Subject: George Gimarc

• Arresting Development

  April 10, 2007

• Wired is Right on the Gimarc

  February 28, 2007

• A Trip to The Last Record Store

  November 9, 2006

• Gimarc Has Another Alternative

  September 18, 2006

• Signing Off

  September 6, 2006

• From Funk to Punk, With a Side of Meat Loaf

  June 2, 2006

• U2 Can Revisit Bono's 1983 Visit to the Rock and Roll Alternative

  August 6, 2007

• The Awards Show That Took Us

  August 15, 2007

• Inside George Gimarc's Post Punk Diary

  October 18, 2007

• Losing Its Edge: Josh Venable Needs a New On-Air Job, Like, Immediately

  November 2, 2007

• Back at the Washarama

  March 13, 2008

• Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

  Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who eschew acoustic or organic instrumentation for equipment like samplers, sequencers, and the odd chunk of found metal. Vocals aren’t so much sung as spoken or bleated repeatedly as if coming from a mi

  November 14, 2008

• Noise annoys

  January 19, 1995

• Home front

  May 11, 1995

• Winners take mall

  April 18, 1996

• Aged in the can

  August 1, 1996

• Echoes and Reverberations: Last Respects For An OG Longboarder

  Yesterday we said goodbye to one of the family. Tim "Temo" Watson (aka TMO, T-mo or Timo) was an essential part of the original ragtag gang of art punks and ditch skaters who had staked out mid-'80s Deep Ellum as the blank canvas where many of us would eventually leave our mark.Last week he lost his life after a motorcycle accident in Austin.Back in 1985, Watson's sister Lauri lived in a tricked-out loft space above the backstage at Theatre Gallery on Commerce Street. T's big sis was a professio

  January 30, 2009

• All the catchy songs

  July 23, 1998

• Steady breakin'

  October 1, 1998

• Out There

  November 12, 1998

• Junk rock

  December 3, 1998

• 1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

  April 29, 1999

• Echoes and Reverberations: Our Radio Heads Are Waxing Nostalgic

  The staff of the Zoo, as seen on Liles' bedroom wall poster.I was twelve years old and up way past my bedtime. The headphones were on and I was hiding underneath the blankets. The stereo was tuned to a Dallas radio station called "The Zoo". A DJ named JD was playing a track from The Beatles' White Album called "Revolution #9", which had no guitars, drums, verses or choruses--just ten minutes of psychedelic backwards tape loops and abstract sound collage. In 1974, Dallas rock radio was a tr

  March 6, 2009

• Bob Dylan for Sale

  A local auction house gets its hands on a differet sort of basement tapes

  September 7, 2006

• Letters

  July 14, 2005

• 'Cocks, Rock

  Buzzcocks still kick ace, in case you've forgotten

  May 29, 2003

• I Wanna Rock!

  How did The Bone shock the Dallas radio world? With market research, double entendres and hair bands.

  August 8, 2002

• Adam and the Ants

  Antbox (Columbia Records, UK)

  April 5, 2001

• Tired of Waiting

  The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

  March 22, 2001

• Signing off

  Local talent scout Teresa LaBarbera-Whites discovered singing sensation Jessica Simpson the way she always does: without even trying

  September 9, 1999

• Radio Free Dallas

  10 years ago, The Edge actually lived up to its name

  July 22, 1999

• Frustrated

  You got the Knack a long time ago, but Doug Fieger thinks you need it again

  September 10, 1998

• Letters

  September 14, 1995

• Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

  Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incense or cigarette smoke. You could hear the music coming out from 100 yards away. Most of the formative moments of my life happened inside a record store. My grandfather bought my first album, Sgt. Pepp

  April 17, 2009

• Echoes and Reverberations: "The War Across The Alley"

  [Editor's Note: This is the last time we'll be running Echoes and Reverberations as a regular feature here on DC9. Will we see future installments? Don't know yet. But in the meantime, a big thanks to Jeff Liles for the past 30 installments of the series. It's been fun.]Shallow Reign, performing at Lee Park in Dallas.When I was a little kid our family had four really big peach trees in the back yard. Never could stand the taste of those fucking things, but as it turned out, downer peaches were t

  May 1, 2009

• "It's Kind of Like Conjuring a Ghost": George Gimarc's Getting the Edge Crew Back Together

  Courtesy George Gimarc/94.5 ReunionThat's former KDGE jock Wendy Naylor at left, with the Sugarcubes and some oddly familiar young man backstage at the first Edgefest in 1992.Back in April we brought word of the KDGE-FM 20th anniversary shindig that George Gimarc's been putting together at the Lakewood Theater without a cent from Clear Channel, which ain't got many pennies left. Well, George called this afternoon to remind us that, yes, the thing's still on and, according to his Web site, filli

  June 16, 2009

• The Edge's 20th Anniversary Reunion

  July 2, 2009

• Telefones Reunion Update: It's On--And It Looks Like a Hell of a Gig

  Yesterday, Gerard Dirkx, leader of the legendary Dallas new wave band The Telefones, sounded a bit unsure if the rumored reunion of his band was going to take place.But today things seemed to have changed for the better. Turns out there's great news in my inbox this morning from Dirkx concerning the status of the Telefones reunion concert. Here's the scuttlebutt straight from the source: "It looks to be a done deal, folks, Friday, October 9th at the Lakewood Theater. Telefones, Superman's Girlfr

  July 21, 2009

• So, the Dallas Observer Music Awards Are, Like, In an Hour. Guess We Should Get Going.

  Only a few of us left at the office -- most everyone else is already down at the Granada for tonight's Dallas Observer Music Awards, where doors open at 8 p.m. following the VIP shebang. Pete's got all the details here for those considering the last-minute rally. Me, all I got is a 19-year-old clip from the DOMAs at the Majestic Theater featuring George Gimarc, Liza Richardson and then-Best Act Overall Sara Hickman. Trust me, this isn't from 1989 -- I remember it like it was 17 years ago.

  July 21, 2009

• On October 9th, Lakewood Theater to be Transformed into The Hot Klub

  ​Just got sent this cool link from Gerard Dirkx, former (and future) leader of The Telefones. Seems the band's upcoming reunion gig that I blogged about a couple of times a while back has since turned into a pretty major event. Now, a total of nine bands will play The Lakewood Theater on October 9th. And, judging by new information Dirkx sent me, the concert is now a tribute to one of Dallas' first new music venues: The Hot Klub. Starting at 8 p.m., will be The Big Guns, followed by Bag O' Wir

  August 28, 2009

• Flashback Friday: Genesis's Moody Blues

  ​I have some hazy memory of my slightly older cousin going to SMU in March 1977 to see Genesis, then touring behind A Trick Of The Tail, the band's first album with Phil Collins as lead singer. My cousin -- who, earlier today, threatened a libel suit if I printed his name -- also has a vague recollection of this sojourn, though he also thinks it might have been the Queen-Thin Lizzy show at Moody Coliseum on February 25 of that year. (Let's be honest: It was probably both.)Maybe this'll refresh

  September 18, 2009

• A Friday (Acid) Flashback, or: Local Radio Newcasts Could Still Use a Little More Sitar

  ​The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked up hours' worth of airchecks from Gordon McLendon's rock-and-roll-and station at a garage sale. And, just this very morning, he started converting the reels to digital and thought this gah-roovy enough to share. But

  October 23, 2009

• A Very Spooky Friday Flashback: George Gimarc Interviews Roky Erickson in 1981

  ​One week after providing Unfair Park with the KNUS acid flashback ca. 1970, rock-and-roll alternative George Gimarc has dug into his own vaults -- how awful generous. And he submits for your listening pleasure this most appropriate kick-off for the Friday before All Hallows' Eve: a lengthy interview George conducted in July 1981 with none other than Roky Erickson, long before the Dallas-born, Austin-raised Father of Psychedelic Rock got his synaptic shit together.Erickson was out promoting Th

  October 30, 2009

• With Local Radio Sucking, What Does KXT's Launch Mean?

  November 6, 2009

• Don't Bogart This Rare (Roach) Clip From Jose Feliciano, Performed Long Ago in a KNUS Haze

  ​So, yes, this is a weekly feature now -- your Friday acid flashback, courtesy the copious collection of one George Gimarc, with whom we're awfully proud to partner. A brief recap so far: KNUS news tuned up with sitar, followed by A Very Roky Halloween. Now, it gets even better as George continues to dig through miles' worth of KNUS odds and sods picked up at a garage sale two weeks ago. I will let the rock and roll alternative explain:Long before the KERA did acoustic sessions, or KDGE, or ev

  November 6, 2009

• Your Second Friday (Acid) Flashback: A Saturday in the Life of KNUS, Ads Included

  KNUS99.com​We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you'll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon's FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 -- some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig? The best part: the faaaaar-out-man ads for a Novas show at LouAnn's and a Sticks gig at the Studio Club ... and all the action you can handle at the Fair Park Midway! There's some deep-cuts James Gang and Jefferson Air

  November 13, 2009

• This Week From the George Gimarc Archives: Waking Up in 1953 With The Early Birds

  Far as George knows, this binder contains the only surviving recordings of The Early Birds. There may be others. But ... where?​No Roky Erickson freak-outs this Friday; no KNUS odds, sods or seeds and stems for you, dear Friends. Instead, George Gimarc offers something even more lost from the Dallas radio lost-and-found. As in? Well, let's let the rock and roll alternative explain:Once upon a time there was a program called The Early Birds on WFAA. It was the No. 1 most popular morning show o

  November 20, 2009