The five members of Midlake are revered recording artists, MOJO award-winners for best live act and, now, bar owners.Less than a month from now — sometime in early October — the Midlake boys will open up shop on the third floor of the building that currently houses Andy’s Bar in Denton…
For nearly two decades, cinematic Manchester act Elbow have been fairly silent in the U.S., despite drawing comparisons to Coldplay, Doves, and Radiohead. Meanwhile, their five records have earned critical acclaim back in the U.K. Their last two — Build A Rocket Boys! and The Seldom Seen Kid, were both…
New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers has been around for nearly a decade, and, in that time, the band has garnered a solid fan base for its unrelentingly loud slabs of noise. The band’s sophomore record, 2009’s Exploding Head, which the band is still touring behind, found APTBS exploring…
The band, you may recall, did something similar last year, releasing for one night only a film combining footage taken at the band’s 1972 stops in Fort Worth and Houston. This one, however, is all Fort Worth. And there’s a reason for the film’s release beyond simple nostalgia: It’s arriving in…
Stephanie Schumacher balks a little when admitting that, yes, she is putting La Grange up for sale less than two years after opening her Deep Ellum music venue, restaurant and bar.”Well,” she says with a sigh, “it’s kind of been for sale since Day One. That’s what I like to…
If it seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the new Sarah Jaffe release, it’s because we kind of have been. Or, at least, we’ve sure been reporting on it for a while — dating back to July 2010, when Jaffe told us that the new disc was likely going…
There are at least two notable local music connections to noted pop experimentalist Todd Rundgren. The first is the fact that Neon Indian’s chillwaves rode not one, but two Rundgren samples on their debut album Psychic Chasms, with “Deadbeat Summer” using some of Rundgren’s “Izzat Love?” track and “Local Joke”…
For over 25 years, Roger Miret has been the rough-hewed mouthpiece for New York’s Agnostic Front. In that time, his band has become one of the landmark hardcore/metal outfits, releasing hyper-aggressive slabs of animosity that just seem to keep getting better with time. My Life My Way, Agnostic Front’s tenth…
Earlier this week, the Granada Theater announced a new show coming to its room on Saturday, October 8. The show will feature touring headliners Portugal. The Man, plus an opening set from Dallas locals Air Review. Specifically, the inclusion of Air Review is where things get interesting: Back in August, the…
The 35 Denton crew is at it again. As the end of the year approaches, this festival team is busy revamping their image, scoping out bands and getting the word out. Yes, the four-day event called 35 Conferette and North By 35 and held every year the weekend before South…
Another show not mentioned here, but that’s worth noting nonetheless, is happening tonight. Happens every Wednesday night, actually — the weekly jam session at the Prophet Bar hosted by Erykah Badu musical director R.C. Williams.I’ve written about it a lot — last week, when Badu, Mos Def and Talib Kweli…
Earlier this afternoon, the Denton-sprung Neon Indian posted a note to its Facebook page teasing their return performance tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: “I think Fallon is joining the band…” the note read. Considering how geeked out on the band Fallon was the last time the band performed…
Sad news out of Paris yesterday, as French electronic producer Dj Mehdi died at the age of 34 after a roof collapsed in his home. The Ed Banger Records-backed DJ had collaborated with a number of big names over the years, including works with Daft Punk and Chromeo (see above)…
Last week, Hank Williams III released four CDs of new music — songs that he had written over the span of six months. Sure, a lot of the ideas have been percolating in Williams’ brain for a while as a nasty spat with his former record label has worked itself out…
The Los Angeles-based indie rock band Fool’s Gold has always been a work in progress. That is, until recently. The band is notorious for incorporating and African flavor into their music and their second album Leave No Trace, which dropped on August 16, holds true to that style. But frontman…
Best known as the leader of the psychobilly outfit Tiger Army, Nick 13 took a bold step by releasing a solo album of traditional, old-school country back in June. No longer content to wallow in the retro-rock and punk stew of his own band, Nick apparently decided to go way back…
It’s a beautiful day in the blogosphere for Dallas artists. First of all, Pitchfork is tossing out “Best New Music” like parade candy, and North Texas natives are scooping it up. It seems St. Vincent’s much-anticipated third album, Strange Mercy, hit a home run on the music site, which praised it as her…
Canada’s Kathleen Edwards has, perhaps too quietly, put together one of the stronger collections of albums by any young artist in the past decade. After turning heads at SXSW in 2002, she released her debut, Failer, a vulnerable audio-diary that had people lazily drawing the typical alt-country connecting line between…
Along with Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea’s Return to Forever brought jazz music to a rock audience. And though the “jazz fusion” label seemed to piss off the purists, Corea and the other talented musicians didn’t mind the increased profile and accompanying profits. Nearly four decades after…
Lots of Dave Navarro-related excitement in the local Twittersphere this weekend, as the Jane’s Addiction guitarist and band mercenary (Red Hot Chili Peppers, most notably) was apparently bouncing all around town, hitting Billiard Bar last night and the Double Wide and the Deep Ellum BuzzBrews location on Saturday night, and…
It’s coming up on two weeks now since we dropped the above bomb on you and announced that we’d somehow cobbled together the above four bold-faced names — Toadies, Old 97’s, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe — to headline our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase on Saturday, October 15, in…
Have you seen the above billboard around town? I haven’t, but apparently it exists, and for the sole purpose of telling AT&T mobile customers how they can get into tomorrow night’s Gym Class Heroes show at the Granada Theater for free. Essentially, if you’re an AT&T customer, you just shoot…
