Subject: King Bucks

• DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

  June 25, 2008

• DOMA XX: Best Cover/Tribute Act Nominees

  July 3, 2008

• DOMA XX: Best Country/Roots Act Nominees

  July 9, 2008

• Weekend Roundup: Bob Schneider, Nas, The King Bucks, JabbaWockeeZ, Green River Ordinance, Tokio Hotel

  September 2, 2008

• Good Friday: Starhead, Lucky Tubb, Mustache Pageant And Not Much Else

  If you can overcome the dreary weather, Black Friday shopping exhaustion and post-Thanksgiving hangover, there are a few noteworthy shows to choose from this weekend. First, a reminder of what we've already mentioned. Tonight, you can catch Gojira, 36 Crazyfists, In Flames and All That Remains at The Palladium Ballroom; Slam Bang Theater at Club Dada, Arc Angels and Electric Touch at House of Blues. Up in Denton, there's a Paste magazine-approved set of Doug Burr, Shiny Around The Edges and Du

  November 28, 2008

• Tex-Max

  April 2, 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

• Picture Show: Making Out With The Happy Bullets

  Daniel DaughertyThe Happy Bullets brought in a whole bunch of friends to Space on Friday night in its attempt to break a world record/shoot a music video for its new single "Fuck Yeah, I'm In Love With You". Giggle Party was there; The King Bucks were there, too. And so were a bunch of goofballs and kissers. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that any records were broken.Oh well. Check out Daniel Daugherty's slideshow of the event either way.

  February 16, 2009

• Show Announcements: P Funk, Tricky, Del the Funky Homosapien, More

  Pull out your funkiest pair of dancing shoes, 'cause George Clinton's landing the P Funk mothership in Dallas this May. More of the latest show announcements come after the jump.

  February 17, 2009

• Show Announcements: Scrap Metal, Great American Taxi, TV On The Radio, Dan Deacon, School of Seven Bells

  Been missing your jamgrass fix waiting on another Leftover Salmon reunion show? No worries, as former Salmon frontman Vince Herman comes to town this April with Great American Taxi. If you're looking for a more traditional bluegrass show, Ralph Stanley (of "Man of Constant Sorrow" fame) brings it to the Granada. Don't worry, it ain't all Americana this April. If you're looking for an excuse to go overboard on the hair spray, Scrap Metal's roster features five guys whose careers were killed b

  February 24, 2009

• Show Announcements: Let it Rock Tour, Billy Joe Shaver, Aesop Rock, Elvis Perkins

  This week's show announcements include the Let it Rock Tour (with headliner Kevin Rudolf, pictured above), Billy Joe Shaver and Aesop Rock. Complete listing after the jump.

  March 3, 2009

• Show Announcements: A Flock of Seagulls, Live, Def Leppard, more

  This week's booking announcements comprises a pretty long list and features a few out-of-mind national acts--including A Flock of Seagulls, Live, and that band with the one-armed drummer. SXSW bookings are still coming in too, with a venue change for the Whispertown 2000. And, to top it all off, Lola's and the Longhorn out in Fort Worth have announced a couple of two-for-one admission deals.As usual, details after the jump.

  March 10, 2009

• Irish Spring Flings

  Patrick MichelsAs with other holidays, local restaurants are going all out with special St. Patrick's Day offerings for their customers on Tuesday. Urban Taco may not be the obvious choice for St. Patrick's Day revelry, but it's throwing its hat into the green ring for its lucky customers, serving a special St. Pat's chip & salsa trio. Let's see...guessing green, orange-ish and white. Looking for something a bit more authentic? The Tipperary Inn (5815 Live Oak at Skillman) opens at 11 a

  March 16, 2009

• Bonus MP3: The King Bucks -- "Autumn Leaves"

  Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks, never too far from a Shiner. Last week, Ms. Merritt Martin reviewed the debut disc from the greatest (and only) band currently holding down Adair's on Monday nights. And, in it, Merritt had this much to say:It's not quite as gritty as the Bucks' live show, but, in the end, the band's debut is at once Nudie suit, Texas Playboy and Branson, with a few tears shed at a dive bar and a can of Lone Star thrown in for good measure.There's more to her favorable review, of

  April 1, 2009

• The King Bucks

  The King Bucks (Self-released)

  March 26, 2009

• Shibboleth, The Cut Off, Slider Pines and Airline

  Friday, December 19, at The Double Wide

  December 18, 2008

• Quick's Big Thing Awards Show Wasn't Very Big

  May 1, 2008

• How to Be a Good Cover Band

  January 17, 2008

• Bless the Child by Rocking Out

  Do a good deed by attending Orphange Second Annual Christmas Benefit

  December 20, 2007

• 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's Saloon at the band's weekly residency in the ol' Deep Ellum honky tonk.Tonight that all comes to an end, though, as this will evening marks the last time--at least on any regular basis--in which the

  April 27, 2009

• Show Announcements: Etta James, Gaelic Storm, Creed, Eleven Hundred Springs, More

  Gaelic StormAs usual, your weekly roundup of new concert listings. Just a heads up on Cowboy Mouth, they gave short notice for their May 29 show. Fans of acoustic and Americana should definitely make Gaelic Storm a priority when they come through in a couple months. If you've never heard of them, they're the Irish band in Titanic. But don't let that stop you. And how 'bout that, The King Bucks got a gig! All the rest, after the jump.

  May 5, 2009

• Good Friday: Peaches, Viva Voce, Malford Milligan, David Byrne, International Waters, Oliver's Army, Airline, Jonathan Byrd, The Phuss, Gaelic Storm, Todd Sarvies

  This particular weekend offers an interesting mix of local and national talents, many of which are playing unheralded venues scattered about the Metroplex. The mix of genres represented in our area in the coming days is quite remarkable.First off the shows that were already covered in print or online. Tonight's a full plate to be sure: The Peaches/Drums of Death show at The Granada should prove to be an ear- and an eyeful; up in Denton, the triple-bill of Viva Voce/Cut Off Your Hands/Robert Gome

  June 12, 2009

• Good Friday: The Independence Day Edition

  So, first and foremost: Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everyone! Now, let's talk about the weekend in music, per protocol. As always, the stuff we already discussed up first.Tonight's pretty busy, actually: Asylum Street Spankers, Porterdavis and The O's play the Granada; The Edge gets the 20th Anniversary treatment at the Lakewood Theater with the likes of Pop Poppins, the Bat Mastersons, Cottonmouth, TX and Deep Blue Something all set to perform; Dirt Nasty (aka former MTV VJ Simon Rex) takes

  July 3, 2009

• Patio Prowl

  July 9, 2009

• DOMAXXI: The Winners! Announced!

  So last night's 21st annual Dallas Observer Music Awards kinda kicked some serious ass. All ten of our performers stunned with their live sets, and the crowd really couldn't have been more outstanding--at one point, during Telegraph Canyon's set, it was tough to move about the room, it was so crowded. So, on that note, many, many thanks to everyone who came out to the show--the fans, the nominees, the performers, the presenters--for making it such a great time. If you didn't make it, you re

  July 22, 2009

• Dallas Observer Music Awards

  July 23, 2009

• Picture Show: The King Bucks at the Belmont Hotel

  Patrick Michels​Could've filed this one under "Night Moves" just as easily, because the King Bucks' poolside set at the Belmont Hotel last weekend was all about the scene.Under Thursday night's full moon, with the Dallas skyline lit up behind them, the Bucks spent hours on the lawn stage, while the hotel's chef served up ribs and chicken off the grill and kids splashed around in the pool.You can check out more shots from the show, while you wonder why more shows aren't staged just like this on

  August 10, 2009

• DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 16: Danny Balis

  ...and for the Luddites still rockin' the Youtube, here's your link.This week's installment of DC9 in Space starts with a tandem swig of beer, features maybe a few too many one-liners from King Buck keys man Chad Stockslager, and ends with a performance of "Tethered," one of the many fine, fine country tunes from Danny Balis' debut solo effort, Too Much Living.There are other songs strewn throughout the clip, of course. Also, some fun facts--like how Balis thinks his solo material compares to th

  August 19, 2009

• Danny Balis Offers Up A Gem On His Solo Debut

  August 20, 2009

• Danny Balis' Solo Debut Almost Cracks Amazon's Top 100 Download Chart, Still Sits Comfortably In Top 200.

  Dylan HollingsworthDanny Balis at his CD release show, which doubled as the Granada Theater's five-year anniversary party.​Got an excited call last night from one Danny Balis. Mostly, Balis--he of The King Bucks and formerly of Sorta--was flabbergasted by what he was looking at on his computer, and he pass along to share some good news on a day in which he needed some.Checking in on how his phenomenal solo debut, Too Much Living, was doing on the day of and the days immediately following the d

  September 3, 2009

• Bonus MP3: Boys Named Sue -- "Light Beers Away"

  ​Tonight, the rabscallions known 'round town as the Boys Named Sue will stop on by Sons of Hermann Hall--with The King Bucks in tow--to host a CD release party in celebration of the Sues' latest release, The Hits, Vol. Sue! The new disc, released on Idol Records, is classic Sues--which is to say, it's good-time party music. Which is to say, it's a collection of drinking tunes. Which bodes well for tonight's event, I'd think, which kicks off at 8 p.m. After the jump, a free mp3 from

  September 11, 2009

• Good Friday: Will Johnson, Slobberbone, Blackheart Society

  Neon Indian plays these beautiful confines on Sunday.​Not the busiest weekend of shows around town this time around--which I'm OK with as I'm off to Colorado to visit friends and check out Neon Indian's debut at Monolith on Sunday (and you thought we were done with them for the time being... ha!). But there are some cool shows worth looking into this weekend--and, more good news for me, we've already written about most. Oh, and of those show's we've already hyped. A reminder: Tonight, t

  September 11, 2009

• Barefoot At The Belmont Shows Return Thursday With Kevin Welch

  Kevin Welch​Good news for those who miss shows at Bend Studio: "Barefoot At The Belmont," a series of weekly concerts at The Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, returns Thursday with an 8:30 p.m. performance by Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Welch. The shows feature many of the same singer-songwriters that have performed at Barefoot At The Belmont, Bend Studio and Rockhouse Films in the past, such as Ari Hest, David Garza and Will Sexton. They continue every Thursday through November 19 in the pool

  September 15, 2009

• The Best of Times

  September 17, 2009

• Watch: Beautiful Footage From Telegraph Canyon's Bass Hall Debut

  Yesterday, the folks at You and Yours Productions--the same people who've brought you the two latest videos from The Burning Hotels--released the above footage of Telegraph Canyon performing at Bass Hall, opening for the Old 97's, from a few weeks back. It was a special night--and the clip, which boasts multiple angles and four songs of Telegraph Canyon's performance ("Old Dark Hymns," "All The Good News," "Spinning Wheels" and "Shake Your Fist"), only reinforces as much. Highly recommended wat

  September 18, 2009

• Sorta Like Sorta: Trey Johnson, Danny Balis, Ward Williams and Friends To Play AllGood Tomorrow Night

  Mark Fuentes​ For obvious reasons, a full-blown Sorta reunion just ain't in the cards. But, tomorrow night at AllGood Cafe, fans of the DOMA-winning favorite are in for pretty much the next best thing, as four former Sorta members, (and some friends) are slated to share a performance stage once more.

  October 14, 2009

• Hash Over: Sevy's Serves Scotch For Supper, Roy Williams Doesn't Take The Week Off, Learn To Use Your Noodle At Tei-An And More

  ​Do you love scotch? Sevy's Grill will have a Scotch Club tasting this evening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. featuring five premium whiskys and a complementary dish for each. Dishes and drinks include crispy 5-spice duck cigars (sounds classier than "duck taquitos," no?) with apricot ginger dipping sauce with Dalmore 12 and ginger ale; prosciutto, ricotta and basil fritatta with Glenfiddich 12; Ahi tuna tartar with Glenfiddich 15; griddled buffalo small sandwiches (they use the disturbing "s" word) wi

  October 19, 2009

• Good Friday: Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Alice in Chains, The King Bucks, Flametrick Subs, Black Heart Procession

  ​Kind of a slow weekend 'round these parts. Which, y'know, is OK, actually. Feels like we've been moving at 100 mph of lat. A slower pace is kind of welcome for once. Still, that doesn't mean nothing's happening. There certainly are a few things worth checking out this weekend--mostly smaller affairs, though, with a few major exceptions.Among those: Tonight's Star Wars: In Concert ordeal out at Arlington's Death Star. And, competing with that this evening (although, really, in date only)? Nigh

  October 23, 2009

• Good Friday: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN, Digital Leather, King Bucks, Ghoultown, John David Kent, Horrorble Party, Play-N-Skillz Halloween Bash, House Harkonnen and More

  Don't forget your costume. Here's one idea.​Love it when Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case this year. What that means for music fans is lots of costume contests and tribute nights, and bands and fans will likely be even more intoxicated than usual--so be careful out there. Recently someone told me his drinking-and-driving strategy, which is to look for someone who appears even drunker than he is and tail them. I totally do not endorse that, and only share it so you can know what to

  October 30, 2009