Edie Brickell

The Sales Power of In-Store Performances

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. CD Source owner, Lance Price, saw a combination of new releases and classic albums creep towar ... More >>

Edie Brickell: "I Worked The Booth At The Granada Theater. I Was In That Booth All By Myself and Daydreamed When I Wasn't Working."

Edie Brickell might not live in Dallas anymore, but she still thinks very fondly of her roots here. Her latest project is The Gaddabouts, a supergroup featuring session musician legends like drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Pino Palladino, and they released the double-disc set Look Out Now! last week. ... More >>

This Week in Dallas Music History: The New Bohemians Reunite For a Best-Of Collection

​This little bit of Dallas music history is timely, given Edie Brickell's performance at the Kessler Theater this weekend with her band Heavy Make-Up.Thirteen years ago, her famous act The New Bohemians, who had released two albums on Geffen Records, with only one notable single, were defunct. But ... More >>

Guns N' Roses, We Were Promised Jetpacks & the Best Shows in Town This Weekend

Axel Rose​Welcome to the jungle! The one comfortably located just inside the walls of the Gexa Energy Pavilion. After carefully parking your car on someone's lawn, you'll be ushered into said jungle if you purchased your tickets to see what's left of Guns N' Roses -- Axel Rose and some dreadlocks ... More >>

St. Vincent's On The Cover of Spin This Month, Talking Fears and Texas Rangers Baseball.

Look!​Hey, look who it is on the cover of Spin this month! Dallas native Annie Clark, the indie guitar heroine straight outta Dallas better known as St. Vincent. Yup, the former Polyphonic Spree player (forever ago, really) graces the cover "The Style Issue" from the mag -- looking fairly stylish, ... More >>

Pictures Galore: Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians Reunion, Jerry Lee Lewis at Wildflower and LMFAO at Cuervo Games

Mike Brooks / commiebike.comEdie Brickell​ Down in Blanco this weekend, a rare treat: The New Bohemians -- and, yes, with Edie Brickell -- performed a gig, this one coming as part of a benefit concert held to help raise funds for the Blanco High School Band. And, lucky us, Friend of DC9 Mike Brook ... More >>

For The Children, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians Schedule A Rare Performance

​Been sitting here trying to think of the last time Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians played a full-on show together, and I'm just coming up empty. Surely, there haven't been too many in recent years -- not since Carter Albrecht's death in 2007, at least. Since then, both Edie and the New Bos ... More >>

Listomania: Seven Albums Worth Your Valentine's Day Smooching Time

​Yup, it's Valentine's Day. Most romantic night of the year. And, hey, you're totally prepared. You've got it all worked out -- the candle-light dinner, the moonlit walk in the park, the bottle of wine that you actually paid more than $12 on for once. It's gonna be perfect.What could go wrong? Abs ... More >>

For Your Frozen-Day Watching and Listening Pleasure: Edie Does an Oldie on Jimmy Fallon

Edie Brickell was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night promoting two new albums. But in this "web exclusive," the ol' New Bohemian, aided by one Charlie Sexton on guitar and the great Aaron Comess behind the drum kit, whips out an oldie from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars: "Circle." And jus ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: A Handy Guide to the Worst Local Records of the '90s

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we go back to the year 2000, when former Observer music editor Zac Crain did one of the things he did best -- take shots at really bad bands. And at the beginning of 2000, he set his sights on the worst local records of the '90s.In no particul ... More >>

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: Lalagray Offers A Confident Introduction, But Leaves Out The Hard Part, at No. 16

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 16 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream of the track. Also after the jump, c ... More >>

Good Friday: Heavy Make-Up With Edie Brickell, Dresden Dolls, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Hayes Carll, Stars, Black Mountain, Black Angels, Social Distortion, Misfits, Comrade, Marc Cohn, Pomegranates, Roger Waters & more

Edie Brickell​Certainly not the biggest, but the most notable show coming to town is Heavy Make-Up at The Kessler Theater on Friday night. The group features Edie Brickell, fellow New Bohemian Kenny Withrow and Spin Doctors drummer Aaron Comess. This improvisational band is certain to recall th ... More >>

This Week in Dallas Music History: Our First Music Awards Ceremony, Yay!

​This summer, we'll celebrate the 22nd year of our annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. And we've come a long way from the first ceremony taking up only one venue.The April 28, 1988 edition of the Observer had Brad Bailey reviewing our first annual Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony on April 21 ... More >>

The Great Gordo and the Earnest Hemingways

This morning, I stumbled across this freshly posted video of The Hemingways performing at the Rhythm Room on August 21, 1991. This gift was bestowed upon the Internet by one Doug Baxter, lead guitarist for the group and, apparently, its chief archivist. But you're no doubt more interested in the bes ... More >>

Developing: Either Some Austinites Or Some Malaysians Are Going To Be Very Disappointed

DC9 at Night contributor Jeff Liles passed along this interesting note: Erykah Badu is scheduled to perform in Malaysia tonight--Saturday, March 21--opening up for Korn alongside N.E.R.D. Or so Dallas native and Korn keyboardist Zac Baird (formerly of Billygoat, Edie Brickell and Liles' own C ... 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 >>

The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac Digs Him Some Erykah Badu

Coming Together, Falling Apart

This past week was a big one for Booker T. Washington High School—and an abysmal one for local hip-hop

Edie and Norah Sounded Awful Good

Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell on Being "Drummed Into Shape" at Arts Magnet

Booker T. Washington Alums Come Home--And, Yes, That's HUGE

Q&A: Former SouthFM Frontman Paco Estrada

Beard's Out of ICU and Finding He Has Many, Many Friends

Beautiful Memories of a Beautiful Guy

Some Final Friday Kernels of Korn

Vanessa Peters and Ice Cream on Mondays

Little Films (Little Sandwich Music)

A Short Film Starring Erykah, Edie and Norah

Edie Brickell and New Bohemians

Stranger Things (Fantasy)

Hearts and Bones

Ten Hands

Sunday, July 30, at Club Dada

Cover Charge

In 1994, Club Dada created a Beatles tribute band. In 2006, that very band recreated Dada.

Be Our Guest

If only some great Dallas festival was flagging down southbound SXSW drivers right now...

New Bohemians

Friday, February 3, at AllGood Café

Move Over, Flickerstick

A Dozen Furies wins Battle for Ozzfest

Sparrows

Songs EP (Sidearm Entertainment)

What She Is Now

A New Bohemian's new sound

Re: Your New Job!

Plus: Winning is Fun; Ethan Makes a Funny

Coming Home

David Garza is back, and he's ready to be a Texan again

Leona Naess

November 20

Star Bright

Plus: Gimme Some Skin; Dude, You Owe Us, Like, $304

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

These are your choices, not ours, for the best musicians in town

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

Go fish

Every local band that broke up this year, take one step forward. Not so fast, Hagfish.

What they were

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

Keep coming back

Singer Edie Brickelland some old Bohemians Slip into something viable

Setting sail once more

Shakespeare's again at the helm of the Ship of Vibes

Rapper's delight

Erykah Badu emerges from nowhere with a record deal and vast ambition

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

Reviews

Beating time

New Bohemians show proves you can go home again, but only for a little while