Airline: Now Free To Move About The Cable Airwaves

The good news just keeps rolling in for Airline: After recently earning a spot to play in the upcoming RedGorilla Fest, the band has just now announced that has also inked a licensing deal with MTV, The Oxygen Network and E! to have their music used on several shows for…

NX35 Conferette To Stay Home This Year

Since 2005, NX35 events have showcased Denton bands at the massive South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Not this year, though. Chris Flemmons’ brainchild is staying squarely in the 940 this March, with four days of music planned for 12 venues in the four-block area surrounding the Courthouse Square…

Speaking Of That “Faith-Inspired” Year-End List…

…that we mentioned just one post ago. There’s something very interesting about this list: It’s based on a pretty loose definition of “faith-inspired”. Like very loose. Like, enough so that bands like Delta Spirit, Bodies of Water, The Mae Shi, Cloud Cult and Cold War Kids make the Top 50…

New Robert Earl Keen Tribute CD Features Several Locals

Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen hits the streets in a couple of weeks, and the double disk set features a handful of talented local artists, including Max Stalling, one of the area’s best country singer/songwriters (who takes on “No Kinda Dancer,” quite possibly Keen’s most renowned number,…

Matthew and The Arrogant Sea Gets Some More Love…

Barn sides are the new brick walls. (Trevor Paulhus)Nope, we’re definitely not the only ones digging MATAS’ Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian disc. Just spotted this little bit o’ love today: AWMusic, the Toronto-based blog that gave Forever the Sickest Kids some love in its year-end lists, has…

Could Big Chief Be The Superstar The D-Town Boogie Needs?

Over on the dfwhiphop.com forums today, there’s some doom-and-gloom talk about the state of Dallas hip-hop. Take it with a grain of salt, though: It’s largely coming from hip-hop artists, producers and DJs who sit (proudly, mind you), outside of the thriving D-Town Boogie scene. And, yes, I wrote “thriving”…

The Gourds’ Kevin Russell Doesn’t Understand Why People Like His Music Or Why He Has To Share The Spotlight With The Rest Of His Band. (Only He’s Not As Sensational About It.)

Tomorrow evening at The Granada Theater, The Gourds will perform its annual night-before-New Year’s Eve concert in Dallas. Seems the band likes playing its hometown of Austin on December 31st, so we get the night before. Either way is fine with me because, even after fourteen years, The Gourds are…

Is New Amerykah Pt. 1 The ‘Token Urban Album’ Of ’08?

Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we’re doing in this upcoming week’s paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of ’08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New…