… ’cause the man who put on the fifth-best show of 2008 ain’t bringing his Working on a Dream tour through the D. Well, at least not yet….(Sobs.)…

Two weeks ago, we passed along word that Tim DeLaughter had written the theme song for the new Diablo Cody- and Steven Spielberg-produced Showtime series The United States of Tara. Well, that’s the opening above. And, yes, it does mention nature, love and happiness, as anticipated. (Tip o’ the ball…

No, nothing will ever, ever compare to this, the original version of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”. Nothing.And yet, somehow, this new cover of the song (via) from one-time Dallas resident Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) is a pretty decent effort in its own right–and certainly worth a listen. Girl’s…

Greenville native Ben Kweller’s new full-length album, Changing Horses, will see the light of day next Tuesday (February 3), and, as we already told you, those excited about the release can go ahead and pre-order that sucker to get some extra goodies from the shaggy-haired redhead. Oh, and those folks…

Seems that native Fort Worthian Andrew Kenny, founding member and frontman of Austin-by-way-of-Fort Worth act American Analog Set, has started a new band. It’s called The Wooden Birds–and, no big deal, the brand new band’s already been signed to the phenomenal Barsuk label, in fact. Happened on Friday, wouldn’t ya…

Seems we keep coming back to Daytrotter in recent weeks. Already, twice in the past two months–when the studio recorded My Brightest Diamond, and then again when the studio recorded Ben Kweller–we’ve linked to the tour-stop recordings made at this little, but well-known (thanks, Internet!) Illinois studio. Now let’s go…

Here’s something worth mentioning: Local rock outfit Macon Greyson has a song in the Mickey Rourke comeback flick, The Wrestler. The band first announced to its fans that its song “Blacklight”, off the band’s 2007 release 20th Century Accidents, would appear in the movie back in mid-December via a Myspace…

One-time Dallas native David Berman, the mastermind behind longtime indie folk favorite (20 years!) the Silver Jews, has reportedly decided to end his project.The news is all over the web this morning–Pitchfork, Stereogum, NME and many other places, too, I’m sure–and for devoted fans of Berman’s work, this is no…

It was just about six months ago that we’d heard that Soulja Boy had signed a contract to promote the Arlington-based shoe company Yums, and since then, Soulja Boy’s kept up his end of the deal, for sure, promoting the apparel and kicks on BET (see above) and in interviews…

Iff’n you’re in a band, and you wanna play NX35, well, you better get to submittin’ yer application. Because the deadline is today… maybe… but most likely, yes, it’s today. So who else is playing so far? Check the list right here. The list is not complete just yet (obviously…..

Robert’s got the deets on Unfair Park. Of course, he gets into much more detail on the matter in the cover story in this week’s Observer–the one with the sweet vinyl image on the cover. …

Jonathan Goetsch As I alluded to last week in Good Friday, Hey Hollywood has, in fact, officially changed its name. The new name, which comes with some new-ish players on bass and guitar (and, with them, a new sound) is Companion. And what of the new sound? Well, it’s still…

Earlier this month, we unveiled our Dallas Observer contributors’ top albums and, in some cases, top singles of the year, as submitted to the annual Pazz & Jop poll conducted by our sister paper in NYC (in some cases, to the best of our recollections).Well, now the full results of…