This week's Dallas Observer reveals that Sam Machkovech and his writer-pals were the idea-men behind the new K104 local show, Uncut! Wow! This is a rarely told story...buuuuut...it was actually my idea for Kidd Kraddick to start a morning show!

Speaking of the local rap/hip-hop scene...here are a few links for audio/video we've gathered up here at TexasGigs.com...

Audio Interview with Pikahsso


Video Interview with Headcrack


Audio Interview with 3 Alarm


Audio Interview with Bruh-N-Law of Kin Fok Kru


Audio Interview with Steve Austin


Audio Interview with City View


Audio Interview with Tahiti

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Personally, I never tire of the "Sugarlight screws bands and fans" conversation, but Sam wraps up the horror here....

"Sugarlight's gone now, but the good music's still here. Hailey's hosted a great Spune Productions showcase on Saturday night celebrating the best in Dallas rock, and Spune's at it again this weekend with two big shows (see And Another Thing, page 61). Nothing--not Deep Ellum, not lack of radio support, not Sugarlight--will ever stop DFW/Denton from churning out quality music, but would DMF-size crowds return to Deep Ellum to see it?"

Speaking of the Spune show Sam mentions above, TexasGigs.com was at Hailey's from noon until dawn on Saturday webcasting the entire show for your listening enjoyment...I guess Sam forgot to mention that part...sigh...

The Angelus Live Performance

Auto Escape Live Performance

Belafonte Live Performance

The Black Angels Live Performance

Black Tie Dynasty Live Performance

[DARYL] Live Performance

Deathray Davies Live Performance

Experimental Aircraft Live Performance

Hourly Radio Live Performance

The Numbers Twist Live Performance

Red Monroe Live Performance

Stellamaris Live Performance

Video of Red Monroe Performing "Symphony for Geno"

Video of The Angelus Interview/Performance

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Something I found of interest is Andrea Grimes' piece on Eric Grubbs' doin's as of late...

"For the past two years, Grubbs has divided his life between the clean-cut, chronically square world of alternate routes and construction delays and his book, a do-it-yourself, homemade volume about the evolution of post-hard-core music and (don't say it too loudly) that dreaded, much-maligned genre known as emo. It's called Post: An Anthology of American Post-Hardcore /Whatever-You-Call-It-Core: 1985-2005..." - Read it all now

You can click around the rest here. Frankly, I still find the new Observer site a tad confusing and way too time-consuming...I mean, I got work to do 'round here...

Cindy now blogs at The Fine Line.