Daniel Johnston

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #39-20

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 Best Texas songs, #59-40 The Spotify playlist for songs #39-20 39. Billy Joe Shaver, "Live Forever" "Live Forever" is an emotional experience. The line, "Don't let the darkness take them" is tear-inducing, given that his own son, Eddy, was take ... More >>

In the Night Kitchen Forever: Maurice Sendak's Life Was Tied To Music and Art

With the passing of storyteller Maurice Sendak today, many of a certain age found ourselves thrown back into specific childhood memories of his books. After re-watching In the Night Kitchen, the animated short based on his controversial book of the same name, I started piecing together a very specif ... More >>

And the Winners Are ... You

Our 23rd annual Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase a scene ready for the spotlight.

Unexpected Influences: Rapper galleryCat Talks About Loving The Cure, Taylor Swift and Folk

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.​Dallas rapper galleryCat is known for his multi-instrumental live affairs, which often end up ... More >>

The Vaselines

Friday, October 15 at The Loft

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show From Nirvana Influences The Vaselines at The Loft

​In this week's print edition, Darryl Smyers talks up tomorrow night's show at The Loft from The Vaselines, who, after bearing an influence over Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the early '90s, took a 17-year break after their 1992 compilation release, All the Stuff and More..., before Sub Pop released an ... More >>

Last Night: Mates of State at the Granada Theater

Mates of State, Free EnergyGranada TheaterJuly 7, 2010Better than: Sitting home and watching cooking showsMates of State​Mates of State were back at the Granada last night playing to a very appreciative crowd of fans that filled the theater's floor level--but not the whole theater space. The balco ... More >>

ACL '09 in Photos: The Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog and More from Friday Onstage

Photos by Patrick MichelsThe Avett Brothers share a family moment Friday afternoon.​Along with Pete's takes on some of Friday's biggest sets here at ACL, we already brought you shots of Phoenix, Raphael Saadiq and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- so before we head on out for another day in the front row (fo ... More >>

ACL '09: School of Seven Bells Starts Day One Off On A High Note--And Offers Us Some Details On its Next Release.

Sorry if this post comes off as a little, I dunno, off. As I write this in the ACL press tent, Daniel Johnston's giving an on-air interview to my right, School of Seven Bells is giving a web chat interview to my left, and Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights are talking up a print report ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... 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 >>

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

Last Night: Roky Erickson At The Granada Theater

Deep Snapper

Into the Ugly (Edna Peppers)

What It Was Like: Basia Bulat, Foreign Born, Vampire Weekend, DeVotchKa, Robyn

Making a List, Checking It Twice

Black Sabbath?

Amid a dark controversy, the Denton festival will still go on

Party Hard

Dallas blogettes throw down

A Good Records In-Store That Sounds Great

Bits and Pieces

Greenville gets a boost

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Tortured

Mark Linkous tries to put the sparkle back in his horse

Live Blog

When Will Bills Open? As Soon as Possible.

Sundance: The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

A Trip to The Last Record Store

Put Your Head on Will Johnson's Shoulder

Adaptation

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

Living With Post-War

M. Ward's recipe for political change: Let's ignore the president.

M. Ward

Post-War (Merge)

The Devil Inside

Daniel Johnston headlines at the Modern

Way Down

in the Hole

Can Daniel Johnston keep the devil at bay long enough to be successful?

Mary Lou Lord / Mark Eitzel

Live: City Sounds (Rubric) / Music for Courage & Confidence (New West)

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Tired of Waiting

The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

Blink

Home art invasion; The deal of the art

Across the Bar

Deep-sixing Deep Ellum Records; The Tomorrowpeople play every song they know; Pleasant Grove gets Last Beat; Adventures of Jet hopes to be Born on the World Wide Web

Tom Waits for no one

Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest

Empty Beach

The Modern's Diebenkorn exhibit makes it OK to hate abstract art

Events for the week

Time to kill

McConaughey and Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Come on feel the Noyze

Local group gets a gospel sound that's contemporary yet sanctified

Out There

Out There

Roadshows

Noise annoys

Compilation of "experimental music" skirts the line between art and nausea

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

Bent by nature

On Dead Dog's Eyeball, Kathy McCarty breathes life into Daniel Johnston's songs