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Year in Review: 2009's Best Indie Records, the College Rockers Honor Roll

Yeah, pal, that's "college rock," scare quotes very much included. Look, it's a meaningless term. As are "indie," "alternative," "hipster," etc., etc. Let's not overthink this: Here we have ten splendid records with an amorphous rock 'n' roll designation, albeit in a perhaps slightly more experiment ... More >>

Night Moves: Your Hat Has Fur, But Mine Lights Up

Ray and Peter LekAt Excuses Friday night. Could be a German thing.​M.A.N.D.Y. spun German techno at Excuses Friday night as the dance floor filled up with partiers wearing furry animal faces and light-up octopi on their heads. Saturday night, our nightlife crew caught up with Austin's Irrespo ... More >>

Whitt's End: 11.13.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, so let it be known that my buddy and Ticket founding father Mike Rhyner has been/is calling for a Cowboys' appearance in this year's Super Bowl. This, after 14-plus years as president of the a ... More >>

St. Vincent And Neon Indian Named To New York Magazine Brooklyn Top 40

​I know, I know. You've had it with daily St. Vincent and Neon Indian updates. All that has to happen now is for St. Vincent to cover "Ice Cream Paint Job" and have Alan Palomo remix it, at which point DC9 would be thrown into a Boolean loop from which it would never emerge. But when I saw the two ... More >>

Alela Diane, Marissa Nadler, Bosque Brown

Wednesday, November 4,at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth

Chairlift Bruises Beautifully.

What Went Wrong During Rainbow Lounge Raid? Says TABC's Report, Everything.

State Rep. Lon Burnam​Every local media outlet's been waiting for it, but KTVT-Channel 11 managed to get its hands on the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission's internal investigation concerning the raid on the Rainbow Lounge, and it isn't pretty. Right, Fort Worth State Rep. Lon Burnam? "I think t ... More >>

Hash Over: Roll For Charity, Get Spoken To At Brooklyn Jazz Cafe, And Mr. Mango Rising

We suggest contestants find out who the judges are before attempting a Nyotaimori presentation. ​The ever-charitable RA Sushi in Plano will hold its first "Roll'N With RA" charity sushi contest 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Six non-profit organizations--Hunger Busters, the Susan G. Komen Race For ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Moving On Up

​Some places we covered this week are punching above their weight, for better or for worse, and others are aiming purposefully low. The best of City of Ate this week covers a handful of spots toying with a new social place.The Week in Review(s): Your own Dallas Observer: Dave tries slumming it at ... More >>

St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement

Thursday, June 18

Bonnaroo: Peace, Love, Music... and Anarchy

Gig Alert: Kevin Devine, Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz and Sarah Jaffe at The Loft Tonight

Denny MuiKevin Devine loves baseball, too.Brooklyn singer/songwriter Kevin Devine delicately walks the line between the personal and the political, and his nearly decade-long career has seen him signed and dumped by a major label while still maintaining a dedicated following. And Brother's Blood, De ... More >>

What It Was Like: The Wheel, The Donkeys, Bishop Allen, Hymns, Daniel Johnston, The Wrens, Avett Brothers, Passion Pit

Pete Freedman Passion Pit takes to the tent at the Radio Room's patio.Spent the whole day camped out at the Radio Room for the great lineup booked to play the Brooklyn Vegan/Paste party there. Well worth it, too.  Act: The Wheel, a bare-bones folk duo from Denver.Where: Radio RoomWhat ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Will studios go down with the rest of the industry?

A Free Show (If You’re of Age) That Definitely Shouldn’t be Free

So You Know: There's Some Local Connections To Tonight's Show At The Lounge

Off Corpse: Or, American Airlines No Longer Just Losing Luggage

Update On Marcus Striplin's Dallas Appearances

No More Bull

After splitting from Matador, Early Man searchs for—and finds—a newfound credibility

Big-Screen Sex and the City Is A Poor-Man's Knockoff

In on the Ground Floor

Sharing a south-side secret

It's Hard to be a St. in the City

Oxford Collapse

Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop)

Grizzly Bear

Yellow House ( Warp)

Say Hi to Your Mom

Friday, August 4, at Hailey's

Dillinger Escape Plan, Dysrhythmia

Wednesday, July 19, at the Gypsy Tea Room

This Dogg's Got Bite

The Beatdown

If you wanna hear Denton's best-kept national dance secret, then get to the Party

Oceanographer

On Leaping From Airplanes (One Mountain)

Junk Science

Feeding Einstein (Embedded Music)

Getting to Know Us

The more the world knows about the Dallas music scene, the better it'll be

TV on the Radio, the Wrens and the Panthers

March 21

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Creep Thrills

The attraction of Thrillvania is horrifying

Letters

Mo Better

Corn Mo left D-FW for NYC, but he didn't leave his talent behind

Bad Deal

Deuces Wild tries for retro chic but comes up a few cards short

The Look of Hate

Arthur Miller fixes his Focus on prejudice in 1940s Brooklyn

Best Place to Take a Tourist

Highland Park Christmas lights tour

Best Art Gallery

Plush, Purple Orchid

Good/Bye

The Good/Bad Art Collective turns eight and moves out

Smoldering embers

The reflections of Allied Theatre's Fires in the Mirror are all surface

Camping out

Let's do the Time Warp on stage again

Manhattan transfer

Denton's Good/Bad Art Collective takes its act to New York and hopes to survive the city's brutal art scene.

Truly, deeply

With the long-awaited release of Stumptone, Denton loses a true talent but gains a cool album

Buzz

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Buzz

Forward to the Past

Grapevine Lake project takes aim at the automobile