Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 15, 2009… Run-DMC (the Kings of Rock!), Metallica and Jeff Beck are the newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wonder who’s going to DJ for Run-DMC since Jam Master Jay has passed? I pray to god…
In tomorrow’s print supplement to DC9, Quia Querisma gives an enthusiastic recommendation of Dallas battle rapper Info-Red’s Kaleidescope, praising his verbal versatility and the album’s “mid-’90s East Coast Feel (a very good thing).” You can get a taste for the album by checking out a couple of its tracks on…
Greenville native done good Ben Kweller was the featured artist for Monday’s Daytrotter Session. As part of the session, the baby-faced troubadour has offered up three songs from his new album, Changing Horses, and one from 2004’s On My Way. Kweller also offers up some insight into the inspiration for…
The National Association for Music Merchants is having its winter get together in Anaheim, California this week and Arlington’s Glitter Rose (right, as photographed by Kaci Okabayashi of Industrial Envy) is playing a showcase for Moody Leather, the company that endorses her guitar strap. Ms. Rose informs me via email…
For what it’s worth, when Los Lonely Boys stop through town for a gig on Sunday, January 25, at the Granada Theater, it will be for, what their publicist calls, “a very special acoustic show.”Ah, the ol’ “special acoustic show” trick, eh? We’ve seen this one before.Should be, um, lively and…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, January 14, 2009… It looks like another legendary band could be getting back together–if a promoter can cough up enough dough. Yep, this time it could be indie legends Pavement who could be on the reunion trail. I like to see they…
Well, OK, so it’s not completely a reunion…or much of one at all, really. But, still, a real treat coming up tomorrow night at Club Dada, as part of Sunward’s month-long artist-in-residency: After opening sets from Young and Brave and Sunward, three members of Sunward (frontman Doug Kershaw, bassist Dave…
Although not quite keeping up on his resolution to blog more regularly in 2009 (like, c’mon, at all…what gives?), Hunter Hauk does have a nice little gem over on Quick’s blog this afternoon: A Tim DeLaughter-penned and -performed song has been selected as the opening theme song for the new…
It’s not exactly a secret at this point–it’s on Dan’s Silverleaf’s online calendar, on opening act The O’s’ Myspace page and on the fan-run Slobberbone Myspace page–but we might as well pass along the news (although one commenter already, um, kinda did earlier today): Slobberbone’s reuniting for two area shows.And,…
David Dennard sends along the sad news today: David Hill (pictured right), guitarist and singer in seminal Dallas new-wave band N.C.M., died at 4:30 this morning after a bout with liver cancer. Dennard has known Hill since the 1960s, when Dennard was in the Novas and Hill was playing in…
Dallas-based soul singer N’dambi, who, once upon a time, sang backup for Erykah Badu and is now signed to Stax Records, will be in D.C. next week during all them inaugural proceedings.Well, OK, not quite. N’dambi (pictured right, as photographed by Andreas Branch) will be performing on Sunday at the…
Vinnie Paul Abbott’s at it again, folks. About half a year after the Pantera, Hellyeah and DamagePlan drummer put his oven up for sale on eBay, Abbott (as seen above) is now selling an old Motorola Startrac–his first cellphone, actually, which was given to him by his brother, the late,…
A streaming version of the new single from Burleson’s own Kelly Clarkson, “My Life Would Suck Without You”, is beginning to hit the web, and, yep, that’s it right atop this post. So far, the term “catchy-as-hell” has been applied to the song, and well, it’s not a wrong assessment…..
Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there’s oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol’ Denton, TX, this week in its “Spotlight On The City” feature, which you can stream at BTR’s site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, January 13, 2009…Current +44 member and former Blink-182 member, Mark Hoppus, speaks about the possibility of a Blink reunion. Yay! More songs based on dick and fart jokes!Amy Winehouse’s soon-to-be ex-husband has filed divorce papers. It seems the constant drug use…
508 Park Avenue, the building in which legendary blues man Robert Johnson recorded 13 tracks in June of 1937, could be on the verge of getting demolished. Glazer’s Distributors, owners of the property, have filed a permit to tear the building down. At this very moment, though, preservationists, who say…
In a lengthy Q&A posted today at Chronicmagazine.com, Play, one half of Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, has announced the next hip-hop/R&B superstar to take up the team’s services: Everyone;s favorite Senegalese-American fan-tosser, Akon:”I am going to break some news for you. I think we’re going to go over and do…
Some great news we’re contractually obligated to pass along because of our blog’s name: The Flatlanders, the band that wrote the song “Dallas” (which included the line that would, many years later, inspire the name of this here blog) have a new disc, Hills and Valleys, on the way (due…
About a month back now, we first caught wind of the defamation lawsuit Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys killed 15 years ago in West Memphis, Arkansas, was filing against the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines after the group’s volatile lead singer posted a note to the…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, December 12, 2009…When Lil’ Wayne was sporting a guitar on SNL a few months back, it left a lot of people (me) wondering, “Why?” Well, now we (I) know. It seems Weezy is intent on releasing a full-on rock album.In “Yeah,…
Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn’t listen to in 2008.Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the…
Drummer and vocalist Cedric Burnside, grandson of the late, great blues guitarist R.L. Burnside, brings his brand of funk-infused delta blues to the House of Blues tomorrow night for a free 9 o’clock show in the venue’s restaurant. The 30-year-old Burnside, who grew up playing in juke joints and started…
