Last year’s State Fair of Texas hosted a multitude of musical acts with sounds and styles as mottled as the food items subjected to deep-frying. Our absolute favorite was Cybertron Command Center: two dudes in shiny spandex bodysuits jumping around and playing synth pads and key-tars, creating the sonic equivalent…
Since his people turned down my interview request and firmly declared that there would be no complimentary tickets, I am left to only imagine what questions I might have put forth to the esteemed Lyle Lovett. The sophisticated country crooner (once referred to as the Thinking Man’s Cowboy) left me…
Holly Golightly has released 15 discs and too many singles and EPs to keep track of (2001’s double album, Singles Round Up, collects a bunch of them). What’s more, the Brit has collaborated with almost as many people as Willie Nelson, including the White Stripes on “It’s True That We…
Joan Jett is rockin’ and rollin’, or at least it sounds that way over her crackly cell phone. It sounds like she’s rockin’ and rollin’ all over the back of a car, as she’s headed out of Manhattan on a hurried, bumpy ride to the airport. But Jett’s pounded a…
Remember Cinder Calhoun? A feminist comedienne, she was the opening act for the Lilith Fair in the ’90s. She was fond of corduroys and vests. Her favorite joke was the “old classic” about the shaman stuck in a menstrual pit. She was fond of the ladies too, except for a…
Magic is being hyped as Springsteen’s rocking return to his classic period, and that’s understandable: The album contains lots of familiar musical totems, not to mention lyrics about driving a highway until the road turns black, and a diner on the edge of town (bet it’s dark there). But while…
Let’s hope that San Francisco new gaze/shoe wave is the next big thing, if only because we’ve trademarked both of those terms. Prattling screamo brats have held court for far too long. If you’re gonna mope, you may as well do so artfully with echoing melodies and tidal waves of…
Although the headliner, Rudder, is a highly regarded quartet from New York City, it’s the local boys who are the real stars of this triple bill. Both Oso Closo and Snarky Puppy are products of the University of North Texas’ prestigious music program, but they traverse areas far removed from…
If you’re gonna have an organ player in your group and call yourselves Oh My God, you could be mistaken for a Christian rock band. So indie trio OMG has this clarification on its MySpace page: “This Chicago rock band is not affiliated with God or Satan (though the band…
Missouri’s Domino Kings don’t add a lot to the traditional honky-tonk and rockabilly that are the band’s inspirations, but they don’t have to. Produced by Lou Whitney (The Skeletons), Some Kind of Sign, the Kings’ impressively earnest fourth release, is as solid a collection of roots rock as anyone could…
Twenty-one-year-old Beirut frontman Zach Condon is too young to have any stories of his own, so he imagines other folks’—usually folks living on other continents in other centuries. On “The Penalty,” he speaks from the perspective of a worker caught in a time of plague: “Yesterday fever, tomorrow St. Peter,…
God, it’s good to have Siouxsie back. Not that she really went anywhere; since dissolving the Banshees after 1995’s Rapture, the Goth goddess has recorded and toured with former side project Creatures, re-formed the Banshees for a spell and now—peek-a-boo!—released her first proper solo album. Sassy, sophisticated pop, Mantaray slinks…
I just got word about the Granada’s 2007 Halloween bash/costume contest, which takes place at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31 (duh!). It used to be called the Goth Ball, but this year the name has changed to Haunted Halloween Ball 2007, which is good because goth is so 1997. The…
The Hourly Radio is being quite generous with its latest EP, “Gun in Hand,” which was released yesterday. On the band’s Web site you can download both the EP’s new song and the Dance Robots Dance! remix of “Crime Does Pay” for free. What’s more, Hourly Radio will be unlocking…
…Does that mean Idolator is punching itself? I normally don’t read Idolator because I think they are snotty jerks. But tomorrow my cover feature on Interweb phenoms Ghosthustler comes out (ah, yes, I can already hear the swelling collective groan from little d music obsessives), and much of the story…
We just got a heads up that Cool Hand Luke had to cancel its Texas tour last-minute because of financial issues. So, anyone who was planning on hitting up the Cavern Saturday, Oct. 13, to see the band, may want to find something else to do. However, if the Cavern…
Ladies and gents, this is a touch navel-gazing, but we have a celebrity here in the office, (in our midst, folks!). We just can’t figure out which one. That’s where you come in. See, our Night & Day man (and frontman of the Naptime Shake), Noah W. Bailey resembles about…
Last night’s 10th Anniversary installment of Rock Lottery was one of those rare local music events we’ll always remember, not only because we saw Matt Barnhart with his shirt off, but also because it was easily the best installment of the event we’ve ever seen. (Though, admittedly, we missed the…
Check out this interview with local-boy-made-good Ben Kweller (this time, sans tampon) at the 2007 ACL fest a couple weeks back (wait…a month back? Three weeks? Jesus, what day is it?). It’s cool and everything, especially the shoutout he gives to Club Dada, except looks like word never made it…
Another news quickie: New Club Dada co-owner Amanda Newman has confirmed that Sondre Lerche will be headlining a show there on November 15. Ticket info after the jump…
Not one but two DFW artists made the ol’ Pitchfork media Forkcast today. Check out Midlake performing “Roscoe” at Spune Productions’ Wall of Sound Fest, and then scroll down a bit to catch Ms. Annie Clark—St. Vincent, to the rest of the world—giving up a trio of fine video pieces…
So we go to lunch today at the venerable Cosmic Café, craving hummus and nan and other noshables, but we got a bonus we never expected. Seated at the front of the restaurant, near the water and tea pitchers, was accordion player Matt Tolentino. The baby-faced and witty guy serenaded…
