Category: rock music
One Day in the Life: SXSW 2010
Unseasonably cold weather ripped through Austin, Texas during the third day of this year’s SXSW fest. It was the first I’d ever planned on attending in 13 years. Last time I was there in 1997, hawking my own music project and spacing out to the sounds of Wayne Coyne and Friends’ insane Parking Garage Experiment….
RIP Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton, the Memphis-born singer-songwriter and voice of The Box Tops and Big Star, passed away yesterday at the age of 59 (reportedly while mowing his lawn). He was scheduled to play a reunion show with Big Star at SXSW in Austin this Saturday. Chilton reportedly died from a heart attack in his adopted hometown…
Queens of the Stone Age – House of Blues – Dallas 9.16.07
Had a fun-filled weekend that left me more than a little exhausted. Visited a bunch of places here in town that I’ve never been to before… First off, Friday, after another late night at work, I trekked out to Gilley’s in the Cedars section to check out my friend Ian Bjornstad who was playing with…
Brutal, Juice
File this under things you’d never thought you’d see again. Here’s a video from the late-lamented Denton rock group Brutal Juice. This was filmed circa 1995 in Dallas over by what is now the South Side lofts. The opening scene was actually shot on a street in Lower Greenville. How do I know so much?…