Stephen Becker | May 13, 2009
Today in the roundup, I thought we’d check in on a couple of locals getting national attention:
ST. VINCENT: The local music watchdogs have been slobbering all over the new St. Vincent album, Actor, for the past few weeks. And lately, the national press has joined the parade. The New York Times ran a full-on feature [...]
Stephen Becker | May 11, 2009
This week, Paul talks with Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller about his new self-titled solo album, his first since 2006’s The Believer.
Anne Bothwell | May 8, 2009
THE PAY’S THE THING: Can you make a living on stage in North Texas? Coy Covington of Theater Jones takes a detailed look at what local actors get paid. The answer: not much. So why do it? “You do it for the process. You do it for theatrical oxygen. You do it because you love [...]
Betsy Lewis | April 28, 2009
When Victor Hugo began writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1829, he had high hopes that it would one day become a Disney cartoon. Though that dream did indeed eventually materialize, it took more than a century to come to fruition, as the voice of the beautiful teenage gypsy Esmeralda could only be realized by a [...]
Betsy Lewis | April 27, 2009
This week, Paul talks with Salim Nourallah about his latest album, Constellation.
Stephen Becker | April 13, 2009
This week, Paul talks with Denton’s Robert Gomez about his latest album, Pine Sticks and Phosphorus.
Stephen Becker | March 30, 2009
This week, Paul talks with Denton band Matthew and the Arrogant Sea about their new album, Family Family Family Meets the Magic Christian.
Stephen Becker | March 16, 2009
Art&Seek is launching a new podcast! ‘Track By Track” will appear every other week on Art&Seek. Texas musicians play their new albums and discuss what went into making them with KERA “90.1 at Night” host Paul Slavens.
Last week’s inaugural podcast featured Doug Burr. This week, Paul talks to Mara Lee Miller of Bosque Brown.
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mike daniel | March 12, 2009
DENTON – While digesting the schedule for the first day of the NX35 music festival in Denton, it rapidly became plain that tonight’s docket was the weakest of the inaugural event’s four days.
Also plain: that it was by design. Thursday isn’t a critical live-music night in most music towns, much less Denton – and particularly [...]
Anne Bothwell | March 12, 2009
Normally, the Art&Seek crew takes the weekend off from blogging. But not this weekend. Check back tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, because we’re fanning out and reporting from points North and South.
We’ll be at NX35, which, as Jerome Weeks told us this morning, gets underway today. If you, too, are going to Denton, be sure to [...]
