(Annie Ray) Well, speak of the devil. Just a week after we wrote about former SMU student Astronautalis in our DOMA feature, the Best Rap/Hip Hop winner announced some juicy details about his upcoming album. Even better, he posted a track you can stream from his MySpace page. And while…
Thanks to the guys at Gutterth, who apparently filmed the whole Best Instrumentalists set at last week’s DOMA Ceremony, you can now relive that pretty awesome showcase of talent–at no cost! Also, thanks to the folks at the Granada, you can also catch individual song performances from the most of…
John Freeman, the mastermind behind The Dooms U.K., Telethon, Sloppyworld and too many other contributions to Dallas’ music and art history to list, is bidding adieu to the Big D at the end of August. His Dutch Treats, however, will say goodbye to the city about a month before then…
We’ve had plenty of Play-N-Skillz talk around this blog and in the paper lately. So, you should be familiar with the half-Venezuelan, half-Argentinean sibling duo behind the burgeoning South Irving hip-hop production team by now. And, if you want to further familiarize yourself with their work, check out this new…
Our favorite local Pixies-influenced garage rock band, The Cut*Off, are coming home after a few tour stops along the east coast opening up for Old 97’s. “The crowd response was great,” says guitarist Jayson Hamilton, which is kind of surprising considering that the bands are so stylistically dissimilar. Good to…
Like sands through the hourglass, these are the Dallas music-related videos uploaded to Youtube this weekend… The U.S. Air Guitar Championship regional finals for Dallas were held at the House of Blues’ restaurant on Saturday night. Here’s Johnny Van Fretmaster’s attempt to win the Dallas event. Oh, and the jackass…
Apples in Stereo hits Sons on Saturday. (Josh Kessler) We already told you about some shows going down this weekend, like The Romantics, Dave Koz, Mastodon (part of tonight’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival at Starplex) and Journey. I know, I know, you deserve better. Here are a few other options:…
A quick Google image search tells me this is what a mastodon looks like: Docile enough, yes? Won’t melt your face like this Mastodon? Well, crappy segue aside, here’s the deal about the latter: The Atlanta-based torche-carriers of the metal scene are going to be blowing up some amps at…
Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters House of Blues July 24, 2008 Better than: Watching Hearts Afire on DVD. What do you think of when you see the term actor/musician? Do you think of someone who is great at both, like Zooey Deschanel? Or do you think of someone who’s…
Better than: A parade with two grand marshals, or a wolf pack with two alpha dogs. Dan Boeckner. (Mikal Beth Hughey) Wolf Parade’s live show emphasized the equal importance shared by the band’s two creative minds, switching between Spencer Krug’s oddball synth-driven melodrama and Dan Boeckner’s more accessible guitar rock…
Raunch-rap pioneer Luther “Luke” Campbell of 2 Live Crew, and also the subject of a new reality show on VH1 called Luke’s Parental Advisory, was in town last weekend to marry Kristin Thompson, a 27-year-old native of DeSoto. Thompson holds a law degree, works for LEG as general counsel and…
This week’s Poster of the Week is another nice one from Parade of Flesh, this one for tonight’s HEALTH/Sydney Confirm/Stag Film/Pet Hospital show at Club Dada. Austin artist Tim Doyle designed this one and has 100 silk-screened prints for sale. Check out more of Doyle’s posters and comic book art…
Not to belabor the point, but this Demi Lovato girl from Colleyville sure is blowing up pretty big… Case in point: The infallible barometer of all things underground and credible–MTV News, of course–ran this feature (video embedded to the right) on the former Observer cover girl yesterday, asking if she…
I’m not much of a guitar player. Worse, I’m an embarrassingly bad air-guitar player…mostly because, despite my lack of actual guitar skills, I still try to feign expertise at actual playing when I get around to faking it. It’s bad: I twiddle my fingertips as I slide my hand up…
Twenty years ago we launched this annual tradition called the Dallas Observer Music Awards—way back in April of 1988. “Our stated goal with these awards is to narrow the odds a bit in favor of locally created sounds,” then-music editor Clay McNear wrote at the time. It still rings true…
I hope you were out at your clubs on Saturday night, Lowest Greenville bar owners. I hope you got to see what I saw at our 2008 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase. It was a pretty rockin’ time if you missed it. Big crowds (Billiard Bar, The Cavern, Gezellig, Stout…
Much to-do has been made of late over the fact that Journey found its current lead singer after seeing his spot-on covers of legendary Journey crooner Steve Perry on YouTube. And, yes, while that’s all fine and good—Arnel Pineda does sound a lot like Perry—it should be noted that the…
Over on our home page, we’ve got two slideshows of photos by the great Hal Samples from last night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards ceremony at the Best Venue-winning Granada Theater. Part I contains 20 color images, while Part II has a dozen black and white shots. I’ll echo music editor…
Thanks to everyone who came out to tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards! I, for one, had a grand ol’ time. How couldn’t you have? The performances were amazing: Doug Burr and Sarah Jaffe stunned; The Whiskey Folk Ramblers riled; Lil Wil repped hard; the Best Instrumentalists killed; THe BAcksliders rocked;…
Sorry things have been slow over here all week. We’ve been kinda busy–you know, putting together a little awards show thingy. Kicks of at 8 p.m. at the Granada tonight, and, uh-huh, it’s free to attend. Show up, preferably en masse, then, oh, just enjoy it. Me? I’ll be running…
Gutterth’s Compilation One will finally be available tomorrow, July 23. You can take a peek at the artists and songs included on the two-CD compilation at this page on Gutterth’s site. It’s packed with great bands and solo acts–Emil Rapstine, The Great Tyrant and MOM, to name a few—along with…
Bridges and Blinking Lights’ Jake Wilganowski. (Hal Samples) So, yeah, Saturday night was a grand time, folks. Good music, good people, good everything, really. Hell, there was even something of a flash-mob pillow fight at one point. Revel in the debauchery with our two slideshow recaps of the night–one in…
