Nick Cave

The Twelve Scariest Bands

Seeing that Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson hit the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie this evening, we thought it would be a good time to compile a list of the scariest acts in music. Scary can be a relative term. One person's demented can be another's delightful, but each of these 12 scary acts has ... More >>

Home By Hovercraft Takes Dallas' Dramatic Pop Tradition Somewhere New

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at McFarlin Auditorium: Review, Photos and Setlist

A spitting, snarling, unbridled Nick Cave stalked McFarlin Auditorium last night, displaying the same unmatched punk fury he's been doling out since The Birthday Party. Audience members got abused. Cave thrust his crotch everywhere. He sung particularly intense lyrics directly into the faces of peop ... More >>

The Five Biggest Sellouts at SXSW

SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. If Coachella is a glass of water that keeps getting bigger until it more resembles a kiddie pool, then SXSW is a flood with a neglected cup somewhere in the middle. The natural result is rampant crowds and ever more rampant lame ... More >>

Atoms for Peace is Dallas' Favorite Band This Week

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, says a recently turned solo artist with a classic sound is makin ... More >>

Coachella Lineup 2013: Old Legends Going Solo and a Double Dose of Nick Cave

The 2013 Coachella Lineup is here! In case this is your only source of music information (what else could you possibly need, really?), the headliners are The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Why yes, we do live in a world where New Order gets out-billed by Phoenix. Check out ... More >>

In Australia, Kangaroo Murders Go Counterclockwise

Good Sons, Pinkish Black

Saturday, October 20 at Double Wide

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

Japandroids Do Nick Cave's "Jack the Ripper"

The last time Vancouver's Japandroids came through town, they played the modest live room at Bryan Street Tavern. Odds are they'll command a larger venue next time around, considering the widespread anticipation of sophomore album Celebration Rock. The duo gets the most noise per capita of any band ... More >>

Soundsuits Must Be Seen To Be Heard

I Poured Flaming Lips Vinyl, and Boy Are My Arms Tired

I really didn't know what pouring vinyl entailed when local musician Daniel Huffman asked if I wanted to sit in on a job Thursday afternoon. I envisioned the act of pouring, and then an actual record, but the in between part was vague. I just said yes and drove over to A&R Records on Riverfront. T ... More >>

Wayne Coyne and Erykah Badu, Sittin' in a Tree?

Rolling Stone reported yesterday that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne -- who is seemingly everywhere these days, like those owls I talked about last week -- has put together an album of collaborations slated for April release. While he's already wrangled Bon Iver and Nick Cave (that is a collabo ... More >>

Cave Opens Up

Jessica Lea Mayfield On Sad Songs: "I Don't Want to Listen to 'Walking on Sunshine!'"

Jessica Lea Mayfield is only 21 years old, but her songs feel like they've been around much longer than that. Dark and heartbreaking, Mayfield's songs have a weight missing from many performers in her age group. Tell Me, Mayfield's sophomore full-length effort, came out this past February and featu ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Tens: Merritt Martin Cherishes The Exceeded Expectations of Nick Cave and Grinderman's Grinderman 2

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​In-house ... More >>

Today In Music News: Even Nick Cave Knows It Can't Rain All The Time, Weezy Gets Mashed And Kanye Debuts At Facebook

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 29, 2010...This gives me hope the new Crow movie will be better than the crappy sequels: Nick Cave is writing the remake of the original Crow movie. Weezy gets his own mash-up album vs. the soundtrack to (500) Days of Summer, titled... (500) ... More >>

Constantines, Crystal Antlers

Friday, June 5, at Sons of Hermann Hall 

Today in Music News: Nick Cave Script Revealed, New-ish Beastie Boys, and That Gossip Girl Band Isn't Horrible!

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 7, 2009...The script for the Nick Cave-penned sequel to Gladiator has been unearthed. Nick Cave may need to quit his day job with the Bad Seeds and start writing movies.You can check out the possibly new track from the Beastie Boys--"Lee Maj ... More >>

The ten greatest Australian songs

The End Of The End Of Year Lists: Merritt Martin's Favorite Albums Of 2008

Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues... This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer's music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one m ... More >>

Girl Drink Drunk: Cosmos’ Hawaiian Punch

When a cosmo is "watered down" with vodka, even vision becomes slurred The original plan was to hit up the "upscale dive," Lakewood Landing. But I talked to one of our favorite bartenders there (well, that’s not fair—they all are our favorites) and he said to let him think about it…so he co ... More >>

Last Night: Butthole Surfers At The Granada Theater

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Sharon Little

Monday, July 7, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Guiding Big D's Sonic Pilgrims

Enough with the turkeys, now for a little locally baked dessert

Funeral Drive, with Hand of Onan, Agents of Goldstein and Seis Pistos

Thursday, October 4, at Andy's Basement, Denton

The National's Matt Berninger goes on the record

The lyricist on writing, influences and playing live

Interpol

Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

Jyrki Time

69 Eyes focus on Dallas

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Abbatoir Blues Tour (Mute Corporation)

Ahoy There, Baby Gramps Ahead

The Good Sons, The Great Tyrant, The Undoing of David Wright

Saturday, October 21, at the Double Wide

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave pens a new breed of revisionist Western

Jack With One Eye, the Freek Out, Silk Stocking

Friday, February 3, at Liquid Lounge

The Decemberists, Sons and Daughters

Thursday, September 22, at Ridglea Theater

Image Enhancements

Follow your intuition to Psychic Drive-In

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison (Anti-/Nave)

Paper Chase, Make Believe, Chin Up Chin Up

Sunday, November 28

The Pointy Shoe Factory

The Pointy Shoe Factory (Self-released)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti)

Crooked Fingers

April 17

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nocturama (Anti-)

Bertrand Burgalat

The SSSound of Mmmusic (Emperor Norton)

Out There

It was a very good year

1996 lived up to its predecessor while presaging great things to come

Out There

The baddest seed

Nick Cave digs in and gets his hands bloody

Out There