David Byrne

Deep in the Heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie.

Starck Contrast

Another new documentary on the Starck Club revisits the storied Dallas nightclub of the '80s

St. Vincent Pays Homage to Elvis Costello on Conan

It's no secret St. Vincent has a certain affection for pop-punk heroes a few generations back. Note her impressive collaborations with the Talking Heads' David Byrne, which include live performances, a record and an interpretation by a 12-piece marching band. Now St. Vincent (er, Annie Clark) seems ... More >>

City Council Rolls a Gutter Ball on Greenville

How neighborhood activists used zoning and fear to cause the death of cool.

George Quartz To Take His Cable Access Show Bit to The Stage at the Texas Theatre on Friday

Dallas has always had a collective soft spot for cable-access weirdos. The Big D is, after all, the home base for the Church of the Subgenius, that irascible '80s collective of local weirdos based out of a ramshackle house in East Dallas, who put out books, videos, and 'zines (and who count among t ... More >>

St. Vincent Sets Sept. 13 Release For Third LP, The John Congleton-Produced Strange Mercy

St. Vincent​Two years after the release of her sophomore (and breakout) album, Actor, the Dallas-born guitar heroine Annie Clark, who performs hauntingly gorgeous music under the name of St. Vincent, has just announced that her third full-length album, Strange Mercy, will be released via the 4AD ... More >>

Between Production Work With St. Vincent and David Byrne, Paper Chase Mastermind John Congleton Launches New Band Nighty Night

John Congleton​Just a few minutes ago, local producer John Congleton confirmed to DC9 that he is indeed currently producing St. Vincent's third, as-yet-unnamed album at his Elmwood Recording Studio in Oak Cliff. No surprise there: Congleton played a major role in Dallas native Annie Clark's sophom ... More >>

Joe Ely Does "Dallas," In Dallas

What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely's extraordinary, intimate "Storytellers" performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night's "Behind the Bamboo Shade" followed by Ely's rendition of the immortal "Dallas," penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the ... More >>

Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

What you see above is a Jeff Liles-filmed two-fer from Joe Ely's extraordinary, intimate "Storytellers" performance at the Kessler last night: Dig All Night's "Behind the Bamboo Shade" followed by Ely's rendition of the immortal "Dallas," penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and originally released as the ... More >>

Nova Posta Vinyl Offers Free Download of New Robert Gomez EP

Robert Gomez: pensive--even when at the Sears Portrait Studio.​Nova Posta Vinyl, the record label that's owned and operated by Midlake's Eric Pulido and Robert Gomez, has been busy lately. Just last week, we found out that the Denton label will be re-releasing Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanth ... More >>

Taking Oak Cliff's "Better Block" to Atlanta and the Congress for the New Urbanism

It began as an art installation-slash-political statement at the clusterfudged intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street in Oak Cliff: the Better Block project, which thumbed its nose at Dallas's antiquated City Code. And it was a great deal of fun for all involved -- those wh ... More >>

Yeasayer? Or Mehsayer?

It began as an art installation-slash-political statement at the clusterfudged intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street in Oak Cliff: the Better Block project, which thumbed its nose at Dallas's antiquated City Code. And it was a great deal of fun for all involved -- those wh ... More >>

Brave Combo Celebrates 30 years of Rockin' Polka

It began as an art installation-slash-political statement at the clusterfudged intersection of Kings Highway, W. 7th Street and N. Tyler Street in Oak Cliff: the Better Block project, which thumbed its nose at Dallas's antiquated City Code. And it was a great deal of fun for all involved -- those wh ... More >>

Celebrity Spotting

Over at Unfair Park, Robert "Alan Peppard" Wilonsky spots David Byrne out on the town. Celebs have to eat and drink sometime. And when they do...

Good Friday: Peaches, Viva Voce, Malford Milligan, David Byrne, International Waters, Oliver's Army, Airline, Jonathan Byrd, The Phuss, Gaelic Storm, Todd Sarvies

This particular weekend offers an interesting mix of local and national talents, many of which are playing unheralded venues scattered about the Metroplex. The mix of genres represented in our area in the coming days is quite remarkable.First off the shows that were already covered in print or onlin ... More >>

Are You Interested in Running the Majestic Theater? Because Now's Your Big Chance.

Earlier this week, WFAA-Channel 8 reported that the Majestic Theater is losing its operator, Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group, at the end of June, because, look, it's just lost too much money to continue running the designated city landmark. Which isn't necessarily the case: Dallas Summer Mus ... More >>

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 >>

Lucinda Williams Keeps Things Sweet

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Houses That Go Oink | The Cock Crows

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 >>

How Come Nobody Bitches About $1.3 Mil Spent on Fair Park Band Shell No One Ever Uses?

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 >>

The Lowdown

Music tidbits from the Big D

Of Montreal

Thursday, June 9, at Rubber Gloves

Last Call

In which we discuss the highs, the lows--and all the crap that came between

Reason to Smile

After battling mental illness and hit-or-miss records, Brian Wilson is back with a lost classic

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

Heart of Gold

Neil Young charts his Greendale via "a little love and affection"

London Underground

Stephen Frears delivers accidental tourists caught up in Dirty Pretty Things

A Swinger and Four Drunks

Jon Favreau serves up Dinner for Five

Flesh for Fantasy

Brett Ratner tarts up this Red Dragon adaptation

Even Handed

Lewis makes more progress with Deep Elm Records

Brave Combo

Joe Cripps and Barrett Martin ride a Fast Horse to record-label utopia

Pure and Simple

A virginal oaf seeks love Under the Sun

Wide Awake in America

Richard Linklater seeks meaning in Waking Life

Ghost story

A heartbroken politician sets about Waking the Dead

Carl's corner

Carl Finch and Brave Combo follow Grammy gold with The Process

Back to the Future

Brave Combo reunites its nuclear polka family as it celebrates its 20-year anniversary

Tom Waits for no one

Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest

Party like it's 1999

Three wide-eyed promoters and the almighty A.H. Belo Corp. plan to boldly carry Big D and the rest of the world into the new millennium

Rapper's delight

Erotic D looks Beyond 2000

The 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Erotic D looks Beyond 2000

The Mac-inations

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary has survived a turbulent birth, but its artistic mission remains more confused than cutting-edge

Mister Corn Mo rising

Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville

Out There

Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville

Rhythm and Jews

he modern-day klezmer revival jazzes up the music of tradition

Myth, martyr, musician

With each passing day, the ghost of Selena looms larger over the mainstream

Down at the Ranchhouse

Tom Morrell keeps Western swing alive on the best set of records you've never heard

Home-away-from-home cookin'

Gennie's offers food momma wishes she could make