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The Top Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: April 18-24

Can we just take a second to acknowledge that the weather in Dallas-Fort Worth these past couple of weeks has been glorious? Optimal for outdoor shows, BYOB events and the like, the weather should remain this awesome--barring a tornado or two--for a short while longer (before the inevitable Texas su ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 Denton DOMA Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Warren Jackson Hearne & Le Leek Electrique It see ... More >>

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Metal Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Warbeast These old school thrash metalists - Bruc ... More >>

Free Week at Rubber Gloves

Monday, September 3 through Saturday, September 8, at Rubber Gloves

Young/Forbes/Gonzalez Trio - Rubber Gloves - 8/27/12

Young/Forbes/Gonzalez Trio, Terminator 2, Bludded Head Rubber Gloves Monday, August 27 Mike Forbes was last night's MVP. He started behind the kit with Bludded Head, who had literally just returned from a 10-day tour, providing the slowly melting glacier for guitarist Nevada Hill and cellist Darcy ... More >>

Playdough Digs Into Oddisee's People Hear What They See

See also: Bludded Head's Nevada Hill riffs on Harvey Milk We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't even care if it's good, we just want to know what the ... More >>

Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Screenprint Till They Drop

Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Screenprint Till They Drop

Four box fans buzz away inside Napkin Art Studios as Jonathon Kimbrell screenprints a batch of business cards for Rigor Mortis Printing Co., a new venture he launched with Richard Reed in May. The motto etched into the card's skull logo ("Print to the death!") seems fitting for a company operating o ... More >>

Nevada Hill Riffs On Harvey Milk's My Love Is Higher...

See also: Smile Smile love the Ronettes See also: Shiny Around the Edges on Death Grips We've started poking around in locals' iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don't even care if it's goo ... More >>

Bludded Head

Saturday, August 4, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Homegrown Festival - Main Street Garden Park - 5/26/12

When I finally set foot in Main Street Garden Park on Saturday afternoon, I knew what Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence was talking about. The strip of downtown green is beautiful, well-designed and forces interaction, like any good, walkable park should. Looking up at the old Grand Hotel, wh ... More >>

Denton's Darcy Neal Has Gadgets and Gizmos Aplenty

I don't get to tour the entirety of Darcy Neal's house, but there are no working televisions in the space. She leads me through the back door of the house she shares with her roommates on Bernard Street, one block east of UNT, and into a small living room area. Here, along with other temporarily dea ... More >>

Look At This Poster For Record Store Day

Saturday's Good Records lineup has a few curious additions (Switchfoot? Ting Tings?), but overall it's a pretty solid Texas roster, and you should definitely try to catch the block of Glorium, Yells At Eels and Blixaboy. Denton artist Nevada Hill did this one. His inspiration? "People in the mus ... More >>

Terminator 2, Lechuguillas, Bludded Head - Rubber Gloves - 4/10/12

Denton label and all-around art/music enthusiasts Gutterth put together a furiously energetic noise show last night at Rubber Gloves. Brent Best of Slobberbone fame and Batey Ray of popular Denton punk trio The Swedish Teens were drink-slinging behind the bar, handling the packed house with an antit ... More >>

Look At This Poster: Lechuguillas, Terminator 2, Bludded Head, Eccotone and Secret Cakes at Rubber Gloves

A pretty fantastic local lineup tomorrow at Rubber Gloves for all you fans of the heavy stuff, as part of Gutterth's latest live episode. Lechuguillas and Terminator 2 are about to run away on tour together, terrorizing people with low end from Wichita all the way to NYC, so it should be a good send ... More >>

On The Passing of Local Music Writer Lee Jackson, and Six Degrees of Separation

I didn't know Lee Jackson, a North Texas music writer who passed away on Sunday after a battle with ALS. But the number of mutual friends we have dictates we were most likely in the same room or at the same show in Austin at some point, where he lived in the early Aughts, distanced by the six degree ... More >>

10 Awesome Concert Posters at SXSW's Flatstock 33

​Flatstock is a dangerous place to be with a credit card. This year, Flatstock 33 (presented by the American Poster Institute) featured over 100 artists with enough completely badass concert posters to drain your checking account dry. No, seriously: five minutes of walking around the Convention Ce ... More >>

Wake Up, Denton! It's Time To Get Your Rocks Off!

Tiger Dick Makes the Magic Happen

This Week In Print: Tiger Dick, Dallas Distortion Music and More Ringing in the Ears

This week in print, I check in with Sarah Alexander and Nevada Hill, two Denton musicians who host Tiger Dick, a weekly radio show devoted to the unheard and unseen. Dallas Distortion Music chats with Alan Ayo about their first year in business. Kelly Dearmore asks Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial ... More >>

Watch the Video for The Polyphonic Spree's New Single "It's Christmas"

​Well, damn, if tomorrow isn't the first day of December. With Black Friday under our belts, we are in full-blown holiday mode. And, according to the Polyphonic Spree, "It's Christmas."That's the name of the band's new Christmas single, which earned its release today on the Good Records Recordings ... More >>

Good Records Recordings Relaunches Tomorrow, Adds Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to Roster

A screenshot of the Good Records Recordings website​For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with "11-11-11" displayed in white in the middle. In a way it's served as the answer to the question we've been asking Tim DeLaughter, the label's owner ... More >>

My First Time: An Art Director's Tale of Attending Rock Poster Convention Flatstock

All photos by Alexander FloresFor more photos from Flatstock 29, check out Alex's two-part slideshow here and here.​Greetings citizens: I don't usually do this, but at the request of our intrepid music editor, I'm compelled to give an account of my virginal visit to the phenomenon that is known as ... More >>

Our North Of The Dial Scribe Signs Off

Zanzibar Snails, The Annoysters, Muzak John, Wu Fru De Lu Vs. Space Dragon Killah, Welby

Thursday, September 10, at The Phoenix Project

Good Friday: Calhoun, Hayes Carll, Red Headed Stranglers, Metal Rouge, Wildflower!, The Lash Outs, A Tribute To Stephen Bruton, Dem Southernfolkz, QCBS Benefit

There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it's almost overwhelming. Remember, back in the days when you used to go to video stores to rent movies, how it felt to just stare at the cases with no idea what you wanted to watch, and there were so many choices that you got a headache b ... More >>

Good Friday: The Mother's Day Weekend Edition

We already reminded you once, but what the heck, let's do it again: Sunday is Mother's Day. Remember it. Write it in permanent ink on your hand. Don't spend the next year in the doghouse with mom, because, really, moms rock. Now, onto some actual rock. As always, let's lead with the show's we'v ... More >>

Gig Alert: Dust Congress Announces New Record Details, Including Release Party

Dust Congress flyer by Nevada Hill, who will also provide art for the blank side of the band's soon-to-be-released 12-inch.Dust Congress just announced the details on how the band will follow up 2007's Egg Tooth EP. In true Denton style, the band will hold a house-party record release barbecue for R ... More >>

The Ideas Behind The No Idea Festival

Good Friday: Mount Righteous, Deadman, Billy Joe Shaver, Zanzibar Snails, Fair To Midland, Henry Rollins, Straylight Run

Nice Package! (Praising The Outer Beauty: June 13, 2008)

Dust Congress Talks Egg Tooth, Define ‘Indie’

Bonus MP3: Zanzibar Snails -- "Lengua"

Brown Dwarf

Zanzibar Snails (Mayyrh)

Poster of the Week: Dust Congress

Visual Artist Nevada Hill Creates Badass Album Covers and Posters For Denton Bands

Bonus MP3: Record Hop -- "Maths"

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