 3:33 p.m.), as, at that exact moment,…
The New York Times this morning has the details on a new lawsuit filed by the Sly Stone against his longtime manager, which claims that the Denton-born funk legend is owed some $20 to $30 million in royalties and “unspecified financial damages,” whatever those are.The former manager’s lawyer doesn’t seem…
By now, you should already be well aware of the big Saturday night shindig up in Denton, Spune’s 2k10 Winter Dance Party at Hailey’s which will feature Neon Indian, Ishi, Phantastes (aka Lars Larsen), Vulgar Fashion, Florene, Survive, Peopleodian and Monastary. After all, it’s already won our oh-so-coveted weekly Poster…
Darrel W. Herbert doesn’t necessarily expect you to remember his name: In a recent email press release announcing his new band, the subject line simply read “Former Toadies Guitarist Forms New Band,” nevermind Herbert’s time spent in Tomorrowpeople or his recent three-year stint as a recording engineer for legendary New…
All too often, DJs and the like put out impressive mixtapes and remixes but fail on the live side of things. Not so with area producer/graphic designer Objektiv One, whose impressive recent mashup releases have been running through our heads like crazy of late. Case in point: The above clip…
Memo to The Raven Charter: If you wanna make a dark, sci-fi-tastic music video, the above clip for The Sword’s “Maiden, Mother & Crone” is a good place to start your research. Sure, the task is far easier when you’re one of the new saviors of an entire genre like…
Longtime Erykah Badu boo Jay Electronica (who, between you and me, may actually have been the mastermind behind The Cannabinoids if one ‘noid’s aside from a couple months back holds any truth) has pretty much been owning the hip-hop blogs of the Internet-o-sphere lately, thanks in no small part to…
For a whopping quarter of a century now, Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo has existed comfortably at or near the top of the indie rock heap, showcasing an ever-changing aesthetic that, at various times in the band’s career, has seen the band touching on various psych-, garage-rock and shoegaze styles. In…
There’s nothing exciting—and certainly nothing glamorous—about the studio in which Midlake recorded its third full-length album, The Courage of Others. Hidden in an office building just a short, two-block walk up North Locust Street from the Courthouse-on-the-Square that serves as Denton’s historic center, the studio, from the outside at least,…
It’s a big day for Daniel Hunter, nee PlayRadioPlay! and currently of the Analog Rebellion moniker. Today, after all, is the day his Analog Rebellion debut, Ancient Electrons, earns its release. But it’s also the day in which he’s purging himself of any and all PlayRadioPlay! material. See, in addition…
Another month, another new song for you to download for free courtesy the powerhouse hipster-hop duo of Theodore Beard and Coool Dundee, better known ’round these parts as Damaged Good$. It’s kind of a beast of a song, too, featuring a beat from Rusko built around a sample of the…
A pretty exciting e-mail just popped up from the folks at Kirtland Records: Specifically, the release is centered around the Toadies, announcing the third annual Dia de Los Toadies Festival, which, in 2010, will take place at White Water Rocks in New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin, Texas. This…
When this next week’s Observer is distributed around the Metroplex, our stand on the new disc from the Denton-based Midlake, The Courage of Others, which is due out statesdide on February 2, will be made known. But plenty of others have already made their positions on the new, darker disc…
The folks at NX35 just posted a new blog entry on their site, effectively announcing the adds we already warned you would soon come. And, well, this list of 45 new acts (add that to the 123 previously announced performers) is chock full of gems, among them touring acts HEALTH,…
Many apologies for the slow blog day today–hell the slow blog week, really. Things have been especially hectic this week, for reasons I won’t bore you with. On the promising front, though, the weekend is here–and when the work-week kicks back up on Monday morning, we’ll be ready and waiting…
