Girl Talk (Musician)

Last Night: Girl Talk At The Palladium Ballroom

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The Bomb Squad: Some Suggestions for Your AFI Dallas Film Fest Saturday Sked

Jeremy Renner will be in attendance at tonight's Dallas debut of The Hurt Locker, at the Magnolia at 7:30.Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film's writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where aud ... More >>

Is Girl Talk's Rebellion A Sign Of The Times?

Just how out there Is Girl Talk's Feed the Animals?

Dan Deacon Builds an Army

Just how out there Is Girl Talk's Feed the Animals?

Staking Out the Scene

Tokyo Police Club chase down fame, but not fortune

Neon Indian hits the national scene

Tokyo Police Club chase down fame, but not fortune

Does ACL Actually Hurt Dallas?

Tokyo Police Club chase down fame, but not fortune

ACL '09: The Rain's Stopped (For Now) As Crowds Wait For Pearl Jam--And Maybe The Toadies?

​The early outlook here on the Day Three of the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival isn't too bad. The sun has peeked out from behind the clouds here and there, and, for the time being, the rain has held off. Forecasts appear to indicate more rain as the day continues, though, and, surely ... More >>

ACL: The Dirty Projectors Clean Up Quite Nice

​ The Dirty Projectors may have been around since 2002, but make no mistake: 2009 is the Brooklyn-based act's breakthrough year, thanks tot he success of the band's phenomenal earlier-this-year-released Bitte Orca, a true gem of a folktronipop of a record, riff with lush instrumentations and as im ... More >>

ACL '09 in Photos: Festival Recap with Passion Pit, Girl Talk and Ben Harper

Photos by Patrick MichelsPassion Pit's passionate pit.​With ACL wrapped up and the bands, festival-goers and fields at Zilker Park on their road to recovery, it's time for one last look at the bands that braved the mud on the festival's last day.First, for an overall recap of the best shots from t ... More >>

Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Made the Best of a Rainy Saturday at ACL.

Photos by Patrick MichelsPassion Pit's passionate pit.​With ACL wrapped up and the bands, festival-goers and fields at Zilker Park on their road to recovery, it's time for one last look at the bands that braved the mud on the festival's last day.First, for an overall recap of the best shots from t ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

DDTers Jason Wolford, EZ Eddie D and Jeff Liles​ The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the ear ... More >>

Gig Alert: Girl Talk and Big Boi Play SMU Tonight. For Free.

​ OK. There are certain things that are undoubtedly cool about living in a big city. Like when huge shows evade the radar of just about everyone. How huge? How about Spring Concert, put on by Southern Methodist University's Program Council, featuring one of the most influential mash-up artists in ... More >>

Giveaway: Tonight's Telegraph Canyon/The Orbans Show In Frisco Is Free. But The $25 Gift Card We've Got Isn't.

​Look, Girl Talk and Big Boi at SMU isn't the only free show going this evening. In fact, there's a real treat for the suburbs going on at Lochrann's tonight up in Frisco as part of Spune Productions' new weekly, free Thursday night gigs up that way. At 8 p.m. tonight, The Obrans, who have a new d ... More >>

Last Night: Big Boi and Girl Talk at SMU

Big Boi, Girl TalkSouthern Methodist UniversityApril 15, 2010Better than: Big Boi's set getting canceled as well.Mattie StaffordBig Boi played SMU last night. Girl Talk didn't.​Many unsuspecting local music fans had the same reaction upon hearing that there would be a free concert on the SMU cam ... More >>

Picture Show: Big Boi, Not Girl Talk at SMU

Mattie Stafford​So, as you can read from our Big Boi and Girl Talk review on DC9, Girl Talk didn't play last night at SMU. Big Boi still did, though. And Mattie Stafford was there to capture it before the Highland Park Grannies dialed 9-1-1. Check out the rest of Mattie's photos here.

Shoot Low Sheriff

The Mockingbird Sessions (Self-released)

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 13: DJ Bad Holly

​DJ Bad Holly admits that she got her start at DJing through a complete and utter accident. Holly Evans, a.k.a. Bad Holly, volunteered to DJ a party at Doublewide last year at the last minute--and to her surprise received and abundance of positive feedback. "Several people I'd never met came up to ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets To Catch The Hood Internet Tomorrow Night at The Loft

The Hood Internet​ Against all odds, mash-ups are still popular--mostly because, yes, white people really like hearing their favorite rap lines placed over their favorite indie rock anthems. Enter the Chicago-based duo The Hood Internet, which specializes in mash-ups that do just that. The duo's b ... More >>

Today In Music News: Girl Talk Dishes On New Album, Asher Roth Wants Legal Weed And Grateful Dead Meets Bluegrass

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, October 27, 2010...Girl Talk is planning a new album that features Rick Ross.  Let's hope the record isn't called "Dell Laptop Music."Asher Roth has decided to get political... about making weed legal in California.Bluegrass lends their ow ... More >>

You Bet The Toadies Are Excited To Be Included On Girl Talk's New Mashup Album, All Day...

​The legality concerns and artistic merit of Greg Gillis' mashup work as Girl Talk leaves plenty to be debated, but this much is certain: His work sure is popular. Yesterday, Gillis released a new mashup album called All Day as a free-to-anyone-who-wants-it download, and, as his fans flooded to th ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Andy Odom Touts Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's "Surprising and Varied" Before Today

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​ Denton-based scribe Andy Odom picks ... More >>

Big Boi Joins 35 Conferette's Increasingly Impressive Lineup of Performers

Big news out of 35 Conferette camp this morning -- literally and figuratively, actually -- as the Denton-hosted, pre-SXSW festival has announced that iconic Atlanta rapper Big Boi will join an already crowded and impressive group of performers at this year's third annual go in March.The rapper, half ... More >>

You Haven't Made It Until You've Been Mashed Up by Girl Talk.

Big news out of 35 Conferette camp this morning -- literally and figuratively, actually -- as the Denton-hosted, pre-SXSW festival has announced that iconic Atlanta rapper Big Boi will join an already crowded and impressive group of performers at this year's third annual go in March.The rapper, half ... More >>

Good Friday: Club Dada's New Year's Eve Do-Over Party, Yells At Eels, Eleven Hundred Springs, The Derailers, Kool Keith, Royal Bangs, Girl Talk, True Widow & More!

Kevin Todora​It's looking like a good weekend of shows, starting with Club Dada's New Year's Eve Do-Over Party on Saturday night. It'll feature performances from Hoyotoho, Damaged Good$, galleryCat, and Datahowler, and includes a Champagne toast at midnight.But that's not the only big show happeni ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Girl Talk at the Palladium Ballroom

Girl Talk Saturday, January 15, 2011 The Palladium BallroomBetter than: Listening to a bunch of actual girl talk. All photos by Kevin TodoraCheck out more photos in the slideshow.​ Whether you can dance or not, you know you want to. You just need a good excuse and, in some cases, a little lubri ... More >>

The Must-See Acts at 35 Conferette

Girl Talk Saturday, January 15, 2011 The Palladium BallroomBetter than: Listening to a bunch of actual girl talk. All photos by Kevin TodoraCheck out more photos in the slideshow.​ Whether you can dance or not, you know you want to. You just need a good excuse and, in some cases, a little lubri ... More >>

Blink-182 & My Chemical Romance, Girl Talk & The Cool Kids, and Many Other Announcements

Blink 182 are back, and they're looking for corporate sponsorhips​This week's most notable show announcements come our way via huge corporate sponsorships -- one from Honda Civic, and the other from 7-Eleven. The former, which features the newly reunited pop-punk forefathers Blink-182 and their mi ... More >>

Insanity Plea: 40 Songs That Will Make You Feel Like You've Chugged Seven Red Bulls

More or less the amount of Red Bull consumed at DC9 HQ on a daily basis.​Do you guys like Red Bull? Because we here at DC9 really like Red Bull. We drink Red Bull all the time. Helps us keep up with the crazy hours of the gig. Red Bull, in our humble opinion, has always been "the best." Red Bull, ... More >>

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See The Sold-Out Girl Talk and Cool Kids Show at the Granada

Kevin TodoraThe scene at Girl Talk's last show in Dallas.​Mashup artist Girl Talk is known for putting on one heck of a show. So, yeah, the lucky few who managed to score tickets his sold-out show tomorrow night at the Granada Theater -- all tickets for the event were scooped up less than an hour ... More >>

Girl Talk, The Cool Kids

Thursday, June 23, at the Granada Theater

Girl Talk Cancels July WinStar Casino Gig. Tonight's Granada Show Is Still On, Though.

Womp, womp.​Picked up your fresh-off-the-presses print issue of this week's Observer yet? No? Well, go do so right now. We'll wait.Got it? Good! Now, flip the issue open. Not far, just right there after the cover. Yeah, page 3. There, you'll notice -- it's tough not to -- a massive, full-page, col ... More >>

Last Night: Girl Talk and The Cool Kids at the Granada Theater

Girl Talk, The Cool KidsGranada TheaterJune 23, 2011Better than: sweating to the oldies.Ally Jayne HoffmanOf course there was confetti last night. It was a Girl Talk show, for crying out loud. See more photos in our slideshow.​Greg Gillis is not an aerobics instructor. But perhaps the man be ... More >>

The Strangest Stage Names In Music History

Metta World Peace​When Lakers forward Ron Artest announced last week that he is legally changing his name to Metta World Peace, the Internet exploded with bafflement and criticism. Obviously, this is coming from sports fans. We in the music world are accustomed to odd stage names. Dallas' own Eryk ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide To Electronic Music: From Scratching to Dubstep and Everything Between

...among other things.​Electronica is an infant genre compared to most, its creation depending solely on tools and instruments designed in the last half of the 20th century. And its interpretation is constantly evolving. Because, even though it remains relatively new type of music, there remain so ... More >>

Last Night: Erasure at House of Blues

ErasureHouse of BluesSeptember 25, 2011Better than: Staying home and watching The Tank, The Swan, and The Balloon Live. A younger, leaner Erasure.​Roadies placed mysterious steaming white ceramic mugs on the Gargoyle-infested, Gothic-looking stage at the House of Blues. What could it be? Apple ... More >>

Gavin Mulloy Designed Fliers For Area Bands Before Handling The Granada's Promotions

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. Gavin Mulloy​Gavin Mulloy is a young marketing pistol for Granada Theater, and he appears to be pois ... More >>

Contest: A Chance For Area DJs To Perform a Set at Lights All Night

​ You should well know by now all about Lights All Night, the annual New Year's Eve bash in town that this year will become a two-night event featuring the biggest names in the electronic music world (Tiesto, Girl Talk, Diplo, Benny Benasi, Ghostland Observatory, Neon Indian, and many, many, many ... More >>

Lights All Night Selects Three Finalists to Compete at Artopia for Festival Slot

​Last year's Lights All Night New Year's Eve music festival was a massive hit, thanks to headliners Ghostland Observatory. And, as we mentioned this summer when the festival announced its return, this years is going to be much bigger. Thanks mostly to the bulked up bill -- Ghostland Observatory wi ... More >>

Lights All Night

Friday, December 30 & Saturday, December 31, at Dallas Convention Center

Good Friday Thursday: New Year Edition

​Last weekend was a little dead, y'know with Christmas and all, but this weekend is the opposite. In fact, there are so many New Year's Eve events worth checking out that we've got a separate massive list here.The biggest one, though, is easily the Dallas Observer-sponsored Lights All Night festiv ... More >>

So That's How You Transform the Dallas Convention Center Into a Giant Discothèque

I mean, hell, if Schutze could do the Electric Daisy, no reason I can't go to Lights All Night at the Dallas Convention Center, which starts tonight and lasts through the break of New Year's Day dawn. At least I have some Girl Talk, Diplo and MSTRKRFT on the iPod. But, wait -- what's that, New Music ... More >>

Ear to the Subwoofer: This Weekend's Lights All Night Will Not Be a Rave

Girl Talk​Of all the events taking place this weekend, Lights All Night, which goes down tonight (Friday) and Saturday at the Dallas Convention Center, seems to be dominating the sphere with an astounding 35 electronic music acts. Last year's inaugural Lights All Night took place at the Plaza ... More >>