You’ve probably heard about southern Dallas rapper Dooney da Priest (real name: Duwayne Brown), who has produced two songs of note in the past couple months. The latest one, “Vote No!,” was Dooney’s foray into politics, a crunk anthem supporting, um, a toll road. Guess writing “Vote no/So the south…
On October 29, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in the following evening for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli’s on Greenville Avenue for the second time in October. Carrol was told only that Ivery was ill: He’d been checked into Presbyterian…
DJ Shadow was like the Mozart of sampling,” Mute Math’s keyboardist/singer Paul Meany says earnestly. The New Orleans musician says Shadow sparked his musical interest as a teen and continues to influence Mute Math’s experimental rock sound. “There was a little record DJ Shadow put out called Endtroducing,” he says…
If Northern State’s Julie Potash was bitter, no one would have blamed her. Although All City, the New York-based hip-hop hybrid’s first release for Columbia Records, made Rolling Stone’s list of 2004’s top 50 albums, the relationship between band and corporate master soon soured, preventing Potash and her fellow rhymers…
Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit may all love music, but they don’t make it collectively unless there’s a mammoth payday involved. Maybe that’s why this set, which is being released through a profit-maximizing deal with Wal-Mart, seems more inspired by commerce than art. The…
Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell writes lyrics that are drenched in utopian platitudes (“Lucky ones are we all, till it is over”) and cringe-worthy pillow talk (“When you smile, the sun, it peeks through the clouds”). The group’s weakest songs are ready-made for campfire sing-alongs. Its touring bassist even…
The vast reserves of hate music critics reserve for Blue October can, in all likelihood, be traced back to their adolescence. Nothing angered these smart, socially awkward folks more than being at a high school or even a junior high party, watching as some hapless wanker playing mediocre guitar in…
Even if the age of digital downloads has left album artwork all but ignored, a meaningful theme still sprouts from the title and design of Tegan and Sara’s most recent release, The Con. The novelistic motif inspired by the album’s Moog-infused title track provides a reference for the twin sisters’…
Not so long ago, Buck 65 was having second thoughts about his love of fist-pumping beats, like he was almost embarrassed about being a white Nova Scotia hip-hop kid. Thankfully, he’s left this angst-y stage well behind. On his second proper solo disc, Situation, he turns shopworn phrases into trippy…
Some bands reveal their hometown before the first chord is struck, certainly before the end of the first verse, but Architecture in Helsinki may as well be the house band from Mars. Not that their sound is so alien (high-energy indie-pop meets electronic music with a dance-punk twist and more…
They call themselves “a jug band without the jugs,” which might sound like “a Hooters without the hooters,” but what the Denton County Revelators lack in the container department they more than make up for in others. This is a real back-porch band, maybe not of the toothless yokel variety,…
The Gazelles are giving it away. (Luke Lanter)A few local music tidbits overheard this week: 1. Denton’s Gazelles know how to make us happy. They’re making their new songs all available for free for download on MySpace. Frontman Adam Bertholdi explained it all in a blog post. “Since it’s been…
IAMX/The Hourly Radio November 6, 2007 Club Dada Better Than: Watching election results filter in. While Dallas was going to hell in a hand basket last night, the stars were aligned for the IAMX/Hourly Radio show at Club Dada. On a Tuesday night, the club exemplified what Deep Ellum could…
Last week I wrote an column pointing out how Deep Ellum, while not exactly in the midst of a comeback, is still supported by a number of strong pillars—Kettle Art, Club Dada, Darkside, Double Wide, etc. Look, Deep Ellum is gonna be different, I think most rational people know that…
Ben Harper at the Majestic Theater? It’s an incredible venue for the Nutcracker, but what would it be like for a crowd accustomed to rocking out at general admission shows and festivals? As it turned out, the inability to move freely was indeed a pain in the ass during rockin’…
M.I.A November 4th, 2007 House of Blues Better than: Staying at home to watch the Cowboys Vs. Eagles (HoB was decorated with flat screens flashing the game. Fat beats and football, booya!) Review: Last night, when I partied down to the Cool Kids and M.I.A. at House of Blues, I…
That’s right, you missed out on Day-Glo paint at Rock the Dead.It felt like we were all over the place this weekend. We hit up a tattoo festival, a celebration of dead rock musicians, a gay and lesbian film festival and some concerts. Chances are you couldn’t hit all the…
Last night, OUT TAKES Dallas opened up with a fairly decent bang. The ninth annual gay and lesbian film festival began its 10 day run on Friday at the Magnolia Theater opening with the anticipated, Naked Boys Singing, a musical revue that celebrates “the splendors of male nudity in comedy,…
Hey, you! Yeah, you, the person who stupidly thought tonight’s Spoon show wasn’t gonna sell out. What were you thinking? Tickets are gone, daddy gone. (At least you can read our interview with Spoon drummer Jim Eno.) But don’t worry; there’s plenty more party to be had music-wise in the…
Kettle Art’s Frank Campagna was kind enough to forward me the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project MySpace blog that updates the status of the Specific Use Permit requests under review for many Deep Ellum clubs and bars. I have some more to say about this, kids, but it requires some reporting,…
The Laughcast this weekend looks fairly calm and breezy up toward Addison, while spotty weather prevails in Tarrant County. Dallas should see some heavy comedy cloud cover Friday and Saturday night. First, in breaking comedy climate news: Dallas’ own Raj Sharma would surely appreciate a tornado of voting activity for…
As Austin boys Spoon tour our fair country, I got a chance to chat with the band’s drummer and studio mastermind Jim Eno. The soft-spoken percussionist was upbeat and at ease discussing topics from knob twirling to latest release Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga to performing on Saturday Night Live…
