If you pre-ordered Oak Cliff-based indie/hip-hop artist Dustin Cavazos’ debut album, I Think In The Shower, I Dream On My Bike, then chances are, you heard a knock on your door yesterday. Instead of using the traditional means of album distribution–y’know, putting a stamp on a package and letting the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 13, 2010…A “prison rat” tipped off officials at Rikers Island that Lil’ Wayne was in possession of contraband. Time for Weezy sharpen up that toothbrush and get some prison justice!Is there anything that is associated with The Beatles that people…
With the recent reissue of Exile on Main Street, my favorite effort from the Rolling Stones, my personal interest in catching guitarist Mick Taylor next Wednesday at the Granada Theater was pretty high. Taylor was in the Stones from 1969 to 1974–considered by many to be the band’s greatest phase…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 12, 2010…Woo hoo! Blur will make new songs together… prolly just not a whole album.What do Josh Ritter and Scooby-Doo have in common? They both involve stories that revolve around mummies.Tishomingo, Oklahoma’s first couple of Country music are gettin’ hitched!…
There’s a relatively short list of record labels in town, and Gutterth Records might be the shrewdest: Yesterday, the home to Daniel Folmer, The Timeline Post, Ryan Thomas Becker and others, made every release it’s ever put out up as a free stream over at the newly created Gutterthrecords.com–21 releases…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 11, 2010…Billy Corgan sure does have a thing for female bass players… and being an ego maniac.Carlos D and his sweet over-the-shoulder pistol holster has quit Interpol.The Red Hot Chili Peppers are hard at work on a “different sound” on…
A good news/bad news day in the world of DFW venues. Bad news first: Over at the Star-Telegram music blog, Preston Jones is reporting that the Fort Worth Stockyards’ Longhorn Saloon, which opened up about a year and a half ago, is now set to close. Boo to that.Meanwhile, another…
We’ve been doing a lot of talking about Denton’s, Sarah Jaffe these past few weeks–and with good reason. Her new album, Suburban Nature is already on our short list of best local albums for the year. And, after touring with Midlake and getting scooped up by Norah Jones for a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 10, 2010…The creepy guy from The Office is releasing a new album. A new Kelly Clarkson song leaks… and she’s not too happy with someone!Music legends don’t die… they make new music with their wives…
Yesterday afternoon, lead JoBro Joe Jonas, like his Colleyville-bred girlfriend before him, gave Neon Indian an official Twitter endorsement, calling the band “a good listen.”Unsurprisingly, Hipster Runoff sister site The Alt Report is all over the news, asking the important questions, like “Will the Jonas Brothers write a chillwave album…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 7, 2010…There is a new underground comic that portrays Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as lovers. Is nothing sacred anymore?Should we take a metal-Moby seriously?Thank, God… Gucci Mane gets an early release from jail…
A couple quick items to get out of the way this afternoon, so let’s just get right to it:Earlier this week, we pointed you in the direction of two leaked tracks from Burleson-born Kelly Clarkson’s next album. Yesterday, the Star-Telegram music blog pointed you in the direction of another, a…
The normal rule of thumb is that you need three examples of something happening before you can call it a trend. Well, how about four? SUPER TREND, DUDES. And, in this case, the super trend is all about your TV. Specifically: Area products and songs on TV. Like, for instance,…
Yup: After starting off the month being charged by the Dallas Police Department with disorderly conduct for getting nude at Dealey Plaza while shooting her “Window Seat” video, Erykah Badu ended April by filing a not guilty plea to challenge those charges. Happened last Wednesday, as a matter of fact–and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 6, 2010…Either Roger Waters or one of his minions don’t care to much for Elliot Smith…Scarlett Johansson says she wants to play Courtney Love in a Nirvana movie. Uh, Scarlett… you’re not skanky enough and you’re too top-heavy.The tween girls…
This morning, the Kessler Theater quietly created an event on facebook for a Pleasant Grove concert on Saturday, August 7. Just another Pleasant Grove show, right? Not quite: Apparently the band will be performing their seminal album Auscultation of the Heart all the way through. This should be an amazing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 5, 2010…The debut song from the new project brought to you by Mr. and Mrs. Trent Reznor debut online.Jack White is ready to record as the White Stripes again… and we are too.Skanks and strippers had better look out… Bret…
A huge, huge, huge thank you to everyone who came out to The Local Hang last night at The Libertine. Biggest crowd we’ve seen yet. Lots of area musicians fans and industry types. Also: Random drinkers who didn’t seem to mind having their turf infringed upon. A special thanks to…
Yesterday, Stereogum launched a new bit called Exposure, where musicians interview other musicians–like a hipster, music-focused Interview magazine (redundant?) except that it’s on video and online. For the debut episode, the Dallas-bred Alan Palomo of Neon Indian gets tapped to interview one Peter Gabriel. Does a pretty good job, too,…
Kind of big news this week surrounding Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson. Seems the inaugural American Idol champ has been working on a new record, and, uh-oh, a song from the record has leaked. Late last week, the sultry–or, well, sultry for Clarkson–song started making its way around the ‘net.Clarkson was…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 5, 2010…It’s official: The world is coming to an end.Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” was voted the best movie song of all-time. Noticeably absent? John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band’s “On The Dark Side.”…
Last week, we gave you all a heads up about the next big festival in town–now that Edgefest is out of the way, at least. Downtown Dallas’ Homegrown Festival bill for Saturday, May 22 is already pretty stout. It’s fully stocked on buzz-worthy local acts. But the name they dropped…
