Yet again, Clint Barlow went down to City Hall all dressed up, only to find out that, well, it wasn’t really necessary. That’s because it took “all of three minutes” for the Dallas City Council to approve the specific use permit for Trees, which the Dallas Plan Commission unanimously OK’d…
If you need some reassurance that the massive amount of hype the Denton music scene has earned in recent years has merit, well, just listen to any of the four Denton Deluxe compilation albums. The discs deliver track after track of stellar songs by a bevy of diverse acts. And…
Last week, Live Nation, the national concert booking and promoting conglomerate that books to Superpages.com Center and other large venues throughout the region, offered up the concert-going public what it thought would be a nice little respite to the recession: One day (Wednesday) in which service fees were scrapped on…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… In the day of instant access to anything-and-everything via the interweb musicians can’t seem to keep anything under lock and key anymore. The video for Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle” has hit the web waaay early. Good thing it’s…
If you ignore a brief dalliance from back in 1989, then, yes, today sees the official release of Rhett Miller’s third solo record, a self-titled affair that’s been getting the Old 97’s frontman a whole lot of early attention from outlets like Pitchfork and Billboard, among others–including Magnet magazine, which,…
Well, we asked for it (OK, passively), and now we’ve got it (Yay!): Come this fall, the 91.7 frequency on your FM dial will be all music, all the time. The folks at KERA just sent out a press release announcing that their organization has purchased the frequency and has…
Recently spoke with Eric Landrum, program director of The Indie-verse, the HD radio station that came to town just about a year ago, looking to cater to the more learned area music fans of the region, after flicking on an HD tuner to 105.3-2 FM (the HD frequency the station…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 9, 2009…Jay-Z has premiered his new song “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)”… and he’s already catching flack for it. I can’t imagine why.Singer Jeff Hanson died at his St. Paul home.Alice In Chains’ first record in 10 years will be released…
Check out even more photos in our slideshow here.Two days after George Strait closed out the biggest show on the planet, there’s still trash from the show under the seats of Cowboys Stadium–and construction crews wrapping up work on the building–but, on the arena floor, it’s all about prepping for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 8, 2009…Lil’ Wayne has such a affinity for Kobe Bryant that he’s penned a song about him called, shockingly, “Kobe Bryant.” Word is it’s the best song ever about a once-alleged rapist.I guess Rihanna has officially moved on–she’s writing a…
If you roll your mouse over the above embedded flash player, you’ll see that, right there, in the middle of page 46 of this month’s URB magazine, there’s a little wrap-up on Dallas’ own Damaged Good$ who made the cut in the magazine’s 15th annual “Next 100” feature on up-and-coming…
Since Disney teen star Selena Gomez is apparently all about promoting local produce (seen her Borden milk commercials yet?), I guess we can return the favor and mention this: The Grand Prairie native has joined forces with her fellow Dallas suburbanites in Forever the Sickest Kids to record a remix…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 5, 2009… Middle-age moms everywhere have reason to say “hell to the yes” today: Whitney Houston will release her long-awaited comeback album in September. Time to put down your squeeze box: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 4, 2009… It seems like Trent Reznor is turning into the alt-rock’s grumpy old man. First he bashed Chris Cornell’s new solo album, then he bashed Prince and Weezer, and now he’s going after his former protege Marilyn Manson. Mr…
It would seem that one of our own is doing quite well on the national scene. Jon Cunningham, aka Corn Mo, and his band, .357 Lover, are about to release their second EP, followed by a full-length effort coming in August. That full-length will be called Diorama of the Golden Lion. .357…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 3, 2009… A writer for the MTV Movie Awards has confirmed that the Bruno ass-in-Eminem’s-face stunt was staged. Noooooo! MTV would never script any show they produce! Two of hip-hop’s biggest up-and-comers are joining forces on a joint tour this…
A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began–somewhat quietly, I admit. Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were…
Someone at MTV sure must like Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance, ’cause, on Sunday night, the fellas in the band saw not one, but a whopping two songs played on the season finale of the channel’s not-quite-reality show, The Hills: “Out of My Hands,” which got some early airplay in…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 2, 2009… Pink thinks Kanye West is a “waste of skin” because he likes fur. Along with independent music retailers, Pearl Jam is going to let Target be the official point-of-purchase for its upcoming release. Way to fight the man, boys…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 1, 2009… In a moment of clarity, Ozzy Osbourne realized he’s not receiving his proper share of Black Sabbath royalties. So, he’s suing Tony Iommi. Disgraced producer Phil Spector received a sentence of 19 years to life for the murder…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 29, 2009… The latest installment of Dr Pepper’s “Trust Me I’m A Doctor” campaign may be the only time we will get to hear anything off of Dr. Dre’s long in-the-works Detox… for now. It’s always nice to see how…
Over the next few months, Erykah Badu will slowly but surely move her home recording studio–filled with a blend of cutting edge and vintage hardware and equipment–from its current home location to its future one within the confines of the South Side on Lamar building just south of downtown. The…
