As far as music goes this weekend, there are more sure things than you’d find backstage at a Kid Rock show. Let’s take a look at some of the best bets for the next few days: The Vibrators w/The Heart Attacks, Dead City Shakers and Last of the Interceptors Club…
Radiohead In Rainbows (Self-distributed) Conventional in every sense, save for how it was released: over the Internet, pay what you will, gratuities graciously accepted. It’s been a week since Radiohead’s smash-and-grab sale, and aside from wrecking the music biz with a disco ball and gold chain, all’s right with the…
Wow. I just stumbled upon a video of Dallas underground — way underground — MC Jimbo Jenkens flexing his crazy free-style skills. Aside from the rap itself, my favorite part is the occasional flash of the rake on the garage wall. According to his MySpace page, Jenkens is a poet,…
The Bat Mastersons’ Byron Lord and David DiPietro are welcoming guitarist Darrin Robinson (The Mumbles) into the group. The trio is rehearsing new tunes and, we’re told, will start playing shows in the Dallas area in the next few months. The Bat’s format isn’t going to be changing, though. The…
Rhino Records, that label I love to hate because they keep reaping the benefits of nostalgia by releasing expensive, retrospective box sets of, like, every genre you could think of, has released the self-explanatory Heavy Metal Box. I haven’t heard it, and probably won’t, but over at PopMatters.com Adrien Begrand…
Because we made you wait all the way until Thursday for a steal of the week, we figured we better double-up. So, here are the two best shows of the week for those who only order from the dollar menu. Lions, Record Hop, Tah-Dahs Double Wide (3510 Commerce St.). 9…
The Hourly Radio is being quite generous with its latest EP, “Gun in Hand,” which was released yesterday. On the band’s Web site you can download both the EP’s new song and the Dance Robots Dance! remix of “Crime Does Pay” for free. What’s more, Hourly Radio will be unlocking…
We just got a heads up that Cool Hand Luke had to cancel its Texas tour last-minute because of financial issues. So, anyone who was planning on hitting up the Cavern Saturday, Oct. 13, to see the band, may want to find something else to do. However, if the Cavern…
Ladies and gents, this is a touch navel-gazing, but we have a celebrity here in the office, (in our midst, folks!). We just can’t figure out which one. That’s where you come in. See, our Night & Day man (and frontman of the Naptime Shake), Noah W. Bailey resembles about…
Last night’s 10th Anniversary installment of Rock Lottery was one of those rare local music events we’ll always remember, not only because we saw Matt Barnhart with his shirt off, but also because it was easily the best installment of the event we’ve ever seen. (Though, admittedly, we missed the…
So we go to lunch today at the venerable Cosmic Café, craving hummus and nan and other noshables, but we got a bonus we never expected. Seated at the front of the restaurant, near the water and tea pitchers, was accordion player Matt Tolentino. The baby-faced and witty guy serenaded…
Damn, y’all, Dallas has got me running around like a yardbird sans cabeza. I pounded the pavement last night, trying to catch bits of several shows in an attempt to expand my musical horizons. I figured I’d fill you in with a little rundown of the evening instead of reviews;…
Midlake performing on the BBC in April. (Bella Union) At least around DC-9 HQ, a mere mention of the word “Midlake” can spawn a fairly heated debate: On one side are those who dig the Denton band’s lush brand of soft-rock; on the other are thems who think the band…
I’m a little reluctant to say how new this video is since we got reamed for local band Radiant ending up on our Best New Artist ballot at this past summer’s music awards. We got it. They weren’t new. But seriously, how many of you knew them before the whole…
You’d be grinning, too, if you were were a doctor of music and artistic director of a chorale at 33. Maybe you’re slacking. We are. (Shawn Northcutt)New kid on the block Jonathan Palant is making his debut this Sunday, Oct. 7, as the artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale…
Hey kids, we saw this Midlake item awhile ago, but just now gettin’ around to el posto. Suffice to say: Midlake succumbs to MTV’s evil powers and give the TV crew a tour of Denton. (I saw this on Pegasus News, but I think Denton Rock City posted it first,…
Shitfuckfart! In all the koo-koo madness here at the funky Office Space-style digs we have here at the Observer (Yep, Wilonsky’s been Xeroxing his ass again. And then comparing it to the picture of Mark Cuban’s ass he keeps posting on Unfair Park. But that’s another story.), I lamely forgot…
Apparently, Forever The Sickest Kids don’t need us. Us the media, not us DC-9. The band is letting its fans ask questions directly, thanks to a bit of help from YouTube. Those dying to know anything and everything about the Dallas group just need to submit questions and the best…
We can’t get enough of She-Dick in these parts. The female detectives/international pop-stars they claim to be are now looking to make way to the big screen. Sky Royale Pictures and RJT Productions are working on a script written specifically for the ladies titled “So Beautiful” (after one of She-Dick’s…
After receiving a link that simultaneously made my day and made me want to skip out of the office and straight to the NES console, I got an itch to search for Dallas-related music videos. What I found is somewhat crippling, somewhat laughable and, apparently, completely exciting to the teen…
So, today CNN.com gave Deep Ellum and Club Dada a shout-out in its annoying story, “Dallas Takes Big-City Fun Downtown,” by Elsa K. Simcik. Annoying because it’s one of those surface-y, glazed-over stories about how downtown Dallas can be fun, because of new “revitalization.” Thing is, the all the supposedly…
It’s interesting to see how quickly raw grief turns into a more refined form of the emotion. The sudden death of Carter Albrecht hit his friends, family and fans hard. To me, if I had suffered that sort of deeply personal loss, I would remain in a catatonic state for…
