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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 >>

Developer Unveils $45 Million Plan to Turn Two Vacant Downtown Landmarks Into Condos

Back in April, the DMN, noted that John Kirtland had snapped up both the Tower Petroleum Building and Corrigan Tower downtown. There weren't many details then, just that Kirtland planned to do something with the two vacant art deco structures, but now we know exactly what. Kirtland, who in addition ... More >>

Listen: New Sounds from A.Dd , Flowers of God, Sore Losers, Little Black Dress, St. Vincent, Analog Rebellion and Paul Henry North

If it feels like things have been hectic of late, that's because they have been. October just tends to be that way around these parts, what with standard fall touring schedules pumping up the show-going options on top of the hype and added excitement that comes with such seasonal events as Austin Ci ... 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.

Once Upon a Time, Dale Brock Was a Band Nerd. Now, He Reps Acts Like The Toadies.

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.Dale mugging for the camera at Lollapalooza​Dale Brock got his start in the music business in Wichita ... More >>

53 Years Into The Billboard Hot 100's History, A Look At Every Dallas Song To Make The Chart

Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Launched in 1958, the chart combined statistics gleaned from both radio airplay and sales of individual singles to determine a single's popularity. Today, the Hot 100 chart is topped by LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" -- proo ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Dave Castell Has Produced More Local Musicians Than You Can Name.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk.Scogin MayoDave Castell and Vaden Todd Lewis, working on the Toadies' No Deliverance.​David Castell is credited with producing some pretty success ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Menkena -- "Red In The Morning (feat. Nikki Cage of True Widow)"

​ Speaking of records we've been waiting on, seems there's finally news out of Menkena camp on the release of its debut album, With You I'll Travel, which has been finished since, oh, about February and stuck on our personal most-anticipated local releases list ever since. Blame the delay on the l ... More >>

Little Black Dresses' Nolan Thies Joins THe BAcksliders As Bassist Bolts To Go Solo

R. Jason Bonner's out of THe BAcksliders.​I was catching up with Chris Bonner of the nominated-Best-Hard-Rock-DOMA THe BAcksliders yesterday when the guitarist, rather off-handedly, informed me that the band was changing bassists."My brother Jason is going off to do the solo thing," Chris said. "A ... More >>

Good Friday: Buzzcocks, Dope on Plastic, Shiny Around The Edges, Peopleodian, Hawk Vs Dove, Doug Burr, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, The O's, Babar and More!

"Goodbye!"​This weekend wishes a farewell to two Dallas gems, the supersaturated fun that is Giggle Party and the dance hip-hop twosome Sore Losers. Giggle Party is set to leave for San Francisco next week and will have its going away celebration tonight at bassist Jason Reichl's homemade venu ... More >>

Houston Cries For Pudge, Claims Its Music History Beats Dallas'

​Our ears were burning, so we went ahead and checked out what our counterparts at the Observer's sister paper in Houston, the Press, was up to on its music blog lately. And, sure enough, it's all Dallas all the time down in H-Town these days.(OK, not really, but two posts over the span of a week? ... More >>

Dallas Observer Music Awards

Good Friday: The Independence Day Edition

So, first and foremost: Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Now, let's talk about the weekend in music, per protocol. As always, the stuff we already discussed up first.Tonight's pretty busy, actually: Asylum Street Spankers, Porterdavis and The O's play the Granada; The Edge gets the 20th Ann ... More >>

Explosive Plastic Records, The New Sub-Label From Idol Records, Names Little Black Dress As Its First Signee

Just about a month ago, we first passed along word of the creation of Exploding Plastic Records, the new Idol Records sub-label that plans to focus primarily on putting out records from a more artsy crop of artists than Idol normally backs. And, today, the label has confirmed what sub-label head Dy ... More >>

Q&A: Former SouthFM Frontman Paco Estrada

Denton Producer Discovers DFW's Breakout Bands

Does It Make Her "Blue"?

Deep Picks

The North Texas New Music Festival overwhelms Dallas this weekend; make sense of it with our suggestions.

Letters from the Issue of June 30, 2005

All Praise Kirk Franklin

Gospel singer makes the Hall of Fame

Following Suit

When record labels finally pay attention to Dallas, they usually likewhat they see

Soler Power

Plus: Summer Reading List; Iraq and Roll

Second Chances

Hi-Fi Drowning found a new sound and a new album 'round the Rosa

Who'll buy my memories?

Anyone, as long as you sell them on eBay

Nothing's changed

For Jeff Whittington, forming another band was inevitable

Please kill me

A handy guide to the worst local records of the '90s

Singing in his sleep

The many bands of John Dufilho

Blowing his Cover-up

We don't want to tell One Ton how to run its business, but...

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Major Mistakes

Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?

Beat down

Dallas' hip-hop scene is more vital than ever, but you'd never know it: no clubs, no radio, no major-label deals. But the musicians, some of this city's best, refuse to give up.

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

Jerry Lee, Dino, and Homer Henderson

The "Amazing One-Man Band" signs on with one of the greatest living American writers

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.

Too cool for us

According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth

Stone free

birch county isn't just another jammed-up hippie band

Time captured in its flight

James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

Proud papa

A first album is born, among other things

Ja, das is country punk

The old world discovers the Old 97's

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners

1996 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part I)

To be or not to bop

Texan Jazz unveils the Lone Star contribution to jazz

Events for the week

Gimme, gimme truth

Jay Farrar and Dave Grohl don't owe you anything

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad

Under the covers

How could Duran Duran make a comeback when it never went away?

Jesus, this is really bad

The Nixons go national with the dread-inspiring Foma

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor