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September 27, 2011
Listen: Mr. Peppermint & Muffin -- "Yellow Bird"
Mr. Peppermint and friends. Over on Unfair Park today, Robert's got quite the treat -- an exclusive chat with freshly announced Dallas Observer Music Awards Ceremony performer Erykah Badu on the subject of the late, great Jerry Haynes on the subject of how the man behind the Mr. Peppermint monike ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
After 18 Years, Lakewood Bar & Grill Closes
The rent for Lakewood bars is too damn high. At least that's what we're learning this week as another area staple shutters its doors. Around 6 p.m. last night, Lakewood Bar & Grill updated its Facebook page with news of its abrupt closure. According to the update, the closure was unplann ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
After Energizing The Music Scene, Melissa Kirkendall Switched to Films (About Music).
Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Melissa KirkendallMelissa Kirkendall is a filmmaker. It wasn't always this way. In her younger years, Kirkendall spent a good chuck of her time immersed in the local music scene -- ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Deep Ellum Native Wes Garratt Will Pour Your Drink and Take Song Requests As DJ Wes Metal
Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene -- those who aren't necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move.Wes GarrattBehind the mixer, he's warmed up for Tripping Daisy, Bowling For Soup, Satellite Party ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2010
What It Was Like: Eighteen Bands In Twelve Hours.
Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day. The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>
Music
March 11, 2010
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Has Always Felt Connected To DFW
Pete FreedmanLA's Local Natives offered up the finest set of SXSW's second day. The second day of SXSW 2010 proved quite the copious one--and, for this here showgoer, a fortunate one. Seemed every time I popped into a different venue, another band was just cuing up its set. In total, SXSW brought ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"
The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score
Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.
They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust
In the summer of 1986, the Theatre Gallery was all about confronting the established aesthetic sensibilities of the comfortable arts patron. Basically, we loved to shock the shit out of people. Our venue existed to raise the bar on outrageousness and freedom of expression. Example: One of our ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: Loco Gringos Vivir Para Siempre en Nuestros Corazones
For more photos, album art and show posters, check out our slideshow here.Dallas bands are usually judged within the context of their efforts and accomplishments. Some spend stupid money on hair care products and aspire to a label deal; other bands actually rehearse and wanna make an important art ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2008
Echoes and Reverberations: Liza Richardson's Infinite Axis of Influence
Life has a way of dragging us off the charted path and into rather randomly obtuse trajectories. Sometimes you just feel like you're everywhere, all the time. Like you've got the whole world in the palm of your hand.It often comes down to an intangible law of attraction: Many of us have that one ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2008
Echoes and Reverberations: Allen Ginsberg’s East Dallas Drive-By
Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”
Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2008
Last Night: Nine Inch Nails at American Airlines Center
Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2007
Inside George Gimarc's Post Punk Diary
Allen Ginsberg and Karen X. Minzer at the Starck Club in Dallas in 1986 Driving through East Dallas the other day I had the odd impulse to swing by the old KNON studio. Kind of depressing to see an empty lot taking up that space now. The studio was formerly located upstairs in a wooden 50’s-e ... More >>
News
August 21, 2003
Brite Idea
Plus: Cover Up; Sack of Kittens; Net Gains
Music
August 30, 2001
Dig A Hole
When the bass player split, the Toadies split up
Music
August 23, 2001
Hell Freezes Over
It took seven years to make a new record. It took five months for The Toadies to call it quits.
Music
March 22, 2001
Tired of Waiting
The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly
Music
March 15, 2001
Dallas Stars
The Toadies haven't put out an album in a few years. Really. It's true.
Music
January 18, 2001
Scene, Heard
A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox
Music
January 11, 2001
River Guides
Why Austin isn't as cool as it used to be and a Texan in the White House might not be cool at all, according to Knife in the Water
Music
December 28, 2000
Dallas Stars
Revisiting the best local albums of 2000
Music
December 7, 2000
Scene, Heard
Manson takes on Weathermen
News
August 31, 2000
Playing Possum
After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?
Music
April 27, 2000
Do you believe?
Matt and Bubba Kadane team up with Macha... to cover Cher?
Film
March 16, 2000
What a Jem
Cohen plays Fugazi like an Instrument
Music
March 2, 2000
Out Here
Bad Livers
Music
February 24, 2000
Mr. Ed
Back on his own, Ed Hamell is still on Trial
News
February 11, 1999
Major Mistakes
Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?
Music
February 4, 1999
Cosmic love song
A "new" Roky Erickson record might be as close as anyone will ever get to him
Music
November 26, 1998
Too high. Period.
Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie
Music
October 29, 1998
At a Toad's pace
No, the Toadies haven't broken up. They're just taking their own sweet time
Music
August 6, 1998
Putting it to bed
They rocked quietly, and now Bedhead ends the same way
News
June 25, 1998
Letters
They rocked quietly, and now Bedhead ends the same way
Music
May 14, 1998
Third time's a charm
If the rock Fitz, then Dylan Silvers will wear it
Music
May 7, 1998
Vote the rock
Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards
Music
March 19, 1998
Keeping it down
Bedhead's so good, it doesn't need to turn it up to turn it out
Music
July 24, 1997
Out There
Bedhead's so good, it doesn't need to turn it up to turn it out
Music
March 27, 1997
Reign of toads
The Toadies tell why Bush deserves to die
Music
March 20, 1997
Pop mart
South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no
Music
December 26, 1996
Water from a deeper well
TV special documents the building of Wrecking Ball
Music
November 21, 1996
Blood on the tracks
A former Chili Pepper embraces his demon
Music
October 10, 1996
Mister Corn Mo rising
Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville
Music
August 15, 1996
Little mascara
The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up
News
May 23, 1996
Letters
The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up
Music
June 8, 1995
Star maker
Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?
Music
May 11, 1995
Roadshows
Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?
News
December 22, 1994
Letters
Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?
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