It’s kind of mind-boggling to think of how Alan Palomo has found time to write and record new music for his side-project-turned-main-gig, Neon Indian. Since blowing up a few years back, the guy’s appeared to be omnipresent, saturating the blogosphere longer than anyone predicted with Flaming Lips collaborations and weird…

Ever since Lauryn Hill made a brief disappearance from the public eye in 2000, her career has been patchy at best. Her acoustic record in 2002, MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, was met with mediocre reviews, and the Fugees reunion fared even worse. But, aside from her brilliant output in the…

Back before the quirky rock act known as Lo-Fi Chorus moved down to Denton and become a duo, Erik Thompson, the formerly Denton-dwelling man behind the moniker, found a creative well in an unlikely place. In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, in 1999, former Observer contributor…

Tomorrow marks one of our favorite days of the year: Record Store Day. If you’re still undecided on how to spend your day, check out our Record Store Day breakdown for more information. We’ll make the rounds, but, more than likely, we’ll park it at Good Records, which seems to…

Record stores haven’t exactly been thriving of late. That’s no surprise: Seems we can’t go a week these days without stumbling across a story about the death of brick-and-mortar shops or a well-researched study that places record stores near or at the top of some dying industries list. Dallas stores…

The next British Invasion? Not happening anytime soon. Just ask British Sea Power. They’ve tried everything they could think of to break out in the United States, with only moderate success. On their first record, The Decline of British Sea Power, the band blurred the lines between punk and indie-rock…

Denton’s Seryn have been riding high since the release of their debut full-lenth, This Is Where We Are. And, in the midst of all the hype the band has been receiving, they’ve found a way to give back. On Saturday, April 16, at 7 p.m., the band will perform a…

It turns out that Tripping Daisy getting dropped from Island Records was the best thing that ever happened to Good Records Recordings. It’s hard to know, though, if Tim DeLaughter knew that back in 1999, when the brand new indie label was launched and Tripping Daisy was on the cusp…

There are lots of shows happening this weekend — and most of them are pretty good, too. But perhaps the most notable happens all day on Saturday, when Sons of Hermann Hall will officially celebrate their 100-year anniversary. Festivities will include performances from Frohsinn Band, Shoot Low Sheriff, and The…

Sune Rose Wagner, the singer and guitarist who makes up half of Denmark’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll export, The Raveonettes, is stuck in a hotel in Copenhagen. He moved to New York seven years ago, and he normally enjoys his visits back home, where he and his bandmate Sharin Foo…

In 2006, when Peter, Bjorn and John broke through with their catchy hit song “Young Folks,” which might be more commonly known as “that whistle song,” the blogosphere ate it up, and so did droves of newly acquired American fans. Rightfully so: Writer’s Block was one of the best albums…

In the wake of Brandon Kord Murphy’s untimely death last week, it was interesting to stumble upon this story about Pimpadelic’s first video shoot this week in 2000. Staying true to the band’s bad-boy motif, Pimpadelic hired director Matt Zane, who was known for his work in the porn industry,…

We’ve got a big weekend in store with plenty of shows, a few album releases and a celebration of a club’s 30-year anniversary. We’re speaking, of course, of Fort Worth honky-tonk Billy Bob’s Texas, which has been hosting national and local country acts on its stage since 1981. Tonight, the…

Tiger Darrow may be best known for her acting work in the Robert Rodriguez Spy Kids series, and her scoring efforts on his most recent film, Machete. But Darrow is just a student at Booker T. Washington, a kid star of sorts. And only three months into 2011, the accomplished…

Blistering, driving and tearing from one song to the next, Here Holy Spain show no signs of slowing down on Division, the band’s sophomore release on Idol Records. And while some bands would cringe at a review that used the words “loose,” “menacing” and “gritty” to describe their music, that’s…

It would be easy to pass off Kirby Brown as another in the short list of local Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights wannabe acts. Brown, after all, cites several of The Northern Lights in the liner-note credits of his solo debut album, Child Of Calamity. He lists the rest…