Sub Pop Ltd.

My First Show: Best of 2012 Edition

We decided to check back in with some of the people we interviewed this year for My First Show, and ask about favorite concerts, records, and most-wanted Christmas gifts. Bad Design's Steven Altuna takes the cake for best answer for a Christmas wish. What was the best show you saw this year? Evan ... More >>

The Seven Best Concerts In Dallas This Week

Nas and Lauryn Hill Monday, October 29, at the Palladium Ballroom, $54.75 This pairing is an inspired one, and especially notable for fans of Lauryn Hill, who have been wondering where the follow-up to 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has been hiding. That (hopefully) comes with the release of ... More >>

Baptist General Chris Flemmons on Learning to Let Go

25 Years In, The Dwarves Keep Growing

Interviewing Fleet Foxes Via Twitter

Reverend Horton Heat, Split Lip Rayfield

Friday, February 11, at the House of Blues

Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets to See Peter Wolf Crier and Retribution Gospel Choir Tonight at Hailey's

Not a bad bill tonight at Hailey's -- something that we haven't really been able to say of late, to be honest -- thanks to a couple of touring, up-and-coming acts out of Minnesota stopping through Denton for the night.Aside from the whole both being from the Land of a Thousand Lakes tie-in, though, ... More >>

35 Conferette Adds More Acts, Including New Sub Pop Supergroup Featuring Michael Cera

If nothing else, Michael Cera is cooler than Danny Masterson, right?​After announcing last week the addition of another 135 bands to its bill, you'd think the folks up at Denton's 35 Conferette might need a breather -- or, I dunno, maybe some time to focus on the actual logistics of the fest, sinc ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs Of Tickets to Tomorrow Night's Show From Nirvana Influences The Vaselines at The Loft

​In this week's print edition, Darryl Smyers talks up tomorrow night's show at The Loft from The Vaselines, who, after bearing an influence over Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the early '90s, took a 17-year break after their 1992 compilation release, All the Stuff and More..., before Sub Pop released an ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to See CocoRosie at the Granada Theater Tonight

Sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady, known as "Coco" and "Rosie," respectively, were born in the States, but didn't start their musical project CocoRosie until they were living in Paris--which probably explains the overall baroque nature of their somewhat creepy freak folk, which certainly boasts an al ... More >>

Indie Filmmakers Take Over Texas Theatre Promising a Mix of the Classic and New-Fangled

​The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-'90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house -- a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welco ... More >>

Last Night: Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes and Fungi Girls at The Nightmare

Happy Birthday, Residual Echoes, Fungi GirlsThe NightmareAugust 5, 2010Better than: giving in to the heat and staying at home in your air conditioning.Happy Birthday​ No one, it seemed, was in a rush for things to get started last night at The Nightmare, where a powerful triple-bill of the Sub Pop ... More >>

Q&A: Former Paste Scribe Steve LaBate and Filmmaker Scott Sloan Tell Us Why You Might See Cameras At The Granada Tonight...

Similar, but different.​Seeing 40 concerts in 40 different cities over the course 40 consecutive nights. Sound cool? Sure does. While such a trip would be an unrealistic fantasy for most of us, former senior writer from Paste Magazine, Steve LaBate and his good friend, filmmaker Scott Sloan, decid ... More >>

The Album Leaf, Sea Wolf

Thursday, May 6, at The Loft

Parade Of Flesh Announces Initial Bro Fest 2010 Lineup

​We're big fans of what John Iskander is doing around town with the shows that he's booking under his Parade of Flesh moniker. But you already knew that.What you might not have known, however, is that Iskander's been planning another post-SXSW bash--as he's been known to do in the past. Won't be c ... More >>

Last Night: Fruit Bats, Death Vessel at The Loft

Fruit Bats, Death VesselThe LoftSeptember 1, 2009 Better than: Staying at home watching the Rangers sweep a double-header from the Blue Jays.   With temperatures hanging blissfully in the upper 70s, the deck of The Loft was certainly a nice place to spend a Tuesday evening. The view was ... More >>

Fruit Bats Frontman Eric Johnson Is Clear: His Band Is No Shins Side Project.

So Many Shows, So Little Time: Let Us Help You Pick the Best

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

Organic Brick

Dinosaur Jr. Still Avoiding Celebrity

Julie Doiron, Calvin Johnson, Tha Bracelets

Sunday, June 10, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio, Denton

Drain You

An often exasperating boxed set offers the final word on Nirvana's legacy

Real Estate Agents

The Fire Theft finds its own day in the sun

Right Hear

Joe Pernice is one of the best songwriters around. Start paying attention.

Conference for Cynics

SXSW offers up dreamchasers, diatribes and some darn good music, too

Best of the Best

This pretty much speaks for itself

The Great Divide

The Shins' James Mercer is just another underappreciated genius

Melody Maker

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch might claim to be an amateur on the six-string, but don't let him fool you

Out & About

Arlo

Scene, Heard

Robert Jenkins is getting the word out

Clumsy

Center of Attention Deficit Disorder
(Idol Records)

Here and There

Ten from Dallas and England and all points in between

That's Not Me

Damien Jurado will be the first to tell you: He's not his tragic, razor-sharp songs

Crash of the Titan

Disney-esque characters and anime stylings don't mix, but at least the battles are cool

Across the Bar

Raise the Curtain; Experience Lift to Experience; Mazinga's Dissatisfied Customers ...

The show-me slate

DeRogatis' Top 10 Reasons for Living in 1999

Direct Hit, or Miss

Mom and pop label says goodbye ... sort of

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Soul brother No. 1

Quiet! Do not disturb while Bobby Patterson is making love to a microphone on KKDA-AM

Out There

Free KittyBoo

Brandon Boyer's Denton label offers pure pop pleasure, seven inches at a time

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Rhyme and Reason

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

1996 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Beating meat

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

Ghosts in the machine

When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

Punk, polka, and puke

New releases: Sonic Youth, Los Lobos, The The, and Mr. Spock

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