Since 2005, NX35 events have showcased Denton bands at the massive South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Not this year, though. Chris Flemmons’ brainchild is staying squarely in the 940 this March, with four days of music planned for 12 venues in the four-block area surrounding the Courthouse Square…
Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label…
…that we mentioned just one post ago. There’s something very interesting about this list: It’s based on a pretty loose definition of “faith-inspired”. Like very loose. Like, enough so that bands like Delta Spirit, Bodies of Water, The Mae Shi, Cloud Cult and Cold War Kids make the Top 50…
Please, please, please do yourself a favor and watch the beautiful, incredible, Josh Pearson-starring, Jon Todd Collins-directed video for Doug Burr’s “Should’ve Known”, off 2007’s On Promenade. Amazing stuff–if, OK, a little curious in terms of its release.Why release a song off Burr’s 2007 disc when another disc, his new,…
Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen hits the streets in a couple of weeks, and the double disk set features a handful of talented local artists, including Max Stalling, one of the area’s best country singer/songwriters (who takes on “No Kinda Dancer,” quite possibly Keen’s most renowned number,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 6, 2009… Someone hacked into Britney Spears’ Twitter account to let the world know that her cooter is four feet wide and has teeth. Yikes! TMI, Brit! 50 Cent has been signed by a liquor company to help market their cognac. I guess…
Sorry for the slow blog day, folks. As one commenter already put it, things have been quite slow around town of late. Oh well. Things get better soon, though. Like, say, tonight, at the Cavern, for instance, where Chris Cantalini of the Dallas-based tastemaking blog Gorilla Vs. Bear, will be…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, January 5, 2009… A coroner found that Dr. Dre’s son died of an overdose of heroin and morphine. Brian Warner Marilyn Manson wants Trent Reznor and ex-wife Dita Von Teese to testify on his behalf. Manson is being sued by his former drummer…
Your national music news for Friday, January 2, 2009… Prince said he plans on releasing three albums this year. The first will be an electro-pop record tenitively titled MPLSOUND and Lotus Flower. He also said he didn’t vote this year because of his religion. Right, Prince. Right. Jerry Cantrell recently spoke about Alice…
Your daily music news for the first day of 2009… Don’t get your hopes up for a two year Guns N’ Roses tour. It looks like Tommy Stinson was misquoted. Doesn’t it always happen that way? Scientists are mad at Mariah Carey for “misreading” algebra with her album title E=MC2. You would…
Your daily dose of national music news for the last day of 2008… It seems that all it takes to ruin Kanye West’s vacation is to write something untrue about him. There was talk of him chanting to “improve his singing voice” and he read it…and it ruined his va-cay. Usually it…
Barn sides are the new brick walls. (Trevor Paulhus)Nope, we’re definitely not the only ones digging MATAS’ Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian disc. Just spotted this little bit o’ love today: AWMusic, the Toronto-based blog that gave Forever the Sickest Kids some love in its year-end lists, has…
The title of this post is ripped right from an email that popped up in the inbox yesterday afternoon in the wake of this post–and, lo and behold, yep it’s from Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram, sharing the links to his favorite concerts and albums of the year, as well…
Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008… My life is over. Yes, it’s over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christmas. The most wonderful…
Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…
Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…
The pop music coverage over at the Dallas Morning News after its most recent round of layoffs and buyouts (which saw longtime critics Mike Daniel take a buyout and Thor Christensen laid off) has been, well, a tad underwhelming of late, to put it mildly. It certainly doesn’t doesn’t help…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 29, 2008…DJ AM got into the Christmas spirit a little early this year. On Christmas Eve, he not only sued Goodyear, Learjet and the charter company he used for the flight that crashed and left him and drummer Travis Barker…
Today, over at MadeLoud.com–a site that claims to “serve the bands”, but probably not in a sexual way, I’m guessing–someone’s decided that, sure, the bands in DFWd could use a little help in trying to figure out where to play around town.OK. We’re fine with that. And the fact that…
Your top national music stories for Wednesday, December 24, 2008: Remember back in ’89 when no one knew we were in the midst of Hip-Hop’s “golden age” and KRS-One schooled us on why non-violence is good with the ditty “Self Destruction?” Well, now the young pups of today can have their…
Your top national music stories for Tuesday, December 23, 2008: Jeff Tweedy’s 13- year-old son Spencer has a blog. There, you can read a 13-year-old tell you about the newest technology, politics and music. Because, if 13 year old’s know anything, it’s politics. Kelly Clarkson and her tiny nose ring…
