Tim DeLaughter

Good Records' Chris Penn: "You Can't Roll a Joint On a Digital Download"

Christopher Todd Penn was a just a kid when he was held at knife-point in the bathroom of an Iron Maiden concert. He shouted "NO" and ran for his life, instead of giving up the goods. Later, after relocating to the area, he became more of a Tripping Daisy fan. Then he did merch for them. Now he's ... More >>

Jon Anderson and Tim DeLaughter - Kessler Theater - 2/28/12

​John Anderson, Tim DeLaughterKessler TheaterTuesday, February 28Tim DeLaughter took to the Kessler Theater stage on Tuesday night like a guy about to meet his girlfriend's parents for the first time. He was struggling to keep himself together in front of a sold-out crowd of mostly grey-haired dad ... More >>

The Polyphonic Spree

Thursday, February 16, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Tim DeLaughter's First Ever Solo Show, A Ride With Bob Returns & Dennis Gonzalez Announces New Record

​Tim DeLaughter has never played a solo show. Not one anybody can remember, anyway. But last week, the Kessler Theater added his name as the opening act for YES lead singer Jon Anderson on Tuesday, February 28. The show is part of the venue's "Storytellers" series, which has already featured legen ... More >>

Yes, Virginia, the Spree are Back for the Holidays

Good Records Recordings Relaunches Tomorrow, Adds Grandaddy's Jason Lytle to Roster

A screenshot of the Good Records Recordings website​For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with "11-11-11" displayed in white in the middle. In a way it's served as the answer to the question we've been asking Tim DeLaughter, the label's owner ... More >>

Pitchfork "Debuts" Another "New" Track From Preteen Zenith. But Not Really. Well, Maybe.

Charlie RocketPreteen Zenith​Over on Pitchfork -- just now -- Preteen Zenith is sharing a stream of a new song. And, yes, finally, it's a new song, not one of those largely confusing teases they'd been sharing, which combined a number of tracks into megamixes of sorts. Called "Breathe," the song's ... More >>

Despite A Late Start and An Early End, Preteen Zenith's Live Debut At GVB Fest Still Impressed

Mike MezeulDallas' Preteen Zenith make their live debut at GVB Fest. For more photos from the event, check out the slideshow.​It's impossible to extricate the actual Preteen Zenith, a distorted-pop sextet with all of a week's worth of full-band practice under its belt before its first gig, from th ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter Talks the Good and the Bad of Preteen Zenith's Live Performance Debut

Tim DeLaughter and his new band Preteen Zenith made their live performance debut on Saturday night at the Granada Theater, where over 1,000 music fans converged for the first ever Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival. But it didn't go off without a hitch: A long delay before the band's start cut off some of Pr ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Preteen Zenith Plays Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival at The Granada Theater

Rolyn Barthelman​Interestingly enough, not only are there a lot of posters floating around for this weekend; there are a lot of posters floating around for Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival, which will take place at The Granada Theater on Saturday, July 23. Easily, the most highly anticipated performance ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Polyphonic Spree is Born

Tim DeLaughter and Mark Pirro about to go on a Polyponic Spree.​With the unveiling of Tim DeLaughter's new act Preteen Zenith upon us this weekend, it seems more than fitting that we opened up a copy of The Observer from this week in 2000 and found that The Polyphonic Spree had just played their f ... More >>

Polyphonic Spree Releases "Bullseye," Its First Single in Four Years, As Interactive App

​ Back in June, we got word that an interactive-app-as-music-video for the Polyphonic Spree's first single in four years, "Bullseye," was en route. And, indeed, said app comes today, the first single on frontman Tim Delaughter's recently relaunched Good Records Recordings label via Louisiana's Moo ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter's Preteen Zenith Project Releases "Sampler" Mashup Of Four New Tracks

​For almost two months now, we've been waiting patiently for the chance to hear some music out of Preteen Zenith's camp -- you know, it being the new band from Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter and Secret Machines member Philip Karnats, and also featuring members of The ... More >>

Polyphonic Spree Debuts New Song, Announces Interactive App at Dallas Museum of Art Gig

​The Polyphonic Spree played a free show at the Dallas Museum of Art on Friday night, and, as expected given all that the band and their related entities have going on these days, the band debuted some new material. Clad in white robes, the band performed a new song called "Bullseye" that, as fron ... More >>

It's Official: Tim DeLaughter's New Band, Preteen Zenith, Will Make Its Debut in July.

And so it is.​Well, we thought this would be the case, and, turns out, we were right: Tim DeLaughter's new band will indeed make its debut at the Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival taking place at the Granada Theater on Saturday, July 23. Says so, even on the Facebook page for the new band, which, DeLaught ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Tripping Daisy Leaves Island Records, Goes Independent

​It turns out that Tripping Daisy getting dropped from Island Records was the best thing that ever happened to Good Records Recordings. It's hard to know, though, if Tim DeLaughter knew that back in 1999, when the brand new indie label was launched and Tripping Daisy was on the cusp of recording i ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Just About 11 Years Ago, Good Records Opens For Business

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we look back to the beginning of an establishment that has undoubtedly improved the coolness of Dallas since 2000: Good Records. It's a short piece written by former Observer music editor Zac Crain, who visited Good Records on opening day to c ... More >>

Watch: New Fumes -- "Teeth of the Sun"

​We've mentioned before Tim DeLaughter's excitement over New Fumes, the brainchild of former Ghostcar member and touring Flaming Lips and Polyphonic Spree player Daniel Huffman, which, indeed, will be the next act to have release on DeLaughter's Good Records Recordings label. And, hey, he's got ev ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter Confirms New Band, Promises New Solo, Polyphonic Spree Material Is Coming

Tim DeLaughter​Toward the beginning of last night's show at the Palladium, as Daniel Huffman's New Fumes project washed the slow-to-arrive Flaming Lips crowds over with his own, instrumental brand of psychedelic pop, Good Records, Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy mastermind Tim DeLaughter was a ... More >>

Good Records Recordings Plans Fairly Major Philosophical Change For 2011

​Yesterday, we spoke with Daniel Huffman, the man behind New Fumes, who landed himself an opening slot for The Flaming Lips and Neon Indian during the Jack Daniel's Kick-off Party at Palladium Ballroom on Thursday, February 3. While perusing the New Fumes blog, though, we stumbled across a curious ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Beginning Stages of The Polyphonic Spree

The Polyphonic Spree​They're an indie rock band that just about every music fan in western civilization has heard of. But 10 years ago, The Polyphonic Spree had only played three shows.In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, music writer Jessica Parker introduces Dallas Observer read ... More >>

Yes, The Polyphonic Spree Did Cover The Same Thunderclap Newman Song Three Times In One Set on Friday Night in Carrollton. Really.

All photos by Stephen MaskerTim DeLaughter was in rare form on Friday night.​ Kind of a crazy scene on Friday night in Carrollton. Even in the face of rain and the Texas Rangers clinching a trip to the World Series, a very respectable couple hundred folks turned up in Carrollton Square for the ina ... More >>

The Spree Demo Spree Continues, With No Signs Of Slowing...

So it really looks like Tim DeLaughter is going to keep up with his streak of posting a new Polyphonic Spree demo on his blog every day--for the foreseeable future, at least--which is pretty incredible, if not a little overwhelming.Anyway, the two latest offerings over at The Fragile Army are called ... More >>

Hear Tim DeLaughter's New Polyphonic Spree Demos

All over the Internet this week, people are freaking out about the new demos Tim DeLaughter has posted to his Polyphonic Spree blog, The Fragile Army. So far, we've seen two of these, written by DeLaughter while holing himself up in an NYC apartment. The first? A track called "Blurry," which featur ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter Gets Nominated For An Emmy

It was back in January when we learned that Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter had written the theme music for the Diablo Cody-penned Showtime series United States of Tara. Well, six months later, more on that front: DeLaughter's been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the ... More >>

How This Wasn't Called 'The Polyphonic Wee,' Well, That I'll Never Know.

Over on Unfair Park at the moment, Wilonsky's got the low-down on the latest project from Tim DeLaughter and Julie Doyle, a children's musical and visual affair called Wee See--a development which certainly must come as a shock to anyone familiar with the Polyphonic Spree's dark, NC-17 musical styl ... More >>

The Polyphonic Spree Are Back With Good Records, New Material

Tim DeLaughterAnd so it's all come full circle for The Polyphonic Spree: A year after its label, TVT Records, went bankrupt, Tim DeLaughter, the band's frontman and mastermind, has announced that the band has purchased back its rights and is returning to its own Good Records label, where the band la ... More >>

Tim DeLaughter Pens Theme For New Showtime Series?

Although not quite keeping up on his resolution to blog more regularly in 2009 (like, c'mon, at all...what gives?), Hunter Hauk does have a nice little gem over on Quick's blog this afternoon: A Tim DeLaughter-penned and -performed song has been selected as the opening theme song for the new Showti ... More >>

Polyphonic Spree's Holiday Extravaganza Haunted by Tripping Daisy

Even amidst the spectacle of the Polyphonic Spree's annual holiday extravaganza show, reminders of Tripping Daisy abound

Armed and Ready

Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree do battle at the Granada

The Fragile Army Invades the Magnolia Theater Tonight

Bigfoot Strikes Again

Local luminaries leave a print or two at this year's Sasquatch! Festival

The Polyphonic Spree's Sonic Bloom

In 2006, the band's Wait EP helped build A Fragile Army and start a digital revolution

Polyphonic Spree

Wednesday, September 13, at the Granada Theater

Wait No Longer, Spree Fans

Move Away and Shine

After scoring the movie Thumbsucker, The Polyphonic Spree ponders what could come next. Perhaps a musical?

Shiny Happy People

The Polyphonic Spree is one Big Moment away from stardom. Right?

The Polyphonic Spree

December 19 and December 20

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

These are your choices, not ours, for the best musicians in town

Beginner's Luck

Free to do what he wants, Tim DeLaughter leads his new band on The Polyphonic Spree

Best CD store (new)

Good Records

Hooked on Polyphonic

Tim DeLaughter and Mark Pirro on a Polyphonic Spree

Dots and loops

The Kadanes celebrate The New Year, One Ton Records sticks its head in the Buzz-Oven, and oh-so-much more

"...and that was Wes"

Friends and family say farewell to Tripping Daisy guitarist Wes Berggren

1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Tripping, not falling

The Daisy doesn't need a major label to keep making, and selling, its music

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Good and messy

Tripping Daisy's Firecracker explodes with riches

Plastic explosives

Push the Tripping Daisy and make them come up