Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 8, 2010…Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous has committed suicide.My Chemical Romance has told its drummer to hit the bricks.Gene Simmons thinks the greatest part of U.K. music is the Gallagher Brothers. Maybe it’s because they say things like this…
Earlier this week, Arlington’s Man Factory released for digital download Street Fight!!! Round Two, the second installment in its planned power-pop opera trilogy based on the popular Street Fighter video game series. Fans of Round One had been waiting patiently for the past two years to find out how the…
For over 12 years, Sound Tribe Sector Nine (or STS9 as the band is commonly referred to by fans) has been criss-crossing the country, dispensing its technically impressive, instrumental blend of funk, jazz, hip-hop and psychedelic rock. While building a strong fan base, the band has also involved itself in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 5, 2010…You gotta love it when a rocker shoots down rumors he’s gotten sober.James Murphy tells LCD Soundsystem fans it’s not you, it’s us… maybe.Who has an ego bigger than Kanye? Billy Corgan…
To end the day, how about a couple of treats from Brandon Curtis, Josh Garza and Phil Karnats, the three Dallas ex-pats living in New York who, together, make up The Secret Machines? Turns out, in late January, in lieu of any planes to release an album anytime soon, the…
After the jump, check a couple scans from both XXL and The Source, the two leading hip-hop magazines around these days. In this month’s issues, both magazines featured Q&A’s with Lancaster’s own Mr. Ice Cream Paint Job himself, Dorrough. The Source’s Q&A is more of a standard session in which…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 4, 2010…EMI and DangerMouse have come to terms on the release of Dark Night of The Soul.Band of Horses announce the release of it’s first album. Wait, what?!KISS had to cut short it’s London show because of breathing problems caused…
Just a quick reminder that, tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, your queen and mine, Erykah Badu, will be performing the lead single off of her upcoming New Amerykah Pt. II: Return of the Ankh, “Window Seat,” with some help from the song’s co-producer (James Poyser), the song’s co-writer…
I swear I’m posting the above video embed from Revlover magazine’s Golden Gods Awards press conference for reasons beyond Vinnie Paul’s epic sideburns (although, between you and me, they’re reason enough). And those reasons have nothing to do, even, with Abbott’s belief that the Golden Gods Awards are “really cool,”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 3, 2010…The Black Keys reveal details for it’s new album and the awesomest album cover ever.Dave Grohl thinks Shelley Duvall should play him in the Kurt Cobain biopic. And I think he may be on to something…Is there anything Johnny…
Well, since I’ve made a habit of posting the tracklists to my once-a-month all-local music lovefest on the first Monday of every month at The Libertine, I guess I’ll go ahead and post the one from last night, too.Many thanks to everyone who came out. As always, it was quite…
Many thanks to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Preston Jones for reading Rolling Stone news items about Evanescence so we don’t have to, because, as Jones notes today, the band is currently recording a new album in New York and the bulk of the songs it’s laying down today came from…
Surely, you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for this news: Today, Arlington’s Man Factory releases the second album in its planned pop-rock opera trilogy centered around the Street Fighter video game.Street Fight!!! Round Two follows the band’s 2008-released Street Fight! Round One, an album that largely centered…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 2, 2010…Gang Starr’s Guru is in a coma after suffering a massive heart-attack.Wow, it didn’t take Jane’s Addiction long to realize it wasn’t going to work out. Now Perry can focus on another band with Nuno Bettencourt.For a guy who…
It’s only Monday afternoon and, oh my God, we haven’t even posted about Neon Indian this week. Mostly because there’s nothing new to tell? More than likely.But, a-ha!, there’s this all of a sudden: A couple of new Neon Indian remixes have popped up around the Internet of late–and not…
Dropkick Murphys has been doing its jig-infused version of punk rock for nearly 15 years now. And, in that time, the band has seen its fan base expand greatly as its sound grew more and more Irish-inspired. Known for its beer-soaked live performances, the band is about to release its…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 1, 2010…The Guardian debates on whether or not the internet has killed the “rock star mystique.”Marie Osmond’s son has committed suicide.Looks like Carly Simon knows how to keep her name coming up in the news. Looks like she knows what…
Dessa was once known as one Margret Wander, a philosophy major and technical writer from Minneapolis. But after joining the campus slam poetry team, Wander evolved into hip-hop diva Dessa and quickly gained the attention of her hometown’s music collective known as Doomtree. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Dessa’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 26, 2010…Aerosmith kiss and make nice just in time for a summer tour.Thom Yorke names his new band and plans its coming out shows.John Mayer discovered the ultimate mea culpa: play to the kids…
Last night saw some serious action on Erykah Badu’s always-active Twitter account–only, this time, Badu seemed to be making Twitter work for her.And how: Through a head-spinning array of tweets that started shortly before 9 p.m. last night and ended shortly after 1 p.m. this afternoon, Badu desperately tweeted at…
On Tuesday, the release day for The Rocket Summer’s fourth full-length and second on major label Island/Def Jam, Of Men and Angels sat at No. 4 on iTunes’ album download chart. Yesterday, it fared even better, rocketing (pun absolutely intended) up to No. 1. And today, it’s still sitting fairly…
After mysteriously missing band practice last night, Tommy Atkins, the bass player for Fort Worth’s heavy gothic-cabaret trio The Great Tyrant, was found dead in his home at noon today. Behind singer Daron Beck and alongside drummer Jon Teague, Atkins was part of one of the top–if not the flat-out…
