A couple interesting items in the inbox this morning for local musicians looking to add some high-profile gigs to their resume. So, hey, might as well pass ’em along, yeah?First up a chance to open for The Rocket Summer on Friday, February 26, when Bryce Avary stops on by the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 4, 2010…Jay Reatard’s autopsy results are in, and they aren’t surprising.Apparently Jack White does not know how to take a break. He’s about to start mixing the new Dead Weather album. El-P has announced that Def Jux label is not…
Yesterday afternoon, via a press release, major concert booking/promotions conglomerate Live Nation announced the opening of a new Dallas office to handle all the company’s business in the region, which will be led by longtime area concert promoter Danny Eaton (of 462 Productions and, more recently, Live Nation competitive AEG…
Alicia Keys will be performing with Shakira and Usher at the NBA All-Star Game on Valentine’s Day, but that won’t be her only North Texas stop this year. On Friday, April 2, the songstress will perform at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday,…
So, uh… that just happened. For those too lazy to click, here’s the guts of it: 3.6/10. I know, right?And these words from Pitchfork scribe Paul Thompson hit even more harshly:”[T]here’s no bite to any of it, no intensity, precious little conveyance of emotion. I wish there were a single…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 3, 2010…What’s worse than a remake of “We Are The World?” A Simon Cowell-headed remake of REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” featuring Miley Cyrus, James Blunt and Susan Boyle. At least it’s for charity…?So, Fall Out Boy may be permanently finished? What…
I t was just over a month ago now that John Iskander of Parade of Flesh announced the initial lineup for his booking company’s 2010 version of his Bro Fest (formerly South by South Flesh). Well, this week, Iskander passes along word of the now-completed lineup, which has balooned out…
The folks at Kirtland Records/Sonar Management sure are busy these days, what with today’s release of the new Eleven Hundred Springs album today (be sure to check our story on the new EHS disc in this upcoming Thursday’s of the Observer) and all those announcements its been making about the…
Many thanks to those who stopped on by The Libertine last night for the fifth installment of The Local Hang. Yep, that’s right, our fifth, which, if nothing else, proves that if you and Libertine owner Simon McDonald reach a drunken agreement, he will hold you to it for no…
Well, today’s the day that almost four-year wait for Midlake’s The Courage of Others, what with all the pressures it holds, comes to an end. Which means, yessir, it’s about time for you head on out to Good Records or wherever and buy you a copy–or so The New York…
Well, we knew this was coming along soon enough: Via a press release just sent out today, Kirtland Records has formally announced a release date for new signee Sarah Jaffe’s upcoming full-length debut, Suburban Nature. Well, kinda. It’s announced a month: May. So there you go. But, oh wait, here’s…
Well, it looks like its going to be another busy year for Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly of Denton’s Fergus & Geronimo. Because, according to this posted-this-morning interview with Savage for Paste Magazine’s Best of What’s Next feature, in addition to touring through the Midwest, the east coast and the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 2, 2010…Hollywood has already wrecked my childhood by remaking The Karate Kid and Footloose. Now musicians want to remake “We Are The World”?!Rule number one of being a touring band: don’t get your gear stolen.Who needs a Runaways biopic when…
Surely, by now, you’ve tackled the Herculean task of reading my “sprawling profile” of Midlake in this week’s dead tree version of DC9, yeah? Good. Then you’ll no doubt remember this part of the piece, in which the band shares its meticulous–and, OK, somewhat curious–approach to promotion:Midlake, although game to…
Some pretty exciting news out of our New York flagship this early afternoon, as our sister paper up there, the Village Voice, has gone ahead and announced the lineup for this year’s Village Voice Media day-party at South by Southwest. And it’s a looker, too, featuring some classic indie and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 1, 2010…Keith Richards has allegedly given up his long love affair with the bottle. Notice he didn’t say he gave up snorting relatives ashes.Looks like Chilean Metallica fans have taken a page from GNR fans…My Morning Jacket get even more…
Remember back in October, when we were all like, “Hey, what the what is Jason Lee (of Mallrats and My Name is Earl) fame doing in Denton?” and then we realized that, oh, he was just in town helping out his pals in Midlake, shooting a video or something? Maybe?…
Erykah Badu fans looking forward to the Freaq’s upcoming follow-up to her 2008 smash New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War would do well to turn their Internet dials to ErykahBadu.com starting in, oh, about 10 minutes or so (or, more specifically, at 3:33 p.m.), as, at that exact moment,…
The New York Times this morning has the details on a new lawsuit filed by the Sly Stone against his longtime manager, which claims that the Denton-born funk legend is owed some $20 to $30 million in royalties and “unspecified financial damages,” whatever those are.The former manager’s lawyer doesn’t seem…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 29, 2010…Jessica Simpson did the super-classy thing anyone would do when in a business meeting… she farted.Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev broke his leg while performing in Florida. At least nothing happened to the microphone he’s seems to enjoy placing in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 28, 2010…Katy Perry says she’d ditch her day job to be a full-time judge on American Idol. It’d be a lot cooler if she’d ditch the job and boyfriend and come over to my house.The Filipino dancing prisoners now have…
YES! King Khan And The Shrines, one of my favorite acts at last year’s SXSW, is coming to Dallas in April on what’s being billed as a “comeback tour.” The band is hitting 17 cities in late March and the first half of April, but perhaps wisely altogether avoiding Kentucky,…
