Los Angeles band Woven play an interesting mixture of electronica and rock. Though they explore a wide variety of sounds, they generally combine unique, dark electronic textures and heavy two-drummer percussion into straightforward poppy rock songs. After the band’s 2003 album, 8 Bit Monk, Woven left Interscope. That was the…
In our pulp edition this week, Robert took a look at the strange pull the TV show Dallas has on audiences, especially abroad, on the occasion of the show’s 30th anniversary.The money, the glitz, cowboy fashion–all those had plenty to do with making the show such a big hit (and…
I know the local connection here is barely tangential, but two of the best shows to come through our area this past year were The New York Dolls at The Granada in April and Todd Rundgren at House of Blues in July. Now news comes that Rundgren is producing the…
Most nights, try shouting, “Can I get a hell yeah?!” in a Best Buy and all anyone will give you is a mean staredown from the washing machine aisle.When it happened Thursday night at the store along LBJ Freeway, though, with a whole line of Dimebag Darrell fans waiting to…
Yep. Here’s the press release announcing it: Dallas, TX – November 21, 2008: The 2008 Billboard Touring Awards took place last night at the Roosevelt Hotel Ballroom in New York City. House of Blues Dallas came away with the honors in the Top Club category. Other nominees in the category…
Greenville native Ben Kweller’s come out and set a date for his upcoming release, Changing Horses, which we last heard about in August. Anyway, according to Stereogum, which posts a “Progress Report” item today on the status of the album, the disc will be released during the first week of…
Dallas guitarist Chris Manning’s music is mentioned in the December issue of Guitar Player magazine. The mention comes in a section called “The Editor’s Big Eight”, where the mag’s editor picks a song he’s been digging from eight different artists and writes about them. About Manning’s instrumental song “Journey to…
So, as the header here implies, yeah, Paste done gone and uploaded the rest of Dave Sims’ piece onto its site today, name-checking more and more area bands, as promised. Read it here. But, since I’ve brought it up, let me rant, for just a second. To the guy who…
A while back I wrote a fairly glowing review of Somebody’s Darling debut EP, finding bliss in the local band’s fine mix of alt-country and southern soul. And, in that review, I wrote that the music on the EP was so good that a full-length CD was immediately called for…
Kii Arens Another impressive show to add to the growing list of jaw-droppers the Door’s been booking to its stage lately: The Eagles of Death Metal. No, seriously. On Friday, December 12. Add that to the list that already includes Ice Cube, Fishbone, King’s X, Plain White T’s, Job for…
Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop…
The three parts of Nada Surf. (Peter Ellenby) Matthew Caws formed Nada Surf way back in 1993 and the band found success two years later when the song “Popular” became just that. Yet after a successful tour with alt/pop kindred spirit Superdrag, various snafus led to the band being dropped…
Denton duo Fight Bite–you know, the blog darlings and (blatant plug alert!) the lead-in story subjects of last week’s Observer music section–has recorded and released a video for the first single (and, well, best song) on the band’s debut record, Emerald Eyes, “Swissex Lover”. Stereogum’s got the feed on the…
Fort Worth’s Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard’s recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band’s independent 2006…
For reals. –Pete Freedman…
Take this with a grain of salt, Denton, as the magazine also lists She & Him’s Volume One as the album of the year (sure, Zooey Deschanel’s a looker, but is the album really that good?), but congratulations are in order: Paste magazine’s December issue hit the stands this week…
Rick Nielsen and his quintuple-neck guitar, which is perhaps one of the reasons writer Darryl Smyers refers to him as “uber-nerd.” Last week, Sony Legacy released a 30th anniversary edition box set of At Budokan, Cheap Trick’s remarkable entrance into popular culture. Sure, the Illinois quartet had released three previous…
The new Dimebag Darrell Abbott book/DVD He Came To Rock earns its release today with the claim that it’s the first book about the legendary Pantera guitarist’s life (a fact that certainly can’t sit too well with a certain other Dimebag biographer…), and, unlike the other upcoming book about the…
Here’s great news for anyone who wants to trip their balls off Thursday night, or who can appreciate what the Angelika web site calls “a mind-blowing, almost indescribable mix of fantasy, religious symbolism, horror and humor” without chemicals: The Dallas Angelika Theater will screen a remastered 35-mm print of Alejandro…
The Denton-bred, Austin-refined Riverboat Gamblers, just a few weeks removed from a return to DdFW for a couple of shows, have officially announced the details surrounding the band’s upcoming 2009 disc, Underneath The Owl–which is basically to say that the band has officially set the release date for March 10…
Oh my, they are already beginning to trickle in… Those pesky, quickly made Christmas-themed–sorry, I mean holiday-themed [Jewish Editor’s Note: Damn right you did!]–musical products are already hitting shelves everywhere. Hell, I got a Christmas CD by Christian/pop singer Amy Grant in May! But, sadly and predictably, most of the…
Dear rare Dallas music fan who wouldn’t mind being seen in Uptown this weekend, According to this blog post I just stumbled across, there’s gonna be some sort of Wii Music demonstration thing with street performers and stuff tomorrow and Sunday at West Village. Might be cool. Dunno. But it…
