But I Just Like Music

We here at BIJLM would most definitely actually produce an album, if given a chance and made fully aware of what exactly an executive producer does. Heck, we’d probably actually be in a band, if we had any musical talent. But we don’t. So we have a blog. The O’s, however, have OODLES of musical [...]

Remember Taylor Rea? You know, the former trippy but captivating singer for popular Dallas folktronic act Ishi? Well, back in early 2011 her and guitarist Rob Bastien left Ishi to start their own project. That project became ZHORA, of which we were teased with an early single in July. Now, we’re excited to report that [...]

Received a nice little Direct Message (that’s Twitter lingo for all you non-tweeters) from our friends Soviet. Looks like they’ve gone out and made a fancy new music video. The video is for their song “Hall and Oates”, and is directed by Alex Wagner. The video definitly has a bit of an early 90s vibe [...]

According to our friends over at Pegasus News, the Lakewood Bar and Grill closed last night after a lock-out note was posted on the longtime hangout’s door. A Facebook post confirms the bad news – after 18 years, the LBG is closing down. For local bands and promoters (or at least for us), this is [...]

No plans this weekend? Head to Denton for some great live music. Here’s a list of the city’s best offerings this weekend. Friday Rubber Gloves (411 East Sycamore St.) showcases six musicians who you may have otherwise never heard of – Corey P. Coleman, Cody Robinson, An Absence of Color, Joel Larner, Johnny Red and Nathan Norton. Presented by Dentoneer, the [...]

One of the benefits of running a music blog is that you occasionally get free things. Be that concert tickets, album downloads or physical CD’s – it’s one of the perks. But in the year that we’ve been running this blog (more on that later), we can with confidence say this is the first time [...]

Things I can now cross off my bucket list: spending a Saturday night with the 40 and up crowd at Granada Theater, having my socks rocked (okay, country-ed) off by a 6-months pregnant Aussie badass. Top that. I really wasn’t sure what I was in for when I signed up to go to “Girls’ Night [...]

As many of you have heard by now, local wunderkid Kris Youmans launched Tactics Productions, a new independent production company. We’re totally pumped by this, and not just because Kris Youmans is kind of a badass. For years, Youmans has brought awesome acts to some of Dallas’s biggest venues, most recently booking acts at Gilley’s [...]

Let’s get one thing out of the way. I’m what may be considered a quasi-O’s-groupie. I think I dragged Scrappy to half a dozen shows over the past year, and I even listen to their first album, “We Are The O’s,” while I’m running. And it’s not even music appropriate for working out. So, that [...]

Let me start off by saying that this was my first time at The Double Wide, and within 5 minutes of my arrival, I desperately wanted a fried bologna sandwich, some Funyuns, and a big Yoo-hoo (All Rights Reserved, Trademarked and what-not). Needless to say, by the time Air Review took the stage, I was [...]