And on the fourth day, Yeezus walked onto the Internet. Kanye West's sixth studio solo album has officially leaked onto the Internet, preceding its June 18 release. The 10-track project titled Yeezus is here, and it is good. But that's not all for Dallas rap fans. West has announced a new installment of projections over various buildings throughout America will be taking place tonight. After being left off the list for the projected video debut for "New Slaves" a few weeks back, Dallas has been invited to the party this time around. There will be five screenings, each slotted for a half hour, of a yet-to-be-announced visual.

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Timothy Norris

Mumford and Sons in San Bernadino last week. Full slideshow.

Mumford & Sons, scheduled to play tonight at Gexa Energy Pavilion, have postponed their next three shows. Dallas, Woodlands and New Orleans are affected.

Bassist Ted Dwane has a blod clot on the surface of his brain that requires emergency surgery, as the band has informed fans in its official announcement. Dwane's expected to make a full recovery.

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Sam Epstein, George Cortez and Baba Lawrence play the drums together at Klyde Warren Park.

Since it opened in late October 2012, Klyde Warren Park has offered plenty of entertainment - from movies, concerts and fireworks to food trucks, dog training and fountains to chess, foosball and putting greens (oh, and possibly an ice skating rink in the winter).

But the best entertainment, I discovered last Sunday afternoon (June 9), isn't provided by the park itself; it's provided by the visitors.

Arriving around 3 p.m., I immediately heard some people performing Afro-Caribbean percussion, complete with bongos, congas, claves, guiros and maracas. They were in the Muse Family Performance Pavilion - a diverse group with an audience to match.

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Image via the Grammy foundation.

The Music Educator Award was created this year by the Grammys to honor educators who have made enduring contributions in the field of music and have proven their dedication to sustaining music in schools. Seven Texas music teachers made the quarterfinals.

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Will Johnson of many bands, including Overseas and, of course, Centro-Matic

Late last month, indie-loving fans of the globe, and especially here in Texas, finally received a single, but major, piece of news regarding the project that's surely to be slapped with the ubiquitous "supergroup" label.

Overseas, consisting of David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), and former Dallasites Bubba and Matthew Kadane (Bedhead and The New Year), along with Will Johnson (Centro-matic), indeed is the stuff indie-music geeks' dreams are made of. Of course, former Denton resident Johnson, now living in Austin, has recently been in the middle of more so-called supergroups than any other artist of late.

The past few years have seen Johnson record an album with the recently departed Jason Molina, drum for the Monsters of Folk and contribute arguably the best tunes to Jay Farrar and Jim James' Woody Guthrie-intensive project, New Multitudes. Let's not forget he played pivotal roles in the solo albums from the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Drive by Trucker's Patterson Hood, as well. Oh, he also released his own stellar solo album last year, Scorpion.

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Courtesy of Buffalo Black

He was on the last six songs of his LP. Six damn songs and he would finish a yearlong endeavor under his new moniker, Buffalo Black. But shit always picks the most inopportune time to hit the fan. First his beloved grandparents died. Then his father experienced financial hardships. As if couldn't get worse, Jamil Kelley lost his job soon after. It became too much for the young Kelley to handle, so he moved out of his parents' house in Redbird, and traveled around the metroplex, crashing on couches and making the drive to Allen every day to record, where more than 80 percent of the record would be completed at a friend's house.

"There were times where sacrifice to achieve a dream took precedent, and my dream at the time was to record my album," he says.

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Dylan Hollingsworth

In this week's feature, Kelly Dearmore tells the story of Home By Hovercraft, a band inspired by The Polyphonic Spree and its members' own theater backgrounds. That tells you a lot about what kind of sound they're headed for; they do it well. You can listen to "Zoo Lion" below for the gist.

See also:
-Home By Hovercraft Takes Dallas' Dramatic Pop Tradition Somewhere New
-Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Nominees: Home By Hovercraft

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Eric Grubbs

Glen Reynolds certainly has a lot of momentum behind him these days. He recently released his second solo album, Breakbeat Ice Beneath Me, but this time, he's using the moniker of Grey. While the album is a departure from the Weezer-meets-XTC vibe of his earlier material, it certainly represents where Reynolds is now. He tackles all kinds of genres, from country pop, soul, trip-hop, Britpop, and hip-hop. Yes, hip-hop. And he has some notable credibility to back that foray up.

Last year, Reynolds was featured on the Talib Kweli single, "Push Thru," which also features Kendrick Lamar and Curren$y. Kweli's latest record, Prisoner of Conscious, was finally released this year, and "Push Thru" is one of the key tracks. Reynolds might seem like an odd fit for hip-hop, but if you know a few things about his past, it's not that far of a stretch.

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Photos by Kiernan. More below.

The Baptist Generals' long-awaited Jackleg Devotional To The Heart is here. You can buy it on a number of media including colorful vinyl. Mine's translucent pink -- not sure if that's how they all are or not. Either way, we strongly advise you to track it down. It's really good. The band, six highly respected musicians with this and other ventures, celebrated the big day yesterday with an in-store performance at Good Records. Front man Chris Flemmons set the tone early, calling the set a practice and passing his bottle of wine back to the band.

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Some of the founding members of longtime local rap stalwart Poor Vida Productions, have teamed up with Media 13 for a major project: This summer, they'll screen the feature-length documentary We From Dallas. The film will tell an oral history of the Dallas hip-hop scene through a series of comprehensive, rare and intimate sit-down interviews. Covering a span of almost 20 years, artists like Mr. Pookie, Headkrack and Pikahsso narrate their firsthand experiences in building the local hip hop culture as we know it. Until now, the untold story of Dallas rap has never been compiled so extensively. From the graffiti, to the breakdancing, to the underground rap records you grew up on, it's all in this film. Today, we've got the exclusive trailer debut.

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