Zac Crain

This Week In Dallas Music History: In Which Baboon Attempts to Sell Out

​There comes a time in the life of just about every upper-tier local band that headlining Trees on a weekend night just isn't good enough anymore. About a decade ago, it almost always involved scoring a major label record deal.For Baboon, that crux occurred this week in 2000, when they learned the ... 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 >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Before Ben & Skin, There Was Skinny Fresh & Ruben

​Before there was "Ben & Skin," the local morning sports radio talk show on KESN-103.3 FM ESPN Dallas, there was Jeff "Skinny Fresh" Wade and Ruben Ayala, who made up Hydroponic Sound System. And, in a 2001 issue of the Observer, former music editor Zac Crain profiled the duo, who had just rel ... 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 >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: A Handy Guide to the Worst Local Records of the '90s

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we go back to the year 2000, when former Observer music editor Zac Crain did one of the things he did best -- take shots at really bad bands. And at the beginning of 2000, he set his sights on the worst local records of the '90s.In no particul ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: The Best Local Records of 1999

​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, the Dallas Observer was just days away from saying good-bye to 1999, and, to ring in the new year, former music editor Zac Crain asked the question: "Will this year's best local records survive the millennium?"In retrospect, the question proba ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Little Grizzly's Fans Are Complete Nerds.

Little Grizzly, 2001​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain tells the story of Little Grizzly's coming of age in 2001 as they were poised to release their sophomore album, I'd Be Lying if I Said I Wasn't Scared. Little Grizzly, you may r ... More >>

Spray It, Don't Say It: Tony Bones at Work

No doubt you're familiar with the work of Tony Bones (aka Soler aka Solyer aka Goya). Maybe you recall, if nothing else: My old pal Zac Crain had the graffiti artist provide the cover for his campaign comp waaaay back when. But here's the rare chance to see Tony at work -- in an intriguing, and appa ... More >>

Behind Zac Crain's Dimebag Darrell Bio

Zac Crain's Dimebag Darrell Bio Gets Release Date Pushed Back

Not sure exactly what the holdup is, but over on Blabbermouth today--your source, apparently, for all things wrong with the fact that former Observer music editor Zac Crain is writing a book about the late, great Dimebag Darrell--comes the news that Crain's 288-page Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, ... More >>

As Ever, the Pride of Dallas. Now, on HBO.

Charley PrideMentioned a couple of months back that Elvis Mitchell was in town interviewing T.D. Jakes for his talkumentary The Black List: Volume Two, a sequel to last year's star-studded Volume One that aired on HBO following its Sundance bow. Volume Two debuts on February 26 -- and it'll actually ... More >>

How Will The Happy Bullets Make Out?

Yesterday, over on FrontBurner, we saw a post by former Observer music editor Zac Crain, purporting that The Happy Bullets (who have a history of making some great videos) were going to attempt to break the world record for most people making out in one place at one time during an upcoming video sho ... More >>

Vinnie Paul Announces Plans For Another Dimebag Bio--And He's Endorsing This One

Roger Caldwell Ah, yes. What would a week be without another head-spinning look into the nutty world of book publishing--as applied to biographies about the late, great Dimebag Darrell. Sure, you already know about the so-called "controversy" surrounding Zac Crain's book. And, if you've been up on y ... More >>

Black Tooth Frown (Or: Zac Crain's Book Woes From Hell)

Anatomy of a Buzz: Fight Bite

Dallas Music Finally Getting National Attention

It may not be Austin-level love, but we'll take it

Zac Crain: "I'm a Moron With My Heart in the Right Place."

Grin and Bear It, Mr. Crain

No One Voted, But They Did Eat Cake...

Zac Crain Misses Mayoral Ballot; We're Now Eligible For Write-in Consideration

Luck of the Draw

Rock the Vote -- Or, At Least, the Candidate Who Doesn't

And Now, A Word About Deep Ellum From Our Mayor (No, Not That One)

Crain Train Keeps on Rolling

Zac's Tracks o' Wax, This Time With Sound

Zac's Tracks o' Wax

The Zac Factor

Why the Dallas County tsunami could make Crain an important mayoral candidate

What Tomorrow Holds

Politics as Usual

Make martinis (and music), not war

The Chosen People

Darrell Jordan's Gonna Be Mayor

E&P & Z.C.

Zac, You Made It!

Oh, c'mon

Zac Crain follows in Laura Miller's footsteps

Beyond the Red Carpet

Once a year we find ourselves on the other side of the curtain. It isn't easy. It can be fun.

Last Call

In which we discuss the highs, the lows--and all the crap that came between

Fresh Meat

Local music police welcome a new chief

Welcome to Full Frontal, Bitch

Plus: Dear Mr. Cuban; Revealed!; Discover Dallas with the Mayor

On the Download

Is the online music store the Apple of digital music's eye? It should be.

Street Dreams

No holds barred

End Hits

Now that's what I call music

Zac of Kittens

Also: Theatrically Nonexistent

Waste of Good Air

More thoughts on the Dallas Observer Music Awards

Letters

Swine Among Pearls, Speaking of Whining, Slave to Soccer

Letters

Wonder women; Cool Kidd; Give it a rest

Across the Bar

Comet sighting; Clumsy in Motown; Grand Street redubbed; Bar of Soap brings in road grime

Letters

Roadshows

Out There

Out Here