Last week’s episode of Girls had a lot of lows, starting with Adam’s sad, shirtless YouTube music video, which Hannah and Elijah watched like a nature documentary while Hannah wondered aloud if Adam loved her enough to murder her. Episode three, however, was concerned with the highs, and opens with…
“Look, no one’s going to actually support TMZ, but what ever happened to shame?” This is a big question Kyle Kinane’s posing, one I’m not fully ready to unpack at 3 p.m. The comedian and actor is very vocal on Twitter, the modern stage for comedians, and on Tuesday, he…
Each week, Audra Schroeder breaks down the latest episode of HBO’s girls. Episode two of Girls was all about extremes, starting with the lows: Adam’s sad, shirtless YouTube music video, which Hannah and Elijah watch like a nature documentary, while Hannah wonders aloud if Adam loved her enough to…
With the recent news that a living giant squid has been captured on film by a Japanese research team, your nightmares should be booked up until spring. As National Geographic’s deep-sea explorer-in-residence, Robert Ballard has no doubt come eyeball-to-eyeball with his share of magnificent creatures and treasures. He’s responsible for…
When we last left Girls, Hannah’s possibly-maybe boyfriend, Adam, had been hit by a truck after uttering the words, “I’m a beautiful fucking mystery to you.” The accident may have been karmic revenge for uttering those words, but it also points to why Girls has become such a cultural tidal…
You’ve most likely had an ambient awareness of Colette’s track “Feelin’ Hypnotized,” but the DJ and singer got her start back in the early ’90s with her DJ group Superjane, which featured the talents of fellow Chicagoan DJ Heather. They reunite at It’ll Do, and DJ Red Eye will be…
What, you haven’t been to Sandaga 813 or seen the Gritz yet? Best get yourself familiar with RC Williams, of the famed Wednesday night Prophet Bar jams, and his R&B/funk/soul band, who can be found from 6 to midnight every Sunday night at the Expo Park club. Free before 8…
This is a triple threat of a blues show, as two generations of Dallas guitarists gather to blow open some ancient seals. Lucky Peterson and Jim Suhler are the vets who’ve laid the foundation across dozens of albums and club gigs, and the young phenom Hendrickson represents the new guard…
Unconscious Collective — the rhythm section of Stefan and Aaron Gonzalez plus guitarist Gregg Prickett — landed on our best albums of 2012 list, on the strength of their self-titled debut full-length album on Dallas’ Tofu Carnage Records. Straddling the underworlds of free jazz and progressive metal, the trio is…
Oil Boom’s Gold Yeller EP was one of our favorites last summer, and the handclaps of single “Great American Shakedown” soundtracked many a late night. The Dallas trio hits up the Sundown at Granada’s free local concert series on Thursday, so you’ll have a nice, warm place to shake that…
I’m writing this on New Year’s Day, the anniversary of my friend Esme Barrera’s death. I remember sitting in this same spot one year ago, trying to rank and file so many emotions, ones closely tied to Austin and the music scene I’d just left for Dallas. The loss of…
Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon are heading out on the road with Tennessee’s Glossary for much of January, and we can’t think of a more inspired pairing. The local Southern folk group is working on finishing up a new single in the new year, as a possible taste of a new…
Every once in a while, NYC punks Leftover Crack come to town and remind you that yes, they are still a band. They haven’t released a proper album in a decade, but songs like “Nazi White Trash” never really go out of style, do they? In fact, in a strange…
Shiny Around the Edges and Night Game Cult soundtrack this night dedicated to the legend of Bozo Texino. Texas filmmaker Bill Daniel’s 2005 documentary on the rail-car graffiti, which has appeared on trains across the country for more than half a century and consists of a character wearing a cowboy…
Dallas’ Taylor Thrash and Denton’s Joseph SoMo have a similar work ethic. Thrash just released his Vacation Mixtape, which features a reinterpretation of Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” and a tribute to Frank Ocean, among other bits. SoMo, who has re-imagined songs by Ocean and Drake, released in late fall…
It was roughly a year ago that I saw Austin trio Love Inks one cold, wet night at Canton Co-op, when they warmed up the small crowd with their dreamy pop. Since then, they’ve gotten quite the workout touring the country, and are currently putting the finishing touches on a…
In a year when Kickstarter efforts have ballooned from humble requests to egocentric slaps in the face, the recording, funding and distribution of albums has taken on a different hue, as the chasm between what you can do “yourself” and what labels are offering gets wider and deeper. A few…
There were too many great performances this year, in venues big and small, by acts local and national, to thoroughly cover within the confines of the page. This year’s Dallas Observer Music Awards showcase (self-indulgence alert!) provided some transcendent local sets; we had a wealth of great festival acts to…
With its expansion to three nights this year, Lights All Night has become a legit electronic music festival, and is testing out Fair Park’s party limits. Tiësto, AVICII, Bassnectar, Calvin Harris, Ghostland Observatory, 12th Planet, Axwell, Diplo and more will perform over the weekend, and while there seems to be…
With Pinkish Black in the middle of recording their sophomore album, they might be testing out some new material at this show, so fingers crossed for that. Add in Will Kapinos’ one-man blues show Dim Locator, the Wooden Birds’ Leslie Sisson and Dallas psych wards Eyes, Wings & Many Other…
It was Fourth of July weekend in Austin, 2011, the near-constant pop-tat-tat-tat-pop of fireworks in my neighborhood no doubt masking the sound of my driver’s side window being smashed. I had just moved into a new place, and my backseat and trunk were full of CDs that I had no…
WAAS Gallery is extending its reach from the art side of things to present this collaborative music event. Brain Gang’s Bobby Sessions and Denton’s Jenny Robinson, two emcees on our “Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013” list, will pair up with Ynfynyt Scroll and Air DeeJay from Dallas’ Track…
