Clark Vogeler

Over the Weekend: Toadies, Old 97's, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe at the 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

The Toadies, the Old 97's, Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Main Stage Saturday, October 15, 2011 Alex ScottThe start of a glorious day in Deep Ellum.​ On Saturday afternoon, Deep Ellum boasted a buzz the area hadn't felt in years, as the Dallas Observer M ... More >>

The 10 Best Moments at This Year's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Mike BrooksMind Spiders on the rooftop of The Bone.​ It's tough to look back on an event like Saturday night's Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellu ... More >>

An Oral History of the Dallas Music Scene

Some of Dallas' most successful musicians recount the rebirth of its most storied entertainment district: Deep Ellum.

More Proof That Toadies Guitarist Clark Vogeler Is The Most Talented Dallas Musician in Film...

​The most accomplished area musician in the realm of film and television? C'mon, that's an easy one. It's Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler, long an Emmy winner thanks to his work on the editing team behind TV's Project Runway.And, now, another cool feather in the guitarist's cap: The documentary fi ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Toadies and South Padre Go Together Like Spring Break and Unprotected Sex

​In this week's edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer writer Keven McAlester tells the tale of his adventures in following The Toadies to South Padre Island for a special spring break gig in 1999. Actually, the piece spends just as much time following the band's roadie, Ken ... More >>

Toadies, Ume, Ishi, True Widow, Here Holy Spain

Saturday, March 12, at Energy Square Plaza

You Bet The Toadies Are Excited To Be Included On Girl Talk's New Mashup Album, All Day...

​The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis' mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to th ... More >>

The Lost Toadies Record Finally Earns Its Release

The Best Area Album Releases of the '00s

Toadies "More Than Likely" To Have A New Album In, Oh, The Next Seven Years Or So.

In case you were still curious about how the Toadies fared at ACL this year--and our own coverage wasn't enough--well, you might wanna check out the above video. You'll get some footage of the band's Sunday afternoon performance on the festival's main stage, and a few glances at the massive crowd ... More >>

Check Out This Short Toadies Tour Documentary...

Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler shot and edited the above footage for a five-minute, 32-second glimpse into the lives of the Toadies, their roadies and their tourmates The Willowz on the road. And, go figure, it's pretty cool. Hell, I'd watch a feature-length cut of this, I think.

A Big, Busy Day For Rhett Miller, Indeed.

The cover of Rhett Miller as taken by local photographer Jason Janik.If you ignore a brief dalliance from back in 1989, then, yes, today sees the official release of Rhett Miller's third solo record, a self-titled affair that's been getting the Old 97's frontman a whole lot of early attention from o ... More >>

Stand and Deliver

WIth No Deliverance, The Toadies revert to the bare bones of their past

Aging Gracefully

Two decades later, the Dallas Video Fest is better than ever

Toadies Getting Back Together. For One Day Only. Again.

Do You Wanna Die? (On Guitar Hero 2, Dude. Chill.)

Didn't You Used to Be a Guitar Hero?

No Grammy, But an Emmy?

Possums Reign Again

Who cares if the Toadies aren't going ape over their first reunion show in five years? The kids sure are.

Sweet Thighs and Another Surprise

Odds & Ends

Raise a final beer (or seven) to the boys in Speedtrucker at their farewell shows

On the Town

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

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Dig A Hole

When the bass player split, the Toadies split up

Hell Freezes Over

It took seven years to make a new record. It took five months for The Toadies to call it quits.

Scene, Heard

Are the Toadies breaking up? We don't know.

Dallas Stars

The Toadies haven't put out an album in a few years. Really. It's true.

Everyone's a Critic

Or at least a handful of musicians and music-industry types are, for a few brief moments

Scene, Heard

Where there's glass, there's theft

Playing Possum

After six years, The Toadies' new album is finally finished, and it's good. So why isn't it out yet?

Finally final

Who had May in the pool? The Toadies' new album is finished.

Scene, heard

DOMA 2000 (of course), Baboon takes it live; Elliot Smith helps The Toadies; and much, much more

Juvenile

Starplex Amphitheatre

Scene, heard

One Ton brings the discipline; Vogler takes the Azz; Zac makes some corrections

Scene, heard

I don't want my MP3

Or: How the Internet could kill the album

Blue notes

Centro-matic's second album is so good, it will break your heart

Show us your hits

The Toadies and South Padre go together like spring break and unprotected sex

Put up a fight

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

Nothing but static

Broadcast Data Systems listens to the radio so you don't have to

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.

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Roadshows

Working on a building

Last Beat is the local scene's full-service stop

Reign of toads

The Toadies tell why Bush deserves to die

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

Bronco hole

Dallas' last great concert hall suffers growing pains

Out Here

Big drummer boy

Funland's Will Johnson steps out from behind the kit

Rock and rollercoaster

After mulling its future for two years, Funland releases its first album