To this day, the mere mention of the term “Seattle Band” conjures up images of flannel and angst-fueled grunge more than it does the harmonic, beard-enrobed folk-rock that now serves as the rain-drenched city’s chief musical export. But while the coffee-stained town seems to churn out top-notch folk rock and…
No, Mark Abuzzahab, the new program director at KXT-91.7 FM (and their very first, by the way), isn’t here yet. Won’t be for a few more weeks. He’s still down in Austin, finishing up his stint as the music director at KGSR-93.3 FM Radio Austin. Then the Minneapolis native will…
Less than a year ago, we told the tale of Frisco’s burgeoning music scene. But it seems that, as quickly as it appeared, the Frisco scene has now officially burned out. At least for now. Matthew Harber of Wellhouse Co., the entity behind Frisco’s musical growth, confirmed to DC9 yesterday…
Well, the big announcement came yesterday — that Apple would be getting into cloud technology, rendering all of its current devices compatible with new iCloud service. With CEO Steve Jobs at the helm, Apple hopes the announcement will drastically change how Mac users store their information. In the case of…
David Johansen’s career is the entertainment equivalent of a patchwork quilt. The New York Dolls’ first incarnation, after all, lasted just a few years. After dissolving that first time, Johansen recorded several solo albums, then began an acting career. (Remember the cabbie ghost of Christmas present in Scrooged? That’s him.) …
Motley Crue are a love-or-hate type of deal. From their look to their music, everything about them gets a reaction. And, for 30 years now, the Crue has refused to go away, still living as loudly as they play. Guitarist Mick Mars is known as the quiet, stoic member of…
It’s coming: This weekend, in a video starring Dallas’ Own Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), the Insane Clown Posse announced the lineup for its annual Gathering of The Juggalos event, which this year will run August 11 – 14 in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.What’s kind of crazy, though, is that, aside…
So, this morning, Joe Jonas, after months of threatening to do so, released the lead single off his upcoming full-length album, which is pertinent news to us here in Dallas because, like seemingly every other Disney-backed teen star of the post-millennium, the middle JoBro’s family calls the Dallas area home…
Hope Adele’s break-up songs have helped y’all learn how to cope with loss, because this one might hurt a little bit: After already having canceled five shows (Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland) due to problems with laryngitis, the singer, who is straight destroying the Billboard charts these days,…
From his home in New York, singer-songwriter Chip Taylor sounds invigorated. At 71, the guy could easily sit back and cash in on his past accomplishments. Or, he could just live off the family name. After all, this is the guy who wrote “Wild Thing,” one of the all-time classic…
Almost two years after the announcement of its inception, a year and a half after its uh, let’s say perplexing launch, a good year after it started openly looking for a program director and, oh, six months or so after the shitstorm that was #kxtfail, it seems that the folks…
Chances are, you probably haven’t heard of R. Stevie Moore. And, yes, that’s something of a disgrace. Since 1968, the dude has recorded over 400 albums worth of material, all in his bedroom, most on cassette and CD-R. For the most part, it’s great, lo-fi stuff, running the gamut from…
Two years after the release of her sophomore (and breakout) album, Actor, the Dallas-born guitar heroine Annie Clark, who performs hauntingly gorgeous music under the name of St. Vincent, has just announced that her third full-length album, Strange Mercy, will be released via the 4AD label on September 13. As…
Tower Records is a record store chain that once had a shop in Dallas. Last we checked, the old building where it was housed was going to be turned into an appliance store, although nothing of the sort has happened yet. (But, for what it’s worth, Wilonsky swears he saw…
Back in April, a big reveal from fast-rising Dallas-based producer and genuine good dude Symbolyc One: In the wake of blowing the eff up thanks to his production work on Kanye West’s “Power,” he had a couple more gigs lined up with Kanye and a few other artists you may…
Jennie Kelley has been a member of the choir in Dallas’ super-happy Polyphonic Spree collective since its Beginning Stages…, but, these days, music is taking a backseat to another passion of hers. After spending the past few years touring with the Spree, Kelley decided to quit her day job in…
It’s time for your weekly local music grab bag, y’all…..
Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were two years…
For the past few years, Cage the Elephant has been on a classic music industry roller coaster ride. Formed in Bowling Green five years ago, the band was signed in 2007 by the UK-based Relentless Records on the strength of an existing catalog of unreleased songs and wild live performances…
As the leader of the geeky power trio Primus, Les Claypool somehow managed to turn his love of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart into a tangible career in rock music. Indeed: For the better part of three decades now, Les Claypool has stood tall as one of the strangest ducks…
Like The New York Times and Paste magazine before them, it looks like the folks at Southern Living magazine have gone and discovered Denton — or, as they and everyone else says when first writing about the college town, “maybe the next Austin!”Ugh.At least the folks at Southern Living had…
This weekend, when Ishi performs its as-scheduled set at the Double Wide on Sunday night, fans will no doubt notice something missing: Earlier this week vocalist Taylor Rea and guitarist Rob Bastien announced that they’re no longer in the massively popular area band, instead choosing to forge forward with their…
