Next month, metalheads and gamers will find themselves on the same playing field, thanks to the upcoming March 29 release of Guitar Hero: Metallica. But it’s not all Hetfield, Ulrigh, Hammett and Trujilo in the mix. Gamers will also be able to play as the great Lemmy (he is God,…
Y’know what’s a pretty fun game to play? Head on over to NX35’s site and check out its “Who’s Playing?” list. Then scroll through the names and see if you can tell which are locals and which aren’t. I bet you’ll get a couple wrong. I know I have.But one…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 23, 2009… Duffy has been named the new face of Diet Coke. If only Amy Winehouse could’ve kept her shit together… It must suck to have an eagerly awaited album coming out: Both U2’s new album, No Line On The Horizon, and Kelly…
Idol just announced the release date for Dallas punky power trio Here Holy Spain’s debut CD, Manic, as April 7, though you don’t have to wait until then to hear it. The album is streaming on the band’s Last.FM site, and you can cop an advance copy through iTunes as…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 20, 2009… Remember that guy J.D. Fortune who won Rockstar: INXS? Me neither. But, he’s now homeless, living in his pick-up and a recovering cocaine addict. Good on Kid Rock for combining his two favorite things: beer and American badassery. He…
A lot of you may be asking yourself–just as I just asked myself–what in hell’s name an Old Settler’s Music Festival is. But before getting dismissive about anything not called SXSW, you might want to check out the line up for this shindig.Over a four-day period (April 16-19), this festival…
Since we already mentioned the Dallas Symphony Orchestra this morning (albeit tangentially), I’d say that this is as appropriate a time as any to spread word of the DSO’s 2009-2010 pops lineup, which was announced earlier this week.Launching in August, the schedule kicks off with Motown’s The Contours and is…
Must be nice to be a Booker T. Washington High School student. Especially today, as the kids over at the arts magnet on Routh Street, are getting quite the treat: a live performance and a lesson from Branford Marsalis. The 48-year-old Marsalis, who along with his brothers, is about as…
4AD has announced the release date of St. Vincent’s sophomore release, Actor, and, as the header to this post implies, we can expect the disc about two and a half months from now. The disc, produced here in Dallas by The Paper Chase’s John Congleton, also features North Texas musicians…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 19, 2009… If you’re going to SXSW, you may want to check out the worlds most ironic supergroup–Tinted Windows. The band includes ex-Smashing Pumpkin James Iha, the middle Hanson (Taylor), Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick and Fountains of Wayne…
Just in case you happened to be flipping ‘cross the radio dial yesterday or today and you stopped on Movin’ 107.5 (because you were on your way to your pilates class) but, instead of “Hot N Cold”, you heard a strange foreign language coming out of your speakers (it’s called…
Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a…
OK, so maybe this is kinda old news at this point, but, yes, it’s been confirmed: After weeks and weeks of truly heated speculation, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced at a press conference yesterday that country music icons George Strait and Reba McEntire would be joining forces to perform at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 18, 2009… It’s starting to look like the recently announced Jane’s Addiction reunion tour will turn out to be a full-on reunion: Founding bassist Eric Avery hasn’t played with the band since 1991, nixing all “reunion” tours, and only recently…
Must be good to be Pitchfork Media. Reviewing records whenever you want, writing overblown reviews that go over most readers’ heads, applying arbitrary numbers to your reviews (even if they don’t seem to match up well with the actual written words of said reviews), not really reviewing an album at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009… Metallica is now embracing digital music… as long as “digital music” doesn’t mean “illegal downloads”. The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere else on April 28. Trent Reznor may be pulling…
Yep. And you said so, according to this 72-page study from a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which surveyed radio listeners in six markets, including DFW, only to find that they’re all dissatisfied with what they’re hearing. It’s not that hard, folks. Really, it isn’t. Just play more…
Over the weekend, Teenage Cool Kids’ new full-length LP, Foreign Lands, was made available for pre-order. Like the Denton-based indie rockers’ debut full-length, Queer Salutations, the new record is being released on the indie-label Protagonist Music. But, unlike Queer Salutations, which was released on CD, Foreign Lands will be pressed…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 16, 2009… Estelle Bennett, member or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group, The Ronnettes, died at 67 in her Englewood, New Jersey, home. There must be something about being in Korn that will drive you to salvation: Reginald…
Every year at SXSW, our parent company, Village Voice Media, hosts a day-party concert filled with enticing national names. This year will be no different, I’m told, although the lineup card for this year’s show hasn’t yet been announced. We’ll let you know as soon as it is. That said,…
Do you like making snap judgments about local bands? You’re in luck. Volume 2 of the One Hundred Second Dash compilation series is available for free download today. To download it, just follow the link to the One Hundred Second Dash blog and click on the animation in the upper…
This afternoon, SXSW unveiled its complete lineup of acts booked to play this year’s festival. It’s a lengthy list, and, honestly, it’s kinda a bitch to troll through, unless you’re looking for something specific. So we did the dirty work for you, hunting down the complete list of DFWd acts…
