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Mike Scaccia of Rigor Mortis Died With His Boots On: Echoes and Reverberations

Safe to say that I was doing bong hits on the couch one afternoon back in 1987 when Michael Alago, the A&R rep from Elektra Records who discovered and signed Metallica, called me up out of the blue and asked what was happening with the music scene here in Dallas. Alago was based in New York City, an ... 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 >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Erv Karwelis Has Kept Idol Records Going For 18 Years At This Point

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.Erv Karwelis​You know who needs a serious set of stones? The person who chooses to run an independ ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: The Posies at The Granada, The Expendables at House of Blues and Atreyu at South Side Music Hall

Not a bad selection of shows for the evening before the gluttony begins. The Posies, Aqueduct and Salim Nourallah at The Granada Theater Back in the 80's, Seattle's The Posies were always on the verge of major success. When the band signed to Geffen Records in 1989, it looked as if main Posies K ... More >>

Staff Trax: Bonjay, Tommy Keene, The Helio Sequence, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Derek and The Dominoes

May TruongBonjay​Bonjay -- "Gimmee Gimmee"I was fortunate enough to catch these guys, completely at random, this past week at SXSW--and they impressed the heck out of me with their high-energy performance, and an eclectic, beat-heavy, R&B-tinged sound. Bonjay, which calls Toronto home, release ... More >>

This Week in Dallas Music History: Hey, Have You Guys Heard of This Cool New Band, The New Bohemians?

​Edie Brickell & New Bohemians are an institution in the Dallas rock scene, its signature folk/jam having settled in well among the Dallas alt-rock explosion of the '80s. And today, even: The band's singles "What I Am" and "Circle" are still in rotation in soft-rock FM stations across the coun ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

Next Week Gig Alert: Tommy Keene at The Cavern

Sometimes I just hate promoters. A couple of months back, I was sent the new album by Tommy Keene, In the Late Bright. The album is great of course, like almost all of the shimmering power pop Keene has released over the past 25 years. Anyhow, I asked the promo guy at the label to let me know when K ... More >>

Short Echoes: You Know You're Wrong

It was 15 years ago last week when a landscaper found Kurt Cobain's body sprawled out on the floor of his garage apartment. Time flies when you're dead, huh? His suicide will always be a shining example of why an aspiration to celebrity is such a vacuous exercise in ego. The guy could never admit ... More >>

The Tomorrowpeople, The Angelus, Sparklepussy Barbie

Saturday, May 17, at The Double Wide

Tomorrowpeople Reunion Upcoming; More Shows And Music To Come?

Dinosaur Jr. Still Avoiding Celebrity

Holiday Sellout

Stuff your stocking with Nirvana

Tommy Keene

Crashing the Ether (Eleven Thirty)

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Slowride

Building a Building (Deep Elm Records)

James Hall and Pleasure Club

January 25

For the Birds

El Gato to celebrate CD release

Consider This…

Even music journalists have ethics

Scene, Heard

Prize Money's back, kinda

Scene, heard

DOMA 2000 (of course), Baboon takes it live; Elliot Smith helps The Toadies; and much, much more

Best Case scenario

Rhett Miller makes Wilonksy's shit list

Please kill me

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

Take these records, please

Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

Parker right there

Home groans

Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?

Oh, Mann

Three years and one bad record deal later, Aimee Mann returns -- with two wonderful records

Go fish

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

Scene, heard

New New Bohemians, Tomorrowpeople part with manager, The Eagle does fashion, and more

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

Liberation front

Two local Web sites hope to bring Dallas music to the world

Free Radish

Mercury Records will be making a huge mistake if it doesn't release Sha Sha

Hole in fun!

You can talk to the guitarist when the singer ain't around

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Night & Day

March 4 - 10, 1999

What they were

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

Blake's baby

A former Jawbreaker makes a gorgeous mess in his Jets to Brazil

Absolute perfection

Reed Easterwood's record is one of the year's best. Good luck finding it

Out There

Sex bomb

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

The Voice goes silent

Sinatra fought time in Dallas, and it was a split decision

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

The million-dollar record

Four years after its debut, Slowpoke makes its major-label bow on Geffen

Out There

Jingle bells, Jingle sells

The industry aims for the heart of Christmas-- with a shotgun

Out There

Cut to the chase

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