Jeff Liles

Were You at Tripping Daisy's First Show? Jeff Liles Has Been Archiving Your Dallas Concert Memories.

As someone who didn't grow up in Texas, I've been looking through Jeff Liles' recent Dallas concert video postings and feeling oddly nostalgic. Skinny Puppy at the Bronco Bowl in 1992, The Dwarves at Club Clearview in 1991, Throwing Muses and KMFDM at Trees in 1991.These were shows I was too young t ... More >>

Before the Calatrava's Switched On, Breaking News: The Relatives to Play Bridge Opening

Justin Terveen's already taken his place on the west side of the Continental Avenue Bridge for tonight's lighting of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, set to begin glowing at 6:15, give or take. He says it's filling up fast, no joke. I'm about to head that way myself; why not. But before I split, this ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter's First Ever Solo Show, A Ride With Bob Returns & Dennis Gonzalez Announces New Record

​Tim DeLaughter has never played a solo show. Not one anybody can remember, anyway. But last week, the Kessler Theater added his name as the opening act for YES lead singer Jon Anderson on Tuesday, February 28. The show is part of the venue's "Storytellers" series, which has already featured legen ... More >>

City Council Rolls a Gutter Ball on Greenville

How neighborhood activists used zoning and fear to cause the death of cool.

Kessler Theater Artistic Director Jeffrey Liles Accuses Granada Theater of Stealing Shows

​Earlier this week, the Granada Theater announced a new show coming to its room on Saturday, October 8. The show will feature touring headliners Portugal. The Man, plus an opening set from Dallas locals Air Review. Specifically, the inclusion of Air Review is where things get interesting: Bac ... More >>

Kessler Theater Adds Second St. Vincent Show

Dylan HollingsworthSt. Vincent in her last hometown performance, at the Granada Theater in 2009.​Seems like we've been waiting weeks -- far longer than we expected -- for the scheduled Sunday, October 23, performance at the Kessler Theater from Dallas product Annie Clark, better known as St. Vince ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Smells Like Nirvana at the Fair Park Coliseum in '93

​The Legendary Show happened two years and two months earlier at Trees. That one's been well-documented. There's video -- it never gets old. Then there's Jeff Liles's recap, which ran in the paper version of Unfair Park in '05, shortly before a bankruptcy judge closed the club's doors. What a mess ... More >>

Looking Back at Some Other Local Music MTV Moments (Not All Involving the Toadies, Swear)

I see our music blog's celebrating MTV's 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I'm old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left off the list -- like, say, the ... More >>

The Story of N.W.A.'s "Boyz-n-the-Hood" and The First Time It Ever Earned Radio Airplay

​Today marks the 20th anniversary of John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood, the film that, in many ways, put the tragic world of Los Angeles street culture into our nation's collective consciousness. Really, it's a point relative to nothing other than the fact that it might make a few of us feel old. A ... More >>

Kessler Theater To Highlight Crate-Digging With Film Screening and DJ Sets Tomorrow

​Vinyl records are an interesting phenomenon. Those who are into collecting vinyl, are especially passionate about it. And Bill's Records, now in its fifth year on South Side on Lamar, is one of the few places in Dallas where vinyl-philes can find rare recordings. "[Bill]'s got almost a million p ... More >>

Searching for the Soul of Austin

The neo city on the hills is a far cry from its cheap pot, cold beer and low-rent former ways.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Aerosmith Kicks Out the Texxas Jam in 1978

Via.​When a clip from Aerosmith's since-deleted VHS appearance at the Cotton Bowl in 1978 surfaced in February 2010, it made a brief cameo here -- at which time, the great Jeff Liles jumped into the comments to remark upon the quality of that particular performance, which he was fortunate (?) enou ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Blur Pays Homage to Dallas at Trees on a Cold Night in '96

​The best part of posting secret audio from concerts you've attended is using them as an excuse to ring up others who were also there and reminisce about that, like, amazing night, remember? Like, say, Jeff Liles, who recalls Blur's February 3, 1996, show at Trees (scroll down) as "a mob scene" an ... More >>

A Look at That Tanker Crash and Burn on I-30

No doubt you've heard about, or read about, the fuel-tanker spill that closed down I-30 west of downtown early this morning. So happens good, good friend of the show Jeff Liles, who was on his way back to Oak Cliff after the Frankie Campagna memorial show at Club Dada at around 1:30 a.m, came across ... More >>

Young Talents Thrive at the Kessler.

Giveaway: One Pair of Tickets To See James Hall, Bobgoblin, The Boom Boom Box and New Fumes Tonight At The Kessler

​If you've spent a few minutes talking about music with Jeff Liles, chances are at some point he brought up one of his favorite performers, James Hall, formerly of Pleasure Club and Mary My Hope, with descriptions of an intense live show that borders on religious revival. So it's little surprise t ... More >>

For Your Weekday Listening Pleasure: David Garza and Friends at Club Dada in '91

Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom. How's that for a flashback?​Pardon the musical interlude so early in the morning; blame an overnight missive from Jeff Liles. He sends very advance word: David Garza's getting Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom together for the first time in 20 years at The Kessler on July 17 -- wh ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: More or Less, the Live History of the New Bohemians

​Jeff Liles gave me a tour of The Kessler last week -- hadn't yet seen behind every door and corner. Workers were installing a new bar; a handful of 6- and 7-year-old girls were taking ballet lessons in the auditorium; their mothers were in the back, reading and knitting. Jeff took me upstairs, to ... More >>

A Good Friday Flashback: The Buck Pets, "The Kings of the Texas New Wave"

I am finishing up a Buck Pets piece for the paper version of DC9 at Night in advance of the band's reunion at Trees one week from tomorrow night. And, as I went to look for an old piece of video on YouTube (the "Iron Cock" performance at Trees in '91, if you must know), I came across this very speci ... More >>

Three New Venues Offer Up Plenty of Options

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Dead Do Dallas in '78 (and '72 and '69 and ...)

​I'm not much of a Grateful Dead fan, if I may end the week with an understatement; I pretty much start and finish with American Beauty, depending on the hour and the herb, though the missus was once known a long while ago to follow a tour or two. Lord knows it ain't hard to turn up a Dead bootleg ... More >>

What This Blog Really Needs is More Jazz

Mark your calendars now: Mardi Gras Oak Cliff takes place February 7 in the Bishop Arts District, with a morning 5K run and a nighttime masquerade ball bookending a February 6 pre-game. Which I mention only because I see that Jeff Liles, who's been recording musicians in the Kessler Theater during i ... 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 >>

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 ... More >>

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 ceremonia ... More >>

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.

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 clos ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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: ... More >>

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 C ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Slideshow: Deep Ellum Thriving In The '90s

Deep Ellum's "Home Movie" Maker Revealed

More Sounds of Deep Ellum

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

Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas

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

A Trip to The Last Record Store

Bill's Records and Tapes and Posters and Crap

Adios to the Arbor

Two former music editors weigh in on the future of Trees

Requiem for a Record Shop?

The fate of Bill's

Down With the Ship

"Big Steve" Shein ready to make his departure

WWJD?

Plus: Dalbie and Tex, A List

Scene, Heard

Where there's glass, there's theft

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

Major Mistakes

Signing to a record label can be bad for a band's health. So why do they keep doing it?

Out Here

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees