New York Magazine, for reasons we’re not wholly aware of, went ahead and caught up with Erykah Badu this week, just to find out why she’s so goddamn funk — a fair question, always, I guess.In response, Badu created the magazine a playlist of her favorite funky jams — 14…
Stefon Alexander, better known by his stage name P.O.S., is a rapper, singer and founding member of the hip-hop collective known as Doomtree. And that nine member group of MCs, producers and DJs is currently out on tour together for the first time. Featuring the talents of P.O.S., Dessa, Cecil…
Speaking of promising local hip-hop upstarts who are taking their sweet time releasing their next album, in-house DC9 favorite A.Dd+ is in the throes of a fundraising effort so it can finally get around to releasing its long-anticipated Picnic-produced debut full-length, When Pigs Fly. And, like Green River Ordinance and…
The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis’ mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to the…
It’s been years since Josh T. Pearson’s so-called heyday, when Lift To Experience’s blistering guitar assault overwhelmed the eardrums of concert-goers and his scarecrow-like frame stood nearly as tall as the ceilings of area clubs.There are many tall tales of what he’s done since then, living off of the legend…
After closing its doors last August, the DIY show promoters who lived and hosted events at 1207 Annex Ave. promised that their name would live on. And, sure enough, it pretty much has, thanks to shows popping up here and there on area concert calendars under the heading of “The…
The news came down yesterday: DJ Merritt, who has helmed the long-running and much-revered three-hour, Saturday night, EDM-focused show “Edgeclub” on KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge since 1994, was told that last Saturday night’s episode of the show will be its last.”There was no warning,” says Merritt, who just this year…
Over on Unfair Park moments ago, Big Bucks Burnett announced, at long last, that he’s finally found a home for his Eight Track Museum. Long story short: Merry Christmas, Deep Ellum! Literally. Opening day’s December 25. Somewhere on Commerce Street. He ain’t saying exactly where. Not for a couple more…
Local filmmaker Joe Scott wants to put Dallas music in the movies. No, really.”I want people to be able to see all these great Dallas bands and, for that matter, venues up on the big screen all over the country,” he says.He’s committed to it, too: About this time last…
We now have two new factors in our ongoing “Demi Lovato vs. Selena Gomez: Who’s Hotter?” discussion: party ability and fighting ability.According to the Huffington Post, which reported last week that the 18-year-old Disney starlet Lovato entered into rehab for “emotional and physical issues,” there’s plenty of new evidence to…
Perhaps you, like the rest of us, had questions when watching Sarah Jaffe’s beautiful, if somewhat confusing, debut music video for her song “Clementine.” Questions like, say…”Hey, where was this shot anyway?””Why is Sarah’s nose bleeding at the end?””Is that Will Johnson?””Wouldn’t it be funny if Glen Farris fell during…
After a fairly crazy couple of years (and one gnarly van crash) since the 2007 release of their breakthrough, Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True, Sulphur Springs’ Fair to Midland has finally announced details about its upcoming fourth full-length release — and a new…
Mike Herrera is best known as the vocalist and bassist for MxPx, a punk rock act from Bremerton, Washington, that gained a substantial following in the mid-’90s. Although each member of MxPx was a Christian, the band never identified itself as a Christian punk band, and, after eight solid efforts…
Best Coast isn’t Bethany Cosentino’s first foray into music — before starting her most recent project, the 23-year-old flirted with the major label circuit when her teenage singer-songwriter material caught their ears, and, a few years later, she started Pocahaunted, which has released a whole slew of albums since forming…
You may have not heard of New Jersey’s Bosco Delray yet, but if the early buzz is a signal of things to come, you will certainly know the guy soon. Mixing early rock and roll (Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry) with dancehall and hip-hop, Delrey is plying his craft in…
Well, today is the day some of you have been waiting for. It’s the last Today In Music News post. I know, I know.It’s been a long and winding road of the best news stories the interweb has to offer. And it’s over now.But don’t worry your pretty little head…
NX35 is dead.After months of hints, rumors and premature tweets, the Denton-based music festival has formally announced its name change to 35 Conferette.The festival, which started in Austin as a day-party to celebrate and showcase Denton bands during SXSW, became a North Texas institution three years ago in an effort…
Garland-raised country starlet LeAnn Rimes is only 28, but already, she’s lived a life–a full half of it, even, since she became the first country act to win a Best New Artist Grammy in 1997 as just a 14-year-old. In more recent years, her personal life has become tabloid fodder–which,…
Chris PhelpsAfter an eight-year run at Warner Bros., Tyler’s Eisley will now call Equal Vision Records home.Today, after a two-year battle with Warner Bros. Records, Eisley, the Tyler-based, indie rock family band, is moving forward with plans to release their long-awaited third record. And, for the first time in their…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 4, 2010…It turns out the split of Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish may have been caused by Tish doin’ the deed with Bret Michaels. Maybe she just wanted a guy who had a career, ya know?Damon Albarn just…
Some two months after the initial announcement that City Tavern owner Josh Florence and a crew of investors had signed a lease on Club Dada and hoped to have the venue open near Halloween, the venue’s opening has been delayed due to what Florence calls “red tape” and misinformation received…
The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts–from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as “the next Nirvana” to then following his girlfriend to New York where he’d end up…
