Vas Deferens Organization

Pinkish Black's Sinister Waltz Has Been Building Momentum For 20 Years

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Vas Deferens Organization is Not For Everyone

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer music writer Matt Weitz wrote a 1996 piece on the Vas Deferens Organization -- an avant garde music collective that engineered recordings so strange, they made Ariel Pink sound like The Beatles.Interestingly enough, though, it ... More >>

Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Observer music writer Matt Weitz wrote a 1996 piece on the Vas Deferens Organization -- an avant garde music collective that engineered recordings so strange, they made Ariel Pink sound like The Beatles.Interestingly enough, though, it ... More >>

Ariel Pink Collaborates With Local Jazz Family For New Recordings

As it turns out, there's more to Mesquite than going to the rodeo and spending your weekend cruising up and down Galloway Avenue. Back in February, super- and ever-buzzing freak folker Ariel Pink decided to visit the East Dallas suburb to record a handful of songs at Klearlight Studio with some help ... More >>

Shits And Giggles

Trick or Treat (Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets)

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

Transcendental Blues

Remembering Yeti and Ohm's Doug Ferguson

How low can you go?

Beautamous Loaf International proves that the underground is deeper than you think

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

Git it

After years of detective work, Gene Vincent's Lost Dallas Sessions resurface

Out Here

After years of detective work, Gene Vincent's Lost Dallas Sessions resurface

Every which way but loose

The Dallas scene flourishes beneath the chaos

Too cool for us

According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth

Next step

Colin Boyd's no doormat

Romance novel

The Green Romance Orchestra's fans drag them into the limelight

Blood wedding

The Lorca Project is a union of experimentalists

Musician, heal thyself

A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

Pill poppin'

Tablet calls it quits

When is a bill not a bill?

When it's a recommendation, but still: watch out

Ed Hagan, 1919-1996

Another true original leaves us

Spirit of '96

Last year showed pop still has more than a ghost of a chance

It was a very good year

1996 lived up to its predecessor while presaging great things to come

Cruising the neon glories

The Vas Deferens Organization searches for the timeless

Junkyard jazz

The Calways go a little crazy

Bad news

Death of Rockadelic co-owner leaves a scene in the lurch

Crawlin' back from Chicago

Mike Morgan slows his mojo hand with a soulful sound

Teen beat

Dragline don't need diplomas to avant-rock

Rocker, Texas Ranger

Baboon kicks Chuck Norris' ass in a Deep Ellum club...sort of

Out Here

Baboon kicks Chuck Norris' ass in a Deep Ellum club...sort of

Out Here

Baboon kicks Chuck Norris' ass in a Deep Ellum club...sort of

A brighter shade of blues

J. Bone Cro presents Brian Eno and John Lee Hooker to the aliens