Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler shot and edited the above footage for a five-minute, 32-second glimpse into the lives of the Toadies, their roadies and their tourmates The Willowz on the road. And, go figure, it’s pretty cool. Hell, I’d watch a feature-length cut of this, I think…
Modern-day glam-popper Patrick Wolf stops by the Granada Theater tonight as the headliner of a Nylon magazine-sponsored tour that also features Living Things, Jaguar Love and Plastiscines. Expect androgyny, over-the-top performance and maybe the feeling that you’re seeing half the Bowie for a quarter of the price. Or for free, as our…
…to the tune of 844 words, no less. Justifying the ’cause? The fact that 12 Cowboy teammates apparently showed up to the band’s House of Blues gig on Saturday night to show their support, including Tony Romo–although, if we’re being honest, his taste in music is suspect, at best (saying…
Congratulations are in order for Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, whose work on Lil Wayne’s “Got Money” was honored, along with 12 other 2008 rap songs, as the tops in its genre at this year’s ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards on Friday night.Granted, it was just one of four songs…
We’ve gone a few weeks now without our (once) weekly Show Announcements posting about, go figure, upcoming shows that get announced each week. Sorry for the lapse there, folks–it’ll make its way back soon enough, promise. In the meantime, let me use this post as an excuse to spread the…
There’s no video to be found at the moment of Erykah Badu’s performance alongside The Roots on Friday night’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon anywhere we know of on the Internet, which sucks. (What gives NBC?) But there’s this: Over the weekend, Questlove, The Roots’ drummer, posted to his…
Weekend’s here and I’m sure we’re all eager to get it launched. So, without further ado, let’s get right into it. First, the shows we’ve already talked up…Tonight, Ben Kweller stops in for a homecoming gig of sorts at the Granada Theater, Cryptacize stops by Rubber Gloves for a set…
Maybe you’re like me, and maybe you’ve been listening to a lot of mall punk lately (by choice or not)? And maybe you remember last week when we posted that new video for They Were Stars’ new single, “Every Now and Then,” perhaps? Well, either way, I kinda dig the…
Last night in Duncanville, at the corner of Westmoreland and Wheatland, in the parking lot for a shuttered old Albertson’s grocery store, K104 DJ Cat Daddy and a slew of the station’s street team and promotions employees threw together a last-minute Michael Jackson memorial–or, more aptly, a candleight vigil–to commemorate…
…and it’s pretty revealing–about her relationship with Jackson, her relationship with her father and her general sentiments about fame and the celebrity spotlight. Just a real interesting read–and one just emailed to us that we haven’t really seen anywhere else. (Granted, we’ve been busy planning our own coverage for next…
In this week’s print edition, Darryl Smyers checks in with Brave Combo’s Carl Finch to discuss the band’s 30-year existence–a major feat for the polka trendsetters, and one that will be celebrated with a big bash tomorrow night at Sons of Hermann Hall.Also, courtesy of Finch himself, who is rightfully…
Over on Unfair Park this afternoon, Observer intern Alex Wolens has a quick recap of how today’s American Idol tryouts have been going out at the ol’ spaceship in Arlington. Hell, she even took some video of the would-be Idols standing and performing in line. And she put together a…
Greenville’s own Ben Kweller brings his recently cocuntry-flavored jams (and, no doubt, some of his older, less country fare, too) to town tonight for a performance at the Granada Theater. But before that–at about 2 p.m., I’m told–Kweller will participate in the theater’s first “Tweet Up,” in which, I believe,…
Eleven months ago, the local blues-, roots- and Southern rock-influenced Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights was just starting to come into its own. It had released a 10-track debut, Hot Trottin’, a disc even the band now admits was of fairly low production quality, and found itself becoming quite…
If you head over to THe BAcksliders’ web page, you can go ahead and download the band’s latest disc, Thank You, for the inarguable price of zero dollars. Just drag your mouse over the picture of the new album cover, click and download. It’s literally that simple.But beyond that, the…
Not that you needed the reminders, I’m sure, but, seriously, check out tonight’s schedule:Tallest Man on Earth and John Vanderslice at the House of Blues’ Cambridge Room. (Which, hilariously enough, is no longer called the Pontiac Garage. Shocking, I know.)Paul van Dyk at the Lizard Lounge.Starlight Mints, Evangelicals and Matthew…
Just in case anyone who attended last week’s performance by St. Vincent at the Granada Theater didn’t think her song “Marrow” could get any better, Annie and her band stopped by The Late Show last night to prove you wrong, adding a whole extra cast of players to the mix–extra…
Speaking of SPACE Studios: Tomorrow night at 2814 Main St., the gallery will be turned into something of a dance party, as Austin DJ Prince Klassen, no stranger himself to the Dallas club circuit, will be stopping by to spin at a party called SOUNDCHECK, which will be sponsored by…
…and, for the Youtube inclined, here’s your link.Last Wednesday night, Taylor Young and John Pedigo, known ’round these parts as the thunderdoggin’ folk duo The O’s, stopped by and bro’d down at SPACE Studios for yet another installment of DC9 in SPACE, our eight episode into the ongoing series. Bad…
Speaking of media blitzes, St. Vincent’s recent tear of publicity continues tonight on The Late Show with David Letterman, where she’ll make–get this–her national television debut, and where shell perform after Dave spends some QT with on Shia The Beef, no doubt talking Transformers 2, a movie whose draw still…
Shocker, I know. It’s the Westlake-residing JoBros’ second RS cover in less than a year, which is crazy. And absurd to say the least. Anyway, the accompanying feature apparently focuses primarily–or at least partially?–on the brothers’ lives in their new “Dallas” home, so there’s that to look forward to maybe?…
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this Pitchfork review of The Paper Chase’s Someday This Could All be Yours, Vol. 1–a record we mightily enjoy and endorse, mind you–is something of a head-spinner. Does reviewer Ian Cohen really dig the disc (“When you get the itch to listen to Someday, nothing else is going…
