Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 27, 2009…Looks like Fall Out Boy’s band members are finding plenty to keep themselves busy during their hiatus. Guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have started metal band Damned Things.The big metal voice in a tiny body, Ronnie James…
Paul Levatino just sent word that Dallas hip-hop goddess Erykah Badu will make a special appearance Saturday at Yo Gabba Gabba! Live at Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco.”I love this show,” Badu said via press release, “especially because it uses 808 drums sounds to teach kids the alphabet and numbers…
Start stocking up on Guinness now, because it’s going to be pretty hard to find come March. Flogging Molly and the band’s fans will probably put a pretty good dent in the supply when the L.A. Celtic-influenced punk band comes to the House of Blues Tuesday, February 9. The city’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 25, 2009…Looks like The Strokes are heading back into the studio. According to it’s creepy bass player anyway.Apparently Pete Doherty’s heart stopped while he was hospitalized last month… it’s amazing what the body will do when subjected to every drug…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 24, 2009…Adam Lambert is a bit miffed that his lip-lock with his male keyboardist and head shoving of a male back-up dancer into his crotch was edited out of the west coast feed of last night’s American Music Awards. Good…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 23, 2009…A tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus’ tour group overturned as it headed to Richmond on Friday.Interpol is said to head back to its sonic roots on its new album. Thank you, God.Gibson Guitars has been accused of smuggling…
Not sure how we missed this when it was published back in October, but allow us to point you in the direction of a pretty fascinating blog post by the FADER–one which explores the backstory behind the moderate local D-Town Boogie track “Mr. Hit Dat Hoe.”Among the fun facts to…
A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that the City of Sherman has at least a little musical history–well more than I was aware, at least–as the hometown of Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame saxophone player Buddy Tate and country music icon Buck Owens.But, the Owens-hosted Hee Haw and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 20, 2009…It doesn’t take The Dead Weather long to make records. The band just released its first album and it’s already ready to release a new one. It didn’t take Jay Reatard’s former band to find gainful employ… they have…
It was a couple weeks back now that KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge announced the lineup for the 2009 version of its annual How The Edge Stole Christmas show. And, uh, you’ll have to pardon us for missing the announcement when it first came to pass. For pretty obvious reasons. More…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, November 19, 2009…Either Weezy is a big fan of Gossip Girl or he will collaborate with anyone: He dropped some rhymes on Leighton Meester’s album. Pete Wentz tells Kerrang! magazine Fall Out Boy is going to take an indefinite break. So…
Because it’s OK to kill three birds with one stone…Check the above video, posted to Stereogum this morning, of St. Vincent performing her song “The Party” in Basel, Switzerland, with a little help from her European tourmate, Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear. It’s an impressive take–for a few reasons, not…
Canadian indie rock band Moneen has sometimes been tagged as an emo outfit–but such a descriptor hasn’t necessarily rankled the five guys who make up the band. Founding member Kenny Bridges says he’s more worried about Moneen actually making it to the venue and not losing any more members. He…
Ever notice how those angel sculptures on the exterior of Bass Hall sorta look like they’re chiefing on enormous brass one-hitters? No? Well, here’s betting that Cheech and Chong will make that observation when they perform at the Fort Worth performing arts hall Friday, April 30, 2010. The dope duo…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, November 18, 2009…Flava Flav (world’s greatest hype man) owes around $183,000 in back taxes. I wonder how much he could get for selling his viking hat?Jay-Z canceled the rest of his U.S. tour because of “unforeseen scheduling conflicts.” What’s unforeseen when…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, November 17, 2009…George Strait is set to star in the kinda-sequel to his movie Pure Country. I hope he’s taken some acting lessons since then, geez.Ken Ober has passed away. I spent many an afternoon as a young teen watching him…
Here’s a fun item to end the day on: You can thank a cast of local musicians for the above submission to this year’s Doritos Crash The Super Bowl competition. The clip was directed by History at Our Disposal frontman Jason Reimer and stars Dove Hunter’s Jayson Wortham as the…
A new video from Denton ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers has made its way online today, set to the lead single, “DissDissDissKissKissKiss” from the band’s catchy-as-hell, March-released album, Underneath The Owl. Give it a watch (and keep an eye out for a certain area bass player in there, too).Oh, and since…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 16, 2009…Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance has confirmed that his band’s new album will be “100 percent concept free.”Former super-duo The Judds will reunite in 2010. Dan Deacon and his glasses have canceled the rest of his tour because…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 13, 2009…Snoop Dogg, Diplo, DJ Quik, Soulja Boy and Mayer Hawthorne may be the world’s latest supergroup. But, aren’t Snoop and Quik on opposite ends of the the L.A. gang spectrum? I wonder how that will work out?Gucci Mane has…
I know, I know. You’ve had it with daily St. Vincent and Neon Indian updates. All that has to happen now is for St. Vincent to cover “Ice Cream Paint Job” and have Alan Palomo remix it, at which point DC9 would be thrown into a Boolean loop from which…
DFW’s own Titanmoon just arrived home from its first international tour–a whirlwind trip that took the band through Japan, Pakistan and Dubai and found the band being treated like heroes. And though a couple of bombings canceled a couple of shows, the indie rock outfit has nothing but great stories…
