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Show Announcements: N.E.R.D, Women, Menkena, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Needtobreathe, Tame Impalla, Paul Oakenfold, Lifehouse, Sarah McLachlan & more

N.E.R.D.​A few weeks ago, the Gorillaz show at Verizon Theatre on Wednesday, October 20 slid in under the radar. There's no doubt that the show from the animated band will be huge--but it just got a little bit bigger: N.E.R.D has just been announced as the opening act. N.E.R.D is touring to promot ... More >>

Quietly, Carter Albrecht's Solo Record Has Found Its Way On To iTunes

It says on iTunes that Carter Albrecht's solo album Jesus is alive ... and living in London has been available since February 9. Carter's father, Ken, and Robert Jenkins, whose Summer Break label is co-releasing the disc in conjunction with the Carter Albrecht Music Foundation, say that's wrong, and ... 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 >>

Marchel Ivery's Death Leaves Dallas' Jazz Scene Longing

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 >>

Because No One's Complained About This Subject in a Few Weeks

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 >>

Twenty-something Hands

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 >>

Odds & Ends

Baby, we got them House of Blues blues

Drumroll, Please

Dallas Observer Music Awards 2005

Shallow Graves

Budapest One's Keith Killoren and Chad Stockslager find their future in the past

When East Meets West

Ghetto Fame-Us set to release new record

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Greatest Hits

Regina Chellew flies solo as Chao

Scene, Heard

Smirnoff sucks them in; The Rocket Summer waits 'til fall; Jeff Buckely's mom; North Texas Music Festival jab; Plus, much, much more

Leaning over

One of the few jazz labels that matters, Leaning House Records, calls it quits

Across the Bar

X'd out; Columbia compiles rockabilly; Hellions tribute to the Circle Jerks; Gig plugs galore; And Street Beat is ch-ch-ch-changing?

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

Rocket from the Cripps

Joe Cripps leaves Brave Combo for brave new worlds

Blowing his Cover-up

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

Havana good time

Brave Combo's Joe Cripps goes to Cuba, becomes friends with Peter Buck, and talks to Castro

Blue notes

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

Put up a fight

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

Letters

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

My name is Weener

A Dallas supergroup forms to play...Weezer songs?

Budokan rock

Floor 13 wants you...to want...them

Major Mistakes

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

What they were

The New Bos reunite for--please, quiet down--a best-of collection

Really weird shoo

The New Bos reunite for--please, quiet down--a best-of collection

Free KittyBoo

Brandon Boyer's Denton label offers pure pop pleasure, seven inches at a time

Broken Fever

The hardest thing Nick Brisco ever did was grow up

Night of the Hunter

Homage is harder than it looks

Out Here

Homage is harder than it looks

The ghost of Xmas passes

Landmark local band packs it in

Out Here

Landmark local band packs it in

More better blues

Pat Boyack begins to define himself

Junkyard jazz

The Calways go a little crazy

Events for the week

The Calways go a little crazy

Imagine there's no Beatles

Caught between two generations of Beatles fans

Unwrapping the Reichstag

Reed Easterwood of Junky Southern spills his guts

Winners take mall

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

Blues with a feeling

Paul Size, ex-Red Devil guitarist and one-time Jagger sideman, leaves L.A. and returns home

Silver linings

Rainmaker Records gets the credit line it deserves

Red hot

Local jazz label discovers lost recordings by Dallas-born piano great

Letters

Local jazz label discovers lost recordings by Dallas-born piano great

Welcome to Hell's Lobby

The area's best--maybe only--real "music scene" can be found in Denton

Good rockin' last night

Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise