They Might Be Giants

Chelsea Light Moving is This Week's Top Sell in Dallas Record Stores

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Chelsea Light Moving takes the number one spot at Good Records and Atoms for Peace is still ma ... More >>

They Might Be Giants Does Not Need More Conspiracy Theorists

Hard to believe that it's been over three decades since John Flansburgh and John Linnell first started playing music as They Might Be Giants. What started as two nerds and a drum machine has slowly evolved into a multi-media company with two distinct divisions: indie rock and children's music. Spea ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Week, March 11-14

The time has come. We are officially knee-deep in festival season. On top of that, all of the best shows happen in the springtime, when the weather is best, which means that we won't get a break until we're running on fumes, with our little engines barely puttering into summer. For now, we're going ... More >>

Eight of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Jeff Mangum, Morrissey and More

Morrissey Monday, February 18, at Palladium Ballroom, $39.50 We were really looking forward to road-tripping to Wichita Falls to see Moz at the end of the month, but since some of his U.S. tour dates were postponed, we'll just have to throw roses at him in Dallas. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 1 ... More >>

Eight Covers of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," From Great To Just Awful

Tomorrow night sees the arrival of unstoppable force Gotye, as the Belgian-Australian singer and his cohorts take over a sold-out Verizon Theater to play a bunch of songs no one wants to hear till he closes the show with "Somebody That I Used to Know." The song plays on the radio every few minutes, ... More >>

Ten Songs To Soundtrack Your Presidents' Day

We at the Observer love holiday lists. Take, for instance, our Ten Best Indie Christmas Songs, Thirteen Videos to Scare Your Friday the 13th Pants Off, and the totally relevant National Doughnut Day list. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that we've put together a song list for Presidents' Day. ... More >>

Revenge of the Nerd: They Might Be Giants at the Granada

They Might Be Giants Granada Theater Thursday, February 2 When nerds sell out a show, you know you're in for it. Scanning the crowd at the Granada last night, I could tell there were quite a few folks paying babysitters until 11 p.m., who were maybe a bit pudgier than when they first got into the N ... More >>

Last Call on the Dance Floor: Deb Does Rio Room and Beauty Bar

Thursdays in Dallas are getting unruly, reworking my school night routine a bit. I make sure the laundry, nails and hair are did a day or two early since we are all bound to run into each other once the sun sets. Last night, Dallas overfloweth. I love Parks and Recreation as much as the next gal, ... More >>

They Might Be Giants, Anthrax, Robert Ellis and More Show Announcements

​Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the inception of They Might Be Giants. Extremely impressive stuff. What's even more impressive is that the band has averaged one full-length record every two years and critical acclaim along the way. They're celebrating the occasion, of course, with a tou ... More >>

Q&A: Koo Koo Kanga Roo is a Kid's Band for Adults

Koo Koo Kanga Roo are two guys name Neil and Bryan (first names only, please), who together are the epitome of the love them or hate them musical act. Hailing out of Minneapolis, Neil and Brian first began fusing their twisted hip-hop and dance music with kindergarten memories about four years ago. ... More >>

Before He Celebrates 17 Years of Hosting The Adventure Club, Josh Venable Looks At Its Past

Josh Venable​Halfway through our talk with KDGE-102.1 FM The Edge radio host Josh Venable, he excuses himself from the conversation."Hold on for one second, I've got to do a break real fast," he says, before pausing to clear his throat as the last notes of Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" play in th ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: DJ Sober May Be Known For Hip-Hop, But He Loves Him Some Annie Lennox and They Might Be Giants, Too.

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Kelsey FosterDJ Sober​In a city as chock full of DJ talent as Dallas is, there still has yet to emerge any real rock star. And yet, if there were such a figure whose longevity and skill war ... More >>

Says GE's Electric Car Look-See, Dallas Is Tops to Plug In Before Pulling Out (Of the Driveway)

​Few weeks back we noted: TXU's setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books' Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of B ... More >>

The Residents

Wednesday, February 3, at Granada Theater

Good Friday: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN, Digital Leather, King Bucks, Ghoultown, John David Kent, Horrorble Party, Play-N-Skillz Halloween Bash, House Harkonnen and More

Don't forget your costume. Here's one idea.​Love it when Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case this year. What that means for music fans is lots of costume contests and tribute nights, and bands and fans will likely be even more intoxicated than usual--so be careful out there. Recently some ... More >>

They Might Be Giants

Saturday, October 31, at House of Blues

The "Mystery and Strange Horror" of Trees

​The 6-year-old who lives in my house is a big They Might Be Giants fan -- because, after all, they did teach him his ABC's and 123's, and they twosome are currently in the process of learnin' him about the science. The one TMBG product in which he's never shown much interest, though, is the band' ... More >>

Gig Alert: Got the Hump Day Blues? Well, There's Actually A Ton of Good Shows Tonight...

Spend your Wednesday night under Eugene Chadbourne's gaze.With the fact that we're just two weeks off from Christmas, and, well, it being Wednesday and all, you'd think this would be a slow night for good shows. Well, you'd be mistaken. There's actually several acts playing about Metroplex tonight-- ... More >>

Q&A: Woven

Los Angeles band Woven play an interesting mixture of electronica and rock. Though they explore a wide variety of sounds, they generally combine  unique, dark electronic textures and heavy two-drummer percussion into straightforward poppy rock songs. After the band's 2003 album, 8 Bit Monk, Wov ... More >>

South by Southwest Bounty Overflows to Benefit Dallas

This and next week are full of big-name acts making their ways to or from the Austin festival

Educational Giants

Bird on a Wire

IM'ing—the new criticism

Wired is Right on the Gimarc

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Corn Mo

Monday, August 28, at the Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Deerhoof

Friday, November 11, at Hailey's

Spanking New

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

Various Artists

Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

Odds & Ends

The Polyphonic Spree on MTV, a benefit for Deep Ellum beating victim,and Snooping the Snoop

They Might Be Giants

July 17-18

Don't Ask Me

Is OK Go's Damien Kulash too smart for his own good?

Various Artists

Brand New Boots and Panties (Gold Circle Records) / Listen to What the Man Said (Oglio Records)

Daughter of the chaos

Luscious Jackson's Jill Cuniff explains why it shouldn't be called "news"

Stars Forever for less

Making music on someone else's dime

Giant steps

They Might Be Giants hopes that the revolution will be downloaded

I don't want my MP3

Or: How the Internet could kill the album

All his ghosts

With a new album, Frank Black tries to live up to his own past

Free KittyBoo

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

Welcome to Wally's world

True songs from the mayor of Pleasantville

Mister Corn Mo rising

Jon Cunningham and his post-modern vaudeville

Arts and craftsmen

After the Beasties and Beck, the Dust Brothers strike out on their own

Rhythm and Jews

he modern-day klezmer revival jazzes up the music of tradition

Roadshows

Of Prince and spines

It doesn't matter if you Ween or lose, it's how you play their game