Seven months after the album’s release (and not a moment too soon), The Theater Fire’s pretty excellent Matter and Light has been reviewed by the tastemakers over Pitchfork this morning, and the album’s earned itself a very respectable 7.4 rating from critic Stephen M. Deusner.And unlike so many Pitchfork reviews,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 27, 2009… It looks like Maynard James Keenan is going to take some time off from hawking his wine. Tool’s headlining spot at Lollapalooza isn’t the band’s only show this summer–the band is heading out on a full-fledged tour. Musical…
If you spot blogger and former Club Dada owner Amanda Warr (the local music supporter formerly known as Amanda Newman) around town sporting a fresh, new look in the coming weeks, well, you can thank/blame local Americana outfit Eastwood for the switch. Warr was ambushed last night by the people…
Big news out of Calhoun camp this week as the great Tim-Locke-led Fort Worth band has learned that the final song off of its excellent Falter.Waver.Cultivate disc, “The Earth Has Lost Its Hold,” will air at some point during the April 13 episode of NBC’s quite entertaining geek-turned-CIA agent action-comedy…
It’s no secret that we’re big Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) fans around these parts. So we’re pretty much giddy about the two new mp3s from the former Dallasite that are making the rounds on the blogosphere today–ones you should definitely check out and download ASAP.The first finds Clark pairing…
On some level, yes, perhaps this was inevitable. But after many locals realizing it for some time now, it seems that the Chicago-based hip-hop duo The Cool Kids–or more likely, the people who represent them–have finally been hipped to the fact that, here in DFW, there exists a lo-fi punk…
With ABC News and Pitchfork Media pairing up for CD reviews and all, maybe it’s not so surprising to see former Dallas-based artist Alan Palomo and his VEGA project getting some love from ABC News in this segment the national news organization ran today (sorry–can’t figure out how to embed)…
Robert Gomez’s Pine Sticks And Phosphorous, his follow-up to the excellent Brand New Towns, is due out April 14, and he’s celebrating with an album-release house show 9 p.m. April 25 in Denton with The Baptist Generals. The catch is, mum’s the word on exactly where it will be. The…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 26, 2009… There is justice in the universe: Bass player Jason Newsted will perform with his former band Metallica as it gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let’s just hope they don’t trick him into eating straight…
Somehow I missed this when it first appeared on Gossip Teen, but apparently Jonas Brother and Westlake resident Joe Jonas is a big fat racist jerk. At least, that’s what Us seems to imply in its item about the “controversial” photo. All Us magazine knows is that someone took a…
Congratulations are in order for University of North Texas professor Cindy McTee this afternoon, as McTee has won this year’s Detroit Symphony Orchestra Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers, which each year is dolled out to one living female composer for, well, her work in musical composition, of course…
Just got an email from Paul Dryden, a real nice fellow who runs Nacional Records and is one of the organizers for the Latin Alternative Music Conference. This year, the conference is taking place in New York City, July 7 – 11. Dryden is looking for some Dallas-area bands that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 25, 2009…Looks like Metallica will indeed come to town this fall. If you’re not feeling like you have enough manufactured evil in your life, you can download Marilyn Manson’s new track “We’re From America” for free on his website this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 24, 2009…Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has left the Smashing Pumpkins for unspecified reasons. Mr. Corgan I’m looking in your direction.Maynard James Keenan is taking some time off from wine-making to join Tool in headlining Lollapalooza along with the city-flubbers in The…
Not sure exactly what the holdup is, but over on Blabbermouth today–your source, apparently, for all things wrong with the fact that former Observer music editor Zac Crain is writing a book about the late, great Dimebag Darrell–comes the news that Crain’s 288-page Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 23, 2009…Eminem and Flea are among the presenters for this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Em will induct Run-DMC; Flea will induct Metallica.It’s funny how 50 Cent likes to take jabs at easy targets like Rick Ross,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, March 20, 2009… Lil Wayne and Scott Weiland are just two of the upcoming subjects on VH1’s relaunched Behind The Music. Looks like Courtney Love is the only one who made any money from a publishing deal to license Nirvana’s music. The company…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 19, 2009… Kelly Clarkson made a triumphant return to the charts as she grabbed the top Billboard spot from U2 and Bono’s guyliner. It seems everyone is turning to Twitter these days–even President Obama has an account! But Madonna has turned…
Your daily dose of national music for Wednesday, March 18, 2009…50 Cent is releasing not one, but two albums this year–and he’s joining Fall Out Boy on tour for selected dates. Who woulda thunk it? Hopefully he’ll be able to find time to take unnecessary jabs at Rick Ross…Jessica Simpson…
Just a warning that things might fall about out of uniformity over the next couple of days as not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (!) DC9 staff members head southward tomorrow morning to cover SXSW and all that it entails.(And you thought the economy was going to stop…
We’ve got a couple items regarding local music and cinema to share this afternoon. First, local country innovators Whiskey Folk Ramblers, a Dallas Observer favorite, will be featured in The Other Side Of Paradise. According to bassist Jack Daw Russell, the band was filmed for an important country-dancing bar scene…
To those of you who think we only post about the Jonas Brothers on here: Boy, are you misinformed! For instance, we also post items about Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato, who, you might have already noticed, has her new video plastered all over Myspace today under the guise that she’s…
