So there’s this three-day music festival of sorts happening next month in Forth Worth called, fittingly, the Fort Worth MusicFest. And it’s the fest’s third annual go-’round. And it helps raise money for college scholarships for area kids. And it takes place August 21-23, costing $15 per general admission ticket…
Pitchfork’s Stuart Berman reviewed Austin-by-way-of-Dallas garage rockers The Strange Boys’ The Strange Boys And Girls Club today, eventually giving the album a not-too-shabby 7.1 after establishing the premise that garage-rock is and always has been the realm of social misfits.The review suggests that the Boys “never actually blow their tops,”…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 31, 2009… According to Phil Spector’s publicist he’s “not doing great” in prison. Really? I’d expect a 60-year-old super-producer to be having the time of his life. Of course, if he’s bored, he can always strike up a collabo with Charles Manson to pass…
Tonight marks the first night of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios’ “HEAVEN”, a new, themed DJ weekly for Denton-based DJs Bryce Isbell and Owen Paul Story (aka FUR and OPS, respectively). And tonight’s event, in addition to featuring Joey Liechty (aka Yeah Def) as a guest DJ, tonight’s event will also…
KKDA 104.5-FM afternoon drive-time jock DJ A Bay Bay is a pretty big deal–and not just locally, but, y’know, nationally. The former Shreveport DJ is, after all, the namesake behind the Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris’ 2007 massive 2007 single “A Bay Bay”. So, there’s that.Since moving to the Dallas airwaves…
Last week, I blogged about how one of my favorite local alt-country acts, The Texas Red Legs, were competing in the most recent installment of the Shiner Rising Star Contest.Well, lo and behold, Richard Davis and crew went out last week and won the contest’s first installment at Plano’s Love…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 30, 2009… Kanye West says he’s ready to replace Michael Jackson as the “King of Pop.” Too soon? Ex-Panic at the Disco members Ryan Ross and John Walker debuted their new band Young Veins on Myspace. Somewhere, tween girls and mall…
Yesterday, a new Neon Indian remix of The Silent League’s “Here’s a Star” started popping up across the great taste-making sites of these United States, further pushing the buzzworthiness of Alan Palomo’s most recent project. And, par for course with most of the music of this realm, the buzz on…
Tonight’s House of Blues show boasts a sweet little bill, featuring two of the hottest emcees of the moment, with Asher Roth, whose “I Love College” was almost unavoidable for a minute there, and Kid Cudi, whose “Day N Nite” rose in pretty much the same, if somewhat of less…
Speaking of Kelly Clarkson: Burleson’s own just can’t seem to catch a break. After notoriously getting into a spat with Clive Davis and her record label over her last album, My December, Clarkson is again having it out with her label, claiming that she never really wanted her new single,…
As expected, Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato’s debut disc, Don’t Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 29, 2009… Marilyn Manson has threatened music journalists who say things about his band he doesn’t like. Way to be a crybaby, Brian. Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill feels a bit overworked from all the touring he’s done lately…
Well, this is somewhat shocking. But true! The fine intellectuals over at National Public Radio have deemed the “Let’s Go Crazy” cover from Denton punk ex-pats The Riverboat Gamblers as their song of the day. No, really. Color us kind of shocked at this revelation. When the Spin magazine Purplish…
Haven’t yet heard this track from Dallas rapper Trai’D on local hip-hop radio, but it seems as likely as some of the other Dallas hip-hop jams of the summer to make it big, thanks in large part to its catchy–and no doubt female-placating–hook. And, sure, it helps that it’s called…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 28, 2009… The Get Up Kids have formally apologized for a nation full of eyeliner and tight jean-wearing emo kids. Thank you, it’s long overdue. Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been forced to cancel a…
Area hip-hop product Dorrough–and subject of my column in this week’s print product–is gonna be tough to avoid in the coming weeks as he prepares for his debut album’s August 4 release (moved back a week from last we heard). For one, all this week, the MTV Jams Fab Five…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 27, 2009… Nerds unite! A symphonic concert version of Star Wars will start in October. The symphony will play the classic John Williams score set to different video pieces of the beloved franchise. Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan thinks U.S. music…
Over at Pitchfork today, area sun-drenched retro-pop outfit Neon Indian (side project of Vega, your DOMA-winning Best Dance/Electronica Act) has been awarded a Best New Music tag for its song “Deadbeat Summer.”Writes reviewer Richard Armitage, while giving the song a score of 9 out of 10: “Here the project really…
The Waco-born and Booker T. Washington-educated two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has announced the details of his next album, a disc called Emergence, which will see the light of day a month from tomorrow, on August 25.The disc is a little bit of a departure for Hargrove, but…
The above clip is one man’s take–this “one man” in question being Pugs & Kelly producer Eric Marc–on Tuesday night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony. Warning: There is puke involved. (To be fair, I never promised it was gonna be a classy party…)But others are still talking DOMA in the…
Clearly, because it’s been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist’s song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but “very special episode” (this…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009… Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. “Eruption” just can’t play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds…y’know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you…
