Rhett Miller

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 21-24

Electric Six Saturday, February 23, at Dada, $15 Electric Six, the warhorses of heavy and frantic disco-rock, roll into Dada to spray high-energy chaos over Dallas' most extensive corner stage. After the release of their latest album in October, a live greatest-hits number, "The Six," as I have arbi ... More >>

Taste Addison 2012: The Food Porn

One of the many events the weekend was Taste Addison. The fest, which celebrated its 20th birthday, served up bites from sixty-plus restaurants in the metroplex. Rhett Miller and his Hair was on hand, but photographer Jay Barker just grabbed a whole beef-truck full of food porn. Enjoy.

An Oral History of the Dallas Music Scene

Some of Dallas' most successful musicians recount the rebirth of its most storied entertainment district: Deep Ellum.

By Way of Joe Ely, Rhett Miller Helps Remind Us How This Blog Got Its Name.

What do you say we go and print some of these suckers up now that we're famous?​Every few months or so, it just so happens that someone will pop up on our radar and ask us how this here blog got its name. To be honest: We're not quite sure who picked it. Our memories here in the music department t ... More >>

Just Like We Told You Months Ago: Old 97's Plan To Release Grand Theatre, Vol. 2 On July 5

Patrick MichelsOld 97's back at the 2010 Musink festival in Fair Park​Lest you doubted our note from way, way, way, way back in March -- y'know, that the Old 97's were going to release the second installment of their two-part Grand Theatre release on July 5 -- well, now the folks putting out the r ... 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 >>

Good Friday: Ben Kweller, Rhett Miller, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Os Mutantes, Deerhunter, Best Coast, Monotonix, Delorean, Magic Kids, Alejandro Escovedo, Bill Frisell, Suicidal Tendencies, DJ Shadow, Merle Haggard, Tumbledown & More!

Ben Kweller punching the bottom of Rhett Miller's head--for Cystic Fibrosis​This weekend's concert calender is abnormally full to the brim, but the show we're maybe most excited about is Ben Kweller and Rhett Miller's Cystic Fibrosis benefit concert at Granada Theater. Two of the biggest local ind ... 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 >>

Old 97's Offer Up Too Far To Care Demos As Free Downloads

​Just a few minutes ago, the Old 97's posted to their web site a whole slew of free downloads--not of new songs, mind you, but of old ones. Or, more accurately, of the demos for old songs, all of which Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond recorded as the band geared up for the release of its 1997 opus, ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to Oysterfest

We've already had a lot of things to say about Frisco's inaugural Oysterfest on Saturday, September 25. The bill, an impressive mixture of 15 touring and local bands on two outdoor stages at Lochrann's Irish Pub & Eatery, includes Rhett Miller Bowerbirds, Efterklang, Telegraph Canyon--you get th ... More >>

Old 97's Release Album Art, Tracklisting For October 12's The Grand Theatre, Volume One

​Well, finally: An email from New West Records today finally gets around to confirming all that hard work and reporting we've been kicking out since April on the next, once-thought-to-be-a-double-album-but-now-known-to-be-a-two-part-release from Dallas' own Old 97's. Meaning: Yes, it'll be called ... More >>

Old 97's To Release Covers EP, Mimeograph, Next Week

​Well, this kinda came out of nowhere: Next week--a week from tomorrow, in fact--the Old 97's will release a four-song covers EP, called Mimeograph, via new West Records. The album, which comes before the band's planned double-album release this fall, finds the old Dallas favorites covering The Ro ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Seryn, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon and the Old 97's at MusInk 2010's First Night

Seryn, Doug Burr, Telegraph Canyon & the Old 97'sFair Park Centennial BuildingApril 9, 2010Better than: getting a forehead tattoo like one of the guys I saw get ink last night.Patrick MichelsRhett Miller, rocking the eff out at Fair Park​A bringing together of skin and ink wasn't the only atte ... More >>

Old 97's To Start Recording New Album at Sons of Hermann Hall Next Week. And Producer Salim Nourallah Offers Us Some Insight...

Time, once again, to bust these gems out.​Rhett Miller, if nothing else, should be commended for being quite the active reader. Dude does his homework, that's all I'm saying. First time he and I ever spoke, just a few weeks into my gig here at the Dallas Observer, just how curious an information-s ... More >>

Picture Show: Rhett Miller and The O's at The Granada

Hal Samples​ Rhett Miller's benefit show in the Cystic Fibrosis Concert Series took the stage at The Granada Saturday night, with The O's opening the night, and Gordon Keith playing host.There's some video of Keith and Miller onstage at the end of the night over on Unfair Park, but for a complete ... More >>

Giveaway: Three More Pairs of Tickets To Tomorow Night's CF Benefit with Rhett Miller, The O's and Shibboleth at the Granada

​Yesterday, you'll recall, we gave out five pairs of tickets to tomorrow night's CF Benefit Concert at the Granada Theater featuring Rhett Miller, The O's and Shibboleth. And those tickets? Well, they went pretty darn fast, actually.So lucky for you then that, as promised, we've got three more pai ... More >>

It's a Homecoming for Eisley and Rhett Miller Who Each Return To Dallas This Week

Over The Weekend:Old 97's, Telegraph Canyon at Bass Hall

Old 97's, Telegraph CanyonBass Hall, Fort WorthAugust 21, 2009Better than: a night at the opera.​ Make no mistake: The crowd came to Bass Hall--some dressed in their operahouse best, others in more dive bar attire--for the Old 97's. And though they'd sure get the Old 97's--to the tune of a good 90 ... More >>

Best in Dallas Music, 2008: The Podcast

For whatever reason, we were feeling like a real team last week--so much so that we gathered up most of the music writing crew here at the Observer and packed everyone into my spacious fake college dorm room office to talk about our favorite local releases of the year (and to take very unlively pict ... More >>

The Vampire Lounge, Back in Business, Hopes Not to Suck

Also: Rhett Miller returns to Dallas to champion a good cause

R.E.M., Old 97's

Friday, October 24, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Old 97's Sighted at ACL, All is Right with the Universe

Playback: The Week (5/9/08 - 5/16/08) In Review

Hear Blame It On Gravity And Meet The Old 97's At The Granada Tonight

The Old 97's Come Down the Chimney

Odds & Ends

Dallas Music Partners declare: "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled musicians."

Dallas on Display

Area acts get their share of shout-outs

Rumor Mill

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

Scene, Heard

It doesn't matter what we say or think

Scene, Heard

London ain't so great

The sound of Deep Ellum

Or: How I went to London to find the next Jam, and found Rhett Miller instead

Letters

Those magic bridges; Baby Buddha; Duh; The happy snob

Best Case scenario

Rhett Miller makes Wilonksy's shit list

Too far to care?

Out with the old, in with the Old '97s

Home groans

Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?

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?

Put up a fight

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

My name is Weener

A Dallas supergroup forms to play...Weezer songs?

Letters

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

Out Here

Winner's circle

All the bands that fit,and one that quit

Ja, das is country punk

The old world discovers the Old 97's

Out here

Don't call it a comeback

Meredith L. Miller sleeps with Elvis and dreams with Buddy

Mekons, you Rhett

A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part I)