Subject: Matthew Gray

• DOMA XX: Best Folk/Acoustic Act Nominees

  June 30, 2008

• Paste Checks In With A Matthew And The Arrogant Sea Review...

  November 6, 2008

• Sound Bytes: Download Smile Smile's "Silent Night" Cover, Listen To Black Tie Dynasty's "Christmas Time (feat. PPT)" And Hear Matthew And The Arrogant Sea's Newest Song

  Smile Smile, perhaps Dallas' greatest pop duo that also happens to be an ex-couple, has a little treat over on its Myspace page for your listening please: A surprisingly touching and sweeping cover fo the famed Christmas class tune "Silent Night"--and you can download it, too, iff'n you feel so inclined, by visiting the band's ReverbNation page...Meanwhile, it's not up for download far as I can tell, but over on Black Tie Dynasty's Myspace page, you can check out the band's pretty awesome "Chris

  December 11, 2008

• Meet Dallas Theater Center's New Resident Ensemble (With Video!)

  The next production at the Dallas Theater Center, In the Beginning (opening January 21), also marks the start of a new era for actors at the 50-year-old playhouse. It will be the first production to star all of the members of artistic director Kevin Moriarty's new nine-member resident acting company: Hassan El-Amin, Chamblee Ferguson, Matthew Gray, Sean Hennigan, Liz Mikel, Cedric Neal, Sally Nystuen Vahle, Lee Trull and Christina Vela.DTC hasn't had a resident ensemble since the early 1990s. Re

  January 8, 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

• A New Album From Another Arrogant Sea

  North Carolina's The Ox Magnolia posted its new album up as a free download over on the band's MySpace page on Wednesday. And, I'll be damned if I haven't plopped down $14.95, or more, for albums that were no where near as good as the stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful Only Some Place. Dreamlike and atmospheric, with songs echoing the minimalist sounds of other whispery, indie-folk acts ranging from South San Gabriel to Phosphorescent, the album sounds like it could've been recorded

  February 13, 2009

• Good Friday: B.B. King, Kate Voegele, Max Stalling, Robert Gomez, Bosque Brown, Slaid Cleaves, John Cowan Band, Mad Mexicans, Alpha Rev, The Campaign, Brandi Carlile

  Not exactly a ton of big names swinging through our area this weekend, but it's a decent mix of local and out of town talent who will ply their craft this last weekend in May. First the shows we've already clued you to in print or via the blog: Tonight's one-man band meltdown with Bob Log III, Williem Maker and El Paso Hot Button at Dada; Paramore opening up for No Doubt and The Sounds Saturday night at Superpages.com Center; also on Saturday, it's the poster of the week show featuring The A

  May 29, 2009

• Yesterday at NX35: News, Notes, Sights and Sounds from Night One

  Alan Peppard's name-dropper would've popped its springs last night. At J & J's, Matthew Gray of Matthew & The Arrogant Sea took in Sabra Laval's set as Daniel Folmer also enjoyed the chilled out vibe. Quick's Hunter Hauk also showed up near the end of the set...Over at Dan's, I chatted with Brent Best, got out of the way of Bowling for Soup's Chris Burney, spotted members of the Von Ehrics (that or just some dudes with crazy long beards), and Starhead's Ira Wile was milling about at both

  March 13, 2009

• Yesterday at NX35: Matthew and the Arrogant Sea at Hailey's

  Trevor PaulhusBAND: Matthew and the Arrogant Sea VENUE: Hailey's Club TIME: 9:50ish p.m. By the time I got to Hailey's, two songs into Matthew and the Arrogant Sea's 11-song set, the venue was teeming with people. Somewhere around 250 people were packed into the main room watching the show, and, for the rest of the set, Hailey's was elbow-to-elbow. Not much of a surprise that MATAS' set was magical, energetic, entertaining and, yeah, I'll say it, beautiful. Midlake's Eric Pulido joined

  March 15, 2009

• Yesterday at NX35: Sarah Jaffe (and friends) at Hailey's

  BAND: Sarah Jaffe VENUE: Hailey's Club TIME: 11:45 p.m. OK. I know that there were a bunch of people from Dallas at Hailey's last night. How do I know this? Because the back half of the room was too busy chatting about their new hairdos and taking group pics on their camera phones bother to listen to Sarah Jaffe's brilliant set. Seriously, I wanted to yell, "SHUT THE EFF UP!!" I don't think I've ever been that irritated with a crowd in my life. Whew...I feel better now. As I said, her

  March 15, 2009

• Denton Acts Share Their SXSW Battle Scars

  March 26, 2009

• A New Artist Collective In Denton

  February 19, 2009

• Say Amen.Somebody?

  Inspired by Genesis, DTC's In the Beginning makes Eden into a land of confusion

  February 5, 2009

• A Skull in Connemara Gives Second Thought's Audience Plenty to Think About

  January 8, 2009

• DTC's A Christmas Carol Offers a Good Scrooging

  Little Red Riding Hood and Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity round out the holiday-season stagings

  December 4, 2008

• Matthew and the Arrogant Sea Is Anything But

  Matthew and the Arrogant Sea has no trouble living up to its own name

  October 30, 2008

• Always Greener

  Saturday Night's DOMA Showcase on Lower Greenville rocked. So how come it's not always like that?

  July 24, 2008

• North of the Dial

  June 19, 2008

• Rain Drips With Beatles Nostalgia, While Freakshow and Misanthrope Make for Hard Day's Nights at the Theater

  May 8, 2008

• Introducing Kashioboy and his Chiptunes.

  April 16, 2009

• Review: Glengarry Glen Ross

  DTC builds on the real estate of David Mamet's Glengarry

  October 18, 2007

• Black Sabbath?

  Amid a dark controversy, the Denton festival will still go on

  August 16, 2007

• Walking on Eggshells

  Humpty Dumpty and Visiting Mr. Green find characters heading for big crack-ups

  November 10, 2005

• Cat and Souse

  Maggie and Brick try to pull a big one over on Big Daddy at DTC

  October 26, 2006

• Had a Cow, Dude

  Theatre Britain makes Jack and the Beanstalk udderly silly; Magi works its magic again

  December 1, 2005

• Some Pig

  Cute hams in DCT's Charlotte's Web; one actor hogs the stage in Shakespeare's Keeper

  September 29, 2005

• Chop, Chop

  In Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, a new Russia moves in, evicting a family of aristocrats

  March 17, 2005

• Hang on, Snoopy

  Good grief! Happiness is Charlie Brown at Theatre Three; Patsy Cline and Magi are magical, too.

  December 16, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  December 16, 2004

• Smokin'

  DTC kicks it up a notch with Anna in the Tropics; area critics honor the year's best stage work

  September 16, 2004

• Sins of the Father

  Classical Acting Company digs deep with All My Sons; at KDT, a muddled Much Ado

  February 19, 2004

• Hamlet Maneuver

  Local stages choked with Shakespeare; critics honor the year's best theater work

  September 18, 2003

• Gig Alert: We'll Be Taping DC9 in SPACE, Episode 5, Tonight at SPACE Studios

  Yep, we'll be doing this again, right here. Won't tell you who's playing, though. You'll have to stop by yourself if you wanna see. It's gonna be awesome, though, as always. That's a promise. Tonight's taping is set to kick off at, oh, about 9:30 or so. See you there?(Many, many, many apologies, meanwhile, that last week's--Episode 4, with Matthew Gray's newest project--isn't yet online. I've seen the edited clip, and it looks great, and I can't wait for you to see it. Unfortunately, we've been

  May 27, 2009

• Gig Alert: Matthew Gray, Baruch The Scribe, The Fox & The Bird and Angel Lenora at The Hydrant in Denton Tonight... For Free

  This looks to be a grand weekend for shows in Denton, with an excellent bill at The Hydrant tonight kicking off the weekend one day early. If you haven't been to a show at The Hydrant yet, then this should be a great bill to catch. The two-story coffee shop/venue is a block off the Square, and it has a great upstairs performance space, which we've already inked and blogged about plenty. Tonight's free show, put together by The Bee's Fifth Collective, features the art collective's own Matthew Gra

  June 18, 2009

• Last Night: Starlight Mints, Evangelicals, MATAS at the Granada Theater

  Starlight Mints, Evangelicals, Matthew and the Arrogant SeaGranada TheaterJune 25, 2009 Better than: being stuck at home finishing another week's installment of "North of the Dial" (as I am every Thursday night).  Evangelicals was just one of three impressive acts on last night's bill.A solid lineup on last night's bill made for a solid evening of great music as all three bands played songs steeped and swirling with all manner of the fantastic. (And, yeah, the Granada sprinkled in M

  June 26, 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

• North of the Dial

  August 27, 2009

• Good Friday: RTB2, Tantric, The Weight, MATAS, This Old House, The Gourds, Grant Jones, Hawk Vs. Dove, Shaolin Death Squad, Bad Veins, The Black and White Years

  ​Another week bites the dust, which leads us to this weekly inevitability of us offering up our top choices for musical entertainment each weekend. And, well, there's a lot this weekend, actually, so hold on tight. First up, as always, a reminder of the shows we've already hyped up plenty...Tonight in particular is packed with goodies: Hip-hoppers C.S. Rucker and Dustin Cavazos (who has been working on new material, I hear) will be playing at Mokah Lounge in Deep Ellum; rapper SHO. will be joi

  August 28, 2009

• DTC's Midsummer is a Blackboard Jumble of Fun, But the Wyly Theatre is a Hard Sit

  November 6, 2009