Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, March 2, 2009… Proof that dudes who wear eyeliner and don’t go out during the day can be, like, totally awesome: The Cure are NME’s newest recipients of the “Godlike Genius” Award. Surprise! W. Axl Rose hates Slash and blames everyone…
Alright, so, “Dallas Week” just keeps on keeping on over on MTV.com and, since, as I wrote before, I don’t have MTVu in my cable package, well, I have no clue if these are running anywhere but online.The thing about these clips that get me is that they’re just so…
Your daily dose of music news for Friday, February 27, 2009…People are starting to stand up in defense of Chris Brown’s actions–like Kanye West and Bow Wow. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is still backing Rihanna.In Orem, Utah, tonight, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will share a stage for…
…and here’s another clip of Too $hort and Bun B talking about our fine city.In other news, Play-N-Skillz has announced that it will now be hosting a weekly radio show on K104 (KKDA-FM 104.5) every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Quite creatively, the Salinas brothers are calling their…
Seems my favorite garage/punk/alt-country band from Cowtown, The Cut*Off, is keeping busy with a plethora (love using that word) of activities. First off, the band hits Lakewood Bar and Grill this weekend on a bill with The Slack and Salim Nourallah. Then the Cut*Off will be on Channel 4’s Good…
Even though vocalist Robert Lowe is now the full time lead vocalist for legendary Swedish Metalheads Candlemass, his local quartet, Solitude Aeturnus, has a new CD coming out next month. Hour of Despair, a live effort that was issued on DVD last year, hits the streets in Europe on March…
Just caught up with Joel North of Sleep Whale, which, at this point is still probably best known as the ambient instrumental Denton act fromerly known as Mom, to talk about his band’s name change. What it boil’s down to, North says, is simply a matter of clarification for North…
Yep. You read that right. This weekend, Frank Campagna will unveil the next mural in his Deep Ellum music series–which includes the likes of Rhett Miller, The Reverend Horton Heat, Lisa Loeb and others. Right next to Deep Sushi, alongside images of Erykah Badu and Ronnie Dawson, will be the…
…and as the above video in MTV’s series of “Dallas Week” clips shows, they’re both recording with Play-N-Skillz, who’re currently working with Bun B on the final UGK album. But, aside from that, the video’s kinda short (pun definitely intended) on Dallas ties. The accompanying story, however, explains why Houston’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 26, 2009… Apparently DMX has decided not to follow the Lord. It seems he’d rather assault a police officer while he’s up in that system. He’s possibly looking at another eight years. After a very long hiatus, No Doubt is back on…
Today in Stockholm, Sweden-based bit torrent site The Pirate Bay entered the eighth day of its trial against International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which is accusing the site of possible copyright infringement, given its role as a host for torrent swapping. And it’s a fairly landmark trial in terms…
Yep, it’s true. The Grammy-winning Dallas native (who also has some punk leanings, remember) makes a guest appearance on Incredibad, the debut album from Andy Samberg and Crew’s The Lonely Island. Jones joins the comedians, who are best known for “Jizz In My Pants” and T-Pain collaboration “I’m On A…
I did. And it was essentially a four-minute reading of this piece we linked to yesterday.So if you missed it–and I won’t blame you if you did, seeing as how the times we were given were Eastern Time Zone and not Central Time Zone times–you can rest assured, knowing that…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 25, 2009… I guess Bono has forgotten he’s in U2. Because, suddenly, he says he’s afraid that Coldplay, The Killers and Kings of Leon are making better music than he is. Eminem’s potentially landmark lawsuit against Universal Music Group is going to trial. Em…
Maybe you’ve seen the above clip before? It’s the video for “Sleep Whale” from one of my favorite Denton bands, Mom. Nice, right? I think so. But nice enough to become the basis for the band’s entire future? Hmmm. Well, it looks that way, actually. According to the band’s blog…
Just heard from Play-N-Skillz’s publicist, Gina Torres, who checks in to let us know when we can catch “Dallas Week” formally–and not on the Internet, but on actual television, woot woot.Seems the clip, which features Play-N-Skillz “chaperoning” MTV throughout town, will air three times this week on MTV2 and like…
Looks like the fruits of MTV’s labor from a few weeks back, when the network followed D-Town production wunderkinds Play-N-Skillz around town for a party at plush and a dance instruction deal at Big T Bazaar are gonna be unraveling over on MTV.com all week–if the above promo, which features…
A few weeks back, we told you about a soon-to-be-released digital compilation album of (mostly) Denton-based acts that Shiny Around The Edges’ Michael and Jennifer Seman had assembled for the indie label Sounds Are Active. Well, 20 Bands/74.4 Minutes! is now up for download right here. In the accompanying liner…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 24, 2009… Big fan of Bret Michaels? Well, now you can own his old bed frame. Luckily for you, the quite possibly DNA-soiled linens and mattress are not included. Bruce Springsteen’s added another festival headlining show in his attempt to become…
While Zac Crain is geeking out over on Frontburner today about a Sex Pistols cover band playing the Longhorn Ballroom next month (my how the mighty have fallen…), he was able to touch on some interesting news that I’d missed earlier today…(Thanks, spam filter!)…namely, that the original lineup of Dallas…
Next month, metalheads and gamers will find themselves on the same playing field, thanks to the upcoming March 29 release of Guitar Hero: Metallica. But it’s not all Hetfield, Ulrigh, Hammett and Trujilo in the mix. Gamers will also be able to play as the great Lemmy (he is God,…
Y’know what’s a pretty fun game to play? Head on over to NX35’s site and check out its “Who’s Playing?” list. Then scroll through the names and see if you can tell which are locals and which aren’t. I bet you’ll get a couple wrong. I know I have.But one…
