If you’ve missed hearing Will Johnson behind the drumkit ever since the Funland Band broke up, tune in to NBC tonight. Monsters Of Folk, now featuring the Centro-matic frontman on drums–along with Jim James, Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Mike Mogis–will be the musical guest on The Tonight Show With…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 22, 2009… Turntablist extraordinaire Roc Raida has passed away. Indie rock “It-couple” Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard tied the knot this weekend. Thanks for breaking my heart, Zooey. What’s the best way to calm an anxious mistress? Well, if you’re former…
So, the 61st annual Emmys were held last night, which, y’know, is something, I’m sure. But, if I may point your direction elsewhere for a moment: Not last night, but the weekend before, the winners in the creative arts categories of the Emmy Awards were announced. And maybe you recall…
A quick update on the annual The Sound and The Jury competition for little-known acts to make their way onto the Austin City Limits Festival lineup: Two pop-loving Dentonites, Andrew Tinker and Erin Austin, have made it into the final round of competition, with former Polyphonc Spree member Tinker, who…
Twilight and indie rock fans alike have been paying close attention to the steady release of information regarding the soundtrack for the vampire series’ second installment over recent weeks, the latter group no doubt doing so while scratching their heads.After all, it’s been for some time now that we’ve known…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 21, 2009… Wanna be in a new Flaming Lips video? Here’s the rub, you have to ride a bike…naked. Joe Perry thinks Steven Tyler needs to “get his act together.” So, he doesn’t want him to fall off stages? Legendary…
Some interesting Will Johnson news pouring in this week, as the Centro-matic frontman’s keeping himself quite busy these days. Just a couple nights ago, in fact, a little birdie told me that Johnson, always the busy touring musician, is the newest addition to the Monsters of Folk lineup, joining in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 18, 2009… Avril Lavigne has split with her hubby of three years, Deryck Whimbley. That sucks, I guess. But, at least Pavement is getting back together! Jay-Z says he’s not going to go into politics after his music career is over. Did anyone…
When we first met Dustin Cavazos, he was one half of the surprisingly interesting screamo-hop outfit Scuba Team Go, combining his creative beats with an even more inventive combination of styles. These days, though, the skate-hopper’s been focusing on his solo material, still creating his own immediately recognizable beats and…
Local alt-rock duo The Phuss has finished up recording its debut album and has tentatively set Halloween as the target date for the CD’s release. You may recall a few months back when the boys from the Phuss gave us permission to offer up a fine bonus MP3 of the…
Gotta hand it to VH1, I think. This fall season, MTV’s sister network is bringing back two of its music-centric staples from years past, and in turn, seriously upping the cable channels’ music coverage ante back to somewhat respectable (but still largely unacceptable) standards. Whereas Behind The Music has already…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 16, 2009… The Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a free 44-song album, which will be released as a series of EPs. Now if I could find a time machine to take me back 15 years, to when there was…
Last week, it was announced and then un-announced that Denton’s Oso Closo had won a Chipotle-sponsored contest that involved them filming themselves singing about their favorite burrito. On Monday, though, the official word from the popular restaurant chain came: Oso Closo was indeed the winner of $10,000 in prize money,…
It might be on a smaller scale, but amidst all this to-do about The Burning Hotels’ appearance in the Vanessa Hudgens-fueled talkie Bandslam, let’s not forget: Another Fort Worth act got to the silver screen first. Last year’s AFI Dallas event saw two screenings of the film The Other Side…
Regular Unfair Park readers will already be hip to this news: In a press release sent out early this morning, KERA announced both the name (KKXT) and start-date (Monday, November 9) for the new all-music public radio station it’ll be broadcasting on 91.7 FM. But, more than that, the press release announced…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 16, 2009… The blog darlings in Vampire Weekend are set to release their new album, Contra, in the new year. No need to use up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-select-start to acquire it. Wow… could Kanye actually be sorry about the Taylor Swift shit-storm he stirred up? He…
For that, I apologize. Bottom of my heart. Got caught in a whirlwind of flight issues yesterday while trying to come back from my trip to Colorado for a) a friend’s wedding, and b) Neon Indian’s performance at the Monolith Festival. You can read about the latter in this week’s…
Good news for those who miss shows at Bend Studio: “Barefoot At The Belmont,” a series of weekly concerts at The Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, returns Thursday with an 8:30 p.m. performance by Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch. The shows feature many of the same singer-songwriters that have performed at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 15, 2009… Author and punk rock legend Jim Carroll has died of a heart attack. Janet Jackson released a surprise song “for her fans” after the VMA’s on Sunday night. Those crazy Jacksons know how to exploit a moment don’t…
Although it’s been out a month or so, I’m just now getting around to the killer new EP from local punks Warcola. Parlaying punk of the old school hardcore variety (Minor Threat, Bad Brains), Matt, Oscar (no last names = real punks) and the rest of Warcola have been spitting…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Have you ever sat around thinking “Man, it would be great to be Daft Punk!”? Well, if you play DJ Hero you’ll have your chance! Artists are pulling out of the Michael Jackson tribute left-and-right. Mary J. Blige, Natalie…
Just how dedicated are local Beatles fans? Well, at least one has already agreed to pay $500 for a rare copy of The Beatles In Mono–about $200 more than the set’s $299.99 list price. The mono set is part of the big 9-9-09 marketing blitzkrieg, which also included the release…
