Carry That Weight: Because Of ‘Overwhelming Demand,’ Live Nation Releases More Tickets To Paul McCartney’s Cowboys Stadium Gig

Like with yesterday’s announcement that, upon the completion of production details, more tickets were being released to the upcoming U2 show at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, today comes news that–again, upon the completion of “production details,” whatever those are–more tickets are being released to Paul McCartney’s Wednesday, August 19, gig…

LiveNation Releases Extra U2 Tickets For Sale Today At Noon

…and real soon, too. See, now that the complicated production details have been completed on the band’s upcoming, October 12 show with Muse at Arlington’s Cowboys Stadium, the promoters are releasing more tickets, at all price levels, for sale to the public, starting in, oh, 50 minutes or so, at…

Michael Franti Drops Off Tomorrow Night’s Counting Crows Show At Nokia

In this past week’s print edition, Observer contributor Chris Parker chatted up rebel rocker Michael Franti, talking about his new reggae infused sound in Spearhead in anticipation of his show tomorrow night at Grand Prairie’s Nokia Theatre alongside Counting Crows and Augustana.Well, turns out Franti won’t be making the gig,…

Erykah Badu Is ‘Super Excited’ About Her Return Of The Ankh.

She waltzed into the room’s back entrance, quickly set a trail to the checkout counter and excitedly showed the few employees crowded around her the customizations she’d made to the mini-Munny she’d purchased after stumbling upon the new Mockingbird Station store on Wednesday afternoon–a quick drawing on the doll’s face…

“Don’t You Never Say An Unkind Word About The Time!”

So there’s this three-day music festival of sorts happening next month in Forth Worth called, fittingly, the Fort Worth MusicFest. And it’s the fest’s third annual go-’round. And it helps raise money for college scholarships for area kids. And it takes place August 21-23, costing $15 per general admission ticket…

The Strange Boys And Girls Club Gets Pitchfork’s Digits

Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman reviewed Austin-by-way-of-Dallas garage rockers The Strange Boys’  The Strange Boys And Girls Club today, eventually giving the album a not-too-shabby 7.1 after establishing the premise that garage-rock is and always has been the realm of social misfits.The review suggests that the Boys “never actually blow their tops,”…

Is This Heaven? No, It’s RGRS’ New Weekly.

Tonight marks the first night of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ “HEAVEN”, a new, themed DJ weekly for Denton-based DJs Bryce Isbell and Owen Paul Story (aka FUR and OPS, respectively). And tonight’s event, in addition to featuring Joey Liechty (aka Yeah Def) as a guest DJ, tonight’s event will also…

The Texas Red Legs Win First Leg Of Shiner Rising Star Contest

Last week, I blogged about how one of my favorite local alt-country acts, The Texas Red Legs, were competing in the most recent installment of the Shiner Rising Star Contest.Well, lo and behold, Richard Davis and crew went out last week and won the contest’s first installment at Plano’s Love…

The New Hotness: GorillaVsBearcore

Yesterday, a new Neon Indian remix of The Silent League’s “Here’s a Star” started popping up across the great taste-making sites of these United States, further pushing the buzzworthiness of Alan Palomo’s most recent project. And, par for course with most of the music of this realm, the buzz on…

Poor Kelly Clarkson Just Can’t Catch A Break.

Speaking of Kelly Clarkson: Burleson’s own just can’t seem to catch a break. After notoriously getting into a spat with Clive Davis and her record label over her last album, My December, Clarkson is again having it out with her label, claiming that she never really wanted her new single,…