Ryan Bingham

Ryan Bingham: "I Could Sing Death Metal and I'll Still Be A Country Singer To Certain People"

Ryan Bingham isn't a country singer. While he's dabbled in the tones of roots and country, he's a rock star at this point in his career. Sure, many people know the Los Angeles-based former rodeo cowboy from his celebrity-making, Oscar-winning tune "The Weary Kind" from the movie Crazy Heart, in whic ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Dallas This Week

Will Johnson Monday, October 1, at Good Records/Tuesday, October 2, at Texas Theatre We chatted with Centro-matic frontman Will Johnson last month about his new excellent solo album, Scorpion, and how he finds time to record while also being in a bajillion side projects. He'll be celebrating the rel ... More >>

The Five Best DFW Honky-Tonks

To call a place a honky-tonk is almost as nebulous as labeling a place a dive bar. Ask five different people what one is, and you're more than likely to get six different answers. Of course, North Texas has dozens of places that complement any of them. The earliest published mentions of the term h ... More >>

The Best Texas Country/Red Dirt Songs of the Past 15 Years

Eleven of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Mission of Burma, Willie Nelson, Ben Folds Five, Brutal Juice and More

Mission of Burma Friday, September 14, at Dan's Silverleaf, $13/$16Spune productions' Lance Yocom has been sitting on this show for a while. The Boston punk act, whose reunion has lasted longer than its original run, should make for an interesting show at Dan's. Expect it to be packed and loud.S ... More >>

The 15 Best Songs From the Past 15 Years of Texas Country/Red Dirt/Whatever It's Called

As we look upon the massive machine Texas country has made chug along over the past several years, it's easy to see 1997 as a pivotal time. In college towns and major metropolises alike, the masses were demanding more music from people that shared their pride, enthusiasm and thirst for something dif ... More >>

Video From This Year's Observer St. Patrick's Day Parade

We've got some video footage up from our March 17 parade, which featured headliner Ryan Bingham, lots of people wearing "Green Man" suits and only 16 arrests for public intoxication, which seems low. Check out the video and see if you can find yourself in the drunken sea of humanity.

The Dallas Observer St. Patrick's Day Concert with Ryan Bingham, In Photos

From the looks of it, the St. Patrick's Day Concert with Ryan Bingham was not for the weary kind (see what I did there?). Somewhere in between the SXSW chaos and the Mark Cuban-Saved-Parade, we got a batch set of photos from the scene from photographer Jay Barker. The scene, of course, was our Irish ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day on Greenville Avenue: Just Some Good, Clean Fun in the CVS Parking Lot

Just got back from a food run to Royal Thai, my first voyage into humanity all day, and I can happily report that it's safe to leave your home again. It's still going, this year's ode to binge drinking and dyed plastic and collapsing economies, but it's definitely dying down. I saw just one lone wom ... More >>

Bro Fest, St. Patrick's Day Concert, DXDW & the Rest of This Weekend's Shows

​In case you haven't read almost every item on DC9 at Night for the last two days, South By Southwest music festival is happening in Austin this weekend, and we're reaping all the benefits. Actually, some of us are missing the whole damn thing. Thankfully, Parade Of Flesh has the cure. Bro Fest 20 ... More >>

Preparing For The Onslaught: This Week In Dallas Food Blogging

Welcome to the longest weekend of your life. Between the parade, block party, concerts (stoked for Ryan Bingham by the way) English breakfasts, cabbage dinners, green beers, Irish pubs, whiskey shots, sunshine, crowds, food truck parties and other happenings, there's a good chance some of us will ne ... More >>

Green Beer For Everyone: Ryan Bingham Headlines The Observer's St. Patrick's Day Concert

If you know the name Ryan Bingham, it might be because he was partially responsible for "The Weary Kind," from the soundtrack to 2009's Crazy Heart, which won him an Golden Globe in 2010 and released many tears from eye jail. Bingham and his band the Dead Horses have that perfect mix of country, roc ... More >>

Organizers Say the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade May Not Happen This Year

So here's some potentially lousy news: The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade, that beloved march of green-tinted debauchery that's been blowing down Greenville since 1979, appears to be on its deathbed. The concert at the parade route's end will play on, headlined by Ryan Bingham. The par ... More >>

Demi Lovato, Ray Benson and This Weekend's Top Shows

​A lot of people are home for Thanksgiving nursing food hangovers and hanging out with family, which explains why most of this weekend's shows are from local acts. That doesn't mean there aren't some big shows happening this weekend, like the one from Dallas' own Demi Lovato tomorrow at Verizon Th ... More >>

Ryan Bingham

Friday, November 25, at Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma

Night Three of Austin City Limits '11: If You're Gonna Go Out, You Better Go Out With a Bang.

Pete FreedmanArcade Fire played a familiar set to end Austin City Limits 2011. But it was still thrilling.​ The hot sun from the morning of Day Three at the 2011 Austin City Limits Music Festival persisted well into the afternoon and evening at Zilker Park. But with the festival end looming and pl ... More >>

Day Three of Austin City Limits '11: Dallas-Born Ruby Jane Kicks Thing Off and The Sun is Back

Pete FreedmanDallas-born 16-year-old Ruby jane kicked off Saturday's proceedings in fine fashion.​ After a lackluster Saturday, things are already heating up on Sunday afternoon at Zilker Park. Actually, they were plenty hot in the morning, too: Temperatures soared into the '90s, but, more importa ... More >>

Ten Things You Can Expect to See At Austin City Limits 2011

Solo or Sweaty, The Katy Trail Ice House is Welcoming (and Worth the Calories)

Just don't get lazy when you're ordering beer and expect Milk to let you get away with it.

Penny Lazo Works For Universal Records and Gets Celebrities To Pose for Pics With Her Taco.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Penny Lazo. With LMFAO. And a taco. No, the taco isn't real.​Penny Lazo is a DFW-based rep for Universal Records. Despite being very rock 'n' roll in appearance, her main beat is coun ... More >>

In Which We Ask The New KXT Program Director About #KXTFail, Among Other Things.

We may or may not have found Mark Abuzzahab's Driver's License photo.​No, Mark Abuzzahab, the new program director at KXT-91.7 FM (and their very first, by the way), isn't here yet. Won't be for a few more weeks. He's still down in Austin, finishing up his stint as the music director at KGSR-93.3 ... More >>

Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses

Friday, May 20, at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth

Fourteen Texans Walked Away From the 2011 Grammy Awards With Trophies To Bring Home

The big winner at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night? That, surely, was The Arcade Fire, who, whether you've heard of them or not, walked with the coveted Album of the Year title at this year's festivities. But, really, Texas as a whole didn't do too bad as the Texas Music Office in Austin has remind ... More >>

By Our Count, Eight Or So Grammy Nominations Have Local(ish) Ties

​Last night, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2010 Grammy Awards, as they tend to do around this time of year. The winners won't be announced until the live awards show, which will air on CBS on Sunday, February 13, 2011. But, thanks to a whole sle ... More >>

Quizzing Brownstone's Casey Thompson
On her Idols, Dead Trends and her Last Meal

Casey Thompson​Yesterday, we gave you an in-depth profile of Casey Thompson, Top Chef star, former executive chef at Shinsei and currently parking her toque at Fort Worth's Brownstone. Today, we lob a few questions her way, yielding such important personal tidbits as her fondness for The King ... More >>

Love Convection: Meddlesome Moth

First truth: I didn't go to Meddlesome Moth on a date. Second truth: I did go there with three couples and my "date"--a girlfriend. Third truth: A man did pay for my meal. So the dinner had some date-like aspects to it, right? Not really. The man who paid for my dinner is my co-worker's husband, and ... More >>

ACL Day One Recap: Hipsters, Hippies and The Poor Schlubs Stuck In Between.

Patrick MichelsJulian Casablancas wears his sunglasses at nights.​ Well, Austin City Limits, you redeemed yourself. After a slow start to the festivities, things picked up very quickly, as predicted, and, by three o'clock, things were in full swing. But Night One--despite names like Miike Snow, Gi ... More >>

10 Most Memorable Fans (One Semi-NSFW?) from Austin City Limits, Friday

All photos by Nick Rallo​Of course, we're just getting started down here at ACL. There is much more to come. Spoon, The Strokes, Ryan Bingham, Vampire Wekend and Phish are all on there way, and the sky's clear as a bell. In the meantime--oh my, the crowd. While Pete was out there bringing-in-the ... More >>

Q&A: Ryan Bingham Talks Growing Up in Texas, Sharing His Name with George Clooney and Coming to Grips With Winning an Oscar

Ryan Bingham​Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he's riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack t ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Ryan Bingham at House of Blues, The Soft Pack and Those Darlins at Sons of Hermann, Mayer Hawthorne at The Loft, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights at Trees, Big K.R.I.T. and Curren$y at Club Life, and Two Cow Garage at Double Wide

Tonight is insanely busy. It's obnoxious, really. Thanks, ACL!

Good Friday: Fourth of July Edition

​Pool parties, cookouts and cold ones--probably the best way celebrate the Fourth of July around here. And, as we mentioned earlier this week, the Double Wide will have all of those things on Sunday night. The pool party starts at 7 p.m. and the concert, which features Bruce Springsteen, Replaceme ... More >>

Stockyards Stampede With Randy Rogers Band, Ryan Bingham, Everclear & MC Hammer

Saturday, July 3,at the Fort Worth Stockyards

Harvard Business Review Frequent Flier Asks, When Did American Airlines Get So Sad?

​A few weeks ago, you no doubt recall, The New York Times wondered whether American Airlines was becoming "a waning star of air travel." To which many Friends responded, as they often do when the subject of the Fort Worth-based carrier comes up: Why, yes, yes it is. Among the frequent complaints h ... More >>

Rollin' Them Sevens

Austin City Limits Announces 2010 Lineup...

​It's that time of year, again. The Austin City Limits Festival line-up was unveiled early this morning via the fest's official website. There isn't any question: This year's docket will have people gabbing--whether it's vitriolic hate or nostalgic, warm-fuzzies. Sure, for many, bashing on the cho ... More >>

Show Announcements: Three Dog Night Coming To Arlington, More

​As Three Dog Night's website boasts, "From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets." But just because the band is some four decades beyond its glory days doesn't mean it isn't keeping busy. The group--including original members Cory Wells and Danny ... More >>

T Bone Burnett Wins Golden Globe, Meryl Streep's Admiration

Who's the big winner? T Bone's the big winner!​Sorry if you missed last night's Golden Globes awards ceremony on NBC. Mostly because, well, this is probably your first look at Mad Men's Christina Hendricks and her digs from last night. (Daaaaaaaaaaamn!)But also because you missed this: Fort Worth ... More >>

Up In The Air Director Jason Reitman Has A Good Sense Of Where He's From (Hollywood) And Where He's Headed (Hollywood)

Up In The Air Steers Clear of the Predictable Route, Lands the Emotion

Good Friday: MFM, Jacob Wick, Yells At Eels, Matthew Gray, Slobberbone, Misfits And More

​If you're not too busy on this Black Friday weekend--collecting everything you're owed and striking all the big red words from your little black book--you ought to go catch some live music. First, the shows we've already mentioned. Tonight, Cursive plays at Hailey's in Denton and Ryan Bingham and ... More >>

Ryan Bingham, Telegraph Canyon, The Orbans

Friday, November 27, at House of Blues

Picture Show: The Flatlanders at the Wyly Theatre

Patrick MichelsRyan Bingham, singing with Joe Ely here, played Shemp to the Flatlanders' Jimmie, Butch and Joe.​ Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock christened the Wyly Theatre's concert stage Tuesday night (they're the first non-Shakespearean act to play the new theater, at least), wra ... More >>

Show Announcements: Scrap Metal, Great American Taxi, TV On The Radio, Dan Deacon, School of Seven Bells

Been missing your jamgrass fix waiting on another Leftover Salmon reunion show? No worries, as former Salmon frontman Vince Herman comes to town this April with Great American Taxi. If you're looking for a more traditional bluegrass show, Ralph Stanley (of "Man of Constant Sorrow" fame) brings it ... 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.

Ryan Bingham, Southern Drive, Dedringers

Thursday, June 12, at Granada Theater

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup