But I Just Like Music

Tweet Oh, Lana Del Rey. You have divided the indie world like the Super Bowl divides football loyalties. Your SNL performance made babies cry, and your songs are now omnipresent on stations that play good music and those that just pretend to. Your album has topped charts across the Internet and the globe, yet… I [...]

Tweet That’s right. We’re giving away 2 tickets to the sold out Jeff the Brotherhood/the Kills show tonight at the Granada Theater (home of our favorite new haunt, Sundown). How did we make this happen? Magic, my friends, magic. If you haven’t heard about this goodness that is this lineup, check our show preview post. We’re [...]

Tweet Christmas came a little late for the team here at BIJLM, but it was worth the wait. Santa got us a perfect gift – a brand new(ish) Dallas band that freaking. rocks. We caught Mystery Skulls’ performance to open the night at Club Dada’s NYE bash, headlined by Astronautalis. While the crowd was pretty [...]

Tweet We do a lot of disparaging of pop bands around here. Let’s face it, we’re at the point where very few indie music fans are going to claim Foster the People on their best bands of 2011 list. It’s like there’s an imaginary line that bands cross that move them immediately from indie to, [...]

Tweet There comes a time in every blogger’s life when we have to admit our guilty pleasures. For some, it might be something as small as liking Foster the People after July (because, let’s be honest, none of us are going to admit to that.) For others, it’s worse. And for me, dear readers it’s [...]

Tweet In case you missed it (and, sadly, we did) – Young the Giant played a free show in Dallas last night to celebrate the launch of the new Windows Phone. Luckily, for latecomers like us, there’s another show tonight, and we have 2 pairs of VIP tickets to give away! That’s right – not only do you [...]

Tweet The dream of the 90s may be alive in Portland, but the memories of 2007 are still alive in Feist. Her show on Tuesday at The Majestic Theater brought back recollections of iPod commercials, illegal music downloads and girl power music – all things that very much resonated with the packed house at this gorgeous venue. [...]

Tweet Ladies and gentlemen, Feist is back. Just following the release of her new album Metals on October 4th, she’s blessing our fair city with her presence with a show tonight at the Majestic Theater. This is her first release since her iPod-famous tune “1-2-3-4″ after her 2007 album “The Reminder,” and after a “break” [...]

Tweet There has to be a point where touring gets a little tiring. The same songs, night after night, and the vague discomfort that comes with knowing you might say “I love you, Chicago!” to a crowd in Dallas. We’ve seen plenty of bands that treat their shows like your Average Joe would treat a [...]

Tweet There seems to be a formula for some bands – lead singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer. Sometimes one person does more than one of those things, and sometimes there’s more than one of each. But at least half of the time, that’s just about what you’re going to get. Indie music, though, seems to be [...]