Sad Bullets?: In Deep: This is the last week to hit up the Deep Ellum haunted houses set up by D/E/E/P, aka Deep Ellum Enrichment Project, aka the Project Formerly Known as Save Our Scene. D/E/E/P member Tania Ion, also of local band the Ramonalisas, says the houses are intended…
Zion I, the Grouch and Pigeon John perform Tuesday,
October 31 at the Cavern.
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the devil’s music? Strangely, Christmas has been much more thoroughly celebrated by rock ‘n’ roll songwriters than the day marked by death-mocking costumes, self-indulgence and malicious pranks. But while the wait for another smash-hit novelty song like “Monster Mash” to set the…
Oxford Collapse and Chin Up Chin Up perform Thursday,
October 26 at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio, Denton.
Wednesday, October 26 at Gypsy Tea Room
On Sam’s Town, Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers makes it very clear that he wants to be Bruce Springsteen, judging by the Boss-esque sentiments decorating the over-the-top single “When You Were Young.” While it’s admirable that the Vegas quartet wants to be taken seriously as musicians and lyricists on its sophomore…
On their self-titled debut, the Scissor Sisters dipped their hands into a multitude of genres, which is what made the songs fun. In contrast, Ta-Dah overflows with nothing but pop and dance ditties. If the Bee Gees entered the studio with Elton John cohort Bernie Taupin and Beatles producer George…
Friday, October 27 at Gypsy Tea Room
Thursday, October 26 at Gypsy Tearoom
Tuesday, October 31 at The House of Tinnitus
In the month or so since I’ve been in Dallas, I’ve heard repeated reports on how dysfunctional the music scene is here. How everyone’s mean, and there’s infighting and backstabbing and cynicism. How bands claw at each other with the spastic, fang-bared verve of a bunch of male baboons. Could…
Back in 1999, when Sander Kleinenberg burst onto the global club scene, the still-wet-behind-the-headphones DJ/producer made his name by pushing the sonic envelope with releases that were so forward-thinking, he landed not one but two tracks on the wildly popular Global Underground series mixed by none other than über-DJ Sasha…
From Now On
Built to Spill performs on Thursday, October 19, at Gypsy Tea Room’s Ballroom.
Ladytron performs Friday, October 20 at the Gypsy Tea Ballroom
Fred Eaglesmith performs Saturday, October 21, at the Granada Theater.
Not to get all Dubya on your ass, but what’s up with all these dang furriners invading our fine local music establishments this week? B-Sides knows you’re busy, so we took the liberty of doing your Google searches and atlas perusing for you and have typed up this handy guide…
Mark Linkous is a perfect anomaly, a literate, slightly seedy songwriter whose best work exposes an aching beauty which triumphs over his darker instincts. Over the course of four full-length efforts under the Sparklehorse moniker, released leisurely over the past decade, Linkous has created an uncompromising body of work that…
Known as one of the pioneers of minimalism, Steve Reich has been a major influence on neo-classical, jazz, avant-garde, rock and electronic artists for nearly half a century. Much of his seminal work from the ’60s and ’70s had remained woefully out of print until the release of this five-disc…
It’s been about seven years since Neutral Milk Hotel went on indefinite “hiatus.” Since then the band’s drummer and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Barnes has kept busy with a great many projects, not the least of which is A Hawk and a Hacksaw, which kinda sounds like a traditional Hungarian folk band…
Ghostcar is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Priding themselves on the fleeting nature of their “sightings,” the inevitable cycle for this longtime local cosmic jazz juggernaut is a short string of mind-blowing performances, only to disappear from sight. No sooner had the improvisational troupe emerged this summer with a fiery row of…
Saturday, October 21, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton
California’s the Briefs provide punk rock with just the kind of kick in the ass the genre has needed for so long. With the continued regurgitation of pop/punk of the Green Day variety and the ascension of a seemingly endless parade of faceless emo bands, punk rock has sadly become…
