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…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 23, 2009… Duffy has been named the new face of Diet Coke. If only Amy Winehouse could’ve kept her shit together… It must suck to have an eagerly awaited album coming out: Both U2’s new album, No Line On The Horizon, and Kelly…
Idol just announced the release date for Dallas punky power trio Here Holy Spain’s debut CD, Manic, as April 7, though you don’t have to wait until then to hear it. The album is streaming on the band’s Last.FM site, and you can cop an advance copy through iTunes as…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 20, 2009… Remember that guy J.D. Fortune who won Rockstar: INXS? Me neither. But, he’s now homeless, living in his pick-up and a recovering cocaine addict. Good on Kid Rock for combining his two favorite things: beer and American badassery. He…
A lot of you may be asking yourself–just as I just asked myself–what in hell’s name an Old Settler’s Music Festival is. But before getting dismissive about anything not called SXSW, you might want to check out the line up for this shindig.Over a four-day period (April 16-19), this festival…
Since we already mentioned the Dallas Symphony Orchestra this morning (albeit tangentially), I’d say that this is as appropriate a time as any to spread word of the DSO’s 2009-2010 pops lineup, which was announced earlier this week.Launching in August, the schedule kicks off with Motown’s The Contours and is…
Must be nice to be a Booker T. Washington High School student. Especially today, as the kids over at the arts magnet on Routh Street, are getting quite the treat: a live performance and a lesson from Branford Marsalis. The 48-year-old Marsalis, who along with his brothers, is about as…
4AD has announced the release date of St. Vincent’s sophomore release, Actor, and, as the header to this post implies, we can expect the disc about two and a half months from now. The disc, produced here in Dallas by The Paper Chase’s John Congleton, also features North Texas musicians…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 19, 2009… If you’re going to SXSW, you may want to check out the worlds most ironic supergroup–Tinted Windows. The band includes ex-Smashing Pumpkin James Iha, the middle Hanson (Taylor), Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick and Fountains of Wayne…
Just in case you happened to be flipping ‘cross the radio dial yesterday or today and you stopped on Movin’ 107.5 (because you were on your way to your pilates class) but, instead of “Hot N Cold”, you heard a strange foreign language coming out of your speakers (it’s called…
Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a…
