Wolf Parade

Your Guide to the Homegrown Festival Lineup

This weekend, Homegrown Music and Arts Festival will gather some of the area's biggest and most interesting bands at Main Street Garden Park. This year, the lineup is once again all Texans, after the festival's organizers decided they were losing the focus of the thing by expanding beyond the stat ... More >>

Does Neutral Milk Hotel Suck? A Debate Involving the Merits of "Elephant 6" as a Safe Word

Jeff Mangum plays the Majestic Theater on Sunday, January 20. Gavin: You know how we always say Kiernan should publish our gchats? WELL GUESS WHAT! WE'RE IN THE MONEY! Jaime: Wait, we're going to talk NMH? Gavin: Yes. And how you think they suck, and then as a follow-on topic, how you are wrong. ... More >>

Handsome Furs

Saturday, August 27, at Dada

Last Night: Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains at Dada

Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains Dada Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Better than: the Rangers' performance that night, by a moonshot. Spencer Krug is Moonface.​Moonface is essentially Spencer Krug's solo project, the purest distillation of the twisted melodies and lyrical longing we're likely to ... More >>

Our Critics' Year-End Top Ten: Darryl Smyers Turns Things Down A Notch And Screams About The Walkmen's Lisbon

In this week's paper, you may notice a piece including some of our DC9 writers' choices for best albums of the year. But, space being limited, we couldn't run all of our writers' lists. So, thanks to the power of the Internet, we're doing just that, right here.​Noted Wi ... More >>

Five Things About Local Music to be Thankful For

Hey, we're still excited about the Old 97's new record being great.​It's turkey time once again, but there are many other things to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Here are five music-related items that North Texas residents should be thankful for having. ​ 1. The Old 97's finally ma ... More >>

Last Night: Wolf Parade and Ogre You Asshole At Granada Theater

Wolf Parade, Ogre You AssholeGranada TheaterNovember 16, 2010Better than: finding out after the fact where the opening band got their name. Jesse Hughey​Maybe the band was oblivious to the muddy sound that buried the vocals. Or maybe it just didn't matter to them if the audience could hear the wor ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To Tonight's Wolf Parade Show at the Granada Theater

In this week's paper, Hannah Levin lays down some serious praise to Wolf Parade, placing the band's 2005 release, Apologies to the Queen Mary, in the esteemed company of Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 opus, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, exclaiming that Wolf Parade's work is likely as close as we'll ever ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Wolf Parade at The Granada, The Supervillians at The Loft, The Gaslamp Killer at Trees, Miss May I at The Prophet Bar and Jessie Frye at Dan's Silverleaf

We have ourselves a busy little evening of music on our hands tonight. If you can't find something cool listed here, you don't deserve to go out.

Wolf Parade's The Closest We're Gonna Get to Neutral Milk Hotel

Show Announcements: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, Yells At Eels, Video, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Wolf Parade, Will Johnson, More.

Denny RenshawSufjan Stevens​Sufjan Stevens didn't get too far in his attempt to write an album for each state in the US. Of the 50, he completed two--and then he kind of disappeared for a few years after the release of his Christmas album in 2006. Maybe if he hadn't put more than 20 songs on each ... More >>

Clearing Out the Mailroom: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Backstreet Boys (Orlando) This Is Us What's left to say about these guys? ... More >>

Sunset Rubdown

Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)

I Have Heard The Future Of Music, And Its Name Is Hunkasaurus

Tom Hendricks, a.k.a. Hunkasaurus And His Pet Dog Guitar. Updated. Follow jump for additional info. Tom Hendricks announced today that he is opening his record company to any indie musician who wants to be on a label. "Do you need a record company? Well you are welcome to be a part of MUSEA, my 16 y ... More >>

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

Handsome Furs

Saturday, March 21, at The Loft

The End Of The End Of Year Lists: Jesse Hughey's Favorite Albums Of 2008

Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues... This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer's music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one m ... More >>

Spencer Krug Lends Wolf Parade, Swan Lake and Sunset Rubdown A Unique Voice

Last Night: Wolf Parade at Palladium Showroom

Our 20th Music Awards

1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA

Biting Back

Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson takes the time to critique the critical responses to his band's new release

Sunset Rubdown

Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar Records)

Johnny and the Moon

Friday, June 29, at the Cavern

Frog Eyes

Thursday, May 10, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Red Monroe, New Frontiers, Quiet Company, Manchester Orchestra

Friday, January 12, at Sons of Hermann Hall

Swan Lake

Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)

All-Star Balloting

Austin City Limits: You Read It Here First

Sunset Rubdown

Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)

Music Mentor

Casual music listeners shouldn't suffer from the boredom of radio and MTV

Our critics' top 10 albums

Wolf Parade

Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)