Joe Butcher

Cory Patrick Coleman Made Mundane Jobs and His Own Mistakes into One of the Area's Best Folk Albums

"Once, when I was a teen, I had a mom who had a mom who had a mom..." Cory Patrick Coleman has a part time gig that he landed a few months ago working for J.C. Penney retouching photos, a job that he shares with King Bucks musician Joe Butcher. Before that, he had a string of jobs, including workin ... More >>

The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, Seryn - Dallas City Performance Hall - 9/14/12

The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, Seryn Dallas City Performance Hall Friday, September 14 See also: More behind-the-scenes photos from opening night There was a moment backstage at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Friday night, when we were being led stage left before the 10 p.m. show started. W ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Brent Best Explains These 42 Slobberbone Covers

​I've still got a few of the work-week rock-and-roll adioses stashed away, and guess I'd better use 'em or lose 'em between now and the next week or so. So let's start with this -- a bootleg officially known as The Bone Collection, featuring 42(ish) covers performed by Slobberbone and, in a few in ... More >>

The King Bucks

Bar-B-Que Drugs Self-released

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Album, Best Electronic Act, Best Punk Act

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Album, Best Electron ... More >>

Ten Local Music Entities Ready for Reality TV

​Dallas has always been a wellspring of source material for reality show producers looking to put some squick-worthy drama on television. Along with the new Most Eligible: Dallas and Big Rich Texas shows that make up the crust on the bottom of the basic cable reality barrel, we've seen some me ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Pleasant Grove Make Rock Better So You Don't Have To

​It's hard to remember a time when Pleasant Grove weren't stalwarts of the Dallas music community. But, this week in 1998, former Observer writer Christina Rees penned a piece about the band's start, which took place only a few months before the story was written. So, for this edition of This Week ... More >>

More Awesome Local Music Facial Hair!

​We here at DC9 listen to you, dear readers. Your comments and views are near and dear to our black little hearts. And, after our last facial hair post got a ton of responses, we've figured out what you want. You want more beards. We'll, we're here to give them to you.Are beards sexy? Our informa ... More >>

Ronnie Fauss

Mulligan (FTG)

Over The Weekend: Pleasant Grove at the Kessler Theatre

​Pleasant GroveKessler TheatreAugust 7, 2010Better than: Ignoring the past.The trend of bands booking a show for the purpose of playing a seminal album in entirety hit home this past weekend, as the revered, but, for the most part, dormant, local heroes in Pleasant Grove took to the Kessler Theatr ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets For Pleasant Grove, Mike Graff And Derek Rogers At The Kessler Saturday

​Pleasant Grove will be at The Kessler in Oak Cliff Saturday for a very special performance. Not only is it a rare (reunion?) show for the band that for years has been either broken up or on the verge of breakup, depending on who you ask, but they'll be performing their album Auscultation of the H ... More >>

The Best Area Album Releases of the '00s

Gig Alert: The King Bucks' Final Monday Night Residency Performance At Adair's Saloon

Sarah Jane SemradThe Bucks' final Adair's show takes place tonight. For the last, oh, I dunno, but it seems like forever, The King Bucks have managed to turn the otherwise pretty low-key Monday nights around town into something of a big deal, packing country music and drinking fans alike into Adair' ... More >>

DOMA XX: Best Country/Roots Act Nominees

Airline

Farewell Republica (Self-released)

How to Be a Good Cover Band

Bless the Child by Rocking Out

Do a good deed by attending Orphange Second Annual Christmas Benefit

Back in Time

While Centro-matic revisited the past, Sarah Jaffe showed us the future

Odds & Ends

At this week's Dallas Video Festival, local audio gets the spotlight treatment

Butcher's Babies

Odds & Ends

Laptop demolition, band self-destruction and the Eagle flies again (sort of)

Only a Mountain

Pleasant Grove prepares for its next challenge: the rest of the country

Brotherly Love

Eisley isn't the only family affair making music

Bar Exam

Slobberbone is the best bar band in America. Here's proof.

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

These are your choices, not ours, for the best musicians in town

Not Wasting Any Time

Dallas duo creates an online record label

Hear Here

Local music was better than ever in 2001

Safe at Home

Don’t forget the local boys...and girl

Heart to Heart

On its new album, Pleasant Grove is happy to be sad

Totally Hits

A great year for local music gets better

Scene, Heard

We'll take most of the blame, but not all of it.

Scene, Heard

Dallas-Denton-Forth Worth bands make their biggest impact yet at SXSW

Scene, Heard

Persistence pays

Across the Bar

X'd out; Columbia compiles rockabilly; Hellions tribute to the Circle Jerks; Gig plugs galore; And Street Beat is ch-ch-ch-changing?

Scene, heard

We'll try to write something good

Direct miss

Pleasant Grove takes its time, even when it doesn't want to

Scene, heard

Rubber Gloves puts on the kitchen mitts; Ronnie Dawson's no zombie; and American Bedouin sets down stakes

Across the Bar

Bill's Records get Hitchcock; Quality Park fills Centro-Matic; Tripping Daisy headlines and mainlines Joe Butcher; Go Metric stays

Free Radish

Mercury Records will be making a huge mistake if it doesn't release Sha Sha

Lady sings the Blues

Chonita "N'Dambi" Gilbert is a back-up singer no more

Lottery a go-go

An ax to grind

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

The Butcher and the baby

Radish's Ben Kwellar needs a rock and roll mentor, and a guy named Joe is just the man for the job

Out Here

Economies of scale

Cake hopes that cutting a deal won't interfere with keeping it real

Proud papa

A first album is born, among other things

College rock

UFOFU brings 'alternative' to ETSU and wins the talent show

UFOFU and your mother

From New York to Dallas comes a classically trained punk-pop band