Mark Griffin

Jeff Liles Tells Stories From Dallas' Past and Looks to its Bright Creative Future

There it is. Nestled in South Dallas, rescued by caring souls of our local arts. The beacon that is The Kessler. A majestic Texas juke joint, pampered with TLC and vision that only a handful of true music fans could bring. The Kessler (or rather, "The Kessler X " as our subject refers to it) is o ... More >>

The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments

​As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.And, for sure, MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, eve ... More >>

It Took Less Than a Year to Resurrect the 68-Year-Old Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff

James BlandBack when Mark Griffin was better known as MC 900 Ft Jesus​It was but 10 months ago we first told you about Edwin Cabaniss's efforts to resurrect the Kessler Theater on W. Davis Street in Oak Cliff. How time flies, as tomorrow night it makes its formal bow with, among other events, Jame ... 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 >>

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

MC 900 Ft. Jesus Lives

Indie-rap innovator MC 900 Ft. Jesus spins on, quietly, at Lee Harvey's

U2 Can Love The First Unitarian Church Choir

Anatomy Lesson

At Kitchen Dog, Hedwig proves size does matter; Flower Drum Song sounds lovely at Fair Park

Give a Little

Area benefits look to raise money for cats, kids and a music man, too

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

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

Spider Webs

Mark Griffin resurrects MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Scene, Heard

Deep Ellum's club owners and retailers set aside egos in the name of charity

Age of Innocence

The Fastest Clock in the Universe's tale of age, youth and barbarism misses a beat

Scene, Heard

Disaster strikes. Or does it?

Out Here

Lucky breaks

Across the Bar

Gatti's back; Pagan's out; 900 Ft Jesus bathes; Records due for release

Lounging around

The Enablers look for a new home

The Telefones

Vibration Change (VVV Records)

Requiem for a sax player

Will Clay died an unsung minor hero of Dallas rock and roll

One-man mayhem

Homer Henderson keeps it wild

The ghost of Xmas passes

Landmark local band packs it in

The last roundup

Soul Food Cafe throws in the towel

Great ambience

Getting Sofa-conscious with Roshonnda Red Quotet

Unwrapping the Reichstag

Reed Easterwood of Junky Southern spills his guts

Out with the new wave

VVV Records closes its doors after 17 years

1996 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Big drummer boy

Funland's Will Johnson steps out from behind the kit

Welcome to Hell's Lobby

The area's best--maybe only--real "music scene" can be found in Denton

Two-drink minimum

The Enablers take Nino Rota and Dick Dale out for cocktails

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)