Wanna Have Dinner With Ben Kweller?

It’s cool if you do–the Greenville native is quite willing to join you, actually. Pre-order his new Changing Horses disc, and, in addition to getting some autographed merch just for doing so, you’ll also be entered into a competition where you could either earn more free merch or, potentially, a…

Parade Of Flesh Announces South By South Flesh Lineup

John Iskander, the man behind Parade of Flesh booking (The Lounge on Elm Street, Club Dada, Pastime Tavern), has announced the lineup for his inaugural South by South Flesh show, which will take place at The Lounge on Sunday, March 22–or, y’know, the day after SXSW ends in Austin. And…

Strange Boys Get Stoned

The Strange Boys got a little bit of love from Rolling Stone this week, though the small blurb mentions only Austin, neglecting to point out the band’s Dallas origins. Writes Austin Scaggs in Smoking Section: “They are four kids from Texas who will blow you away with their Sixties garage-rock-revival…

Rescue Signals Signs Record Deal, Releases New Video

Local rock band Rescue Signals has just signed an album deal with Rock Ridge Music and plans on releasing an album in late April. The record will be the band’s debut full-length and will be called Indecisions. And Rescue Signals has already completed a video for the album’s first single,…

How Dallas Singer-Songwriters Can Make It Big, According To CNN.com

The answer: Move to San Diego, work in retail.Or so is the only real moral I glean from this Q&A on CNN.com today with singer-songwriter Erin McCarley (pictured right; credit: Reid Rolls), who gets the star treatment here because McCarley, a Dallas native, recently had her song “Pitter-Pat” featured on…

Free Stuff Alert: Info-Red Album ‘Viktumized’

In tomorrow’s print supplement to DC9, Quia Querisma gives an enthusiastic recommendation of Dallas battle rapper Info-Red’s Kaleidescope, praising his verbal versatility and the album’s “mid-’90s East Coast Feel (a very good thing).” You can get a taste for the album by checking out a couple of its tracks on…

Ben Kweller Goes Live For Daytrotter

Greenville native done good Ben Kweller was the featured artist for Monday’s Daytrotter Session. As part of the session, the baby-faced troubadour has offered up three songs from his new album, Changing Horses, and one from 2004’s On My Way. Kweller also offers up some insight into the inspiration for…

Hey, It Worked For Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…

For what it’s worth, when Los Lonely Boys stop through town for a gig on Sunday, January 25, at the Granada Theater, it will be for, what their publicist calls, “a very special acoustic show.”Ah, the ol’ “special acoustic show” trick, eh? We’ve seen this one before.Should be, um, lively and…

Today In Music News: Chasing Pavement, Bowie To Blame

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 14, 2009… It looks like another legendary band could be getting back together–if a promoter can cough up enough dough. Yep, this time it could be indie legends Pavement who could be on the reunion trail. I like to see they…

Another Near-Reunion: Course of Empire

Well, OK, so it’s not completely a reunion…or much of one at all, really. But, still, a real treat coming up tomorrow night at Club Dada, as part of Sunward’s month-long artist-in-residency: After opening sets from Young and Brave and Sunward, three members of Sunward (frontman Doug Kershaw, bassist Dave…

Tim DeLaughter Pens Theme For New Showtime Series?

Although not quite keeping up on his resolution to blog more regularly in 2009 (like, c’mon, at all…what gives?), Hunter Hauk does have a nice little gem over on Quick’s blog this afternoon: A Tim DeLaughter-penned and -performed song has been selected as the opening theme song for the new…

Early Gig Alert: Slobberbone To Reunite For Two Shows In Early February

It’s not exactly a secret at this point–it’s on Dan’s Silverleaf’s online calendar, on opening act The O’s’ Myspace page and on the fan-run Slobberbone Myspace page–but we might as well pass along the news (although one commenter already, um, kinda did earlier today): Slobberbone’s reuniting for two area shows.And,…

N.C.M.’s David Hill Died This Morning

David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in…