We’ve been doing lots of talking about this year’s installment of Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Festival–and with good reason. It’s looking like everything good about SXSW and Austin City Limits Music Festival combined into one big party in Waterloo Park on November 5, 6 and 7. You get the Austin…
C’mon, this is an easy one. Some hints: It’s a she. She announced it on Twitter last night.She’s got her own line of accessories in the works.Her name rhymes with Schmerykah Schmadu…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, September 2, 2010…You can say what you want about Kanye’s personality quirks but he’s always trying to push his art to the next level. To that end, the rapper/producer is reportedly shooting a companion film for his new album.When you think…
Gawker is reporting today that Paste magazine is about to close shop any minute now, further proving that combining two dying industries, music and journalism, indeed results in a double-negative and not a positive.It’s a sad day for sure, both for music journalism fans and for local music. Paste, let…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 1, 2010…A group of Czech fans recorded video footage of a Radiohead show in Prague, got together, edited it and released it as a free download. The cooler thing is Radiohead caught wind of it and gave the group the…
Turns out Tum Tum’s hardly the only local hip-hop artist making waves this week…..
As new Club Dada owner Josh Florence told us last week, it wouldn’t be long before crews entered the facilities at the Elm Street venue to start work on the many renovations planned to take place in the next few months. And, indeed, as the above photo passed along to…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 31, 2010…Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison turn their mutual love of skate boarding into a new band.People are either idiots or they just really love to buy John Lennon memorabilia. Either way, a toilet isn’t worth $15,000.Kanye says he and…
Tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall, Titus Andronicus comes to town supporting The Monitor, its second full-length release, which, it just so happens, also stands as one of the best releases of the year.Visceral, and vehemently angry, the disc is in many ways a middle finger to the trivialities…
Good news today for anyone sitting around, waiting on new material from Centro-matic: This morning, the band announced the release of a new EP called Eyas. Like Dual Hawks, the band’s last album, which came as a double-album, one disc filled Centro-matic material and the other consisting of the band’s…
Stan Ridgway will always be known, for better or worse, as they guy who sings “Mexican Radio.” As the founding member of the legendary new wave act Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway found a musical niche all to himself–some bizarre world where Johnny Cash sang show tunes in the desert. From…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 30, 2010…Scott Weiland was not only humiliated from falling off the stage in Cincinnati, but he also inadvertently revealed the fact that he uses “backing” vocal tracks.Did Drake and Nicki Minaj get married? Their tweets say they did.Reading Festival pulls…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2010…The “Bed Intruder Song” has apparently caught on the pop-punk kids.U2’s first show on Russian soil sees a barrage of arrests.A German pop star who knowingly gave people AIDS gets a light sentence…
Almost a year to the date after Club Dada unceremoniously shuttered its doors under its last ownership regime, a team of investors led by City Tavern owner Josh Florence has signed a new five-year lease on the historic venue. On Monday, workers will enter the building to begin work on…
When local artists receive coverage from national press, we usually give little more than a thumbs up and keep on moving. But the past few days has seen an exceptional number of Dallas-based acts in the news. So, on that note, here’s a little grab bag for you:Today, The Orbans’…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 26, 2010…How can using auto-tune not unfairly reflect a singers talent in a singing competition?How awesome must your watch be if your family thinks you would kill yourself because someone stole it?Is the Contra cover girl mad because her picture…
Frisco is turning into quite the rock ‘n’ roll city thanks to the folks at Lochrann’s Irish Pub & Eatery and Spune Productions. Spune began booking Thursday night shows at Lochrann’s a few months back, offering Frisco(ans?) a chance to see the area’s best bands without having to drive 20…
For the past five years, WeShotJR, for better or worse, has been a fairly prominent player in the local music scene, be it for its authors’ secret identities, for its even-more anonymous commenters’ rantings or for its honest, if oftentimes harsh, criticisms and opinions.When it launched in January of 2006,…
Dallas native and Lincoln High School graduate Chris Bosh may be breaking the bank these days as “that other guy who went to the Miami Heat,” but the guy who saw his stock rise more this NBA offseason than any other player (maybe in the history of the league), still…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 25, 2010…Pitchfork counts down the best 50 videos of the ’90s–and they actually have some good choices!The guy who wrote “What A Wonderful World” has died.Guns N’ Roses has been warned to be on time for the Reading and Leeds…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 24, 2010…Fantasia admits that you “can’t accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”Weezer is planning on playing Pinkerton and “The Blue Album” in their entirety… if that’s cool with promoters.The Army seems to be at least a little bit cooler…
The often-controversial, sometimes provocative local music blog WeShotJR, notorious around town for a few reasons, not the least of which has always been its writers’ insistence on keeping their identities anonymous, announced today in a post penned by head honcho “Stoned Ranger” that its five-year run (the site launched in…
