Baby likes Arlington’s Own Pantera. Baby probably doesn’t know that the song’s called “Fucking Hostile,” but he really doesn’t care either. Baby has good headbanging form. Baby has solid rhythm for a toddler. Baby has the proto-circle pit arm swing thing down pat. Baby doesn’t like when the song ends,…
On July 8, actor Michael Rapaport’s directorial debut, a documentary called Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, will earn its release theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Later that month, on July 28, the film will begin a run locally at Dallas-area Angelika…
The first word on the new Old 97’s disc? “And.” Fitting. The disc, as expected, is a continuation of the band’s The Grand Theatre series, the second and last planned volume from the batch of songs the band began working on in April 2010 at Sons of Hermann Hall, back…
Joey Kendall deserves far more credit than he receives. Truth is, the mastermind behind Grapevine’s joyous Mount Righteous collective is something of a pop genius. Always has been. For years now—prior, even to Mount Righteous’ circa 2008 explosion—Kendall has been penning offbeat pop ditties that toe the line between the…
Two years after charmingly bursting onto the scene with their fellow Dallas Family Band cohorts, it seems Fox & The Bird is finally ready to release their debut album. “I guess we’re the last of the main Dallas Family Band groups to release an album,” says Dan Bowman, one-fifth of…
Back in October, Sore Losers was on top of the world. The duo of Vincent Brown and Brandon Blue had capably established themselves as a local force to be reckoned with, a post-Boogie duo worth hyping, a creative source of inventive “New Dallas” hip-hop, a shining example of both what…
Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year’s best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton’s Own Seryn’s album, This Is Where We Are. The…
Confession time, y’all: I’ve been watching The Voice on NBC all season long. Kind of loving it, too. And why not? It’s like the perfect blend of American Idol and Made. (Speaking of Made: I highly recommend trying to catch a re-run of Play-N-Skillz’s recently aired episode of that show,…
Look, there’s a reason why we run our Poster of the Week contest: The poster artists around here are awesome. Really. Go back and look over our Poster of the Week archives. Those submissions are great. Really. And not just because we say so, either. Let me explains.On July 19,…
Can’t really pin down a specific reason for this, but there sure have been a lot of local music video releases in the past few weeks. Good ones, too, and featuring bands that run the entire local gamut. There’s a new Centro-matic one — this one for “Iso-Residue” — upping…
Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who’re currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let’s see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, Rhett Miller, Ronnie Dawson, and, as of 2009, The O’s. Probably forgetting some others. Anyway,…
Girl Talk, The Cool KidsGranada TheaterJune 23, 2011Better than: sweating to the oldies. Greg Gillis is not an aerobics instructor. But perhaps the man behind the ever-popular Girl Talk name should be. Because — there’s just no cutting around the bush here — his 110-minute headlining performance at the Granada Theater…
Oh, and speaking of Warped Tour, which is kicking off right about now, actually: Quite the unexpected surprise this morning, courtesy of the folks at Gexa Energy Pavilion, who just passed our way three pairs of tickets to in turn pass your way for today’s first-day-of-tour events down in Fair…
Pretty sure you guys know by now about the Girl Talk show going down at the Granada Theater tonight. We’ve sure talked about it enough this week… So, on that note, this will be the last time we mention it. Promise. (Not counting tomorrow morning’s show review.)…
I see what the Granada Theater is doing, and I like it. For the second time this month, after hosting a big draw on a Thursday night, the venue has decided to throw an unofficial after-party the way of DJ Sober and his weekly Big Bang! event at Beauty Bar…
Picked up your fresh-off-the-presses print issue of this week’s Observer yet? No? Well, go do so right now. We’ll wait.Got it? Good! Now, flip the issue open. Not far, just right there after the cover. Yeah, page 3. There, you’ll notice — it’s tough not to — a massive, full-page,…
It was well before midnight when the police scanners first started heating up with chatter about a need for assistance at Fair Park. It wasn’t a riot happening at Electric Daisy Carnival, the 10-hour electronic music festival taking place there Saturday; these were just medical calls. But, for a couple…
More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Haigis,…
Four days after 19-year-old Argyle native Andrew Graf died after attending Electric Daisy Festival at Fair Park, another family is stepping forward to share the story of 22-year-old Jesse Morales, who they say died due to similar circumstances in the wake of 2010’s inaugural event. Family members say Morales, a…
Juan and Oscar Salinas, the Grammy-winning production duo and brothers behind the Play-N-Skillz moniker, have a lot going on these days: a lawsuit against Lil Wayne; a recently released mixtape and single (with Bun B) to promote; a new mixtape on the way; a celebratory Mavericks song to tout; even…
Sarah Jaffe is a lot of things — a local darling, a rising star, an endearing songwriter, a quirky personality, a Texan. The list goes on and on and on. But there is one thing she is decidedly not: Australian.Curious, then, to find out that Jaffe’s song “Perfect Plan,” off…
Yesterday, city officials announced that they had slapped Electric Daisy Carnival organizers Insomniac Events with seven citations for their event in Fair Park on Saturday night — two for overcrowding, two more for failure to obtain a count of occupants, and three for obstruction of justice.Today, after having released a…
