As expected, Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato’s debut disc, Don’t Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 29, 2009… Marilyn Manson has threatened music journalists who say things about his band he doesn’t like. Way to be a crybaby, Brian. Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill feels a bit overworked from all the touring he’s done lately…
Well, this is somewhat shocking. But true! The fine intellectuals over at National Public Radio have deemed the “Let’s Go Crazy” cover from Denton punk ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers as their song of the day. No, really. Color us kind of shocked at this revelation. When the Spin magazine Purplish…
Haven’t yet heard this track from Dallas rapper Trai’D on local hip-hop radio, but it seems as likely as some of the other Dallas hip-hop jams of the summer to make it big, thanks in large part to its catchy–and no doubt female-placating–hook. And, sure, it helps that it’s called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 28, 2009… The Get Up Kids have formally apologized for a nation full of eyeliner and tight jean-wearing emo kids. Thank you, it’s long overdue. Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been forced to cancel a…
Area hip-hop product Dorrough–and subject of my column in this week’s print product–is gonna be tough to avoid in the coming weeks as he prepares for his debut album’s August 4 release (moved back a week from last we heard). For one, all this week, the MTV Jams Fab Five…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 27, 2009… Nerds unite! A symphonic concert version of Star Wars will start in October. The symphony will play the classic John Williams score set to different video pieces of the beloved franchise. Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan thinks U.S. music…
Over at Pitchfork today, area sun-drenched retro-pop outfit Neon Indian (side project of Vega, your DOMA-winning Best Dance/Electronica Act) has been awarded a Best New Music tag for its song “Deadbeat Summer.”Writes reviewer Richard Armitage, while giving the song a score of 9 out of 10: “Here the project really…
The Waco-born and Booker T. Washington-educated two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has announced the details of his next album, a disc called Emergence, which will see the light of day a month from tomorrow, on August 25.The disc is a little bit of a departure for Hargrove, but…
The above clip is one man’s take–this “one man” in question being Pugs & Kelly producer Eric Marc–on Tuesday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony. Warning: There is puke involved. (To be fair, I never promised it was gonna be a classy party…)But others are still talking DOMA in the…
Clearly, because it’s been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist’s song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but “very special episode” (this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009… Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. “Eruption” just can’t play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds…y’know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you…
Seems demos really are all the rage around town this week. The above clip, aside from featuring photos from the great Allison V. Smith, features a brand new demo track from area folk hero Doug Burr, written exclusively for the upcoming independent film, Topeka–which, wouldn’t you know, is written and…
So it really looks like Tim DeLaughter is going to keep up with his streak of posting a new Polyphonic Spree demo on his blog every day–for the foreseeable future, at least–which is pretty incredible, if not a little overwhelming.Anyway, the two latest offerings over at The Fragile Army are…
Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that, go figure, it looks like Foreigner has kinda, sorta, maybe named its upcoming three-disc release, Can’t Slow Down, as a nod to Texas Motor Speedway, where the band played its first NASCAR gig.Either that or the band’s just playing… wait…
Just got the August issue of Spin — the one with Harpo Marx Jeff Tweedy on the cover — and figured, well, sure, there’s gotta be at least one Dallas band amongst “The 100 Greatest Bands You’ve (Probably) Never Heard.” And, sure enough, there they are — the Buck Pets,…
Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week’s Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato’s debut, Don’t Forget, debuted at No. 2…
Last week, we shared a slideshow of images caught by Wheeler Sparks at the house party we through threw as a photo shoot for this year’s DOMA print package.And though you can see a bunch of photos Allison V. Smith took at the party for our cover package in today’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 23, 2009… Conor Oberst is allegedly retiring his Bright Eyes moniker. I would like to suggest a new name: George Taylor. Sufjan Stevens is set to release a CD/DVD set for his movie The BQE. No word yet on a set of…
Last night’s a pretty hazy one for me at this point, I’ll be honest. I think it had something to do with the fact that there really weren’t any breaks in the action–mainstage performer into punk stage performer into awards and so on. Or maybe it’s the piles of drink tickets…
[jump] Best Group: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Blues Act: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Male Vocalist: Jonathan TylerBest Solo Act: Sarah JaffeBest Folk Act: Sarah JaffeBest Female Vocalist: Sarah JaffeBest Album: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 by The Paper ChaseBest Song: “What Should We…
Tami Thomsen, general manager of last night’s Best Label winner Kirtland Records (and also the DJ at the Double-Wide Bar afterparty), filled us in yesterday on the label’s latest signing. Austin singer-songwriter and former Sandra Bullock boyfriend Bob Schneider will release his next album, tentatively titled Lovely Creatures, September 29…
