Abby Goldstein is likely the only person who would take the news that she was being fired from her job as an endorsement. But that’s just how the former music director at KKZN-FM (93.3) felt after Scott Strong and Dan Haliburton — the new bosses at the station now known…
The Bicycle Thief will release its debut album, You Come and Go Like a Pop Song, later this month on Goldenvoice Recording Company, which is distributed by New York-based indie label Caroline Records. The disc features guest appearances by Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and ex-That Dog singer-guitarist…
In the end, the Cherokee Cowboy is known for two songs: “Crazy Arms,” which made his career in 1956, and “Danny Boy,” which ruined it 11 years later. Maybe ruined is too strong a word; the man knew what he was doing when he drenched himself in strings, when he…
After being closed for almost three weeks, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios is just about up and running again, much to the relief of owners Memory and Jason Wortham and Josh Baish. Denton officials had threatened to fine Rubber Gloves if it continued to hold shows without proper parking facilities, forcing…
Lyles West’s new record with his band Quartet Out isn’t really new at all. The disc, Welcome to the Party, was recorded more than two years ago, but it sat on the shelf until, well, now, while West and the band tried to find a label to distribute it. Dave…
The Adventures of Jet won last week’s semifinal round of the Ultimate Band List’s Born on the World Wide Web contest. The band’s song “Rock and Roll” won in the alternative category of the competition, and it will join tracks by Dave Dill, Tacoheads, Paige, Green Man, and Figure Eight…
There had been nothing like it to that point, nor would there be again — a film that got audiences dancing in the aisles, that turned movie theaters into concert halls and popcorn patrons into spasmodic participants. In theory, Jonathan Demme’s rockumentary shouldn’t have worked; rock and roll is made…
You know the sad and familiar tale: Brilliant local musician trudges on with great work, other local musicians nod knowingly and with respect at the mention of his name, yet said talent hasn’t yet attracted the frothing fan base he deserves. No doubt Reed Easterwood knows the words to that…
At this very moment, you can go to They Might Be Giants’ Web site (www.tmbg.com) and download, in its entirety, the band’s brand-new 15-song “album” Long Tall Weekend. In fact, that is the only way the “album” is available: by downloading it, in the much-vaunted MP3 format, for the low,…
I am what some in the business refer to as a “ponce.” That is, I’m the emasculated little man behind a famous female, from whom I derive my sense of self worth, and through whose stardom I live. Sound the trumpets: I am Bonnie Hector’s boyfriend. Someday, I hope to…
Chris Savage didn’t sell his soul for rock and roll, but he did quit his job for it. He enjoyed his work for the most part, training to be a veterinary technician at the Highland Park Animal Clinic. Well, he liked it much as anyone can take pleasure in being…
The idea seemed like a good one from the start: one cover charge allowing you admission into a handful of clubs all night — and no, we’re not just talking about the Club Clearview-Art Bar-Blind Lemon-Red complex. Last August, Trees, Galaxy Club, The Curtain Club, Club Dada, and Club Clearview…
The first paragraph in the bio for Silver Scooter’s latest album, this year’s Orleans Parish, instructs you to “take your favorite record, set it on fire, and chuck it out the window” because “this is the only record you’ll need.” Yeah, and while you’re at it, get rid of every…
As a kid, Mitch Marine would put on the headphones, turn up a Rush record, and play make-believe. He’d close his eyes and hear an announcer over an imaginary public-address system telling the crowd that drummer Neal Peart just couldn’t make it tonight. “But Mitch Marine’s in the audience,” he…
Scene, heard Russell Hobbs and Patrick Keel will not be calling their label Deep Ellum Records after all. Hobbs had intended to reboot the long-dormant Deep Ellum Records, which he started with Jeff Liles in 1986, because he believed the label’s first run “never really happened,” at least not the…
Turns out Courtney Love’s a pretty lousy role model after all. Just what does it tell women when the strip-club punk goes pop-pop-pop and decides it’s all about looking pretty on the outside after all? So that leaves Donita Sparks, Dee Plakas, Suzy Gardner, and the rotating fourth as proof…
“There’s no rest at all in freedom,” Natalie Maines sings with heavy-Raitt passion on “Let Him Fly,” the Patty Griffin-penned closer to the new Dixie Chicks album Fly. Indeed, the Chicks seem to take that line to heart because — even after selling seven million copies of their Nashville debut…
Early in 1965, Cannibal and the Headhunters, a Chicano vocal quartet out of East Los Angeles, took “Land of a Thousand Dances” to No. 30 on the pop charts, shutting down a version by their archrivals Thee Midniters (which reached No. 67) in the process. It was the third national…
A beautiful summer day in Brooklyn, and the barking dog and the voice of a female companion in the background suggest Blondie guitarist Chris Stein is taking a stroll while talking on a cell phone. “This is good,” he exclaims. “Wow!” Stein isn’t excited to be talking to a reporter…
David Deweese makes sure the coast is clear before he tells a secret about Jerry James, his musical partner in The Foxymorons, even though it’s not really necessary. James is, after all, halfway across the country — in Mesquite. But Deweese, on the phone from his home in Nashville, lowers…
Mandy Barnett’s Sire Records biography is the damnedest thing I have ever read from a record company. In spots, the thing looks more like a business plan than a young woman’s history; never have I seen a label bio that contains the actual amount of money a company spent trying…
When the book on ’90s rock is finally written, a handful of names are going to come up over and over as the inspiration for all sorts of sensitive, SG-wielding members of Chain Wallet America: Slint, Bikini Kill, Nation of Ulysses, Jesus Lizard, Rodan, Fugazi, Hoover, Drive Like Jehu, Unwound…
