Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 10, 2009… It looks like the summer of 2009 is ready for the return of So-Cal punk. Not only is Blink-182 reuniting, but Green Day will be releasing its new album, 21st Century Breakdown, as well. Speaking of Blink-182, MTV wants you…
Beginning next week, improvisational/experimental musicians from around the world will be descending upon Texas and Louisiana for the multi-city No Idea Festival. The bulk of the action is taking place in San Antonio and Austin, but the festival includes one night in Cowtown, at Lola’s Saloon. Percussion pioneer Tatsuya Nakatani,…
Tickets for John Iskander’s inaugural (and awesomely named) post-SXSW showcase of bands stopping through Dallas on their way out of the Austin free-for-all officially went on sale this morning. Pre-order your tickets for the gig right here. But be warned: The show is at The lounge on Elm Street, as…
Cindy Chaffin of both the Life Outside the Bubble blog and the kinda-defunct-but-maybe-not Fine Line Live blog is spreading a nasty little rumor today that there’s an investor looking into re-opening Trees.But–please–don’t believe the hype. For what it’s worth, this is now, no joke, the fifth or sixth time I’ve…
[jump] FAMED COMIC AUTHOR HARVEY PEKAR CONFIRMED FOR NX35 PANEL SERIESA Conversation about Jazz with Harvey PekarDENTON – February 9, 2008 – The NX35 Music Conferette is proud to announce the addition of legendary comic writer and jazz critic Harvey Pekar to the March conference’s panel and conversation series. The…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, February 9, 2009… Axl Rose says the lack of press he did had nothing to do with why Chinese Democracy didn’t sell big, it’s the lack of marketing by the label. Oh, and W. Axl Rose also stated that he will never, ever, under any…
Feeling nostalgic for the good ol’ days of the Denton music scene, before the New York Times and Paste recognized the greatness of the Little D? The Emily Fowler branch of the Denton Public Library is displaying a collection of photos and memorabilia spanning 30 years of rock, alt-rock, indie-rock…
Now that Black Tie Dynasty has gone and broken up, those looking for some retro, new wave sounds might want to turn their attention to a relatively new local quartet, Inner Frequency. Surge, the band’s sophomore EP, hits the streets next week and the band is having at CD release…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, February 6, 2009… Etta James is not a happy woman these days. Not only is she suffering from complications from her gastric bypass surgery, but it seems she is now mad at Beyonce for singing “At Last”, James’ signature song, at…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 5, 2009… Lux Interior, lead singer for the seminal psychobilly band The Cramps, has died at age 60. Without The Cramps there probably wouldn’t be a Reverend Horton Heat, folks. Probably. Time to turn your amps up to 11. Yep,…
Word comes today that Polyphonic Spree strings player Rick Nelson (pictured right) has joined up with another musical outfit in addition to the Spree–this one called My Jerusalem–and, as the headline for this post details, it features a number of other experienced musicians, who’ve participated and contributed to projects as…
In last week’s print product, we spoke with M83 frontman, founder and brainchild Anthony Gonzalez about the major influences on his latest release, 2008’s stellar synth-heavy Saturdays=Youth.But what ran in the print issue was only a piece of the conversation–we also spoke with the Frenchman about his current role opening…
…and in true Badu fashion, it’s a little eccentric: Erykah’s new-born baby girl is name Mars Merkaba. Again, just like Badu’s labor, the announcement came last night via Badu’s Twitter account. What’s pretty fascinating about all this isn’t that Badu is necessarily using technology to its fullest, but rather how…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 4, 2009…Oy vey! Q-Tip has signed on as the co-star in an independent movie about a young man from a Hasidic community who is caught importing and trafficking ecstasy into the States. Obviously, Tip won’t be the Hasidic character; he’ll…
There may be other renovations and remodels coming to Club Dada in the near future (we’ll wait to give you the formal details on those as soon as they’re officially confirmed), but, in the meantime, this afternoon saw construction workers entering the long-running Deep Ellum venue’s premises to start work…
Next month, Denton’s own Shiny Around the Edges’ “debut album” Holy Roller will be released on Sounds Are Active–the same indie-imprint that’s released material by I Heart Lung, Castanets and The Weird Weeds. In anticipation of that release, the band was kind enough to send us the mp3 for “Come…
…yep, the header pretty much sums up the whole post. Read the whole lineup here, if you don’t believe me. …
Speaking of MTV, the strictly music (and definitely not reality TV-based) cable network chimes in today with a recap of last night’s Silver Jews concert–purportedly Dallas native David Berman’s final show.Makes sense, as we’ve all seen how much love MTV has given artists like the Silver Jews prior to their…
…which is to say that Flight of the Conchords will be migrating to Grand Prairie that night. I mention this because foreplay is very important… in love…
Play-N-Skillz will be showing MTV around town this week as the network films for an upcoming special, My Block: Dallas, and you’ve got two chances to rub elbows with the Dallas rapper/producer stars.Tonight, the brothers are celebrating their Grammy nominations (for their production work on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III)…
In what can only be classified at this point as “non-news”, country music legend George Strait may or may not be booked to perform at the new Cowboys stadium at some as-yet-undetermined point this summer, the Morning News reports today, following up a report made on The Ticket this morning.Thing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 3, 2009… First Guitar Hero gave us the ability to shred with our musical heroes. Now the makers of Guitar Hero will let unknown DJs move from their bedroom to the living room via DJ Hero. Yep, now you too…
