What a weekend! Tonight alone has a week's worth of great music. Here are a few of the many noteworthy shows in town, but there are plenty more to choose from. Please add your own picks in the comments. First, a reminder of the shows we've already mentioned. Tonight, the Gonzalez brothers will improv with friends at Kettle Art, El Ten Eleven post-rock out at The Cavern, Death Cab For Cutie and some other boring bands play at a boring venue, Nicholas Altobelli releases a CD at Buon Giorno in Grap
Eagles of Death Metal, Klopek, Austin Brown Sounds, The Improv
The Door Dallas
December 12, 2008
Better Than: Just the plain old Eagles.
Cory Graves
Variety was the unifying theme of last night's seemingly random assortment of warm-up acts for the Eagles of Death Metal show at the Door.
The first band of the night, The Improv, seemed to know they were a little out of place: "We're kinda punk, not really Eagles of Death Metal style..." the frontman admitt
This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.
Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat
We already reminded you once, but what the heck, let's do it again: Sunday is Mother's Day. Remember it. Write it in permanent ink on your hand. Don't spend the next year in the doghouse with mom, because, really, moms rock. Now, onto some actual rock. As always, let's lead with the show's we've already hyped. Tonight's the Phoenix Project benefit show at Reno's that Jesse just told you about and, also, the Backside Pick CD release show up in Denton at Hailey's.Saturday's a pretty big day:
