Seems that the local music bloggers and party-starters of DayBowBow got together with No Words, Zorch, TapeBombs and Covert Curiosity and asked themselves: How can we get a party going in Austin during SXSW? Of course, the answer is simple: Andrew W.K. Andrew W.K.’s 3 a.m. set caps South By…
If you need to get into festival shape–so that you don’t have any trouble remaining on your feet all day during NX35 and SXSW next month–Sunday’s show at Lola’s Sixth will be a great training session. Beginning at 1 p.m. with Ginny Mac and closing with Whiskey Folk Ramblers’ midnight…
Last night’s album release show for the Nervous Curtains debut LP Out Of Sync With Time should have been a celebration of an excellent new album, but the death of Tommy Atkins cast a somber mood over the occasion. Atkins, bassist of Fort Worth’s The Great Tyrant, was a friend…
As you may know from Jim Schutze’s cover story this week, one of the issues challenging Oak Cliff businesses is the neighborhood’s dry status. Liquor stores are banned, and some grocery stores such as Whole Foods find it economically unfeasible to open in the area, as the profit margin is…
At Fish Shack, location is not everything. Nor is presentation. Nor, come to think of it, is appearance, plate-arrival timing, or even the name of the place—when’s the last time you wanted to eat in a shack, anyway? What matters at the humble, gulf-style Fish Shack—what should matter at every…
In case you couldn’t tell by the skull and crossed-electric-guitar logo, or by the album title, or by song titles such as “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “Up to Eleven” and “No One Gets Out Alive”—this six-song, 19-minute EP is an abrasive blast of greasy hard rock. And, as genres…
Cue the 9/11 jokes: The Dave Matthews Band will play Superpages.com Center in Dallas September 11. But while that show announcement might otherwise bring a collective shrug to the shoulders of this blog’s readers, his opening act is a Dallas Observer favorite, Austin punk/soul lover Black Joe Lewis and the…
Spune just announced the details of its 2010 South By Southwest free day party, set to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 20, at J. Black’s (710 W. 6th St., Austin). It’s a strong, if not especially surprising, lineup featuring some of DFW’s usual rootsy, folky suspects (Doug Burr, Telegraph…
So much for a completely walkable NX35 festival–but at least Denton’s pedi-cab operators will be busy. The Flaming Lips and Midlake show set for 6 p.m. Saturday, March 13, has been moved to the North Texas Fairgrounds just over a mile and a half north of the Square, according to…
For all that I wrote last week about seasonal beers that fall outside of the usual dark and heavy winter warmer classification, the first thing I wanted once it was safe to send Lady Hophead on a beer run … was a porter. Along with a few old favorites, she…
Just a couple weeks after the residency’s one-year anniversary party, Sober is pulling up the anchor on his upstairs Thursday night DJ set at the cavern. Tonight’s “Bon Voyage Sober” party marks the final night of DJ Sober’s “Top Notch,” at least as a weekly event, as Sober will leave…
It’s probably not a surprise to hear that Bridges and Blinking Lights frontman Jake Wilganowski is a restless man. His band’s two records—2007 debut Standing on the Same Stick and the forthcoming sophomore album Heroes, Guns and Snakes—both make the most of their run times, packing an album’s worth of…
Kessler Theatre booking agent Jeff Liles, whom DC9 readers likely remember for his Echoes and Reverberations columns, has been busy Tweeting today about upcoming shows at the restored Oak Cliff theater. So far, the venue’s ReverbNation site has just three dates confirmed: a release party for Josh Alan Friedman’s autobiographical…
The Fader already posted the above video version of the woozy synth track “Butterscotch” by Faux Fox frontman George Quartz, but it’s worth sharing nonetheless. Besides, Fader writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd took Quartz at his blog’s word that he’s from Seychelles; someone has to point out that he sure has…
Erykah Badu, Jamie FoxxPalladium BallroomSaturday, February 12, 2010Better Than: Any other All-Star event going on that night–especially considering it was free. It was a night of opposites. Crowd-pleasing pandering and natural creative energy. R&B loverman showboating and organic, funky soul. Jamie Foxx and Erykah Badu may both be Texas-born icons,…
Aside from the snow, the big story this weekend is, of course, the NBA All-Star Game and the musicians, celebrities, models, gold-diggers and hookers swarming the city. This week’s cover story tells you why this is such an important weekend for Dallas’ mainstream-leaning hip-hop artists, and the All-Star Guide inside…
With the exception of a few Saint Arnold’s Christmas Ale six-packs, recent trips to Central Market, Goody Goody and Applejack are proving that the bounty of holiday brews is but a fond memory. Only those wise souls who stocked up on Anchor, Scaldis Noel, Delirium Noel and other wonderful beers…
As Three Dog Night’s website boasts, “From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets.” But just because the band is some four decades beyond its glory days doesn’t mean it isn’t keeping busy. The group–including original members Cory Wells and Danny Hutton…
I think most guys will relate to this video. You know how it is: just when you think you’re over a breakup, she chases you away from band practice, forcing you to leap from an overpass. Then somehow you find yourself in a DART train, pursued yet again into [shudder]…
The NBA All-Star Game next weekend won’t just cast the spotlight on athletes. Dallas-area rappers have had those dates circled on their calendars since the city was chosen, as Pete’s D-Town Boogie article explains. The hard work is starting to pay off, as MTV affiliate network MTV Jams will air…
I’d like to give a lake of beer to God / I’d love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there for all eternity … I’d sit with the men, the women of God, there by the lake of beer / We’d be drinking good health forever and every drop would…
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth will perform Saturday night at Hailey’s in Denton with young Denton singer/songwriter (and Rushmore fan) Chance Maggard, who performs under the name Forgetting Max Fischer. He’ll perform songs from his recent solo albums Mo Beauty and Skin and Bones plus selected Clap…
