The kids in Kick Your Donkey will kick off the Ohlook Theater’s grand opening. Finally, some good news regarding punk-rock venues after a couple of distressing stories. Ohlook Theater in downtown Grapevine will have its grand opening Saturday, with performances by Kick Your Donkey, Straight Pepper Diet, Johnny Knuckles and…
Just finished listening to the new, self-titled EP from local alt-country outfit Somebody’s Darling and think it’s one of the best discs to come across my desk this year. Full of spit and fire, the band is led by Amber Farris, whose powerful set of pipes galvanize the entire group…
..comes courtesy of these guys. Check it out. And you can download the Slider Pines’ entire five song EP for free here. Haven’t listened to the whole thing yet but, so far, it sounds pretty good. [Also: Sorry for the slow blog day. Just not too much going on.] –Pete…
Not many videos kicking around the Internet this morning–or, rather, not of the shows that took place around the region this weekend. Still, there are a few… Kate Voegele, for instance, was at the Loft with Josh Hoge last night. Sadly, no vids of her performing yet, nut, here’s Hoge…
Mudhoney, Record Hop, Melba Toast Granada Theater September 5, 2008 Better than: Putting on a flannel shirt and watching a collection of Nirvana and Pearl Jam videos. (Michael Alves) Even though each member is now in his 40s, the guys in Mudhoney rocked like seething, youthful beasts last night at…
C’mon, y’all: Help a bouncer out. Please. For Beard. Weekend’s here. Stuff’s happening. You should go. Enough pleasantries. The show’s we already told you about… All weekend long, you can catch the Beach Boys show at the Meyerson Center. Tonight, there’s Mudhoney at the Granada, the Wye Oak/Brickfight/Nouns Group show…
Maybe you remember this post from a week and a half ago. The one about the craptastic song someone wrote for Jenny the Elephant (which, by the way, is now up for free download if you follow that link). Yeah, that one. Anyway, we had two reactions when we first…
(John Cheng) Dallas’ own Carly Patterson, best remembered as a 2004 Olympic medalist gymnast, is attempting to reinvent herself as a musician, as Richie Whitt explained in 2006. So how has her career come along in the two years since she last talked to the Observer about her ambitions? Her…
The line up is set for the Chattahippie Music Festival, which takes place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from September 18 through September 21. Loads of talent from Texas will be on display, but sadly, most of it comes from our neighbor to the south: The Derailers, Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros,…
On the track, “Aint No Love,” Jay-Z spits, “I thought I told you characters, I’m not a rapper,” and much of the same can be said when it comes to Rage Almighty. The Boston native came of age in the Big D and considers himself more of a poet than…
Earlier this year, Baltimore based indie folk duo Wye Oak” target=”_blank”>Wye Oak released its debut release, If Children on Merge Records. Since its release, the Wye Oak twosome has garnered critical acclaim for both the record and their impressive live show…and they’ll be bringing the latter (and likely the former,…
SMU music professor Kevin Hanlon, leader of the progressive rock outfit Quintet for the End of Time (which we’ve written about before), has returned from Italy where he and his band played several festivals. “People [in Italy] are genuinely excited about music and accepting of variety,” says Hanlon. “I had…
And so it goes: Just got word that Erykah Badu and her “Honey” co-director Mr. Roboto (I think some domo arigatos are in order, yes?) took home the Best Direction award at this year’s MTV VMA “Professional Catergories” awards show for their collaboration on the “Honey” video, beating out Panic…
I knew as soon as I saw this week’s featured poster for tomorrow’s Jonathan Tyler and Northern Lights show on the We Are Villains MySpace page that it would be the winner. I’m a sucker for circus-themed art to begin with, and this flyer is especially well done. The simulated…
Soon to be seen above Dada’s entrance. Have to say I felt a little out of place at the Carter Albrecht memorial show at Club Dada last night. Don’t get me wrong; it was an affecting, cathartic evening–even for me, someone who just said he felt out of place at…
Last week, we told you where to find some of the already-leaked tracks from Faux Fox’s latest , All That Remains. And, in this week’s paper, Ms. Merritt Martin went ahead and reviewed said disc, calling it “a more dynamic, more dramatic, but equally tongue-in-cheek effort” than Faux Fox’s earlier…
Nice lineup, but it ain’t happening. At least, not this weekend. Unpaid taxes forced Bar of Soap, Exposition Park’s venerable rock club/laundromat, to shut its doors last weekend, and owner Charlie Gilder is doubtful that he’ll be able to open this weekend either. That’s a tough break for the bar,…
Influence is a funny thing. Unlike inspiration, which can strike at any time, influence seems to follow the trends of what’s hot in music. It’s rare for an act to dip into the music history archives and pull out an interesting, ear-catching influence without others quickly following suit. This happens…
Maybe the blue-hairs in the audience didn’t see it coming. Or, then again, maybe they did—it’s not as if The Who’s Tommy maintains a reputation as a production tailor-made for the older theatergoing crowd. So, surely, the seemingly sedate audience attending last Saturday night’s preview performance of the Dallas Theater…
Tonight, starting at nine o’clock at Club Dada, Salim Nourallah, Chris Holt and countless other prominent area (and returning) musicians who knew and loved Carter Albrecht (full line-up after the jump) will be hosting and performing at a special one-year anniversary memorial show for their fallen-but-hardly-forgotten friend. Albrecht, known around…
Los Bros. Kadane…and friends…The New Year. (Allison Smith) In this week’s paper, which is already either at or near an Observer rack near you, you’ll find Robert’s take on the brand spankin’ new self-titled record from The New Year. As you all should know, The New Year is the most…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. Some are left over from previous music editors, others fell by the wayside because they were trumped week after week by albums that…
