Brave Combo

Opa! Das Bier! Five Things To Do This Week, Which Pretty Much All Involve Beer and Meat

This weekend is the 56th annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at the southwest corner of Hillcrest and Alpha Road. They're kicking things off Friday with a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m., along with a chance to win a trip for two to Greece (throw my name in the ... More >>

Paul Slavens Looks Back on a Decade of Ten Hands Press Photos

A stack of Ten Hands pics literally shot out of the filing cabinet the other day while thumbing around in the Observer photo vaults. The photos highlight the local band throughout their decade-long run, from the mid-'80s through the mid-'90s. We reached out to Ten Hands' frontman, Paul Slavens, and ... More >>

Mark Ryan's First Show

New Year's Eve

Saturday, December 31

Good Friday Thursday: New Year Edition

​Last weekend was a little dead, y'know with Christmas and all, but this weekend is the opposite. In fact, there are so many New Year's Eve events worth checking out that we've got a separate massive list here.The biggest one, though, is easily the Dallas Observer-sponsored Lights All Night festiv ... More >>

Good Friday: Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival and the Rest of the Weekend's Shows

Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival​If you've been keeping up with DC9 in any capacity over the last few weeks, or if you've seen the cover story of this week's Observer, then you know we're pretty psyched about Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival this weekend. Not only is there a carefully curated handful of brillia ... More >>

On The King Bucks, and The Importance of Really Connecting With an Audience...

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks​Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They're good lookin'. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don't like 'em and I'll tell you why: Because they don't care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of ... More >>

This Polka Dance Is Your Chance

Live It Up In the Fort

Denton Barn Farms a New DIY Scene.

Good Friday: Phosphorescent, Lady Gaga, DJ Cee Pee, Robert Plant and the Band Of Joy, New Pornographers, Ola Podrida, Maps & Atlases, Cults, and others

​The big show this weekend almost didn't happen. A few weeks ago, the entire blogosphere stopped down to report that Phosphorescent's van, with all of their gear, had been stolen in Brooklyn. Things weren't looking good for the tour that was scheduled to start only a few days later, but luckily al ... More >>

Czeching out the National Polka Festival

Man! Man in tights!​Maybe everyone who attended the National Polka Festival over the weekend in Ennis is too hungover from copious amounts of kolache and Czechvar to hop straight on the Craigslist to post their missed connections. Maybe that's why there's only this one lonely missed polka connecti ... More >>

This Week in Dallas Music History: Our First Music Awards Ceremony, Yay!

​This summer, we'll celebrate the 22nd year of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. And we've come a long way from the first ceremony taking up only one venue.The April 28, 1988 edition of the Observer had Brad Bailey reviewing our first annual Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony on April 21 ... More >>

Jazz, Man

Haiti Benefit Concerts Scheduled In Austin And Dallas, And Paste 'Songs For Haiti' Downloads Include Fort Worth Band

Fort Worth's The Burning Hotels are among the artists available for download once you donate to Paste Magazine's Songs For Haiti.​Perhaps the best thing about the local music scene is how generous North Texas musicians are when it comes to benefit concerts and other ways of donating to worthy char ... More >>

Travel the World In a Day

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To Brave Combo's 30th Anniversary Party At Sons Tomorrow Night

In this week's print edition, Darryl Smyers checks in with Brave Combo's Carl Finch to discuss the band's 30-year existence--a major feat for the polka trendsetters, and one that will be celebrated with a big bash tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall.Also, courtesy of Finch himself, who is rightfu ... More >>

Show Announcements: A Flock of Seagulls, Live, Def Leppard, more

This week's booking announcements comprises a pretty long list and features a few out-of-mind national acts--including A Flock of Seagulls, Live, and that band with the one-armed drummer. SXSW bookings are still coming in too, with a venue change for the Whispertown 2000. And, to top it all off, L ... More >>

BreakThruRadio Features Denton In Its "Spotlight On The City"

Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there's oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol' Denton, TX, this week in its "Spotlight On The City" feature, which you can stream at BTR's site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can get it and down ... More >>

German Suburban

Addison throws an Oktoberfest

Playback: The Week (5/30/08 - 6/6/08) In Review

Beard-a-Fit was All Whiskey and Whiskers

Beard's Out of ICU and Finding He Has Many, Many Friends

Czech Your Head

Head to West-comma-Texas

Proud Oom-pah Papas

Brave Combo brings another record into the world

Big Ole Fest

Art, wine and music in Addison

River Town

Fair Is Fair

History about more than corn dogs

Street Strollin'

Get your fill of meats-on-sticks at Fort Worth's fest

Mr. Peppermint´s 79th Birthday Party American Diabetes Association Benefit with Brave Combo, Boys Named Sue, Merry and the Mood Swings

Tuesday, January 31, at the Granada Theater

Don't Mess With Texas Main Street Live Series

Wednesdays through July 6 at Pegasus Plaza (corner of Main and Akard streets)

From the East

The DMA's culture bash

Odds & Ends

Grammy noms, Denton cares and Deedle's last dance

Art Zest

500 Inc. puts its money where its art is

Out With the Old, in With the Blues

More changes in Deep Ellum

Big Finish

Arts and Letters Live hosts some free speech

Scene, Heard

Prize Money's back, kinda

Scene, heard

Bad mouthing good bods; Keeping up with the Buck Joneses; the Broose is loose; Tim DeLaughter speaks; And much more

Mitch Marine, All Star

Or, how to join a pop band you really like

Rocket from the Cripps

Joe Cripps leaves Brave Combo for brave new worlds

Buzz

Night & Day

December 24 - 30, 1998

Korn holed

It's Hard to Swallow, but Vanilla Ice goes...metal?

Out Here

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Gathering steam

Brian Houser hopes that a new album will add momentum to his career

Rise and shine

Weekend offers a whirlwind tour of local music scene

Roadshows

Events for the week

Events for the week