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Bonde Do Role, The Death Set

Reinventing an old warhorse like "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is no easy task, but Bonde Do Role, a hip-hop collective from Brazil, succeeds by keeping the beats heavy and the mood light. Formed in 2006 by MCs Pedro D'Eyrot and Marina Ribatski along with DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky, the band...
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Treasure Hunt

This week, Dove Hunter's debut release, The Southern Unknown, will finally see the light of day. And it's about time, ain't it? It'd be one thing if Dove Hunter were an act we'd never heard of before, an act that was still testing its mettle on small stages in the...
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Craig Watkins “Doesn’t Care About Good Press,” Gets More

No, Evan Smith, "exonerated" is not "too strong a word" when describing what happened last week to Thomas McGowan, the 16th Dallas County prisoner freed after DNA testing revealed he wasn't guilty of the crime for which he'd been convicted and sentenced to prison for 23 years. Smith, the editor...
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Coming Together, Falling Apart

You know who went to my high school? Karl Ravech, host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight. Or so rumor has it. To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure it's true. But the sports junkies at my high school used to think it was pretty awesome. Hey, someone to look up...
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Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii.

Steven Spielberg may rule Hollywood, but in the video-game biz — the more profitable of the two industries, becoming more so with each passing year — he's a bikini-clad babe in Jaws-infested waters. Perhaps that's why in 2005, Spielberg, an avid gamer, signed with developing giant EA Games for three...
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DeVotchKa

When music-industry experts advise fledgling musicians how to achieve success, few probably suggest developing a weird blend of rock, pop and exotic folk music. DeVotchKa has done so anyhow, though, and A Mad & Faithful Telling is the highly enjoyable result. Because the group stays true to the rudiments of...
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Man Factory Talks Street Fighter, Picks Fight With Steve Jobs

Ryu won't like Blanka when he gets angry... For many bands, video games are an amusing distraction at best. Practicing at the home of a member who owns a console can be a risky endeavor, as a spontaneous game of Halo or Madden might stretch into an hours-long tournament. That’s...
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Ladyhawk Frontman Admits Its Latest CD Is An Aquired Taste

The recipe for recording a successful sophomore album begins with a bottle of cheap wine...sort of. In Ladyhawk's case, it starts with the band's beloved quick-fire sangria (cheap wine, juice and Sprite), a drafty house without electricity or plumbing and—to answer your question—a bucket in which to piss. More than...
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Mayor Tom: Man, What An Amazing Year! And It’s Gonna Get Awesomer.

Another Tom Leppert photo, another caption-writing contest -- winner gets a Walker, Texas Ranger Season 5 boxed set! Mayor Tom Leppert opened today’s council meeting, the last one before the council takes off the month of July, with his first “State of the City Address.” Ironically, the morning open-microphone session,...
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The Doctor is Way Out

Yesterday, the Texas Medical Board released an “agreed order” signed on April 11 by Dr. Richard Buch, the brilliant but nutty orthopedic surgeon who has a reputation for going off on nurses and cursing hospital personnel. He was, of course, the subject of the cover story in last week's paper...
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Murder By Death kills on Red of Tooth and Claw

Their hellbent country-punk theatrics suggest the offspring of Tim Kasher and David Eugene Edwards. A combination of The Good Life's conceptual psycho-dramas and 16 Horsepower's Pentecostal fury, Murder by Death's latest album, Red of Tooth and Claw, brings all the band's elements into tight focus and cooks it at 425...
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Did Arlington Roll a Strike or Just Strike Out? Not Sure Yet.

Speaking of major(ish) announcements in Arlington, there's no word yet on whether the United States Bowling Congress will be moving its balls to Texas. The congress, which has some 2.3 million members, is staying mum on the results of yesterday's meeting during which Milwaukee reps (including the city's mayor) begged...
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The Dork Knight Returns

Daniel Rodrigue See, stuff like happens all the time at Valley View. But at NorthPark, not as often. As we mentioned in yesterday's missive from NorthPark Center -- where, on Monday, all manner of chaos was brought about by a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Night -- Arlington prog-rocker...
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Oh, Yeah. Sheriff. Right. Got It.

See, if Pulle were still around, we'd be full of local results too -- like, ya know, that little race for Dallas County Sheriff. Looks like it'll be Lupe Valdez for the Dems -- by a landslide. She's got 56,112 votes so far -- or damned near half of the...
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When Less Is Less

When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially paying full price for a fraction of the final product. Superfans are happy to do that sort of thing...
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Caucus? They Hardly Even Knew Us.

Some housecleaning this a.m., before finding out how Jessica and Greggo voted last night. We suggested these t-shirts yesterday, but after last night's election results -- Clinton wins Texas and Ohio, though Obama still's the frontrunner among those who like math -- a Friend of Unfair Park instead suggests these...