Atlanta garage rockers The Black Lips are no strangers to praise. Last year’s Good Bad Not Evil was a fairly well-regarded release in critics’ circles, only helping add stock to this fuzzed-up retro act’s reputation as one of the best and craziest live shows currently touring the States. It’s tough…
While all three of these acts would appeal to a crowd that likes its rock loud, this still seems like a strangely mismatched lineup. The Great Tyrant’s Daron Beck plays ominous synth and keyboard parts and bellows and growls theatrically over the most brutal rhythm section in North Texas, making…
Here’s what we do know: Aiden’s a decent draw with the teenage crowds, and we’ve never heard of Ivoryline (although their CD did just come into the office…), Farewell to Freeway or Me Vs. The Sea. Here’s what we don’t know: How Schoolyard Heroes ended up on this bill—because, sight…
Born and raised in Cleburne, Sonny Burgess was always surrounded by the customs commonly associated with traditional country music: growing up poor in a rural setting and being constantly exposed to the music of Hank Williams Sr., Glen Campbell and Roy Clark. Being a high school baseball star provided Burgess…
After 13 years, No Depression, the bi-monthly magazine covering alternative country music, has decided to fold. Not only did many local semi-legends such as Slobberbone, Old 97’s and Theater Fire receive countless mentions throughout the magazine’s history, but even lesser known area talents such as Collin Herring and Darryl Lee…
Erv Karwelis of Idol Records tells us that he’s going to try and take The Crash That Took Me beyond the Dallas market y getting the song “Julianne” onto those call-in-and-vote-if-you-like-this-track shows in various radio market around the country. Should be an interesting effort–while we certainly wish the Crash and…
Jill Scott February 19, 2008 Nokia Live Theater Better than: Crown Royal on ice. Some performers rely upon (or even just incorporate) backup dancers, pyrotechnics, a deejay or a visual montage on the big-screen displays. The funny thing about Jill Scott is that she doesn’t use or need them—nor is…
Brooks & Dunn ain’t nothin’ to f*ck with. There’s an argument to be made that Dallas should have been the country music capital of the world ahead of Nashville–hell, the in-place economic infrastructure is alone enough of a compelling case. But, alas, things happened and Nashville got Dallas’ number there…
Pleasant Grove The alt-country/indie rockers in Pleasant Grove have posted (from the looks of it…) four new tracks on their MySpace page for your listening pleasure. Each track (including our favorite of the bunch, “Luzern”) is hinted to be on an album called Release The River that’s set to come…
Somebody posted a couple o’ Youtube clips from the Chomsky reunion on Saturday night at the Double-Wide. Here’s the better of the two: “15 Minutes to Rock” by Chomsky (How does one punctuate “rock-thirty”? Is it that way? Or “rock:30”? Does anyone know?) It was, indeed, quite a fun show…
The Lash Outs are being kind enough to let everyone download their two new tracks, “The Kids Don’t Wanna Dance” and “Dream Catcher,” on their MySpace. And, after listening, we’re pretty damn excited to hear more of the new stuff. “The Kids Don’t Wanna Dance” has a catchy riff and…
This could make for a touching and interesting lunch hour. Says here that “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott is going to be honored today at, of all places, Pleasant Grove Elementary for the Little Kids Rock’s newest chapter in Dallas. The program fosters music education in public schools and something Dimebag was…
We pleased the indie fans and the country lovers with our last couple video Q&As. So, it’s only fair for us to give our rock crowd a little something. Our videographer Jonathan Finley met up with the four guys in Peacemaker earlier this month to give us a glimpse of…
Jim Clark, an animator out of England, has done some phenomenal work here, taking the few existing photos of Robert Johnson and distorting them in time with his recorded tracks, making it appear as if the legendary bluesman is, indeed, performing the track on video (or close enough to it)…
Evan Callis, aka Rawdog, was a member of Criminal Habits We just got news that Evan Callis, who went by the name “Rawdog” when he performed with his hip-hop group Criminal Habits, died in the early morning hours of Saturday, February 9, in a manner eerily similar to DJ Frantic’s…
Someone posted a YouTube clip of Ashlee Simpson’s performance of “L.O.V.E.” at Purgatory from last Thursday. Tough to tell if she’s learned her lip-syncing lesson given the phenomenal camera work/angle here. (Yes, this was a blatant attempt on our part to get Google hits. Suckers!) — Pete Freedman…
I came across this excerpt from an upcoming documentary on blues music in Dallas over the weekend. From the looks of this clip from Dallas Electric: The Texas Blues Story, it’s going to be an interesting flick. The video offers a glimpse of Hash Brown delving into Dallas’ blues history…
We feel like we were all over the place this weekend. We checked out the latest art exhibit at the DMA, oohed and aahed over custom cars and managed to get into The Paper Chase show. If your weekend lacked any of those, then you need to keep reading. Late…
So many shows, so little time. It’s weekends like this one that make the job of being a music editor such a pain–how do you choose where you’ll be during a given night? Well, in my case this weekend, you try to run back and forth between venues, hoping to…
After the passing of Freewill and DJ Frantic, there has been yet another death in the DFW hip-hop world, according to a post from Money Waters local female emcee Money420 over at DFWHipHop.com. Money420 posted the news that EZ Eddie D lost his son. Eddie has been a long-time supporter…
Jay Johnson Cindy Chaffin of FineLineLive’s got a pretty interesting offer for all you agoraphobes out there: Stay at home this weekend, she’ll bring the music to you. She’ll be streaming live video of Jay Johnson (four downloads after the link), straight from Johnson’s living room as a sort of…
Kanye brings the good life to town on May 18 Given that we’ve been blowing up this space with Starplex show announcements of late (Radiohead, The Police with Elvis Costello), we’d be remiss not to mention The Glow in the Dark tour, which (no offense, Radiohead), has us most excited…
