Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Looks like Michael Jackson’s estate will produce as much posthumous music as Tupac’s. Hard drives containing at least 100 unreleased songs–new and old–were taken by his sister LaToya.The Outside Lands Festival booked the most logical replacement for the Beastie…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… If a tree falls in the woods, who cares? Case in point: Paula Abdul has left American Idol. Tommy Lee said he’s still “baffled” why anyone watched his notorious sex tape with Pam Anderson Hint: Because it showed…
Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic ’80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had its…
Like with yesterday’s announcement that, upon the completion of production details, more tickets were being released to the upcoming U2 show at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, today comes news that–again, upon the completion of “production details,” whatever those are–more tickets are being released to Paul McCartney’s Wednesday, August 19, gig…
Lest there was ever any doubt, in this Internet-driven modern music age, that tastemakers pretty much just blatantly steal finds from other tastemakers and that it’s all one big circle, basically, check the case of Denton’s Paul North, aka Sunnybrook. The little brother of Sleep Whale member Joel North, Sunnybrook’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, August 5, 2009… Looks like we have another supergroup to contend with (and it’s not Damnocracy.) Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones have joined to form Them Crooked Vultures. Looks like Snoop Dogg has a new label mate–The Pope! I…
Get ready to have another “Psychobilly Freakout,” folks: Laughin’ & Cryin’, the Reverend Horton Heat’s first non-holiday album since 2004’s Revival, is due out Tuesday, September 1. Actually, the album isn’t so much a psychobilly freakout as it is a countrified detour from the punk-tinged rockabilly that the Rev has…
…and real soon, too. See, now that the complicated production details have been completed on the band’s upcoming, October 12 show with Muse at Arlington’s Cowboys Stadium, the promoters are releasing more tickets, at all price levels, for sale to the public, starting in, oh, 50 minutes or so, at…
For a while there, it appeared as if this morning could be something of a judgment day for Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater. Today, after all, was the day that the venue was set to face foreclosure, after the loan that the owners had received from a Dallas lender last year…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 4, 2009… I would’ve thought the guys of Kiss would’ve thought of this one a lot sooner: Limited edition Kiss M&M’s. Tom DeLonge may be touring with his old band Blink-182 this summer, but he still has his other band…
In this past week’s print edition, Observer contributor Chris Parker chatted up rebel rocker Michael Franti, talking about his new reggae infused sound in Spearhead in anticipation of his show tomorrow night at Grand Prairie’s Nokia Theatre alongside Counting Crows and Augustana.Well, turns out Franti won’t be making the gig,…
Yet one more thing to add to the list of things that Dorrough has now done that his fellow rappers in the DFW scene haven’t: Right there in the Sunday edition of the paper, Dorrough’s debut album, Dorrough Music, received the review treatment from the New York Times. And while…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 3, 2009… Dave Grohl will had an alley named after him in the city of his birth Warren, OH. Turns out Kanye doesn’t think he’s the next “King of Pop.” But it’s easy to see why it’s believable; it just sounds…
She waltzed into the room’s back entrance, quickly set a trail to the checkout counter and excitedly showed the few employees crowded around her the customizations she’d made to the mini-Munny she’d purchased after stumbling upon the new Mockingbird Station store on Wednesday afternoon–a quick drawing on the doll’s face…
I don’t really have too much to say about long-running country music duo Montgomery Gentry–other than that there was a time back in 2003 when the band was almost unavoidable on CMT, thanks in no small part to the above video. Don’t really watch too much CMT anymore, though, so…
So there’s this three-day music festival of sorts happening next month in Forth Worth called, fittingly, the Fort Worth MusicFest. And it’s the fest’s third annual go-’round. And it helps raise money for college scholarships for area kids. And it takes place August 21-23, costing $15 per general admission ticket…
Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman reviewed Austin-by-way-of-Dallas garage rockers The Strange Boys’ The Strange Boys And Girls Club today, eventually giving the album a not-too-shabby 7.1 after establishing the premise that garage-rock is and always has been the realm of social misfits.The review suggests that the Boys “never actually blow their tops,”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 31, 2009… According to Phil Spector’s publicist he’s “not doing great” in prison. Really? I’d expect a 60-year-old super-producer to be having the time of his life. Of course, if he’s bored, he can always strike up a collabo with Charles Manson to pass…
Tonight marks the first night of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ “HEAVEN”, a new, themed DJ weekly for Denton-based DJs Bryce Isbell and Owen Paul Story (aka FUR and OPS, respectively). And tonight’s event, in addition to featuring Joey Liechty (aka Yeah Def) as a guest DJ, tonight’s event will also…
KKDA 104.5-FM afternoon drive-time jock DJ A Bay Bay is a pretty big deal–and not just locally, but, y’know, nationally. The former Shreveport DJ is, after all, the namesake behind the Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris’ 2007 massive 2007 single “A Bay Bay”. So, there’s that.Since moving to the Dallas airwaves…
Last week, I blogged about how one of my favorite local alt-country acts, The Texas Red Legs, were competing in the most recent installment of the Shiner Rising Star Contest.Well, lo and behold, Richard Davis and crew went out last week and won the contest’s first installment at Plano’s Love…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 30, 2009… Kanye West says he’s ready to replace Michael Jackson as the “King of Pop.” Too soon? Ex-Panic at the Disco members Ryan Ross and John Walker debuted their new band Young Veins on Myspace. Somewhere, tween girls and mall…
