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On turntable.fm, The Greatest Thing Going Right Now In Internet Music

Back in January, Stickybits co-founder Billy Chasen registered the domain name turntable.fm. Earlier this month, the previously alpha-tested music-sharing site made its debut as as an invite-only beta site, the only prerequisite being that new users had a Facebook friend with an already registered profile. By last week, the site...
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The Un-Cupcake, Decadence in a Jar

Just when you think cupcakes are over and done, Samantha Rush, of Rush Patisserie, undoes them. Or, perhaps redoes them. Either way, she's retooled the cupcake by creating the Un-Cupcake ($7). It's basically a miniature cake in a jar. The benefit? It's adorable for starters, and, as Rush herself explains,...
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Dengue Fever

Very few bands have the convoluted but fascinating history of Los Angeles' Dengue Fever. Inspired by a trip to Cambodia, brothers Ethan and Zac Holtzman went about forming a band that would pay tribute to that country's pop music from the 1960s. Somehow, the brothers even stumbled across Chhom Nimol,...
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Restrepo Screening Wednesday Honors the Late Tim Hetherington

Tim Hetherington, the photojournalist and documentarian who was killed in Libya on April 20th, was scheduled to speak at tomorrow's Oak Cliff Texas Theatre screening of his Oscar-nominated Afghanistan war documentary, Restrepo. Following the tragic and untimely death of the photographer who literally risked his life to bring all aspects...
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Centro-matic Offer Up a Year-End Candidate

Will Johnson is nothing if not prolific. Starting with the 1995 release of his first Centro-matic recording, Non-Directional Jetpack Race, which was released exclusively on cassette tape, he has put out 18 full-length titles either under the Centro-matic banner, its South San Gabriel doppelganger persona, his own name or, in...
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35 Conferette Panels: DFW Is The New Black? Maybe…

Getting an arts community in Dallas isn't something that just happened naturally; rather, it was the result of the hard work and collective efforts many people, some of which were on the arts panel at 35 Conferette yesterday to discuss how the region as a whole can move forward in...
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Get With the Program

Over the course of thousands of years, music hasn't really changed all that much. It still consists of sound shaped by rhythm, melody and perhaps a groove, same as ever. But the tools and manner with which it's made has very much changed—exponentially so in recent years—and, with each leap...
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On the Road Again

Originating in 2010, the North Texas Road Trip project--consisting of 15 members of the Dead Photographers Society--set out to capture and interpret the people and scenes of several small, rural communities 75 miles north of McKinney. The resulting exhibit chronicles each photographer's one-day journey into the outside stretches of the...
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The Demigs

Way back in 2007, Denton's The Demigs released Yardling, a howling and thunderous debut that channeled Chris Demiglio's Pixies fascination into 13 well-executed alt-rock gems. Critics faulted Demiglio for sounding too much like Frank Black, and, to be sure, songs such as "Solvents" and "Summer Spiders" would certainly feel at...
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2011 NBA FINALS — Mavericks vs. Heat: The Preview

Charles Barkley is 3-0 picking the Mavericks in playoff series this spring. ESPN's Bruce Bowen is 0-3 picking against them. Me? 2-1. I picked Mavs over Blazers and Thunder but had them losing to the Lakers. In Miami for tonight's Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I'm having difficulty viewing this series...
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In-N-Out’s Here. What’s Left to Talk About?

This week, presumably, Dallas has moved past waiting three hours for and crying over hamburgers. We're on to more sophisticated things, like hamburgers with 8,000 calories, ballpark grub and how much we all hate the word "gooey." Read on. City of Ate Jenny Block couldn't find much wrong with Vijay...