Nick Drake

The Record Store Day Results are in at DFW Shops

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. Record Store Day was a great success and brought outstanding numbers to last week's top sellin ... More >>

Richard Thompson On Getting Older and Losing Meaning

Besides being a stellar guitarist, Richard Thompson is a superb songwriter and one hell of a witty dude. Over the course of four decades, Thompson has evolved from an above average, British folk rocker to a legendary guitarist plying his craft across several genres. Speaking from a tour stop in Ne ... More >>

Chelsea Light Moving is This Week's Top Sell in Dallas Record Stores

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. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is still ma ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Solo Act, Best Alt-Country/Roots Act, Best Country Act

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the  Best Solo, Best Cou ... More >>

Last Night: The Books at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The BooksThe Modern Art Museum of Ft. WorthApril 6, 20011Better than: taking a musicology class at the University of North TexasEmily StokerThe Books at the Museum of Modern Art​Augmented by a third, and sometimes a fourth member, the duo known as The Books thrilled a packed and energetic audience ... More >>

Video: All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

Frightened Rabbit canceled its performance at The Loft last night due to the Icelandic volcano. But, even as tornadoes carved a path through North Texas, the show ended up being free and natural disaster-less.Though originally supposed to open this show, The Middle East performed and brought their ... More >>

The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Nico Vega

Sunday, February 21, at Granada Theater

Weekend Roundup: Mary Anne Hobbs, Justin Nozuka, Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa

Mary Anne Hobbs, The Green Elephant, Friday, November 20It's Monday afternoon, friends. Get out your glow sticks! BBC 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who spun at The Green Elephant Friday night, has led the life you wish you had the balls to live: she ran off to London with a hard rock band as a teen; at 21, ... More >>

Loney Dear, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, Sunnybrook

Wednesday, February 11, at Hailey's, Denton

Taylor Reed Wants to Get Cordelane Back Up and Running, But...

Kristina Hunken A few years back, a great little EP of demos by a Denton band called Cordelane came across my desk. Poetic but unpretentious (a little like Liz Phair covering Nick Drake), the five songs were written by Taylor Reed, a Seattle resident who came to our area to start up a band. Well, st ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

Last Night: Roky Erickson At The Granada Theater

Collin Herring CD Release Show

Saturday, April 5, at The Cavern

Hotel Brotherhood

Thursday, January 24, at Dan's Silver Leaf

Nick Drake

Fruit Tree (Fontana)

Minus Story, Shearwater

Friday, June 15, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Arbouretum, David Karsten Daniels

Friday, April 13, at the Cavern

How Would Jesus Roll?

Your Official Easter Playlist

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition.

Straylight Run, Matt Pond PA, Kevin Devine

Tom Freund

Saturday, November 11, at Bend Studio

Damien Jurado

And Now That I'm in Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian)

Grant Olney

Sunday, July 9, at Good Records and Hailey's

Half Lit

Richard Swift takes a Novelist approach to the singer-songwriter genre

Various artists

Assassination City Derby: Watch Your Head, Vol. 1 (Crow)

Robert Deeble

Sunday, June 19, at Gypsy Tea Room

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Kevin House

Gutter Pastoral (Bongo Beat)

Seasonal Changes

Various Artists

Music From the Motion Picture Garden State (Epic)

Midlake

Bamnan and Slivercork (Bella Union)

Sondre Lerche

Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)

Iron & Wine

Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

Mark Kozelek

January 25

Damien Rice

November 28

Libby Kirkpatrick

November 6

Mr. Misery

Elliott Smith officially becomes his generation's Nick Drake

Ed Harcourt

From Every Sphere (Astralwerks)

Duncan Sheik; Jason Mraz

January 24; January 27

Matt Pond PA, the Mayflies USA; the Damn Personals

November 21; November 25

Beck

August 23

Hayden / Neil Halstead

Skyscraper National Park (Hardwood/Badman) / Sleeping on Roads (4AD)

Say Nothing

When two lovers meet in Serendipity, it's a rather unfortunate accident

Fuck

Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like Records)

Mojave 3 / Joe Pernice

Excuses for Travellers (4AD/Beggars Banquet) / Big Tobacco (Ashmont/Spunk Records)

Born to Die

Knowing how Nick Drake expired helps bring his music to life

Arc Arsenal

Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsellas finally makes the straight-up rock record he's always promised. Just kidding.

Out There

Belle & Sebastian

Out There

Paul Weller

The damage undone

The Geraldine Fibbers write a new chapter about rock and its tragic aftermath