Subject: Sarah Jaffe

• The Best Just-Turned-21-Year-Old Singer-Songwriter in Town

  April 19, 2007

• I Remember When We Had to Put Out Compilation CDs...

  May 3, 2007

• Locals to Score a Documentary About "The Forgotten War"

  September 13, 2007

• Another At War Trailer, This One Scored by Sarah Jaffe

  September 27, 2007

• Sarah Jaffe Writes Score to 'At War'

  September 27, 2007

• Swedes, Heartbreak and Jens Lekman

  November 13, 2007

• Good Friday: Local Honey, The Crash, Sarah Jaffe

  December 21, 2007

• Photos: NX35 Showcase of Denton Bands

  March 13, 2008

• Good Records Announces Official Eighth Birthday Party Lineup

  April 3, 2008

• Good Friday: Ghosthustler, The David Allor Benefit, Hal Samples' SPACE Opening, Black Joe Lewis

  April 4, 2008

• Good Friday: The Memorial Day Long Weekend Edition

  May 23, 2008

• DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

  June 25, 2008

• DOMA: The Winners! Announced! (Yay!)

  July 23, 2008

• Sarah Jaffe's Kind of Awesome, and the Kadanes Ain't Bad Neither

  August 1, 2008

• Gig Alert: August 27, 2008

  August 27, 2008

• A Short Film About Someone for Whom We Are Thankful, Sarah Jaffe

  Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston, author of the Veterans Day essay to which we linked earlier this month, was kind enough to forward our way this mini-doc about Sarah Jaffe, winner of multiple Dallas Observer Music Awards in July. As photographer Allison V. Smith notes on her blog, it was made by the same high-school students responsible for the short about Holston's son Fred earlier this year. --Robert Wilonsky 

  November 25, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Sarah Jaffe's Even Born Again EP Hits No. 6

  Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums No. 20-11 in the Top 20 list that will update as the it grows...No. 6: Sarah Jaffe -- Even Born Again EP A powerhouse of a talent, Sarah Jaffe's music is compelling because it so craftily stradles the line between the delicate and the confident.

  December 26, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Mount Righteous Happily Makes No. 5

  Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums No. 20-11 in the Top 20 list that will update as the it grows...No. 5: Mount Righteous -- When The Music StartsSeriously: How much can you really enjoy listening to an album of marching band singalongs about childhood and perseverance and being

  December 27, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: So Who Comes In At No. 1?

  Assuming you've been keeping up with this blog, then, yep, you've seen me counting down my favorite local record releases of 2008, one record a day, for the past week and a half or so. Well, it all comes to an end right here, right now. Below, a recount of records No. 20 through No. 2. Then, after the jump, the victor shall be revealed. (Don't worry: It's a real album; not something corny like, "We're all winners" or something like that. I'm not that much of a jerk.) The Top 20 Local Releases Of

  December 31, 2008

• BreakThruRadio Features Denton In Its "Spotlight On The City"

  Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there's oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol' Denton, TX, this week in its "Spotlight On The City" feature, which you can stream at BTR's site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can get it and download it right here. It features a whole host of Dentonites over the 80 minutes, with minimal commentary from "Lottie", the show's host, who basically just pops in every now and then to let you know wh

  January 13, 2009

• DOMA XXI: And The Nominees Are...

  This year's trophy will look nothing like the Heisman. Sorry to get your hopes up.A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.  Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were done, more than 80 nominat

  June 2, 2009

• 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 musicians McKenzie Smith and Paul Alexander (both of Midlake) and Jeff Ryan (of Pleasant Grove and currently performing with Sarah Jaffe).No music from the disc appears available yet, but Chris Cantalini of t

  February 19, 2009

• Yesterday at NX35: The Crowds Come Out At Night No. 3...

  The weather was playing nice last night. And, for the first time, NX35 truly had the crowds to match that dynamic festival-feeling that had been in the air on Thursday night. The whole night--from the little clusters of people milling around the sidewalks and streets to the folks watching Billy Roy on the Square to the packed venues--there was more of a buzz of activity all over the downtown area. Based on last night's crowds, it looks like we were right to blame the cold, rainy weather an

  March 15, 2009

• Yesterday at NX35: Sarah Jaffe (and friends) at Hailey's

  BAND: Sarah Jaffe VENUE: Hailey's Club TIME: 11:45 p.m. OK. I know that there were a bunch of people from Dallas at Hailey's last night. How do I know this? Because the back half of the room was too busy chatting about their new hairdos and taking group pics on their camera phones bother to listen to Sarah Jaffe's brilliant set. Seriously, I wanted to yell, "SHUT THE EFF UP!!" I don't think I've ever been that irritated with a crowd in my life. Whew...I feel better now. As I said, her

  March 15, 2009

• Gig Alert: Sarah Jaffe Plays The Pearl Cup Tonight

  Sarah JaffeTonight, my favorite indie espresso bar in Dallas' kicks off the first of its formal concert series with an appropriately established-sounding title: "The Pearl Cup Presents: An Evening with Sarah Jaffe." A text this afternoon informs that it'll just be "Sarah and her geetar." No frills.Ticket are  $22--which, sure, is $10 more than I've ever paid to catch Jaffe--but I remember being immensely perturbed with the Dallas-esque audience the last time I caught one of her sets in Dent

  June 1, 2009

• Can't-Miss Dallas-Area Bands to Catch at SXSW

  March 12, 2009

• The Top 20 Dallas Releases of 2008

  Ranking the best albums Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth had to offer this past year

  January 1, 2009

• Astronautalis and The Riverboat Gamblers Return to Town

  OK, so we have a pretty expansive definition of "local"

  October 16, 2008

• Selfishly, But Willingly

  Lately, Sarah Jaffe's outdrawn the headliners she's shared bills with, and that can mean only one thing

  August 28, 2008

• Our 20th Music Awards

  1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA

  July 24, 2008

• Back in Time

  While Centro-matic revisited the past, Sarah Jaffe showed us the future

  July 19, 2007

• Party Hard

  Dallas blogettes throw down

  April 26, 2007

• Con for the City

  December 6, 2007

• Walled In

  The Wall of Sound undercard examined

  September 20, 2007

• Big D's Great Roar

  August 16, 2007

• All the News That Doesn't Fit

  August 16, 2007

• 2007 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

  August 9, 2007

• DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 7: Sarah Jaffe

  (For the Youtube inclined, here's your link.)Last week, the great Sarah Jaffe stopped by our weekly SPACE Studio residency for a filming of the most recent installment DC9 in SPACE. And it started off on somewhat of an odd kick: Not very long after Jaffe and backing players Robert Gomez and Jeremy Buller showed, the power went out. And that's why, toward the start of this, our seventh episode, you'll see a funny little smile from Jaffe when the lights turn on during one of her warm-up takes--it

  June 17, 2009

• Gig Alert: Sarah Jaffe At House Of Dang Tonight

  I didn't find out about this show in time to get it in the listings last week, but, hey, that's what Gig Alerts are for, right? Sarah Jaffe will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at boutique shop House of Dang (which was a Best of Dallas winner in 2007 for Best Prezzies--"prezzies" being what the kids called presents back then). The show will be $22 cheaper than the last Jaffe show for which a Gig Alert was issued--as in, the House Of Dang show tonight will be free. As was her performance at Hal Samples

  June 24, 2009

• DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 9: Damaged Good$

  If you self-identify with the YouTube generation, you'll find the video here. Devoted watchers will recall an inspired guest appearance on week seven's Sarah Jaffe video (right around the three-minute mark), from the folks across the street at Lucky's Tattoos. As Jaffe pointed out, they weren't half-bad, and we decided to bring them into the fold for this week's video with the hip-hop duo Damaged Good$. Trak Bully (Theodore Beard, who also appears in the Observer's music section this week), an

  July 1, 2009

• Dallas Observer Music Awards

  July 23, 2009

• Fun Fun Fun Lineup Includes VEGA

  Doesn't he look like he's having fun, fun, fun?​Along with Les Savy Fav, Atlas Sound, GZA and (deep breath) The Jesus Lizard, The Fun Fun Fun Fest November 7 and 8 in Austin will include one local boy-turned-Austinite: former Ghosthustler Alan Palomo's second-newest project, VEGA.Though the former Dentron dweller isn't yet listed on the festival's "lineup leaks" page, today's missive to the media included VEGA among the announced acts, along with Yeasayer, Kid Sister and DRI. The VEGA MySpace

  August 20, 2009

• Hash Over: Bolsa And Smoke Celebrate, Dine On The Line, Raiser Grazer Resumes And More

  ​It's hard to believe Bolsa has only been open for a year, as it already feels like a Dallas institution for locavores and  those who enjoy fascinating food creations at reasonable prices. It's gotta be true, though, as the restaurant will celebrate its first year of business with "Bands, Bruschetta, Burgers, Bottles & Beer" 4 p.m. Sunday at the "Bolsaveursary." OK, so maybe the food isn't overwrought, but that name certainly is. Forgivable offense, though, considering that the event

  September 8, 2009

• Good Friday: Will Johnson, Slobberbone, Blackheart Society

  Neon Indian plays these beautiful confines on Sunday.​Not the busiest weekend of shows around town this time around--which I'm OK with as I'm off to Colorado to visit friends and check out Neon Indian's debut at Monolith on Sunday (and you thought we were done with them for the time being... ha!). But there are some cool shows worth looking into this weekend--and, more good news for me, we've already written about most. Oh, and of those show's we've already hyped. A reminder: Tonight, t

  September 11, 2009

• ACL '09: Neon Indian To Replace The Raveonettes, Sarah Jaffe To Debut New Eight-Piece Band and Jonathan Tyler Gets Some Love From Paste.

  ​The Toadies may take the stage tomorrow afternoon in a prime 4 p.m. slot on one of the festival's two main stages, but make no mistake: Today is DFW's day at ACL. As I write this, Sarah Jaffe is preparing to take the Austin Ventures stage, performing for the first time with her band as an eight-piece, featuring members of her touring partners from last summer, Crooked Fingers. Later today, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, meanwhile, after spending the bulk of yest

  October 3, 2009

• Sarah Jaffe, Neon Indian Earn Rolling Stone Blog Mentions For ACL Performances

  ​OK, so, admittedly, we're a little behind on this note (been busy with our own coverage, sorry), but it still bears mentioning: Both Sarah Jaffe and Neon Indian found themselves earning positive reviews over the weekend as part of Rolling Stone's blog coverage of the Austin City Limits Music Festival--in the same wrap-up of Saturday's shows, no less. In short: Jaffe's vocals are "gentle" and determined, with music that serves as a "perfect complement"; Neon Indian, meanwhile, showcases just a

  October 7, 2009

• Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Made the Best of a Rainy Saturday at ACL.

  October 8, 2009

• Now, the Voices of KXT

  Gini Mascorro ​We've already told you when KERA-FM's all-music offshoot, KXT, launches -- November 9 at 7 a.m. But the question remains: Who's gonna do the talkin' while the station gets to rockin'? This morning, we have some idea: Jeff Ramirez, veep of radio, sends word that former Ticket traffic reporter Gini Mascorro will serve as the station's music coordinator, as well as the host for the weekday KXT Morning Show and KXT Texas Mix on Fridays. Joe Kozera (who was, says the press release, "

  October 26, 2009

• KXT Announces New Hosts, In-Studio Performances For Debut Month

  ​Big news to report this early afternoon on the new KERA-owned all-music station coming to your 91.7 FM frequency, oh, two weeks from today--and, of course, Robert somehow beat me to posting it, the jerk.But while he focuses on the new hosts at the new station--KERA's own Gini Mascorro will handle the morning show and a Friday "KXT Texas Mix" (whatever that is); Joe Kozera, formerly of Bridgeport's KBOC-FM, will handle the afternoon and evening slots; Paul Slavens, meanwhile, jumps down your r

  October 26, 2009

• Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Destroyer Show at the Granada

  Dan Bejar​Despite his efforts in other, broader outfits like The New Pornographers and Swan Lake, Dan Bejar's Destroyer project comes in a decidedly more toned-down flavor. Under Destroyer, the name of the game is bare, Dylan-inspired folk-pop. And, as the longest-running of his works, it also may be the most affecting. At tomorrow night's Granada Theater show, expect a largely intimate affair, and an emotive one too. Which makes the addition of local opener Sarah Jaffe all the more appropriat

  November 5, 2009