Knee-Deep: Is there a Deep Ellum resurrection in the making (though we never really thought it had died in the first place. It was more in sleep mode.)? First, there’s the item former DO music editor Sam Machkovech dug up for his blog, www.bigdlittled.com, in which he notes Trees is…
With a handful of underwhelming solo records and the drawn-out demise of Son Volt, Jay Farrar’s last half-decade has been awfully uninspired—just song after song cut from the same dreary fabric that has resulted in so much monotonous blue-collar alt-country. Gob Iron, Farrar’s venture with Aders Parker, is the first…
Although there have been many attempts to properly anthologize The Clash, most efforts became bogged down in trying to cherry-pick tracks off of albums such as London Calling which were self-sufficient statements. The Singles presents a complete picture of the seminal band by gathering together every single and B-side the…
Three years ago, if you had told me a childlike pixie with a harp and a Renaissance wardrobe would make some of the best records of the ’00s, I would have told you to go back to Iceland. But dammit if Joanna Newsom didn’t do just that, first with her…
There’s a revolution of underground amateur noise artists, and Wolf Eyes has in large part inspired it. They have just about reached the pinnacle of success for a group that sounds more like a study in the art of electrocution than what most people would call music. Despite this, they…
Of all of the albums a band might choose to re-create, Pussy Cats, Harry Nilsson and John Lennon’s drunken incursion into the bowels of New York City, would rank high on the unlikely list. Recorded during Lennon’s separation from Yoko Ono, the original album was a high holy mess: a…
The Hidden Cameras perform Thursday, November 23, at
Gypsy Tea Room.
Sunday, November 26, at the Gyspy Tea Room
Wednesday, November 29, at Sons of Hermann Hall
Saturday, November 25, at Gypsy Tea Room
Wednesday, November 29, at the Gypsy Tea Room
Tuesday, November 28, Rubber Gloves Rehearsal
Studios, Denton
Friday, November 24, Granada Theater
I’m assuming you’ve heard of a band out of Oklahoma City called Hinder; the group has, after all, been pulling in the press lately, as well as making its mark on VH1 and MTV, for better or for worse. Hinder consists of five groomed, good-looking guys, who, with their bulbous…
When asked about having an e-mail address, Amy Muncy, a 32-year-old employee at CD Source, one of the area’s best and most unusual music shops, shakes her head. “Look, I work at a CD store. I can’t afford a computer.” Muncy, a slightly gothic, caffeine-addicted fan of Buckethead and Cannibal…
According to legend (and by “legend” we mean “Wikipedia”), the original model for the hootenanny was a result of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie’s inability to pay their bills. The folk-legends-to-be invited all their musically inclined friends and Greenwich Village neighbors to attend an open jam session that doubled as…
There was once a glorious golden age. An age of spandex-clad heroes wielding axes, banging gongs and waging wars amidst wisps of fog and blinding lights. That golden age was called the 1980s, the war was called “Hair Metal” and two of the leading armies were Ratt and Skid Row…
A devout Christian who writes defiantly leftist songs, Bruce Cockburn is both a phenomenal guitarist and an acclaimed lyricist. Cockburn has been Canada’s best purveyor of world-beat folk for more than four decades. His most recognized songs are “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (1979) and “If I Had a Rocket…
Lady Sovereign is either rap music’s salvation or another commercially crafted nail in hip-hop’s coffin. We suppose she could be both. Are the beats funky, fresh and/or fly? Yes, thanks to Basement Jaxx’s expert production, the S-O-V has been armed with an arsenal of bass-heavy UK garage grime and funky…
From the gurgling synthesizer riffs a la “Baba O’Riley” that open this disc to the mini-opera (Wire & Glass) that ends it, Endless Wire intimates that it’s a classic, if not landmark, Who album. And going up against the formidable challenge of nearly a quarter-century of expectations since the group’s…
Fans of Radiant’s heady tease of an EP, 2003’s The Sound of Splitting Atoms, have waited a long time for this…but well, so has the band. Long enough they’re releasing the album on their own. We Hope You Win is a venture that serves up their accessible but intelligent pop-rock…
If “Reason Is Treason” as Kasabian claimed on their breakthrough self-titled debut, then the overproduction and megalomania of Empire is treachery of the highest decree. Like the majority of sophomore efforts from 2004 buzz bands (see: Franz Ferdinand, The Killers), the latest from this band of Brits trades in the…
