Ben Folds

Top Nine Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: June 13-19

I know I say this every week, but Dallas REALLY DOES have a little something for everyone this week, including a local band's EP release, an underground hip-hop show, a gig from a country singer-songwriter, a national folk-pop duo, a metal and hardcore show, a gigantic '90s music concert and a Tom W ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In DFW This Week, January 14-17

Robert Gomez, Evan Jacobs Wednesday, January 16, at Dan's Silverleaf, Free A brand new effort from folk singer-songwriter Robert Gomez is called the Green Hour Residency at Dan's Silverleaf. Come during happy hour in Denton for improvisational music from Gomez and former Midlake musician Evan Jacobs ... More >>

Eleven of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Mission of Burma, Willie Nelson, Ben Folds Five, Brutal Juice and More

Mission of Burma Friday, September 14, at Dan's Silverleaf, $13/$16Spune productions' Lance Yocom has been sitting on this show for a while. The Boston punk act, whose reunion has lasted longer than its original run, should make for an interesting show at Dan's. Expect it to be packed and loud.S ... More >>

Ben Folds Plays With the Fort Worth Symphony

Florence and the Machine, Eddie Vedder and More Show Announcements

​​If there is a current British Invasion, it's being led by UK's high-charting indie-pop band Florence and the Machine. They're so hot right now. It didn't hurt that they had a song featured at the end of one of the Twilight movies, which, in the music world, is like being given a lifetime suppl ... More >>

Last Night: The Jayhawks, Jolie Holland

The Jayhawks.​Last Night: The Jayhawks, Jolie Holland Granada Theater November 16 Better than: rummaging through closets for dubbed copies of Crossroads episodes. Looking only at The Jayhawks' set list from last night, you could think the show was more for a hardcore fan than a casual one, b ... More >>

TV On The Radio, Broken Social Scene, Ben Folds and More Show Announcements

They've got faces for TV On The Radio.​This week's show announcements come to us in the form of a one-two punch. TV On The Radio are fresh off the release of their brilliant new album Nine Types Of Light, and Broken Social Scene pretty much haven't released a bad album to date. Now, the two h ... More >>

Listomania: The Songs That Give Thanks, a Field Guide

Not a song, but we sure are thankful for this.​It's hard to argue with Charlie Brown: Thanksgiving is here, man (paraphrased). Over on our on food blog, City of Ate, the writers are counting down to Thanksgiving with odes to their favorite T-Day foods. DC9's thinking: why can't we join in on t ... More >>

Smiling at the Ceiling

Smiling at the Ceiling (EP Self-released)

Good Friday: Centro-Matic, Sir Silky, Ben Folds, El Gato, Sundress, Eluvium, Sleep Whale and others

Centro-matic​If you're even vaguely familiar with music in Dallas, the word "Centro-matic" has almost certainly worked its way into your vocabulary. You are probably familiar, too, with the fun affairs their concerts tend to be.But if the number of times you've seen them is somewhere in the double ... More >>

Ben Folds

Sunday, May 9, at the House of Blues

Picture Show: Ben Folds with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Patrick Michels Folds working the ivories alongside conductor Rei HotodaBen Folds returned to the Meyerson Symphony Center last night to accompany the DSO in a night of classed-up favorites and a few new tunes.Conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda led the orchestra beside Folds at the piano. The o ... More >>

Folds Gives Best Imitation Of Himself

North of the Dial

Ben Kweller On His Own Sound: 'The Mix Of Eagle, Edge and Young Country'

Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father--and says he's eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing Hors ... More >>

Ben Here

Folds stops by Dallas with a new set list

Amanda Palmer

Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner Records)

Who is Mr. Sensitivity?

Eric Hutchinson and Corey Smith want you to know that they feel your pain

Frontier Brothers, Calhoun, The Barons and Collin Herring

Friday, November 23, at The Aardvark

Good Friday: Frontier Brothers, Sawed Off Sick

2007 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

The Perfect (Rocket) Summer Single

Mayer All Night

Paul Brill

Harpooner (Scarlet Shame)

Into the Folds

Adrian!

Prog-rock legend Belew powers up the Granada

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Corn Mo

Monday, August 28, at the Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Gypsy Blood

David Cunniff Lives in Pain. Skinhead Jesse Chaddock lives in a Texas Prison. Who got the raw deal?

Adam Richman

Friday, June 3, at Gypsy Tea Room

Spoon

Gimme Fiction (Merge)

2005 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Case Solved: Killer musicians captured, thanks to your tips

Ben Folds

Songs for Silverman (Epic)

Around Hear

The best 10 local albums of 2004

Microphoner

Get It On (Self-released)

Paul Brill

New Pagan Love Song (Scarlet Shame)

Shatner, Transformed

After years of being a musical punch line, Captain Kirk sets his new CD on stun

Ben Folds

Super D (Epic)

Piebald

June 23

Twist at the End

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

On His Way

Ben Kweller grew up. Ben Kweller got better.

Phantom Planet and Ben Lee

November 22

Howie Day

November 3

Ben Kweller with Centro-matic

February 27

Ben Folds, Divine Comedy

March 11

The Mike Douglas of the '90s

Out There

Letters

Freedom of choice

Ben Folds Five: a revolution in genre-bending

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad