Zhora headlines this electronically informed night, and hopefully we’ll be hearing some new songs from a potential full-length. We sure liked the mellow sounds of their four-song EP this year. Fort Worth’s Ice Eater add some mood to the mix, a nice tandem with Austin’s dark stars, Missions…
Everyone’s celebrating the novelty of the impending end of the Mayan calendar tonight with very tongue-in-cheek “apocalypse” parties, and this is one of the better lineups to be watching when a fireball turns us all into screaming skulls. (Or whatever is supposed to happen; I fell asleep halfway through that…
I attended the Oral Fixation “Cold Turkey” show at the MAC last Tuesday night, mainly because Observer copy editor and beer enthusiast Jesse Hughey was going to be reading, and he ended up getting some of the biggest laughs of the night, from a crowd that took in some pretty…
And by struggle, we mean absolutely nail it…
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…
More than a dozen acts are slated to play this annual benefit show, and we hope they’ve got another stage going for the night, or else it’s going to be real intimate inside Libertine. Nevertheless, it will be a drunken good time, for a good cause. The O’s, Ryan Thomas…
Austin multi-instrumentalist Ralph White has been playing shows in Fort Worth on a pretty regular basis, and he does so again this Thursday at Fred’s Texas Cafe, but follows it up with a Dallas gig at Smoke & Mirrors Gallery, with D.H. Phillips and Warren Jackson Hearne. White is still…
Tonight at Texas Theatre, Oak Cliff Film Fest is presenting another “Show Your Shorts” night, featuring work from local filmmakers. The films must be shorter than 20 minutes, and they’re taking numbers over on the Facebook event page. TT’s Barak Epstein says they still have a couple slots open. One…
One night ahead of Sarah Jaffe’s late-night debut, Dallas soul singer Larry g(EE) performs tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, thanks to OurStage.com, a social networking site that places emerging artists on the show, and also got him a handful of gigs on this summer’s Warped Tour. He’ll be performing the…
Shea Serrano, whose name you may have seen in our sister papers L.A. Weekly and Houston Press, has been responsible for some of this year’s finest music writing. This piece, in which he chronicles the night he chaperoned a middle school dance, may be the high point, mainly for this…
Ulnae is the fairly new project of singer Lily Taylor and cellist Darcy Neal (also of Bludded Head), who combine free-form sound, visuals and a bit of theatre into their experimental live show. In preview of tonight’s Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves and the Meme Gallery, with Zorch,…
Word came today that Clear Channel has laid off KDGE-102.1 FM’s Josh Venable (again), and KHKS-106.1 Kiss FM’s Adrian Hummel and Michael Blake (Kidd Kraddick). This marks another wave off lay-offs, which started at Clear Channel back in 2009, and adds to the chimney-sweeping that’s happened at other Dallas radio…
Sarah Jaffe is making her national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live, this Tuesday, December 11. And because we’re always looking for a reason to have a party, our nightlife columnist, The Overserved, has put together a watching party in conjunction with the Granada Theater. The details: There will be…
Last month, Norton Records’ warehouse, which sits in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, was flooded during Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed much of their inventory. This is sad news for fans of the obscure punk/surf/R&B/soul label, founded by Billy Miller and former Cramps drummer Miriam Linna in 1986, which is…
Double Wide’s been pulling double duty since the closing of LaGrange a few weeks ago, and taking on their orphaned shows. This isn’t one of them, but it’s a solid weekend of locals, starting Friday night with Nervous Curtains, Blackstone Rangers and Skeleton Coast. Saturday sees that cad George Quartz,…
As the fall semester comes to an end in Denton, Gutterth and Pan Ector once again host the Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves and the Meme Gallery, a tandem print art/music event featuring the electronically assisted sounds of Zorch, New Fumes, Summer of Glaciers, Def Rain and Ulnae,…
I’ve been hard on Kozelek’s past band, Red House Painters, mainly because in college they radiated an air of preciousness I couldn’t accept. As I’ve gotten older and softer, though, Kozelek’s music, namely Sun Kil Moon, has grown on me. The spring of 2013 sees the release of Perils From…
The next wave of SXSW acts was released today, and includes Midlake, Hudson Moore, Snow Tha Product, Sore Losers, K.O. Boyz, and Fort Worth’s perennial curiosities Complete, who are most famous for this song, and yet still made it on the list (again) in 2013. See also: – First round…
Variety has this little interview with one-time Polyphonic Spree-er Toby Halbrooks, co-director of Sarah Jaffe’s “Glorified High” video, which won the Dallas Observer music award for Best Video last month, in which he talks about his and David Lowery’s latest feature film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. See also: – Who…
For fans of Norton Records, the Brooklyn-based peddlers of some of the rawest punk, R&B and garage rock you’ve never heard, the news that their Red Hook warehouse was flooded during Hurricane Sandy was a gut-punch. While much of their back catalog was destroyed, some 13,000 records were miraculously salvaged,…
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, aka “Johnny Football,” is a 19-year-old phenom on the verge of winning a Heisman, who has managed to revitalize the A&M brand. Aggie superfan Lisa Vasquez Roper of Houston is really into that, and decided to do her own special cover of chaste 1962 hit…
Texas Theatre’s been racking up some impressive DJ nights, including their latest monthly venture, Ladies Stay Crazy, which I encourage ladies to attend and get crazy at. Saturday night, however, Gabe Mendoza and special guest DJ Jake Schrock provide you with a psych/soul/proto-punk soundtrack. When good musical taste is involved,…
