With the excellent addition of SoCal punk supergroup OFF! to the Bro Fest 2012 roster last week comes four more acts, these being of the hazy pop variety: Maps & Atlases, Gauntlet Hair, Hospitality and Netherfriends. The subtract part: The Entrance Band and Cerebral Ballzy have canceled their SXSW plans…
A Lull is a relatively new band hailing from Chicago. In just a few years, they’ve developed a solid reputation for edgy indie pop and chaotic live performances. Currently on tour in support of Confetti, their impressive debut, A Lull seems primed for a larger audience. Speaking from his car…
On Wednesday, Pleasant Grove singer-guitarist Bret Egner was involved in a bicycle accident near Red River in Austin, when he swerved to avoid two jaywalking pedestrians and hit the pavement. Sadly, the pedestrians he swerved to avoid didn’t offer help. Egner went into surgery today to repair a shattered collarbone,…
The saga continues: From the Internet ether comes the (partial) fruits of that Erykah Badu/Flaming Lips collaboration we talked about a few weeks ago. “Now I Understand” sounds about right coming from the left/right brains of these two. Ambient, heavy-lidded, soulful and it features a sample of Siri’s vocals. (The…
For nearly three decades, singer/guitarist Anders Osborne has called The Big Easy home and the city’s musical heritage has had a profound impact on Osborne’s music. Funky and inventive, his blues are inspired by both John Lee Hooker and Doctor John, full of impressive solos and carefree spirit that goes…
2011 was an interesting year for Paul Meany, frontman for the indie rock quartet MuteMath. Not only did the band turn into a trio with the departure of guitarist Greg Hill, but Meany decided it was time for other changes as well. When work began on the band’s most recent…
The year was 1983 when Rio Room, located in Highland Park, opened its doors for the first time. The crowds of seemingly wealthy hipsters (yes, I believe they had those back then) swelled on nights when Dallas cast members and other big stars commonly graced the club.Today, not a lot…
Last week, Obama sang the opening line of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” so of course it’s been everywhere online, but last night, Old School 94.5 told me what I really wanted to know: How I could get my own ringtone rendition of it. I think Obama needs to sing…
“Well if you really wanna raise your voice to me/ It’s gonna change how I feel about you, buddy, but it won’t change me.” Lydia Loveless’ “Can’t Change Me” is one of those perfect storms, a song that rips out your heart then gets stuck in your head. It’s a…
So I fell down one of those Internet rabbit holes a few nights ago — you know, when YouTube proves itself to be a Rube Goldberg machine — and ended up at this clip, which I very clearly remember watching on 120 Minutes as a 13-year-old, and knowing then that…
Smile Smile’s big new-album-new-website-announcement today was unfortunately overshadowed by an unlucky occurrence over the weekend, when Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme lost all of their merchandise on Friday night. According to Hamilton, the two were reorganizing their merchandise inventory and put it into Hirunrusme’s car. She parked it in front…
It’s a day that’s been prophesied and speculated about for years: The day one of the extremely talented members of Eisley goes solo. Would it be Sherri DuPree-Bemis or Stacy King? Both have shared songwriting duties for the family band, but King, the youngest member, is finally breaking out on…
Hailing from Hamden, Connecticut, Wolves at Bay is a young punk band that’s venturing to Texas for the very first time, bringing with them a heady mix of metal and old-school punk that recalls the greatness of Hüsker Dü and Suicidal Tendencies. From a tour stop in North Carolina and…
Loretta Lynn keeps it rather simple when summing her progression from childhood cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to the illustrious Winspear Opera House, where she performs Sunday night. “It really has been an interesting journey. It’s a hard story to believe, but it really is interesting.” Recently removed from not…
Local rap duo A.Dd+ continue their ascent, this time enlisting corporate support from Red Bull, who’s sponsoring an early February tour that will see them hit six Texas cities in the span of seven days. This will be a coming-out party of sorts, with A.Dd+ playing shows with some of…
As Unfair Park reported last week, in preview of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge lighting, Dallas’ own gospel-funk group The Relatives will be headlining the March 3 Bridge-o-Rama event in celebration of its opening. This is a big deal, as the family band, led by the indomitable Rev. Gean West,…
Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, trio The Life and Times makes a wonderful racket while creating dense, sonically challenging compositions — real rock songs hidden under waves of noise. Speaking from his home in Chicago and in anticipation of tonight’s show at Dan’s Silverleaf, frontman and guitarist Allen Epley spoke…
Hey, remember last Friday, when we mentioned that Rolling Stone article in which Wayne Coyne mentioned he’d like to collaborate with Erykah Badu? And how that would probably be a good idea? Well, she got in her Badumobile and gunned it to Klearlight Studio in order to restore balance to…
Back in 2006, Ronnie Radke was on top of the world. He was the lead singer of Escape the Fate, a post-hardcore band that had just released its debut album, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. A fateful turn of events in Las Vegas led to Radke being charged with battery,…
On the Impossible Past, Philadelphia quartet The Menzingers’ new third effort, is a wail of an album. Angry, passionate and, best of all, literate, the songs resonate with the kind of pure punk spirit that made bands like Black Flag and The Misfits so important to the American indie scene…
Rolling Stone reported yesterday that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne — who is seemingly everywhere these days, like those owls I talked about last week — has put together an album of collaborations slated for April release. While he’s already wrangled Bon Iver and Nick Cave (that is a collabo…
Being the son of legendary singer/songwriter Willie Nelson wasn’t always the easiest road to hoe. After leaving the family home in Hawaii and heading to California, Lukas Nelson found himself living out of his car, playing music just for a place to sleep. Thankfully, his living conditions and musical aspirations…
