Reverend Horton Heat

Wildflower Festival, Featuring Rev. Horton Heat, the Toadies and More: Review

A three-day fest like Wildflower - the biggest party Richardson throws -- isn't the full on marathon something like Bonnaroo is, but you've still got to pace yourself. With that in mind I decided to take it easy and catch just a set or two on Friday in an effort to be ready for Saturday's early day ... More >>

The Dwarves Left the Stage at Three Links in Shambles Halfway Through Their Set

We're fewer than five songs into the Dwarves' set, Friday night at Three Links, and the music has stopped, the drums have been kicked over, and the band has left the stage. No one seems immediately clear on what happened at that moment. No one, that is, except the guy standing right in front of me. ... More >>

The Fort Worth Music Festival - Will Rogers Memorial Center - 9/28/12

The Fort Worth Music Festival Will Rogers Memorial Center Friday, September 28 All the highways and random roads that lead from Dallas to Fort Worth throw me completely out of whack and often I end up lost and late. This happened Friday night as I braved Texas' "HOLY SHIT IT'S RAINING" traffic and ... More >>

13 Shows To See This Weekend (Because It's Friday the 13th)

School of Seven Bells, Air Review, Calhoun, The AngelusSaturday, April 14, at Fort Worth Modern Art Museum It's hard to deny this show as being one of the biggest this weekend. Kind of strange, though, that School of Seven Bells' last three trips to the Metroplex have only seen one show in Dallas -- ... More >>

Hell, Texas: Taz Bentley On Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Guns N' Roses...

Patrick "Taz" Bentley, the powerful drummer behind Rev. Horton Heat, Burden Brothers, and Tenderloin, will be back in action this week with his latest band, 76. Since their sound owes a lot to the sonic messiah that is mid-'70s arena rock, it's no surprise to hear Bentley saw some of rock's heavywei ... More >>

Come See Reverend Horton Heat at Trees Tomorrow, and Hey, Bring Canned Things

​File this under Shows You Should Totally See Because It's For A Really Good Cause and Stuff... Wednesday, November 23, at Trees, the good ol' Texans Reverend Horton Heat are performing, with Sawd Off Sick and Missile, for a special "Thanks For Giving" Concert. The good-cause-part: the proceeds a ... More >>

Looking Back at Some Other Local Music MTV Moments (Not All Involving the Toadies, Swear)

I see our music blog's celebrating MTV's 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I'm old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left off the list -- like, say, the ... More >>

Reverend Horton Heat, Split Lip Rayfield

Friday, February 11, at the House of Blues

This Week In Dallas Music History: Reverend Horton Heat Goes To Russia, Will Johnson Looks Like a Stoner

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we turn our eyes back to September 12, 1991, which was a big week for the Reverend Horton Heat. He and his band were preparing to embark on a tour of Russia and Scandinavia that they were calling the "Arctic Border Blues Festival." The Rev was ... More >>

Picture Show: Reverend Horton Heat at the Granada

Gloria Levario​Reverend Horton Heat took the Granada Theater stage Saturday night, along their tour supporting the band's latest release, Laughin' & Cryin' With The Reverend Horton Heat.The band kept the energy running high, joined onstage for a few songs by Eleven Hundred Springs' Matt Hillye ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Reverend Horton Heat at the Granada on Saturday

Few things say Dallas music quite like Reverend Horton Heat and his demonic blend of rockabilly and punk rock elements. Hell, even when he's a little hokey, as he was on this past year's Laughin' and Cryin' with the Reverend Horton Heat, he's still pretty fun.So, too, should be his gig this Saturda ... More >>

Reverend Horton Heat, The Von Ehrics

Saturday, December 19, at the Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth

Echoes and Reverberations: At the Theatre Gallery, Capturing Lightning in a Beer Cup

Outside the Theatre Gallery in Deep Ellum a quarter-century ago.It was the summer of 1984 and the city of Dallas was in the midst of a serious makeover. The Republican National Convention was coming to town and Big D was trying to put a conservative foot forward as the media spotlight fixated on our ... More >>

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Laughin' & Cryin' With Reverend Horton Heat (Yep Roc Records)

Laugh And Cry With The New Reverend Horton Heat Album--And Stream It For Free.

​Get ready to have another "Psychobilly Freakout," folks: Laughin' & Cryin', the Reverend Horton Heat's first non-holiday album since 2004's Revival, is due out Tuesday, September 1. Actually, the album isn't so much a psychobilly freakout as it is a countrified detour from the punk-tinged roc ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score

Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>

Show Announcements: MSTRKRFT, Franz Ferdinand, Heartless Bastards, More

MSTRKRFT performs Friday, March 20, at House of BluesGrab your calendars, folks. After the jump, the latest batch of upcoming show announcements to come through our inboxes over the past week.

Today In Music News: Lux Interior Dies, Spinal Tap Returns, Plant & Krauss Not Going Away

Theresa K. Lux InteriorYour daily dose of national music news for Thursday, February 5, 2009... Lux Interior, lead singer for the seminal psychobilly band The Cramps, has died at age 60. Without The Cramps there probably wouldn't be a Reverend Horton Heat, folks. Probably. Time to turn your ... More >>

The Old 97's Wish You A "Holly Jolly Christmas"

A little blast-from-the-past treat this mornin': Eleven mighty years ago, way back in 1997, local label Big Iron released a now-out-of-print little Christmas gem called Honky-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. And included on that release, this gem: Old 97's -- "Holly Jolly Christmas".Suh-wee ... More >>

Good Friday: Tomorrowpeople, Harmonic Disturbance, American Werewolf Academy, El Gato, Valient Thorr

Coffee, T-4-2, Or A Trip Down Amnesia Lane?

Reverend Organdrum

Hi-Fi Stereo (Yep Roc)

Because "The Joyful Sounds of Hanukkah" Just Doesn't Sound Right

The Sounds of Deep Ellum

Reverend Horton Heat

Saturday, December 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

Reverend Organ Drum

Thursday, December 14, at the Cavern

Grandpunk

Cynicism is a disease that only the Reverend can heal

Loco for Loco Gringos?

It's a Draw

In the Dallas music scene, who brings the biggest crowds?

Odds & Ends

Reverend Horton Heat has a guitar named after him, the Necro Tonz arebreaking up and When Pop Music Goes Bad, Part 2

Reverend Horton Heat

Saturday, July 31

2004 Dallas Observer Music Awards

You voted. We counted. It's your favorite local acts, amplified.

Best Alternative Club

Trees

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Rock this town

Or: Oh, look...it's another end-of-the-century list

Scene, heard

The Rev. is a Fun-Guy; Floor 13 is still downunder; Bedwetter has dried up; Pimpadelic are Southern Devils; Plus, much, much more

Scene, Heard

The Toadies finish off Liberty; Deep Ellum Center for the Arts gets Musically Incorrect; Broose bows out

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Letters

Homewardsounds

Picking the best locally made records of 1998 was easy. Who knew?

Out Here

Out Here

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

Time captured in its flight

James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

Beating meat

"Taz" Bentley explains why he left the Rev for Tenderloin

Off the record

After seven wacky years, 14 Records prepares to close its doors

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part I)

A better man

Drummer Dave Abbruzzese considers life after Pearl Jam