Get Your Mind In The Gutterth

Gutterth’s Compilation One will finally be available tomorrow, July 23. You can take a peek at the artists and songs included on the two-CD compilation at this page on Gutterth’s site. It’s packed with great bands and solo acts–Emil Rapstine, The Great Tyrant and MOM, to name a few—along with…

Good Friday: DOMA Showcase Weekend Edition

So, we’ve told you about a bunch of shows this weekend. There are some great ones tonight (the Hieroglyphics show at the Granada, the London Nights party at minc ), Saturday (Portugal. The Man and Facing New York at House of Blues) and Sunday (Republic Tigers at Hailey’s, Todd Rundgren…

Shiny Happy News From Around The Edges

Shiny Around The Edges has a great new track up on its MySpace page: a live version of “I Hover Above You”, recorded at Sons of Hermann Hall back in February. But even better than the live version is the news that you’ll soon be able to hear the studio…

DOMA XX: Showcase Merchandise Infomation

So, by now, you should know all about Saturday night’s DOMA showcase lineup. And you should also know that, ahem, despite what a certain free daily pick-up around town wrote in its paper today, wristbands (available at the doors to all five venues) will only run you $5. You can…

Sorta Offers A Taste Of Its Upcoming Release On Myspace Stream

So I meant to post this earlier in the day but, alas, we were facing server problems all morning long. Hence the fact that all of our posts today came after three o’clock this afternoon. Sorry about that. Anyway… Looks like the new Sorta disc–the posthumous Carter Albrecht release and…

Has Meat Loaf Gone Bad? The Brits, Resoundingly, Say ‘Yes.’

Like a bat outta hell. At a concert in the United Kingdom last night, Meat Loaf apparently…well…OK, according to this report, he really sucked. Like really sucked. Like streams of cars were seen leaving the show only minutes after it started. Read this: “Responding to previous stories and taking advantage…

In Case You Missed Centro-Matic Playing Around Town Recently…

Will Johnson, at the Granada a few weeks back. (Brian Harkin) Speaking of Dan’s Silverleaf, the Captain’s Dead music blog–which, really, is about as close as there is to a Centro-matic-specific blog out there–has a nice little live recording from Centro-matic’s performance at Dan’s that took place a few weeks…

Have You Seen This Man? You Might At Dan’s Silverleaf Tonight…

Is Brian Lane back in town for an impromptu Slobberbone reunion? 6’ 7” Slobberbone bassist Brian Lane was sighted last weekend taking in an American Werewolf Academy show at the Barley House. Kind of hard to miss him, really. And while it’s not surprising that the current Florida resident would…

Salim Nourallah Is Big In Fake Australian Advertising, Mate

People in office jobs find ways to make cubicle dwelling tolerable. Humble three-wall enclosures often feature weird toys, movie/music posters and photos of good times had elsewhere. Lulls in activity often result in the sending of YouTube videos, cute photos of animals that are photoshopped and links…like this one I…

DOMA XX: The Awards Show Ceremony Lineup Revealed!

Someone asked about this earlier today…so, sure, why the hell not? Let’s announce the lineup for our Tuesday, July 22, awards show ceremony at the Granada Theater right now! Well, OK, how about after the jump? Yeah? Cool. LET’S DO THIS!…

Murry Hammond’s Solo CD Finally Gets National Release

You might recall a while back when I reviewed I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way, Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond’s fine solo debut. I, like a lot of other folks, went ga ga over the album’s potent mix of old school religion and psychedelic folk/pop…

Secret Machines Announce Upcoming Album Details

In an interview posted earlier this week to Billboard’s Web site, Brandon Curtis, frontman for former Dallas act Secret Machines, discusses his band’s new record label (World’s Fair instead of Reprise), new record (currently set for an October release) and new “hard to describe” sound. He also discusses continuing on…

DOMA XX: The Showcase Lineup

On Saturday, July 19, we’re gonna be taking over a large chunk of Lowest Greenville to bring you 31 of the best acts in town–all of which are nominated somewhere in our ballot for this year’s 20th anniversary awards. This isn’t our awards show; that’s happening three days later at…