Pleasant Grove

Police Arrest Dallas Man for Wailing on a Convenience Store Clerk With a Hammer

Last week, Dallas police released a video showing a clerk at a Pleasant Grove convenience store being stabbed and beaten with a hammer. The attacker then took an unknown amount of cash and walked nonchalantly from the store, leaving the clerk bleeding on the floor. Police have now identified the m ... More >>

12 of This Weekend's Best Shows, Starring Triple Play, BrewFest, Mission of Burma and More

See more in our fully-loaded concert calendar Triple Play: The Relatives, Pleasant Grove, SerynFriday, September 14, at Dallas City Performance HallTriple Play -- in which KXT, the Observer and the Kessler Theater curate a three-band bill -- was rolled out over a few months this past spring. This ve ... More >>

Seven of the Best Drummers in DFW

I've spent many years behind a drum set. When I go to shows, I almost always catch myself peering at the drummer, no matter how engaging or magnetic the rest of the band is. I've come to admire the drumming of several local drummers from whom I've nicked many riffs and tricks.The following is a list ... More >>

Justice for Justice, the Burned Puppy, is Now Worth $25,000

There's nothing like the sad death of an adorable puppy to stir up the police, animal services and the media. That's certainly the case with Justice, the 4-month-old lab-terrier mix doused in lighter fluid and burned in a Pleasant Grove apartment complex on April 4. Justice suffered through a week o ... More >>

Justice, the Puppy Burned in Pleasant Grove Last Week, Died Last Night

The caretakers of the puppy who suffered third degree burns over most of his body were optimistic until the very end. But last night, Justice died after some of his wounds became infected and his condition worsened, according to a posting by DFW Rescue Me. The dog was rescued in Pleasant Grove last ... More >>

Dallas PD's New Year's Eve, By the Numbers

WFAA​The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning: It guesstimates 30,000 turned out for last night's Big D NYE in Victory Plaza, otherwise known as the Dallas Stars' post-game party that filled a few hours of Channel 8 airtime in between all that Dick Clarking. And while DWI numbers aren' ... More >>

Kirtland Records To Release The Boom Boom Box's Debut LP

Mike BrooksLast night: Baboon's horsehead blues​ Since we've already got Baboon on the brain today -- have you seen the insane slideshow from last night's Scratch Acid show yet? -- let's add one more bit of news. Kirtland Records will be releasing the debut album from The Boom Boom Box, featur ... More >>

Crushed Stars

Convalescing in Braille Simulacra Records

Unexpected Influences: Rapper galleryCat Talks About Loving The Cure, Taylor Swift and Folk

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. We're calling it Unexpected Influences -- because, we hope, that's what it will show.​Dallas rapper galleryCat is known for his multi-instrumental live affairs, which often end up ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets For Pleasant Grove, Mike Graff And Derek Rogers At The Kessler Saturday

​Pleasant Grove will be at The Kessler in Oak Cliff Saturday for a very special performance. Not only is it a rare (reunion?) show for the band that for years has been either broken up or on the verge of breakup, depending on who you ask, but they'll be performing their album Auscultation of the H ... More >>

Good Friday: Pleasant Grove, Toadies, B.o.B., RTB2, Queensryche, Ishi, Slobberbone, Spooky Folk, Dark Dark Dark, Trey Songz, Dondria, More...

​Dallas has seen many bands come and go. Some put out records that generated a lot of hype, but ultimately were forgotten. Some released albums that defined our music scene and still stand up today. Pleasant Grove is an example of the latter, and their crowning achievement is their album, Ausculta ... More >>

Last Night, After Dallas Police Kicked Off "Operation Triangle," a Ride-Along!

Deputy Chief Malik Aziz briefs reporters on Operation Triangle.​I got pretty excited last night when I heard a couple of women were attempting to knife each other in a parking lot in Pleasant Grove. Not, you know, because ladies knifing each other is my thing, but because I really wanted to crank ... More >>

What's On the Council's To-Do List Today?

​Here, to start your morning, a few highlights from today's 858-page council agenda, which we'll begin with a shout-out to Brad Kirby. Surely you remember him? Back in January, Kirby went down to Dallas City Hall to tell the horseshoe about his stolen dogs. He proposed an ordinance that would make ... More >>

The Best Area Album Releases of the '00s

After City Approves More Than $1 Billion in Bond Funding for South Dallas, Task Force Finds Ways to Spend Another $100 Million

Sam MertenSeveral members of the Mayor's Southern Dallas Task Force packed the city council chambers Tuesday afternoon as they unveiled plans to revitalize 10 areas of South Dallas. The task force, consisting of approximately 250 folks split into 13 groups, recommended the city include a minimum of ... More >>

Man Man,The Boom Boom Box, Giggle Party

Friday, April 24, at The Lounge on Elm Street

Highlights, Lowlights and Northern Lights From Saturday's National Record Store Day Celebration At Good Records

Patrick MichelsJonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights on Good's outdoor stage.Spent all day Saturday (well, for the most part) at Good Records for the store's combined 9th Birthday Bash and National Record Store Day Celebration. And, given the at-times cool and at-times brutally humid weather, tha ... More >>

St. Vincent's Actor Set For May 5 Release

Annabel Mehran 4AD has announced the release date of St. Vincent's sophomore release, Actor, and, as the header to this post implies, we can expect the disc about two and a half months from now. The disc, produced here in Dallas by The Paper Chase's John Congleton, also features North Texas musician ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Anonymous -- "Get Up"

"I don't know what you've been told, but George Bush is out of control," raps Anonymous at the beginning of "Get Up." The track combines the Pleasant Grove rapper's rhymes about the troubles plaguing the Bush-plagued country with inspiration and hope, all over a Lehtmo Joe LehtMoJoe-produced militar ... More >>

Digging Deep Holes for the Future

2006 TOP 10

More Top 10 lists from our writers

Zac's Tracks o' Wax

Money Waters

Swalhaggin (Noir Sound Records)

Okkervil River, Pleasant Grove

Friday, August 18, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Show Up, 8/11-8/12

Odds & Ends

The holiday spirt begins with gifts from The Feds, Good Records and Texasgigs.com

North Texas New Music Festival

Friday, September 30, throughout Deep Ellum

The Solace Bros, Redbud Revival

Friday, July 22, at Gypsy Tea Room

Around Hear

The best 10 local albums of 2004

Odds & Ends

Pleasant Grove needs a drummer, the Oasis of Hope needs your support,and Tom Heinl needs a cigarette

Good Vibrations

Changes at Good Records, plus news on the Polyphonic Spree and a royalmea culpa

On the Town

We endured nine straight nights of booze and smoke to bring you this news. You can thank us later.

Waste of Good Air

More thoughts on the Dallas Observer Music Awards

Safe at Home

Don’t forget the local boys...and girl

Various Artists

Sunny Teriyaki Hamburger Breakfast (Summer Break)

Scene, Heard

Selected songs disappear from the playlists at Clear Channel stations

Scene, Heard

We'll take most of the blame, but not all of it.

Scene, Heard

Trees closes its doors...for a while

Scene, Heard

Counting down the days 'til February

Scene, Heard

We've been trying to tell people for months

Various Artists

Electric Ornaments: An Idol Records Christmas Collection (Idol records)

Hijinks at Trees

Long-overdue debuts

Best live music venue

Gypsy Tea Room

Scene, heard

Darlington disolves; Rubber Gloves gets booked; Mandarin time; Club anniversaries; Shabazz 3 heads north; Plus, much, much more

Scene, heard

Bluh; Pleasant Grove in Germany; The Early Line; Trees turns 10; Rubber Gloves gets wet; And so much more

Across the Bar

End hits

Across the Bar

Adventure Club's b-day bash; "Surreal" multi-act bills; Funland reunited (sort-of); Get a job

Scene, heard

We'll try to write something good

Liberation front

Two local Web sites hope to bring Dallas music to the world

Dumped On

How greedy property owners and careless bureaucrats let a massive illegal landfill grow in the back yard of a black Dallas neighborhood