Subject: Granada

• Last Night: The Honorary Title, The New Frontiers, Paper Rival and Mansions at the Granada

  August 11, 2008

• Giveaway: Tickets To See The Avett Brothers At The Granada Theater Tomorrow Night

  September 10, 2008

• Last Night: Ratatat, Panther And E*Rock At The Granada Theater

  September 17, 2008

• Last Night: The New Year At The Granada Theater

  September 19, 2008

• Last Night: Del tha Funky Homosapien at the Granada Theater

  September 26, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Cut Copy And Presets Show

  September 30, 2008

• Last Night: Cut Copy And The Presets At The Granada Theater

  October 1, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Catch The Butthole Surfers On Wednesday Night

  October 20, 2008

• Picture Show: The Mountain Goats at the Granada Theater

  November 3, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Deerhoof Tonight At The Granada

  November 7, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Calexico And The Acorn At The Granada Tomorrow Night

  November 7, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Sunday Night's Legendary Pink Dots Show

  November 7, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Digable Planets Show At The Granada

  The recently reunited, Grammy Award-winning Digable Planets, who broke up nearly as quickly as they rose to fame in the early '90s, are stopping through town tonight to bring their hip-hop and jazz fusion to the Granada Theater's stage. And, yessir, we've got your tickets right here on DC9--three pairs, in fact--to give away to our readers, thanks to the fine folks at the Granada. First three people to email me with "I'll take the tickets...'cause I'm cool like that" in the subject line, get

  November 18, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Danielson On Thursday Night

  So. Danielson is playing the Granada tomorrow night. Cryptacize and Mount Righteous open. It'll either be the most adorable show ever or most annoying show ever, depending on where you stand on these bands. If you fall into the likely "adorable" pile, then, boy, do I have a deal for you! First three people to email me with "Fetch The Compass Kids" in the subject line each walks with a pair (courtesy the Granada Theater). Good luck. Update: Contest is over. Congrats to our winners. --Pete F

  November 19, 2008

• Good Friday: Vance Gilbert, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Patrice Pike, Eleven Hundred Springs, Salim Nourallah, Hendrick, John Lewis Band

  Weekend time!First, the shows we already hipped you to...Tonight, there's Marcia Ball at the Granada, Dale Watson at the Pearl Dancehall and Saloon in Fort Worth, Lou Gramm at the House of Blues, and, finally, at the Double Wide, there's a nice bill with Johnny Lloyd Rollins, Bridges & Blinking Lights and RTB2. On Saturday, there's Foreigner (sans Gramm) at the Winstar Casino, the Loco Gringos reunion at the Lakewood Bar & Grill, and Cedric Burnside and Lightning Malcolm at the House of

  January 9, 2009

• Hey, It Worked For Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...

  For what it's worth, when Los Lonely Boys stop through town for a gig on Sunday, January 25, at the Granada Theater, it will be for, what their publicist calls, "a very special acoustic show."Ah, the ol' "special acoustic show" trick, eh? We've seen this one before.Should be, um, lively and stuff.

  January 14, 2009

• DOMA XXI: And The Nominees Are...

  This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.  Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat

  June 2, 2009

• Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To Catch Lykke Li At The Granada Tomorrow Night

  As Observer contributor Aaron Jentzen mentioned in this week's paper (and as Noah Bailey and I discussed in last week's podcast), the latest Swedish dance-pop sensation, Lykke Li, will be bringing her funky, subdued beats and her delicate, subdued vocals to the Granada Theater tomorrow night to perform what many will probably consider to be the show of the week. (It helps that local favorite Sarah Jaffe is opening the show, too.)Anyway, lucky you, we've got two pairs of tickets to give away to

  February 17, 2009

• Last Night: Passion Pit at the Granada Theater

  Passion PitGranada TheaterJune 2, 2009 Better than: Staying home and watching a cartoon or puppet show with a character whose voice sounds like Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos' vocals.  "Oh, Passion Pit, you old blowhards."In today's fast-moving indie music climate, hype so often outdoes form, disappointment has seemingly become act after act's cliched finish. This is, for the most part, an ugly new era--one in which bands are remembered not for their one hit, but ra

  June 3, 2009

• Good Friday: B.B. King, Kate Voegele, Max Stalling, Robert Gomez, Bosque Brown, Slaid Cleaves, John Cowan Band, Mad Mexicans, Alpha Rev, The Campaign, Brandi Carlile

  Not exactly a ton of big names swinging through our area this weekend, but it's a decent mix of local and out of town talent who will ply their craft this last weekend in May. First the shows we've already clued you to in print or via the blog: Tonight's one-man band meltdown with Bob Log III, Williem Maker and El Paso Hot Button at Dada; Paramore opening up for No Doubt and The Sounds Saturday night at Superpages.com Center; also on Saturday, it's the poster of the week show featuring The A

  May 29, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Cut Copy Tomorrow Night At The Granada

  Tonight, down a ways on I-35, Cut Copy, Matt & Kim and Knightlife are playing a sold-out date at Stubb's. But there are still tickets available to tomorrow night's show, when the three danceable acts make their way to the Granada here in Dallas. As Observer contributor Doug Davis mentioned in his print write-up of this show, this is Cut Copy's second trip to the Granada in less than a year's time--and last time, when Cut Copy performed alongside their fellow Aussies in The Presets, it made

  March 6, 2009

• Weekend Roundup: The Derek Trucks Band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Cut Copy, Matt and Kim and White Tie Affair

  Ready to take your weekly trip into the rockin' world of this past weekend's music? Bust out those headphones and let's do it! Remember, all videos come courtesy of your friends and mine, those camera-wielding folks at the front of the club. They press on, despite tired arms, so that you can I can enjoy the music vicariously. Thanks, guys!Derek Trucks Band at Granada, Saturday, Mar. 7Did you know Derek Trucks began playing guitar and touring with the Allman Brothers when he was only 11-years-old

  March 9, 2009

• Good Friday: Devin The Dude, Jack With One Eye, The Game And A Bunch of NX35 And St. Patrick's Day Stuff We've Already Told You About

  Devin The Dude, I'm sorry Good Friday is late, but looking at your watch isn't going to get it up any faster. Obviously, we're really excited about NX35 this weekend, in case you couldn't tell. But there are other shows going on too. First, there are the shows we've already mentioned. On Saturday, celebrate the Greatest Holiday Of Them All at the Dallas Observer's St. Patrick's Day Parade Afterparty at Energy Square (that's what all the cool kids call the corner of Greenville Avenue and Universi

  March 13, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To See Tricky Tonight At The Granada

  English trip-hop pioneer Tricky stops by the Granada Theater this evening, and, like so many other artists stopping through town this week, he's doing so en route to SXSW, where he'll perform later this week. Should be a low-key, but highly enjoyable time.Interested in checking it out? Perfect, 'cause the Granada's hooking us up with five pairs of passes to tonight's show. Want in? Email me right now with the word "Aftermath" as the subject line. First five people to do so get in. Good luck!Upd

  March 16, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Black Tie Dynasty's Final Show Tomorrow Night

  We all know the story. So no need to dwell on that.Instead, let's go ahead and get down to the goods--which, in this case, is three pairs of tickets to the Granada for tomorrow night's final Black Tie Dynasty show, which will feature opening sets from two other highly regarded locals, Airline and The Burning Hotels. We're told tickets are going pretty fast to this deal--no surprise there, given the, y'know, gravitas of it all. Wanna get in for free? No problem, thanks to our friends at the Grana

  March 27, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Tomorrow Night At The Granada

  George Wright In this week's print product, Elliott Johnston offers up his approval of noted underground eccentric Robyn Hitchcock, practically imploring you to check out his performance with his backing band, The Venus 3 (REM's Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, The Minus 5's Scott McCaughey), tomorrow night at the Granada Theater.Need more of a push, though? OK. The friendly folks at the Granada have given us three pairs of tickets to the show to hand out to DC9 readers. Want one of the pairs? Drop

  April 3, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Stereo Total, Leslie & The LY's Show at the Granada

  So, yeah, maybe Leslie & The LY's are a little gimmicky, as the above video shows. But, still, kinda interesting in a bizarre way, no? No? OK. Well, thankfully, on tonight's Granada bill, Leslie is joined by a couple of other, more traditional veterans of the dance circuit: Stereo Total. And, in this week's dead tree DC9, Observer contributor Chris Parker checks in with the French/German duo to talk about what they've learned in their international travels over the past 15 years or so. And

  April 9, 2009

• Eleven Hundred Springs: Live and Boozy

  Eleven Hundred Springs took to the Double Wide to record a live show worth remembering (even if few in the audience will)

  January 15, 2009

• Friends Of Freddie

  August 28, 2008

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Isis and Pelican Show At The Granada

  There's a nice pairing atop the bill on tomorrow night's somewhat avant-metal-leaning show at the Granada Theater as the Boston-founded, L.A.-based Isis rolls through town with the Chicago-based (and instrumental) Pelican in tow. Never seen Isis live, but I can say from experience that Pelican's is a show that shouldn't be missed. Melodic and heavy (and never boring despite a lack of vocals), Pelican's performances are entrancing, to say the least. With this band opening for Isis' equally melodi

  May 19, 2009

• Crystal Castles' Cancellation Set Off A Nasty Chain

  April 23, 2009

• Granada Owner Mike Schoder Offers Up His Side Of Last Night's Crystal Castles Cancellation

  Yes, the Crystal Castles show at the Granada Theater last night--or lack thereof, actually--turned out to be something of a shit show. Between opening band VEGA being on the bill (then not on the bill) and the doors still not being open at 10:15 p.m. (and soon thereafter the show being canceled), it's clear that something was up--either with the venue or the band. Well, Granada Theater owner Mike Schoder checks in via email this morning to offer up his side of the story. Not to spoil the surpris

  April 15, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To See The Gaslight Anthem and Heartless Bastards On Tuesday at The Granada

  In this week's dead tree version of DC9, Observer contributor Eric Grubbs offers up tomorrow night's Gaslight Anthem/Heartless Bastards show at the Granada Theater as one of our Critic's Picks for the week. Why? Well, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the above song, "The '59 Sound," the title track from The Gaslight Anthem's stellar 2008 release, was one of last year's best singles.And, thanks to the fine folks at the Granada, we've got three pairs of tickets to g

  April 27, 2009

• Last Night: Gaslight Anthem and Heartless Bastards at the Granada

  Gaslight Anthem with Heartless BastardsGranada TheaterApril 28, 2009Better Than: Watching an anti-climatic basketball playoff.The Granada played host to brawny rock last night as the Heartless Bastards and headliner Gaslight Anthem played to a testosterone-rich crowd. In sets that were long on music and short on charisma, both bands played it loud and unadorned. Unfortunately, for bands that feature lyric-rich songs, the vocals were muddy and, at least for me, the impact of the songs suffered a

  April 29, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Fischerspooner Show At The Granada

  FischerspoonerIn this week's print edition, Kelly Knickerbocker spoke with Fischerspooner's Warren Fischer, who helped detail his and bandmate Casey Spooner's ascent from art school weirdos into pop culture commentators/electro-dance freaks. It's an interesting story--check it out--and sheds some light into what Fischerspooner hopes to accomplish with its notoriously excessive live performance. And Fischer's answer: Anything and everything, basically. So you can rest assured that tonight's show

  May 15, 2009

• Bonus MP3s: LehtMoJoe Remixes Passion Pit, Major Lazer, Common and Peter, Bjorn and John

  Earlier this month, local DJ/producer LehtMoJoe entered a Passion Pit-sponsored contest to remix the band's song "Little Secrets" in anticipation of the band's debut LP release, Manners, due out on Tuesday. And he's had some success with it: Two days ago, his remix of the track, which had already been featured on a number of blogs, was singled out and placed onto Hype Machine's radio playlist.Curious as to what the track sounds like? So were we--and LehtMoJoe (real name: Vincent Silva) was kind

  May 15, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To Catch Bonnie "Prince" Billy at The Granada Theater Tomorrow Night

  Admiral Wiley BallsOh, Will Oldham, you're so adorable. In this week's paper, you'll see a profile of Bonnie "Prince" Billy (nee Will Oldham) penned by my LA Weekly counterpart Randall Roberts, who had the pleasure of joining the reclusive Mr. Oldham for drinks a few weeks back at an LA hotel. The result? Some incredible quotes, that's for sure. Like this one from Oldham."Imagine if men ejaculated not with a liquid, but with steam. Like, every time you came, it sprayed out instead of squirting.

  June 5, 2009

• Good Friday: New Science Projects, The Theater Fire, Red, Air Review, George Strait, I Was A King, Pops Carter, Josh Weathers, Bowling for Soup, J.D. Souther, Grand Funk Railroad, Better Than Ezra, Les Claypool, Girl In A Coma

  Why, yes, that is R. Kelly playing from my computer speakers in the office right now. Which means it must be the weekend. And means I must be running late on posting Good Friday. My sincerest apologies. Here are your weekend plans, friends. First up, the shows we've already hyped.Tonight's kinda crazy, actually. There's the Brutal Juice reunion at Club Dada, for one (catch 'em again on Saturday at the Rock 'N' Roll BBQ at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton). Also: The Flatlanders at House of Blues; Cons

  June 5, 2009

• Just So We're Clear: Jenny Lewis Plays Dallas' Granada Next Week, Not Tonight

  So there's a pretty embarrassing mistake in this week's paper, albeit one with somewhat of an understandable cause: Through my fault, and no one else's, we ran a story on Jenny Lewis in this week's paper, in which the copy stated that Lewis plays the Granada Theater tonight.Thing is, Lewis does play the Granada tonight. Just, not the one in Dallas--the one in Lawrence, Kansas. Oh, crap.The story's been fixed in its online incarnation. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury with the print vers

  June 15, 2009

• Poster Of The Week: St. Vincent At The Granada Theater

  Gorilla Vs. Bear contributor David Bartholow created this poster using an image from Land of Nicholas Copernicus by Michal Rusinek and featuring photos by Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka. "I typically gather a few images that I believe are appropriate for the particular show, apply the type treatments, and subsequently present them to site founder and editor-in-chief, Chris Cantalini, who then selects a final from that batch," he explains in an e-mail. "Rather simply, we liked the image and thought i

  June 18, 2009

• Ben Kweller To Participate In Granada Theater Tweet-up In Anticipation Of Tonight's Show

  Greenville's own Ben Kweller brings his recently cocuntry-flavored jams (and, no doubt, some of his older, less country fare, too) to town tonight for a performance at the Granada Theater. But before that--at about 2 p.m., I'm told--Kweller will participate in the theater's first "Tweet Up," in which, I believe, artists and fans interact over Twitter and then meet up in real life? Yeah, that sounds right, maybe. Either way, follow the Granada's Twitter feed, which promises more detail

  June 26, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets To Tonight's Patrick Wolf Show At The Granada

  Modern-day glam-popper Patrick Wolf stops by the Granada Theater tonight as the headliner of a Nylon magazine-sponsored tour that also features Living Things, Jaguar Love and Plastiscines. Expect androgyny, over-the-top performance and maybe the feeling that you're seeing half the Bowie for a quarter of the price. Or for free, as our friends at the Granada have hooked us up with five pairs of tickets to dole out to tonight's show. Want one of said pairs? Shoot me an email right now wi

  June 30, 2009

• DOMAXXI: Announcing The Performers For Tuesday Night's (Free!) Awards Ceremony!

  In the coming days, we'll be flooding DC9 with more and more exciting news surrounding this year's DOMA Showcase on Saturday and the Awards Ceremony, which will take place starting at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Granada Theater.For now, though, let's just get this exciting news out of the way: This year's ceremony, like last year's will feature performances on both the main stage at the Granada and on a second stage toward the back of the room on the main floor. Last year, the Cannabinoids held th

  July 15, 2009

• Two Area Halloween Shows Get Scary Early Announcements

  ​Halloween's a good two months away--almost two-and-a-half months off, actually--but, since area booking agents never seem to sleep, we're already seeing some pretty impressive lineups get tossed together for the holiday.Among them? A hipster's delight at the Granada, for one, featuring two Austin-based GorillaVsBear favorites, White Denim and, if we're being honest, the essentially Dallas-based (for now) and much-buzzed Neon Indian. Kind of a waste, though, as I thought every night was dress-

  August 18, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Dove Hunter, True Widow, Boom Boom Box and Tre Orsi Show At The Granada

  Lee SettyDove Hunter enjoys some family time.​Tomorrow night, the Granada Theater showcases what's likely to be one of the best all-rock, all-local affairs of the year, as it hosts Dove Hunter, True Widow, The Boom Boom Box and Tre Orsi, all on the same bill. And here's some more good news: I know for a fact that at least two of the outfits--Dove Hunter and True Widow--are knees deep in preparing the follow-ups to their phenomenal debuts from 2008. Maybe they'll share some of the new material

  September 16, 2009

• The Secret Machines,...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

  September 24, 2009

• Last Night: The Get Up Kids at The Granada Theater

  [Editor's Note: Sorry this is being posted so late in the day. We had some technical difficulties in getting it your way. But, alas, here you go...] The Get Up Kids, Youth Group, Pretty & Nice Granada TheaterSeptember 30, 2009 Better than: seeing The Get Up Kids in 2004 opening for Dashboard Confessional. Get Up, Stand Up?​ For a reunion tour, The Get Up Kids are not taking the easy route by just playing fan favorites. Last night at the Granada, the band definitely played the songs th

  October 1, 2009

• Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To See Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill on Thursday, October 22, at the Granada Theater

  We've been geeking out about the upcoming Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill double-bill at the Granada for months now (four, to be specific), and now that it's almost here, well, really, we can hardly contain ourselves--which, I promise, is meant to read far more honestly and less facetiously than it does.And we're pretty stoked about this, too: The Granada Theater's just hooked us up with two free pairs of tickets to hand out to a couple of lucky DC9 readers today--which very easily could be you,

  October 9, 2009

• Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets To See Butthole Surfers and Peaches on October 30 at the Granada Theater

  Last time the Butthole Surfers played the Granada Theater, the freaks came out. Last time Peaches played the same place, it was the voyeurs' turn. So it stands to reason, then, that when the two acts share a bill at the Granada on the night before Halloween, all bets are off. At the very least? You know it'll be a spectacle. Which is why we're quite excited that the folks at the Granada Theater have passed along three pairs of early-bird tickets for us to hand out to a few fortunate DC9 readers.

  October 22, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Pelican at the Granada on Monday

  I know it's a big holiday weekend and all, but, for most of us at least, there will be life after Saturday night. So you might as well start planning next week now.This should help: The instrumental hard rock/metal purveyors in Pelican are stopping by for a gig on Monday at the Granada Theater. Last time the band stopped through town, I had this much to say:Melodic and heavy (and never boring despite a lack of vocals), Pelican's performances are entrancing, to say the least.Don't really have to

  October 30, 2009