Surely, you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for this news: Today, Arlington’s Man Factory releases the second album in its planned pop-rock opera trilogy centered around the Street Fighter video game.Street Fight!!! Round Two follows the band’s 2008-released Street Fight! Round One, an album that largely centered…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 2, 2010…Gang Starr’s Guru is in a coma after suffering a massive heart-attack.Wow, it didn’t take Jane’s Addiction long to realize it wasn’t going to work out. Now Perry can focus on another band with Nuno Bettencourt.For a guy who…
It’s only Monday afternoon and, oh my God, we haven’t even posted about Neon Indian this week. Mostly because there’s nothing new to tell? More than likely.But, a-ha!, there’s this all of a sudden: A couple of new Neon Indian remixes have popped up around the Internet of late–and not…
Dropkick Murphys has been doing its jig-infused version of punk rock for nearly 15 years now. And, in that time, the band has seen its fan base expand greatly as its sound grew more and more Irish-inspired. Known for its beer-soaked live performances, the band is about to release its…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 1, 2010…The Guardian debates on whether or not the internet has killed the “rock star mystique.”Marie Osmond’s son has committed suicide.Looks like Carly Simon knows how to keep her name coming up in the news. Looks like she knows what…
Dessa was once known as one Margret Wander, a philosophy major and technical writer from Minneapolis. But after joining the campus slam poetry team, Wander evolved into hip-hop diva Dessa and quickly gained the attention of her hometown’s music collective known as Doomtree. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Dessa’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 26, 2010…Aerosmith kiss and make nice just in time for a summer tour.Thom Yorke names his new band and plans its coming out shows.John Mayer discovered the ultimate mea culpa: play to the kids…
Last night saw some serious action on Erykah Badu’s always-active Twitter account–only, this time, Badu seemed to be making Twitter work for her.And how: Through a head-spinning array of tweets that started shortly before 9 p.m. last night and ended shortly after 1 p.m. this afternoon, Badu desperately tweeted at…
On Tuesday, the release day for The Rocket Summer’s fourth full-length and second on major label Island/Def Jam, Of Men and Angels sat at No. 4 on iTunes’ album download chart. Yesterday, it fared even better, rocketing (pun absolutely intended) up to No. 1. And today, it’s still sitting fairly…
After mysteriously missing band practice last night, Tommy Atkins, the bass player for Fort Worth’s heavy gothic-cabaret trio The Great Tyrant, was found dead in his home at noon today. Behind singer Daron Beck and alongside drummer Jon Teague, Atkins was part of one of the top–if not the flat-out…
Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin are identical twin sisters that just happen to front the Canadian indie pop quartet known as Tegan & Sara. For more than a decade, the Quin sisters have released six albums of indie pop that have received critical kudos as the band has…
Pitchfork passes along the news today that the (still) much-buzzing, DFW-bred Neon Indian will be releasing a new single at some point next month–and, curiously enough, it’ll be doing so via an exclusive release on Mountain Dew’s new label, Green Label Sound.Explains the Mountain Dew folk: Coming this March, Neon…
The week just keeps getting better for Damaged Good$, who on Tuesday released their killer new mixtape as a free download. Though half of the duo, Coool Dundee, told us that the group will return to working with past collaborator Xrabit (the London producer who discovered the Dallas-area rappers and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 25, 2010…If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times… pickles are more popular than Nickleback.So if you’re pretty and married to a mega-music talent, does that mean their talent will rub off on you? You may want…
Brooke Webb, artistic director for the pop culture phenomenon known as Cirque du Soleil, wants fans of the performance art extravaganza to come for the music as well as the acrobatics as the outfit’s touring show, Alegria, launches its run at Frisco’s Dr Pepper Arena this evening.”The music is the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 24, 2010…Jay-Z’s got 99 problems and the blind governor of New York is one of them. Now, that doesn’t really roll off the tongue does it?”J-Lo” has split with her record company. What will they do now without her floundering…
In the upcoming issue of the Observer, I spend some time with Grapevine native Bryce Avary, better known to most as the guy behind The Rocket Summer. And, as you’ll see in the piece, it’s a slightly different Avary we’re seeing this time around: He’s older, wiser, and, maybe most…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 23, 2010…Drake says the new Kanye West album will be “the best hip-hop album of the last 10 years.” Sounds like someone has been drankin’ the Kool-Aid!Johnny Marr got his prized guitar back after it was stolen 10 years ago.Xiu…
Last we checked in with Picnityme, the former PPT member and current Cannabinoid the hip-hop producer was a busy man, wrapping up collaborations with Headkrack, Astronautalis and Johnny Polygon, among others. He’s still pretty busy these days, too, having finally posted last week that Kid Cudi collaboration he promised then,…
Midlake fans still curious about why The Courage of Others took so long to finish receive a partial answer in a press release that arrived this morning, promoting a new album from John Grant, formerly of The Czars. The new album from the Midlake’s Bella Union labelmate is being touted…
Our sister paper out in Los Angeles checked in with Arlington’s own Vincent Paul Abbott over the weekend as the Pantera/Hellyeah drummer stopped off in the City of Angels as part of Revolver magazine’s Golden Gods Awards nomination party.And, just as Jesse Hughey and I learned last time we stopped…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 22, 2010…Rihanna is being considered for Vanity’s role in the remake of The Last Dragon? Really… The Last Dragon?! I have the power now Bruce Lee Roy!Ouch… Lil’ Wayne had eight root canal surgeries in one session. I’d say that’s…
