The line of people waiting to get into Cirque, the 18-and-up nightclub at the intersection of Harwood Street and Pacific Avenue, stretches more than a block, three or four people wide at every point. But the line, filled with night crawlers dressed in their going-out best, doesn’t exist for any…
I’m one of the last ones still at the office and I just want to get the hell out of here, so I’m killing two birds with one stone by announcing a giveaway and awarding the Poster of the WeekThat’s not to take anything away from this poster, as the…
The popularity of nerdcore, a subgenre of hip-hop so steeped in irony that you can practically see the air quotes framing the stage, is a phenomenon I’ll never understand. But for those who are into white dudes rapping about video games or whatever, Saturday night at the Double-Wide is practically…
“Are 99% of challenging bitches today like sarah jaffe and doug burr techno pointless?” That question, posed by Offensive Glistening in comments to a Pete Freedman blog post about an anonymous comment to a Paste article that named Denton “Best Music Scene,” has no clear answer. But you can check…
Nada Surf, Other Lives, The Jealous GirlfriendsHailey’sNovember 21, 2008 Better than: Sitting in a jail like the singer of Delta Groove First off, it was damn cold waiting in line out front of Hailey’s last night. Seems the “doors open at nine o’clock” line from the club’s website was a…
Yep. Here’s the press release announcing it: Dallas, TX – November 21, 2008: The 2008 Billboard Touring Awards took place last night at the Roosevelt Hotel Ballroom in New York City. House of Blues Dallas came away with the honors in the Top Club category. Other nominees in the category…
It’s a pretty good-looking weekend of shows this time around, folks. Go out and see some bands and stuff, y’know? First, the shows we’ve already mentioned… Tonight, there’s Delta Spirit and Nada Surf at Hailey’s in Denton, Torche, Black Cobra and Clouds at The Lounge, The Black Crowes at the…
Greenville native Ben Kweller’s come out and set a date for his upcoming release, Changing Horses, which we last heard about in August. Anyway, according to Stereogum, which posts a “Progress Report” item today on the status of the album, the disc will be released during the first week of…
Dallas guitarist Chris Manning’s music is mentioned in the December issue of Guitar Player magazine. The mention comes in a section called “The Editor’s Big Eight”, where the mag’s editor picks a song he’s been digging from eight different artists and writes about them. About Manning’s instrumental song “Journey to…
So, as the header here implies, yeah, Paste done gone and uploaded the rest of Dave Sims’ piece onto its site today, name-checking more and more area bands, as promised. Read it here. But, since I’ve brought it up, let me rant, for just a second. To the guy who…
A while back I wrote a fairly glowing review of Somebody’s Darling debut EP, finding bliss in the local band’s fine mix of alt-country and southern soul. And, in that review, I wrote that the music on the EP was so good that a full-length CD was immediately called for…
Kii Arens Another impressive show to add to the growing list of jaw-droppers the Door’s been booking to its stage lately: The Eagles of Death Metal. No, seriously. On Friday, December 12. Add that to the list that already includes Ice Cube, Fishbone, King’s X, Plain White T’s, Job for…
Mount Righteous, Cryptacize, and Danielson Granada Theater November 20, 2008 Better than: Watching the Dallas Stars lose yet again. On most occasions, the biggest compliment an opening act receives is “at least their set didn’t last too long.” But for a band like Grapevine’s own Mount Righteous at the Granada…
This Poster of the Week was created in-house at C3 Presents, the Austin promotions and event planning company behind the ACL Music Festival, booking at Emo’s and Stubb’s, and tomorrow night’s Club Dada bill featuring Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears (a Noah Bailey favorite) and Les…
Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop…
Remember the screening of The Holy Mountain and Blixaboy soundtrack remix we told you about Monday? Well, in case you needed a reminder, it’s tonight at Angelika Dallas. Blixaboy’s set will take place before the 8 p.m. screening, according to the Dallas Cinemania site. Erich Scholz at Dallas Cinemania just…
Q-Tip, The Cool Kids, The Knux House of Blues November 19, 2008 Better Than: Sitting at home remembering when hip-hop was still good. As far as opening bands go, The Knux was a decent, average opening act. The reaction from the crowd was tepid and it was obvious the audience…
Between this weekend’s expected big opening for Twilight in movie theaters and the first-season finale of HBO’s phenomenal True Blood set to take place on Sunday night, yeah, vampires are pretty hot right now. So much so that, maybe, the Vampire Lounge, one of Dallas’ newest live music venues, located…
Another year, another opportunity to celebrate the existence of Dallas’ finest rock ‘n’ roll dive. And this year’s celebration looks to be especially raucous, too, thanks to the lineup: Austin’s Guitar Hero-approved Lions; fantastic indie pop rock act Baboon (in an increasingly rare live performance); the phenomenal, jangley roots rock…
The Ex-Mr. Kate Hudson and company are rolling through town on Friday night with a gig at the Palladium on the heels of the band’s recently released (and fairly well-received) Warpaint disc. Writes Observer contributor Bob Ruggiero in this week’s paper: Vocalist Chris Robinson’s lyrics remain their usual combination of…
The three parts of Nada Surf. (Peter Ellenby) Matthew Caws formed Nada Surf way back in 1993 and the band found success two years later when the song “Popular” became just that. Yet after a successful tour with alt/pop kindred spirit Superdrag, various snafus led to the band being dropped…
Denton duo Fight Bite–you know, the blog darlings and (blatant plug alert!) the lead-in story subjects of last week’s Observer music section–has recorded and released a video for the first single (and, well, best song) on the band’s debut record, Emerald Eyes, “Swissex Lover”. Stereogum’s got the feed on the…
