Lest we go more than a week without recognizing polk-rock outfit Brave Combo as one of the true gems of the region, let’s use this bit of news as a quick reminder: Yesterday, the L.A. Times’ music blog ran an item on the forthcoming Christmas album being released by one…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, October 1, 2009… How sad: The Kanye West/Lady Gaga tour has been canceled. I hear someone tried to tell ‘Ye the tour was canceled, but was interrupted by Taylor Swift. Flava Flav is shopping a series where he goes back to high…
For the past few weeks, we’ve been following the efforts of various DFW area artists trying to scam their way into the final slot at this weekend’s Austin City Limits Music Festival via the annual competition called The Sound and The Jury. And, last night at Antone’s in Austin, the…
If YouTube is more your flavor, check out the video here.DJ Drop, the nightlife luminary who helped popularize the D-Town Boogie way back, oh, a year ago, is the subject of Pete’s sidebar in this year’s Best of Dallas Scenes section, and in the video above, you’ll hear him talk…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, October 1, 2009… The Black Keys are coming out with a hip-hop record? Don’t worry, they guys got guest MCs. An interview with Michael Jackson has surfaced where he talks about not wanting to go to a strip club with Madonna where…
Buried in this week’s newsletter from Kirtland Records comes this bit of exciting news for fans of the long-haired, tattooed, hippie freaks in Eleven Hundred Springs: In February, the boys will be releasing a new album called This Crazy Life. Regional country fans will no doubt remember the band’s last…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 29, 2009…It now only takes Eddie Vedder 30 minutes to write a song? That story isn’t as cool as coming up with his lyrics for Ten while surfing.Wolfgang’s Vault will release 1,000 of it’s live shows for purchase starting November…
Last Friday afternoon, Jesse Hughey and I finally got around to checking out the new Reno’s Bar & Grill and its marquis menu item, Dimebag’s Blacktooth Whiskey Burger, which features a whiskey-soaked patty, onions grilled in Coca-Cola and an entire section of the local music community’s heavy hearts. Well, not…
By now, you should already know the deal with Zound Sounds, Marc Solomon’s music school with multiple locations about the Metroplex where aspiring area youngsters learn from a staff of music teaching locals who are out there actually doing what the kids themselves hope to be doing as well one…
Like Bosque Brown before it, Neon Indian finds itself as the subject of The Guardian’s “New Band of the Day” feature today–although, if you read the copy, it’s kinda tough to determine if Paul Lester’s really all that into the music. More than anything, Lester uses the band as a…
Using a combination of hope, creativity and instrument strings, Abbie Chesney is reaching out to the local music scene for help with a jewelry project she’s calling Eye on the Sparrow Designs. The whole idea started in response to the death of her close friend and musician Carter Albrecht. Chesney,…
We’d heard rumblings out of Erykah Badu camp about a free show at Victory Plaza in October, and, earlier this week, a press release from Red Bull confirmed as much: On Friday, October 16, Badu and The Cannabinoids will perform a free concert alongside Oklahoma’s Shiny Toy Guns as a…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 28, 2009… The Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band will perform on gabfest The View on Wednesday. Anyone else worried she’s going to come between Whoopi and Joy and split the girls up? U2 has yet to make a profit on its 360…
Last year, the annual Dallas EDM festival known as Meltdown celebrated its tenth anniversary by bringing Moby in to headline its event, which was held at the Lizard Lounge. This year, alas, no Moby (although he will be in town on October 4 for a show at the Palladium). But,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 8, 2009… Austin City Limits has released its TV schedule for this season. Unfortunately, we’ll only get to see three of them in between the constant telethons on KERA… The Faces are reuniting for a one-off charity concert. Marilyn Manson has been diagnosed…
The folks at Spin have been mighty kind to DFW musicians over the past year and a half or so. There was the exclusive streaming of the Toadies’ “No Deliverance” single, for one. Then the love for The Riverboat Gamblers and the single issue that featured Damaged Good$, The Strange…
John Iskander of Parade of Flesh sent word that his next couple shows at the Lounge On Elm Street (Birds of Avalon on Saturday and Burst on Monday) will be BYOB. Fortunately, the situation is only temporary, according to Lounge co-owner Glenn Jackson. “Our liquor license expired [in August],” he…
Last year, I was impressed by local rock act Automorrow and Diver, the band’s debut EP. Ben Napier and crew are one of the few area acts that can successful mix rock, reggae and punk without watering down any of those genres. Next month, though, the band is heading back…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 25, 2009… Chris Cornell is donating memorabilia to the new Hard Rock Cafe on the Las Vegas strip. Items not included: pride and self-respect. He lost track of them when he recorded Scream. Lily Allen has decided to hang up…
Earlier this week, we learned that two Dentonites–Andrew Tinker and Erin Austin–had made the final round in the annual the Sound and The Jury competition, which offers largely unknown acts to play at the Austin City Limits Festival, an event normally reserved for only the biggest names in music. Trick…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 24, 2009… Mackenzie Phillips really loved her father, John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas–so much so, she claims to have had an affair with him for 10 years. But, hey, uh, it was consensual. So you shouldn’t judge. Nothing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 23, 2009… DJ Whoo Kid says Eminem’s Relapse 2 will be “more maniacal” than Relapse. I wonder who will be the target of his wrath: Mariah Carey or his ex-wife? I realize that when a pet dies it’s a very sad thing…
