On Sunday night, Memphis in Addison will host a benefit concert for the three surviving children of Eric and Deborah Stuer, who died earlier this month in a car crash. The event starts at 7 p.m. and boasts a whole slew of scene vets: Stuer’s former band, the Buster Brown…
One pair. First person to email me with “I Will Possess Your Death Cab Tickets” in the subject gets ’em. Have at it Update: Contest is over. Congrats to our winner. Update: Nevermind! Contest back on! Update: Contest is over–this time for reals, yo. Congrats to our winners.–Pete Freedman…
Eef Barzelay hits Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton this Thursday and one could do much worse than check out the former leader of Clem Snide. Lose Big, Barzelay’s second solo effort, comes out tomorrow and it’s a conflicted/confessional mess of a record that should come across well at a cozy venue…
We just received the sad news that the Dallas drumming community lost one of its spiritual leaders on June 6, when Eric “Stu” Stuer and his wife died in a single-vehicle wreck on I-49 south of Shreveport on their way home from RhythmWeb drum circle engagements in Mississippi. Stuer, 55,…
What better place to start this week’s Weekend Roundup than with last week’s Aural Ambush victims, er, subjects, Grand Ole Party, who played The Cavern on Saturday night?…
Abilene-based country-tinged crooner Micah P. Hinson, whose played more than his fair share of DFWd gigs over the years, got himself a write-up on Stereogum’s The ‘Gum Drop today. Check it. –Pete Freedman…
Rilo Kiley The Palladium June 15th, 2008 Better Than: Anything thing else happening on a sweltering Sunday night. Almost a year since the release of 2007’s Under the Blacklight, the Los Angeles based indie-pop gang, Rilo Kiley, stopped through Dallas last night on the final leg of their North American…
The Strange Boys play Dada tomorrow. We’ve already spotlighted a few of tonight’s shows (Evangelicals/Frog Eyes), Saturday’s shows (The Cats & Dogs Benefit, Eric Hutchinson, Corey Smith, Justin Townes Earle, Grand Ole Party/Man Factory, Fight Bite) and Sunday’s shows (Rilo Kiley). So here’s the best o’ the rest… Menkena 9…
What you missed this week on DC9 as our nation collectively poked its noses way too far into the Hogan family’s business… – We rocked out with Robert Smith and The Cure. Or was it The Joker and his henchmen? – We got schooled at Booker T. Washington’s homecoming event…
The Spree take a stand…against injustice! (Hal Samples) A new twist on an old joke… Q: How many members of the Polyphonic Spree does it take to file a lawsuit? A: One to file it…and 27 to sing about how beautifully litigious it is. New developments on the TVT Records…
These days, when so many of us get much of our music digitally, it’s easy to overlook interesting album artwork and innovative packaging. To commend musicians, artists and record labels that create a good reason to buy a hard copy, we’re spotlighting their work in this randomly recurring feature…
Forever the promotional push. (Evan Hunt) Dallas’ own Forever the Sickest Kids, who are about to head out on the road as part of this summer’s Warped Tour, performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien last night… … I know. Believe me, I know. We’ll have the video as soon…
Yep. We got your tix right here. First person to email me with…hmmm…”You’ve Got Your Moneymaker” in the subject line gets the tickets. Update: The contest–which took all of five minutes–is over. Congrats to our winner. –Pete Freedman…
After shaking up the Kerrville Folk Festival, Fort Worth’s outlaw country diva Glitter Rose played Poor David’s Pub last week and is now packing her bags for Nashville. Rose has been invited to perform at the NAMM Summer Conference, June 20-22. (That’s the National Association of Music Merchants for the…
This week, we grabbed our $20 discman, popped in a CD from Grand Ole Party and drove over to the Half Price Books on Northwest Highway. After the ambushees consented to donning our headphones, we pressed play, nudged up the volume up and subjected them to “Look Out Young Son,”…
Daniel Rodrigue knocked his piece on Evangelicals out of the park in this week’s paper (seriously, go read it). But that’s not all we’ve got for you on the Evangelicals front… Bonus mp3: It’s a fairly poppy track, darkened up by graveyard-like winds and howls in the background. Interesting stuff,…
Ryu won’t like Blanka when he gets angry… For many bands, video games are an amusing distraction at best. Practicing at the home of a member who owns a console can be a risky endeavor, as a spontaneous game of Halo or Madden might stretch into an hours-long tournament. That’s…
We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians work together,…
Grassfight. Not fighting grass, oddly enough. (Justin Tennison) Dave Sims, scribe of our weekly Denton-focused column “North of the Dial,” checks in with promising Denton-bred four-piece Grassfight in this week’s installment, discussing both Radiohead and the insularity of the Denton scene with vocalist Nathan Forester. Unfortunately, the band’s not on…
Mates of State, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Headlights Granada Theater June 11, 20008 Mates of State, with a full band for once. (Merritt Martin) Better than: Stressing out over the Top Chef season finale. Download: Merritt Martin snapped some shops for your viewing pleasure. Walking into the Granada,…
You know who went to my high school? Karl Ravech, host of ESPN’s Baseball Tonight. Or so rumor has it. To be perfectly honest, I’m not even sure it’s true. But the sports junkies at my high school used to think it was pretty awesome. Hey, someone to look up…
We’re all pretty Radiohead-obsessed,” says Grassfight’s Nathan Forester, and certainly the opening bars of “Rhodendron,” from his group’s French Shemes EP, with its spare, ambient guitar line and Godrich-like touch to the mix, demonstrates that Yorke and Co. have indeed made their mark on this Denton group. A strange admission…
