Norah Jones’ set came after the sun went down. (Pete Freedman) It was sticky as hell in the Saturday evening sun at Booker T. Washington’s outdoor amphitheater as the masses gathered for a performance of some of the school’s most prominent alums (go here for a slideshow). The good news,…
Lil Stevie. (NBC Photo/ Heidi Gutman) Steven Van Zandt just called to chat about his syndicated Underground Garage radio show, which can once again be heard on 92.5 KZPS-FM at 10 p.m. on Sunday nights. Now in its seventh year, the show can be heard on more than 140 stations…
You may be familiar with some of the names who’ll be in town tomorrow night at Booker T. Washington High School as the Arts Magnate celebrates the reopening and the completion of its two-year, $55 million renovation. Erykah Badu? Norah Jones? Edie Brickell? Roy Hargrove? Lost actress Elizabeth Mitchell? Hmm…well,…
Click and Clack, the Boston brothers Magliozzi behind the NPR show Car Talk (aired weekly on 90.1 KERA-FM), are the subjects of As The Wrench Turns, PBS’ first-ever animated prime-time series, which is set to premiere on July 9. Sure. Why not? That’s kind of cool. But, um, the local…
Austin’s The Gougers go the Radiohead route. (Traci Gourdie) Just a few weeks before the band hits the stage at the Granada, alt-country combo The Gougers is making its nifty latest release, A Long Day for the Weathervane, available for free via the Web site feegougers.com. The Austin quartet released…
Ten days left. The people behind Red Blood Club have made it official: The Deep Ellum venue will close its doors for good on June 15. In a blog post put up today on the club’s Myspace page, co-owners Brad Garrett and April Collmar explain that they just couldn’t afford…
That’s Robert on the left, standing next to Leif Edling. Prior to 2007, Robert Lowe was just another local working stiff. After a day in his cubicle working for an insurance company in Addison, Lowe would sometimes go practice with one of the metal bands he fronts around the region…
Airline uses its powers for good. Usually. (Jason Upshaw) – Remember when we told you about Airline getting some college radio love? Well, now the band’s getting more: Airline’s album, Farewell Republica, ranks #171 in the most recent CMJ 200 chart and has earned airplay on 50 more college radio…
We caught up with Tahiti, the “T” in the recently split Dallas hip-hop group PPT, to get his version of the events that led to the breakup and to talk about his future as a musician. His take on the cause of the breakup isn’t significantly different than Pikahsso’s and…
Blame It On Gravity art by Jayme Nourallah. In a blatant move to one-up Dust Congress, the Old 97’s guys scored an in-studio performance (which you can download by following that link) at the NPR affiliate at St. Paul, Minnesota, where they talked New West Records, admitted to rarely rehearsing…
The 2008 United States Air Guitar Championships Tour has announced which cities will host its competitions this year and, thankfully, Dallas is not on the list. The tour kicked off yesterday in New York and the closest this geek fest will get to Dallas is Austin in July. The finals…
Another Dust Congress drawing…from Nevada Hill, we think. Denton’s Dust Congress appeared on the radio show “Gulf Coast Live” on WGCU-FM, a Florida National Public Radio affiliate, for an hour-long interview and studio performance last week during their brief southeastern tour through Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. And now the entire…
At 7 o’clock tonight, The Cavern will host it’s either 11th or 12th anniversary (Spune productions booking agent Lance Yocum isn’t sure) by hosting a free night of performances in its notoriously not-so-cavernous space. The line-up (Eric Tipton, The Campaign, and Odis play downstairs as the usual Monday-night Cool Out…
We first caught wind that there might be trouble in PPT’s camp last week, when a post over on the DFW Hip-Hop forum hinted at some troubles between the group’s members (Pikahsso, Picnic and Tahiti). Then, this morning, came this note from Quick that all but confirmed it (guess it…
A: Neither can keep a drummer. “Max Cady is now looking for our 6th drummer in 5 years,” writes Justin Moore, vocalist and guitarist for the local rock outfit. “What a fucking nightmare…” The Spinal Tap comparison’s an easy one, sure, but, c’mon, even Moore seems to think something’s amiss…
Fools! All of you! So, remember on Friday when we told you all about how Wilco maybe did, but then definitely didn’t play The Cavern two weeks ago? Well, now comes this in our inbox, courtesy of Lucas Ross, the proprietor of the blog Hypeful.com, which spread the faux story…
It’s a camera! And a phone! On Friday night, experimental electro-acoustic ambient music project History At Our Disposal will perform its very first “Cell Phone Show” at Hailey’s in Denton, where the band will open for Singer. The idea is that collaborators (in the audience or not) will snap cell-phone…
Warcola gets up close and personal (John Moore) Local hardcore punk band Warcola has recorded three new tracks which will appear on a split single with Austin’s Spitting Bullets to be released next month. “Going Turbo,” “Rich Elite” and “Censorship” are the tracks making the record, and all three are…
Yeah, but them’s some fine kicks right there, Darryl… You know that a touring festival is in trouble when one of the best acts on the bill is local. Looking at the just-announced lineup for this year’s Dallas stop of the Vans Warped Tour, it’s hard to get overly excited…
The Toadies (Jason Janik) If you aren’t a die-hard Toadies fan, you can feel free to stop reading this post right now. If you are, though, (or if you’re just curious and/or can’t stop reading something once you’ve started), then this might interest you. Over the weekened, Kirtland Records made…
Shorelines End (probably in an effort to promote its CD release shindig on June 28) has a studio acoustic version of “More Then You Know” (note: yes, the band used “then” instead of “than”*) up for download off its PureVolume.com page. Or you can watch the guys play it in…
“Gotcha, suckers!” So we came across this blog called Hypeful yesterday that we’d never heard of before. And we’re all excited about it because there’s a long, intricate, detailed post on there about how Wilco apparently played a secret show at The Cavern last Saturday night. And Wilonsky starts flipping…
