“OK, now, Eric: Look…contemplative.” I didn’t meet Eric Neal until recently. Not until he and the other Best Instrumentalist nominees for this year’s DOMAs got together to offer up their takes on this year’s Best Song nominees. But I’d seen him around, that’s for sure. Hell, it’s tough not to;…
Pleasant Grove singer Marcus Striplin will give two solo performances tonight and tomorrow night, both at 9 p.m., at Bolsa, a new café and wine bar in Oak Cliff. (Full disclosure: my wife works there part-time.) Striplin, who moved to Brooklyn earlier this year, is recording new material with Pleasant…
I doubt news of this cancellation will wind up on Brooklyn Vegan or Idolator a la Jay Reatard’s stunt last night, but it should be noted that tonight’s show with Emmylou Harris at the Majestic Theatre has been nixed. Here’s why, straight from the Majestic’s Web site: “Due to a…
And it’s notable because, this season, the show’s sixth, is the first one to take place on network television. Unlike previous seasons of the country music singing competition show (basically American Idol for the cowboy hat set), which were broadcast on the cable USA network, this year’s competition was shown…
News of Jay Reatard’s cancellation at Club Dada last night is starting to make to the music blog rounds today thanks to a pretty, um, detailed re-cap of the night that booking agent John Iskander posted to his Parade of Flesh blog. An excerpt: “Jay Lindsey solidified his infamous and…
…and look who got some decent face time! Yes, that’s right: Apples drummer and Dallas native John Dufilho (who you may as the frontman for local favorites The Deathray Davies and I Love Math). Check it out: Guy can run a count-off, huh? –Pete Freedman…
Let’s get Reatarded in here. Bad news, folks: Jay Reatard’s been removed from tonight’s bill at Club Dada. The Strange Boys and Cheap Time, the opening acts for tonight’s show, will still play–but that’s a big headliner Dada just lost. So…um…why’s he out? Well, I just got off the horn…
Norah’s got a live DVD jones. A couple news items from the inbox today, both about locally bred musicians who’ve long since left Dallas for greater fame and fortune… On September 2, New West Records (home to the Old 97’s, among others) will be releasing a new live DVD from…
The Granada Theater marquis tells it like it is. (Hal Samples) OK, folks, let’s put a bow on this sucker. if you wanna see even more photos of our DOMA showcase and awards show, go here, where Hal Samples has gone ahead and uploaded like a million bajillion photos from…
Trust me: This photo will make sense if you keep reading. Just a few months back–before the ownership changes at Club Dada and before news of the opening of the Lounge on Elm Street (next week, natch)–we were ready to hang things up and Deep Ellum. Least, far as music…
Will Johnson takes a load off at Good Records. Stage Dumps–a Denton-based blog that features candid live photos of musicians who, while trying to rock out, end up looking like they’re dropping a deuce–has been having its hot, smelly day in the sun lately, thanks to some national linkage. On…
A few months back, when I first stumbled across the myspace page of local alt-country singer Nicholas Altobelli, I was taken aback by the maturity that this youngster displayed. Like a pleasant version of Ryan Adams, Altobelli’s mix of classic, Dylanesque folk and more modern singer/songwriter fare resonated through his…
Although Live From the River Road Icehouse, Darryl Lee Rush’s sophomore effort, has been out for almost a year, a new video for the song “Lot” premiered last week at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station. (You can watch it here.) “Lot” is one of two studio recordings that appeared on…
Denton’s Fight Bite keeps getting all sorts of Internet love–last week alone, the band found itself, again, with mentions on Stereogum and Gorilla vs Bear, among other blogs and local publications–despite the fact that the band’s disc won’t see an official national release until October (well, as is currently planned;…
We’re still waiting on this new-ish album, but two other Tomorrowpeople albums are now on iTunes. Yesterday, just a day after we mentioned the fact that Tomorrowpeople were still waiting for iTunes to make their music available, Erich Scholz emailed to let us know that Marijuana Beach and Golden Energy…
To end the day today, I give you the above image, a hand-drawn flowchart given to the music editor at our sister paper in St. Louis (ye good ole RFT) after she openly asked (and I’m paraphrasing) “So why, again, do so many people still give a shit about the…
Life will imitate art imitating life on Nov 12 at Nokia Theatre. Me? I’d prefer it better if, say, this game toured: Quick, grab the umbrella! –Pete Freedman…
(Annie Ray) Well, speak of the devil. Just a week after we wrote about former SMU student Astronautalis in our DOMA feature, the Best Rap/Hip Hop winner announced some juicy details about his upcoming album. Even better, he posted a track you can stream from his MySpace page. And while…
Thanks to the guys at Gutterth, who apparently filmed the whole Best Instrumentalists set at last week’s DOMA Ceremony, you can now relive that pretty awesome showcase of talent–at no cost! Also, thanks to the folks at the Granada, you can also catch individual song performances from the most of…
John Freeman, the mastermind behind The Dooms U.K., Telethon, Sloppyworld and too many other contributions to Dallas’ music and art history to list, is bidding adieu to the Big D at the end of August. His Dutch Treats, however, will say goodbye to the city about a month before then…
We’ve had plenty of Play-N-Skillz talk around this blog and in the paper lately. So, you should be familiar with the half-Venezuelan, half-Argentinean sibling duo behind the burgeoning South Irving hip-hop production team by now. And, if you want to further familiarize yourself with their work, check out this new…
Our favorite local Pixies-influenced garage rock band, The Cut*Off, are coming home after a few tour stops along the east coast opening up for Old 97’s. “The crowd response was great,” says guitarist Jayson Hamilton, which is kind of surprising considering that the bands are so stylistically dissimilar. Good to…
