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The Burning Hotels

The Burning Hotels often get compared to The Killers. But the local quartet does the disco-rock darlings somewhat differently, chiefly by stressing melancholy over...

Dirty Diversion

The label “garage band” may have fallen out of fashion years ago, but that doesn’t mean rockers no longer practice the art. Though it...

The Village Voice

For the past 15 years, the voice of local music for Star-Telegram readers has been Malcolm Mayhew. He was here when The Toadies and...

Urizen

Urizen is a local metal quartet, though “metal” may be too limited a word to describe exactly the kind of racket Urizen makes. Their...

Red Scare

The five guys in Red Monroe think of themselves primarily as a live act — they say that onstage is where their bombastic post-punk...

It’s Hip to Be Square

I love hipsters, I really do. I know I make fun of 'em a lot, saying they're too cool for school, that they're way...

Jason Boland & the Stragglers

Jason Boland & the Stragglers promote themselves as country outlaws, but if their new c.d. is any indication, they might be in a transition...

The Burden Brothers

No reason to describe this one in faux-poetic terms or edu-ma-cational journalism. The Burden Brothers’ new album Mercy rocks your backside about 75 percent...

The Damnwells

The Damnwells have come a long way since recording their debut c.d., the stripped-down Bastards of the Beat, in a mini-storage unit in Manhattan....

The Evangelicals

Any band that opens an album with a minute-long instrumental prelude of squiggling, squealing synth guitar lines — and calls it “Mouthful of Skeletons”...