Really can't say I'm the biggest fan of this rather bland singer-songwriter fare from local performer Tim Miller, but, man, if the above clip ain't slick. Posted to Youtube a couple months back and uploaded to Vimeo earlier today, the video for "Who I Am," which is apparently a hidden track on Miller's latest release, Adelaide, was co-directed by Josiah Williams and the man who contributed the animation to the cause, Chris Silvestre. Well done, fellas.
Because we can all use a palate cleanser now and then--and, also, because there's never a wrong time to listen to RTB2--check out the clip above, featuring Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Sandlin performing their song "Whistle" in the still-under-reconstruction Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.
And, since we're on that subject, yep, seem about time for a check-in with our old Echoes and Reverberations scribe, Jeff Liles, who'll be serving as the artistic director for the space.
"It's coming along," Liles says. "It's just kind of hard to know exactly when it'll be open for sure. We're still shooting for the week between Christmas and New Year's, but we're not a hundred percent on that yet."
Whether the venue will be open by 2010 or not, this much is sure: On December 27, the venue will be hosting a holiday party performance from Dallas native Emily Elbert, who'll be back in town on school vacation from the Berklee College of Music at the time. That event, Liles says, is happening for sure--whether it's as part of the room's grand opening week or just a one-off event used to showcased the progress made in the completely revamped room is still up in the air.
If the room opens in 2010 or not, though, it's clear, that, in some ways, the venue's remodel won't be complete until mid-February. Explains Liles: That's when the venue will be adorned with its new marquis marquee--one modeled specifically after the venue's old one, which hung from the building during its mid-'40s heyday.
playing for the college at Oklahoma State University and, apparently, mini-Superwoman, too, as you'll see in the above, beautifully shot clip from Zach Gray of OSU's The Daily O'Collegian.
Here, as part of the student paper's "on." series you'll see JT&TNL performing an acoustic take on the band's song "Devil's Basement," a crowd favorite at shows and one of the new tracks the band's penned for its upcoming set-for-March major label debut, Pardon Me.
Earlier this week, the artist formerly known as PlayRadioPlay! and now known as Analog Rebellion, Aledo's Daniel Hunter, released the above clip, which offers fans yet another glimpse at the direction of his upcoming record. Specifically, the above song, which is set in the video to a clip of Hunter and a friend carving jack-o-lanterns, is a re-working of an earlier PlayRadioPlay! track called "Texas." Now titled "An Onest Thank You," the track is less an ode to Texas and more of a head-scratcher about what's happening around here, music-wise. Listen to the lyrics and see what I mean.
If, somehow, you managed to miss last night's KERA premier of St. Vincent and Andrew Bird's episode of Austin City Limits, the folks at PBS have done you a solid, friend: The whole thing--all 56 minutes and 46 seconds of it--is up and streaming at PBS.org, or, well, right here.
But he did make quite the showing, nonetheless, thanks to some assistance from the cast of one of his "Ice Cream Paint Job" remixes--Nipsey Hussle, Jim Jones, Soulja Boy and Snoop Dogg--joining the Dallas-based rapper and his DJ, K104's A Bay Bay, on stage for a live rendition of the mix, as promised.
Check a clip of the performance--which, OK, owes a lot to Soulja Boy who at least added some energy to it--after the jump.
Be warned, though: The clip will play as soon as you click.
Oh, and it appears as if Dorrough will be watching the events tonight at 8 Lounge on Greenville Avenue--and you're welcome to join him.
Yesterday, though, Dorrough wasn't anywhere near Dallas. Rather, he was on the set of BET's 106 & Park, where he debuted the above video for the party-starting "Wired to the T," the third single from his debut album, Dorrough Music. Like his previous two videos, this one's also directed by John "Dr. Teeth" Tucker. Unlike the earlier ones, it features a cameo from Mike Epps.
Not to get all weather-small-talk-ish so early in the workweek, but this clip's worth a watch, especially as a means to ease your way into this rainy Monday morning...
And, sure, that's a good enough excuse as any for us to post the above, brilliant Heidi Petty-created video, which sets old NASA footage of Ham the Astrochimp to Neon Indian's "Laughing Gas." (Hat tip.)
Dallas natives and brothers Juan and Oscar Salinas, who combine to form Play-N-Skillz, have won a couple Grammy awards. And, in case you forgot as much, they're happy to remind you a couple times in the above video.
Of course, that's not the sole purpose of its creation (though, certainly, it appears to be, at least in part). Rather, the above video for the duo's new song "Xxpensive" was posted yesterday to Youtube to promote the brothers' new mixtape, The Recession Proof, which will see its release on Tuesday. We've already heard a track or two, but hadn't seen the full tracklisting till now--and it's impressive, if only for the guest stars lined up to make appearances, among them Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Lil Jon, Bun B, T-Pain and Pitbull.
Bosque Brown's not in town this weekend--along with a host of other DFW-based acts, the enchanting, Mara Lee Miller-fronted folk act's been up in New York City for SXSW Light (aka CMJ 2009). Which, sure, might be as good enough an excuse as any to post the above video of MIller performing "White Dove" in a European cathedral during a recent oversas tour, which we've been sitting on for a few weeks now.
Dorrough's still spending his days as a BET darling, and, as such, spent part of last week taking a crew from BET.com's The Deal on a tour of his old stomping grounds as a student at Prairie View A&M University. In the clip above, you can watch Dorrough and his crew's take on the event, as they, too, filmed the whole thing while the BET cameras were rolling. Among the highlights:
Dorrough's sweet new chain piece--which features a picture of himself on it.
Dorrough riding around campus in a golf cart like Van Wilder.
A group of students singing along to every single word of "Ice Cream Paint Job."
A performance from Prairie View A&M's marching band.
Dorrough promising that he's going to one day return to the school to get his business marketing degree.
Not sure about the last one--but our thought process might just be a little distracted by Dorrough's new single, "Wired to the T."
In case you missed it: Over on Unfair Park yesterday, Robert posted U2's official behind-the-scenes video about setting up the stage for Monday night's show at Cowboys Stadium. In it, the crew reveals that it tooks "months of planning" to figure out how to make the stage work in the new stadium. But, more than that, one crew member admits to a serious case of screen envy: "We might have to feel second-best here, actually" he says.
Last Tuesday, Dallas-raised and L.A.-based soul singer N'dambi saw the release of her debut Stax Records-released album, Pink Elephant. And, to promote her new release, the one-time Erykah Badu back-up singer and co-writer stopped on by the offices of the new FADER-run soul music-centric site, Suite903, to perform some intimate, toned-down renditions of a couple of her new songs. Above, check N'dambi singing "Can't Hardly Wait" (the original music video for which can be seen here). Far as I can tell, it's neither a reference to The Replacements' song nor the 1998 teen comedy, but somehow shines nonetheless. It's the repetition of the line "I keep fucking with you," that does it for me, I think.
And, after the jump, go ahead and check out another clip from the performance session, that one featuring the singer's take on her song "L.I.E." It'll warm you up real nice, promise.
In case you were still curious about how the Toadies fared at ACL this year--and our own coverage wasn't enough--well, you might wanna check out the above video. You'll get some footage of the band's Sunday afternoon performance on the festival's main stage, and a few glances at the massive crowd that gathered for the show to boot.
But perhaps most worth your while in the above clip? The fact that frontman Vaden Todd Lewis lets it spill that "more than likely" the Toadies will be working on their fourth release at some point down the line. To which lead guitarist Clark Vogeler quickly responds, "We gotta wait for that seven-year window again, though."
Which is funny, yeah--but not as funny as the disdain with which Lewis treats this poor interviewer. That's pure gold.
Oh, what the hell: Just for kicks, here's a clip of Dallas's own The Secret Handshake, currently out on the road on an Alternative Press-sponsored tour, at a show, covering that Miley Cyrus song that's unavoidable at the moment.
Lots of news out of Smile Smile camp this morning. First and foremost, a new video (watch it above), this one for the song "Tempo Bledsoe," which, for all intents and purposes, is the first single off of the band's upcoming album Truth on Tape, the duo's sophomore release on Kirtland Records. The disc is set for a February 16, 2010 release, and, till then, the band plans on releasing a whole spate of new videos for fans to keep tuning into--or so the plan reads, as written over on the band's Web site.
As for the video: It's a pretty impressive single-shot take, complete with backing dancers and all that. Oh, and--get this--there are some pretty killer synth lines in the chorus! As for the intro, though? It's no "On Top of Old Smoky," I guess. But I've been having trouble shaking another ol' classic from my head as it plays...
First things first: Pangs of regret fill our hearts this morning at DC9--which, consider that today is Saturday, sounds about par for course. But, alas, today we have reason beyond our undiagnosed manic depression: Specifically, we missed the above seemingly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch one Eddie Vedder jumping on stage and jamming out with the Followill clan at ACL last night. We just figured we'd see the Kings on Wednesday at the ACC. So, yeah, we missed the collaboration. Sorry. But, as always, Youtube's here to get us out of a bind.
So where were we at this point of the night? A couple hundred yards west, checking out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who were brought to replace the Beastie Boys after the three MCs and one DJ regretfully backed out of the deal earlier this summer. We were treated to a hell of a show ourselves (more on that later), but we'd be lying if we said we didn't care that we missed this. Oh well. There's always the next life.
As we mentioned yesterday, Will Johnson joined Monsters of Folk last night on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, drumming and singing backup vocals. Fortunately for those of us who missed it, the video has already made its way to YouTube. The Centro-matic frontman, looking dapper in a dark suit and burgundy tie, got plenty of camera time too. From the size of the smile on his face, he must have been having a blast behind the kit again.
It's a pretty tantalizing--and a beautifully shot--one, too, although hell if I'm the one who's gonna try to explain the overriding theme of it to ya. Not sure I get it, really; unless the concept is that people will follow beautiful women down strange roads for no apparent reason. That I get.
Meanwhile, if you've got a few hours to kill, you might as well just peruse the whole live performance footage archives over at You and Yours, where you can find some pretty jaw-dropping footage of other local and touring acts that have stopped through The Fort in recent years--Fleet Foxes, Cold War Kids, Dan Deacon, Dr. Dog, The Quebe Sisters, Tim Locke and The King Bucks, among them. Just a whole bunch of really, really, ridiculously good-looking stuff over there.
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