Anaheim, California’s The Willowz have been doing the punk/soul/garage/blues thing since 2002–and to some fine results. In 2004, two of the band’s songs added much-needed grit to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Featuring Richie James Follin’s screeching, J. Mascis-inspired singing, The Willowz’ six albums are hard-charging, room-clearing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 22, 2010…U2 is learning a valuable lesson about broadway: the show only goes on when the show is based on your album.Courtney Love has decided to change the one good thing about her… her name. Who says there’s a recession…
First came the news of Oso Closo’s demise. Then went The Cut*Off. Then Odis. And, quickly following suit? 100 Damned Guns. Basically: Four area bands have broken up in the past month. Wait, sorry: Make that five.Over the weekend, the pop-rockin’ Hendrick also passed along a MySpace message to its…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 21, 2010…Gang Starr’s Guru has lost his battle with cancer.Michael Jackson is stealing a little bit of The Beatles’ sunshine as Cirque de Soleil announces a show themed around the late singers work. The Black Crowes are planning to go…
Bad news, courtesy the constant downer that is Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram: 100 Damned Guns’ Thursday evening performance at Fort Worth Central Market will be the band’s last. A shame, too: The band’s long been a favorite of this here music section. Last May, Lance Lester reviewed the band’s…
Had your fill of local festivals lately? Well, too bad, because here’s another one for you–and it’s quite a doozy. On Saturday, May 22, at the Main Street Gardens in downtown Dallas, the City Tavern and DowntownDallas will present the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival. I’m pretty sure that’s not…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 20, 2010…The drummer for You Say Party! We Say Die has died. Somewhere irony is grinning.What’s the best way to welcome back an opera legend for their first performance after beating cancer? Boo him.Del The Funky Homosapien tells us how…
We were never head over heels for SMU favorite Odis, but this press release announcing the band’s demise late on Friday came as something of a shocker:There are more changes abounding in the music scene in the DFW area. Weeks after Oso Closo calls it quits, you can throw another…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 19, 2010…T.I. thinks he will be better than 2Pac. It’s always nice to see a young man full of pride by wanting to out do another post-prison album.Blur give away their Record Store Day song away for free.Z-Trip knows what…
Murder By Death bassist Matt Armstrong is a Dallas native. So, really, he was just the natural choice to talk to us when we reached out and scheduled an interview with the band. Speaking on the first day of Murder by Death’s tour in support of its excellent new record,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 16 2010…Peter Steele is dead.There are a lot of things that would keep rock and/or rollers away from performing… but, would you think it would be a cloud?Diddy is now the bosses boss…
Well, speaking of upcoming debut full-lengths from promising young area artists: Today, Magnet magazine has posted quite the flattering write-up on Sarah Jaffe on its Web site, wherein it gushes about the songs on her upcoming Kirtland Records full-length Suburban Nature: “One listen to 24-year-old Texas native Sarah Jaffe’s music…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, April 15, 2010…Eminem scraps Relapse 2 album for fresher, newer album not named Relapse 2.It’s time to start up the age old debate of the best concept albums against the worst concept albums. Guess which list KISS landed on…Soooo… if 50…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 14, 2010…Taking Back Sunday has gotten the ol’ gang back together.There really isn’t anything as great as the former member of a band performing an entire classic album by his old band is there? Wait…Lemmy sets the record straight: He…
A week ago today, for whatever reason, T-Pain was in Dallas and, better yet, at XTC Cabaret for a little fun (one assumes). The details of what happened next, however, are a little fishy. Doesn’t really sound like fun, though…
What has drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott of Arlington’s canon metal band Pantera been up to of late? Setting up for a stampede, turns out: His metal supergroup, Hellyeah, announced last week some new tour dates. Oh, and there’s this: The band is also finishing up recording Stampede, the followup to…
Bad news, everyone. Can’t believe we missed this when it went down last month, really. Turns out the GS Boyz have broken up. No doubt, you remember them. The purveyors of the much-lauded “Stanky Legg”? Yes, them. And maybe you remember their minor follow-up hit, “The Boody Dew,” too? No?…
So, we’ve been keeping tabs on the “Lilith Fair Is Back!” announcements for a while, thinking it was kind of a big deal with a long list of pretty interesting artists and a somewhat surprising North Texas bent. Plus, we knew it was coming to Dallas at some point this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, April 13, 2010…Ice-T suggest a new dietary plan for Amiee Mann.Supergrass: RIP.Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty of shooting a man in the face…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, April 12, 2010…Spike Jonze is reportedly working on a short film with Arcade Fire.Godspeed You! Black Emperor will reunite and curate the UK All Tomorrow’s Parties.A very young and very blond Andrew W.K. got himself slapped with a juvenile restraining order…
Congratulations are in order (I guess) for Dallas Cowboy linemen Marc Colombo, Cory Proctor and Leonard Davis. When not working in the so-called trenches, those three make up three-fourths of area metal outfit Free Reign (guitarist Justin Chapman’s just some dude, really). And, last night, the group kind of earned…
After the recent announcement that the Old 97’s will soon be recording new material for an upcoming album, now comes word that a country-rocking contemporary of that act will also be releasing some long-awaited, new material. Thanks to the blog NineBullets.net, our attention is directed towards a post on Slobberbone’s…
