The O’s are helping a friend shoot a pilot for a potential travel show in which bands show host Vydra around town, and will be filming and hanging out at The Libertine Bar (2101 Greenville Ave.) today at 4 p.m. And, because bars typically aren’t exactly at capacity at that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… Kip Malone of TV on The Radio has described his solo record as Beyonce pop fused with biblical analysis. Or something like that. Katy Perry had to refer to deviled eggs as “angelic eggs” as a kid? And I…
Later this week, we’ll have a slideshow of photos taken from inside the building as renovations are being completed, but in the meantime, we can pass along the below info in reference to the goings-on at Trees, as it plans for its Friday, August 14, re-opening..First and foremost: There will…
…and it’s another nationally recognized band from the DFW region: Bowling for Soup. The band joins the already stacked, nine-hour event bill featuring the Toadies, The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Eleven Hundred Springs and The Boom Boom Box. Tickets to the event, which will be held Saturday, August 29, at…
If, like me, you’ve been an admirer of the album artwork Teenage Cool Kids’ Andrew Savage provided for his band’s excellent new album, Foreign Lands, or for the band’s 7-inch singles “Poison Sermons” and “Speaking in Tongues,” then you’re in for a treat today. Savage has announced that he’s selling…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 14, 2009… Ozzy Osbourne has decided to drop Zakk Wylde from his band. But, he may want to tell Zakk… According to a new study, the percentage of teens who illegally download music has dropped by almost half in the…
Florida folk-punk act Fake Problems has canceled its Thursday, July 30, performance at Rubber Gloves. The fiery, upbeat quintet had already been playing short-handed for a few days; guitarist Casey Lee’s taken leave of the band to be with his family after his father died suddenly last week when he…
Seems Pitchfork is picking up on something locals already knew: Fergus & Geronimo is on to something pretty cool. Over on that tastemaking site today, the band is offering up a free download of the title track from its new 7″, Harder Than It’s Even Been.Catch the Best New Act…
St. Vincent, whose music gets compared to Andrew Bird’s far too often in reviews (perhaps because both incorporate elements of twee?), will tour with the Bird man this fall, starting on Tuesday, September 29, in Indianapolis.Unfortunately, the tour won’t bring Annie Clark back home through Dallas. But it will take…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 13, 2009… Leonard Cohen has asked that musicians stop covering his song “Hallelujah” for a while. Thank you, sir. Michael Jackson’s death could turn into a homicide case. The music world may really be coming to an end: Perez Hilton’s label might…
Aspiring hip-hop producers looking for their big break might find it tomorrow at Las Colinas Studios in Irving (6301 Riverside Drive) in the form of a reality TV hosted by Houston rapper Lil’ Flip that promises, Lord knows why, to be the perfect mixture of The Apprentice and The Real…
Over on the NX35 Web site, there’s good news for anyone who enjoyed Denton’s first, succesful foray into a pre-SXSW festival: The four-day music showcase will return in 2010, running from March 11 through March 14, and again falling right before the annual SXSW festivites in Austin.Well, maybe, it turns…
Yesterday, Billboard ran an item claiming Erykah Badu was int he studio recording follow-up tracks to last year’s highly successful and critically lauded New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War album. Struck us a little odd, though: We thought she’d recorded the album some time ago. Plus, isn’t she in…
Not sure why, but, according to Nico Vega’s MySpace page, the band’s gig at the Cavern tonight is off–along with all of the band’s other Texas dates and a fifth date in Arizona. We’ll let you know if any word comes along…..
Over on Pitchfork today, the debut EP from Alan Palomo’s VEGA project get’s the all-important Pitchfork review, scoring a 6.0 on the site’s 10-point scale, although, to be fair, it’s probably a little more positive than that, ending on a note that pretty much anyone who has heard Palomo’s work…
It’s no secret that I’m unabashedly a big fan of Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job.” Been playing that sucker for weeks now (seriously, ask Jesse Hughey, who has to put up with it), and there’s no signs of my fandom letting up–especially now that this new has popped up on…
Over on Unfair Park this morning, Robert just posted the quite-interesting story of Arlington’s KTS Productions. Who? Just the folks who made the marketing ploy for Cheap Trick’s new album, The Latest, come true, no big deal.How so? Ah, there’s the rub: KTS just may be the last eight-track-tape-makers. And,…
It’s been a month–to the day, actually–since Kirtland Records and the Toadies announced the date and location for their second annual Dia de Los Toadies event. Well, today, the full lineup–which is to say: the support for the Toadies on this daylong party in the band’s name–has been announced. And,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 11, 2009… Kanye West is allegedly interning at the Gap. Really? I would’ve thought he could get something a little more prestigious… Justin Timberlake want to write a book… about golf. …
At last year’s 20th Anniversary Dallas Observer Music Awards, we brought back an old tradition from previous DOMAs: a compilation disc featuring tracks from some of the year’s nominees. This year, the compilation’s back once again–and it’s a pretty sweet little compilation, too, if I may so so myself. Check…
On September 1, Danny Balis–he of The King Bucks, Sorta, The Ticket’s The Hardline and whiskey dives across the Metroplex–will release his debut solo record, Too Much Living. And it’s a long time coming: Balis has long been revered as one of the area’s better vocalists, offering up a deep,…
Not to keep harping on mall punk all day long, but this is worth pointing out, if only because it’s hilarious: Earlier this week, noted area mall punk rivals PlayRadioPlay and The Secret Handshake announced that they’d be hitting the road together under the banner of “The Frienemies Tour.”Why frienemies?…
