Old 97's

Photographer Brian Ullrich on Star Wars, Rush and Getting the Right Angle

"When you're not shooting it, you're thinking about it. Part art, part science, it's all passion. Being in the moment through the lens, hearing the music, all you're thinking about is getting that one shot..." Thus begins the homepage of F/stopme Photography. Brian Ullrich scouts new and local mu ... More >>

The 10 Best Moments at This Year's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

Mike BrooksMind Spiders on the rooftop of The Bone.​ It's tough to look back on an event like Saturday night's Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase and try to come up with a conclusive best-moments list. With 52 bands playing 10 stages over the course of a ten-hour period all throughout Deep Ellu ... More >>

Your 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase Performers

A closer look at all 52 acts playing this weekend's Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase in Deep Ellum

Watch: Two New Unofficial Videos For Songs Off The Old 97's' The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1

Just a couple days ago now,we shared with you the news that Dallas' Own Old 97's would be releasing the second volume of songs in their two-part The Grand Theatre series on July 5. But it seems the band isn't completely ready to give up on Vol. 1 just yet: Earlier this month, the band gave videogra ... More >>

Old 97's To Release Second Grand Theatre Installment On July 5

Patrick MichelsThe Old 97's, celebrating the release of The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2, at Borders on Greenville last October​ I happened to exchange a few notes this morning with Old 97's guitarist Ken Bethea, and turns out the timing couldn't have been better: Just a few minutes ago, Bethea wrote bac ... More >>

Fuck Yeah, Rock GIFs: Reliving Your Favorite Concerts, A Handful Of Images At A Time.

​Pretty much any idea for a Tumblr page is a good one. Case in point: The person who simply posts every Alan Palomo image they can find. But, OK, this one is really is a great one. Called Fuck Yeah Rock GIFs, the site, created by local music fan and photographer Neff Conner, compiles various shots ... More >>

Counting Down the Best Local Albums of 2010

The Biggest Local Music Stories of 2010

The Best Songs in Dallas Music, 2010: The Old 97's Drum Up Some Of Their Old Magic at No. 8

[Over the next few weeks, we'll be presenting our favorite local songs of the year, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1, one track a day. Today, we take an in-depth look at song No. 8 on the list -- and, please, feel free to click after the jump to hear a stream the track. Also after the jump, check ... More >>

Local Music 'Mericans: Cat Hough Will Give Your Band Legal Advice If You Listen To Her Music Memories From Denton in the '90s.

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we'll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren't musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk.Cat Hough​Cat Hough was a high school kid in Fort Worth when she saw the Toadies perform one of their earliest shows at a place called Maggie's Bea ... More >>

Pedestrian Playlist: What Does The Executive Director of the Dallas Zoo Listen To?

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to people of interest in the metroplex about their taste in music, including likes, dislikes, and guilty pleasures. We're calling it Pedestrian Playlist -- because, hey, everyone listens to music.I wonder what Turtles listen to?​The Dall ... More >>

Watch: School of Seven Bells Soothes, Performs on Last Call with Carson Daly

​Looks like the Old 97's aren't the only locally connected act to get some late-night television love from NBC lately. Last week, the even-later Last Call with Carson Daly featured former Dallasite and Secret Machine Ben Curtis and his bandmate Alejandra Deheza for a show-ending musical segment, i ... More >>

Q&A: Ben Kweller Talks Production, His New Album, Parenthood and Finding Out That an Old 97's Song Was In His Wedding Video

Ben Kweller​The story of Ben Kweller has been documented pretty relentlessly around these parts--from forming the band Radish at the age of 12 to signing with Mercury Records at 16 after being hailed by critics as "the next Nirvana" to then following his girlfriend to New York where he'd end up re ... More >>

The Libertine Announces New Free Live Music Series On Monday Nights. (Plus: The Tracklist From Last Night's Local Hang.)

​Looks like Lower Greenville is about to get a new live music venue--at least on Monday nights. The Libertine has just announced plans to host free concerts from local acts every Monday night. The night will be called "The Hang Up." Huh. Wonder where they got that idea... Anyway, the new weekly se ... More >>

The Grand Theatre, Volume One, Earns Old 97's The Highest Billboard Chart Position of Career

​Good news out of Old 97's camp today, as the band has announced that The Grand Theatre, Volume One, has earned the band its career high marks in Billboard chart position. In its first week on the charts, the disc placed at No. 83 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, No. 25 in the Rock Chart, No, 15 ... More >>

The Old 97's Get Back On Track.

Q&A: The Old 97's Rhett Miller Talks The Grand Theatre, Accepting The Band's Alt-Country Tag and The Trouble With Releasing Double Discs.

Piper FergusonThe Old 97's are looking sharp once more.​In tomorrow's print issue of DC9, I take a long hard look at the Old 97's eighth studio release, The Grand Theatre, Volume One, which earns its release on Tuesday, October 12. And I find, as we've been saying since we first heard the disc bac ... More >>

Watch: Rhett Miller Invades the Dunder Mifflin Offices, Pisses Off Dwight Schrute

Looks like we have a new candidate in the running for Dunder Mifflin bossman now that Steve Carell announced that he will be leaving the show. Well, not really. But in this pretty funny homespun video clip, Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller, who will be headlining this weekend's Oysterfest on Saturday ... More >>

Hear New Old 97's Material, As Heard at Saturday Night's Private Barley House Show.

Wasn't necessarily planning on talking about Saturday night's private Old 97's show at the Barley House in this space--mostly because the affair, which was held in celebration of frontman Rhett Miller's 40th birthday yesterday, was a private, invite-only one. But, while searching for something unrel ... More >>

Video: The Old 97's Start Recording A New Album at Sons of Hermann Hall

As always, where there's Vimeo, we give you YouTube too.At this point in their careers, the Old 97's are always on the lookout for fresh challenges. Take, for instance, the recording scheme they've cooked up for their next album. They recorded 2008's Blame It On Gravity at Salim Nourallah's Pl ... More >>

Giveaway: A Three-Day Pass To This Weekend's MusInk Tattoo Convention and Music Festival at Fair Park

​In this week's paper version of DC9, I extol the virtues of this weekend's MusInk tattoo-meets-music 'splosion at Fair Park, which, in addition to featuring 110 tattoo artists from around the country, also sees live performances from the Old 97's, Lucero, Shooter Jennings, Stardeath & White ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets To Catch The Paper Chase, True Widow and The Boom Boom Box at Sons of Hermann Hall on Friday Night

Seems things have been heating up on the east end of Deep Ellum lately, what with Sons of Hermann Hall's amped-up bookings of late (Hope Sandoval, the four-night run from the Old 97's, etc.). And that trend only continues as the lodge hosts a fine triple-bill on Friday night featuring three of the ... More >>

Telegraph Canyon, Lucero To Join Old 97's At MusInk Tattoo & Music Convention In Fair Park

​You may have noticed the item about the April 9-11 MusInk Tattoo and Music Convention in Fair Park in the November 18 Show Announcements post. At the time, all we knew was that Old 97's, Shooter Jennings and Roger Alan Wade would be performing--certainly enough to pique our interest. After all, A ... More >>

With Toadies and Old 97's in Deep Ellum (On the Same Night), It's Old Home Week

One down, three to go as the Old 97's work their way through a four-night stint at the Sons of Hermann Hall, which is being recorded for some future use. Pete runs down last night's "informal" opener (so, no ties or tails?) over on DC9, while one Jeb Matulich serves up this oldie but goodie from the ... More >>

An Evening With The Old 97's

Sunday, December 27, through Wednesday, December 30, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Giveaway: The Last Two Pairs Of Tickets We Have To Tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day After-Party

Oh, the weather outside is weather, but thankfully, tomorrow's forecast looks a little drier, which is certainly good news if you're heading to our official St. Patricks' Day Parade After-Party on Greenville tomorrow afternoon to see The O's, The Drams, Eleven Hundred Springs and Old 97's.And here' ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets To See The Old 97's at Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade After-Party

Ah, yes. 'Tis that jolly, drunken time of the year. And this year, at our annual after-party, we're going the all out alt-country route with the Old 97's, The Drams, Eleven Hundred Springs and The O's. Should be a yee-haw time, if that makes any sense (I know; it doesn't). And, um, since it's y'kno ... More >>

Relive Christmas in Deep Noellum

I see over on DC9 Pete's linked to an old holiday fave, the Old 97's performing "Holly Jolly Christmas," taken from the 1995 Big Iron release Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. The disc -- which also features the likes of Cowboys and Indians, Liberty Valence, the Mutineers, the Sutclif ... More >>

The Old 97’s at ACL Fest

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

Behind the Scenes With Keven McAlester, Local Boy Done Reel Good

The Old 97's Cramp Dust Congress' Style, Hit Public Radio Circuit; Also: Art For Sale!

What It Was Like: Old 97's, Cloud Cult, Tapes 'n Tapes

The Old 97's Come Down the Chimney

Bits: Old 97's, Memphis May Fire, Darkside Lounge

Beard Sweat

ZZ Top and friends rock Smirnoff

Help Wanted at the House of Blues

Back-Door Santas

Sweet Thighs and Another Surprise

Old 97´s

Friday, December 31

Various Artists

Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

Fight Songs

A father took his two teenage daughters to the Old 97's show. He endedup in the hospital with serious injuries. What really happened?

Odds & Ends

Christmas in July, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and FiveQuestions With Josh Venable

Spring Has Sprung

And summertime means more music

Rumor Mill

Old 97's breaking up? Who told you that?

Scene, heard

Rhett's exploding

Rhett Miller wanted to be famous for as long as he can remember. Will the Old 97's upcoming Fight Songs finally make him a star?

Roadshows

Ja, das is country punk

The old world discovers the Old 97's

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners