Subject: Jeff Liles

• You Want Your New Deep Ellum? Well, Here It Is.

  February 22, 2007

• Obituary for a Storefront

  February 2, 2007

• When Will Bills Open? As Soon as Possible.

  January 30, 2007

• A Trip to The Last Record Store

  November 9, 2006

• Smells Like 15 Years Later

  October 20, 2006

• Bill's Records and Tapes and Posters and Crap

  May 25, 2006

• Them Deep Elem Blues

  July 27, 2007

• More Sounds of Deep Ellum

  August 1, 2007

• Deep Ellum's "Home Movie" Maker Revealed

  August 7, 2007

• Slideshow: Deep Ellum Thriving In The '90s

  June 6, 2008

• DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

  June 25, 2008

• 1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

  April 30, 1998

• Echoes And Reverberations: Speed Dating With Rush

  October 24, 2008

• Scene, Heard

  Where there's glass, there's theft

  November 9, 2000

• Love indie style

  October 12, 1995

• Jeff Liles is Loco For Loco Gringos

  Over on DC9, some required reading in advance of the Loco Gringos reunion Saturday night at the Lakewood Bar & Grill. Jeff Liles, whose weekly "Echoes & Reverberations" pieces are my favorite items on any Observer blog, has assembled quite the local all-star cast (Jim Heath, Mike Dillon, Tex Edwards, Barry Kooda, Toby Sheets -- you name it) to reminisce about the band that nurtured your pig way back when. Go. Now. --Robert Wilonsky

  January 7, 2009

• Station to station

  November 16, 1995

• Out Here

  November 30, 1995

• A Reel Good Time Promised Tomorrow Night at Kettle Art

  It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second annual Deep Ellum Film Night at Frank Campagna's place. Attendees can peruse art, photos and graphics and watch the films of visual artists and musicians including Campagna, Cindy Chaffin, Hal Sample

  January 9, 2009

• Tracy Feith Was "Now" Long Before Dressing Michelle Obama and Target Shoppers

  Courtesy Jeff LilesDecadent Dub Team in Oklahoma City in 1993, from left: Jeff Liles, Tracy Feith and DJ EZ Eddie D. Says Jeff, "Check out Tracy's belt buckle, beeper and coonskin hat."Jeff Liles, whose can't-miss trip down Amnesia Lane this week features a visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Theatre Gallery in 1985, has had another flashback, this time concerning a former Decadent Dub Team-mate. And it's quite the fashionable flashback, as Jeff sends word this evening that the "oriental

  January 24, 2009

• Pop mart

  March 20, 1997

• Looks Like Oak Cliff's Kessler Theatre Is Already Getting Some Heavy Hitters.

  Perhaps you recall this Unfair Park item from early last month about the efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theatre in Oak Cliff? Well, either way, point is: It's still happening. And former DC9 contributor Jeff Liles is a big part of that resurrection, helping to spearhead the process. But, beyond that, Liles is constantly trying to up the awareness level of what's happening at the theatre. Hence the above clip, shot by Liles and featuring The Buck Pets' Chris Savage performing the song "Hey Su

  June 2, 2009

• Out Here

  September 17, 1998

• Homewardsounds

  December 31, 1998

• Major Mistakes

  February 11, 1999

• Liberation front

  May 20, 1999

• The Last Meow

  June 20, 2002

• New, Improved Michael Irvin

  September 19, 2002

• 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 Cottonmouth, Texas) claims--while passing along the above visual evidence from the venue's marquis. Trick is, she's also supposed to be in Austin tonight, performing alongside the Cannabinoids at

  March 21, 2009

• Down With the Ship

  "Big Steve" Shein ready to make his departure

  July 31, 2003

• Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas

  How Jim Schutze forsook his hippie-dippy days and learned to love the snout house

  January 25, 2007

• Adios to the Arbor

  Two former music editors weigh in on the future of Trees

  December 29, 2005

• Requiem for a Record Shop?

  The fate of Bill's

  April 14, 2005

• Odds & Ends

  OHNO's demise, Vans Warped Tour and an interview with Scott Beggs

  June 24, 2004

• Stoopid

  Plus: On Top of the World, True Colors, Miller on a Mission

  September 26, 2002

• WWJD?

  Plus: Dalbie and Tex, A List

  September 12, 2002

• Scene, Heard

  Persistence pays

  November 2, 2000

• The preacher and the Prophet

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

  June 17, 1999

• Hassle class

  Roadcrew tries to ease the rigors of playing live

  October 30, 1997

• Grading on a curve

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

  December 21, 1995

• 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

• Starck Memories of When Dallas Was Cool

  The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I'll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you're in need of a full schedule -- the official Web site's still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks back, the honorees are the fest's highlights: M. Emmett Walsh, Ray Liotta, Brian Cox, Juanita Moore and, sure, Paul Williams. But locals will take particular note of tomorrow night's screening of Joseph F. Alexandre's Warriors of the Discotheque:

  April 29, 2009

• In Oak Cliff, An Effort to Resurrect the Kessler

  View Larger MapSome of you may have noticed that yesterday, in the item about Kidd Springs in Oak Cliff, Jeff Liles posted a link to a video you'll find after the jump, along with the rather cryptic note: "Speakin' of the OC, we have this to look forward to next year:" Ah, but what, precisely, is this? We exchanged a few e-mails, during which Jeff explained: Edwin Cabaniss, a familiar face among the nonprofit crowd, recently bought the old Kessler Theater on W. Davis Street with the intention of

  May 6, 2009

• Weekend Roundup: Animal Collective, Red, Brutal Juice, Chameleon Chamber Group, Blixaboy, Blake Shelton, George Strait, DJ's/Devices Reunion, Girl In A Coma

  Another weekend's come and gone, which means, yup, it's time again to reminisce on your fuzzy memories with some help from Youtube.Animal Collective on Thursday, June 4, at the House of BluesDaniel Rodrigue already reviewed this show for us, which, sure, didn't happen over the weekend, but came close enough. In this performance of "Slippi," you'll see what he was talking about when he mentioned that giant beach ball that was being used to project video. Trippy, indeed.

  June 8, 2009

• Barry Kooda, Quiet Storm

  Last night, as the storm was turning out lights across town, Jeff Liles and Barry Kooda went down to the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. Jeff brought his video camera; Barry, his acoustic guitar and Loco Gringos' "Texas Ranger Man." Not quite sure who brought the thunder.

  June 11, 2009

• Groundbreaking Developments at the Kessler

  Barry KoodaMayor Tom Leppert, far left, and Edwin Cabaniss, in the white shirt fourth from left, put shovel to cement at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.Family obligations kept me away from the official groundbreaking at the Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff, about which we first told you in early May. But something tells me the shindig, attended by Mayor Tom Leppert, will be well documented. Jeff Liles's TheKessler2010 YouTube page features, for now, this delightful Emily Elbert performance recorde

  June 20, 2009

• Over The Weekend: Ressurection Of The Kessler Theater

  Machelle DunlopThe groundbreaking at the Kessler in Oak Cliff on Friday evening provided one of the most surreal sights I've seen in my seven years of covering local music: a dread-locked musician standing side-by-side with the mayor of a major city, as both used golden shovels to dig into ceremonial dirt piles. Specifically, Jeff Liles and Dallas mayor Tom Leppert were among the handful of officials and musicians to join theater owner Edwin Cabaniss in the symbolic beginning of the restoration

  June 22, 2009

• An Old Friend and An Old Favorite: Spyche Does Slobberbone at the Kessler Theater

  Technically I shouldn't even be posting here--too old, so I'm told. So I'll keep this quick and just tell Jeff Liles thanks for posting Spyche's rendition of Slobberbone's "Get Gone Again," a standout from the band's '97 sophomore effort Barrel Chested. The clip was recorded, natch, at the Kessler Theatre in Oak Cliff over the weekend, but altogether timeless for myriad reasons--chief among them the woman behind the guitar, whose cover of Cheap Trick's "The Flame" remains an all-time favorite an

  June 24, 2009

• Peter Schmidt Recalls How Three on a Hill Got Don Ivan Punchatz to Do Its First Album Cover

  ​In this morning's item about the late, great Don Ivan Punchatz, Jeff Liles drops a comment to remind us of the TCU illustration prof's estimable contribution to the local music scene. Writes Jeff, he "also created that amazing cover illustration for Biting on Tin Foil, the first Three on a Hill vinyl EP on Deep Ellum Records," which Jeff actually released. (There are two copies for sale on the eBays.) Turns out, long-ago Three on a Hill frontman Peter Schmidt remembers how the cover came abo

  October 27, 2009

• Watch: RTB2 Performs "Whistle" In The Kessler Theater

  Because we can all use a palate cleanser now and then--and, also, because there's never a wrong time to listen to RTB2--check out the clip above, featuring Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Sandlin performing their song "Whistle" in the still-under-reconstruction Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff.And, since we're on that subject, yep, seem about time for a check-in with our old Echoes and Reverberations scribe, Jeff Liles, who'll be serving as the artistic director for the space. "It's coming along," Lil

  November 5, 2009