Chad

Chadrick Honore is The Youngest Player in the Legendary Rebirth Brass Band: Get Familiar

At 25 years old, Chadrick Honore has lived the life of a man at least twice his age. The New Orleans native and esteemed trumpet player for Rebirth Brass Band has traveled the world, won a Grammy, and contributed to the critically acclaimed HBO series Treme. But the devoted father & true music fan i ... More >>

Drama for Dinner: A Q/A with Kitchen LTO Creator Casie Caldwell

Even in reality TV-obsessed Texas, where there are more shows filmed about drunks, housewives, pint-sized beauty queens, gays, bling, dance moms and cowboys than you can count, odds are you won't score a cameo in one. Still, the more I hear about new Trinity Groves concept Kitchen LTO, the more it s ... More >>

The Rise of the Texas Atheist

With help from a former church boy from Dallas, the state's "nones" are getting organized and going public.

"You Ignorant Slut": A Dallas Lawyer Loses His Job For Creative Insults of Opposing Counsel

The practice of law is a subtle art, one which requires finesse, tact, and skill. Sometimes too, we've learned, it necessitates calling the other guy's lawyer a pansy, an asshole, an ignorant slut, and threatening, not very subtly, to sodomize him. (What's with lawyers and threatening to sodomize pe ... More >>

The Universal Food Shame Scale

Damn. Eating that freezer burrito made you feel like an awful human being. But, exactly how awful? Wish there was a way to know exactly how much shame you should feel when you eat a horrible, awful food? Wish. Effing. Granted. Above is our very helpful, very scientific Universal Food Shame Scale: ... More >>

B.B. King at Billy Bob's Texas, The Boom Boom Box at La Grange, and More Show Announcements

​It's a far cry from B.B. King's legendary 1968 performance at Fillmore West in San Fransisco, where the story has it that he was booed by black audience members. But, as he's done many times since, King is returning to perform at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Saturday, February 25.Tickets fo ... More >>

A Year Later, Checking in with Deep Ellum Radio's Kim Keebler (and her DER partner, Chad Lovell)

​Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people more behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth local music. Local Music 'Mericans officially debuted on November 16, 2010. Close enough for rock and roll, as far as some sort of an anniversary commemeration is concerned, right? Ou ... More >>

Dave Wilson [Daryl] on the Band's "Reunification"

Kristina Hunken[Daryl]​It's been a few years since [Daryl] has played live, but the band is back, for at least a show tonight at Sons of Hermann Hall. You might have seen their members in other bands, like Dylan Silvers and Beau Wagener with The Crash That Took Me or Jeff Parker with Les Américai ... More >>

The Old 97's, The Kills and the Rest of This Week's Show Announcements

Old 97's​In addition to yesterday's "Local Edge" sponsored show with The Burning Hotels, Mon Julien, Air Review and Menkena, the Granada Theater has some impressive shows to announce this week.First off, The Old 97's, who have had an impressive resurgence this year after releasing the brilliant Th ... More >>

Casey Hess of Descender and Doosu Names His All-Time Top Five Deep Ellum Bands

Casey Hess​Casey Hess of the Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated Descender (Best Hard Rock Act) is -- perhaps too quietly these days -- one of Dallas' great rock heroes. Since his stints in a few influential and popular area bands going back to the 1990s glory days of Elm, Main and Commerce, fe ... More >>

How An All-Girl, Michigan-Based Punk Group Fell For Dallas' The Telefones 30 Years Too Late

​A little over a week ago, Robert posted something of a gem to Unfair Park: Seems an all-girl punk band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 30 years after the fact have released a response song to the great "She's In Love With The Rolling Stones," a fine, fine single released by Dallas New Wavers The Tel ... More >>

Terri

Life among the monsters of adolescence.

Mission Of Burma, Smith Westerns and The Strongest List of Show Announcements All Year

Mission Of Burma​This week's show announcements are likely the strongest we've seen all year, and, to start it off, we have the legendary post-punk act Mission Of Burma. The band, which broke up in 1983, has been reunited since 2002, putting out what some say is their most impressive work yet. And ... More >>

Forget All About That Watersports Complex. DHA Convinced It to Move to Allen.

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

Show Announcements: Here We Go Magic, The Books, This Will Destroy You, The Death Set, I Love Math, Widespread Panic, Selena Gomez, Devin The Dude, Cinderella, Dolly Parton & More!

Here We Go Magic​Last time Here We Go Magic came to town, it was as the odd-fitting support on a tour with Dr. Dog. And on the night of their performance, Here We Go Magic stole the show from the Beatle-esque roots rockers, despite Dr. Dog's overpowering light show. Sure, Here We Go Magic's record ... More >>

Show Announcements: True Widow, 35 Conferette Schedule, The Hope Trust, Bill Frisell, KT Tunstall, Portugal. The Man, Black Label Society, Slobberbone & More!

Steve VisneauTrue Widow​It's been three years since local slow-grinding act True Widow released their self titled debut album to local acclaim. But their debut grabbed the attention of Kemodo Records, who signed the band just last year. And now they are poised to release their follow up, the ridic ... More >>

Two District 14 City Council Candidates Promise Not to Raise Taxes But Don't Have Concrete Solutions to Pending Budget Shortfall

James Nowlin​Late last week, we took a look at three of the five potential candidates for Angela Hunt's District 14 city council seat -- Jim Rogers, Vernon Franko and Brian Oley -- one of which (Rogers) said Hunt's decision to run for a fourth and final term caused him to put his campaign on h ... More >>

Show Announcements: Chris Cornell, Lil Wayne, Unwed Sailor, Tapes N' Tapes, Mix Master Mike, Sleigh Bells, The Psychedelic Furs, Band Of Heathens, Basshunter, Danielson, Black Lips, The Strange Boys, Screeching Weasel & More!

Chris Cornell​Chris Cornell hasn't fallen off the map like most of his '90s grunge-rock counterparts -- he's actually done the opposite. His impressive work with Audioslave and recent Soundgarden reunion tours have kept him in the public eye. Hell, even his dud of an album, Scream, couldn't slow h ... More >>

Show Announcements: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ariel Pink, Os Mutantes, Dresden Dolls, Girl In A Coma, NOFX, Free Energy, Harlem, Dignan, Deftones, Cake, Danzig, Thousand Foot Crutch, The Gourds, Godsmack, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Papa Roach & More

Tessa AngusBRMC​Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's 2010 album Beat The Devil's Tattoo isn't quite as popular as their previous efforts, but they still have some pretty big tour plans in support of the disk, including a few Texas dates with Stone Temple Pilots. Initially, though, the band wasn't coming ... More >>

Vinnie Paul and HELLYEAH! Find Their Rhythm

The police raid on the Rainbow Lounge has rocked the world of Fort Worth gays

Best Friends

Members of Slobberbone return to do bigger--and perhaps better--things as The Drams

Sissy Fits

Southern Baptist Sissies and King Ubu try to right powerful wrongs, personal and political

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

On the Town

We endured nine straight nights of booze and smoke to bring you this news. You can thank us later.

Mass N.E.R.D.er

Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are revolutionary producers. Now they're doing it for themselves.

Welcome Back

Gabe--Kapler, not Kotter--returns, but what does that mean for the Chad?

Scene, Heard

A good idea...in theory

Mandarin Makes Its Debut

Chomsky, Brutal Juice and others make the news

Out Here

Hank Thompson

Korn holed

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

Schmidt happens

After 10 years of being told he was the Next Big Thing, former Three on a Hill and Funland frontman Peter Schmidt makes the best record of his career. And he did it, for the most part, all by himself.

Night & Day

June 25 - July 1, 1999

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

One Fine Mess

Elected by no one, John Scovell and a clique of Dallas business leaders brought you DISD's most infamous cast of characters: Yvonne Gonzalez, Dan Peavy, Bill Keever, and Sandy Kress. Thanks a lot.

Strange bedfellows

Playwright Neil LaBute keeps company with the movies

Four legs and a funeral

This tale of a boy, his dog, and Mesquite Animal Control doesn't have a happy ending

Follow the Money

Don't let accusations of overtime fraud by low-level employees distract you. The real money disappears from the Dallas Independent School District through sleazy contracts awarded by top administrators.

"It's our turn to be heard"

With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

Pop fly

Tom Cruise indicts himself as a lightweight in Jerry Maguire

The Stink Bomber

From his raccoon-infested headquarters, Phil Thomas besieges enemies by fax and phone. He says he's fighting for ghetto kids. His targets say he's just bizarre.

Proud papa

A first album is born, among other things

The Truth About Townview (Part I)

How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics

Case dismissed

Judge tells the Nightcaps that ZZ Top aren't "copycats"