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This Week In Dallas Music History: The Vas Deferens Organization is Not For Everyone

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer music writer Matt Weitz wrote a 1996 piece on the Vas Deferens Organization -- an avant garde music collective that engineered recordings so strange, they made Ariel Pink sound like The Beatles.Interestingly enough, though, it ... More >>

Dr. Dog Follows Its New Orders

The Earlies

The Enemy Chorus (Secretly Canadian)

Dirty on Purpose

Wednesday, August 9, at Hailey's

Trials

After a tour with the Flaming Lips, loads of hype and an amazing new record, the only thing Midlake's missing is confidence

Super Furry Animals

February 18

Phantom Planet and Ben Lee

November 22

Get a Clue

Steve Burns doesn't worry about his TV-show past, so neither should anyone else

Kodak Moment

Thanks to sticks and Strokes, Longwave's Steve Schlitz doesn't have to move back to Rochester just yet

Spiritualized

The Complete Works Volume One (Arista)

Crooked Fingers

Red Devil Dawn (Merge)

Dot Allison

We Are Science (Mantra)

Scavenger Hunt

The best was hard to find, harder still to ignore

Chamy's Eleven

You might have heard these, and definitely should have

Space is the Place

Miranda Lee Richards opens up with a stellar debut

Big Dreams

Mercury Rev looks to the future without forgetting its past

Mission Accomplished

Wrapping up the North Texas New Music Festival; plus, The Beat turns one

Scene, Heard

A few more area musicians make appearances on the Cartoon Network

Good Harvest

Virtual unknowns in America, Wheat finds a bumper crop of fans in Europe

Under control

The Chemical Brothers' beats may be rockin' fewer blocks, but they won't Surrender

Cheers for Spears

A "rock star" writes an open letter to Britney Spears

Out There

The Chemical Brothers
Moby

Out Here

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Spoth the ravin'

Mark Ridlen continues his sonic adventure

Every which way but loose

The Dallas scene flourishes beneath the chaos

Next step

Colin Boyd's no doormat

Cruising the neon glories

The Vas Deferens Organization searches for the timeless

Bad news

Death of Rockadelic co-owner leaves a scene in the lurch

Back to the future

Mazinga Phaser's neon glories

Crawlin' back from Chicago

Mike Morgan slows his mojo hand with a soulful sound

Bastard of young

How the Hebrew school bully got the Perfect gig with a Replacement

Rocker, Texas Ranger

Baboon kicks Chuck Norris' ass in a Deep Ellum club...sort of

Shock rock

Hagfish tries to figure out if they're punk, pop, or just plain horny

Home front

Local bands strike out from the World Wide Web