For the last few months, the Good Records Recordings website has been an ominous black screen with “11-11-11” displayed in white in the middle. In a way it’s served as the answer to the question we’ve been asking Tim DeLaughter, the label’s owner and leader of Tripping Daisy, Polyphonic Spree,…
Feist, The Happiness ProjectMajestic TheatreNovember 8, 2011Better Than: Seeing this show anywhere else in town. Leslie Feist’s genius isn’t as much her ability to write and perform great pop music as it is the company she keeps. And at last night’s performance at the Majestic Theatre, one of only seven…
For the last eight years, local music advocate Chelsea Callahan has been celebrating her birthday with rock-and-roll and charity in mind. Every year, she books a solid bill of local bands and gives all the proceeds away to charity. This year, Cha Cha’s Eighth Annual Rock & Roll Charity Gala…
Hey, looks like Axl Rose hired some pretty nice guys to back him up on his most recent tour. The group was in town over the weekend for their performance at Gexa Energy Pavilion on Saturday night, and, as Blabbermouth reports, on Monday they made a surprise trip to Medical…
With the release of St. Vincent’s new album Strange Mercy, Annie Clark, the artist behind the moniker, is making the late night television rounds, performing what we’d presume would be a song from the new record. Except, last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, she didn’t.Instead, the Dallas native…
With Erykah Badu, you almost always get more than you bargained for. Attendees at our most recent Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony at House Of Blues were treated to a seven-song-set of mostly brand new material from the local singer, when she was only obligated to play three songs. And,…
This little bit of Dallas music history is timely, given Edie Brickell’s performance at the Kessler Theater this weekend with her band Heavy Make-Up.Thirteen years ago, her famous act The New Bohemians, who had released two albums on Geffen Records, with only one notable single, were defunct. But, this week…
Welcome to the jungle! The one comfortably located just inside the walls of the Gexa Energy Pavilion. After carefully parking your car on someone’s lawn, you’ll be ushered into said jungle if you purchased your tickets to see what’s left of Guns N’ Roses — Axl Rose and some dreadlocks…
John Dufilho is a busy man. Always has been. When he’s not playing in his band Deathray Davies, he’s drumming in Apples In Stereo and producing records, including local act Sealion’s next one.But, sometime early next year, he plans to release his most interesting project to date. Dufilho will put…
Today, Pitchfork reports that Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles was pretty unhappy after learning Kurt Vile’s song, “Baby’s Arms,” was used in a Bank Of America commercial. He ranted about it on his Twitter account, tweeting things about Vile like “I thought you were, like, the best dude in music!”While…
There are two really good reasons why this poster, designed by Stephen Speir and Hillary White for Joe Lally’s Parade Of Flesh-promoted November 6, performance at Bryan Street Tavern, topped the list of poster submissions this week. Fugazi, the band Lally played bass in, is awesome, and so is our…
As far as collaborations go, it’s hard to imagine that Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson would be able to top his stint in Monsters Of Folk, with whom he backed up Conner Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogus, on the drums. But this morning we learn that Johnson’s going to…
Few records conjure up such specific imagery as Denton act The Angelus do on their long-awaited debut album, On A Dark & Barren Land. Listening to it, you could swear that lead singer Emil Rapstine has lived his life alone on a desolate, rural landscape in the l800s. Doom-ridden songs…
This year’s Burst Apart from Booklyn’s The Antlers is looking really good for our year-end top ten list. The expansive, textured, stoned-out pop goes over even better live than on the record, as we learned when the band passed through town at The Loft last June.About a month before that…
It looks like the trouble with Matthew Gray’s Denton County Proper that we mentioned just days ago was only the beginning. It seems that Gray, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed Denton band, Matthew And The Arrogant Sea, and the owner of Denton County Proper, the recent upstart booking…
In addition to yesterday’s “Local Edge” sponsored show with The Burning Hotels, Mon Julien, Air Review and Menkena, the Granada Theater has some impressive shows to announce this week.First off, The Old 97’s, who have had an impressive resurgence this year after releasing the brilliant The Grand Theatre, are bringing…
As we’ve talked about in recent weeks, the Fort Worth music scene is on top of its game. And, The Burning Hotels are leading the charge, with a newly released self titled LP that has redefined their sound. Their recent show at Dada was a big success, according to piece…
There was a time in the late ’90s when Ricky Martin was an inescapable superstar. His hit, “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” was omnipresent, on every radio station at all times. People were so obsessed with Martin’s south-of-the-equator style that he ushered in an entire so-called Latin Invasion, most of which…
Halloween is on Monday, so there should be a good handful people in costume out and about this weekend — kind of like the zombies at the Dallas Observer Music Award Showcase. And there will be many opportunities to get out and about this weekend, which is chock full of…
St. Vincent’s performance(s) at the Kessler Theater and Good Records this weekend were stellar showcases of the Dallas native’s ability to totally shred on the guitar, while keeping it together vocally. Only problem is, the Kessler shows were sold out.Fortunately, if you were one of the many unlucky ones who…
After five years of performing, Burning Hotels have just wrapped the biggest show they’ve ever played. As they leave the Dada stage in Dallas, the club is still packed, and in a private corner on the back patio, singer Chance Morgan divvies a pack of Parliaments among the rest of…
Modest Mouse is an elusive, upper-tier act that only releases material when it damn well pleases. At least that’s what frontman Isaac Brock would have you believe. The music, though, is generally always well worth the wait. But far less common? The chance to see the band perform live. Lucky for Dallas…
