Greenville native done good Ben Kweller was the featured artist for Monday’s Daytrotter Session. As part of the session, the baby-faced troubadour has offered up three songs from his new album, Changing Horses, and one from 2004’s On My Way. Kweller also offers up some insight into the inspiration for…
For what it’s worth, when Los Lonely Boys stop through town for a gig on Sunday, January 25, at the Granada Theater, it will be for, what their publicist calls, “a very special acoustic show.”Ah, the ol’ “special acoustic show” trick, eh? We’ve seen this one before.Should be, um, lively and…
Well, OK, so it’s not completely a reunion…or much of one at all, really. But, still, a real treat coming up tomorrow night at Club Dada, as part of Sunward’s month-long artist-in-residency: After opening sets from Young and Brave and Sunward, three members of Sunward (frontman Doug Kershaw, bassist Dave…
Although not quite keeping up on his resolution to blog more regularly in 2009 (like, c’mon, at all…what gives?), Hunter Hauk does have a nice little gem over on Quick’s blog this afternoon: A Tim DeLaughter-penned and -performed song has been selected as the opening theme song for the new…
It’s not exactly a secret at this point–it’s on Dan’s Silverleaf’s online calendar, on opening act The O’s’ Myspace page and on the fan-run Slobberbone Myspace page–but we might as well pass along the news (although one commenter already, um, kinda did earlier today): Slobberbone’s reuniting for two area shows.And,…
Dallas-based soul singer N’dambi, who, once upon a time, sang backup for Erykah Badu and is now signed to Stax Records, will be in D.C. next week during all them inaugural proceedings.Well, OK, not quite. N’dambi (pictured right, as photographed by Andreas Branch) will be performing on Sunday at the…
Vinnie Paul Abbott’s at it again, folks. About half a year after the Pantera, Hellyeah and DamagePlan drummer put his oven up for sale on eBay, Abbott (as seen above) is now selling an old Motorola Startrac–his first cellphone, actually, which was given to him by his brother, the late,…
Over on BreakThruRadio.com, there’s oh, about 80 minutes of pure bliss for Denton music fans.The web site has decided to feature good ol’ Denton, TX, this week in its “Spotlight On The City” feature, which you can stream at BTR’s site. Or, since its basically just a podcast, you can…
508 Park Avenue, the building in which legendary blues man Robert Johnson recorded 13 tracks in June of 1937, could be on the verge of getting demolished. Glazer’s Distributors, owners of the property, have filed a permit to tear the building down. At this very moment, though, preservationists, who say…
In a lengthy Q&A posted today at Chronicmagazine.com, Play, one half of Dallas-based production duo Play-N-Skillz, has announced the next hip-hop/R&B superstar to take up the team’s services: Everyone;s favorite Senegalese-American fan-tosser, Akon:”I am going to break some news for you. I think we’re going to go over and do…
Some great news we’re contractually obligated to pass along because of our blog’s name: The Flatlanders, the band that wrote the song “Dallas” (which included the line that would, many years later, inspire the name of this here blog) have a new disc, Hills and Valleys, on the way (due…
About a month back now, we first caught wind of the defamation lawsuit Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys killed 15 years ago in West Memphis, Arkansas, was filing against the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines after the group’s volatile lead singer posted a note to the…
Weekend time!First, the shows we already hipped you to…Tonight, there’s Marcia Ball at the Granada, Dale Watson at the Pearl Dancehall and Saloon in Fort Worth, Lou Gramm at the House of Blues, and, finally, at the Double Wide, there’s a nice bill with Johnny Lloyd Rollins, Bridges & Blinking…
Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn’t listen to in 2008.Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the…
Melanie Gomez Find our slideshow of our favorite concert photos of 2008 right here.I didn’t get to Dallas until February, so apologies to any great shows that took place in January–I missed them. But over the past eleven months, I saw plenty of live music–both with touring bands and locals…
Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues… This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer’s music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one massive, hopefully…
Next Saturday at the Lakewood Theater, two German electronic acts, Seabound (pictured, right) and De/Vision, bring their piles of synths and boogie friendly tunes to our area. And for those who don’t want to shell out the $17 for a ticket can get one–for free–tonight’s Panoptikon event at Excuses Extreme…
The folks in attendance last night at “Scaraoke”, the weekly Thursday night karaoke event hosted at the Libertine, got to bear witness to something of a treat: Rhett Miller joining in on the festivities.Or so the reputable Simon McDonald, the bar’s owner, tells DC9 via an email: “The very gracious…
Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues… This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer’s music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one massive, hopefully…
Did the Kadanes not get the memo? 2008 was supposed to be their year, not 2009…Oh well. Either way, the hits just keep on coming for The New Year, whose above video for “Seven Days and Seven Nights (Airport)” is posted all over the web today, everywhere from Pitchfork to…
Mike Snider’s got a nice little treat for music fans this evening at AllGood Cafe: A night with Jon Dee Graham, the Austin music legend who has played with just about every musician in Texas, was once a member of the True Believers with Alejandro Escovedo and was named the…
Kristina Hunken A few years back, a great little EP of demos by a Denton band called Cordelane came across my desk. Poetic but unpretentious (a little like Liz Phair covering Nick Drake), the five songs were written by Taylor Reed, a Seattle resident who came to our area to…
