James Dante Kings was 17 years old. The Austin American-Statesman reports today that James Dante Kings’ family is offering a $4,000 reward for “leads to the arrest and conviction of the motorist who failed to stop” after striking Kings on I-35 in Austin at around 2 a.m. on Friday, March…
….then you might want to head over to Kidd Kraddick’s studios in Irving. Here’s why: Kraddick, host of the nationally syndicated radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning (heard locally on 106.1 KISS-FM), thinks he’s found a gem in a a young unsigned artist he found named Freddy Wexler. Kraddick…
The members of White Arms of Athena, a progressive metal act from Mesquite, are checking out studios in order to complete their debut recording. “The full-length will be called Astrodrama and it shouldn’t take longer than a month or two to complete,” says guitarist Colin McDonnell. The band just played…
Seekers of Knowledge, take heed. Sixty Second Ape Magazine presents The Return of Knowledge tomorrow night at the Liquid Lounge in Deep Ellum. From 2001 to 2005, Knowledge was a regular hip-hop showcase run by the Nice People collective. After taking a break to focus on recording and starting up…
Only a handful of people have so far watched this Youtube clip of the Women’s Chorus of Dallas performing “Istanbul (Not Contsantinople)”: Let’s fix that; this is a damn fine performance. Well done, ladies. –Pete Freedman…
Jordan Barrick When Dallas playwright Lacey Lalene Lynch asked Jordan Barrick to provide music for her show Reason for Referral, the acoustic singer-songwriter was eager to help. Reading the script for her play, which is about three college theater students dealing with the apparent link between their creativity and mental…
…oh, oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore. If anyone knows Maria Elena Holly, the widow of Buddy who happens to live in the Turtle Creek area, they might wanna pass along this exceptional find: Eric Clapton covering the Lubbock legend’s immortal songs “Maybe Baby” and “Peggy Sue,” both of which…
Real Texas. Real music. Word just came down that we have three pairs of three-day passes to the Real. Texas. Festival. to give away on this here blog. If you want to spend your weekend watching Chris Cagle, Stoney LaRue and Dallas’ own The Killdares, shoot me an email with…
The Recording Academy–you know, the folks behind the Grammy Awards–are throwing a big bash at the Granada tonight in conjunction with some T-Mobile Sidekick promotion. The show will feature normally big-time draws Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson, either of whom could probably sell out the theater. Only this show is…
In tomorrow’s print edition Pete will tell you all about the highlights from last weekend’s Mokah Music Summit and Showcase (M2S2), but we just couldn’t resist sharing this video FineLineLive.com put together of Dave Little talking about the Dallas music scene. Let’s just say it includes the sentence: “The Dallas…
White Light Fever. Mickey Branton, bassist for local psychedelic rock act White Light Fever, tells us the band has completed their second effort and is preparing for an onslaught of summer performances. Count All Your Father’s Wealth is set for release in late June and the band members have been…
Caleb Shreve is something of a local; he lives in Lone Oak which is way the hell out east on I-30, past Greenville and some big lake. Anyway, his classmates at good ol’ Lone Oak High think he’s something of a talent–they’ve honored him with the coveted “Most Talented Musician”…
Lauren Conrad of The Hills fame. …or, at least, their song “Woah Oh (Me Vs. Everyone)” was. The Dallas-based group’s song, like, totally came on and rocked the soundtrack to the show when LC, Lo and Audrina were getting ready to go out to their new favorite Thursday night hotspot,…
With so much going on this last weekend, we kind of spaced on some of the non showcase shows. So, we were pretty pleased to come across this video of the Panderers playing the Granada last Friday. — Chelsea Ide…
Often when I try to get others to listen to Pelican, the second I mention the word “instrumental” they bow out. I’m hoping some of you have continued reading. Pelican’s sound is sometimes ethereal, always heavy. Those who can handle longer instrumental songs will want to pick up the band’s…
Third String Productions, the folks who brought the emo-fest South By So What?! to Plano last month, have another huge day of music lined up for next weekend. The New Noise Music Festival looks a lot more promising than South By So What, as there is considerably more diversity in…
So we’re a little behind on this–by, like, a whole year. But we just came across this video, in which Big Al Dupree schools us on Deep Ellum in its heyday(s). According to the description, the vid was created 16 years ago–well before the entire hullabaloo going on now (but…
OK, so I’m not a struggling musician–but I’ve heard the story many times about how hard it is to make some bank in the local arena. Some places take this much of a cut; other places say they’ll only take that much of a cut–but end up paying shit. And…
Experimental act Negativland will perform what Mark Hosler, one of the group’s founding members, admits is a fairly out-there, challenging show tomorrow night. That not too surprising to those familiar with Negativland’s history. For years the band has made headlines for things only tangential to their musical output: copyright infringements,…
Art – both in graffiti form and in galleries like Kettle Art – continues to play a major role in maintaining Deep Ellum’s character. (Jonathan Finley) Deep Ellum is changing. Transitioning. You know this. The area has endured a rash of club closings, struggles with the city and the ongoing…
It’s distasteful to rip musical acts donating their time to perform for a worthy cause. So we’ll just say that this Sunday night, Naked Mom on the Lawn, GOAT, Imaginary Friends, Daddy Dub and Bill’s Clinton will light up the Torch Lounge, 5361 Sears at Greenville Avenue, and DFW NORML…
Bad news, Cat Power fans. Chan Marshall’s hurt her vocal chords and, as a result, Saturday night’s gig at the Palladium Ballroom’s been canceled. We’ll keep our ears open for details on a possible reschedule. –Pete Freedman…
