Spin Doctoring: Help A Denton DJ Replace His Stolen Laptop

On Saturday night, while Ian Bangs was working at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios during The Boom Boom Box, Sarah Jaffe and Astronautalis show, someone broke into the local MC/DJ’s apartment and stole his MacBook–a laptop, by the way, that Bangs is still making payments on…

More Love For Play-N-Skillz’s Efforts On Lil Wayne’s Disc

MTV News’ hip-hop department has announced today it’s picks for the top 28 commercially release hip-hop singles of the year (which, I guess, means no remixes are eligible), and lookie there, right at No. 19, yep, that’s Lil Wayne’s “Got Money (feat. T-Pain)”, as produced by area hotshots Play-N-Skillz. We’ve…

Oh, And Tonight’s Ice Cube Show? Canceled.

  Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that’s the closest you’ll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar’s Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any…

More Holiday Gift Ideas: Music-Related Books

v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”;} One of the coolest things to come across my desk recently was And You Shall…

Another Local Gets A Grammy Nod

There’s another name to add to the list of local artists nominated for Grammys. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya is up for his work on Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago. The recording features Harth-Bedoya conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with soloist Wu Man (whose…

Centro-matic/South San Gabriel Enters The Year-End List Game

It ain’t Rolling Stone or Spin. Hell, it’s not Bona Fide Darling or Subservient Experiment either. But, either way, sure, I’ll mention it: The blog It’s Hard To Find A Friend has named Centro-matic and South San Gabriel’s split double-album Dual Hawks as its third favorite record of the year…

Make Up Your Mind: Toadies Performing “Possum Kingdom” At Possum Kingdom

Hey, remember that Dia De Los Toadies festival shindig back in August? Course you do–we gave away tickets. Anyway, Spin.com, a site that’s showed no shortage of love for the Toadies’ still-newish No Deliverance record, has another exclusive with the band today, this time of the band performing–get this–“Possum Kingdom”…

The AV Club Lists New Amerykah Pt. 1 As One Of The Year’s Best

It looks like Dallas musicians are making a big splash on “Best of 2008” lists all over the world wide internet…For instance, Will Johnson isn’t alone in doling out some praise for Eryka Badu’s 2008 release. Today, the Dallas native’s album New Amerykah, Pt. 1: The 4th World War comes…

New Venue Gives Reason For Journey To Pilot Point

Pilot Point, Tioga and Aubrey teenagers who need something to do besides football games and the occasional country fair will have another option for weekend entertainment starting this Saturday. The Journey Pilot Point, an all-ages venue at Journey Church (972 W. Walcott St.) is holding its grand opening at 8…

Download: My Brightest Diamond’s Daytrotter Sessions

Haven’t heard much from anyone who was at last Wednesday’s My Brightest Diamond show at the Granada–and I couldn’t make it myself, unfortunately. But, if that live set from one-time Dallas native Shara Worden (read Darryl Smyers’ story on her here) sounded anything like her phenomenal Daytrotter Sessions (which can…

A New Track From The Upcoming Marked Men Record Has Leaked

Good news first: The I Rock Cleveland blog has leaked the song “Ditch” from The Marked Men’s upcoming record Ghost, which is due out in January on Dirtnap Records. It’s a fierce little two minute jaunt through in-your-face, straight ahead punk.And now the bad news: The blog incorrectly calls the…