OK, so I’m not a struggling musician–but I’ve heard the story many times about how hard it is to make some bank in the local arena. Some places take this much of a cut; other places say they’ll only take that much of a cut–but end up paying shit. And…
Record Hop at Rubber Gloves Friday, April 18. (Melanie Gomez) Pete made a good point on Friday when he complained about Denton hosting a badass showcase the one weekend Dallas has awesome showcases. Your DC-9 friends were all over the place this weekend. Luckily, our photographer Melanie Gomez was more…
Experimental act Negativland will perform what Mark Hosler, one of the group’s founding members, admits is a fairly out-there, challenging show tomorrow night. That not too surprising to those familiar with Negativland’s history. For years the band has made headlines for things only tangential to their musical output: copyright infringements,…
B&BL will be skating all over town. Hey! Stop moping around about Cat Power, jackass. Chan Marshall’s cancellation is actually a blessing in disguise, folks…you were gonna be spread out super thin if you tried to catch her show in addition to the other three huge, must-see events happening in…
Art – both in graffiti form and in galleries like Kettle Art – continues to play a major role in maintaining Deep Ellum’s character. (Jonathan Finley) Deep Ellum is changing. Transitioning. You know this. The area has endured a rash of club closings, struggles with the city and the ongoing…
It’s distasteful to rip musical acts donating their time to perform for a worthy cause. So we’ll just say that this Sunday night, Naked Mom on the Lawn, GOAT, Imaginary Friends, Daddy Dub and Bill’s Clinton will light up the Torch Lounge, 5361 Sears at Greenville Avenue, and DFW NORML…
Bad news, Cat Power fans. Chan Marshall’s hurt her vocal chords and, as a result, Saturday night’s gig at the Palladium Ballroom’s been canceled. We’ll keep our ears open for details on a possible reschedule. –Pete Freedman…
Plexus Loom (Khurk) Sounds like local lo-fi gothic combo Plexus Gloom are breaking in a new bass player and thinking about a southbound move. Leader Jason Clyde Reed says the band has become disenchanted with the local scene: “After moving to Spain for three years where we performed regularly to…
Al Jorgensen looking more scary than he did last night.Ministry April 17, 2008 Palladium Ballroom Better Than: Getting your teeth pulled while watching a building being demolished, just barely. According to leader Al Jorgensen, this will be the last time Ministry comes to Dallas. Ever. That’s why he’s calling it…
Area music fans are gonna be force-fed a whole lot of the pretty awesome Austin-based psych rock quartet Lions over the next month-and-a-half. The band’s playing twice throughout the region on Saturday–first at the Good Records birthday party, and then later that night at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton for that…
On April 19, 1897, a great airship reportedly crashed and exploded in Aurora, TX, destroying a windmill. Among the strange debris, townspeople reportedly found the body of the ship’s pilot. Though it was badly disfigured, they determined that it was an extraterrestrial–and then buried it in the town’s cemetery. Because…
Bruce Springsteen doing his thing at the AAC. (Melanie Gomez) We had a few glitches Monday morning, and so we didn’t have our Bruce Springsteen photos to compliment Pete’s review. Well, now, we finally have the photos of The Boss (and the E Street Band) for your viewing pleasure. Better…
We’re sure you’re pretty amped up about Saturday’s Good Records party. We know we are. But we’re also pretty stoked about the event happening the next day: The inaugural Mokah Music Summit and Showcase (M2S2). Originally the two events were both scheduled for Saturday. But after some discussion, the Mokah…
The 31st annual Dallas International Guitar Festival kicks off tomorrow and runs through Sunday. And, lookie here, we’ve got two pairs of day-passes (individual cost: $40) to the Dallas Market Hall event to give away. The first two people to email me with “Guitar Festival Tickets” in the subject line…
The retro new wavers in Dallas’ Mahteo are undergoing several changes. Founding member Rene Espinosa recently filled us in: “We are getting a new guy who will dedicate himself to vocals and we are even changing the name of the band.” Rene, who formed the band with his brother, Raul,…
When legendary punk forebears The New York Dolls reunited in 2004 with three surviving original members (including singer David Johansen), expectations were certainly not high. After all, it had been nearly 30 years since the band splintered apart, and deceased lead guitarist (and legendary junkie) Johnny Thunders was always thought…
Whether or not they actually know it, every guitarist who has ever used distortion and feedback, or who has augmented an extended solo with showy tricks like playing a guitar behind their head or with their teeth, or bent a note nearly to the string’s breaking point, is aping the…
There is no weak spot on this amazing, nearly all-local, all-day lineup that the Good folks have assembled. The show belatedly marks the store’s eighth birthday and also falls on “Record Store Day,” a national celebration of independent record stores. At first glance, the lineup’s order seems inexplicable: Why would…
We usually talk about music in this space. Well, as I understand it, James Dante Kings was a talented percussionist. I can’t say that I know this for certain; I’ve never heard Kings play. But I do know that the 17-year-old high school senior was supposed to start studying at…
Isaak Hoskins was on his way to Austin to try his hand at a songwriting career when he stopped in Denton to take a job and make some cash. Half a decade later, he still hasn’t made it to the Live Music Capital—but his musical ambitions are, if anything, more…
Hard to believe that 2008 is already four months old. It seems that only yesterday we were counting the days till our New Year’s Day hangover would subside. As we take stock of some of the past three months’ hits (Jack Johnson catches his biggest wave), misses (maybe it’s time…
The end was sadly inevitable. After nearly three decades of bashing any Bush who has happened to be president and helping create an entirely new genre of music along the way, Al Jourgensen has decided to end Ministry. With such landmark recordings to his band’s name as The Land of…
