Pitchfork’s take on the new Rhett Miller disc is in–went up yesterday, in fact–and, despite the low score of 5.9 given to the self-titled album, the review reads mostly positively. Which speaks to a larger trend within the reactions this disc is garnering.Like most takes on Miller’s solo works (including…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 17, 2009… Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Ventures has died at 75. His band was best known as the band who played the Hawaii Five-0 theme song. In what is either a stroke of genius or the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009… Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking the young ‘uns…
So there’s a pretty embarrassing mistake in this week’s paper, albeit one with somewhat of an understandable cause: Through my fault, and no one else’s, we ran a story on Jenny Lewis in this week’s paper, in which the copy stated that Lewis plays the Granada Theater tonight.Thing is, Lewis…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 15, 2009… Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknhold used to be an illegal music downloader. But he thinks it helped him make the music he and other bands are making today, so it’s cool. The New Orleans Voodoo Festival has added touring monsters…
Believe the hype, folks: Dallas’ own Dorrough’s got the most-played video on BET with the above “Walk That Walk.” Well, if this press release is to be believed, that is–and really, why not? Guy’s on a serious roll, what with “Walk That Walk” being No. 21 on the latest Billboard…
Listen up satellite radio fans. Or don’t, maybe. But, either way, be warned: All weekend long, Westlake’s Jonas Brothers will be all up in your radio, broadcasting directly into your home on Sirius XM radio.Earlier today, the Jonases joined up with Sirius Channel 1’s morning show, talking about their record…
View Larger MapAs noted on Unfair Park yesterday, an item came before the City Plan Commission yesterday in which the old Red Blood Club spot was looking for a Specific Use Permit so it could re-open its doors and become a blues bar (which, between you and me, is pretty…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 12, 2009… Prince is apparently refusing to get a double hip replacement because of his religious beliefs. So, instead of having the surgery, he’s “popping pain killers and hoping it will all go away.” I think that’s the same thing my…
Over on his highly entertaining blog at Fresherthan.com, local DJ Fishr Pryce, who himself is promising a new mixtape in the coming days, has posted a link for readers to download the newest mix from local spinner DJ Marvel, who holds a residency over at Henderson Avenue nightclub Glo. The…
Late in March, the Dallas natives (what up, Woodrow Wilson?) and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers in ZZ Top went up to Chicago and taped an episode of VH1’s Storytellers to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary. Later this month, on Saturday, June 27, at 9 p.m., the channel will…
In news that is sure to make the thousands of concert-going Plano teens go bonkers, scene-driving local mall punk act Forever the Sickest Kids has announced that it has started work on its new, sophomore record today.In interviews held over the course of research for this week’s cover story, the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 11, 2009… Unlike everyone else who saw him run into a stage prop at the Tony Awards, Bret Michaels is not happy about what happened–and he feels that the award show and host Neil Patrick Harris didn’t take his injury seriously. Hard…
We admittedly know very little about them here in the office (sorry, fellas), but, in black metal circles, it seems Plano-based black metal band ABSU are nothing to shake a stick at. Hell, some might even call them “pioneers” of the genre. Some, including Pitchfork to be precise, which, early…
Like VEGA before her, St. Vincent is now the feature of some ABC News adoration, as the network continues to make a strong push to up its indie cred and web presence. Earlier this week, ABC’s music-centric web feature, “Amplified”, debuted this five-minute clip, in which host Dan Harris met…
Yet again, Clint Barlow went down to City Hall all dressed up, only to find out that, well, it wasn’t really necessary. That’s because it took “all of three minutes” for the Dallas City Council to approve the specific use permit for Trees, which the Dallas Plan Commission unanimously OK’d…
If you need some reassurance that the massive amount of hype the Denton music scene has earned in recent years has merit, well, just listen to any of the four Denton Deluxe compilation albums. The discs deliver track after track of stellar songs by a bevy of diverse acts. And…
Last week, Live Nation, the national concert booking and promoting conglomerate that books to Superpages.com Center and other large venues throughout the region, offered up the concert-going public what it thought would be a nice little respite to the recession: One day (Wednesday) in which service fees were scrapped on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… In the day of instant access to anything-and-everything via the interweb musicians can’t seem to keep anything under lock and key anymore. The video for Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle” has hit the web waaay early. Good thing it’s…
If you ignore a brief dalliance from back in 1989, then, yes, today sees the official release of Rhett Miller’s third solo record, a self-titled affair that’s been getting the Old 97’s frontman a whole lot of early attention from outlets like Pitchfork and Billboard, among others–including Magnet magazine, which,…
Well, we asked for it (OK, passively), and now we’ve got it (Yay!): Come this fall, the 91.7 frequency on your FM dial will be all music, all the time. The folks at KERA just sent out a press release announcing that their organization has purchased the frequency and has…
Recently spoke with Eric Landrum, program director of The Indie-verse, the HD radio station that came to town just about a year ago, looking to cater to the more learned area music fans of the region, after flicking on an HD tuner to 105.3-2 FM (the HD frequency the station…
