We now have two new factors in our ongoing “Demi Lovato vs. Selena Gomez: Who’s Hotter?” discussion: party ability and fighting ability.According to the Huffington Post, which reported last week that the 18-year-old Disney starlet Lovato entered into rehab for “emotional and physical issues,” there’s plenty of new evidence to…
Perhaps you, like the rest of us, had questions when watching Sarah Jaffe’s beautiful, if somewhat confusing, debut music video for her song “Clementine.” Questions like, say…”Hey, where was this shot anyway?””Why is Sarah’s nose bleeding at the end?””Is that Will Johnson?””Wouldn’t it be funny if Glen Farris fell during…
After a fairly crazy couple of years (and one gnarly van crash) since the 2007 release of their breakthrough, Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True, Sulphur Springs’ Fair to Midland has finally announced details about its upcoming fourth full-length release — and a new…
Mike Herrera is best known as the vocalist and bassist for MxPx, a punk rock act from Bremerton, Washington, that gained a substantial following in the mid-’90s. Although each member of MxPx was a Christian, the band never identified itself as a Christian punk band, and, after eight solid efforts…
Best Coast isn’t Bethany Cosentino’s first foray into music — before starting her most recent project, the 23-year-old flirted with the major label circuit when her teenage singer-songwriter material caught their ears, and, a few years later, she started Pocahaunted, which has released a whole slew of albums since forming…
You may have not heard of New Jersey’s Bosco Delray yet, but if the early buzz is a signal of things to come, you will certainly know the guy soon. Mixing early rock and roll (Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry) with dancehall and hip-hop, Delrey is plying his craft in…
Well, today is the day some of you have been waiting for. It’s the last Today In Music News post. I know, I know.It’s been a long and winding road of the best news stories the interweb has to offer. And it’s over now.But don’t worry your pretty little head…
NX35 is dead.After months of hints, rumors and premature tweets, the Denton-based music festival has formally announced its name change to 35 Conferette.The festival, which started in Austin as a day-party to celebrate and showcase Denton bands during SXSW, became a North Texas institution three years ago in an effort…
Garland-raised country starlet LeAnn Rimes is only 28, but already, she’s lived a life–a full half of it, even, since she became the first country act to win a Best New Artist Grammy in 1997 as just a 14-year-old. In more recent years, her personal life has become tabloid fodder–which,…
Chris PhelpsAfter an eight-year run at Warner Bros., Tyler’s Eisley will now call Equal Vision Records home.Today, after a two-year battle with Warner Bros. Records, Eisley, the Tyler-based, indie rock family band, is moving forward with plans to release their long-awaited third record. And, for the first time in their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 4, 2010…It turns out the split of Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish may have been caused by Tish doin’ the deed with Bret Michaels. Maybe she just wanted a guy who had a career, ya know?Damon Albarn just…
Some two months after the initial announcement that City Tavern owner Josh Florence and a crew of investors had signed a lease on Club Dada and hoped to have the venue open near Halloween, the venue’s opening has been delayed due to what Florence calls “red tape” and misinformation received…
The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts–from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as “the next Nirvana” to then following his girlfriend to New York where he’d end up…
Just a few days ago, the formerly Dallas-based and currently Brooklyn-dwelling Fieros (nee The Valentines) debuted the above music video for the song “One Woman,” from the band’s finally released debut full-length, which comes courtesy of the Japanese label, This Time Records. The video, as you can see, stars one…
For astute music fans in the North Texas region, the name Monotonix has become quite familiar. In the last couple of years, the Israeli garage-punk trio has made a few stops here, including a 2009 NX35 slot that got the ball rolling pretty hard on their Metroplex buzz. Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
Long hailed as one of the untouchable patriarchs in the storied past of hip-hop royalty, producer, DJ, and vinyl archivist DJ Shadow has been responsible for some of the most innovative music that the genre has seen over the course of his nearly 20-year career. These days, having not released…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 3, 2010…Finally Kanye admits that he’s basically a child. But, a child that has an awesome sense of fashion.Weezy released a letter preceding his release from prison stating he was never “scared, worried, nor bothered” by his prison sentence. But,…
Well, at least one local will be participating at South by Southwest in the coming spring.In anticipation of its 25-year anniversary, SXSW has just just released its earliest performer announcement in history, and, alongside acts like A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Designer Drugs, El Guincho, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, Small…
Looks like Lower Greenville is about to get a new live music venue–at least on Monday nights. The Libertine has just announced plans to host free concerts from local acts every Monday night. The night will be called “The Hang Up.” Huh. Wonder where they got that idea… Anyway, the…
Not too long ago, we passed along word of Norah Jones’ next release, a compilation of collaborations she’s taken part in over the course of her career called …Featuring. Among the songs included on the disc? A cut from Jones’ near-anonymous slowcore and punk side-project, El Madmo.In the above clip,…
We’d been suspecting this for a while now, but, according to a press release sent out by Kemado Records this morning, now it’s official: The New York City-based label home to The Sword and Saviour, and formerly to acts like The Soft Pack, Dungen, Marissa Nadler and Langhorne Slim, has…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 2, 2010…Sure, Kim Kardashian is hot, but, being hot doesn’t mean you’re a singer, right?You know you’ve made it when Cracker Barrel is distributing your new album! Since her acting career didn’t quite take off the way she had hoped,…
