We mentioned a bunch of weekend shows in the paper Observer this week. Tonight, there’s Charlie Sexton, Alejandro Escovedo, Utah Saints and Knowledge. Tomorrow, there’s Ladyhawk. Here are a few other ones worth looking into… The Nicotine Fits, The Kansas City Faggots 10 p.m. on Friday, May 23, at Bar…
What you might have missed this week as you worried about Ted Kennedy’s tumor (which, as Jesse Hughey just pointed out, is a great band name ripe for the taking)… – We geeked the eff out over Radiohead’s live show. – We followed Mount Righteous’ journey westward. – We pondered…
Guy Forsyth (Deana Mason) At the Granada Theater tonight, Austin singer-songwriter and founding Asylum Street Spanker Guy Forsyth will perform songs from his latest album, which is either ten years old or brand new, depending on how you look at it. Forsyth’s Calico Girl, released Tuesday, consists of rerecorded versions…
More proof that the Dallas hip-hop scene could be on the verge of a blow-up: Fat Pimp just got a record deal with Warner Bros. The 24-year-old Fat Pimp, born Christopher Murdaugh, who made news a few months ago when his song “I’m Gettin’ Money” made the Billboard charts, is…
After regrouping in Los Angeles in the morning, the band and our good friend Mike Shapiro of Lemon Sun got in the van and headed south to Irvine, California, where we were scheduled to play in the middle of the UC Irvine campus. As is typical of the roads in…
…and, I say, “Get Live” is a good ‘un from the Waco crew. –Pete Freedman…
Ain’t nothing wrong with Carrie, Darryl. Next weekend’s three day-Country Thunder USA Festival in Waxahachie has been abruptly cancelled. Planned to take place May 30 though June 1, the event was to feature such acts as Pat Green, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood, along with dozens of other local and…
On The Huffington Post today, hip-hop producer Jermaine Dupri discusses the question of the Youtube phenomenon as it pertains to musical talents. Specifally, he wonders how it pertains to a Dallas artist named Dondria (nicknamed “Phatfffat”), who Dupri found on the Internet (and later signed) after having been told of…
If you’ve got some spare time on your hands and you really enjoy watching 400 pixel by 330 pixel videos, well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. First up, over on Unfair Park, Robert bends the rules a bit and posts this music item: a trailer for the…
Doesn’t this look like the patch Mr. Miyaga gave Daniel-san to wear on his gi at the All-Valley Karate Championship? (Nevada Hill) We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing…
Charlie Sexton. Charlie Sexton once served as the poster boy for what could have been. Way back in 1985, when he was only 15 years old, Sexton was the guitarist de jour, an Austin wunderkind who parlayed his striking good looks and impressive chops into a quick ascension towards stardom…
You are now free to move about the country. (Jason Upshaw) Almost three months after its early March release, Airline’s Farewell Republica is starting to get some love on the college radio circuit. According to a Myspace bulletin just sent out, the band’s been receiving airplay of late on the…
The band somehow achieved our goal of leaving Tucson by 10 a.m., and we headed back through Phoenix and west on I-10 for Los Angeles. The drive took us through the extreme desolation of the Arizona and California desert, finally relenting as we began to approach L.A. Though, as it…
White Rock Lake after midnight will be the ideal environment to contract a virus this weekend. Aaron Gonzalez, bassist for grindcore duo Akkolyte and his father’s free-jazz combo Yells At Eels, will direct Midnight Madness tomorrow night. The project is an ensemble of experimental musicians that include Jon Teague (Great…
Last week, when the official word finally came out of Osbourne camp that this year’s Ozzfest would be a one-day, one-off festival to be held in, of all places, here—or, near here, rather—in Frisco, no one was all that surprised. Anyone who, in the weeks leading up to the announcement,…
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…
If there’s one thing the self-satisfied, liberal, tofu-munching, cappuccino-sipping, in vitro fertilization-using coastal elite hate, it’s Fox News. The Rupert Murdoch-owned home to such neoconservative mouthpieces as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity is known for cheerleading the Iraq war and not finding John McCain sufficiently right-wing. It even has the…
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…
Duffy is like a kinder, gentler Amy Winehouse: Her blond hair, English-rose complexion and the lack of any real edge to her music ensures marketability. Witness the use of “Mercy,” her international smash, in numerous commercials prior to her debut release. But Duffy’s story doesn’t begin and end here. There…
Doing justice to an artist with the gravitas of Tom Waits is a challenge for any singer, much less a 23-year-old actress making her musical debut. But that’s exactly what Scarlett Johansson and her hip rock cohort attempt on Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of 10 Waits covers…
With 100 songs clocking in at just shy of five hours, Sony’s latest dip into Willie Nelson’s fathomless catalog—a four-CD behemoth timed to coincide with the release of Joe Nick Patoski’s bio Willie Nelson: An Epic Life and the Red Headed Stranger’s 75th birthday on April 30—this boxed set goes…
Alejandro Escovedo’s acclaimed 2006 album The Boxing Mirror ran the gamut of moods from melancholy to self-doubt, an appropriate response to his hepatitis C-related 2003 brush with death. So how will he react to recovery? Well, by looking back—and rocking out. Escovedo describes his upcoming Real Animal as a retrospective…
