Good Friday: The Christmas Edition

So your Christmas festivities are coming to a close. For hours, you’ve been sitting around with family for hours, eating and hearing about Uncle Harold’s increasingly aggravating bunion problems. You’re getting anxious. Antsy. You need to get out.Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. Our weekly Good Friday tradition…

Toadies, LIONS, Descender

2008 saw The Toadies triumphantly return to the music world with the release of its surprisingly still-in-form No Deliverance. 2009, meanwhile, saw even more successes from the band as it continued to tour the country, playing on both the club and festival circuits. The latter seemed to prove especially fruitful…

Counting Down the Best Local Albums of ’09

Not to get all nostalgic, but 2009 really was a fantastic year in Dallas-Fort Worth music. There are various reasons why and, last week, we handled the news-side of it all. But this week’s a little closer to the heart. This week really matters. Because, well, the music mattered around…

An Evening With The Old 97’s

A proud local product, The Old 97’s always makes certain to bring its high-energy twang-rock back through town with respectable regularity. But, this week, the band is offering up something truly special: a four-night residency of “evening with” performances at Sons of Hermann Hall. The evenings’ festivities will largely follow…

Presenting The Best DFW Albums of 2009…

[Editor’s Note: In this week’s paper, you’ll see my picks for the best DFW albums of 2009. Unfortunately, because of space concerns in print, some of the column was cut. So I’ve decided to print the whole thing here in full. Check it out. Argue away. Do your thing. And…

Weekend Roundup: Pikahsso, The House Harkonnen and Andrew Tinker

Pikahsso on Saturday, December 19, at The Green Elephant:Well, it’s official: Pikahsso, of Awkquarius and formerly of PPT, has gone and lost his mind. He even says as much in the below clip of him freestyling at an Awkquarius show from Saturday night. I’ll give him this much, though: Free-styling…