Don’t know if he’s going to be keeping this up all season long, but thus far into the NFL season, Fort Worth resident Daniel Hunter (aka PlayRadioPlay) has been keeping up a pretty cool tradition, offering his Myspace friends a new, free download on his page as a mini-celebration each…
You won’t see Dallas rapper Pikahsso on the poster for this year’s ACL Fest, but, still you can rest assured that he’ll be there, on stage, performing alongside fellow Texas hip-hop mainstay Bavu Blakes as the two perform their collaborative song “Smiley Faces” on stage on Saturday. And that’s good…
We’ve already given you loads of information about Oso Closo’s gig at the Dallas Theater Center. Then, of course, there was Pete’s glowing review of the production. But, tonight, the Denton-based rock outfit is taking a break from its insanely busy schedule performing in The Who’s Tommy for a free…
Looks like Astronautalis has converted another fan. If you watched the Season 4 premiere of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia last night, you may have noticed a minor bit of redecorating to Charlie’s shithole apartment. Seems Charlie is fan of Dallas Observer Music Award-winning rapper Astronautalis. That, or he just…
A Friend o’ DC9 passed along a link to the above video this morning. And, yes, that’s the Toadies covering The Cure. “A Forest”, in fact. And, yep, it’s available for download via iTunes. In case ya dig it. –Pete Freedman…
Wail on, wailer. In order to get primed for her appearance at House of Blues this weekend, I just got through listening to Sing You Sinners, Erin McKeown’s lively collection of jazz standards from the 1930s and ’50s. That set came out last year, but I haven’t had a chance…
Three ladies supporting lady parts. Tomorrow night at Opening Bell Coffee, three local musicians and community activists–Annie Benjamin, Lara Lenhoff and Tania Rivas–will each perform a set in memory of comedienne Gilda Radner as part of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Proceeds of the show go directly to Gilda’s Club of…
The year was 1982. The place was Studio D, a warehouse on Main Street. This is one of the only known photos of The Holy, taken sometime in October of ‘82 when the band was opening for Social Unrest. Ahhhh, those punk rock days of youth. Actually, various members of…
Not too long after discovering (OK, with some help) that Matthew JC and the Allstars, was the new favorite band of all CBS 11 employees comes this: Oak Cliff-based blues band Bona Fide Blues is a finalist in Advertising Week’s “Battle of the Ad Bands.” The band, made up of…
Normally, I’d gloss over a cancellation like this, but c’mon, that joke was too easy to pass up. Per the press release: “Live Nation has announced that due to complications from Hurricane Ike, this Saturday’s 3 Doors Down concert featuring Hinder, Finger Eleven and American Bang at The Superpages.com Center…
So, New Monsoon hits the Granada tonight…is it too soon for an Ike joke? Actually, don’t answer that. (Jim Anderson) Spoke with the publicist for San Francisco-based jam band New Monsoon about two weeks ago, and she was kind enough to let us know that the band would be taping…
Cool video, right? That’s from These Are Powers, the Brooklyn-based band headlining the Parade of Flesh show at the Lounge tonight that Daniel Rodrigue wrote about for this past week’s paper. And, if you’re not headed to the Ratatat show at the Granada tonight, really, you could do much, much…
Many thanks to the folk’s over at Marc Ecko’s somewhat new magazine, Complex, for cluing us into the sure-to-be most embarrassing act to come out of the DFW area in some time. In all sincerity. Let’s meet him, shall we?…
Ain’t a stain on Big Tuck. Or the girls either, for that matter. This time, as a few other area blogs have already pointed out, it’s The Fader who checks in on the topic, giving ’bout 2,000 words or so to the cause. For the most part, it’s just a…
So, uh, Louis XIV, huh? Guess so… When’s The Reverend playing? Maybe you’re like me, and maybe you check Pollstar from time to time to see if there’s any shows coming through town that you might’ve missed. And maybe, a few weeks back you saw that Louis XIV was scheduled…
Speaking of concerts in Dallas in the ’70s, I just stumbled upon this live soundboard recording of a Led Zeppelin’s May 18, 1973 performance at the Memorial Auditorium–but you’ll need to be a bit torrent downloader to get it. I know nothing about this show, other than that John Paul…
…Gary Thrain, bass player for Uriah Heep, got electrocuted during a gig at SMU’s Moody Coliseum. According to this Web site, here’s how it went down… …bassist Gary Thain, ordinarily very calm and even subdued, suddenly started seemingly dancing and jiggling around wildly on the right side of the stage…
…so much so that it hired the area band to write a song for its new promo spot (or so says Uncle Barky). I’ve never seen/heard these guys before, so I have no idea if this information is accurate. But, at the very least, it’s pretty amusing. And it could…
Spoke with Chris Penn down at Good Records last week. I called wondering if anyone from that fine store was going to be attending the Noise in the Basement Indie Record Store Convention in Baltimore next week. “We’re part of a coalition called AIMS [Alliance of Independent Media Stores] and…
Wow. Busy day today, huh? Anyway, there’s lots going on this weekend. And, actually, we’ve told you about a lot of it already. Tonight, there’s Grandmaster Flash spinning at Ghostbar, the Street Dogs show at House of Blues and the Dr. Dog show at Lola’s in Forth Worth. On Saturday,…
The Old 97’s were seemingly all the rage this past summer on NPR after the release of the Blame It On Gravity album, which was released way back in May (wow, seems like years ago, huh?). Not once, but twice, frontman Rhett Miller and/or the 97’s were invited on the…
Street Dogs, who perform tonight at the House of Blues, are as Boston as the Red Sox, clam chowdah and irritating accents. The band was started by former Dropkick Murphys singer Mike McColgan, who left his former Celt-punk band to be a Boston firefighter but eventually decided to return to…
