A few days ago an old friend asked: When did Dallas's reign as country-music comer officially end? Hard to say, officially, though I've always pinpointed it 'round May 3, 1956 -- when producer Jim Beck died, after he'd been poisoned by the carbon tetrachloride he was using to clean his...
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Was listening to some new My Morning Jacket yesterday when up popped some old MMJ on the iPod -- specifically, "One Big Holiday" from the band's March 15, 2002, Rubber Gloves stopover. A month earlier the band had played Trees. They came through here a lot back then: Trees again...
Edie Brickell was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night promoting two new albums. But in this "web exclusive," the ol' New Bohemian, aided by one Charlie Sexton on guitar and the great Aaron Comess behind the drum kit, whips out an oldie from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars:...
Yesterday, we profiled Tim Byres, chef at Smoke, the restaurant in the Belmont Hotel that serves what Byres describes as "heritage inspired cuisine." (Traditional style cooking, smoking, canning a preserving updated for modern palates, served with a touch of Southern friendliness.) In the second part of our interview with Byres,...
I'm not much of a Grateful Dead fan, if I may end the week with an understatement; I pretty much start and finish with American Beauty, depending on the hour and the herb, though the missus was once known a long while ago to follow a tour or two. Lord...
Believe the hype, folks: Dallas' own Dorrough's got the most-played video on BET with the above "Walk That Walk." Well, if this press release is to be believed, that is--and really, why not? Guy's on a serious roll, what with "Walk That Walk" being No. 21 on the latest Billboard...
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In a press release sent out earlier this week, the Toadies and Kirtland Records, now with one successful Dia de Los Toadies event (which featured Dove Hunter, Lions, THe BAcksliders, The Tejas Brothers and, of course, the band for which the fest was named) under their belts, have announced the...
A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I'd collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sandpaper rubbing against...
If you roll your mouse over the above embedded flash player, you'll see that, right there, in the middle of page 46 of this month's URB magazine, there's a little wrap-up on Dallas' own Damaged Good$ who made the cut in the magazine's 15th annual "Next 100" feature on up-and-coming...
Someone at MTV sure must like Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, 'cause, on Sunday night, the fellas in the band saw not one, but a whopping two songs played on the season finale of the channel's not-quite-reality show, The Hills: "Out of My Hands," which got some early airplay in...
Paste Magazine's been a big supporter of the DFW music scene in the past year or so, specifically dolling out the praise to a number of Denton bands. So on that note--and, yes, maybe we should have mentioned this earlier--may we direct your attention to the campaign to save the...
Since we've already directed your attentions to one new music video from an act with area ties, really, what's another at the start of the work week? (Welcome back, by the way.)This one comes from former UFOFUer and Secret Machine member Benjamin Curtis' new Brooklyn-based project, School of Seven Bells,...
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Hey guys, it's a long weekend! Who knew! Fortunately, we've already talked about most of the top shows coming happening around the region either on the blog or in print. Still, there's some others we think you should know about--and, certainly, that you should check out, should you get the...
Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com's "Track Reviews" feature. Not a bad precedent, I'd say. So how'd it go? Well, let's break it down...Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from "No Reasons"--a song we've already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily--from VEGA's...
We already reminded you once, but what the heck, let's do it again: Sunday is Mother's Day. Remember it. Write it in permanent ink on your hand. Don't spend the next year in the doghouse with mom, because, really, moms rock. Now, onto some actual rock. As always, let's lead...
Pardon if this news is coming a whole 24 hours late--I've been out of the office for the past week and spent my morning sifting through stacks of unopened CDs and an inbox filled with press releases. Oh, the joys of the office!But I digress.Regardless of time concerns, it's worth...
We've mentioned the trip-hoppin', Portishead-soundin' locals in Shock of Pleasure a few times on here over the past year or so. And though the band continues to leave us scratching our heads by booking gigs to play places like the Mansion on Turtle Creek and the Shops at Legacy in...
Our favorite former-Polyphonic-Spree-member-turned-indie-rock-sensation, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) just keeps getting more and more love and hype for her upcoming May 5 release, Actor. And not just from us, go figure.Starting tonight at 10:59 p.m. (11:59 p.m. EST), NPR will stream St. Vincent's sophomore album in its entirety. And, even...
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Big day tomorrow -- takin' the kid (cough, cough) to the Sci-Fi Expo in Richardson, then heading down to Good Records for the shoppe's ninth birthday bash, which so happens to coincide with the 2nd Annual Record Store Day, which DC9'ers already know plenty about. 'Cause, if nothing else, I...
Obviously, we're really excited about NX35 this weekend, in case you couldn't tell. But there are other shows going on too. First, there are the shows we've already mentioned. On Saturday, celebrate the Greatest Holiday Of Them All at the Dallas Observer's St. Patrick's Day Parade Afterparty at Energy Square...
Gutterth Productions just put up its second podcast, this time turning its focus to the NX35 festival--perhaps you've heard of it? Along with songs from Gutterth-affiliated bands performing at the festival (New Science Projects, Sleep Whale, Record Hop, The Heartstring Stranglers, RTB2, Shiny Around The Edges, The Timeline Post, Doug...
In reading the latest news about flood dangers downtown and the Trinity River Project, it's important to know that this is an 11-year-old story that Dallas officials and The Dallas Morning News are just now being forced to acknowledge. And even at that, the acknowledgment is grudging and slow to...