Stuart Sikes

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, February 14-17

Patti Labelle Thursday, February 14, at The American Airlines Center, $31-$86 KSOC-FM "Old School" 94.5 has earned the nickname "The Baby Making Station," as the station's nighttime programming of "Old School Lovin'" has become a go-to staple of gatherings in the area. So it comes as no surprise tha ... More >>

The 15 Best North Texas Releases of 2012

In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do "yourself" and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few of the art ... More >>

Somebody's Darling is Ready for Their Close-up

Somebody's Darling Are Ready For Their Close-up

Guitarist David Ponder is sitting in a bar on Lower Greenville, feeling cautiously optimistic. His band, Somebody's Darling, just released its sophomore album, Jank City Shakedown, and he thinks it's something special. "I don't know if I would call this album a make-it-or-break-it record," Ponder s ... More >>

RTB2 On Their New Album: "Every Record Should Feel Like The First"

"We felt a certain level of exhaustion," drummer Grady Sandlin admits, discussing his band, RTB2, and their now-legendary rate of playing shows. "I've never been criticized to my face about playing too much, but I've heard others say that people criticized us for it," he says. Weary from their wor ... More >>

Baptist General Chris Flemmons on Learning to Let Go

Battle Bots: Ishi and More Throw Elbows at Tonight's Waka Winter Classic

The Wakarusa Winter Classic is a traveling battle of the bands, spanning 17 cities in the Midwest and South. Six groups play Dallas' competition tonight at 2826 Arnetic, and votes from the crowd ultimately decide the winner. Winning bands earn a spot on Wakarusa's lineup, which features Avett Brothe ... More >>

Crushed Stars Announces New Album, Shares Music Video

​The last time Frisco's Crushed Stars released a record, 2010's Convalescing in Braille, singer Todd Gautreau -- the man behind the moniker -- only played one show. It happened on a Thursday night at La Grange and that was it.Now, fans can expect the same as Crushed Stars announces plans to releas ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Group Act, Best Blues Act, Best Hard Rock Act

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the Best Group, Best Blues and Be ... More >>

Oil Boom

Black Waxy (Self-released)

Bonus MP3: RTB2 -- "Goon"

The art for RTB2's upcoming 8-track release, which will be for sale, starting at this weekend's 35 Conferette.​Exciting news out of RTB2 camp this week, as Ryan Thomas Becker and Grady Don Sandlin, the Best Group in town according to the voters in our 2010 Dallas Observer Music Awards, pass along ... More >>

The O's New Album Between The Two is the Duo's Truest Collaboration Yet.

My First Show: Drawn By Jaymz's James Porter Was Introduced To The Smell of Marijuana at a Crystal Gayle Show

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Drawn by Jaymz​When he hasn't been drumming for The Tah Dahs, The Happy Bullets, or his latest band, Dispo ... More >>

At the Texas Theatre, Just Because We Never Miss a Ribbon-Cutting With the Mayor

Photos by Harry WilonskyMayor Tom Leppert and Delia Jasso joined the Aviation Cinemas gang and Stuart Sikes (in the green sweater) officially re-open the Texas Theatre​I did indeed take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Texas last night for its official re-opening, where Mayor Tom declar ... More >>

Idol Records Releases New Chris Holt Christmas Jam, Preps Sophomore Album From The O's

"Um, I actually ordered a Tuaca?"​2010 wasn't the biggest year Idol Records has ever seen. The once-dominant local label responsible for past releases from area favorites such as the Old 97's, Centro-matic, Chomsky, [Daryl], The Crash That Took Me, Black Tie Dynasty, PPT, The O's and others releas ... More >>

Local Musicians Are Suddenly Dabbling In Politics

Bonus MP3: Kill The Dance Floor -- "Stare"

​Last year, brothers Mick and Raul Espinoza were plying their new wave craft under the moniker Mahteo. They even recorded a pretty cool debut album, The NuWave Republic. Although that record mined the classic '80s influences of Joy Division and The Cure a little too blatantly, it nevertheless had ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Calhoun Pops In At No. 4

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 ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Calhoun -- "Drifting"

Calhoun

Falter.Waver.Cultivate (Artist Garage)

Area New Wave Act Mahteo Is Now Kill The Dance Floor

DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

Treasure Hunt

Two years after Dove Hunter first burst onto the scene, the band finally unveils its anticipated debut

Weekend Roundup: The Cure, French Kicks, Frightened Rabbits, Calhoun

Shibboleth

Experiment in Error (Idol)

An Unfair Park Exclusive: "Digging Up Bones" with Some Brand-New Bobby Patterson and Shibboleth

El Gato

Surrender! (El Gato/Motherload Music)

Q&A: Dove Hunter on Recording and Flying Scorpions

Last Night: IAMX, The Hourly Radio at Club Dada

IAMX, The Hourly Radio

Tuesday, November 6, at Club Dada

Dallas Has Cat Power

5 x 2 = 10

Five to remember...and five to hope for

Beat No More

Deep Ellum's largest recording studio, after lingering in limbo for months, is finally sold for parts

Odds & Ends

Cast your vote for the 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards; On Saturday, say goodbye to Slick 57

Slowride

C/S (Deep Elm)

Cat Power

The Greatest (Matador)

The Local List

Odds & Ends

The Golden Falcons make some animal friends; minc celebrates three "interesting" years

Odds & Ends

Radiant goes Over There, Ward Richmond goes to jail and every band in Dallas gets put on hold

Spanking New

The Spree set off fireworks, Corn Mo might be a giant and more

Odds & Ends

Festivals abound this spring; enter our caption contest and win...something

Army of Two

The Tah-Dahs and The Happy Bullets are such a cute couple

Young Gun

Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Husker Du--and that's a good place to be

Drumroll, Please

Dallas Observer Music Awards 2005

Record Setter

Stuart Sikes has worked on albums by The White Stripes and Loretta Lynn. His next project? Dallas.

The State of Ohio

Dylan Silvers tears a hole through [DARYL]'s old walls

Pleasantly Surprised

A Dallas fave looks forward to the release of a new album

Back and Blue

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” made a lot of people sick to their stomachs. Can Todd and Toby Pipes make them forget?

Scene, Heard

The hiatus is over for The Legendary Fritz