The members of White Arms of Athena, a progressive metal act from Mesquite, are checking out studios in order to complete their debut recording. “The full-length will be called Astrodrama and it shouldn’t take longer than a month or two to complete,” says guitarist Colin McDonnell. The band just played…
Seekers of Knowledge, take heed. Sixty Second Ape Magazine presents The Return of Knowledge tomorrow night at the Liquid Lounge in Deep Ellum. From 2001 to 2005, Knowledge was a regular hip-hop showcase run by the Nice People collective. After taking a break to focus on recording and starting up…
Only a handful of people have so far watched this Youtube clip of the Women’s Chorus of Dallas performing “Istanbul (Not Contsantinople)”: Let’s fix that; this is a damn fine performance. Well done, ladies. –Pete Freedman…
The Recording Academy and T-Mobile present Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Granada Theater Better Than: Trolling around on facebook all night long, waiting for your friends to finish up their turn in a game of Scrabulous. Last night was the second time I’d attended a Kid…
Dallas always has been and always will be a Van Halen kind of town—or maybe four out of 10 Texxas Jams back in the 1970s and ’80s don’t mean much to you. I saw two of them; couldn’t make the 1988 “Monster of Rock” adios. Something to do with Dokken…
El Gato and Bridges and Blinking Lights are an excellent pairing—and all the reason you need to show up to this event. Both have released fantastic albums within the past few months; Bridges’ Standing on the Same Stick made this publication’s 2007 Top Ten, and El Gato’s Surrender! is certainly…
I won’t name names, but after listening to an album by a certain “alt-bluegrass” combo, a mini-epiphany alighted: Why listen to a half-assed, smug-hipster version of bluegrass when the real thing— Ralph Stanley, Gibson Brothers, even Alison Krauss—is available? Listening to the Avett Brothers posed a similar argument until a…
Jordan Barrick When Dallas playwright Lacey Lalene Lynch asked Jordan Barrick to provide music for her show Reason for Referral, the acoustic singer-songwriter was eager to help. Reading the script for her play, which is about three college theater students dealing with the apparent link between their creativity and mental…
…oh, oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore. If anyone knows Maria Elena Holly, the widow of Buddy who happens to live in the Turtle Creek area, they might wanna pass along this exceptional find: Eric Clapton covering the Lubbock legend’s immortal songs “Maybe Baby” and “Peggy Sue,” both of which…
The punk icons The New York Dolls at the Granada. (Daniel Kramer)New York Dolls April 20, 2008 Granada Theater Much Better Than: expected, and way better than getting your punk thrills via an over-coifed trio of emo bands at Nokia. Download: See photos from Sunday night’s show. Critic’s Notebook: With…
Real Texas. Real music. Word just came down that we have three pairs of three-day passes to the Real. Texas. Festival. to give away on this here blog. If you want to spend your weekend watching Chris Cagle, Stoney LaRue and Dallas’ own The Killdares, shoot me an email with…
You’ll see my full-length review of Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s debut disc, You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into, in this week’s paper. Short story: I really enjoyed the electro-dance outfit’s entire album, but I really, really dug the cheesier, ballad-like efforts. This track, which the the…
The Recording Academy–you know, the folks behind the Grammy Awards–are throwing a big bash at the Granada tonight in conjunction with some T-Mobile Sidekick promotion. The show will feature normally big-time draws Kid Rock and Gretchen Wilson, either of whom could probably sell out the theater. Only this show is…
In tomorrow’s print edition Pete will tell you all about the highlights from last weekend’s Mokah Music Summit and Showcase (M2S2), but we just couldn’t resist sharing this video FineLineLive.com put together of Dave Little talking about the Dallas music scene. Let’s just say it includes the sentence: “The Dallas…
White Light Fever. Mickey Branton, bassist for local psychedelic rock act White Light Fever, tells us the band has completed their second effort and is preparing for an onslaught of summer performances. Count All Your Father’s Wealth is set for release in late June and the band members have been…
Caleb Shreve is something of a local; he lives in Lone Oak which is way the hell out east on I-30, past Greenville and some big lake. Anyway, his classmates at good ol’ Lone Oak High think he’s something of a talent–they’ve honored him with the coveted “Most Talented Musician”…
Lauren Conrad of The Hills fame. …or, at least, their song “Woah Oh (Me Vs. Everyone)” was. The Dallas-based group’s song, like, totally came on and rocked the soundtrack to the show when LC, Lo and Audrina were getting ready to go out to their new favorite Thursday night hotspot,…
The Shackeltons are a a five-piece indie rock act from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They’ve got an interesting sound; I read somewhere (I forget where) that their sound is somewhere between Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the Talking Heads. Sounds like a big range, but it fits — to the tune, I…
With so much going on this last weekend, we kind of spaced on some of the non showcase shows. So, we were pretty pleased to come across this video of the Panderers playing the Granada last Friday. — Chelsea Ide…
Often when I try to get others to listen to Pelican, the second I mention the word “instrumental” they bow out. I’m hoping some of you have continued reading. Pelican’s sound is sometimes ethereal, always heavy. Those who can handle longer instrumental songs will want to pick up the band’s…
Third String Productions, the folks who brought the emo-fest South By So What?! to Plano last month, have another huge day of music lined up for next weekend. The New Noise Music Festival looks a lot more promising than South By So What, as there is considerably more diversity in…
So we’re a little behind on this–by, like, a whole year. But we just came across this video, in which Big Al Dupree schools us on Deep Ellum in its heyday(s). According to the description, the vid was created 16 years ago–well before the entire hullabaloo going on now (but…
